Greg,
Guilt by association? No matter how you look at it Rev. Wright has a right to feel the way he feels about whites. Whether it is right or wrong. We all do.
Well ok, if he has the right to feel that about Whites, where is my right to feel that way about others? I don’t have the right to speak my mind and call people names or say certain things. Words may hurt feelings, they don’t physically hurt anyone but I can’t say things without being put in jail.
You have to separate the important things here. Rights are one thing, another is the character of the person who is seeking the highest office in the federal government from the others.
Ethics is very important, if you are going to lead a nation; you go to have some ethics – he has none as far as I am concern because he didn’t denounce Wright when he made his first speech and in doing so he counted on the stupidity of the people.
Obama has made a point that he is above all the rhetoric and in action but in truth he has not shown anything like that. Instead we see and hear what he has been standing up with, he has been a member of a church that for what’s it worth departs from what rev King and others wanted to see their race become. Wright speaks of separatism, of black nationalism and is the same as others who speak and act as if they didn’t make any gains in our society.
Obama has failed to stand up and say look at me, look at Thomas, look at Rice, look at Powell, we have made gains. I used those examples for a very specific reason; they are ignored by most as a real success of civil rights. Instead he points to others and walks along side of others who for the most part is actually keeping the race down.
He, Rev. Wright, feels he was wronged by the whites and is holding onto some really old baggage. If he practices what he preaches then this will be his path to self destruction. He has created a church of followers that, like him, feel they were wronged. These people will never prosper because of the hatred they harbor.
Sorry it doesn’t matter what the reasons are that he practices hate, hate is hate and that’s a fact. He has created a church of hate; he has hijacked a religion that I am starting to question can police themselves to eliminate hate within it’s own realm. It seems that many make poor excuses for the actions and words of others who use religion as a crux to gain person power.
Which brings me to my biggest complaint, which is not even with Obama or Wright, it is with main stream Christianity in this country and their failure of preventing the hijacking of their religion in other cases. Just like the West Boro Baptist Church, there should be an outrage over Wright but there is undue silence on the subject. I can only think at this point that Christianity in this country ignores things selectively and does not want to make efforts to actually change destructive thinking.
So who cares if Obama is or isn't racist? I don't believe that he is because remember that he is not the only one sitting on the pew. His wife sits along side him and just maybe she is racist. Who knows? I just find it hard for a black man that has white in him to hate whites. If so, who cares. He does not have my vote anyway because I do not believe he is running for the right reasons.
I do! The nation better or we are in deed on a path of destruction. Maybe it does not matter to you, but we fought for 100 years to remove something out of the society and we are returning back to the time of hatred and discrimination.
He may not be the only one but I don’t see anyone else from the church running for president.
All these candidates have one thing in common. They all want power! Not to mention they are all childish too. This bickering amongst them is making me sick. Another way to sway the sheep... Actually it should show the populous just how diplomatic they are, NOT!
Well first thing is, you have to get clear that the primaries are not the election and our system should not have them. The problems of the primaries on the national level are that it wears people down and the result is voter apathy. The democratic party is melting down and people can take a serious lesson by watching what actually is going on – the party will choose the candidate, no one else. They will make it look like the people did but that is really stupid when you think about it.
Socialism lives within the very heart of our Congress. How do you explain the Welfare system? Yes it was meant for those that needed it, but for those that are dead beats it is a dream come true. I say get rid of it. If you don't work, you don't eat. Period... Unemployment is there for those that put into it. The same with Social Security, but the problem with Welfare is that this system allows for those that never worked to collect. HMMMM. It is a socialistic program.
Yes I agree with socialist congressmen but the point is that the tone of the country is set by the guy at the top in the executive branch now, not the congress. People forgot how the system works and what they can do to straighten it out.
Here is one problem; there was a better system in place when welfare was created. The government in it’s need to control more decided to wipe out poverty, which it really did by the way but it didn’t end like it should have. I blame not the government but a certain group of people for this.
