My Own Special Comment
By Fleaflicker on March 13, 2008 at 7:52 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Listening to some here it is clear that they just don’t get it or they are lemmings willing to take our Democratic party right off a cliff. It is obvious that McCain and the Republicans will attack Obama for the unpatriotic and racist comments his spiritual mentor of 20 years made. As well as the despicable things he said about Bill and Hillary Clinton inside a church of all places.
And frankly they should.
I find all of it very reprehensible and as an American citizen I am outraged that we are even considering this man for our highest office. The stuff Reverend Wright said about 9/11 alone is enough to disqualify Obama for the Presidency in my book.
The excuse that Obama has said he didn’t agree with it and all that crap just doesn’t cut it with me. If the situation were reversed and a white candidate for the same office attended a church for 20 years where they espoused KKK type viewpoints all hell would be breaking out throughout this country. And rightly so.
Do any of you honestly believe for a minute that an excuse like this should be acceptable?
Uh well, uh I don’t agree with uh everything he says but uh I still go to uh church there every uh Sunday. And uh he married me and my uh wife and he uh baptized our uh children. Then uh I gave him about $20,000* a uh year or uh so ago even though I find what he says uh reprehensible. Uh and I uh uh denounce it.
The double standards by which Obama supporters are requiring us to judge their candidate are not only astounding they are ridiculous. As Hillary famously once said: They require the willing suspension of disbelief.
When someone goes out of his way to insist that he is a Christian and uses the association with this pastor and this church as proof of it, we really need to be questioning the authenticity of his audacity. Perhaps I am in the minority but I don’t believe that black racism is any different than white racism. It is all reprehensible and NONE of it is Christian.
Obama’s candidacy has managed to not only split the Democratic party, it has managed to undo the great strides we have made in the past 40 years toward achieving racial equality and equal opportunity.
For the good of our party and for the sake of our nation I respectfully request that Senator Obama withdraw from this race.
For additional commentary see:
Rev Wright & the Audacity of Obama
Obama’s Pastor: Blacks Should Sing ‘God damn America’
Obama and Wright: Campaign Position
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* Obama’s 2006 Tax Form. It is shown on page 21 of 23 of the pdf file. The amount is $22,500 to Trinity United Church of Christ.
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