"The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud"

That right Charles, they are what they are . The party of PERPETUAL FRAUD.

How dare you call Senator Obama's speech a fraud? When a person has the courage to bar his soul in public in an honest and compassionate way, you have the termerity to dissect and dismiss the very essence of his message - the need to examine the racism within each of us. Perhaps it makes you uncomfortable to do so. You could learn much from Mike Huckabee's response yesterday.

Krauthammer is distorting Wright's history as is most of the conservative media.

Krauthammer, before you go on, talk about Hillary and her leaning on Jesse Jackson in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky affair. Didn't she know about his Hymietown remark in 1984?
What about Bill and his spiritual advisor of Billy Graham and his anti-semitic remarks caught on Nixon's white house tapes?
What about McCain's support and ties to Hegee and his open HATE of Catholics and Gays?

We live in a country where race is a powerful dividing force. The speech that Obama gave was an attempt to rise us up and not to bring us down like Krauthammer has done.

Excellent analysis! Great article. Thank you for pointing out the truth in what that speech really was...fraud. You were right on target. Way to go! I just hope others will be enlightened by all of this.

The real fraud Obama committed is that he gave this speech not to help heal the divide between the races but to save his chance at becoming President. The guy is rife with phony rhetoric and empty promises. His level of hypocrisy, arrogance and dishonesty is shocking for someone that speaks so highly of himself and his self proclaimed abilities. He has built a house of cards and it is falling down right before our eyes.

Jupiter Wilson Wrote:
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> How dare you call Senator Obama's speech a fraud?
> When a person has the courage to bar his soul in
> public in an honest and compassionate way, you
> have the termerity to dissect and dismiss the very
> essence of his message - the need to examine the
> racism within each of us. Perhaps it makes you
> uncomfortable to do so. You could learn much from
> Mike Huckabee's response yesterday.


Why did he give this speech now? Could it be because he is trying to salvage his campaign? If he was really as appalled as he says over Wright's comments then why did he appoint him to his Spiritual Advisory Committee? Obama is either a closet racist, a self serving politician using the Trinity Church and Reverend Wright to win elections at the expense of his children being indoctrinated with racist and hatred views or some guy sitting in a pew lacking the intestinal fortitude to confront a hate spewing, racist preacher. Any of these three possibilities immediately disqualify he from being worthy of leading this nation.

Typical. Give a scathing critique of points and nuances without offering a real solution to anything.

Hey Krauthammer, so what is YOUR take on the current situation with race in this country? Everything is nice and comfy in your neck of the woods, right?

What is upsetting for me with these type of comments is the reluctance to admit to certain problems with race in our society and to try and find a solution or at least encourage a discussion on them.

Stupid commentators like this guy and others, just love to point-point-point at problems with what others are saying and never address the fact that there truly is a problem in our society.

Obama is far from being perfect, but he is at least courageous in taking issues head on.

With a long list of Hagees, and Falwells and what nots straddling parties, I rather take Obamas advice and either address this issue seriously or just, like he said, make it a blood sport and cynically parade looped clips of some preacher.

Charles and the Reverend Wright are cut from the same hate filled cloth it would seem. This country is faced with profound Issues that it has seems to have very little interest in resolving. Lets take it down another notch, shall we?

In answer to John Tallen above:
the sincere, heartfelt, honest way out of the racial problems in this country is to simply get over them. Stop. Refuse to acknowledge that any race exists except one- the human race. All men are created equal. All men. Not all black men, not all white men...all men. It is sick and wrong for "white" Aryans to claim that "blacks" are inherently inferior. It is sick and wrong for "black" pastors to claim that "whites" are devils.
Next time the government sends you some stupid form that asks you to check your race in a stupid little box- just check other, and write in "Human". I do it. If everyone did, your children, and mine, and Obama's would not be black, white or brown...they would just be children.

aloha.

jb

Senator Obama's speech will go down in history as one of the great turning points on this country's evolutionary struggle to overcome racial predjudice and bigotry. Charles Krauthammer will not go down in history at all. He simply parrots the bigotry of his kind. And I feel sorry for him, because he will never know what it is like to have something called hope.

Barack Obama's spoken words are simpe truths, and it is the power of these simple truths that his "followers" resonate with because they can hear it. "It" is a political dog whistle that the jaded politically establishment cannot hear. "It" will be known and "it" will set us free. "It" will certainly not be televised.

Hey C. Redneck,

Are you an associate of Larry Sinclair?

Youtube "Obama and Larry".

Confussed Redneck Wrote:
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> I am a self proclaimed Redneck and now am
> confused.
>
> I have been getting all this mails saying to be
> wary of this secret muslim but now I am getting
> mails to be wary of this hateful Christian.
>
> So which one is it?


That was a brilliant statement. That statement pretty much sums up how silly/stupid the right has been in reference to Obama.

Charles,
Here are the lyrics to the hymn sung at the Republican debate in Sept. 2007. This was a public event broadcast to millions of people and reflect the sentiments to which you and millions of angry whites subscribe.
So much for your honest look at religion & politics in America.
By perpetuating your views you are providing aid & comfort to those religious extremists that say America is a land of religious oppression. Especially when they point to pastors that preach America suffered 9-11 and our combat dead & wounded because we, as the lyrics point out, turned our back on God.
I can only surmise that you and many millions of American's believe that the Islamic extremist adversaries our nation faces are in fact soldiers for God, doing his work here on earth bringing forth gods admonishment on our Godless nation.

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our land

The courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God, has gone astray

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land

In ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your right

But just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land

Lyrics that every republican presidential candidate sung and swayed to.
Thank you Charles for your invaluable assistance in helping millions of American's understand exactly what is at stake in this election cycle.

Miss Orange Wrote:
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> slick Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Charles nails it. Obama is a fraud. Ferraro was
> > correct: white liberals' guilt is the only
> reason
> > he's in this race.
> >
> > Liberal identity politics is catching up with
> > them.
>
>
> What's especially odd about Ferraro's being "at
> the other end of the spectrum" is that . . . Obama
> is there, too. On his Senate website:
>
> >>Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he
> benefits from his race.
>
> >>If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he
> would simply be one of nine freshmen senators,
> almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar
> book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he
> have been elected at all?
>
>
> [obama.senate.gov]
> to_race_obama_ma/



Ok, same right for Hillary Clinton:

would she be where she is had her husband not been President of the US ?

The Kraut nails it again.

Posted by: paul94611
Comment: #27


"Lyrics that every republican presidential candidate sung and swayed to.
Thank you Charles for your invaluable assistance in helping millions of American's understand exactly what is at stake in this election cycle."

Typical Obama left wing liberal supporter logic. Do not seem to know the huge difference between
GOD @#$%& AMERICA!! And questioning why God should bless Amercia.

What the hell is wrong with you Obama cool-aid drinker anyway?

You didn't do any real research for this column, did you Krauthammer? You didn't listen to the actual tapes of these sermons so you don't know the context of the tired quotations you cite in this column.

In fact, as I was reading your piece I realized there wasn't one new insight. It's just a rehash of the same old vitriol right wing commentators have been spewing for days.

Though I shouldn't dignify your piece of crap with a rebuttal, let's look at your bottom line: Obama shouldn't have taken his kids to that church.

TUCC teaches children:
--Rejection of BET/Hip Hop culture
--To learn from living and breathing examples of Black professionals who have 'achieved' doing something other than dribbling/carrying some sort of ball, or shuffling in front of a microphone.
--That success in America is quite attainable, through education and hard work.
--A sense of self-worth and pride that will make them more productive citizens as they grow up.
--A context about the world in which they live. Only by admitting and confronting White Supremacy and all the traps that it can set for their children, will their children be provided with the armor to go forth and succeed in this world.
--The time honored lesson of ' how to get over' that has been passed from generation to generation in the Black community.

For the above reasons, TUCC is one of the largest congregations of middle- and upper-class Blacks in the Chicago area. Those folks aren't lunatics.

This is called research, Krauthammer. Notice how it makes you think again about Rev. Wright. In fact, if you were an African-American in Chicago you'd probably be in the pews this Easter Sunday.

This IS silly.

This is the problem I have with logos and the critics (not just with Obama but with many critics in general): If you disect something enough, put your own take on it, and pick apart every point and sentence, you can make any argument you want and have it make sense. You just have to be looking hard for things to criticize, which is exactly what this columnist has done.

It's exactly what most of the harsher critics have done to Mr. Obama. Now, Obama does deserve some criticism, everyone does. Even as one of his supporters I think he's made some mistakes and I don't agree with him on everything. But there are so many people out there just determined to find something wrong with everything he does, no matter what he does.

And for those of you who are just SO upset about the Rev. Wright thing:
Why aren't you angry at McCain for embracing (beforehand having condemned) bigots like Jerry Falwell? I'll tell you why: because Jerry Falwell's bigotry was more acceptable to you, it's more agreeable, it's more familiar, it's more white, and it's more OK to hate homos.

But God forbid Mr. Wright gets carried away during a few clips of soundbite throughout his career, and all of a sudden we need to dismiss Mr. Obama by guilt by association, condemn him for following in Christ's steps by condemning the sin but not the sinner.

Very accurate article! As usual, the Obamanites think Obama can do no wrong. Yeah, he's great for comparing his "white grandmother's" private comments to Wright's maniacal rantings. Whether they can admit it or not, Obama made a grave mistake for choosing Wright and this church for his spiritual guidance, the same church that gave Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader, a lifetime achievement award. Many people are questioning whether Trinity is really a true christian church. One thing is for sure, it is a racist church, filled with endless anger and resentment. By the way, REDNECK, it's obvious you are an Obama fan through and through...making ridiculous generalizations just like Wright.

As Obama's political career blossomed, he could have quietly left Trinity for one of those more staid black churches, but he chose to stay. In his speech, he said he disagreed with Wright strongly, and yet he didn't leave the church (or even criticize his pastor until Wright's sermons became a campaign issue). He didn't explain why he stayed, but by trying to show black and white resentment as the backdrop for Wright's comments, Obama suggested that his response to controversy isn't to walk out of the room but to try to understand what's fueling the fire. He also drew a distinction between political advice and spiritual guidance, arguing that many Americans know what it's like to disagree with something their pastor or priest or rabbi says. AL GORE WILL GET IN

OBAMA SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN OIUT AND WENT TO TOHER CHURCH WHEN HE COULD!!!!!WHERE IS CLAIRE MCKASKIL AND THE FEMALE GOVENOR OR KANSOAS AKTHLEENSEVOLOUS NOW AND WERE IS TED KENNEDY NOW THEY ARE NOT GETTING NEAR HIMTHEY KNOW THAT IT WOULD BE POLITICAL SUICIDE IF THAT GOT ANYWHERE NEAR HIMAND AFTE RTHE NEW ENDORSEMENT OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY COME ON HE IS DONE AND HE WILL RESIGN NEXT WEEK

ZOGBY HAS BEEN TALKING TO SOURCES,WERE OBAMA WILL ASSIGN HIS DELEGATES TO AL GORE TO MAKE HIM THE NOMINEEE, I GUESS IF THAT HAPPENED AND HILLARY RAN AGAINST AL GORE THAT WOULD BE FINE WITH ME IF HILLARY LOST TO AL GORE,AS LONG AS BARCK GETS OUT AND CLINTON PEOPLE AND OBAMA PEOPLE WILL UNTIE BEHIND AL GORE EASILY!!!SO PEOPLE LETS RALLY BEHIND AL GORE!!!! BUT AL GORE BETTER BE PRO GUN!!! SO HE CAN WIN WEST VIRGINIA,AND HE NEEDS OT CHOOSE JIM WEBB OR HAROLD FORD FOR HIS VICE PRESIDENT OR EVN JOE LIEBERMAN!!!!THIS WILL BE IN NEWS TOMMORROW!!! IT WILL BE IN NEWS TOMMORROW I GUARANTEE IT!!!!

Posted by: Sam Clare
Comment: #37

Your problem, Sam Clare is they you are too Myopic with your far left liberal view of America.
If that fat @#$%& Bigot (god rest his soul) had shouted GOD @#$%& AMERICA from the pulpit his fat @#$%& would have been tossed under the bus by the Christian right and they would have backed that bus over that bigoted toad at least a half dozen times. You Obama supporters are just confirming what much of America has suspected for years about your sick twisted logic and agenda.

"That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt, while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination."

AMEN

Thomas 1234

You make some good points. I think my Falwell point still stands, however.
And yes, I am trying to minimize the relevance of Wright's sermons. In the aftermath of all this, a lot of other African American church leaders in Chicago expressed confusion, because Trinity has always been considered a very mainstream church, a normal representation of what goes on in black churches in America. And NO, I'm not saying that every single black church in America has pastors like Mr. Wright, but many many do. It's common @#$%&, and the fact that people don't realize that only validates Mr. Obama's point of the racial divide that exists in this country.







Thomas 1234 Wrote:
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> Dear Sam,
>
> Because McCain did not embrace Falwell by choosing
> him as a spiritual advisor and mentor. There is a
> CLOSE relationship between Obama and Wright. You
> must know there is a HUGE difference between an
> acquaintance and a relationship. Also, you are
> trying to minimize the relevance of Wright's
> sermons and Obama's membership in this church for
> 20 years. You can't choose your grandmother, you
> CAN choose your pastor and church.

NEW CHANGE Wrote:
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> ZOGBY HAS BEEN TALKING TO SOURCES,WERE OBAMA WILL
> ASSIGN HIS DELEGATES TO AL GORE TO MAKE HIM THE
> NOMINEEE, I GUESS IF THAT HAPPENED AND HILLARY RAN
> AGAINST AL GORE THAT WOULD BE FINE WITH ME IF
> HILLARY LOST TO AL GORE,AS LONG AS BARCK GETS OUT
> AND CLINTON PEOPLE AND OBAMA PEOPLE WILL UNTIE
> BEHIND AL GORE EASILY!!!SO PEOPLE LETS RALLY
> BEHIND AL GORE!!!! BUT AL GORE BETTER BE PRO
> GUN!!! SO HE CAN WIN WEST VIRGINIA,AND HE NEEDS OT
> CHOOSE JIM WEBB OR HAROLD FORD FOR HIS VICE
> PRESIDENT OR EVN JOE LIEBERMAN!!!!THIS WILL BE IN
> NEWS TOMMORROW!!! IT WILL BE IN NEWS TOMMORROW I
> GUARANTEE IT!!!!


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Zogby has no creditability. He is a professed supporter of Obama just attempting to cause more confusion and make himself look. The man is a a joke.

Great article! Could you email it to Chris Matthews amd Norah O'Donnell from MSNBC. It might bring them back on planet earth.
I would have said to send it also to Keith Olbermann but I think he would just asks Chris Matthews what to think anyway!
It is the most self serving speech I have heard!
Basically, since some of us are not half black and half white, we can't have different opinions on racial issues that are not approved by Sen. Obama since we are less relevant (isn't that a form of racism).

Also aren't there other races than black and white? As Obama sort of cast them out as irrelevant or non existant??

(sorry I hit the post button accidentally before i was finished the first time)

Geez, I've got to get to bed soon,

but

"fire & brimstone" is just fine. What's narrow about you is that you think there's only one way to practice Christianity. Yes, God forbid we have homosexuality and porno, things that always have and always will exist no matter who you demonize. Christ also preached, I'd say even more fervently, about the need for social justice. Mr. Wright chose to focus his ministry on that issue. If you actually evaluate his actual work in the community and see what he has done in the real world, you'll see that he's done pretty well following Christ's example.

Brings me back to my original point, which is nobody's perfect. Mr. Wright is divisive and rancorous. Mr. Obama is kinda cocky, Mrs. Clinton is shady, McCain doesn't generally bother to educate himself on things like economics, the list goes on down to every single one of us.

No, Wright was not actually Obama's uncle. But he's responsible for converting him to Christianity, he married he and Michelle, he baptized his daughters, and along the way, he made offensive/incendiary comments that aren't all that unusual coming from these pulpits.






seabizkit Wrote:
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> There is a difference between the "fire &
> brimstone" from Christian pastors that denounce
> people for their support for drugs, abortion,
> homosexuality, pornography that are sins in
> Christian theology.
> The "other" pastor denounces a whole race and
> spreads vicious lies that are apart from Christian
> teaching. Doesn't he know the 9th commandment
> "Thous Shall NOt bear false witness against they
> Neighbor."
> I also don't buy his reasoning that he cannot
> disown this pastor it isn't like he doesn't have a
> choice like if Rev. Wright was actually part of
> his family in the biological sense like his
> grandma -- instead he chose to make him one "like
> an uncle" and it sounded like he was more than an
> uncle.

Yes, Obama indeed has wrong moral standards. He wrongly compared Mr. Wright with Mrs.Geraldine Ferraro and himself grandmother, since Mrs.Geraldine Ferraro and his grandmother didn't say any anti-American thing. Can you trust him and choose him as a president?

Posted by: Sam Clare
Comment: #52

Sorry Sam Clure. I did not realize that you were in treatment for a multiple personality disorder.
Good luck to you.

Thank you for the well wishes. Your first post could've been so nice

Actually, you've just bought into the notion that somehow, stances on political issues have to be stamped together. You can't have one without the other. Well if you actually bother to look past party platforms, you might see that you can exercise INDEPENDENT judgement and agree, and then disagree, with the same people on different issues.

Issues have been falsely linked together, I think people have been duped into the idea that the beliefs of the "right" and the "left" are logically linked together by philosophy. You can make a constitutional argument for, and against, abortion. Great lawyers have done both. Wouldn't you think that conservatives would be on the side of CONSERVING? And wouldn't you think that liberals would be on the side of saving unborn kiddos?





GetAGripIII Wrote:
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> Posted by: Sam Clare
> Comment: #52
>
> Sorry Sam Clure. I did not realize that you were
> in treatment for a multiple personality disorder.
> Good luck to you.

Posted by: Sam Clare
Comment: #60
"You're the sociopath.
You've got the balls to think that A) you're a trained psychoanalyst, cool smiley you've somehow delved extraordinarily deep into Mr. Obama's psyche simply by watching him, C) you, as an untrained professional, somehow have the right to think that you should be influencing public opinion by spewing this @#$%&."

"I'd love to actually go point by point and tell you why each of your charges is either stupid, untrue, or just unverifiable by anything but theraputic evidence... but I really, really don't feel like it. It would take pages. That's what thoughtful analyses take, pages. Not little definitions out of an old psychology textbook."



Sam, does your therapist know that you are using the computer? You know, you might get in trouble if you are going against the house rules.

Jupiter Wilson Wrote:
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> How dare you call Senator Obama's speech a fraud?
> When a person has the courage to bar his soul in
> public in an honest and compassionate way, you
> have the termerity to dissect and dismiss the very
> essence of his message - the need to examine the
> racism within each of us. Perhaps it makes you
> uncomfortable to do so. You could learn much from
> Mike Huckabee's response yesterday.

Obama came with his speech forced by the controversy. He was more evasive than accountable.

The comments on this blog are disgusting!

So, was the analysis... a biased piece of crap (of which I would expect from any one of today's pundits - whether from the left or from the right).

Not a fan of Obama myself... but, to watch a politician ANY politician today speak honestly about major issues -reminds me of a time when our leaders were BETTER and STRONGER than the average countryman. I could see Eisenhower, Lincoln, FDR, or JFK giving this speech (maybe with a bit more panache).

Krauthammer's "analysis" was pure partisan hackery. I am so sick and tired of "ideology as facts" analysis. And it's the same on the left! All I can say, America continues to elect seriously flawed Presidents. Our current is clearly the worst yet (we may never recover), Clinton was a highly ineffective 2-termer, and so it goes....

People... start reading... and critically analyzing our politics and politicians. Because if you don't ... America is in trouble.

What I don't understand about Charles and the right is their inability to calibrate their own sense of anger. This whole piece is full of anger--even the title is an angry attack--and yet it is simply over the claim of others who loved Obama's speech. How does that compare to what blacks of Wright's generation truly suffered in almost every aspect of human existence--and it's not as if the playing field has been completely leveled. If the Obama haters (he's phony, a fraud, how dare he be a father and take his children to that church, etc) base the majority of their hatred on how utterly foolish and delusional Obama followers are to believe in his message of hope (when this belief of others does not in any way directly injure them), why can't they understand a black man's anger at the message of hope and the promise of equality that is America when his direct experiences were so contrary to that message?

To Scot Douglass and other's who share your opinion.... The answer to your question of: "Why can't they understand a black man's anger at the message of hope and the promise of equality that is America when his direct experiences were so contrary to that message?"

What about Jews? Millions of us died because of racism. Let me tell you, we handle it in a much more classy manner. We do not attend synagogues with rabbis who are hate mongers like Rev. Wright, I can assure you.

Rev. Wright's attitude and anyone who shares that continuing racist attitude will just stay in the ghetto for the rest of your lives. Pull your racist thoughts out of the mud for godsakes!

But I digress. The WHOLE point of the matter is, someone like Obama who sat and listened to that crap for more than 20 years must have found it all to be "comfort food", he thought it was okay, and the president of the United States needs to be held to a higher standard than this.

This article would have made sense if Obama were not White, well, partly at least. It would also have made sense if Obama were not raised by his white grandparents.

Charles, a man of your background, you could have done better job in your failed attempt to demagoguing this issue and speech. You are rewarded with a D- grade for effort.

Franklin

Jupiter Wilson Wrote:
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> How dare you call Senator Obama's speech a fraud?
> When a person has the courage to bar his soul in
> public in an honest and compassionate way, you
> have the termerity to dissect and dismiss the very
> essence of his message - the need to examine the
> racism within each of us. Perhaps it makes you
> uncomfortable to do so. You could learn much from
> Mike Huckabee's response yesterday.

I could not have written a better response.

Thank you

Charles Krauthammer is a huage fraud. In fact he is more than a fraud. He can't help himself but to remain closed-minded!!! Don't make the mistake of voting for Hillary or McCain. this man, Obama, is manufactured by God for America for such a time as this. We need real help now!!!

So fellow Americans, be careful not to let yourselves be fooled by writers like this man who actually may need a surgery to help him secure an open mind that may help him understand the brilliant, nonpolitical speech given by Senator obama out of a pure heart.

One of the worst mistakes America can make this time is to miss electing Obama President. This man is not black, he’s not white, he’s not green or yellow or whatever. HE IS A GODLY AND HUMBLY SENSITIVE AMERICAN whom God will work with to bless America again. Don’t be surprise that the fuel prices at the pump will soar DOWN to unbelievable price per gallon again, and OPEC will have little or nothing to do with it. God is God when He gets the right person in place. Hillary cannot do it. Obama has to also think doubly twice before choosing Hillary as VP. She might be a source of problems!!! God is setting up America to be healed through this man. I continue to see it this way.
Ohio and hundreds of thousands of voters in Texas have been duped into voting for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton duped them with the lies and innuendos on NAFTA and the 3:00 a.m. call. But see--God exposed Clinton on NAFTA lies against Obama. Now it is discovered that she is the one communicating with the Canadian government that the promises she was giving on NAFTA are simply campaign related, designed to gain votes. Well she gained the votes and won. I strongly call on Ohio and Texas voters to chastise Clinton and to demand their votes back!!! This exposure on NAFTA will let you know about what she means when she talks about the 3:00 a.m. phone call. Hillary will not answer that call. If she does, she won't know what to do or she will most probably make the wrong decision, trying to do things just by herself without consultation or she will be worrying and bugged down with "guilts" about what she has done to people. Obama will make very good decisions, and he will make sure to get together with the right people to help him explore necessary alternatives and contingencies. Wake up America and stop being maneuvered by people like Hillary. As someone wrote in the internet, concerning Hillary’s stunt on NAFTA, “When people talk about Hillary's experience, it is this type of stunt they are referring to...i.e., political experience. She's good at the Dark Arts, but that's about it as far as her experience goes.”

Mr. Barack Obama is actually stronger in national security, economy, healthcare, and some of the other issues than either Hillary or McCain. America is at a stage in her life that she needs overhaul. The agent of that overhaul is Obama for such a time as this. His middle name does not matter. He did not give himself the name. He loves everyone, including Israel. What people do not know is that Obama attends one of the strictest Christian denominations that commit very seriously to serving Jesus Christ. Church of Christ is STRICT! A weak Christian cannot attend such a denomination. It is seriously Pentecostal. It is also becoming very clear that Hillary can do or say anything to win while Obama, on the other hand, being a strong Christian, simply does not want to attack Hillary negatively, although he and everyone else knows how to do it. right now, Hillary is striving to mess up the chances of the democratic party in the general election.

NOW Catch this: America cannot be resurrected into vitality and prosperity until significant number of her citizens become energized by the inspiration, wakening, and motivating spirit that God has embedded in Obama for the benefit of America AT THIS TIME. When people are aroused and awake again, then they can work hard and participate together toward believing and making everything work toward strengthening the economy, family, political system, national security, and building healthy and trusting relationships within America and between America and the rest of the world. That's NATIONAL SECURITY! THAT'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH! THAT'S PEOPLE TRUSTING AND BELIEVING IN AMERICA AGAIN! I am a Professof of Business Administration and strategic management for a long time. Obama is what America needs at this time. World leaders will actually respect him much more than others due to his humble spirit but also quiet inner strength! In fact, terrorists will think much-more than twice before they try to attack any American interests with Obama as President. they already have it in their heads that this man cannot play with them. Obama is more humble than Reagan, but he has a tough demeanor similar to Reagan (if not better) that outside world will fear and respect! He will not make many mistakes and he relatively will not waste resources as many American Presidents have done. He will appropriate resources wisely and monitor their use and who uses them, especially in relations to other nations. Many nations trick the United States into sending the dollars; but the dollars have usually been used to accomplish very little. Most dollars are wasted in highly corrupt foreign leaders who claim to be assisting their nations. Such leaders will find it difficult to try to play Obama. There is so much to write, but I will stop here! Feel free to get the Obama campaign to contact me. I will advise them on how to win the general election. Well, one more thing: I strongly advise the Obam campaign to run this ad nationally. I am writing it for them right now---

"..... Shouldn't the President be the one, the only one that is capable of uniting people and solve problems without letting any problem turn into crises? The inspiration, my ability to relate to people instead of using intimidation or fight-posture, and my ability to manage or analyze contingencies and draw necessary conclusions and judgments define domestic and national security for America. Such qualification leads to getting problems solved without heading into crises that will bruise and drain America and wound our economy and every other thing! That's REAL security! That's the REAL experience you need! That's Barack Obama! We don't have to use force when we don't have to use force! If experience leads to consistently bad judgments, then what is that experience? You be the judge! How can somone who does not mind duping Ohio and Texas into voting for her with lies on NAFTA be your President? How can Hillary Clinton be the President of this great nation if her experience is on lies, innuendos, and accusing Obama wrongly for what she herself is doing? She is both Ms and Mrs. Hood Wink Wink and double-talk! Make Hillary pay for Ohio and Texas! Run away from HILLARY! Leave her alone! She is TOO DESPERATE to be the President of this United States of America. Her mind won’t be steady at 3:00 a.m., worrying about all the negative campaigns. I will make the right judgment at 3:00 a.m. given the circumstances of the call! People’s lives are at stake; therefore no one can jump into quick and un-chewed decision without consulting the Presidential cabinet or even the congress or even the American people. Run away from misjudgment. [EVEN the '3 a.m. Ad' Girl Wants Obama to Answer Call. Girl featured in Hillary Clinton's ad actually supports Obama. ABC News - Sun Mar 9, 12:35 PM ET] Make me your President and let us deliver Change We Can Believe In. YES WE CAN!"

Dear America, let us open our eyes and see how God is fighting for this man, Mr. Obama, who is a serious Christian running to become our President. The cheep and deceiving Hillary’s campaign didn’t know that they were using a girl in a campaign who is actually campaigning for Obama right now. That’s how God fights for people who are humble and means well like Obama. That’s how God will fight for America when the right person becomes her commander in Chief. Just read the ABC News excerpt: ----["They were parodying this ad, kind of poking fun at it," Knowles said. "My brother was like, 'Is that Casey?' And we just erupted. Sure enough, it's me." The file footage was originally shot for a railroad company advertisement. The Clinton campaign bought it from Getty Images. Knowles, a senior at Bonney Lake High School who turns 18 next month, has been campaigning for Obama. She attended his rally at Seattle's KeyArena on Feb. 8. Her mother, Pam, told The News Tribune of Tacoma that Casey cried and trembled after shaking the candidate's hand. The next day, she was a Democratic precinct captain for the state's caucuses. If she plays her cards right, she could go to the national convention. Not to mention that she could be in another ad. After her identity became known, Obama's campaign contacted her. "I mentioned that we should make a counter ad, me and Obama, against Hillary," she said. "They thought that was really funny. They actually might take me up on it."

Now you make the judgment. This is Obama’s time for America. Vote for Obama to vote for America’a security, peace, economic prosperity, and political prosperity again!!!!!!!!!! Don’t let selfish and wicked politicians dupe your vote.

1) Can you honestly say you haven't written anything that a majority of Americans found "controversial" and hateful , but that your audience and you found insightful and inspiring?
To me you sound like Wright sounds to you. Unreasoning, not understand what motivates the 'other', suspicious, paranoid.

2)You can't understand that community and theology from a few sound bites. Sorry.
"By their fruits you will know them" - Jesus The Christ
Yes those statements Wright made seem wrong to me.
But if the man was preaching hate you would see a church full of hateful people. That is not the reputation of that Church.
And more importantly that is not Obama.

3) If you made JFK explain the words of ever one of his Priest that said the protestants were going to hell he never would have been president. But I guess you would have been happier with Nixon.

4) What is his sin. Not walking out of his communities most active church and watching football at home on Sunday? That would be okay wouldn't it? If he just watched Rambo kill every Sunday. If you still want to say with the crowd "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" you should pick another day besides Good Friday. Less likely to make him a martyr.

It is Obama that many moderates see as the fraud. The speech on race was just a slick way of taking the low information voters attention off Rev. Wright and reflecting the focus back on whites for the racial injustices done to blacks by whites in the past. That is just plain old misdirection and manipulation. Now you see Rev. Wright, now you don't. Obama wraps himself in the Bill Of Rights and the Constitution and throws in the Civil War as a bonus.

Obama is a flim flam man and a manipulator at the very least. A total Fraud most likley.

Great Job!! You nailed it -- Obama wants this to be about race but it is about so much more than that. It's about his judgement for one thing -- and his character.

This is nothing but an affirmation of Obama's basic lack of weaknesses. The Clinton machine and the GOP machine have set up a sort of tag team effort to find whatever they can find on the best candidate. Having dug deeply, they have still been unable to really find any negative things about Obama's character that are worth whining about, and have moved to sound bites of his pastor's sermons. If this is the best they can find, Barack's looking pretty good. This article may as well have come from a celebrity gossip magazine...you know, like the ones who promise to show "stars without their makeup!" on the cover, and has about as much substance as such a story. I'm sure there are plenty of these publications hiring.

This is why we were suckered into a war that never should have been authorized nor waged. We have an inelastic demand to dwell on useless issues because of our discomfort with dwelling on important issues.

A ranting mad priests makes incendiary remarks. Barack has condemned those remarks. Why is that newsworthy for 7 days, when we are not talking about the 5th annivessary of Iraq, recession, and exhorbitant gas prices.

Out 4th estate has become fraudulent!

Great speech--signifying what exactly? That the past is not dead and buried and we still live in some version of Faulkners turn of the century Mississippi? That's not a very transcendent approach to the issue of race in this country. I must have missed the part in his speech about how far we've come as a society in the past fifty years. Of course, listening to Rev Wrights sermons you wouldn't know anything has changed at all.

"Words mean something". You have to look at Rev Wright's words--not to mention the emotional whirling dervish of their delivery--not his intentions. I can't discern his intentions because I can't read his mind--and neither can you. I've also been told "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". If the pundits and supporters of Rev Wright can honestly find racial conciliation in the reverend's sermons I would submit their powers of interpretation are truly remarkable.

Our heroes and those that we admire often fail us, but do we disown them or leave our faith behind? Krauthammer carefully selects his examples, but take others.

America loves its founding fathers such as George Washington. We mythologize him with tales of courage and truth telling. Yet he owned slaves and would not let a woman vote or hold elective office. we do not disown him. We love him historically and allow his name and life to be held up for admiration. Why do we do that? He earned our respect with many good deeds and qualities. Perhaps if Krauthammer knew more about Pastor Wright besides the 5 minutes of controversial statements he might admire him and even go to his church to hear him and pray with him.

Yeah, I saw a backlash coming. We (current society) can't like something for more than 3 days without eventually coming to hate it, it seems. What was cool before is now crap. Burn 'em all, I guess. There is no hope, we're all cynics.

Dear Mr. Self-Righteous,

I learned from my black grandmother that two wrongs don't make a right. I also learned from her that you do not throw stones when you live in a glass house.

Allow me to remind you that you did not leave the Republican Party when Bill Bennett said that there will be less crime in this country if every single black baby were to be aborted. Maybe you agreed with such statement. In spite of your alleged opposition to abortion and your long-standing love for African Americans like the not-so-nuanced Clarence Thomas, your silence was deafening. Not a single word of condemnation from Charlie, this man of great Moral Compass. Recently, your silence was also eloquent when Geraldine Ferraro made her “insightful” comments about Senator Obama.

Now, surprise, surprise, you have found your voice. You want to blame Senator Obama for not leaving his church and casting the reasons for such decision in "Harvard Law nuances". Envy of his eloquence and his ability to use nuances is a sincere form of flattery from your part.

Condemn all the Republican sins and yes, Democrat sins, with the same vigor that you use to condemn Senator Obama, then, you will have the moral thrust to write the article that you wrote. As much as I hate to tell you out of fear of being in your company, I nevertheless, somehow feel compelled to mention to you that your article had no Community College nuances, much less Harvard Law ones. If Jeremiah Wright were white, he could have written your article since both of you have a distorted view of reality, as articulated brilliantly, by guess who, the man you unconsciously envy, yet openly hate so much, Barack Obama.

Excellent work, sir, thank you.
Barack has a soft underbelly of weakness, a moral tolerance for extremists.
Malik Zulu Shabazz loved Barack's speech.
God protect us from these silly "intellectuals" with no intellect who got sucked into Barack's sophistry.
Barack has Farrakhan's vote. Isn't that swell?
Barack has Malik and the New Black Panther Party on his side?
Let's bring them to the White House so we can "unify" the nation. Right. Sure.

Barack created a dangerous pattern of letting fanatics get away with awful ideas.
One site, TPM, has become a haven for these idiotic ideas.
One post was: "In defense of Wright".
There is NO defense for Wright.
He and Farrkhan went to Libya in 84 to pay homage to Kadafi.
There is a trifecta that Barack must have known about before he even joined his church.
Barack has no courage, no moral courage or he would leave Wright, Farrakhan and Malik in the rear view mirror.
Barack is now scary.

Well you better get used to it. If Clinton cannot take him down with mud and Radio direct fire continues to be inneffective, McCain will have to go negative once he hits the general cycle. So far, it appears he somehow gains strength with each low blow. Translation - this country is angry with the present crowd. If timing holds, the present crop of bureaucrats may look like they were shot out of a CANNON!

I remember when Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston. If Liston ever hnit him with any of those roundhouse bunker busters, Clay would have cleared the ropes on his way out of the ring. But Cassius Clay seemed to be on a different plane. A different dimension. He was in a different fight.

Thank God for Charles Krauthammer and Thomas Sowell!!

Sen. Obama needs better advice. His pastor should be Bill Cosby.

If history has taught us nothing else, it is that good men cannot sit there quietly listening to the hateful rantics of a lunatic - Germany, 1930s. Obama didn't learn that lesson. He is unqualified to lead for that reason alone.

Graham
Falwell
Roberts
Hagee

You sir and your ilk are hypocrites.

The double standard use is a perfect example of the differing standards depending on the race of the speaker. You cannot deny the accepted influene of the men listed above and their "reasons" for 9/11, and Katrina.

Here is one more thought, while I don't share the opinion on AIDs, remember this.

In 1972, while Mecury Morris and Bob Greese were leading the Miami Dolphins to the "perfect season", Black people were learning of the Tuskegee project that tricked black men into remaining untreated for Syhphllis by misleading them into thinking they were receiving treatment (spreading it to their wives and children as chronic syphillis) from 1939 -1972. For many black leaders who would have been 25-35 years old then, the idea that the US governmnt exposing black people to a contagious disease is not such a crazy idea.

Visit the CDC (US Center for Disease Control) to learn more, they finally admitted it in 1975.
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> I thought the speech was brilliant and genuine.
> Simply because you don't have
> the mental capacity to understand it dosn't make
> it fraudulent.


It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see through Obama's effort (i.e. his so called epic racial speech) to save his political behind. He claims to be an agent of change yet his sat in a pew for 20 years and listened to the racist, anti-white, anti-American rantings of his preacher and DID NOTHING to change the very church he claims to care deeply about. If he could not, or would not, change his church over two decades why should we believe he can change a country?

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> Yeah, I saw a backlash coming. We (current
> society) can't like something for more than 3 days
> without eventually coming to hate it, it seems.
> What was cool before is now crap. Burn 'em all, I
> guess. There is no hope, we're all cynics.


Don't blame us for being disappointed in Obama. He claimed to be the cure for all our ills. Turns out he is just another hypocritical, self serving politician. He set a the bar for us to measure himself very high knowing all along he could never reach it. How can he change an entire country when he never even bothered to try and change his own church in over twenty years?

I'm a white middle class male. I'm not a huge Obama supporter because he is not anti-war and anti-corporate culture enough for me. I do support Jeremiah Wright and share many of his views. The US has sent servicemen off to die in wars while rich CEO's earn millions for 50 years now. Our "greatest generation" fought nazism in Europe while IBM and Ford made profits helping Hitler build his war machine. Now we send our soldiers to die in Iraq while Cheney hands gazillion dollar projects to his business associates. WTF?

When Jeremiah Wright says "god @#$%& America" he means "god @#$%& the political / corporate complex that uses endless war as a cornerstone of its business plan. Of course those responsible for crafting this foreign policy share responsibility for the violence that our enemies plot against us.

God bless America when we restore democracy to our hemisphere and our government serves the people and not the corporation.

Obama took the mirror that was held up to him, turned it on us and tried to blind us with it. Thanks to Krauthammer for being the lone commentator to get the con game completely.

Interesting thesis. However, it should be clear to any critical reader that your anger and frustration is not with Senator Obama and it is not even with Rev Wright. It is with a Black Church. The problem with your arguement is that you failed to establish your qualifications to make such an arguement. For example, you should have told us how familiar you are with the culture of a Black Church. Having done so, you would then be qualified to ask the questions you pose. By not establishing that you have familiarity, you have disclosed that you are merely an unenlighted critique and therefore not a valuable contributor to a very important discussion. With appropriate experience it is highly possible for your cognitive map to adapt to the realities of todays world. Good luck!

Zap, do you think I'm more of a Jew racist or a typical white man? Oy vey, I'm so gosh darn conflicted!

You can tell this was a sound article by the weakness of those comments that disagree with it.

Happy Now, America? The Media what a great job you have done and in a few years you wonder why your country is going down the drain. Why the rest of the world hate you.
The Answers are right with you? You glorify perverts, adore controversy, love distortion, reward hypocrisy, accept shallow ideas and opinions.. the list goes on and on.
Someone gave you a deep thoughtful and remarkable speech that is been revered, treasured and reviewed around the world and all you guys rant about is why did He listen and allow his kids listen to Rev. Wright., why he didn’t disown him.
Yet you wonder why Bill Gates goes to India to look for intelligent workers and your Pentagon awards your mighty defense contract to France … you morons.
Listen, you guys are lossing you stance in the world… The world is smarter not to follow the lead of fools.

Another excellent analysis by Mr. Krauthammer.

Years ago, I left the UCC church because it was too liberal, and I did not want my children raised in that manner. For my family, it was the right thing to do.

Mr.Krauthammer raises essentially the same question for Obama that I had to answer; If a Parent truly believes that a pastor is wrong, then you leave that church for the sake of your children and find another.

Obama did not leave that Church; Therefore, it is quite obvious to me that Obama did not have a problem with the preachings of Pastor Wright; If we choose Obama, we are also choosing Pastor Wright's influence on Obama.

It was a political speech designed to change the subject from HIM to US. It backfired. As a separate speech about race, it may have merits. But that wasn't its purpose. It was change the focus away from my contradictions, not change we can trust.

Senator Obama clearly told you why he isn't disowning Rev. Wright. The man is like family to him. I'm not sure why it's so hard for people to understand that you can still have a strong relationship with someone even though you may vehemently disagreee with them on issues. There is much more to the relationship than those issues. Do you not have any relationships like that in your lives? I certainly do.

In his speech he's trying to tell you where he's coming from. You may not like it, you may not agree with it, but you are definitely wrong to say he's a fraud. The speech was clearly very genuine.

More shameless journalism. On top of writing an op-ed you use slandarous language starting with the title.

Small thoughts from a small man. Your cynicism has poisoned your pen, Krauthheimer.

The truth hurts. Unable to refute the comments, attack the messenger. Small thoughts, indeed.

Excellent article - you are absolutely correct. The American public is delusional if they think Obama is something new.

I'm glad to see a few ,and I mean a very few,in the media finally hold Obama just as responsible for his actions & words as the rest of the candidates.I have always been a true Independent and very proud of it.These days I'm sure it's hard to be a proud Republican,But much harder to be a proud Demacrat.Oh,by the way,God BLESS America.

Let's look at the root of all of this. For those who are reasonable, I ask that you ask a simple question of yourselves.

Is it fair to judge a man's career, ideals, and beliefs based on 45 seconds of video? Yes or no? Is it fair to judge those, based on 45 seconds of video, with whom he has association? That's the root question, and one that we need to consider when we come to the ultimate logical conclusion.

We're sheep.

We get 45 hand-picked snippits of video by which we're instructed to judge a man, and told to judge not only him, but his association.

And we do it.

45 seconds worth of video from 3,000 hours of taped sermon, and we're to take the leap that this 45 seconds is representative.

And yup. We do it.

Even though we now have hundreds of media representatives, research operatives, surrogates, and special interest party members scouring 25 years of video to show that these snippits are representative, they haven't been able to give us so much as another fart's worth of support. Nor have any of these hundreds of motivated parties been able to show us that Obama was actually in the pew while any racist or anti-American commentary was uttered. Nothing.

What would certainly be one of the biggest news stories in 50 years sits untouched?

"Obama Lied!"

"Obama In Pews While Pastor Makes Stupid Comments!"

"Democratic Voters Justified In Panicking About Black Guy!"

"Impending World Domination by Black Panthers Confirmed!"

I would submit that had I been provided with 25 years worth of video from any of you at work, I could very, very easily take that footage, and slap it down to 45 seconds worth, and paint you as the worst racist, anti-American, bunny-rabbit-hating, elderly-person-tazing, nazi, lesbian troglodyte the world has ever seen.

Then I could distribute that video, and show the world it is representative of who you are.

Then, most importantly, I'll ask every viewer to look only at that 45 seconds, then judge your brother-in-law.

Stop being freakin' sheep, people. Please. The reality is that Trinity HAS white members. Did you know that? Did you take a second to find out? Did you know that Trinity actually buses, on their dime, disadvantaged children from South Chicago to listen to sermons? Did you know that most of them are white or latino? No? Did you take a second to find out?

This is all akin to being engaged to a woman you think you might be able to stay with for the rest of your life, but you're not sure. A week before the wedding you find out one of her friends got drunk and said something mean about you. You pounce on the opportunity. Your cold feet justifies that you can use this to do what your fear tells you you should. You dump her, and call her a horrible person.

If you don't like the guy, don't vote for him. But for God's sakes do not act like the rest of the sheep, and spread "he's a racist", "he hates America" paranoia for those who are ready to follow anything.

It's inherently unfair, unfounded, childish, and irresponsible.

Without any support or realistic logic, you're reacting in precisely the manner you're supposed to. In the manner in which you were instructed. And that's sad.

Baaaaaa.

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Charles,

I was going to vote against Obama because of the nonsense and hateful ignorance from his former pathetic preacher. However, I have noticed a spin job being done by the "Right which seems to be very "Wright" which is wrong.

I understand Martin Luther King was as critical of the US as Wright on many occassions - the reality is we have a painful history and I believe half white half black Obama has a better feel for what ails us and can probably do as good a job as any in moving the nation forward.

I will vote for Barack because I know my vote for him will not be for Wright - just as a vote for McCain will not be for the anti-Catholic, hateful racist John Hagee whose votes McCain has sought. When will you write an article demanding that McCain denounce/renounce/reject John Hagee.

You and others like you have actually helped me to switch to Obama - ENOUGH of this bull.

Hannity caught supporting a neo natzi.Go check it out

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Well...well...well. Charles Krauthammer...just another in the long line of Fox News attack dogs...Chris Wallace, Juan Williams, Fred Barnes, Brian Kilmeade, Bill O'Riely and the biggest idiot of them all...Sean Hannity.

Charles, this is the stupiest analysis I've ever seen.

As far as Fox goes, tune in at anytime during 2010 and we'll still be seeing clips of Pastor Wright.

Charley needs to play the Match Game

I know he will get one right here..

Match the speaker with the stated reason for the cause of 9/11

The Speakers:

A. Senator James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe R-Okla
B. The Late Rev Jerry Falwell
C. Ron Paul R-Tx
D. Rev Wright

The Quotes:

1. We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

2. They attack us because we've been over there; we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East -- I think Reagan was right. We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. So right now we're building an embassy in Iraq that's bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us.

3. The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this. ... And I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say: “You helped this happen.””

4. One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.




Answers:

A4, B3, C2, D1
Now order the statements from the craziest to the most sound? Then ask which of these speakers Charley would call pilars of the community and welcomed (or past honored) guests at the White House?

Obama owned.

Obama has the sparsest record imaginable. 1/2 year as a senator and half of that spent campaigning for pres? Tell me again how he's qualified to be president of the US?

Obama and his surrogates have race-baited this entire campaign, starting with the absolute freak-out that occurred following Bill Clinton's remarks about Obama being a "kid" (lack of experience) and calling his voting record on Iraq a "fairy tale". "The first black president" was promptly thrown under the bus as a "racist". Try and figure that one out. A "racist". Oh, he criticized a black guy, and in current American culture, ANY criticism of a black person brings the knee-jerk "RACIST" response from the black community and professional race-baiters like Donna Brazile.

Then we have these sickening comments from Obama's mentor of 20 years, followed by Obama's "You created Wright, whitey, and Geraldine Ferraro is just as bad, so there" speech.

Glad to see this clown is tanking in the polls. FINALLY getting some scrutiny from the press.

Guy Falkner Wrote:
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> Confussed Redneck Wrote:
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> > I am a self proclaimed Redneck and now am
> > confused.
> >
> > I have been getting all this mails saying to be
> > wary of this secret muslim but now I am getting
> > mails to be wary of this hateful Christian.
> >
> > So which one is it?
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> That was a brilliant statement. That statement
> pretty much sums up how silly/stupid the right has
> been in reference to Obama.

It's completely obvious that Obama's critics are willing to trade the MUSLIM label for the RACIST label. Whichever label will do him the most harm politically.

The funny thing about the Rev. Wright story is that according to the latest polls, MOST voters have been able to distinguish the difference between the words of a man, and the words of his pastor. I do not think that Obama's enemies expected such a LACK of outrage directed at Obama, otherwise they would have stuck with the "Obama is a muslim terrorist" story.

I am absolutely certain that the next charge against Obama will be related to his dog. Fox News will report that his dog is connected to a Coumbian drug ring and serves as a cocaine purity analyst. The implication will be that since a dog is a man's best friend, we can confirm that Obama is back to using drugs like he did when he was a teenager? We'll have the shocking video of Obama's dog next. We report. You decide.

"Wright did not say these things in passing, in a closed room, just a few times. These words were offered up as the Gospel of Jesus, in a well thought out sermon to millions of people live and on tape."

Baaaaaa.

You get 45 seconds of ill-timed, questionable comment and decide that's who the man is? You're hand-fed 45 seconds from 3000 hours of video as condensed and provided by those with malice and motivation, and decide that this is representative?

If this were representative, we'd all agree with you. But seeing as we have 45 seconds of a 25-year career, even though hundreds have been scouring for more, you don't have enough free thought to ask yourself "Um... am I making a mistake by assuming that I can judge a man based on what equates to .000012% of the available evidence as provided by someone with very well-known intentions?"

This seriously seems even remotely rational or logical to you? Honestly?

Chuck, I ask you this, what about Hugo Black? A great SC Justice. The first of the strict constructionists whom I'm certain you support. A federalist. And a Klansman. FDR knew it and he put him on the court anyway, and then the former Klansman wound up on the right side of Brown v. Board of ED and several other important civil rights decisions.

So, I guess my question to you is, how is the fact that somebody's pastor made some stupid offensive remarks (Wright will not be on the SC, nor Obama's cabinet) at all reflective of the candidate who attends his church, when most of us regard FDR as a great president and he put a Klansman on the Court - and it turned out to be the right thing, as Black followed the law and his brain, not his racist past?

Your reasoning stinks. This is a bunch of hogwash that has everything to do with a) the fact that Obama is a democrat and b) the fact that he is half-black.

"That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt, while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination."

Priceless! Charles, I am stealing those lines.

Did you send your article to that pinko Olbermann by any chance?

I am continually stunned by the ability of seemingly intelligent humans to distort any information to fit a small primitive belief system. This is an example of a literate human processing information in the same fashion that the church did when it refused to accept that the sun was the center of the universe…they denied it because they could not fit the thought on their post-it size notes …the thought was too big for them to process.

The fawning media and intellectual elite loved Obama's speech.

But the average middle-class person hated it.

It was all about Obama and his own race...me, myself and black people.

Why we black people are angry. Why white people are angry at us.

Our history. Our culture. Our churches. Our families.

Black people are just 12% of the U.S. population. As new immigrants keep arriving from Asia, Mexico, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, black people keep losing their importance as a "race."

Equality and bigotry isn't about race anymore. It's about a big melting pot of many origins and cultures. Obama's focus on blacks was arrogant and selfish, and it diminished the place of so many other ethnic groups in the American melting pot.

Middle-class white people also hated Obama's speech because he didn't acknowledge the difficulties they are having in welcoming new and unfamiliar races and ethnic groups into the American fabric. There are economic and homeland security fears he didn't address. Why not? Because it's risky for Obama, compared to the safety of making feel-good academic arguments about old black/white issues.

Americans hate gutless politicians who are afraid to take risk. They hate politicians who look backward instead of looking forward. And they hate politicians who cater to the intellectual elite instead of addressing their own dirtier and more difficult issues.

Hey people!

It is not about the Reverend. It is about Obama and his wife. We have enough proofs to know the kind of politician Obama is.

It is about Judgment, Ethics, Trusting VS Rezco, Nafte, The reverend.

We cannot cover the sun with a finger. Even Obama's followers know this reality.
By the way, Obama had not "the courage" ha was forced because he was caught. He had no option.
In any case, he did not give the responses the public was expecting. He delivered an academic lecture, as usual. The man of the words.

If black hate speech isn't a product of white racism, then what IS IT a product of? This question surely suggests itself, but isn't addressed. How typical.

Wright's comments, while indefensible, are but extreme manifestations of what many (not quantifying here) Black Americans believe, to varying extents. They indeed stem from racism, both private and government-sanctioned (even by the ministers of public health, viz. Tuskegee).

Perhaps it's time to examine the root causes of these views, and to begin to think of ways to end the divide that this piece vilifies (but only as to African-Americans) but makes no attempt to address substantively. Anyone can lob things in from the periphery.

OK, so Obama realizes that there is both racist preachers and racist grandmothers. His campaign's main promise is his ability to transcend and unite. What is his plan to change this gap between the two sides?

I'm white. I don't feel personally "guilty" about America's past racial injustices (though they were wrong, I am not accountable). I loved Obama's speech.

Krauthammer has in his mind one demographic that covers all Obama supporters: upper-middle class, latte sipping, Harvard professors.

I'm a former Republican (switched on Super Tuesday to support Obama) from Kansas.

I'm unsure how Krauthammer will reconcile that "white, Obama supporter" does not equal "hippie".

LDC,

And the argument goes full-circle now. You submit that this man is now all about race, yet you don't provide any context from which you make the assertion. You're forced to provide general notions because anything presented as factual has been put to sleep over, and over, and over again.

You know what this is? This is the woman who is in an abusive marriage (20 years of dirty politics, special interest bowing, and flat out lies from the past four presidents). You learn there's a man that actually cares about you, and believes he can help you, and has never lied to you. You might be in love. But being abused is all you know, so you look for any faults or knicks in the armor so that you can have some sense of comfort when you lose your courage, and run back to the abusive relationship that you've come to know as "security".

Baaaaa

Charles has his head so far up his @$$ - as usual - perhaps he should question why the millions of viewers of the late great Pat Robertson's 700 club, or the followers of Jerry Falwell (America deserved 911) aren't being held to the same standard - disavow, quit, - guilt by association. What a fricking joke Krauthammer is.

What about the right's wacky Reverend Sun Myung Moon who calls America "Satan's harvest" and vows to subjugate its people under a Korea-based theocracy?

Why do Krauthhammer and other Republican water-carriers let this anti-American looney spew his hate-speech without challenge?

Because Moon (owner of the conservative rag -- The Washington Times -- [www.consortiumnews.com]) has spread around billions of dollars to Washington conservatives (http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon3.html).

A close friend of the Bush family, Moon's millions has helped right-wing allies like Jerry Falwell and Oliver North. It's the real Asian money scandal -- and the Washington media is missing it.

Until Krauthammer decides to out the Republican's crazy Uncle, lets leave Reverend Wright alone.

Frank The Yank, stick to the issue here. We are talking about Obama and his tired rhetoric...his speech that failed. And it did. People feel duped by Obama. We are discussing why within this forum. Because of Obama's narcism and self-serving agenda, the democratic party is now paying a dear price. We are discussing that in this forum. Can you share something that relates to this subject?

Today's reading comes from Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3:

To every thing there is a spin, and a spin to every parry under the heaven:
a spin on birth, and a spin on death; a spin on planting, and a spin on harvesting
a spin on killing, and a spin on heaing; a spin on breaking down, and a spinto building up;
a spin on weeping, and a spin on laughing; a spin on mourning, and a spin on dancing;
for it is always, always, a time to gather stones together; it is always a time to refrain from embracing;
one must be resolute and rigid in the face of the world, and spin it the way that suits you best.

I'm tired of all this. What an excuse the black people have that the white people are the root of all of their problems. I would have respected Obama more if he were to stand up there and say to all black people "wake up, get up and live your life. you are not a victim, you are in control." Instead, he reverts back to the drivel that he did. It's tired, and it's old. BO, you want to lead, then lead, don't follow in the footsteps of Wright & co by rationalizing their hatemongering.

I was willing to listen to Obama. But felt he went too far when he suggested his grandmother who raised him was a racist because she worried about black men at her bus stop. Then to say that Geraldine Ferraro is racist because she dared to speak the truth that he would not be as far as he was today if he were not black. He would not have been given the chance to give the speech at the Democrat convention, which brought him to national attention, if he were not black. There were plenty of young articulate freshmen senators who could have spoke but he was given the opportunity because he is black. I have no problem with black people being given such opportunities but to say that a woman who has always fought for the rights of all minorities is racist because she dared to speak the "politically incorrect" truth is beyond the pale. Why should a known fighter for civil rights be called a racist because of telling the truth?

Rev. Jeremiah Wright was considered an educated, authoritative voice of wisdom to his community. He is an educated man who garners enormous respect in his community. His preaching and vitriol would naturally be considered truth to his congregants. Rev. Wrights words infected a generation of children with hatred, lies, and reasons to despise America. He was not building up these people, he was tearing them down.

Who would allow their children to attend a school where hatred, lies, and propaganda are spewed? If Obama is such a great leader, why did he sit idly by as Jeremiah Wright preached lies, hatred, and anti-americanism to his children and all the children in that congregation? . With the lies that he preached, where was Obama to try to educate the community and in some way protect them from the distortions they were being preached?

Where is the outrage on Obama’s lack of leadership. Why did it take until last Tuesday for Obama to say anything at all about this?. If Wright was Obama’s friend, why didn’t he tell him to stop with the lies and distortions? Instead, Obama dutifully and silently attended Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years.

I remember hippies once telling me “SILENCE IS THE VOICE OF COMPLICITY.” Indeed, Mr. Obama, your silence speaks volumes.

JWilson Wrote:
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> LDC,
>
> And the argument goes full-circle now. You submit
> that this man is now all about race, yet you don't
> provide any context from which you make the
> assertion. You're forced to provide general
> notions because anything presented as factual has
> been put to sleep over, and over, and over again.
>
> You know what this is? This is the woman who is
> in an abusive marriage (20 years of dirty
> politics, special interest bowing, and flat out
> lies from the past four presidents). You learn
> there's a man that actually cares about you, and
> believes he can help you, and has never lied to
> you. You might be in love. But being abused is
> all you know, so you look for any faults or knicks
> in the armor so that you can have some sense of
> comfort when you lose your courage, and run back
> to the abusive relationship that you've come to
> know as "security".
>
> Baaaaa

From an abusive husband to a pimp. Not a good move--kind of like from the frying pan to the fire, don't you think?

Gotta laugh at the Obamaton imbeciles posting "well what about this conservative preacher" and "that conservative preacher"? Hey, simpletons: Go back and repeat K-4 or take a remedial course in logic and reasoning at your local community college, if you can get in. There's a fundamental difference between

1) a candidate that's had an America-hating racist as his mentor/father-figure/spiritual guide for 2 decades - someone who married him and his wife and baptized his kids

and

2) Some preacher somewhere who makes bigoted statements and who also happens to announce his support for a candidate in 2008.

If we want to set the bar that low (#2), I'm sure we can find hundreds of radical nuts out there in black churches who have thrown their full weight behind Obama.

Krauthammer what a fraud he is! In 1968 Martin Luther King (who I am sure the "K" man will extol as the opposite of Rev. Wright) said the following:

March 21, 2008
Another Angry Black Preacher from the Indianapolis Star
By E. J. Dionne

Listen to what King said about the Vietnam War at his own Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Feb. 4, 1968: "God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war. ... And we are criminals in that war. We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place." King then predicted this response from the Almighty: "And if you don't stop your reckless course, I'll rise up and break the backbone of your power."

Back in 1968 Krauthammer would be having seizures over this "un-American" of speeches and the video clip would be run endlessly on Fox...what a fraud "typical white people" can be...really

I pray for healing.
I pray for forgiveness for my thoughts of hate of people, networks and papers that disrespect my US Senator and the USA by association.

May the WORD WAR III end soon

white middle class man for Obama

A year ago, I wondered how in the world could the republicans win come the general. Obama answered that question this week. Even now, with Richardson, and his play to the west and the latino community, I don't believe it is enough to save him in the general. He just alienated a large portion of white independents who are looking for someone to move past racial divisions instead of embracing them.

Instead of taking the opportunity to actually speak to the promise of a post racial America, he told them it's okay to embrace your hatred and continue to blame another race. He didn't take the opportunity to say to everyone and to every race, that the keys to their success are within each and every one of them.

Obama is notthing new and sure not the post-racial racial candidate. Sadly, he is just another candidate.

Please q.v. my comments at [www.zorn.name] (hey, it's only one click away!), regarding this, in essence I find the same dishonesty that Krauthammer puts on Obama in his own column.

"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person," Barack Obama (WIP Radio in Philadelphia)

BHO is a student of Rev. Wright after all

This was one of the most well-written arguments I have seen on this debacle. Now we know why Mrs. Obama said what she said. The man BHO is a sham. Thank you Charles.

Mr. Krauthhammer,
By fixating on the few inflammatory and offensive rhetorical excesses of Reverend Wright to the exclusion of accumulation of other statements and actions experienced by that congregation, you are essentially setting a standard of no forgiveness and no understanding. You have no idea whether the Reverend spoke of love, justice, mercy, and peace from the pulpit. You have no idea whether the Reverend ministered to the sick, the needy, and underserved. You have no idea whether the Reverend embraced the rejected and the disaffected. You have no idea whether the Reverend touched individual souls in a way that enriched their lives and inspired them to improve their communities. What you seek is an absolute repudiation of a man and a church. To what end? The statements were denounced and rejected. And the circumstance was used as redemptive healing moment for our society. Even more than that, Senator Obama chose to shed light on the perceptions of a diverse black community and, to a lesser extent a diverse white community's perceptions. To call it all a fraud because he never the church and will not leave it now is to intentionally ignore the discourse on this very important topic and to dismiss the redemptive opportunity as mere sophistry. But ask yourself, what have you contributed? What do you think Senator Obama is supposed to do? And if he did, what would that accomplish? I suspect you don't have an answer. Because your real point is your disdain for him.

Let's not overlook the fact that Obama is a good politician. Good politicians tell people what they want to hear. Lousy politicians, such as McCain, tell people the truth - like, for instance, they tell factory workers in Michigan that the jobs lost to Mexico "are not coming back," or call a bigoted supporter a "little jerk," or admonish immigrant-bashing conservatives by telling them, "We're all God's children."

Sir, you betray yourself. For you to pretend there are not scores of legitimate scholars and historians who also believe Roosevelt had advance notice of Pearl Harbor is ludicrous. Don't tell me you never heard that theory advanced until seeing a video of Jeremiah Wright. Do you also think it odd that a group of people viciously targeted in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, apparently because it didn't matter because they were "just black" would see a similar pattern in the HIV/Aids epidemic? No, why should they. Everyone knows white people wouldn't do something like that- again. Do you think 9/11 has nothing to do with our policies, actions, and alliances abroad? Are you telling me our relationship with Israel has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism begining in the late sixties and continuing today? Are you saying that Palestinians aren't or shouldn't be angry with our total bias towards Israel? Are you saying this government never sponsered coups and assasinations? No, enemies attack the mightiest nation on Earth because they are envious of our freedom and democracy. You may not like a black people speaking truth to power. When you want them to think something, you'll give them a script. What that man said was squarely in the vein of acceptable political speech. You may not like it but it's time you learned you have to share the world of ideas.

BrianTR Wrote:
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> Man Chucky, are you a hack or are you a hack?
> Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. Get
> an opinion, already.


Wow, Brian. What a thoughtful retort.

Hutch,

I do know where you're coming from. I really do. But I don't believe you're staying open-minded and applying real logic because of the emotional nature of all of this.

Anyone... ANYONE who took the leap from those videos (that this is typical of the sermons) is going to soon thereafter find evidence that supports a notion of anti-Americanism or flat out racism. It becomes not a matter of information gathering, but a matter of perspective to validate our first conclusion. Everyone who comes to a conclusion has the innate need to know they got it right. I get it.

The pillar, the very foundation of all of this, however, is horribly flawed.

Can you understand why I would take issue with making absolute generalizations about a man based on 45 seconds (of 3,000 available hours) of video as provided to us by those with a specific motivation and agenda? Where we have access to ridiculous amounts of evidence to the contrary that is not being shown, can you understand why I refuse to make the leap of faith that we, as intelligent human beings, should equate what has been provided to us as representative, and substance for absolute judgment?

Can you at least agree with me that a conclusion based on what equates to a minute of unreasonable and offensive rants absolutely MUST be questioned when we're not permitted to see it in context or ratio?

We have Chicago pastors.. white ones, now coming to the defense of Wright. In droves. And these are all men who have been to the church, done sermons at the church, and who have had their own congregations visit the church for what were apparently dramatic and uplifting sermons. But we're to completely dismiss these men as what? Liars? Are we to dismiss these people who have known the guy for twenty years, because we saw video-stream of 45 seconds on TV that tells us they're foolish, racist, and anti-American? That's a bizarre conclusion that runs counter to rational, unemotional thought. Absolute fact tells us that what we're spreading in fear is NOT a conclusion that anyone with common sense could possibly come to.

I'm simply asking that we look at what we have here.

I refuse, absolutely REFUSE to take a minute's worth of video, and apply it as being commonplace when every other ounce of evidence suggests we'd be fools to do so.

Will you not agree that we could very easily compact video of Albert Speer to one minute, make him look like a swell guy, then ask for everyone to then assume that Hitler must be one awesome dude?

What we're presenting out of paranoia as fact is simply wrong. Horribly wrong. And it's unfair to the core.

likewhoa Wrote:
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> It appears that Charles is one of the members of
> the media who declined Barack's invitation to an
> honest adult dialouge on race in the US, and has
> decided to treat it as spectacle and distraction.


likewhoa....ah, like no.

Charles is simply breaking down Obama's speech to 'keep it real'. A. Moral Equivalence and B. White Guilt.

Instead of explaining WHY he chose Mr. Wright as his spiritual adviser, he explained why Mr. Wright is angry. Debating 101: If you are beat on the merits, change the subject (white guilt/moral equivalence). He failed miserably on the moral equivalence attempt....'white grandma' as "typical white person" and the correlation b/t GDF's comments and Mr. Wright's. But, I am afraid, he will be using 'White Guilt' whenever is necessary.

Obama did not apologize once or take any responsibility for his CHOICE to have this angry "Reverend" Wright be his spiritual adviser and that is a huge opportunity missed my friends.

BTW, why is 'white' the only word you can fit b/t typical and person and not be banished from politics?

Also, I believe we heard a similar non-apologetic, 'shame on the media' soliloquy in the '91 campaign about a girl named Jennifer Flowers. Foreboding of hubris to come?

I was seriously considering voting for this man, but his campaign by-words are 'HOPE' and 'CHANGE', he and his spiritual adviser are giving more of THE SAME.

I agree with your analysis charles. Obama never explained or at least it was not apparent to me what made him be part of a church that preaches this kind of philosophy. Anti american, racist and instead of preaching self empowerment like many other black churches do, this church teaches that America and Whites owe black something. He certainly used the race card and the white guilt. After telling the public for more than a year that he transcends race and divisions it comes down to the fact that he is a regular opportunist politician using whatever he can to convince and excuse people and to win. I would like to know what took him so long to dennounce his pastor and his philosophy. More importantly, I want to know how his policies as president will be affected by his own believes and sharing of mr. Wright philosophy. I don't believe for a second that Obama does not agree with mr. Wright. If he doesn't why is he Obama's spiritual mentor and why does Obama exposes his family including two young daughters to this kind of teachings.
I have visited at least three black churches in NY and none of them preach this kind of stuff. The comparison to his grandmother? very out there. His judgement as president should really be questioned, after his involvemnet with this church philosophy for so long.
He might as well win the Democratic nomination since the superdelegates seems to be a bunch of whimps affraid to offend the black community, however he is certain to lose against Mcain. The republican sank John kerry with the Swift Boat ad in 2004 claiming that he was unpatriotic and this was a war hero, just imagine what they are going to do with this Obama and Wright stuff.
As we can see from the polls not from the TV pundits this is not going well with regular middle of the road American.

JWilson Wrote: post # 216
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Wilson, you can’t possibly believe that Rev. Wright’s comments were impulsive. TUCC admits on their own website that their doctrinal ideologies are founded in the hate filled Black Liberation Theology of James Hal Cone.

judith abrams Wrote:
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> As E.J. Dione pointed out today even Martin L.
> King made comments against the viet-nam war
> that could be construed as unpatriotic. The point
> is when the United States goes to war or
> attacks people, the right wing construes dissent
> as unpatriotic. It is time to end this. We must
> understand that many black people are angry with
> good reason. We should reach out
> to them not condemn them. As long as the
> right-wing can keep the country divided,
> they can continue to divy up the profits in good
> times and ask for government help
> in bad times.

And that's exactly what Obama has given the Right wing-the perfect antidote.

Rev. Wright has more to say on the website:

"Black liberation theology defines Africans and African Americans as subjects – not the objects which colonizers and oppressors have consistently defined “others” as.

• We [African Americans] were always seen as objects. When we started defining ourselves, it scared those who try to control others by naming them and defining them for them; Oppressors do not like “others” defining themselves."

This seems to mirror BOs socialist-collectivist-redistribution of wealth-based ideology.

"10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY."

Bathrobe Sage Wrote:
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> First, Charles Krauthammer was trained as a
> psychiatrist, not as a newsman. He is an opinion
> page columnist. He was hired to express his
> conservative views for public consumption. He does
> this well enough to have won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize
> for Commentary, not for News Reporting,
> Investigative Reporting or any other kind of
> reporting. He is not obliged to present facts or
> evidence, though it is more impressive when he
> does, only to express his opinion. He apparently
> does this well enough to be paid handsomely for
> writing his newspaper column and for voicing his
> views on various 'talking head' television
> programs. He has every right to do what he does
> and get paid handsomely for it.
>
> I am a septuagenarian and have in my lifetime
> heard excellent speeches delivered by Franklin D.
> Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Adlai
> Stevenson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mario Cuomo,
> Billy Graham and John F. Kennedy, among others.
> The Obama speech in Philadelphia ranks right up
> there with those, equal if not better.
>
> When Mr. Krauthammer's columns, including the one
> discussed here, have been either shredded and
> forgotten or otherwise consigned to the dustbins
> of history, Barack Obama's Philadelphia speech is
> likely to remain alive and well, quoted and
> referenced generations from now as a classic
> summation of racism and bigotry in the United
> States at the dawn of the 21st Century. This is
> the truth that Mr. Krauthammer knows full well,
> but finds difficult to fully digest.


Boy oh boy, I hope Bathrobe Sage is absolutely right, for the longer Obama's speech is out there, the more it begins to appear like a disaster, so keep it there at least until he is no longer a candidate. The liberal media have spun Obama's content with the kindness approaching a king, but now that more and more people have had a chance to evaluate it, think about it, and discern the true meaning behind Obama and his speech, the less enamored they are about it.

For some further enlightenment, consider:

[www.washingtontimes.com]

and

[www.humanevents.com]

Personally, I don't think Obama has the experience or depth necessary to be CEO of the USA. His hypocricy is now fully exposed and his chances for election eliminated.

Krauthammer nails the central issue again. In a sea of foggy minded pundits, Krauthammer offers well reasoned opinion and fresh persepctive. He is lucid and cogent. We need more analysis from Mr. K. I sure wish he was not a Republican because he could really help the cause. Maybe Republicans aren't so dumb after all.

Ibrahim Syed Wrote:
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> Krauthammer is a regular contributor on Fox News.
> Fox News in turn has regularly featured the
> commentary of Ann Coulter, and plugged her books.
> She, in turn, has voiced support for bombing the
> NY Times building, she's made repeated racist
> remarks against Muslims including saying they
> should be killed or converted to Christianity, and
> even made remarks directed at Jews suggesting they
> should convert. I don't recall Krauthammer or Sean
> Hannity contesting the promotion of that vile
> woman on their network. Far from it, Hannity, on
> his program Hannity & Colmes, makes it a point to
> defend Coulter's views. Can you say "hypocrite"?

And Ann Coulter is not running for president. Should she be running for president, her words would catch up to her just as Obama's have caught up to him. Don't equate the two; it is an illogical comparison.

Rev. Wright says this on the TUCC website:
"The vision statement of Trinity United Church of Christ is based upon the systematized liberation theology that started in 1969 with the publication of Dr. James Cone’s book, Black Power and Black Theology."

In addition to the great stuff WSH posted above I would add from Cone's book:

"The appearance of black theology on the American scene then is due primarily to the failure of white religionists to relate the gospel of Jesus to the pain of being black in a white racist society. It arises from the need of blacks to liberate themselves from white oppressors."

I wonder if Barry read this book? Controversial? -YES. Racist? - YES.

Here's a story for you all. FOX News made a point of trimming off Rev. Wright's infamous "chickens coming home to roost" sermon so you wouldn't know his source -- Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and deputy director of President Reagan’s terrorism task force who used the same language on FOX News!

So FOX didn't want the voters to know that Rev. Wright got his line from a white Republican speaking on FOX?? Well, whyever could THAT be??

[ac360.blogs.cnn.com]
[www.rolandsmartin.com]


FOX News and Charles Krauthammer -- A Brilliant Fraud!

But wait, there is more from Dr. Cone's book:

"Wright's ministry is founded on the black theology that Cone helped to create.
"To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people." [Black Theology and Black Power, pp. 139-140].
"While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 15]
"All white men are responsible for white oppression." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 24]
"Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man "the devil." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 40]
"If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 73"