Oh brother, this guy is the gift that keeps on giving to Obama's opponents. Given that Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright gave over a couple of pages in his newsletter last year to a top Hamas official to opine about the Palestinian struggle, I predict that this year's Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, which went in 2007 to Louis Farrakhan, will go posthumously to ... Farfour!
(All kidding aside, in terms of pure politics, Obama's going to have a hell of a time living Wright down. Rove couldn't make this stuff up. Yes, you can point out that McCain has the support of militant backers of Israel, and you'd be right. But supporting Israel and despising Hamas is, last time I checked, a thoroughly mainstream position in the US; it's opposite is fringe stuff.)
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Do you realize, Rod, that this is the "Mousa Abu Marzook" who provided the seed money for the startup of the Holy Land Foundation, don't you?
I'd really like to know what was so incindiary about wrights language. if you read any noam chomsky or howard zinn (pick up just about any book) and you will find many references to the USA, or israel, as a terrorist state. this is mainstrem opinion to many of us.
the statements about the chickens coming home to roost have parallels to pat buchanon's statements that they attacked us here because we're over there. link here:
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=6630
the god damn america statement have their roots in the books of the old testament prophets that i guess christian fundamentalists just don't understand.
it's my opinion is this is the race card being played through any opening the racists can find. that's not unusual and I expect to see a whole lot more of it before the election.
i also think republicans are naive if they think these tactics will go unanswered. expect soon that unaffiliated groups will launch a campaign to educate catholics on remarks by john hagee on the catholic church. expect also the american public to be educated on all the other comments of other fundamentalists lunatics.
this type of stuff has no place in an election in 2008. but once started it can't go unanswered.
Obama's speech did not begin to address the concerns of average working class white Democrats. He's obviously lying about "what he knew when" about Wright's extremist positions.
Unless he was the most oblivious man in the world, after 17 years in Wright's church, he should have been able to predict almost every word that came out of his pastor's mouth. If Obama had disassociated himself from his church after a few years (say 4 or 5) this would be more forgivable. 17 years is a long time to be a "fellow traveler" with a congregation that advocates extremist positions and beliefs.
I'll take Wright's steadfast and honest faith, standing on the blunt shoulders of the Hebrew Prophets, over most of our 'respectable religion' churches any day of the week.
The only people who call Wright a racist are those who don't know anything about him besides the pre-packaged sound-bytes spoonfed by cable news and right-wing web wackos.
Grownups know how to research before forming an opinion.
If McCain had been baptized, and then went to become a Baptist, he would have made (if I recall the phrase correctly) a Profession of Faith.>>
Hmmm. No. Baptists do not accept infant baptism, and require baptism by immersion of any persons who wish to become Baptist, even if that means that they are, by just about every other church's standards, rebaptizing them. Your condescension is even less becoming when you don't have your facts straight.
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