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If I went to a church like the one Rev. Wright has and sit there for 20 years listening to that garbage then I would expect people to believe I agreed with it.
I would have got up and left the first time that garbage came out of his mouth.
So I believe that Obama agrees with everything he say. What do you think would have happened if it would have be a white church that Clinton or Mccain was attending the media would have insisted that they drop out. I'm a Dem but if Obama wins I will vote for Mccain.

Geraldine Ferraro said that Barack Obama was only doing well because he was black. When she ran as vice presidential candidate, she helped Walter Mondale accumulate the absolutely incredible grand total of 13 (yes, THIRTEEN) electoral votes. Based on this absolutely horrendous performance, has she also asked if she was only on the ticket because she is a woman?

GF got it wrong the first time. we're not fascinated with Barack because he's black. we're proud to support a real progressive. period. most of us didn't care whether Edwards or Obama became our leader, we just needed a leader to pull us together. outside of Illinois, black folk weren't a huge part of Barack's core constiuency until South Carolina.

and we're not against Hillary because she's a woman. we're opposed to her because she's a moderate. period.

some of us really believe in the future of this country, but we don't see compromise with the wing-nuts as much of a future.

GF was an icon. but she switched on the spotlight, and in the background we see her old links to organized crime and anti-equal-opportunity big city machine politicians.

GF got it all wrong. it was the media that pushed the issue into the open. and nobody attacked her because she was white - they criticized her because what she said was stupid, and wrong.

Imus blasted specific people and tried to call it funny. We all saw those people get hurt. Imus woke up and realized it. He apologised and accepted the consequences like an adult.

Geralidine blasted a specific person and tries to call it not her fault. We all saw that person call the remarks wrongheaded like a grandmother sometimes is, like a minister sometimes is. He said it's best to disagree with the ideas but not to disown the person. Ferraro is still blasting away to make herself less responsible. Maybe she should talk with Imus.

What specific person did that minister blast? Nobody. Who got hurt? No one. However, he did blast the nameless white racist. Perhaps those who are riled by that ought to look at what shoes they are wearing.

fedup

What do you mean who cares? For one I care! We are dividing ourselves to a point where there will be no turning back. I am for Hillary, but we can't win either way if half the party gets so bent.

why does the main stream media protect obama

Tungsten, who cares if the blacks are coming to a BOIL over this!!! The comments, no matter the setting, were racist, hate filled rantings. If similar anti-black statements were made in a predominantly white church, the blacks, et. al., would be at . BOIL too, and calling for it to be closed down.

OH MY GOD!!!

Just now, I watched the whole 9/11-sermon by rev. Wright - the one with 'America's chicken are coming home to roost'.

Guess what?

HE IS QUOTING FORMER AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ, EDWARD PECK!!!!!!!!!

The sermon is not at all unpatriotic or racist, in fact it is quite the opposite. It's inspiring!

Go see for yourself. Google 'FOX Lies!! Barack Obama Pastor Wright'

I am shocked!

The media owe it to rev. Wright to put this straight. They owe him BIG TIME!!!

The stark reactions to the rev. Wright video clips are understandable.

However, before dismissing him all together as all racist/anti-American, please see the FULL video of his 'God damn America'-sermon. There is an important context which has been missing in the media coverage.

Google 'Tell the Whole Story FOX!' and you will find the video.

It doesn't justify his more controversial remarks, but it shows that, after all, he is NOT all about hate.

OMG LuLu, good point!

Michael Blackburn is correct. I actually felt horrified when I heard Imus' comment. What possessed him to utter those remarks?

People have doubts about Obama for sooooo many other reasons as well. However, he mentioned Geraldine Ferraro in his speech, she has every right to defend herself.

michael blackburn, i am a lawyer. what imus said about the athletes was disgusting. but not legally slander. i have only heard parts of what wright said, but it may very well have risen to the criminal level.

tungsten, nice try. you tell us what issues we may or may not "hammer," out of some phony concern for the party as a whole. you obamaites just want this to go away. but it won't. bye bye.

Thanks jpt, for:

Continued Ferraro, "what this man is doing is he is spewing that stuff out to young people, and to younger people than Obama, and putting it in their heads that it's OK to say `Goddamn America' and it's OK to beat up on white people. You don't preach that from the pulpit."

She also thought Obama was hypocritical when he said the country could "pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card," when listing all the ways the nation could not rise to his challenge of racial healing.

"That's exactly what he did," Ferraro said. "It was their campaign that started this."

YES. I AGREE WITH THAT.

Even though Ferraro is no longer officially a part of Hillary's campaign, she continues to be Hillary's "attack dog" for going negative on Obama and those affiliated with Obama.

This Reverend Wright issue is a "sideshow" from the main issues in the campaign. Nevertheless, as a McCain supporter, I hope Ferraro keeps this issue alive because it is not helpful to Obama, and I would like Hillary to win the Democratic nomination because nothing energizes the conservative base to come out and vote for McCain like Hillary will.

Under a white truce flag, this is an important bit of tactical information.

As you know, I'm a strong Obama supporter. But if Hillary pulls this out, I'm all-in for her. Dems need to win the white house.

Cool it out on the Wright rhetoric. The Black community is coming to a BOIL on this. Believe me, I know firsthand. Going after Wright is going to create serious problems. Clinton knows this, and is trying to maintain discipline, but she's failing. Ferraro is really messing up here.

Hammer other issues to your hearts' content.

OK, white flag lifted.

The only reason Obama added Farraro to his political speech on race, to put a dig on Clinton. He has by that speech distinguished himself as the black man running for President. Ever thing Obama does has reason, he wanted the race card out in the public well now it is. He tried to hide Rev. Wright , but that failed. Making excuses for the Reverend, will also fail. Obama you lied to the American people and excuse a man for his anti-American and anti-Semitic ranting from the pulpit, and that not going to be excepted by Americans.

I never really paid attention to Ferraro before. She is a new hero for my daughter, my nieces and me.

John Patrick has the same post on CNN. He has a "copied" post he's responding to, yet I could not find the original post. What's up with that?