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I'm watching Hannity and Colmes.
They are replaying the interview they had with Jeremiah Wright they conducted last year with him. And I want to watch it.
Sean Hannity generally makes me ill and Alan Colmes plays his "bitch" too well for it to be a "fair and balanced" show, but ugh, it's worth the nausea to watch the interview.
They are replaying the interview they had with Jeremiah Wright they conducted last year with him. And I want to watch it.
Sean Hannity generally makes me ill and Alan Colmes plays his "bitch" too well for it to be a "fair and balanced" show, but ugh, it's worth the nausea to watch the interview.
WTF?
Shameful. That he chooses to repudiate the statements now hoping they would go under the radar.
Barack Obama - I would not have quit the church if I would have heard those statements in the pews if they were interspersed in among his other sermons.
Dammit, I want to like this guy, and he gives me ammunition to dislike him MORE.
OMG. I really thought I was done with Obama earlier... but I admit it, right now:
So. Done. With. This. Guy.
He is campaigning on being right on day 1, and this plus his judgment errors that he brings up about Rezko that got published today.
He has terrible judgment issues. Terrible.
I think I missed this - was it in an earlier Clinton_2008 post?
I know. Since he has a chance to be POTUS, I want to not be so turned off - I've had quite enough of having to turn off the television whenever that monkey Bush comes on.
But it keeps getting worse!
I'll say it one more time.
Wright is far worse than Jesse Jackson Sr. (if you can call him a bad man, I don't think he is), but Wright is on par with Farrakhan...hence the "Lifetime Achievement Award". Wright and preachers like him all sound like Farrakhan. It's called radical black nationalism (but in the TUCC's case, it's sheathed on its website as benign/non-hateful/non-radical black nationalism, which really isn't a bad thing). A church can't be hateful, right? Blacks have a "right" to be angry, right?
Wrong, I say, and this is the type of crap that Obama subscribes to. He has done this for many years; he tells us that "There is no black America", but that rhetoric goes against the fundamental teachings of his church.
You see, there's nothing wrong with an angry black kid/man fighting for black America. That's all good with me, there's still some institutional racism to overcome, but these days it just isn't chic to be openly racist. Still, we can't behave like it's still Frederick Douglass's time because it's not. There's a time to be angry and there's a time to let wounds heal and move on.
Sadly, Obama's church and ministers do not want to move on. They don't want to change the mindset that the white man is out to get the black man. They don't want to not be able to play the victim, because as you've seen in this campaign season, playing the victim/turning the race card on your opponent is a VERY valuable tool that works.
And that's where Obama himself is at. Who would want to give up that valuable shield, particularly if you're thisclose to winning something in order to push "the cause" (whatever that may be; I can tell you I recently read an old interview from before he was elected to the IL State Senate where he sounded like the typical progressive black man who wanted to devote his life to black civil rights...and I really don't think that's changed much at all). It's the sad truth, and the black Americans who're voting for him know this and don't care.
I'm not religious myself - my mom was Catholic and my dad was Jewish - and I believe that religion mixed with politics has brought nothing but trouble to this country in recent years. I don't really believe that Obama subscribes to Wright's beliefs. I think that Obama joined this church to get political connections and win the black vote in Chicago. But whatever his motives were, it makes me distrust him even more. How's he gonna deal with Supreme Court appointments (which is the main argument I hear from people who say we should vote for the Dem nominee regardless)?
Never mind what I think -this is going to play out extremely poorly for Barry in the GE. A lot of Dems are self-hating liberal types, but the Repugs will have no qualms in using this against him.
WTF is the Dem party thinking (I'm looking at you, Kennedy and Kerry) in promoting an unvetted, inexperienced candidate?
Edited at 2008-03-15 07:15 am (UTC)