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Barack Obama continues to make the political rounds to convince white America that he's still a little white; and to convince black America that he is still black.  Hyde Park rumbles the success of a 'so called' unprecedented speech, forgetting the hot water that Bill Cosby got into a few years ago or even Wynton Marsalis' last recording speaking directly to black America about the possibility of losing a generation of changes that forebearers penetrated.  These folks also haven't spent any time watching Maya Angelou interviews, heard her speak or any of the perspectives that are usually aired each and every February.

Most people that have read the context of the speech, looked at the object psychology; albeit political necessity have found it to be rather sanguine posture, disingenuously engaging in mock comparisons.  The overall folly is that Barack Obama comes up short on the overall point: Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ is not only volatile for a Christian church and in its most meanest sense, a driving dividing line that states that no matter the credo; All Americans are not still Americans: be damned for events outside of our control.  I listened to Reverend Otis Moss III speak during an interview yesterday on NPR explain the nature of the church and it's intent to still carry on in the manner of Reverend Wright; reinforcing the continuation of hate, disrespect and counter culture of black America versus white America.

But Barack Obama can not quit the church; not being able to ensure that his base; not his fan base; but his base sticks with him.  The same way McCain can't denounce the fringe maniacs on the opposite polar end of Christianity.  It's a dilemma that takes more than leadership; but heart, more than intellectualizing; but guts; courage.  Bigotry; no matter how one wants to cast it is still Bigotry.  What does Wright, Moss and Obama believe in?   What do they have in store for America if they indeed are handed the keys?

America is a culture of frail behaviorists.  As it has been mentioned; we enjoy being the best and we scorn those who even by proxy deliver failure.  The passions that follow the behavior of people like Wright are reflected now to Barack Obama because he has established himself as not being able to see the forest for the trees.  The lack of ability for him to understand that the politics (not religion) of Jeremiah Wright, the disposition (not race) of his words are what people can not contend with. 

Barack Obama is out there asking for our empathy in his goal of protecting a hatemonger.  Obama's staement of crazy Uncle Jerry is sinister at best; what will he tell us of his wayward cousin Obama bin Laden?  Obama has said that his is shaken by the uproar; but not the message.  Well America is shaken too; distraught, disappointed in the character of a man whom so many supposed had character.

Barack Obama should become a footnote in political history; rather than hailed for the stigma he has now attached to him and his supporters.

Perhaps he could read a speech that would address these two questions coming from his opponents:

1. If a white minister preached sermons to his congregation and had used the "N" word and used rhetoric and words similar to members of the KKK, would you support a Democratic presidential candidate who decided to continue to be a member of that congregation?

2. Would you support that candidate if, after knowing of or hearing those sermons, he or she still appointed that minister to serve on his or her "Religious Advisory Committee" of his or her presidential campaign?


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Theologians add that much of the recent tension stems from two quite different vocabularies. When Wright proposed "God Damn America" as an alternative to the song "God Bless America," religion professor Sandy Martin at the University of Georgia did not hear any anti-American sentiment.

"What came to mind was somebody who sees himself as God’s servant, one who is duty bound to give God’s word and sometimes that word is chastising," said Martin, an ordained Baptist minister. "Every nation including the U.S. is under the judgment of God and I think it’s easy for that to be misunderstood by people who are not used to that mode of addressing the issue. Sometimes the literal words are not exactly what is being conveyed."

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2008/03/is-rev-jeremiah.html#more

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I can grant to you the terminology may have intentions reaching beyond the sentiment displayed typically on tv.

IF that were the only ill-advised statements that have reached from the pulpit of that church than; oh -well-it. Unfortunately what the Reverends of this church have spilled for decades shame it as harshly as the race whose spiritual freedom from it intends to pursue.

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Typo on Osama; my apologies

Sadly, HRC will become the greater footnote in history as the woman who deliberately destroyed the Democratic Party for the reason she could not win the nomination.

Typo on "Hitlary." I hadn't used it yet, but it was a typo.

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Obviously supporting HATE is a value of yours.

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