Wright is such a non-issue. It really does baffle me that in a time when we face two wars, torture, a recession, a pending world-wide climate disaster, and a global food shortage, that people really think someone's former pastor should be a decisive issue. I really don't get it.

Can someone explain to me how Jeremiah Wright is relevent in any way to the kind of president Barack Obama will be, to the type of policies he will implement? I doubt anyone can because Wright is irrelevent. He really is.

So it's incredibly disheartening to me that voters seem to think he is somehow relevant. I'd like to blame the media's non-stop coverage; in fact, i've been telling myself that the only reason people care about wright is because the media covers the story non-stop in a sensantionalistic way that would make Hearst envious. And he got  us into a war pretty much single-handedly!

It's just depressing. Even more so for me, because a belief in god is about as ridiculous as believing the american govt caused AIDS. So when I heard Wright say "God Damn America! Thats in the bible." I laughed because i thought it was hysterically funny (first of all the bible predates america by roughly 2000 years, so i doubt "God Damn America" is really in there) but i never take any religious figures seriously anyway. Whether they be the now dead Falwell or his kooky sidekick Robertson, or the anti-semite Billy Graham or Rod Parsley who thinks America's purpose is to kill muslims, or that guy with the mega church with horse teeth whose on cnbc on weekends( i dont know his name), or even the friggin' Pope. But i'm in the minority on that.

I mean, this really is such a trivial issue when compared to the real problems we face. I actually get a pang in my stomach when i see the number of people who are persuaded by this bullshit manufactured issue. Are the American people really that stupid?! We're on the edge of oblivion and instead of worrying about how to walk us back from the edge, we're talking about someone's former pastor...ugh...

I just can't help but think how much better off we'd all be if we kept god and politics seperate as the founders intended.
Obama's church and his former pastor are pretty much irrelevant to the type of president he'll be and the type of policies he'll implement. I'll ask again for anyone to demonstrate otherwise. Besides, doesn't the constitution prohibit any religious test to hold office? And isn't scrutinizing Obama's pastor a violation of the spirit of that provision, if not the literal purpose? Any time i hear Sean Hannity criticizng "black liberation" theology, I want to punch him. First of all, this is America and any religion is welcome here. Second of all,  the Catholic church has raped tens of thousands of boys over the last few decades, so who the hell is Hanntiy to criticize what someone else wants to believe?! And i can't help but notice, that despite the rape revelation, Hannity did not leave the church. So if we're being fair and applying the same standards to everyone, perhaps Sean Hanntiy should have to answer why he condones raping children.

I know i'll probably take heat for this, but i really believe that if Obama was white, this wouldn't be an issue. John Hagee, who is white, has said some pretty inflamible, disgusting, divisive things and no one's holding John McCain accountable for him. And speaking of disgusting, divisive things, Falwell and Robertson both claimed that 9/11 was cause by gays, feminists, abortionists, and secularists. Yet they still are able to maintain some ties to what is considered the mainstream. (well, not falwell cause he's roasting in hell).

So you have to ask yourself: How is Wright any different? The obvious answer is, he's black. I'm not saying thats the only factor, but you cannot pretend that it isn't a factor at all.

But think about it some more. There is nothing else on Obama. They've got no dirt, no affairs, no shady practices, all they have is a wack job former preacher, so the corporate media in the hopes to drive up ratings with controversial, sensationalist "reporting" is running with it nonstop.

I just wish for once we could have a political debate about the serious issues we face. Not the process, or political stories that have dominated the last few decades. But actual substantive issues. The challenges we face are too grave for anything less. And i really thought that Barack Obama would give us that campaign. And much to his credit, he's tried.

But his political opponents and the corporate media have decided that an actual civil, substantive debate would interfere with their goals of attaining and retaining power.

In the end, America will get what it deserves. If we chose to rise above this nonesense, we might actual be able to save ourselves from the downward spiral in which we find ourselves. If, however, we choose that a former wackjob preacher who has no relevance at all to the issues we face in America today is a more decisive factor than say a sound energy policy, or a sound and sane foreign policy...well. Ultimately, we'll make our own collective bed. We'll have to sleep in it. 

This is a democracy, after all. Sill, if barely. The choice is ours.

This is just too important. I hope we choose wisely.