(10 am – promoted by ek hornbeck)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He’s a liberation theologian. He was Barack Obama’s pastor in Chicago. And now, Rev. Wright has been placed in the spot light, where he’s made some outrageous statements. Like the government of the United States is responsible for terrorist attacks. Rev. Wright said our gov’t invented the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color.
I sit here and wonder, why does anybody think these statements are outrageous. How, in the spectrum of bullshit that has been perpetrated in the years since Richard Nixon, can anyone seriously get worked up over what this man has said???
Our government has lied us into war, supported brutal regimes to protect global corporate interests and, along the way, has exposed its own citizens to radiation and used citizens as lab rats to track the course, over decades, of syphilis. It appears that our country has a history of experimenting on its citizens.
If we believe, as almost 100% of the leftosphere does, that our government lied to get us into Iraq, then how is it so far fetched to think they had a hand in the 9/11 attacks? Add it all up. Take a look at every outrageous thing that George Bush et al have done in this country and then come here, to my face, and tell me Rev. Wright is outrageous.
Barack Obama. You’re a coward man. This country and the world is being eaten alive by vampires. And you want to get up in front of me and tell me you’re distancing yourself from Rev. Wright?
Are you kidding me, Sen. Obama? Why haven’t you stood up and distanced yourself from George Bush, Gates, Pretraeus, Mukasey, Cheney, and all the the blood suckers feeding off of us?????
Why? That’s all I want to know. Why? At least Rev. Wright has reasons to be mad, to say crazy things. He’s seen blacks in this country marginalized and left to drug dealers, the prison industry, underfed, and growing up on mean streets.
But you, in my estimation, stand with George Bush. And all the parlor game crowd. Fall into line. Go ahead. Another step back for all of us, sir. All of us.
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and this shit. really really tired of it.
our country has done terrible things to its citizens and to the world. we say it all the time. when do we stand up for becoming better?
when does it happen. fucking when?
I totally agree.
I’ll note it in the Admin forum, and try to get up early enough to make sure it happens, but I won’t put it on auto pilot so you can skip if you want to.
but I’d suggest that it is possible that at least part of why he distances himself from Rev. Wright is because if he didn’t, he’d be joining folks like Rep. Kucinich on the sidelines of this presidential race. And I’m beginning to think that maybe no matter what he did or didn’t do, the corporate media will ensure that he’s sidelined.
I think we are in the midst of seeing a well-orchestrated take-down. They did it to Dean and they did it to Kerry. Now, we’re in the beginning stages of seeing it done to Obama. Oh sure, each of them gave the media something to work with. But they’re all just human. So, in the end, we’ll get the president the corporate media wants us to have. Because the people don’t demand better.
I could add a few to that list … corporations, the media, Mr. Joseph Lieberman, yeah gotta laugh so as not to cry.
The same can be said of Hillary.
This isn’t a Presidential campaign. It’s an exercise in marketing, period. Scripted and parsed down to the last comma.
Bleh.
you get the big picture…
i still dont prefer one candidate over another, but anyone who thought obama was going to be a voice for/representative of the people needs to answer the question “what people?”
i dont necessarily agree with everything rev. wright says, but on the obama-to-wright continuum, i probably land closer to the rev. than the candidate…
and i dont expect a much better reaction to my concerns…
An outrageous statement?
An outrageous statement?
We have those and other facts to ponder. Diary on here yesterday by Truong Son Traveler outlined the “sins” of US foreign policy. But to my knowledge the AIDS business isn’t supported and at this point it is speculation fueled by suspicions (not unfounded suspicious, mind you). I support Obama’s unwillingness to buy into this. We have enough serious crimes committed by our government in our name and with substantive evidence to support them without heading down the unsupported conspiracy road.
instead of kissing their asses?
This is what pisses me off so much. Obama left the 2004 convention with political capital to burn. He was the golden boy (excuse the reference, you know what I mean), the future of the Democratic party, and every news medium in the country wanted to profile him. The opportunity he had to take the lead in exposing the Bush administration’s depradations went to waste…buried in concerns about how every word he uttered would affect his run for the White House.
We needed a leader, dammit. Barack Obama should have been that leader. But he wasn’t there when we needed him.
is that we’d like you to commit political suicide, Senator Obama, so the rest of us can feel self-righteous while we watch someone with worse politics than you become president.”
I’m not ready to say that.
I don’t support Obama…
But you guys are being used..
Don’t pay attention to Rev Wright….How can you be so naive as to be concerned about what he says….It’s what the republicans want you to do….and like all other “liberals” you are simply supporting the Republcan racist, fascist agenda by commenting on Wright…
So, Now, the Republicans have the so called “liberals” ….or a better word to describe most people on the “left” would be… SUCKERS, CHUMPS, JERK BAIT and my favorite word…simply….conservatives…. in liberal clothing.
When do you wake up to the fact that this nation is moving toward fascism very rapidly and you are all being used to be put in postion for that event?
The Illuminati Plan to Destroy America is bipartisan and carried out over generations. Raygun, the father of piss on em economics and Clinton with let’s deregulate and outsource all of our jobs with NAFTA.
Bush one actually comes out and says New World Order, yes they did 911, they covered up 911 and then invaded two countries which had nothing to do with it.
I can understand Rev Wright, hell I can even agree with him. Aids a bio weapon, sure! Government did 911, yes and far more involved than even he thinks. He is black and he is pissed. I am white and I am pissed but it’s also a massive diversion that debases the very system of an elected democracy. It is another cattle prod forcing a choice based upon personalities and not issues.
That aside I never agreed with Obama on the issues either. The damage to America though would be complete in the rapid reversal of going from neo-con right to neo-lib globalization in it’s full totalitarian corpo-world dystopia. Gattica, They Live, Running Man, take your pick.