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All this talk is about vilifying a fearsome enemy. Republicans are terrified of Obama, they haven't seen anything like him EVER! They don't know how to defeat the man. I'm sure if they found out he picked his nose, they'd be discussing that. Even Hillary couldn't find any dirt on him...What, you mean they'll actually have to have a respectful campaign based on the issues!???
On the Oprah message boards, people are fussing about how he was LATE to give his historic speech, and how that's a sign of unprofessionalism!
It is so true - that's what the government doesn't want people to hear.
They certainly don't want Obama to run the country because they know he will do it better than them.
http://tucc.org/home.htm
Should be One of the called out hannity, O'Rielly and Lou Dobbs.
http://tucc.org/home.htm
Can I just say that I love JJP. I wish you guys were the repping for us in the media. I swear, I don't know where they find most of these people to give the "black perspective". Roland Martin (I also like Jamal the Obama supporter who always seems to remain calm) is doing a good job of late. I really can't tolerate too much of CNN of late as they are incredibly biased towards Clinton. I swear most of the Black contributors are either (1)ineffective (2)inarticulate or (3)Uncle Tom's.
I can only imagine how some of you would eat up Pat Buchanan and not even bat an eye!
Best to move on...it looks like Obama will run out the clock on FL and MI and get the nomination. The more Wright is brought front and center the more you damage Obama.
For Obama's sake, let it go.
Let it go.
Help me get the word out!
God Bless
Contact CNN
Demand them do their jobs.
http://edition.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.pt.html?50
Contact MSNBC, FOX. All of them.
The media chooses what it focuses upon. Sure, they might report everything, but it is their focus and tone that influence so many people.
So that damaging story on Hillary gets some play, but not what it deserves. Never mind that it is a bold faced lie to the American public during a presidential campaign, and far worse than anything to do with the Wright controversy.
The other interesting fact is this: we know that in his hour of need, Bill Clinton reached out to Rev Wright and accepted his support. There are over 300,000 pastors in America, and fewer than 100 were invited to that prayer breakfast. Rev. Wright was one of them. He didn't just casually show up; Bill Clinton wanted him there.
So Rev. Wright supported Bill Clinton when he needed it most. But where is Bill Clinton now...is he stepping forward to do the courageous and honest thing and defend Rev. Wright?
No way...he instead is seeking to use this against Obama and for his and his wife's political benefit.
I guess we should know by now that we can never expect courage or honesty from the Clintons. They instead will just use us and then stab us in the back every time.
I'm sure he's upset that their argument about Wright to the Superdelegates seemed a little hypocritical after the photo surfaced.
Have they no shame?
But yes, the MSM is failing to do its job properly. Every so often, you see a glimmer of truth, though. Tonight, I was shocked to see Dan Abrams on MSNBC finally start saying that the Clinton campaign simply cannot win. Chris Wallace finally saying, "No more." However, these are minor moments. It's up to us. Email Olbermann about Wright and LBJ. That's not a bad place to start. Email CNN about Martin. Give the cat enough praise and he might even get his own slot. Call into your local radio shows and national talk shows. I totally am going to call into some on Monday AM (O'Reilly, Medved) about Wright and LBJ.
I think his mailbox is full. I was, however, successful in posting the video to Chris Matthew, Chicago Tribune and Huffington Post!
As Obama as said, we are the change we have been waiting for. We need to be the grassroots voices that are so active and so vocal that we cannot be ignored.
We need to speak out against this attempted swiftboating of an honorable candidate in Obama and yes, an honorable pastor in Wright.
And I still say that the conduct of the Clintons in this campaign has been an eye opener. They are really vicious, self centered individuals.
Wright put his reputation on the line in standing with Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. In fact, it was the entire black community, including the black church, that saved his presidency.
Now he repays that by throwing not just Wright under the bus, but by smearing Obama in his typical Clintonian fashion.
If either Clinton had an ounce of class or decency, they would have stepped up to the microphone long ago and declared that they know Rev. Wright to be a fine American, a fine pastor, a fine human being. They certainly should have stepped up and said that they know Obama to be a fine American.
Instead the Clintons continue to try to play on fear and racism.
Let's speak truth to power, and carry Obama to victory. We need to get the Clintons out of the way so we can start to take on McCain.
I showed the real sermons to my Republican bf and he was shocked! He also worked in radio and news and knows a bit about the sensationalism of the media. Bu it was pretty gratifying that he watched the Youtube clips from "the Truth About Trinity" and he was disgusted with the media lynching of Rev. Wright. I look forward to spreading the word not only on black blogs, but white blogs as well. THis has to go viral!!
Love this blog and it is my favorite. I love reading this as well as Huffpo and DailyKos. Keep up the fantastic work Rikyah :-)
Of National Lies and Racial Amnesia:
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth
For most white folks, indignation just doesn't wear well. Once affected or conjured up, it reminds one of a pudgy man, wearing a tie that may well have fit him when he was fifty pounds lighter, but which now cuts off somewhere above his navel and makes him look like an idiot.
Indignation doesn't work for most whites, because having remained sanguine about, silent during, indeed often supportive of so much injustice over the years in this country--the theft of native land and genocide of indigenous persons, and the enslavement of Africans being only two of the best examples--we are just a bit late to get into the game of moral rectitude. And once we enter it, our efforts at righteousness tend to fail the test of sincerity.
But here we are, in 2008, fuming at the words of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago--occasionally Barack Obama's pastor, and the man whom Obama credits with having brought him to Christianity--for merely reminding us of those evils about which we have remained so quiet, so dismissive, so unconcerned. It is not the crime that bothers us, but the remembrance of it, the unwillingness to let it go--these last words being the first ones uttered by most whites it seems whenever anyone, least of all an "angry black man" like Jeremiah Wright, foists upon us the bill of particulars for several centuries of white supremacy.
But our collective indignation, no matter how loudly we announce it, cannot drown out the truth. And as much as white America may not be able to hear it (and as much as politics may require Obama to condemn it) let us be clear, Jeremiah Wright fundamentally told the truth.
Oh I know that for some such a comment will seem shocking. After all, didn't he say that America "got what it deserved" on 9/11? And didn't he say that black people should be singing "God Damn America" because of its treatment of the African American community throughout the years?
Well actually, no he didn't.
You Must Read The Rest
Quarter of a million people have already watched this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
Little did he know that many would hear this sermon while some were trying to hurt him and Obama; two of a few that knew Iraq was wrong. Hopefully, it will wring true to even a larger audience than Trinity.
I've listened to the sermon and I have felt so bad for Reverend Wright because all he did was teach his congregation about the parallel to the fall of Jerusalem the mighty city that had disobeyed the commandments of God and the tragedy that had overcome America. He spoke how reverence turned to hate and then to war in Jerusalem; war against innocent civilians - they bashed the children's heads against the rocks.
And that is exactly how we got into the senseless Iraqi war. It's too bad some of the decision makers hadn't heard this sermon before they acted.
Don't you all remember how angry we were, how we wanted revenge so bad that we let Bush lead us to believe that we had to attack Iraq because they had WMD's and then lead us to a war that has lasted so long and cost so much. How so many of our leaders including Hillary Clinton were so angry and anxious that they didn't even read the intelligence reports. They signed a blank check to go to war.
At or around this same time a man named Barack Obama said it would be a senseless war.
I don't know what it means, though I know it means something that this would all come back around.
Reverend Wright isn't crazy at all.
Some might call him crazy for cursing America, but I think I would be crazy too and call out in anger in the name of God to curse whoever could hurt and watch so many people hurt. Especially, if I had given my life to help so many people - watch so many people hurt.
Any time God is in a plan, the devil attack to foil that plan so it will be uneffective!
But always remember, God is Almighty and more powerful than the enemy!