was racist.
Only if he was the preacher for someone running against a Clinton.
It would be like "OMG he said moderate whites and white clergy were worse than the KKK!!" "He's a racist!!!"
But that's not the problem. "God damn America" is the problem. Accusing the government of inventing AIDS to kill black people is the problem. Saying that 9/11 is America's chickens coming home to roost is the problem. Wright has some good points, but he also has some tinfoil-hat notions.
This isn't about Trinity and it's not about the religious denomination. It's about the guy who Obama himself said was his mentor for twenty years, the guy who performed Obama's marriage ceremony and baptized his children, who gave the name to Obama's book, who.... You get the picture.
Added to the above is the fact that this controversy has shown Obama to be hypocritical. I believe Obama is lying when he says that, had Wright not retired, Obama would be thinking about leaving the Trinity congregation. Huh? If he didn't do so over a 20-year period, even though he's admitted he knew Wright said controversial things, then he wasn't ever planning to do it anyway. The reason Obama is saying these things now is that he is in a political bind.
I don't mind people acting like politicians, but I don't like hypocrisy.
I suggest that you listen to Wright's sermon "The Audacity to Hope" It is brilliant, inspiring and not racial in the least.
30+ years of a career cannot be reduced to soundbites. Please stop trying.
In fact, most of the youtube clips are taken out of context.
You're not listening to ME. I said the problem is that this is a way to lose the GE. Sound bites are ALL the Rethugs will need or will use in their ads.
I'm not screaming about Wright at all. He's entitled to his opinions and he's entitled to express them. I can agree with some of what he says. He is entitled to some anger - gawd knows I'm angry about discrimination against myself. Obama is entitled to attend that church. But if Obama wants to become president, then he's made some stupid choices relating to this pastor. Like having a relationship with him in any way, shape or form.
I know it is a widely held fear especially amongst Hillary supporters that this issue will kill Obama in the election. I think that's jumping to conclusions. It remains to be seen whether or not that people who think this way are falling into a trap of fearing the Republican attack or wishful thinking/schadenfreude or correctly perceiving a genuine election killer.
One thing I have noticed in listening to Hillary supporters is a rush to dismiss Obama's speech or any poll numbers that support its efficacy. I don't think everyone has done that, and I wouldn't advocate concluding that he is out of the woods either. That said, it's just too early to really say.
I think early returns are positive, and we should have open minds but not so open that our brains fall out.
Americans hold this against Obama. If they do then they get what they deserve. If Democrats do then they get what they deserve as well and African-Americans should probably start a third party with actual liberals.
