I happened to be at a business lunch when he came on the television. He defended saying America commits terrorist actions like Al Qaeda. That is radical. He put forward the claim that we caused the AIDS virus without offering proof or even a source. That is radical. He said that even if Senator Obama wins, he will oppose the government because the senator will be part of its legacy of grinding people under. That is radical. He compared us to imperial Rome because we have troops through out the world. Unlike Rome we do not occupy nor dictate policy or rulers to anyone. That is radical.

I just don’t see the world as he does. I think that he and his fellow travelers are keeping Blacks and others down. They focus people on the past not their own future. They focus people on the negative and not the greatness within themselves. They make people resentful, not grateful for the freedom and opportunity we enjoy. If you can’t tell the difference between Marines trying to bring peace and terrorists targeting innocent people for death and injury, you have a warped perspective.

I don’t think people like Rev. Wright should be driven from the political arena when they support a mainstream candidate like Senator Obama. I am never threatened by opinions. That is counter productive. The only way we are going to invest the bitter and disenfranchised in America is by letting them see that they can have a stake in the system. That is why I wish this controversy would go away. Nevertheless, he is now traveling around promoting this perspective so it must be challenged.

Me too. I learned that, like Moyers, he is a fine actor.

Now Liberals can engage in symbolic acts against violence but will never take any action that would inconvenience a key constituency.

The death penalty may not be a panacea but if applied in a more frequent and timely fashion, it might make a difference.

The ACLU recently celebrated a victory in one-party Maryland. They defeated a measure that would allow taking DNA samples from arrested suspects. Such samples could have the same effect as fingerprints and allow past and future crime to be more readily solved. This evidence could even be used to exonerate a falsely accused person. The proposal seemed to be a win-win for law enforcement and those who are more likely to be crime victims rather than perpetrators.

For all of his verbal bravado, Obama is a bit of a wimp when it comes to controversial votes. How much of a profile in courage is demonstrated by regularly voting ‘present’?

I am willing to bet that anyone who saw Bill Moyers’ interview of Reverend Wright came away from it with an entirely different view of the man. I did!

This man is no radical, as political enemies of Obama would have us believe, using the looped sound bites that have peppered our airwaves. He is first a devout Christian and second an outspoken advocate for the downtrodden, and not only African Americans by the way.

Suspend your current main stream media led sound-bite derived conclusions and have a more complete look for yourself:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/profile.html

As to my

The Rapture?

Wright’s rants are for his people, for life in general. It is the poetry of the pulpit. He was talking about drug laws, incarceration, war and peace. It’s show business for God’s sake. Do you have an opinion on what Wright was raging about. Crack cocaine laws vs powder cocaine. Our one sided support of Israel in a world of a billion Muslims? What are we, like that “church lady” on SNL. We just get all in a tither when we hear something unpleasant?

Rick, sorry for the profanity. I just thought since you’re a McCain guy you would like that tough “fuck you” attitude McCain is known for. Didn’t I read Sydney told on of his colleagues to fuck off? I actually think that is cool. Thanks for the clarification on middle names. Did you find anything about Hussein? That middle name stuff is important. When I saw Sydney as opposed to Sidney was generally reserved for girls, I thought maybe McCain was some kind of a closet, well you know what. I read somewhere a middle name says a lot about a presidential candidate. I know you agree.

Wright was talking about the incarceration of black men under draconian crack cocaine laws that made powder cocaine less punishable than the crack version. That law was just changed because Wright is right. We sweep these poor black guys out of there homes, give them a felony record, toughen them up in overcrowded prisons, brand them unemployable, prohibit them from voting, but, in many cases accept them into the military for service in foreign wars. Wright said goddamn America for doing that. What say you? Now remember, Rush Limbaugh and Britney Spears both have been involved in the drug trade and live in mansions. If I were a black minister, I think I could get rich ranting about the injustice. Hmmm. Is there a way I could get black?

Wow! ‘Babynames.com.’ If you had any brains, you’d know that Sydney is a historic name in the British Isles. I guess McCain’s parents decided to forego ‘babynames’ for a more traditional approach.

I agree that free speech can be ‘constructive,’ which is why I condemn Wright’s irrational nonsense. However, your childish use of profanity isn’t ‘constructive’ at all; but perfectly suited to someone of your intellect.

As to my

It’s all here in writing:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf

Now don’t get me wrong, I realize that a lot of what the guy is proposing may not end up happening. Such is the case for pretty much every presidential candidate. But if I’m going to get behind somebody, it’s sure as hell not going to be the guy saying “everything is fine” when to me it’s obviously not.