Rev. Wright Speaks At NAACP Dinner »
Posted By TimALoftis 1 year, 6 months ago in News"I am not here for political reasons. I'm not a politician. ... I'm not running for the Oval Office. I've been running for Jesus for a long, long time and I'm not tired yet," he said to laughter and cheers.
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DropkickaLib1 year, 6 months ago
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tchef1 year, 6 months ago
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Well if anyone takes the time to listen to more than just the snippets of his sermons you will find that he has not really said anything that should hurt Obama. If you listen to the whole sermon you will find that he was preaching exactly the opposite of what the news channels and Rush say he was.
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NoWayMan1 year, 6 months ago
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gotta agree with you on that one dropkick.
just what is this guy doing?
perhaps he wants to really get this all out of the way before Obama takes on McCain. because when the GOP tries to bring this up again (and they will, bet on it) it will be beyond flogging a dead horse, we'll all roll our collective eyes as we move forward.
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lum-chate1 year, 6 months ago
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Wright seems more interested in defending himself and cares
less & less about Obama. He definitely has a book in mind & this seems like a bookmaking tour. He is hurting Obama & though that's fine with me I don't see how Obama supporters are in turn defending Wright.
Obama is done anyway with his wife, his minister, his million man march pals & his rubbing elbows with the terrorist underground the die is cast on this guy. The vultures are hovering above the carcus it's just amatter of time!
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kboy1 year, 6 months ago
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Rev. Wright continues in the path of others like Rev. Sharpton and Rev Jackson. He spreads discord against whites as an excuse for lack of success. I seem to have missed the talk about social responsibility. I hear nothing about crime. I hear nothing about children without any male members of the family. I hear nothing about respect. How does this show that someone that listens to this for 20 years can be a leader of everyone?
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quackpot1 year, 6 months ago
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Are you too stupid, too stubborn, or just too racist to see that the issues of which you speak, kboy, are not issues of race. They are issues of income. In the U.S. income is a result of ambition, talent and to a very large degree opportunity.
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tchef1 year, 6 months ago
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Then you haven't really listened. Most of what he says talks about personal responsibility, giving back to the community, the fact that people are different not deficient. He has done a lot for his community. That is why his church has grown the way it has.
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Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago
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K, one listens to a lot of stuff in our media-saturated culture without--one devoutly hopes--taking it all as gospel (pun, etc.).
Not the best move for a pol aspiring to high elected office not to have been cannier about disassociating himself from Wright earlier.
But now Obama has done so. Those for whom his relationship with Wright is a deal-breaker have the option not to vote for Obama (whom they probably wouldn't have supported anyway).
Others may consider the relationship unfortunate but not, ultimately, determinative in re supporting O.
I would council not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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Grrr1 year, 6 months ago
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Of course, there are an awful lot of us that DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE, and agree with Rev. Wright's words, and understand what blacks, other minorities, and the poor of all races have been up against in the US for the last hundred years. I not only understand exactly what he meant when he said what he did, I agree one hundred percent. Take the word black out of his sermons and he is right on for all of us.
He rails against blacks falling for the politics of division. And they are using these words to divide blacks and whites RIGHT NOW. I beg you all not to fall for this ruse.
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djn3nunez31 year, 6 months ago
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"Those for whom his relationship with Wright is a deal-breaker have the option not to vote for Obama (whom they probably wouldn't have supported anyway). "
And most of those who are bringing this up during the Democratic Primary season have an interest in either prolonging the fight, or they want a Clinton/MaCain matchup in the fall.
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ETproductions1 year, 6 months ago
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I can certainly understand why the Obamas stayed in Rev. Wright's church for 20 years. He is a gifted and powerful speaker. And he uses that speaking ability to try to point out inequities within the US and in our foreign policy -- places where we as a country stray from the message of Christ.
Sad to say that DropkickaLib's hate filled slurs fall far short of the man he hopes to malign.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 6 months ago
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Yes ET but this is the problems GOPers have with LIBS we point out our countries fault because we expect her to be better, they cant get that. We know she can do and be better than they have made her in the last 7 years, they are against anyone that says she is in bad shape because, well they put her in that bad shape. Like Rev Wright, I love my country and cant stand to see what these fools have done to her in the name of green and any real American would be mad as hell over the state she is in!
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Best Wright quote of the whole event, "Please tell my stuck-on-stupid friends that Arabic is a language, it's not a religion. Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. There are Arabic-speaking Christians, Arabic-speaking Jews, Arabic-speaking Muslims and Arabic-speaking atheists. Stop trying to scare folks by giving them an Arabic name as if it's some sort of diseaseâ;¦Did you hear me, O'Reilly?"
Believe it or not some people won't vote for Obama because his middle-name is Hussein. What jamokes!
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kfolive1 year, 6 months ago
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So, why are we mixing religion and politics anyway? I for one find it appalling that this is an issue that the country is focusing on. All its really doing is distracting from the facts our country really needs to address. How sad!
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SAAB76991 year, 6 months ago
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OK whatever! Now tell me what he meant by saying the US
government came up with AIDS to kill off that black man.
I think that quite a few white people have died from this too.
I thought that this disease originated on the other side of the Atlantic.In fact Sixty Minutes did a story back in the eighties about a "WHITE" male flight attendant thought to be
the first person to bring AIDS into the US.The story was called"Patient 1"
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Iwasthinking1 year, 6 months ago
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I'm tired of people taking Rev. Wright's "God damn America" quote out of context. I'll like to point out the he uses "God damn" as a subject and verb, which is very different from saying "God-d#@n" which is its usage as an adjective. Anyway here is the full context of the quote.
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Iwasthinking1 year, 6 months ago
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Rev Wright: "Where governments lie, God does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change. And I'm through now. But let me leave you with one more thing. Governments fail. The government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius, Pontius Pilate - the Roman government failed. The British government used to rule from East to West. The British government had a Union Jack. She colonized Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Hong Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the tip of Argentina in the Falklands, but the British government failed. The Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The German government failed. And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps...
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