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Barackracy in America

3.21.08 @ 12:01AM

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He should be asked if he believes the "social gospel" and "liberation theology" are legitimate Christian doctrine. He should be asked to acknowledge that those ideas are rooted in Marxism. He should be asked in what ways his church has exhibited the concepts/commandments "to forgive, show mercy, and love" with regard to whites, America's racist past, and Israel.

I hope there is at least one more black liberal, like Juan Williams, who believes Obama should have left that church a long time ago. Contrary to what so many commentators say, his speech did not improve race relations. The whole sad story set back race relations for years, and we won't ever know just how much damage it has done.

Mr. Lott says he tried, tried really hard to dislike Obama, but can't. I don't understand it, but fair enough. I, too, have tried, tried really hard, to find a distinction between what I witness in the name of God with Wright and his congregants, and what I witness from the Islamist extremist videos with their rants and how they teach their children to hate in the name of Allah; but I just can't find the distinction. I truly don't understand how so many who don't personally know Obama can say without question that Obama obviously does not believe what Wright preaches and teaches. He sat in the flippin' pew for twenty years! No matter how hard I try, and I try really hard, that is too much to swallow.

As with the moderate Islamists who keep silent about the hateful teachings of the extremists, or who pay lip service by saying "it is wrong, but I understand it," there is a deafening silence from legitimate black "Christian" pastors. The ones who do speak say it is preached all over black America, and "it is wrong, but they understand it." Christian leaders of all hues should condemn Wright, his congregation, Obama, and any other black church that is exposing themselves and their children to such hateful preaching based on a complete perversion of the Bible and the Christian faith.

Obama must explain and answer all questions concerning what being a Christian means to him. He must because that would be demanded of any other candidate in his situation. Or is America now going to accept that we can't criticize the hate that is being preached in some black churches, much as Muslims insist that criticism of Islam is off limits?
-- David Tomaselli

For cryin' out loud, all the young, inexperienced senator from Illinois did was to display his arrogance and basic emptiness, which floated on some lovely rhetoric out of the past, not the future.

He became Pedant-in-Chief, lecturing us, blaming us, blaming corporate America, throwing his grandma under the proverbial bus -- whatever he could to deflect what really needed to be said.

He failed at that. In spades -- and that's no racist statement.

We still don't know why he immersed himself and his family in Wright's separatist ideologies for two decades or so? Or how could it be possible he did not grasp the extremism, the racism of Wright? Or why he, who wants to run America -- or, as Wright would spell it, AmeriKKKa -- lacked the judgment and discernment to even notice?

Or my personal favorite: How can he, with straight face, ask us believe that, in those decades at this so-called Christian church, he never personally heard such poison and non-Christlike things from Wright or from some friends -- surely he has some there? -- who agreed with the pastor or who would've mentioned the pastor had railed so?

Because he was afraid to answer such questions, Obama blew the opportunity of a lifetime.

He could've gained sympathy, even support, if he'd just admitted to his lying about what he knew and when -- and asked for understanding, even forgiveness -- and, for instance, given some reassurance why he loves the country that's been so good to him.

He could've given some tangible vision of how blacks and whites and others could move closer.

But for a man who apparently can't find it in himself to even put his hand over his heart when the National Anthem is played, or who's so indoctrinated in the anti-American, anti-white, anti-anything-not-black philosophy, such words would be impossible to voice, wouldn't they?

Nor would they fit his indulgent, entitled yet narrow-minded view of America -- sorry, Mr. Wright, AmeriKKKa -- and we who live in it.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

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