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br> -- David Tomaselli /p>

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?

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

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