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Wright Frenzy

4.30.08 @ 12:01AM

ENOUGH ALREADY
Re: Sean Higgins' Wright Answer:

I say this as gently and as courteously as I can under the circumstances.

I've had it up to here [indicating front of neck under the chin] with the never-ending stream of articles about Rev. Wright (three today already just on TAS, and even more everywhere else in the media).

Please make them all go away. Please. Make the articles go away and someday, perhaps in my lifetime, so will he.

Thank you very much.
-- A. C. Santore

If we are to suffer the unrelieved tedium of Jeremiah Wright, could we call him Mr. Wright? That is, unless he has his doctorate from the First Self-Righteous Church of Reverse Racism & Fancy Raiment.

"Reverend" is an adjective, not a noun, and as such, cannot stand alone. He is the Reverend Mr. Wright or the Reverend Dr. Wright. I think all this Rev'run-as-a-title business started with Rev'run Jesse Jackson, preacher without a pulpit

In the south I understand it is acceptable to call a protestant clergyman Pastor Billy Bob -- all in the name of chummy good fellowship. But anything goes, I guess, now that that fat Porpoise Driven guy wears Hawaiian shirts to do his preaching in.
-- Diane Smith

Concerning the Wright-Obama soap opera, there are now double dueling dualities.

1) For Wright's NAACP speech, sponsored primarily by blacks, the up-scale audience gave a "typical white" response to his revival talk; for Wright's National Press Club speech, sponsored primarily by whites, there was a "typical black" response to his revival talk, especially because of the black minister guests.

2) Obama backers were ready to march in flock-step to support both Wright and Obama after the Moyer-NAACP-National Press Club trio of Wright appearances. Obama backers are now ready to march in bloc-step to support Obama's rejection of the now-seen-as-terrible Wright after Obama gave the new orders at his Tuesday press conference.
-- Richard L.A. Schaefer
Dubuque, Iowa

It appears that the Reverend Wright is opening up his own Race Franchise to compete with Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton. With his new home and property given him by his church and a book on the way, he may soon be worth close to 15 million. If his following stays with him and he is able to build his brand, he may even be able to put a bigger bite on corporations and government than Reverend Jackson. One day he might even be in a position to set up his own Kingdom as Reverend Farrakhan has done. Only in America.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

If this "preacher" is the best Chicago has to offer, no wonder there are so many murders. Rather than preach love, peace and forgiveness, as Jesus taught, he offers hate, resentment and separation. He said that blacks and whites learn differently. Is he calling for resegregation? It certainly appears so.
-- Sarah H.

WORST ELECTION EVER.
Re: Jeffrey Lord's What if William Ayers Were Black?:

For reasons described to us by Mr. Lord, it's no wonder that John McCain gives us no relief from the "Year of the Migraine." Having ruminated about McCain for years now, I've concluded several things about what makes this man tick, and not one gives me a reason for optimism. The recent North Carolina GOP imbroglio, is just another, in a long line of puzzling (carefully chosen word) behaviors that have come to define the "World according to John McCain." Paternalism? For sure, but we're way past paternalism here. We're also past the empty suits in McCain's campaign and the RNC that forsake opportunities out of cowardice disguised as civility. No, what's really going on here, is that McCain has a moral superiority that grates; even more than Hillary's or Obama's. With them, it's just a habit of elite liberalism, almost reflexive.

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