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Wright Frenzy

4.30.08 @ 12:01AM

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With McCain, however, it's a zeal that comes from his moral compass having discovered something for the first time, albeit later than others, but that's of no consequence to McCain. Hence, the fervor of his crusade for campaign finance reform and his mission to filibuster Bush's judicial nominees with the "Gang of 14," in the name of Senate comity, both of which have caused incalculable damage to the Constitution. Add to this, his treatment of people he considers obstacles to his cause, Rumsfeld, for one, Sen. John Cornyn, and a host of lesser bureaucrats, and things begin to come into focus.

So, it's not surprising in the least that McCain's ascension to the presidency would run roughshod over the Constitution as well as other candidates for state and national office. The fact that candidates in North Carolina, and elsewhere, were ahead of McCain on the Wright issue, and have the right to run their campaigns as they see fit, is of no concern to McCain. They're not part of the grand plan. McCain, if elected, will govern, no matter who sits in Congress. Coattails are not required.

So with this, I'm no longer ruminating about McCain. I've decided to support competitive Congressional candidates, and on Election Day, see how the spirit moves me on Mr. McCain.
-- A. DiPentima

The reverend of lewd gestures, master baiter of race Pastor Wright, isn't going anywhere. Know why? 'Cause he's of the same mold as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Race baiters all.

Wright's pastoral work, such as it is, and was, is revealed as nothing more than a weekly minstrel show, replete with America bashing, anti-Semitism, off-color commentary for attending children and a theology lacking Christian virtue. Wright is now on a mission to talk, expose and derail Obama's quest for a simple reason: Were Obama to win the presidency, the racial finger pointing will change. Racial hucksters like Wright, and others of his ilk, would have to earn an honest living, one earned by the sweat of their own brow and not by the sweat of their black brethren. Wright can't afford that. Lewd pulpit prancing is too much fun and too rewarding. Like a 1.7 million dollar house in a white neighborhood. Very liberating for southside black theologian.
-- Wolf Terner

I found Mr. Lord's take on McCain's bashing of his own party in North Carolina because they created an ad that took on the ideas of a black person very interesting. I think you're right, Mr. Lord, he's afraid to take on the black guy. However, it might be more than that. He might have a prejudice against Southerners (and conservatives). He is almost as bad as Obama with small towners only he didn't say: "clinging to God and guns and religion and antipathy to those not like them."

As a conservative and someone who lived in NC for 13 years, I know that he has deeply angered NC Republicans. North Carolinians don't take too kindly to being implied as racist, and they really don't take too kindly to "outsiders" telling them what they should do. I think McCain has hurt himself badly in that state. He seems quite content to stick his thumb in Republican eyes, but never a Democrat's.

It's almost like the husband who is so nice to everyone at the bar and then comes home and beats his wife. He's abusive to his own. Is this what Republicans have to look forward to if he's elected? I think he's hurt himself with many Republicans. The NC Republican Party has generated a lot of cash since the ad fracas -- there's a message there somewhere if McCain's campaign should care to decipher it.
-- Deborah Durkee
Marietta, Georgia

John McCain, paternalistic? I'd say he is always ready to take a shot at Conservatives. Liberals and liberal blacks do not receive his ire. Just remember John McCain was negotiating to leave the Republican Party in 2001 and again in 2004 when he wanted to be John Kerry's vice presidential candidate. Mr. McCain is self-serving and self-promoting first and foremost. He has convinced himself he doesn't need Conservatives this time around. We'll see.
-- Judy Beumler
Phoenix, Arizona

UNFORCED ERROR
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Obama's Eagleton Affair:

Stacy McCain stated that "No one can yet point to any official action by Obama that reflects the 'black liberation theology' espoused by Wright."

However, how "official" does the "action" need to be to prove that Obama believes in the "black liberation theology"?

Obama is clearly one of the most, if not the most, liberal senators, and he has surrounded himself with radical liberals his entire life. Anyone looking objectively at the current facts should easily, and rightfully, conclude that Obama chose Wright because of his "black liberation theology," because that is what Wright preaches and what he is known for. The liberal press would like us to believe that it was an isolated sermon where he made all the leftist remarks and Obama did not know about them until he read about them in a magazine. However, that sermon was just an ordinary and usual type of "black liberation theology" sermon that Wright preached on any given Sunday. Obama, being the leftist that he is, actually believes in the "black liberation theology," but he won't dare say that in public and he won't be specific that he disowns the "black liberation theology" either in public because he knows the liberal Blacks will disown him.

Mr. Wright was correct when he alluded to the fact that Obama has not repudiated him or "black liberation theology" and that Obama is just doing what other liberal politicians do, which is lie to the public and hide his liberal ideology and act more centralist than he really is (sort of like when he was bashing NAFTA and yet telling Canada that it was just lies to the people to get votes).
-- Carl Harris
San Antonio, Texas

This is an interesting characterization of the Wright hate speech. And if Mr. Wright is correct and his brand of "liberation theology" is part and parcel of Black churches, then the epithet might better be "God Help America."
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

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