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5.1.08 @ 12:01AM

VERY SPECIAL INTERESTS
Re: George Neumayr's The Dirty Secret of Identity Politics:

Boffo! Another one goes over the fence and out of the park for Mr. Neumayr. For at least fifteen years (and probably more) I have been telling everyone who will listen that the "Party of special interests" is not the Republican Party, but rather, the Democratic Party. These tap-dancers in the Donkey Kong set have been balancing their pandering among Blacks, Gays, Hispanics, Attorneys, enviro-wackos, et cetera, for at least that long, if not much longer. Now we have Mr. Obama awakening to the trumpeting of Reverend Wright, proud new owner of a 1.6 million dollar mansion.

Betraying my low comedic background, I am reminded of the old Three Stooges gag in which Moe tells Larry and Curley to "Get the tools," to which they respond, "What tools?" Moe then tells them, "The same tool we've been using for the past twenty years," and Curley says, "Oh, those tools!" For a Harvard educated lawyer, U.S. Senator, and college professor, this guy is not too swift when it comes to processing information that he hears. I guess he has that in common with Curley Howard.
-- Joseph Baum
Garrettsville, Ohio

The Democrats who buy into identity politics are phonies. The major difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that Clinton is a genuine phony and Obama is a fake phony. She believes everything she says, even when she lies. He's nothing more than a cynical calculator who gambled on an oblivious media keeping all of his skeletons closet-bound.

Obama has ostensibly dissolved a twenty-year friendship because he "suddenly" realized the Rev. Wright is an unhinged bigot? Two weeks after saying he could no more disown him than the "black community itself?" No one but the Kool-aid drinkers are buying that one, Senator. Democrats richly deserve having to choose between these two.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

OUT OF OPTIONS
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Backed Into a Corner:

The Obama/Wright saga reminds me a lot of the plot in the movie There Will Be Blood. The two main characters in the movie, Daniel Plainview (Obama) and Eli Sunday (Wright) play off each other early on for mutual gain. The whole movie is about who's on first. Of course as time goes on there "can only be one" and in the end "there will be blood." This is so typical of morally corrupt people who use religion for monetary gains and wrap the words of Christ in either Karl Marx's ideology or those of Mohammad. I'm really hard pressed to see a real world difference between the hatred that radical Islam teaches and that of Wright and his followers. Given that Wright is nothing more than a gateway to the Nation of Islam and its hatred, the real tragedy of this is that the Obama campaign has already done more harm to race relations in this Nation than David Duke could ever do and if elected to the highest office of the land, this is just the first cut that will bleed this Nation for many years to come. The sad truth of all this is that the Black African community simply can't handle the truth about its own failures as a culture and unwillingness to grasp the opportunities that exits in abundance outside the "black community." Nothing and no one is going to change the past and trying to hold those that had no part in the past responsible is a path to no where this Nation can afford on several levels. How many wealthy race baiters like Jessie, Al, Louis and front men like Wright does it take before individuals in the black community figure out the obvious about who benefits identity politics and who doesn't. A wise man once said, the only true freedom any of us have is the freedom to choose. Some people in this country just don't get this.
-- Thom Bateman
Newport News, Virginia

Jeremiah Wright's conflation of criticism of his sermons as an attack on the black church is only valid if you accept the premise that millions of African-Americans attend thousands of churches in which the pastors routinely ask that God damn America, accuse white Americans of spreading AIDS in black communities and equate our war efforts with the terrorism of our enemies, and that they share these opinions. This is a vicious slander, and in attempting to shield himself and Sen. Obama from the justified criticism and scrutiny that his remarks (and Obama's silence for over twenty years) have raised, he has presented black churches as bastions of hateful, paranoid and seditious discourse. The institution that once fought for the right to sit at the front of the bus has been thrown under it.
-- Mike Harris
MAJ, U.S. Army

The Reverend Jeremiah, in his never ending effort to explain the differences in black and white, tells us that white students think and learn logically and analytically while black children learn orally and creatively (they are especially good with hip/hop lyrics says Mr. White). Just imagine if Bill Bennett said something like that.

Not too many years ago here on the Bereft Coast down near L.A. Ebonics was being seriously considered as a way of making the whole education mountain easier to climb for black students. Just let them speak whatever gibberish they were comfortable with. And their grades would improve. That is, if the tests were in Ebonics, too. In spite of its irritation, hip/hop possesses a limited field for job opportunities and if there is a merciful Lord watching over us, it too, shall pass -- as break dancing did.

Meanwhile, think on it. This lunatic pastor has damned the children of his own race with the "low expectations" that President Bush hoped we would overcome. With a name like Jeremiah, one wonders how he came to his audacity of hope? (Read Lamentations) Flim-flammed himself right into "eatin' fancy chow and drinkin' fancy wine." Get the right flock and you are on Easy Street.

Oh, and here is a theory about Obama's renunciation today. Obama went to the Rev.Wright last week and said "Rev'run, my er, ah, distancing myself from you in my remarks in Philadelphia didn't seem to immunize me against my past association with you. See, here's the problem, I can't just go out now and say I would like to revise and extend my remarks as I do in the Senate. You gotta throw some red meat out there to get those gun-totin' unemployed bible-thumpin' flag-wavers riled. Then I can denounce, renounce, trounce and pounce on you. I thought the "old uncle" line would do it, but these honkies want you sliced and diced and if you want to see me in the White House, you gotta give me an openin' here."

And Jeremiah starts dancin' and flappin' his arms and slidin' around like he's two steps ahead of a straightjacket and says, "You mean like this, son? You got it!" The Lord works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform
-- Diane Smith

WHAT A CHARACTER
Re: John Samples' Character Issues:

John Samples asserts that "character matters" in a presidential election. That might be true if any of the three remaining candidates had an ounce of it. What the American electorate will be weighing is carefully constructed, campaign- and media-generated "characterizations of character." Genuine character left the building years ago.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

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