Saturday, March 15, 2008
Show me your friend.......
I remember growing up and my parents, in an effort to spur me from getting in with the wrong crowd, used to tell me, show me your friends and I will tell you who you are. It is this same sentiment that I think applies to the whole issue with Mr. Obama and his pastor, you can't tell me that after being associated with this man for over twenty years, that he never knew of these views and ideally never had some sort of conversation about these issues. Any person with common sense can see that, to think that he can just distant himself because he is now running for President, in my opinion is totally absurd.
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I totally disagree. I have had good friends of mine that we share different views on many topics and I only found out when that particular subject aroused. With you saying “Mr. Obama and his pastor, you can't tell me that after being associated with this man for over twenty years, that he never knew of these views and ideally never had some sort of conversation about these issues.” , is implying that Obama can read minds or must agree with all his friends opinions views. Yes we are friends, colleagues or acquaintances because we have something in common; obviously, however that doesn’t mean we always agree or know the views of each other on a particular subject.
Just my two cents
I totally agree with your two cents and here is mine. I got the impression, as did many other educated people that when these comments came about in the mdeia, Mr. Obama made it seem like he was completely oblivious to these views and comments, and that is what I found hard to believe. Then to go ahead and distance himself from these comments, that were supposedly taken out of context. Yes we all have friends that we may not agree with but I would have believed him if he made up a more believable response to the pastor scandal.
Being friends with someone does not necessarily mean that you agree with everything they say or do. Obama made it clear in his press conference that he was not disowning the man, but that he did not agree with the pastor's position. The media has a tendency to spin issues to their liking and we need to look at the bigger picture behind the stories before passing any judgment, regardless of who you decide to vote for.
The Democratic Party now has a simple choice.....select Hillary and win over McCain or select Barack and lose big time. Barack has opened up the great fault line of American politics, racial separatism, by sugar-coating his relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Strange that he could throw his own white Granny under the bus but could not bring himself to take the leap beyond racism by dumping Wright in no uncertain terms.
He had no hesitation in wanting to have Don Imus fired yet is unwilling to "fire" Rev. Wright, a dangerous and foolish preacher with a simple-minded and foolish congregation, a man who would return us to the halcyon days of "separate but equal" mindset. I know the tiresome arguments that Wright's hate speech has to be considered in "context"....I have listened carefully to those fools, Al Sharpton and Myron Cloyd provide their "out of context" evasive rationalizations for Wright's sound bites. I must admit the sound bites are effective, in the "context" with church members jigging around, waving their arms in the air, rolling their eyes. But that doesn't make them useful or relevant in the 21st Century.
Well Barack and Michelle are going to find out that their implicit support of Black supremacy and Black separatism is not going to do the job. They have doomed themselves to failure becuase of their inability to put this behind them, in spite of all of Barack's platitudes.
Can anyone imagine this kind of caving in on the part of Colin Powell or Condaleeza Rice. Or picture either one of them in a barbershop or a beauty shop hammering away at whites? I didn't think so.
I only hope the Dems have enough sense to select Hillary.......and forget the "dream" ticket, unless they want a "nightmare" ticket.
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