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Rev. Wright is not much better than the right-wing preachers. Even Obama himself has condemned his comments yet his supporters keep trying to justify them. So was Obama wrong to condemn his comments or not?

I don't give a damn what a person has gone through in their life, some of Wrights comments are unacceptable and even Obama has said so. We need to move beyond the anger and hate and start healing the racial divisions in this country as Obama himself has stated. Obama supporters need to stop defending Wright's comments and start echoing Obama's condemnation.

And notice that those defending Wright's comments (like Brummett) totally ignore the racist comments. They instead focus on the "GD America" and 9-11 comments and ignore the less defensible ones.

If preachers want to say God sent Katrina or 9-11 to punish America, they have every right to do so. Those are their beliefs. When preachers make racially divisive comments, they deserve to not only be condemned but fired.

Now that Gerry Falwell is pushing up daisy's and Pat Robertson has one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel and Bush is on his last legs Rev Wright like Huck-the-Buck and McCain's minister/spiritual guide Rod Parsley are all vying for the top "men who converse with god" leadership roll of the weird fantasy believing right. I suspect these guys will be yelling more, not less, un-substantiated soul threats from the pulpit!

John, I read and re-read your comments and frankly your pick and choose rationale is on the stinky side. If Rev Wright and/or Obama ever has diarrhea you are going to be in serious trouble.

Comment from Capitol Hill Blue

Reverend Wright Show jumps the shark, Obama should cancel it.
April 28, 2008 - 5:31pm
Barak Obama did what he needed to do a few weeks ago by distancing himself from his pastor's inflammatory rhetoric. That was before Rev. Wright made himself into a show biz franchise. After Rev. Jeremiah Wright's speeches at the NAACP meeting and the National Press Club it has become apparent that Obama's biggest challenge now is to marginalize this spotlight hogging blowhard

Charismatic Black Preacher Round-Up
Jon tastes all the different flavors of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's spicy sermons.
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I watched Rev. Wright's speech on CNN the other night and found it both entertaining and thought provoking. I must say, I absolutely cracked up when he imitated the gyrations of the Florida A&M Marching Band. He's a helluva showman.

As for the "God damn America" thing: Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the entire sentence was along the lines of, "God damn America, for she (America) thinks SHE is God." Thus, the pastor was calling upon the Lord to damn America's leaders for being arrogate enough to think that this country's power supersedes His (or Her's, if you prefer).

If this is what Wright was trying to say, it would soften somewhat my reaction to the remark. (It was still a dumb utterance, however.)

If you have 48 minutes to burn, and you should before you comment on Rev. Wright, you can click on my name and see most if not all of his speech and question answering at the Press Club yesterday. If you watch the whole thing, you can then come back and reread these comments and see that those having a fit about Rev. Wright are inaccurate about what he said.

If I say your wife is nice, you'll say thanks and go on. But if you misunderstand or hear someone else misquote me as saying I want to FK your wife....the fight is on. We're repeating Gore said he invented the Internet, Howard Dean screamed and Hillary cried......and isn't it funny all these people are Democrats. Do this mean Republicans are more articulate or something? Funny.....I hear McCain loud and clear and it's insanity.

I don't much like preachers, but if I ever start it will be someone like Rev. Wright. He's rapping about half the time, but it is intelligent rap that flows smoothly like Nipsy Russell in his prime, Martin Luther King Jr. at a DC rally. I read today that Rev. Wright likes the sound of his own voice. Duh! You name me a preacher or a politician who doesn't like the sound of their own voice. Oh wait....except for Whispering John Boozman.

Rev. Wright sited the Tuskegee experiments done on black men...that were beyond cruel and right up there with Dr. Mengele in Nazi Germany. Wright said based on what happened at Tuskegee he thought the United States Government was capable of inventing the HIV virus to use on black people and others around the world. He didn't say they invented it, he said they were capable. According to the Geneva Convention and the WORDS coming from the White House, America doesn't torture. Only problem is.....we have proof that America does indeed torture....so whose the liar here?

Someone on the radio yesterday said an old saying, there are 3 kinds of patriotic people in America, those who love their country without criticism , those who criticize their country without love, and those who love their country but are critical when they think their country has screwed up. I think you're nuts if you're not always in the last group. I think Rev. Wright is in that last group. Our President isn't the Pope. Our Congress is not the Vatican Council. Grow up!

Go ahead and click the name and listen to what Wright says and if you'll think about it, you'll find it hard to be critical of Jeremiah Wright. If we're going to hang him around Obama's neck like a pork chop, it is only fair to hang Rev. Hagee around McCain's neck and then we can turn the whole 2008 election into whose got the prettiest preacher and continue on down the path to destruction. When America dies of its own stupidity some cat can come push dirt on top of the stinking pile and the world can be done with us. TBS! Try Being Smarter!

DBI I watched all those speeches and the out of context argument is complete and utter bs.

And maybe Fawell and Robertson were just taken out of context as well....yeah right.

"And notice that those defending Wright's comments (like Brummett) totally ignore the racist comments. They instead focus on the "GD America" and 9-11 comments and ignore the less defensible ones."

Yep...I'm quoting myself. The comments above have proven my point.

I grow weary of the phony comparison between so-called conservative & liberal holy men. While one side implies that natural disasters, terrorist attacks and epidemics and such are proof that a loving God will go after our children if we don't eradicate the undesirable sinners amongst us; the other side points to our government's documented atrocities against same said undesirable sinners and asks if God holds us accountable. When the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. says "Different does not mean deficient", most people in America would appear to disagree with him. I don't have to cloud my mind with facts to arrive at this conclusion, I just feel it.

"The Facts Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias" Stephen Colbert

......Justice Scalia was on 60 Minutes this Sunday and said torture wasn't punishment. He said, hey, if I'm torturing a guy to get information out of him, why would he think I was punishing him.

And we're busy worrying about someone's preacher? Really? Tell me again where I live? My country seems to be missing. I don't understand....it was here not long ago.....and zipppp gone. Ya know, when God damns America....it's gonna come from within....and it's already started, looks like to me.

DBI it's not just about a preacher. It's about us losing the presidential election. Like it or not there are enough voters out there that do care, and that could cost us the election if Obama is the nominee.