Counterpoint: Obama takes the hard, high road

Excellent, well thought out and well written article. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and know that I share in them.
Dani girl

Actions Speak Better than Words Before the negative press regarding Mr. Wright, Mr Obama had on numerous occasions declared Mr. Wright as his mentor and spiritual teacher for the past 20 years and even went so far as to include Mr. Wright in his election staff, these are the actions of Mr. Obama. When the press found out about the Hitleresque personality of Mr. Wright, Mr. Obama’s staff writers immediately created a rebuttal of hyperbole that amazingly some people actually believed. It is interesting to note, as soon the public became aware of the Obama/Wright connection, following a phone call to Mr. Wright from Mr. Obama, Mr. Wright was instantly silenced, retired and rewarded with a 1.6 million dollar home. Is there something more we are not supposed to hear from Mr. Wright? And now Mr. Obama says he would distance himself from Mr. Wright because of Mr. Wight hateful message, but what about the other 20 years of Mr. Obama choosing to sit in the pew while Mr. Wright lectured? After 20 years of choosing to listen to Mr. Wright, Mr. Obama has just now come to conclusion that he wouldn’t listen to Mr. Wright starting now? Does Mr. Obama think we are stupid? But regardless of what Mr. Obama’s staff has spun for Mr. Obama’s rebuttal, Mr. Obama cannot retract his clear public proclamation that Mr. Wright has been his mentor and spiritual teacher for over these past 20 YEARS. And that up to recent negative press, Mr. Wright was on Mr. Obama’s Spiritual Advisor Committee campaign team. There is no denying this. And the Obama’s team efforts to downplay the violent rhetoric of Mr. Wright are like trying to make excuses for Hitler. Hitler and Mr. Wright both convey hateful and paranoid messages that should send shivers through the average American. The words of Mr. Wright are violent, hateful and terrifying. This should be a wake up call to every white, Jew, non-Christian, Christians of other faiths, government officials, peoples from other countries and so on. Didn’t Hitler do this too before unleashing his cruelty on the world? If Obama made the choice to listen and learn from this so called spiritual mentor for over 20 years, do you expect me or any other rational being to believe that he wouldn’t be or want to be influenced by his ideas? And what does that say of Mr. Obama’s integrity? Action is the real measure of a person, not their words. We know who Mr. Obama is by his life and choices, not the words he spins. And we can only imagine the amount of hatred Mr. Obama will unleash once he achieves ultimate power. And also consider recent announcement that the chief of the firm involved in the State Department’s passport breach is one of Obama’s adviser. (And why is this not being discussed?) And that Obama has been caught lying about Rezko, regarding the amount of money Rezko gave him, and that Obama still hasn’t come clean about his Rezko land deal. Or further, how Michelle Obama makes a phenomenal $317.000 a month at a hospital in Chicago that is famous for turning away the poor, especially the black poor. And Michelle Obama’s separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. And Michelle Obama’s statement she “has never been proud to be an AMERICAN in her adult life". And for those who don’t know that Obama campaign was originally funded by Islamic Extremist via the Food for Oil Program in Iraq, I suggest you read the following article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/obamas_iraqi_oil_for_food_conn.html If Obama were to become president, what would stop Mr. Obama from appointing Mr. Wright to his cabinet? And after Mr. Wright’s appointment, if anyone complained no doubt they would be called racist. And it seems as if this strategy - that it is racist to criticize a black man - is already in effect as Mr. Obama can do anything corrupt with minimal impunity by the public or the press. But if Hillary so much as sneezes, she is taken through the laundry and hung out to dry and then beaten some more. Such an obvious bias treatment towards Mr. Obama because of his race is racial discrimination. And I believe another reason why Mrs. Clinton is unfairly criticized to such an extreme is because a handful of powerful men in the media can’t stand the idea of a woman for president – likely a libido thing. We should have as our country’s leader someone with wisdom and knowledge, whose goal is the selfless betterment of the world. We should not elect someone with a personal agenda for personal power or select them because of the fashionably of their race or the preference for a gender. With all the red lights in Mr. Obama’s resume, and all the hyperbole that he spins that keeps us from knowing the real Mr. Obama, are you sure this is the person best to lead our country? Should we gamble away the American future to a man who associates with and is taught by men who hate this country and its people?
Richard Allen

It's sad how delusional people are about "America" being some Holy nation populated and governed by angelic beings. The good ole USA has "officially" been hijacked by multi-national corporations and their profiteering ways. People in this nation are to be oppressed and exploited, plain and simple. Capitalism, for the majority, has become a new form of enslavement. Why can't America evolve like the rest of the modern world? Because it's not good for business, thats why. There's no logic to the Afghan or Iraq invasion, just oil interests. 9/11 was a Bush/Bin Laden collaboration to create the excuse to wage a profit driven war. When you look at all the atrocities that the US Govt. is directly responsible for over the last 100 years it is clear that a good "god damn america" rabble rousing is desperately needed. "Americas chickens are coming home to roust" and its about time!! Rev. Whites views may be frightening to people, but I think its because he's speaking the truth. So many americans lack the spinal column to deal with reality of our horrific history. Ignorance isn't bliss, its a diss.
Joshua Doolittle

Maybe if the MSM stuck to vetting the veracity of controversial claims, instead of playing some merely for their sensational ratings, the American people, who so often suffer from historical amnesia, would be better informed voters and more accountable citizens. Rev. Wright made 3 central claims in the oft-repeated video clips of his now famous sermon(s): 1) Blowback from America's foreign policy, both overt and covert, contributed to 9/11; 2) The Gov't had a hand in narco-trafficking in the 1980s; 3) The Gov't invented AIDS to harm black people. For claims 1 & 2, there's ample credible evidence to support his assertions. Don't think so? Look no further than: 1) "Charlie Wilson's War"; and 2) the writings of ex-bin Laden CIA analyst Michael F. Scheuer to substantiate the theory that America's involvement with bin Laden's mujahideen in Afghanistan -- to expel the Soviets -- and the U.S. military footprint in Saudi Arabia prior to Sept. 2001 were motivational contributors behind the 9/11 attacks. Everyone now knows that the U.S. military exited stage left from Saudi Arabia after 9/11, right? About Wright's Gov't drug dealing allegations: Have we already forgotten how the illegal Iran-Contra war under Reagan-Bush was funded in part? Re: 1) The findings of the Kerry Commission; 2) Lt. Col. Ollie North's notebooks (www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.htm), and 3) paragraph 623 of CIA inspector General Hinz' report. Finally, on this topic which the media is so loathe to cover in full and without gratuitous self-censorship, there's also the curious memorandum of understanding between Attorney General William French-Smith giving Bill Casey's CIA legal cover regarding its role in trafficking narcotics into the USA. Taken together, these incontrovertible facts shed a bright light on Rev. Wright's charge of official Washington facilitating the illicit drug trade to realize their personal policy ambitions. Regarding Wright's 3rd claim about AIDS being inflicted on blacks? Nope. No proof exists. And justifying Rev. Wright's assertions in the context of the deplorable Tuskegee experiments stretches the logic of relevance to say the least. So, on balance, Rev. Wright is batting .667. On his "GD America" rhetoric? Americans are right to be outraged. Sorry, there's no excuse for that because a man who professes to be of the cloth should not take God's name in vein. However, if one ex-Marine -- like Lt. Col. Oliver North is free to co-ordinate illegal wars and abet international narco-traffickers -- why isn't another ex-Marine -- like Rev. Wright -- free to condemn his fellow serviceman's gross misconduct? Further, had Wright said, "GD Washington!" might that have been more palatable? After all, Dan Abrams' "news show" on MSNBC airs a nightly segment called: "Why Americans hate Washington?" All in all, .667 is a better factual batting average than all of Rev. Wrights' critics and detractors in the so-called mainstream pack of spineless spinning hacks combined. Damn him, perhaps, for confusing anti-American-sounding sentiments with his Constitutional right to denounce bad policies made by provably corrupt officials. How come the MSM or Joe Schloss or The Planet for that matter hasn't bothered to "fact check" any of Rev. Wright's endlessly replayed and sensationalized comments? It's so easy and the provable public record so vast one wonders if they're all more interested in selling papers rather than true news. All of this analysis raises another sound question: Is there a double-standard at play when a relatively marginalized black man, such as Rev. Wright, makes "inflammatory" accusations and the MSM fails to exercise its due diligence but goes to exhaustive lengths to fact-check high-profile Hillary's "Sniper fire" lies and Obama's exaggerated and fond "Camelot" remembrances of his father's passage to America during a speech in Alabama? Lastly, when did "inflammatory" become redefined to mean "untrue" or "false"? I see no connection between the two? Do ANY of YOU? Are you listening, Tucker Carlson or Joe Schloss? We are WATCHING YOU!
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