Low-keying it? You’re kidding, right? And, what did he say that was bigoted?

Who’s the real bigot?

Searpant’s rarely look you in the eye (or in this case state their names) before biting you.

Peace out

Yup a Tornado did hit. Hmmm–I’m just saying!

“I’m telling you. The way to take the sting out of all of this is to open the doors of the church.

As long as the media gets to portray the church as some amorphous mob of black militants, Obama will continue to get dogged by the questions.

You open the doors of the church. And you do the very thing that best undercuts those fears of the unknown: You give it a face. You give it a name. You give it a culture; life and context. You take away the mystery. Why? Because ignorance feeds off of that mystery.”
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This is still the truest answer yet given in this thread, and it is the one that will be the most effective.

Wright and his contemporaries sometimes spoke and speak from a place of pain because that pain is real, and it has been and still is caused by structural impediments to justice. And America -the majority of it- is ready to see reality.

Obama’s statement that he strongly condemns Wright’s comments – but will not repudiate the man himself and the totality of his life’s work – is the honorable path. It is also the path that, as is usual with Obama, takes the risk of actually trusting the American people instead of trying to corral them into believing some particular thing. Let the people see the church, and see the truth. America is ready, to quote the frontrunner.

Also Friday, the United Church of Christ issued a 1,400-word statement defending Wright and his “flagship” congregation. John H. Thomas, United Church of Christ’s president, lauded Wright’s church for its community service and work to nurture youth. Other church leaders praised Wright for speaking out against homophobia and sexism in the black community.

“It’s time for all of us to say no to these attacks and to declare that we will not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or ideological ends,” Thomas said in the statement.

McCain is in the center only if you buy into the right-wing reframing of the political scale. Those of us with a long enough memory to know better know he’s a rightist.

Isn’t he already gone (retired)?

When he said that Katrina was a punishment from God for homosexuality, he certainly did suggest that God damned at least part of America.

I was an Obama supporter and still am, but I just think Americans need to stop being so two-faced.

Because it serves their purposes not to understand.

Now, it’s time for Democrats to stand up to these Republicans

I have to stop you there, because it’s not Republicans who are solitarily behind all this mess.

It’s the Clintons as well. I wonder if there is a tag team going down right now. I can’t say I know, more like I have a feeling…..

When one’s house is not in order, it won’t get in order by blaming one’s equally slobbish neighbor.

But you’re right about Maher and the rest. Thank you. It goes back to what I said earlier, and have always said, about the power of black speech versus the power of white speech.

Unfortunately, now people who have never heard what Wright really said, and ain’t gonna give a fuck to hear what he really said, are going to parrot the line that Wright is a racist who hates Jews and that makes Obama a racist anti-Semite, too,….. just like they parrot the bullshit about how Obama was losing when he was actually winning. Or parrot the bullshit about his ‘present’ votes for Planned Parenthood with Planned Parenthood’s permission and endorsement.

That is patently true. However, if the general public were willing to do that, we wouldn’t have been lied into a disastrous war in Iraq, Bush wouldn’t be able to pass of telecom/Bush crony immunity as being in the interest of security and on and on and on.

Soundbytes make or break a campaign. It happened to Kerry. It happened to Gore. By the time both of those men were at the point of the vote, they’d been trivialized and demonized in the media to the point that folks STILL believe Gore said he singlehandedly invented the internet and folks STILL believe Kerry’s medals were bogus and based on lies.

This is one horrendous soundbyte because it is 180 degrees from Obama’s beliefs. I’m going to say it’s 180 degrees from his beliefs but I am deathly afraid that an enormous number of folks are going to assume that it’s 180 from his professed beliefs and that is a distinct and devastating difference.

And here I’ll tell you something else, from the white point of view, from the point of view of someone who has fought long and hard for equality for all people for more than 30 years:

When I hear that coming from Wright’s mouth I hear it and I understand it and then there’s a big piece of me that rises up and says it is hopeless, I, we, my people, cannot ever win, we cannot ever undo**, we cannot make it better, there is no hope.

Fast on the heels of no hope comes fuck it, why try.

**my people not here until 1893. just for the record.

You nailed it! I’ve seen a number of the ‘Obama is a sellout’ crew on MSNBC and Fox calling for Senator Obama to explain and denounce Reb. Wright, including Professor Lamont Hill who has previously called the Senator everything short of an Uncle Tom. Fake ass negroes!

What will make some of you happy? What do you suggest his method to be for throwing this respected black minister under the bus. On Obama’s website there are facts on the church. They are there for you to read…go read. If you ever supported the guy then you would have known that.

B.Serious, made a wonderful suggestion and I think that that is the best way to handle it. Obama believes in transparency…there you go. I believe that if people were able to see those who go there, they would not see it as a “threat”.

P.S. I get offended when people start up with Rev. Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, they have done a lot for the black community. I know that many like to live in a bubble but they are speaking the truth and reminding our nation that their is inequalities in pur country and that we must address them in order to live up to our own American doctrine…ok.