What possible context can excuse saying that the government lied about creating HIV as anything other than an ignorant and delusional statement?
What possible context can excuse saying that the government imported drugs as anything other than an ignorant and delusional statement?
What possible context can excuse saying that the government knew about the attacks on Pearl Harbor beforehand as anything other than an ignorant and delusional statement?
Note that the Ferraro discussion, with pretty much the same points, has suddenly gone quiet.
Suit yourself, but I don’t trust rants at all.
Thanks; twice.
Feels like we are just starting the primary season all over again, doesn’t it?
I think Pastor Wright sincerely believes what he preaches-that the CIA developed AIDs as a way of killing africans, that the WTC attack was arranged by the US government, that African Americans are not to blame for their actions. My question; does listing every Sunday, to such an ignoramus mean that YOU are just as bad? 
I didn’t really switch camps but I was undecided thinking maybe it was too early for Obama and maybe we needed a hard fighting political animal like Hillary. The more I observed them both the more I was drawn to his quality of character.
I’d say as well that if we really want things to get better we need to stay involved after he’s elected to help him not lose track and to raise our voices and efforts to make positive change happen.
Can I answer that with a question???
Do the people that listen to a priest who is a voracious pedophile make THEM believe pedophilia is OK?
Seriously, ralph, it doesn’t.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the quotes you are hearing are the ones he and the church made available on the web. That doesn’t make much of a case for a slip of the tongue.
Do priests usually announce that they are voracious pedophiles?
If the members know the priest is a pedophile and do nothing to stop him, they are bad people. If they cheer him on they are even worse.
No, but you have to wonder why a person would choose a church like this.
There is a slight difference in that I would imagine the priests in question tend not to broadcast their pedophilia. If there was a priest who openly praised the merits of screwing little kids, I think i’d probably question his congregation’s thoughts in that area too.
Does the priest preach the goodness of pedophilia from the pulpit, week after week? Do they keep coming, knowing that’s what they’re going to hear?
Come on now.
Ok to all three of you - The catholic church was under a lot of pressure to get all the pedophiles out of the churches, of course priests didn’t preach the merits of pedophilia, but people did know it went on and supported the very church that held it’s tongue and covered things up for so many years.
Just because Obama and many, many other educated people went to that church, they went there as I understand it to have God in their lives. They don’t flock there to simply see one man they flock there to learn about their God. Wright was a wingnut no question, and people should have asked him to temper his shit down. But people weren’t there to simply listen to him and his conspiracy BS, they were there for other reasons.
But the alternatives there were either continue to be a Catholic, or quit the Church entirely. The congregation of a sole priest has the option to go to another church of the same denomination.
So let them pick another church. If it means that much to them, and it would to me, I imagine I would be having a look round the other churches in the area and chatting to their priests.
Cite?
Just because Obama and many, many other educated people went to that church, they went there as I understand it to have God in their lives. They don’t flock there to simply see one man they flock there to learn about their God. Wright was a wingnut no question
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And the very leader of that very church, which had and has many alternatives available for those very parishioners.
The power of rationalization is strong.
Note: The daily Rasmussen tracking poll has Obama’s lead down from 7 points to 1 in just one day, and this story is still blossoming. Think this doesn’t matter politically?
And they should be condemned. Anyone who chooses to be a member of the Catholic Church has a lot of things to answer for. But that is probably a topic for another thread.
I think it’s already been suggested that this kind of rhetoric was not used every Sunday. After decades of sermons and service do you think it’'s reasonable to for people to overlook some outrageous views?
Not only that, In an interview on Hannity and Colmes Wright spoke of black liberation theology. I’m ignorant about it myself but here is a brief Wikki article on it.
I don’t assume that black people noting the existence of racism and being pissed about it automatically means they also think
I’d also note that watching the video’s I don’t recall Wright saying
but he was ranting and perhaps I missed it. Can you point it out to me?
Maybe I missed the links, but could you cite these within their full context? I can’t speak for the man any more than you, or my neighbor’s second grade teacher could.
However if I trim a few words off of your’s, without even adding any of my own, could I not make it look like you are saying the same thing? Could I not take a tiny piece from one of your 500+ posts and paint you as some sort of copy of **Der Tris ** or Carol Stream? I could, but that doesn’t mean it would have any sort of validity.
Would that make a member of your family or any of your friends ineligible to one day run for office? No. Rediculous to hold them to such standards? I agree.
Perhaps, this Pastor could use a subscription to the SDMB. Perhaps he needs some of his own ignorance fought. I know I haven’t seen any clips of him, or anyone for that matter, saying the guy is perfect. Or maybe he, like many others on this very cite, look at the actual facts presented to them and came to a different conclusion than you or I might have.
I guess it is a good thing that Wright, himself, is not running for President huh?
That said, all I have heard from the Presidential Candidate, current United States Senator, who happens to be a Constitutional Lawyer, and who was President of the Harvard Law Review, is that he vehemently disagrees, denounces and rejects, the Pastor’s political views.
And rather admires him for the spiritual views, the way he teaches the words of the Bible into messages of peace and of actually caring for the broken, sick, hungry, downtroddened, and homeless; not just paying them lip service while starting a war based on lies in the process. It’s these values precisely that are evident in Sen.Obama’s well documented history of public service.
Wright never said that. He said 9/11 was America’s chickens coming home to roost.
You have completely missed the point. Obama knew about the earlier statements and was forced to disavow them. He then continued the relationship. This isn’t a case of the Reverend sticking his foot in his mouth yesterday. The material you’re now hearing came from the church’s website. This is what they put out to represent themselves. Wright is nothing but an urban hillbilly who doesn’t like white people. People don’t want an ethnic-centric president, they want a president who represents everybody. He has a 20-year close-relationship with an afrocentric nutjob.
Perhaps that’s true of most people, but it doesn’t seem to be true of Obama. He singled out Wright to be his spiritual adviser, having him perform his marriage, baptize his kids, and serve on his campaign. That’s the actions of someone who just went to the church without thinking much about the particular clergyman.
Look - last week it was Hillary and Ferraro and Hillary’s popularity went down. This week it’s Obama’s turn. Still, not a make or break for the eventual nominee. A month from now when something else is stirring pundits will say, "and remember a month ago when Rev.Wright and Geraldine Ferraro were the worse things we had heard…" I don’t see it getting too much nicer, I see it getting uglier. Clinton’s trying to figure the best way to win and so is Obama. Again, not a deal breaker for his constituency.