Is this continuing to dig in order to get out of the hole?

???

Obama is trying now to spread the Wright controversy, it seems.

Obama gave his big speech about Race trying to end his Reverend Wright problem.

But Reverend Wright's rants weren't just racist, there were anti-American. Even more so Anti-American one could argue.

Anyone who watches Reverend Wright give his "Coming home to roost " sermon 5 days after 9/11/2001 has to conclude that the Reverend is happy America finally got it's comeuppance.

How can the President of the United States not only belong to that church, but support it to the tune of thousands of dollars a year?

WTF?

Can Barack please give us another speech, maybe telling us about his Grandmother's occasional anti-American slurs.

I know I'd sure feel better. (snark)

And there is no way he didn't know about the Coming Home to Roost speech. Even if he wasn't there in person, although we know he was in Chicago that weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Le_vPpj7lg

It's worth a watch if you haven't seen it, and also please Link to it if you need some ammo fighting the Obama lies.

Thanks.

I remember a case I worked on, a trademark violation case, in which Fujitsu was suing an American company for violating its trademark.

At the hearing on the motion for summary judgment, the lawyer for the American defendant got up and walked around the courtroom.  He then started out by saying, "I was in Hawaii last week, and while I was walking near PEARL HARBOR, the thought occurred to me that . . . . and the landscape around PEARL HARBOR was so beautiful, that it just made me think what a beautiful country we have here . . . ."

again, the decent thing for sen. obama to do would be to gracefully bow out, concede to sen. clinton and re-tool in the senate. he is no longer a viable candidate for the democratic party in nov. he is, for at least this election cycle, irreparably damaged goods.

It wasn't just the 3 words...

It was his rage, his anger and the notion that the simple fact that there is a huge segment of the white American population that simply doesn't believe the things that he wrote, much more than just the 3 words.

First off, women are comparatively disfavored as blacks.

Secondly, most white people don't accept that they are racist and to be accused of being racist clearly will turn them off.

Thirdly, the anger/rage that people hear closes their minds to the ideas and sentiments behind them, always does, always will.

Lastly, you cannot dismiss the notion of guilt by association. The fact that this is someone who Barack Obama holds near and dear, he is identified by Jeremiah Wright.

If one looks at stupid polls like Rasmussen is carrying about the popularity of Jeremiah Wright, then the totality of his life is diminished but clearly Jeremiah Wright never once considered running for president so his approval/disapproval ratings are meaningless.

I'm offended that he uses the pulpit to sow seeds of discontent, anger and division, rather than peace, unity and love.

Don't go into God's house and try to turn his children against each other.  That's what offends me.  It offends me when the religious right does it, and it's no less offensive to see someone with the same political leanings as me do it.  Probably more, since I think the ideals of liberalism are a heck of a lot closer to the way that God wants us to treat each other.

Should we just give up on him because America isn't ready to vote a black man president should we just admit that any change over the last 40 years of our history were simply an illusion?

Give up on him because he is black? NO

Should we vote for him because he is black? He's all but convinced the black community to do that. The white community isn't going to buy into that logic.

But all of this time he refused to address the issue of race thinking he could get through the election cycle without a discussion on race.

Now that he has suffered a decline in the polls, he decided to have a 'major' speech on race. (I highlighted 'major' because he used that exact phrase last night on CNN).

In the end, this is all about him, not about his race. We ultimately choose to either vote for him or not vote for him, for whatever reason we choose.

Woman are not as disfavored as blacks to claim such is pure silliness, Are women more likely to be pulled over because they are female? Are more likely to receive a longer sentence for committing a crime?

Purse silliness? NYT story today on women getting their green card via sex. I don't intend on providing a litany of injustices to women because if you don't know that they exist, I'm not gonna convince you.

You won't see me reinforcing their sexist frames either.

Ignoring of course, the fact that you did approximately 12 paragraphs above, sure, I believe you.

The GOP for years has tried to make religion an issue and we have criticized them for it. Now we begin to do the same thing. It's a damned if you do attend or damned if you don't. It's time to let it go. The hypocrisy and theophobia and self-righteousness that evolves from religion in politics is exactly why we have a separation of church and state.

IMUS worse than Rev Wright.. and that is why he took a leadership role to ask for his ejection from MSNBC. You cannot equate Rev with Imus!!

I know the passionate Hillary People here are mostly also passionately anti-Obama, but this issue of Wright has one dimension:

Is Obama a racist?

You can criticize Obama's judgment, but Hillary's supporters are hoping that Wright renders Obama un-nominatable.

It is funny how often Hillary supporters are giving Fox News as a source of comfort to them.

My answer is that Obama is not a racist. This is a good wedge issue and a good chance for all the pro-Americans to illustrate high dudgeon that Pastor Wright, who served his country in the Marines, is not as truly American as Hillary's supporters, but in the Fall, Hillary will be accused of being anti-American on Fox.

Fox News will ask: "John McCain says we are winning in Iraq. Does Hillary Clinton want the United States to lose the Iraq War?"

Should we just give up on him because America isn't ready to vote a black man president should we just admit that any change over the last 40 years of our history were simply an illusion?

If the only way to measure progress over the last 40 years is to elect Obama, then you are compressing difficult issues into one person's ego.  Obama did this in his speech to - how does he show Wright that there's been progress?  by Barack Obama's campaign.  This is the flip side to those folks who think that if they elect him, they won't have to worry about the disproportionate number of blacks in prison or disparaties in education or wages.  I find that to be a little offensive.  A band-aid for a bullet wound.  

These issues are bigger than one person and progress or lack thereof on them are not going to be solved by a single election.  (And actually, again that's another reason I didn't care for the speech - he gave it, in large part, to save his own ambitions.  Would have meant more if it wasn't prompted by political calculations.)

And the people in the Clinton camp who are perpetuating and supporting this conservative frame are doing nothing but harming the cause of progressivism. Because it's painfully transparent that they are capitalizing on the issue in the most negative way possible.

I suppose the argument in this is that Obama is the true progressive candidate.  I strongly disagree because of his rhetoric on Social Security, health care, and the McClurkin incident, to name three.  In fact, that is why I initially didn't support him.  It is bad for progressives when one of our leading candidates adopts right wing frames when discussing core issues.  In fact, more harmful than personal attacks, because a personal attack is just about one person.  When you demonize progressive programs and solutions, you are hurting our ability to advance policy and actually improve people's lives.

Finally, I'm less interested in what Wright said than in the political reality that this will hurt Obama - and the party - if he is the nominee.  I wish this had come out five months ago and believe that Somerby is right that we should have been looking more closely at how Obama could be Dukakised months ago.