Are you a freaking idiot?

What I am saying is let's not hold Obama responsible for what is going on in that video.

Let me assure you, that a lot of people are going to insist on holding him responsible for it.

But by all means, pretend that MY posting this and saying Obama is not responsible for it is my way of sticking a shiv in Obama.

I don't go (to church, I mean - but I'm catholic so that doesn't really count) and I still believe that.

I wonder if Trinity can be officially sanctioned by the United Church of Christ.  I don't know.  I'm a lapsed Catholic and ignorant of the UCC organization and affiliation.  But there have to be UCC members out there thinking "This is not my church.  This isn't what we stand for.".

Study it while you worry, nay whine, about how it might somehow impact on the man most of us are prepared to vote for in November, regardless of people like the heinous reverend on the video, who we now know is an advisor to Senator Obama.  We are being asked to look past this stuff, but whether you like it or not, it just keeps getting in the way [and while you're at it think South Dakota and RFK because I just can't get it out of my mind; it gnaws at me as I think that KO's diatribe against Senator Clinton was circulated to the press by Senator Obama, the man who speaks of unity when it's convenient.]

I'm sorry, but at what point can I draw the conclusion that if these are the people Obama chooses to associate himself with, he must share some part or all of the opinions, philosophies, theories that are being espoused?  Or am I supposed to stay tuned for the latest chapter of "just because I know them, doesn't mean I believe what they believe?"

There just is no way for me to reconcile the overarching message of unity and hope with the ugly and divisive things I've heard from yet another high-profile Obama associate.  Is this the message that resonates with the 80-90% of black voters?  

Is this guy a catholic priest?  If so we need to send a clip of this to the Vatican to see if they want to keep this guy on.

I didn't hear you

How does Wright differ from Robertson?  In what way does Flieger differ from Dobson?

I can't decide.

Nobody in that church seemed to mind, did they?

No, sorry, that would be big-time sexism you're apparently unable to see.  He was mocking her for crying like a gurrrl.

"Borderline offensive to me.  I wouldn't leave my church over it, but I might let the guy know it was a little offensive to me."

Sexism doesn't bother people who don't see it, or don't see it as being offensive, or think it's just no frickin' problema.

Now he is telling us he is transformed and transcended.  Well, it does not work with me.  Cause he is not finished dealing with his personal issues of identity.  I know plenty of biracial kids that have a better sense of who they are and don't need to pick a side and absolutely reject the other.  

What has Obama done to change the offense? He gave a history lesson on race with no solution in an effort to excuse the offensive dialog of Rev. Wright.  He told Clinton she was "periodically" "likable enough" and don't forget every girl's dream is that he calls them "sweetie".  Obama's  own antipathy sanctioned everyone's a bitter, gun toting, bible slinging, typical white person, racist when they chose not to support him. Let's not forget his family values; he can throw his good old grandmother under a bus in a nano second to save his racist pastor. Then when the political heat is on high he can take the temperature down to tolerable by sort of denouncing the Rev.

This just isn't about what's going on at Trinity, but what's gone on inside Obama's head. Obama's political road is cluttered with his own contradictions and divisiveness.  The media, his supporters and the worst of it, Obama, himself doesn't care and willingly keeps the contradiction and the division flourishing.  

These comments are a habitual pattern at TUCC and Obama retains membership in that church. TUCC exists for the purpose of psychologically separating blacks from the rest of American life, as we can see in comment after comment that comes from people associated with that church (Wright, Moss, now Pfeeger).

It's offensive and racist and sexist. And it can hurt Obama with his two toughest groups: white working class and women.

What are the white working class going to think when they are told that they are held responsible for reparations? And mocking Hillary for having one moment of vulnerability was disgusting.

Not offensive to me.  It is provocative, but it's also a very legitimate critique of that point of view.

Mocking Clinton's tears and suggesting she was crying out of her sense of entitlement?

Borderline offensive to me.  I wouldn't leave my church over it, but I might let the guy know it was a little offensive to me.

HIs work is not just overseas, he works here in America as well with the homeless and the poor.  

Axlerod was retained to smack down community opposition to the Chicago Children's Museum and guess who showed up accusing opponents of racism? You guessed it:

http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/childrens-museum-battle-moves-to-plan.html

Axelrod's ASK is the politically-connected muscle behind the CCM's campaign. You can see the Astroturf under its fingernails in the hijacking of a community meeting on the proposal last year where museum supporters, of whom few, if any, appeared to be from the community, filled up the auditorium and forced the actual residents, overwhelmingly opposed to the CCM's plan, into side hallways. The gutter politics continued with Father Michael Pfleger who, based on an encounter with a single person attending the meeting, began echoing the canned message refrain that museum opponents were acting out of racist motives. Astroturf, in abundance. Will Axelrod's operatives succeed in placing their Astroturf blindfolds over the eyes of Plan Commission members?