http://www.webofdeception.com/revwrightincometaxlien.html

I said it above, and I repeat: Haters, whatever their politics, color or creed, are not fit to be our leaders.

BTW, most Americans don't know that in Africa, OBAMA IS CONSIDERED WHITE. Yes, it is true. White people consider half-white Obama to be black. Black Africans consider half-black Obama to be white.

Think about it. It is logical, from their point of view. Who are we to assume that a 50/50 guy is 'black', when there is just as much justification for people who are 100% black to consider him to be white.

Sadly I don't see too many folks in the media making that fine distinction nowadays...

Matt, you don't think that calling the U.S. "Ameri-K-K-K" is a display of bigotry and prejudice? I certainly do.

Quite possibly, depending upon the context in which it was said. That does not, however, make it racist.

Bigotry ≠ racism, and prejudice ≠ racism.
All racists are bigots and display prejudice. The inverse is not true.

Is the audience shocked, as if this sort of thing is a rare occurrence?

Is the audience rolling their eyes and acting like, "Well there he goes again"?

Or is the audience jumping to their feet and cheering, as if this is the good part, the payoff they've been waiting for; the affirmation of the true beliefs planted in them and nurtured by Wright and his ilk.

I'm tired of the clips, so I don't remember which one it is, and don't care to watch again to find out. In one of those outbursts, two robed members of the choir rush across stage, give each other a huge grinning high-five right on stage behind Wright, and rush back to their places.

Or take, for example, this Chicago Tribune story from 3/31:

"Let your enemies in your fight bring out the best in you," urged Pennington, 18. "Let your enemies in your fight bring out the God in you."

She knows who the enemy is. They all know. They know it because Pastor Wright taught them who the enemy is.

And that is why I say that Wright is killing the King legacy.

What would your reaction be if you found a Republican candidate's long-time pastor who said "God damn the f*ggots" and "AIDS is the chickens coming home to roost"? Remember when Falwell said 9/11 is God's punishment for our sinfulness? He was condemned from all over the political spectrum.

To say Wright doesn't matter is flagrant, despicable hypocrisy.

Instead, it has remarkably become a referendum on African American victimology, and the continued relevance of the victim culture in an America that now has many Hispanics, Asians, and voluntary Black immigrants.

Who would have thought, just 6 months ago, that 2008 would be the year where black victimology finally jumps the shark?

John McCain is the archetype of a middle of the road, patriotic, white male. He is not a racist, and the 85-90% of the US population that is not on the fringe, will reject any suggestion that he is.

Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.

Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war... It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.

we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long.

The only change came from America, as we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept, and without popular support. All the while the people read our leaflets and received the regular promises of peace and democracy and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy.

What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe?

This is how Dr. King spoke about the US during the war in Southeast Asia and it is not so far removed from how Rev. Wright speaks during our war in the Middle East. Were Dr. King alive today he would no doubt be speaking much the same as he did during Vietnam and being excoriated by the right wing punditry just as Rev. Wright.

I keep seeing claims that Pastor Wright served in the Marines as a medical corpsman. This appears to be incorrect. Members of the Navy serve as medics for the Marines. I hate to see a racist, anti-American creep like Wright get credit for serving as a Marine.

U.S. Marine Corps, private first class, 1961-63; U.S. Navy, hospital corpsman third class, 1964-67.
Hate it or not, there it is.

Oh, right, skin color. Because that signals oppression, discrimination, and other bad stuff. Why, it wipes the slate clean!

Well, I hope the Obama Fan Club is enjoying the thrill of embracing this double standard, and all the warm feelings of moral superiority it carries. Because it's what they're exchanging for the thrill of victory in November.

At least there's a chance the Democratic Party (or what's left of it) may learn a hard lesson about just how far a candidate-star of the identity politics firmament will get them in a national election -- you know, the kind that's decided outside the confines of the Huffington Post, the offices of the New York Times, and the halls of academia.

Haters, whatever their politics, color or creed, are not fit to be our leaders.