Phelps’s last blog post..Hypothetical Candidate

I didn’t either. I got the gist.

One “gist:” His white grandmothers private confession that she feels threatened by black men (A rational fear – sorry, but it just is) is presented as ballast to The Good Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s P-U-B-L-I-C exhortations to blame whitey for all of their problems, to celebrate the slaughter of Americans and to HATE – there is simply no other word for it- white Americans is insulting in the extreme.

One of many, many things that sticks in my craw is the simple fact that the message here – one of unapologetic and joyful hate – is so obviously antithetical to the teachings of Christ that all reasonable and good looking people can only conclude the the good reverend’s real allegiance is to something other than the teachings of Jesus.

I am not a Christian, but I have no stomach for Marxism in Christian robes (and Obama apparently does). It just irritates me for some strange reason that my therapist can tease out some day.

If Obama had wandered in to one of this jerk’s sermons, then left in disgust, I’d have no problem that he was once one of his parishioners, but that’s not exactly the way the last twenty years went.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

Why do you say the Rev. Wright stuff is silly and why would one speech put behind a 20 year relationship?

I was awfully shocked the first time I saw the Wright video, and I have to say, it says quite a bit about Obama’s judgement. As of today, I’m with Arnold – this is a deal breaker for me.

Not that I can neccessarily vote for McCain either, but….. Obama? Not anymore.

You old softie.

I didn’t like the speech as much as you did.

He is not elevating America, he’s infantilizing it, or rather, taking advantage of infantilization already in progress.

“Ask not what you can do for yourself, ask what I can do for you, even if you’re white.”

The anti-Kennedy

Phelps’s last blog post..?Barack, I Didn’t Do It for This?

To be courageous, though, we would need Obama to not glide over the 3 central problems facing the modern day Black Community:

1. Enormously high drop-out rates for High School. I think in Oakland, CA it is nearly 50%

2. Way too many out of wedlock births. Raising kids without loyal, devoted Fathers is generally bad;

3. Black on Black crime. I read somewhere that Blacks (14% of US Population) comprise 50% of the murder victims. And, about 94% of the perps for these murders are Blacks.

If well-meaning whites and blacks (which I believe are a large majority of folks) could address the above 3 issues, united, it would be very good for the country.