Thread: Obama camp furious!

Originally Posted by Bruno

I see your point, but you don't see these things.
Anything 'personal' you see about the candidates has been professionally groomed and evaluated to determine in advance how they will influence the voter.

When I vote for someone, my vote is based on a) if they give me the impression of being honest and b)how they will do their job.
I don't care about their beliefs, nor do I care about their marital status, or even if they are gay or not, or smoked pot as a teen.

You should listen to some of what that alleged "pastor" has said. If he was white and said that about blacks he would be in jail for inciting racial hatred, and threatening insurrection against the government. If Obama believes even a fraction of what he has heard his judgment is seriously flawed and his honesty is right out the window.

Why we put up with this behavior just because someone is a "minority" is beyond me.

Originally Posted by Wildtim

You should listen to some of what that alleged "pastor" has said. If he was white and said that about blacks he would be in jail for inciting racial hatred, and threatening insurrection against the government. If Obama believes even a fraction of what he has heard his judgment is seriously flawed and his honesty is right out the window.

Why we put up with this behavior just because someone is a "minority" is beyond me.

Moreover, while I was watching the video, I was wondering what if "rich white man (men)" was changed to "rich Jewish men" or "the Zionist" ----- I know that white guys can be made the scapegoat of anything without much of a flinch by the media, but if such a substitution was made, I think the racism and bigotry in his statements would be much more obvious. Let a white candidate have a white pastor (that he considers a mentor) say such a thing, i.e., the Jewish money owners with their greedy little hands are responsible for the sorry situation of white people and see how long his race for presidency would last --- not very long and rightly so. I don't know what Obama's true feeling are --- and all of this makes me wonder ---- he screwed up by being associated with this guy for sure.

Today, there was plenty of news coverage on this and Obama's speech to explain himself and this situation. First of all, initially, he claimed he was not aware of such sermons by his pastor --- now he's saying he knew about them but did not agree with them. Hmm.

Juan Williams said something interesting about how Obama couldn't separate himself from this preacher because it was his only tie to the "black community" ---that is Obama, being a very privileged fellow, went to private schools in Hawaii (no real association with the "black community" there), went to Columbia and Harvard (considered fairly white bread stuff by most) and joined this church as a somewhat superficial connection to the supposed black community --- if he disconnects himself from this guy, he thinks he might disconnect himself from all of black America --- as if all black folks think this preacher is right --hmm ------interesting --- maybe, maybe not ---but interesting.

Justin