I cruise the blogosphere of the right to see what they are gloating about when it comes to Wright.  It's a feeding frenzy at Michelle Malkin's site, Red State and Townhall are all weighing in as well.  Fox News's site has all this "you watch and you decide" videos of Wright.

Dang, he couldn't make it clearer.

Forget focusing on Barack's biography or connecting with those voters in Indiana you desperately need to connect with in order to show the SDs that you can, in fact, get their votes.  Nope.  

The Press will ask him about Wright, the voters will have Wright on their minds and Barack -- not exactly the strongest of men (he's much too sensitive, in my book, and gets offended and angry too easily) -- is sure to be displeased.  And a displeased Barack on the stump ain't pretty.  Especially if you're an Undecided.

And I still haven't figured out his diatribe yesterday about the differences between blacks and whites...yup, true.

But why the need to mock Boston accents to prove his point?  

Now remember - he's not talking to his church members with these speechs, he talking to America...it's almost as if he has asked himself, how can I piss someone off today.

I don't disagree with many of the fundamentals about his statements, but the mocking anger in his expression is what is over the top.

Again, why say God D*** America when he could have made his point some other way?

I don't find him hostile or threatening, just boringly retro and unhelpful. And, sadly, in direct contradistinction to Obama's words and stated philosophies.

And weasly everyhwere.  The AIDS question was a prime example: no chance of a "yes I believe that" or "no I don't believe that" answer, but merely historical references on why it could be true.  Just like Obama, he was attempting to have it both ways--to sound reasonable to reasonable folks and keep the support of folks who believe the nonsense.  

In other cases, he just answered with the five word scriptural quotes.  In the question of whether Islam is a legitimate religion, I guess he answered it by saying that Jesus thinks Muslims are OK.  But I still don't know what Wright believes (or even what the context of the Jesus quote was, to tell the truth).

Politically, he called Obama a dodgy politician again, which can't help.  And his statement that he was just a pastor and not a spiritual mentor (or, he said condescendingly, a guru) left me puzzled.  I thought that was what a pastor was.  And then he stated that Obama has never heard any of his sermons.  I just don't get it.

When Farakkan speaks, AA's listen. etc.

Just imagine the material...

If there is to be blowback for Obama, I think it may come more from today's Q & A than from the speeches over the last couple of days.  What struck me is that while he spoke of reconciliation and redemption, his tone and the words that surrounded it were more divisive than unifying.  He was dismissive, he was condescending, and he was egged on by the hooting and hollering of a very boisterous and approving audience of invited guests.

One thing I found interesting is that he has characterized the "attacks" by the media not as an attack on him, but as an attack on the black church.  So, instead of leaving it at him being on one side of a controversy, he expanded it to something so much bigger, which by extension and inference includes the black people who attend not just his church, but all black churches.  Reconciliation?  I don't think so.

This could not have helped Obama.  But, in the grander scheme of things, this has hurt the cause of race relations in a very significant way.  I believe that the criticisms of Wright's sermons had nothing to do with race; it doesn't matter what color is attached to someone who made the comments Wright did.

Clinton on Wright

"But, I regret the efforts by the Republicans to politicize this matter and I believe that if Senator McCain were serious he would do more than just send a letter he is the putative nominee I think he could very clearly tell the North Carolina party tell the Mississippi party that he would not tolerate those kinds of advertisements and I'm waiting to see if he does that."

"I'm a pastor; he's a member," he said. "I'm not a `spiritual mentor.' "

With Moyers, I saw nothing particularly problematic.  Calling Obama a politician wasn't a compliment, but wasn't devastating.  Then, in front of the NAACP, the Rev. Wright of the sermon clips came out: sarcastic, mean (the Irish comment), intentionally provocative.  Then, today, at the Nat'l Press Club, he was a disaster for Obama.  I'm a Hillary supporter, and I feel badly for Obama - this is just a train wreck unfolding.

I think Wright is baiting the Obama campaign with each appearance, and since they have failed to bite, he ratchets up the rhetoric.  

He specifically targets hollywood, language/filth in films, and those that support homosexuality.  However, I'd say it's not just arrogant religious fighting and cultural arguments...it goes beyond that in that he thinks the Jews control/created the federal reserve and the fbi...that's way beyond an arrogant and divisive critique of another religion and well into anti-Jewish land.      Typing this is a ^%# verbal minefield, fyi, cut me some slack.

Wright was once a member of Nation of Islam and many have alledged that his teachings are not United Church of Christ, but but his own religion that is a hybrid of UCC and NOI.  And, of course, Wright has a long history of collaborating with and promoting Louis Farrakhan and Nation of Islam in his capacity as pastor of Trinity.

Nation of Islam is defined as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League and other hate watchdog orgranizations for holding many, many racist positions.

Rev. Wright has been going out of his way to defend himself. He says an attack on him is really an attack on the black church. But, will everyone see it that way? I don't. I understand that people who were once oppressed and poor are more angry and may want to speak truth to power, but when you say things like G-D America, and that America was to blame for 911 or that America planted AIDS in people, and then people reject those words, is that an attack on the black church? I think not. Wright's comments are out of line and not acceptable, and if you say these things you have to realize many are offended. It's a cop out to say that this is what the black church is like. Also, you can say things that criticize society and America, without saying the inflammatory words that the Rev. Wright used.

Moreover, the association with the Rev. Wright does not come in a vacuum as Obama has had associations with a number of other radicals as well. Barack sought out Marxist professors in college. You have to look at the whole picture surrounding the man.  Look at many of his advisers now. Many of them are very anti-Israel. There's a pattern there of being extreme regarding Obama's views over his entire adult lifetime.

Considering that 10,000 NAACP members gave him a looong standing ovation, Rev Wrights premise must be true: AA's are wired differently than most non AAs. What else could account for such a long series of presumably whitish commenters repeatedly fainting with outrage over Rev Wright's speech.

Everything Rev. Wright talked about this weekend was true, but white people in general will react with anger b/c they hate to be reminded how their ancestors treated Africans and African culture.

Excuse me, but no one in my family tree ever mistreated an African.

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