Barack Obama's Church is Not a Threat to Our National Security, But Cheney and McCain Are

Stop believing everything Karl Rove puts out about Hillary Clinton. She and her campaign had nothing to do with this flap. Stop the hate. Save it for our enemies, the Republicans.

Many MSM & regular Righties, and yes, some Independants, have been outraged that Rev. Wright would preach fear of AIDS being used on Blacks. Did the US Government make AIDS and give it to the Blacks of this country? I don't know. Do you? For sure? But I do know that their drug policy, of not allowing needles to be given out to drug users, (thanks Ronnie and Nancy), did make AIDS spread. Especially through the Black communities. Shame!

"The US Government would never do this to a citizen", they say. WTF?

The following CDC article might help the MSM & the American people to understand why they might feel this way.

In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks. It was called the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male". http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

"hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks." Once again, WTF? Why do you need to justify treating ANY human being for a disease? In 1945 they KNEW that there was a treatment for this disease and they used it on Whites. They even refused those Black members of the Armed Services treatment for Syphilis while they were fighting and dying for the United States of America in WWII.

But, all these black men in this "study" were not treated for another 27 years! So, they continued to pass it on to their wives and their unborn children.

Why forty years? They knew what it did to these men's lives, their families after just a couple of months or a couple of years. So, even if you could justify this "study" for a couple of months or years, how can you justify this for a total of 40 years?

A group of idiots and racists must have said "Let's just play this out until they are all dead and then we can autopsy them and see what happens"!

The only reason it was ended before all these Black men died, was because some other idiots sent a group of Black Medical Students down to help in the "research". Funny, these Medical Students were outraged about it. Can't for the life of me, figure out why.

This "study" lasted from 1932 - 1972, that's forty (40) years! It was only stopped because the horrible secret was out. Rev. Wright & others were young men when this was reported. Might this have had an influence on their fears?

If this had happened to me, I would find it very hard to trust the American Government. I would DAMN the American Government!

Rev. Wright grew up with this treatment being talked about in his community. He was a young man when this became known to all America. I don't think he showed anger. There is such a thing as Righteous Indignation! And where better to show that, than in the pulpit!

Also, the American Government has tested many things on us, without our knowledge or consent. I thought the American Government had power, only with the consent of the Governed.

Don't judge a man, until you have walked in his shoes!

Write every television show, every newspaper and magazine in America. Point out the wrong that was done and why we should not judge Rev. Wright for his speeches.

He preached this in his Church, from the pulpit. Black churches are not just places of worship. They are also the only place, for generations, that the Black people could congregate with any hopeful feeling of being safe to discuss the social issues going on in their community. Not always, remember the church bombings wherein several little black girls were murdered in the 1960's?

Has anyone come up with even a hint that Rev. Wright has done any action against America? From what I have read, he built a church, which did good works. He and his fellowship grew and did good deeds in their community.

They made a difference. They obviously, made a difference in Senator Obama's life. He brought him to Christ Jesus.

I have Righteous Indignation against those who are dividing our country on race, on speech and on thought. More importantly, I have Righteous Indignation on those who have failed to follow God's Laws, that they preach on and say they live by, that brought war on Iraq. That have broken faith with the American People. That have sinned against God and us, by lying to us. By breaking their oath of office and not defending the Constitution, but breaking it over and over again. DAMN THEM!

Have you ever EVER heard Obama say anything like this? EVER? However, we hear about rev. Parsley, McCain's spiritual advisor, spewing hate and bigotry. But McCain isn't held accountable. Seeking out the endorsements left and right of hate mongering religious right preachers. But that's alright. In a way, it is. Because Bush, McCain never even try to heal divides in this country. They never try to bring people together. Never. Obama does. Has always done so. Every day of his adult life, he has lived a philosophy that could only be healthy for the country and the world. And this is what would be destroyed. I'm sick to death.

“White America got their wake-up call after 9-11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.” Just Words “Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months.” Just Words “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.” Just Words These are some quotes from the great Reverend Jeremiah Wright, friend and mentor to Obama. These cruel and racist statements are just a small portion of the crap that has come out of this man's mouth. Liberals give this man a pass, for what reason I haven't a clue. It could be because he is so close to Obama, or even worse, because they are afraid to criticize a black reverend in fear of being called racist. Hate is hate, whatever color person it comes from. Reverend Wright is no different than David Duke. Both preach hate and should be shuned by all. But of course, in politics the hypocrites come out in support of their candidates. If a white version of Reverend Wright were John McCain's reverend, would you be OK with that? Liberals sure didn't like Jerry Falwell, so why are they OK with Reverend Wright?

Rep. Conyers, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he would pursue articles of impeachment against Bush should he pursue war in Iran without Congress' approval.

"If Bush goes into Iran, he should be impeached," said Conyers. "And we've sent him a letter to that affect."

Huffington Post report

We all need to contact our Congressmen and demand a pledge from them to impeach Bush if he attacks Iran without Congressional approval.

I seriously doubt that Bush and Cheney would succeed or even try to use an attack on Iran as a ruse for canceling the election. When Rudy Guillani tried to use 911 to cancel NY's mayoral election, he got an immediate and resounding dope slap.

If Bush tried to stage such a coup following an attack on Iran, he might have to also bomb New York, San Francisco, and a lot of other U.S. cities.

It's not that I think Bush and Cheney are not immoral enough to try this, it's that I'm pretty confident that they have little loyalty left among military officers. They've squandered most of their loyalty away. Picking another unnecessary war for our greatly over-extended military would infuriate most officers. I doubt very much that they would be willing to order their men to fire on American citizens who would protest a Bush-Cheney coup.

What I do worry a lot about is this: If the U.S. suffers a disastrous "terrorist" attack in September or October, Bush and Cheney might at least try it. Whether such a coup would be successful, I wouldn't dare venture a guess. They would probably declare marshal law and if that goes smoothly enough, they could be in a strong enough position to cancel the election. I fear our Democratic Congress would not have the guts to stop the coup. The only way they could do that would be through impeachment and far too few of them would have the guts following a serious "terrorist" attack.

As for public reaction to a Bush-Cheney coup, I don't have much faith in either the intelligence or courage of most Americans. One can usually get them to give up their constitutional rights simply by threatening to take away their TV remote control.

For all that have open minds, Obama’s speech on racism will one day be rated as one of the “historical” speeches of the era that truly attempted to bridge the gap of racial divisiveness and waded into the contemporary philosophy on racism in America. Most black leaders tend to discuss the issues that affect their community while overlooking the greater picture - which Obama attacked head-on and spoke with an eloquence and insight into the core problems that have been dividing our nation for decades. When I heard his speech, I was struck at the conciliatory bent of his speech as he attempted to bring us all together on the same page - thus adding to a coalition that seeks to understand and solve the issues that divide our society. His platform is one of radical change that represents the people rather than the corporatism that has guided this country for decades. That, in itself, makes Obama a target for every right-wing pundit that still believes that America can only be governed by white males or females that are symptomatic of the core issues that must be changed in order to pull ourselves out of the downward spiral the GOP has engineered to retain and hold on to power - no matter the consequences to the American people. I attempted to write on the subject myself, but failed miserably. I suggested that Obama, if he is elected to the presidency, will not be America’s first black President - which I believe offended blacks and whites alike. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, it’s the truth, and I finished my commentary with this last paragraph which I sincerely believe is indicative of the truth: Playing The Race Card And Understanding Who Stacked The Deck I also see the Obama Presidential bid differently than others; everyone is holding their breath to see if the United States will elect its first black President, however, I’m curious to see if we will elect the first Presidential candidate that is representative of the melting-pot known as The United States and understand that it’s not a black or a white man running for President, it’s Barack Obama, the combination of both and a product of our society who is undoubtedly, first and last, just another American. My intentions were good, but I failed to understand that racism, especially as it concerns the rabid right is still alive and well in America, as indicated by the increase in hate groups throughout this nation LINK - many of which are inspired by right-wing evangelicals that are not held to the same level of scrutiny and investigation that Obama must answer while Hagee, Dobbs, and Falwell have preached similar albeit negative messages for as long as I can remember; it’s definitely a double-standard, and one that fires a bullet into the heart of fairness and applying a standard that is applicable to everyone, not just those the GOP are attempting to undermine and distort a message that was meant to heal rather than divide. William Cormier

Where is the outrage concerning Ann Coulter's saying that somone should assassinate members of the supreme court? Or how about that model of Americanism, the late Francis Schaeffer (a founder of the religious right movement), who compared the US to Nazi Germany and the USSR? The reaction to his "inflammatory" statements was for him to be invited to the White House by Reagan and Bush and to become friends with Jack Kemp. No distancing there! We've had Pat Buchanon saying that 9/11 was the fault of those who tolerate gays, Rush Limbaugh disparaging American troops, and a whole host of religious wingnut leaders calling this country morally corrupt and declaring that liberals are traitors. Where, indeed, is the rightwing outrage for these insults? (I refuse to call them "conservatives," as they are anything but. "Radicals" is a more apt label, and "batshit nutjobs" is even more accurate.) And, of course, as this article points out, all of this is nitpicking nonsense compared to the war, the destruction of the ecomony, lack of health care, and a multitude of other sins. I'm just saying...

And thus has it been since the rise of Cro-Magnon--the eternal battle of the liberal VS conservative brain. There is no winning this war--until and unless we evolve as a species. Progressives are doomed by the gods to be the party of Sysiphus--rolling the boulder of dunderheaded conservatism up the hill (as we have throughout recorded history) for every advancement in science, knowledge and civil rights that we have been fortunate enough to enjoy. Some things never seem to change. Just keep pushing that boulder, folks.

Those old enough to remember the viscous vilification of Martin Luther King and of Mohamed Ali, when he became a Black Muslim and denounced America's racism and genocidal war in Vietnam, should know that long after the foul rants of right-wingers and racists are forgotten, Barack Obama's campaign will be honored.

King and Ali are American icons and heroes because they had the strength, courage, and moral fiber to speak truth to racist, right-wing power in America. Win or lose come November 4, Barack Obama has secured a place for himself in American history. We are already much richer for it.

I also remember something a high school math teacher told me about the Ancient Greek mathematician, Archimedes. When Archimedes told an invading soldier to get off of the numbers he was writing in the beach sand, the soldier killed him with his sword.

Nobody remembers the name of the soldier.

I'm putting my own spin on things. The right/Clinton supporters must be absolutely petrified of the increasingly realistic idea of Obama becoming president. They must be shaking in their boots. Why else would they fly off the handle about all of this. They are trying to convince us that Wright raged on like his short clip every Sunday and Obama just sat there and let his kids watch that hateful man. Gimme a break. Obama followed a colossal smear with the most classy, thought provoking, challeging political speech of our time! I'm not the least bit offended by Wright's sermons, at least no more offended than any other sermon I've heard by any other religious figure. He's no more or less offensive than the evangelical movement that's for God-damn sure god-damn it! It's fear they're preying on and to this white, liberal, community college educated, middle class, male with red-neck tendencies it's completely transparent, paper thin and patently absurd.