Who cares? Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson did the same thing. Does that mean all Baptists agree with them?

Let me say this as clearly as I can...

NOTHING REVEREND WRIGHT SAYS HAS ANY CONNECTION WHATSOEVER TO THE POLITICAL VIEWS OF BARACK OBAMA!!!

Anyone who says different is a moron.

:wstupid: It must be true. It's in bold type!

Well then slap my ass and call me a moron.

Off to the Church Of The Honky. This week's sermon is "Mudder Effin' Black People Done Takin Over Our Fine Country." It's OK though, I don't really agree with it. See ya later.

It's true and the truth is highlighted in bold. Have fun at church. Unlike retarded people, I won't assume your political opinions are influenced by the religious sermons being delivered to you.

You're right, they are completely separate. I keep all my emotions, feelings, desires, needs, viewpoints, and opinions very seriously compartmentalized. None of those intangibles are even slightly related to any of the other intangibles. :headshake

I'm glad to hear that. I don't keep everything separate, but I certainly keep my religious views and my political views separate as they are completely unrelated and both are better when they aren't mixed.

Luckily our founders knew that and so did Jesus of Nazareth.

Well, we have your assurance that you are able to keep those things completely separate. Unfortunately, not everyone is you.

True, but more people are like me than like those who think the Obama can be faulted for the political opinions of his pastor.

Cite?

This clip shows the context of the angry "America's chickens are coming home to roost" statement:



It's ten minutes and you don't have to watch the whole thing.

But if you do, it'll become very clear that the Rev's statements were edited for maximum impact. And by the end of it, you may even think he's a decent man, as the bulk of the sermon is not ranting about America, but using the events of 9/11 to encourage people to build their personal relationship with their God.


So, PW45, the tapes are for sale? A whisper goes around (a few months ago - I heard it) that even Obama thinks his pastor may be a minor issue for him. So, somebody highly motivated buys all the tapes, and picks out the very worst 30 seconds of sound bites in them. They compile it into a video, and they give that video to Fox News. It's already the length and format they need to make it a 60-second news item during they day, and perfect for the nightly pundits to bite on at will.

It takes a lot of time, planning, and expertise to put together something like that. The videos they are culling from are hours long. It involves video know-how and a certain amount of money committed to the technologies involved. Fox could have done it, but they would have claimed to have done so no matter who did the original footwork. And you have to wonder how highly motivated a Fox writer or reporter is going to be, to go through hours of tapes, made over years. It would probably take a week to do. Those people have actual deadlines to worry about!

It could have been a 527 advocacy group, could have been Hillary, could have been McCain. The timing is only right for Hillary though. It happens in a series of attacks her side has engineered since she fired her previous campaign manager and went on the attack. (In a sort of a shotgun fashion: get a wide enough blast pattern and something is going to hit.) Half of the attacks are direct and traceable; others, such as giving a pic of Obama wearing a weirdly ethnic garment to Drudge, are untraceable but fit the pattern of a campaign on the ropes, using everything they have.

Peter Pumpkinhead put to shame
Governments who would slur his name
Plots and sex scandals failed outright
Peter merely said
"Any kind of love is alright!"

Thanks UT. In the last 20 years, I've been into church exactly twice and both were for funerals. I didn't see any hatred being spread in that sermon. You've helped prove that once again, we've got chickenshit people using chickenshit tactics and taking cheap shots at Obama when he hasn't said or done anything remotely resembling what they accuse him of. This includes mentioning his minister, showing him without his hand on his heart during "America the Beautiful" and claiming it was during a pledge, repeatedly mentioning his middle name, comparing is last name to Osama, showing him in robes while visiting Africa, etc.

Yeah Radar. Agreed, his reverend does not have anything remotely to do with Obama's politicking. And those chickenshit tactics are just to belittle a very decent, quality man. Skewing videos and thinking he's a Muslim extremist because of his name (which he had no control of and no relevance when he was born) is bullshit.

Shit, I'd wear robes if I were visiting Africa, out of deep respect to the culture.

What a load of crap for a statement. You don't see the double standard there? O'Reilly is a commentator, not a preacher.

I agree completely.

They both preach. One just uses 'God' as a justification, one uses truth and news.

Don't ever use the word "truth" in connection to anything Bill O'Reilly says. He's a liar, an asshole, and an idiot just like Lou Dobbs.