Even amid the false equivalencies and obvious evasions of his speech today, Obama's misuse of his grandmother seems to me a striking sign of poor character.
It is called moral equivalency, or at least an attempt at it.
In the privacy of your own home, your mother tells you she sometimes has a feeling of dread and fear when walking around black men.
Compare that to a public speaker screeching "God DAMN America" and pontificating that the USA is actually the USKKKA, that the US government invented AIDS to destroy the black communitity, and that the US asked to be attacked back in 2001.
And these two individuals are morally equivalent?
I don't think so.
Admire the great courage by which Obama sacrificed his Grandmother’s name for the good of the collecive, Comrade.
Victor David Hansen:
"Obama is right about one thing: We are losing yet another opportunity to talk honestly about race, to hold all Americans to the same standards of public ethics and morality, and to emphasize that no one gets a pass peddling vulgar racism, or enabling it by failing to disassociate himself from its source — not Rev. Wright, not even the eloquent, but now vapid, Barack Obama."
No, he most certainly did not. As I think you will see in the coming days.
"Bottom lines: Obama confirmed his admiration for a man who hates white people so much that he mocked the disappearance and almost certain death of missing teenager Halloway. Obama confirmed his friendship with a man who hates America so much that he poisoned the minds of an apparently gullible congregation with paranoid lies about White America fabricating AIDS in order to kill Africans.
But perhaps worst of all: to protect the racist demagogue Wright, Obama consciously destroyed the reputation of his own grandmother, suggesting that the woman who raised and educated him from the age of nine is a racist on a par with the inflammatory hater Wright. His grandmother has not been part of Obama’s political or public life. She is an elderly widow, alone and unprotected in the world, unable to defend herself from what may well be fabricated charges of racism. If a man will stab his own grandmother in the back to advance his political career, how could we possibly trust him?"
Yes. I would object regardless of a person's political stance. That appears to be the difference between me and a majority of people here at the 'hounds site. I am American first, conservative down the line from there.
The discussion here was about one single individual; Rev. Wright.
Why bring up others, and why not simply address him?
You people realize that there are not even the most liberal of the bunch that are defending what that man said....As a matter of fact, the one site is the only place I have seen that has comments like this. Even your own liberal compadres distance themselves from what the preacher said; Hell, even Obama distanced himself! The issue is not what the preacher said; everyone agrees on how bad THAT was. The discussion is whether Obama helped or hurt his campaign with his speech.
Sheesh!
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