MikeC wrote:TaoJoannes wrote:From the day this whole Wright flap started, Obama reffered to trinity as "my former church" and Wright as "my former pastor". I haven't read the latest statement, but everything so far has been, basically "They're talking shit, and I'm not about that, but they've done good things in the community" hence, nothing has changed.
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Unfortunately, it works. If you keep repeating the lie long enough, people get tired and start to believe it.
This becomes the standard of Journalism: "A pastor at Barack Obama's church, who earlier mocked Hillary Clinton has apologised for his remarks. The pastor made severel references to Clinton during a sunday sermon at the church, that Obama has attended for the past twenty years. "
I think Rush Limbaugh said it best: "On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike."
"But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren't simply controversial. They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."
"But the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man. The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS."