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Originally Posted by Oreo
The character of a President is very important to me.
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Well, if character were the dominant factor, then I say
Jeremiah Wright for US Pres!.
One definitive measure of a person's character is the extent to which he/she can publicly espouse an extremely unpopular view which he/she genuninely believes is accurate. Dunno 'bout you, but shouting "God damn America!" to a large congregation has
got to be the a shining example of that.
Time to get real--when Wright said that, he wasn't being
racist, or hateful toward all Americans.
Clearly, Wright is not racist since he's invited White, Black, and Asian members to his church.
What Wright meant to say in those explosive sermons was not that America needs to die, but that the
blatant hypocrisy evident in the discrepancy between the ideals of the Constitution and Free Enterprise and the reality of uncompensated forced relocation, slavery and segregation,
coupled with the US govt's ongoing habit of
invading sovereign countries and
sponsoring terrorism in the "name of democracy" is something that needs to be damned to hell. The USA is the world's biggest hypocrite when it comes to democracy--hands down--all educated folk know that.
(What other nation could claim that terrorists are the enemy of democracy, then claim that the democratically elected Palestinian govt. are
terrorists?)
Obama, being an educated man--also knows that, and clearly knew what Wright meant in those speeches. Consequently, he correctly
denounced the literal meaning of Wright's statement in his "A More Perfect Union" speech.