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Title: Claim Obama Hates The U.S.? No, You Can't
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Palm Beach Post
URL Source: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinio ... 03/23/a1e_schultzcol_0323.html
Published: Mar 24, 2008
Author: Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:39:26 by Brian S
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Sunday, March 23, 2008 You can honestly oppose Barack Obama for president because of what he thinks about Iraq and health care. You can honestly oppose him because you consider him inexperienced. But you can't oppose him honestly because he's secretly an America-hating black nationalist. Based on new polls, some Americans have reached that conclusion about Sen. Obama. They can't reconcile the uplifting message of his campaign with video snippets of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his ex-pastor, railing against the country he hated so much that he joined the Marines. If guilt by association is all that matters for a candidate, though, what about John McCain? In 2000, Sen. McCain called televangelists Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance." Preparing for his 2008 presidential run, however, Sen. McCain embraced the Rev. Falwell, who said this on Mr. Robertson's network two days after 9/11: "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve." Mr. Robertson gave an amen. Couldn't that be considered as anti-American as anything the Rev. Wright said? Similarly, another TV preacher who has endorsed Sen. McCain, John Hagee, said New Orleans deserved Hurricane Katrina because of sinful behavior. He called the Catholic Church "the great whore" and blamed it for the Holocaust. YouTube clips don't define a life Sen. Obama stands accused of disavowing hateful remarks by the Rev. Wright but not disowning his ex-pastor. How, people wonder, could he have heard such stuff for 20 years and done nothing? One reason is that the snippets, according to his parishioners, don't come close to representing the message the Rev. Wright delivered most Sundays: self-reliance. Also, one clip was from a speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., not Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and the Rev. Wright was quoting someone else. But these days, a single YouTube clip can define a person. The straight-A college student can lose that investment banking job because of one night at a keg party when someone had a video phone. Also, if it's a fair argument that Sen. Obama didn't have to keep attending Trinity United, isn't it a fair argument that John McCain didn't have to seek out and accept the Rev. Falwell's invitation to deliver last year's commencement address at Liberty University? And if Sen. Obama is supposed to reject the Rev. Wright, not just his remarks, what about Sen. McCain and John Hagee? After Catholics criticized the "great whore" comment, Sen. McCain issued this statement: "In no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I agree with all of Pastor Hagee's views, which I obviously do not." So, Sen. McCain rejected some of the Rev. Hagee's views, but he did not disavow or otherwise reject the endorsement. Is that somehow more honorable, more American, than what Sen. Obama said about the Rev. Wright? Obama showed his best in speech America, as Sen. Obama noted in his Tuesday speech, has a remarkable ability to change. Still, a white woman or black man as president would be transformational change, and it's clear that America wants a certain kind of woman and a certain kind of black. To some people, Sen. Clinton stepped over the line years ago when she seemed, well, pushy. To some people, Sen. Obama is now running on white guilt. Actually, Sen. Obama spoke Tuesday of the weakness in all of us, including himself. It was the most spiritual public address in decades, maybe longer. The irony is that the speech showed those who now doubt Sen. Obama why he would make a good president. In a time of crisis, he was calm. Where he could have been expedient, like Mitt Romney begging for Protestant votes, he wasn't. Some white Americans still don't appreciate that black Americans don't want white Americans telling them what to think about black Americans. They don't want white Americans telling them who their leaders are. They don't want white Americans telling them that it's time to get over the past. Should Germans be able to ignore their past? The sad thing is that so much unites white and black America. We share all the important values. Some of us have more complicated relationships with our country, yet we arrive at the place where we love it just the same, separated by the journey, not the destination. If you now dislike Barack Obama because you now believe that he's un-American, I don't think you're a racist. But I do think you're wrong.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
They will take the welfare, handouts and preferential treatment ?
The "left" (zionist left) compels the banks to give people homes larger than they can afford and the right (zionist right) compels the people to have families larger than they can afford. All so they can become so financially desperate as to send themselves and their children off to war (zionist war).
Whites are far behind in illegitimacy and broken homes. Progress has been made, but much work remains to be done.
Well we're movin on up, To the east side. To a dee-luxe apartment in the sky.
Many generations w/o slavery and Jim Crow laws will do that.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
Yes you can. But you should oppose him not because of that, but becasue he is a Jewish mafia puppet.
God is always good!
MLK, Juneteenth, and now there's... Well we're movin on up, To the east side. To a dee-luxe apartment in the sky.
A twofer!
Well we're movin on up, To the east side. To a dee-luxe apartment in the sky.
That was a terribly impotent attempt to portray: "McCain as bad as Obama!! It ain't fair I tell ya'! that Obama be bein' criticized and McCain ain't! Da' white man just as bad!!" Well how about this for logic instead: No honest man can defend either one of these sons of bitches nor should he try?
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Damn negroes ought to listen to those who know what's best for them: "If the Union was formed by the accession of States, then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States." ---Daniel Webster, US Senate, Feb. 15, 1833
Yes, they want a statist loving Bolshevik to give them the cradle to grave Government they love so much and to prove to the world that the love of power and urge to dominate others spans across all genders and races. But change? No. We're on the same course, but only with a new Captain this time.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
McCain's a traitor to his race and the civilization that it built. Obama, obviously, is not. :)
Well we're movin on up, To the east side. To a dee-luxe apartment in the sky.
Some white Americans still don't appreciate that black Americans don't want white Americans telling them what to think about black Americans. They don't want white Americans telling them who their leaders are. They don't want white Americans telling them that it's time to get over the past
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
The sad thing is that so much unites white and black America. We share all the important values.
#4. To: Tauzero (#3)
(Edited)
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
But you can't oppose him honestly because he's secretly an America-hating black nationalist.
#6. To: robin (#4)
Marry Your Baby Daddy Day
#7. To: RickyJ (#5)
a Jewish mafia puppet
#8. To: Brian S, nobody222, christine, tauzero (#0)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#9. To: Brian S (#0)
Some white Americans still don't appreciate that black Americans don't want white Americans telling them what to think about black Americans. They don't want white Americans telling them who their leaders are.
#10. To: Brian S (#0)
Still, a white woman or black man as president would be transformational change, and it's clear that America wants a certain kind of woman and a certain kind of black.
#11. To: IndieTX (#8)
No honest man can defend either one of these sons of bitches nor should he try?
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