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Shocking new videos of Obama's pastor have just gone up on Youtube!
Talking about the love of God!
Jesus can help solve problems!
On praying!
And read the sermon Obama named his second book after, because Hope is Anti-American!!!!111oneone
I never in a million years thought I'd be linking to videos of a Christian preacher being as I'm a non-religious person. But if anyone tries to argue that Obama spent 20 years in church listening to American-hating racist rantings, it's quite clear that they have no idea what they're talking about. Because it would be far too much trouble for the media to report on the actual sermon instead of a 5 second sound byte. Or the infamous post 9/11 sermon whose entire point is that a circle of violence and revenge is only destructive and not to seek blind revenge after those horrendous attacks. When seen in full context, it's appalling that it's being used as an attack now. Yes he might seem to have a chip on his shoulder, as anyone who lived through a segregated openly racist America might possibly have (which as I've written about before, it greatly depresses me every time I realize racism was openly accepted in parts of America as recently as 40 years ago. It's been barely 40 years!). But as Obama said in his speech "The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country – a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past."
And of course the whole controversy hinges on the idea that Obama shares those inflammatory views, which anyone who has spent any time at all looking into him knows isn't true, and Obama himself has denounced the statements. The whole point here is that while people will continue to try to paint Rev Wright (and thus by extension Obama) as a crazy hate filled person, it's not true at all.
And as Obama's new pastor (as Rev Wright retired last year) explains, "a sound byte is not good nutrition. He also explains why Obama picked Trinity that 20 years ago. But again, when come the Fall a baseless attack ad can be made with the 5 second sound bytes in it, it takes the hope that voters will have actually payed attention in order to combat the lies and blatant mischaracterization of something like that.
To me this election is a litmus test to see if America can really back up the decades of complaints about politicians being politicians instead of focusing on the real issues. We finally have a politician running who completely agrees with getting past all the BS in modern political discussions, but yet people are still focused on sensationalized made-for-TV controversies created by networks looking for ratings, and only paying attention to the small snippets of whatever the controversy of the day. I have no problem debating issues (such as Obama's speech on the economic toll of the Iraq war or his reasoning for his opposition of it from the start and why we need to get out), but it's all this gotcha pointless politics that is giving me a hernia.
Annnnnnnnd about 5 minutes after I wrote that sentence, I come across this blog post which describes a Fox News article talking about how the New Black Panthers (a crazy militant black group) has a webpage on Obama's website. And this with the author's knowing full well that ANYONE can create any page they want to on my.barackobama.com, which is exactly what this group did. Of course the account was deleted by the Obama campaign as soon as it was discovered and in no way reflects the campaigns views. But wow, oh wow, that was some incredibly blatant, indefensible, biased reporting for what is supposed to be a "fair and balanced" national news organization. Not to mention it's quite disturbing that the author spends almost half the article describing all the wacky stuff that group supports, which has NOTHING AT ALL to do with Obama, except to imply that if this group supports Obama, then Obama must obviously support it too!
I still can't get my mind around that this was written as a serious news article by a national news organization that is trusted by millions of people to get their daily news facts from. I mean I think most claims of media bias are vastly overblown, or at least sort of understandable, or at the very least "they meant well". But this... this is straight up baseless propaganda that the author and editors had to knew was purposely misleading and false, but posted it as real news anyway.
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