The pundits on CNN had the best review last night. They said what this Wright thing does is make Obama look weak and he cannot afford to appear weak. No matter the politics of a person, he/she will not tolerate weakness in a presidential candidate. And, by the way, half of the pundits on CNN last night were black.

That really made me sit back and think too. I wouldn’t have voted for Obama under any circumstances anyway, but to think of all the perils in this world with at weak president at the helm is unthinkable.

Left by dianne on April 29th, 2008 at 9:16 am

robbie,

i have a question for you. i’ve gone back and read all of your posts that have anything to do with jeremiah wright. looking through them i can’t help but notice a glaring omission. you write so many heavy handed and sweeping posts about how we need, nay have, to respect our military and its veterans and that not doing so is tantamount to treason. even going so far as to advocate for the use of the military against american citizens that spray paint buildings.

why then, in all this discussion of rev. wright have you seen fit to ignore/intentionally omit his long and distinguished multi branch military career? it would take 10 seconds on google to find out that he served our country, and served it well. you can, for instance, find a letter from the ranking admiral of the naval medical corp personally thanking him for the care and attention he gave while serving at the bedside of the FUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. is it hypocrisy? did you just not feel like checking out someone? was it easier for you psychologically to attack a member of our military so maliciously if you pretended like he didn’t serve? or is it simply that you’re advocating we only support our soldiers who toe your party line? only respect those who don’t exercise their free will? for someone who bitches about the nation’s states of affairs and how sorry the part of the country that doesn’t fit into your-america is, you sure spend alot of time attacking those who also don’t think so highly of us.

i guess the difference between him and you though, is just that he thinks the whole country needs work, and you’d rather just wipe out those who disagree with you so you can get that whole ideological hegemony thing going on. i think that’s called xenophobia.

Left by kit churchill on April 29th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Kit - surely you know by now that only Republicans are allowed into Robbie’s little color guard. Any soldier or vet who is a liberal or Democrat or gay is a phony soldier. John Kerry, Bob Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Rev. Wright, Max Cleland, Jim Webb - all these are phony vets in Robbie’s World, where draft dodgers like Cheney, Bush, Limbaugh, Trent Lott, John Ashcroft, Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom Delay, Mitt Romney are uber-patriots.

Left by Pat on April 29th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

while wright’s armed forces service is admirable, 2 years in the marines combined with becoming a med tech in the beltway for 4 more hardly amounts to “long and distinguished.”
what’s wrong kit? are you just figuring out that former military folks can be lying, elitist, opportunist pieces of shit? you must not have been paying attention to bush’s last presidential opponent… maybe you ought to try looking into john murtha’s dumb ass, since you’re so aware of the data on earmarks. no, military folks don’t get a pass for being dipshits… but you know who is worse? fuckin morons like you who wave military enlistments in the air like get out of jail free cards to defend assinine behavior, or just to avoid confronting it.

Left by adam on April 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

its more than just the 6 years, its the multiple commendations and the whole graduating valedictorian thing, so maybe ‘long’ is a stretch, but distinguished is pretty spot on. but way to browse an article. you’re getting there. keep on it.

what’ s wrong is attacking this guy wright and then advocating the military murder anyone who says or does anything against them. see, you missed the point there. i know how ex military can be. and they can be that. they’re just people. they have the same personality flaws as anyone else.

bush’s last presidential opponent? you mean john mccain? if i remember right, bush 2 actually attacked john mccain’s military service in order to defeat him and now john mccain has accepted his endorsement. if that’s not proof that vets are opportunistic, then i don’t know what is. probably not what you meant though. sorry about that.

i’m not waving military enlistments like get out of jail free cards. nothing in what i said is excusing wright for what he has said. he can say what he wants, that doesn’t make him right (ha).

so really, my whole comment had nothing to do with defending wright or avoiding confronting what he said, it was a comment meant to illustrate that its heard to listen to the message when the messenger doesn’t agree with himself…a lot. way to miss the whole point though.

Left by kit churchill on April 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

So telling that the handful of wingnut posters on this blog can never engage in even one serious argument about anything substantive. All you have to offer is elementary-grade ad hominem, dismissing all your opposition as either effete cowards or gay, assigning cute little jock-boy nicknames just like your action hero Commander Codpiece. Your classic authoritarians - you have to beat up on others to pump yourselves up because without your cheap bluster, you got squat.

Some authoritarians grow out of it once they’ve had their asses kicked a few times by the bigger bullies. Pretty obvious that y’all missed that stage of your development.

Left by Pat on April 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

I guess the moonbats didn’t get Obama’s latest memo.

Left by Anonymous on April 29th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

kit- “long” isn’t a stretch; it’s a lie. wright is distinguishable for a host of reasons but suggesting his military service is anything but simply him doing his job, is like saying john kerry was the rambo of vietnam.
i’ve read your replies here in many threads and the first time you shoulder a pro-military position is in defense of this piece of shit. that’s “what’s wrong”. as for your half-assed accusation, miss queen of “research”, please cite anyone on this blog “advocating the military murder anyone who says or does anything against them.” you made that shit up; which means you’re an idiot and you have no “point”!
i can’t muster a reply on your mccain v bush drivel. it’s just so foolish, response is unwaranted and inappropriate. i will say, if you think that mccain was bush’s last presidential opponent, the subject matter on this blog is simply out of your league and no amount of wikipedia will correct the mental deficiencies of someone who forgot about the last general election.
talk about “missing the point”, the post discusses what an idiot rev. wrong is and you go off on a tangent about how he served in the military. then you make up some shit, attribute it to someone who never said it, and pretend that is a point. that wouldn’t even be a free throw in the special olympics, much less a point. if you struggle with “the message”, perhaps you could avoid it…

pattycakes-you bring the substance, or contribute to that which already exists here, and folks will gladly engage. you post and post and post but we’re all still waiting. instead you talk about a dudes codpiece and choose a historically androgynous handle for yourself and then whine like a bitch about being given little jock-boy nicknames.
“authoritarians”? did someone forget to drink their anti-sensitivity formula this morning? “without cheap bluster” these threads would ignore you. with it, we get to laugh a little more than your marshmallow-squeezing comments already make us. perhaps i will grow out of this, but more likely, you’ll learn, as do most small children, to ignore undesirable verbal comments.

Left by adam on April 30th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

pattycakes-you bring the substance,

Yawn - case in point.

Left by Pat on April 30th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Interesting, Jeremiah went to Cuba in ‘84, and got down on his knees for Fidel, and not to pray.
Meanwhile, the longest serving Black political prisoner in history was just down the road.

As mentioned, this was summer of 1984, so at the time the world’s longest-suffering black political prisoner suffered his incarceration and tortures in stoic defiance. “Nigger!” taunted his jailers between tortures. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!”
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Jackson and Wright’s Cuban pilgrimage was arranged by the Cuban Council of Churches, who sprang for the full $300,000 tab. “ I have been affiliated with the Cuba Council of Churches since the 1980s,” boasted Reverend Jeremiah Wright in a sermon just last year. “I have several close Cuban friends who work with the Cuba Council of Churches and you have heard me preach about our affiliation and the Black Theology Project’s trips to Cuba.”
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The Cuban Council of Churches, according to Cuban intelligence defector, Juan Vives, is an arm of Cuba’s ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) itself an arm of Cuba’s DGI, Cuba’s secret police, founded and mentored by the KGB and East German STASI. the ICAP’s long-time chieftan was Rene Cruz Rodriguez whose meteoric rise through Cuba’s Stalinist bureaucracy was facilitated by his diligence as an early executioner, often beating out Che Guevara and Raul Castro themselves in his zeal to shatter the firing-squad victim’s skull with a coup d’ grace from his .45.

Humberto Fontova.

The left, whether it is full blown Marxist-Leninist, or American liberals, never cease to amaze me with their misguided ideas that cause so much harm.

Left by no2liberals on April 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

I, for one, would never vote for Jeremiah Wright for President!

[Editor --- Good thing since he's not running for President. According to the race-hustling, bigoted, anti-semitic "reverend", he's only angling for the Vice Presidency.]

Left by Preston on May 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 am

He’s ineligible- he and Obama live in the same state.

In any case- I find Wright’s comment that Farrakhan “didn’t make Wright this color” to be a bizarre bit of self-hatred.

Left by Preston on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 am