Kroniekschrijver - John Sammon
De controverse over Reverend Wright en zijn het torpederen van de campagne van zijn parishioner Barack Obama bewijst hoe kinderachtig en paranoïde de Amerikaanse mensen zijn geworden.

Als dit in Europa gebeurde, Europeanen die verfijnder en enigszins intelligenter gemiddeld dan Amerikanen, zou er geen controverse zijn zijn. Europeanen zouden geen Obama voor de verklaringen van zijn pastor verantwoordelijk houden.

Wij opereren onder de zinspeling dat als Wright het zegt, Obama het ook gelooft. Schuld door vereniging. Het is amuserend om McCain de opmerkingenextremist van vraagWright, een paar maanden te horen nadat hij een lied van de Jongens van het Strand zong, „de bom van de bombom, bombom Iran (dat op de melodie van Barbara Ann wordt gezongen).

Niemand geroepen zieke de grappenextremist van McCain.

Wat Wright heeft gezegd? Wright heeft het recht het te zeggen. Hij zei in plaats van God Amerika zegen, zou de God Amerika moeten vervloeken. In billijkheid. Als de waarheid gekend is. Wat van Amerika zouden moeten worden vervloekt. Zoals onderstaand.

1. Amerika vernietigde zijn Indische bevolking en stal hun land.

2. Americans kept others in slavery and then after a war to end it, kept African Americans in virtual servitude for the next hundred years with racist segregation.

3. Other crimes including Agent Orange for which there is not space here.

Wright called America an “imperialist” power. Well. We are. At times. We have a tendency to invade poor little countries much smaller than ours in an attempt to make them see it our way. We’ve invaded Nicaragua a half dozen times. Maybe instead of calling it “imperialist,” we should call it “concern” for Nicaraguan affairs.

President Bush wants the right to torture prisoners, and that’s not called “extremist.”

Wright’s statement that AIDS is a government plot to get rid of black Americans is a little bit far fetched and I can’t go along with that one.

That Obama’s campaign will go down the tubes because of statements made by someone over whom he (Obama) has no control is an abject lesson that to play the political game, you have to be foolishly optimistic and upbeat and never tell Americans very much of the unpleasant truths about their country. Thus, we can always feel superior, that we’re better people.

God only blesses America. God must be American and Republican.

Clearly, there is a price to be paid when you’re too candid.

It’s also another example of how the American people want to fixate on personality rather than issues. It has a long history from the Willie Horton episode that sank Michael Dukakis’s presidential hopes, to Thomas Eagleton, the vice presidential candidate who had prior mental problems, was replaced, but helped to terminate George McGovern’s campaign, or the Swift Boat right wing smear campaign against John Kerry.

You simply can’t be too truthful with the American people, if the truth is unpleasant. This is not new either. They forced Socrates to take poison.

I don’t believe America has sole ownership of morality, that we’re above reproach, that we’re God’s chosen people (especially white Republicans). Does that make me unpatriotic?

Wright is voicing frustration with a system that he thinks (with good reason) has treated he and his flock unfairly. He doesn’t speak for Obama just because Obama attends his church any more than commentator Bill O’Reilly speaks for McCain because McCain appears on his TV show.

The lesson here is clear. If you want to win office, don’t associate with big-mouth preachers, and don’t be too honest with the American people.

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.

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