Columnist - John Sammon 专栏作家-约翰s ammon
The controversy over Reverend Wright and his torpedoing of the campaign of his parishioner Barack Obama proves how childish and paranoid the American people have become.争议牧师Wright和他的torpedoing这项运动的他parishioner巴拉克奥巴马证明如何幼稚和偏执的美国人民已成为。

If this happened in Europe, Europeans being more sophisticated and somewhat more intelligent on average than Americans, there would be no controversy.如果这件事在欧洲，欧洲人被更先进和更智能，平均比美国人，不会有任何争议。 Europeans wouldn’t hold Obama accountable for the statements of his pastor.欧洲人不会举行奥巴马负责的声明他的牧师。

We’re operating under the allusion that if Wright says it, Obama believes it too.我们正在下运作的典故，如果赖特说，奥巴马认为它太。 Guilt by association.有罪，由协会。 It’s amusing to hear McCain call Wright’s remarks extremist, a few months after he sang a Beach Boys song, “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran (sung to the tune of Barbara Ann).它的有趣听到麦凯恩呼吁赖特的话，极端主义，几个月后，他演唱Beach Boys的歌， “炸弹爆炸的炸弹，炸弹轰炸伊朗（宋向调芭芭拉人工神经网络） 。

Nobody called McCain’s sick joke extremist. 没有人所谓的麦凯恩的病假笑话极端主义。

What has Wright said?有什么赖特说？ Wright has the right to say it.赖特有权利说。 He said instead of God bless America, God should damn America.他说，不是上帝保佑美国，上帝应可恶美国。 In fairness.在公平的问题。 If the truth be known.如果真相被称为。 Some of America should be damned.一些美国应该死。 Such as the below.如下面。

1. America annihilated its Indian population and stole their land. 1 。美国歼灭其印度人口并偷走了他们的土地。

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. 2 。美国人一直在别人奴役与后一战争结束它，保存非洲裔美国人在虚拟奴役为未来百年种族主义偏析。

3. Other crimes including Agent Orange for which there is not space here. 3 。其他罪行，包括橙剂为有没有空间，在这里。

Wright called America an “imperialist” power.赖特所谓的美国“帝国主义”的权力。 Well.好。 We are.我们现正。 At times.在倍。 We have a tendency to invade poor little countries much smaller than ours in an attempt to make them see it our way.我们有一个趋势，入侵可怜的小国家少得多，比我们在一，企图使他们看到我们的方式。 We’ve invaded Nicaragua a half dozen times.我们已经入侵尼加拉瓜半十多倍。 Maybe instead of calling it “imperialist,” we should call it “concern” for Nicaraguan affairs.也许不是把它称为“帝国主义， ”我们应该称之为“关注” ，为尼加拉瓜内政。

President Bush wants the right to torture prisoners, and that’s not called “extremist.” 布什总统希望的权利，酷刑的囚犯，这不是所谓的“极端主义” 。

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.赖特的声明说，艾滋病是一个政府的图谋摆脱美国黑人是一个有点牵强，到目前为止，我不能走，与一。

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.这奥巴马的竞选活动将下降管，因为所作的声明，有人超过他（奥巴马）并没有控制是一个赤贫的教训，要发挥政治游戏，你必须是愚蠢的乐观和乐观，并没有告诉美国人十分对不愉快的真理，关于他们的国家。 Thus, we can always feel superior, that we’re better people.因此，我们可以总觉得优越，我们正在更好的人。

God only blesses America. 只有上帝祝福美国。 God must be American and Republican. 上帝必须和美国的共和党。

Clearly, there is a price to be paid when you’re too candid.显然，有一个要付出的代价，当您过于坦率。

It’s also another example of how the American people want to fixate on personality rather than issues.这也是另一个例子是如何对美国人民要fixate的个性，而不是问题。 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.它有着悠久的历史，从威利霍顿说，沉没事件迈克尔杜卡基斯的总统希望，托马斯伊格尔顿，副总统候选人谁事先的心理问题，取而代之的，但有助于终止乔治麦戈文的竞选活动，或迅速船民右翼势力的抹黑运动，反对克里。

You simply can’t be too truthful with the American people, if the truth is unpleasant.您只需不能太真实，与美国人民，如果真理是不愉快的。 This is not new either.这是不是新的。 They forced Socrates to take poison.他们被迫苏格拉底采取毒药。

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).我不相信美国拥有的唯一的道德，我们正在无可指责，我们正在上帝的选择人民（尤其是白色共和党） 。 Does that make me unpatriotic?这使我不爱国呢？

Wright is voicing frustration with a system that he thinks (with good reason) has treated he and his flock unfairly.赖特是表达不满的制度，他认为（有很好的理由）治疗，他和他的羊群不公平。 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.他不说话，奥巴马只因为奥巴马出席他的教会的任何以上的评论员条例草案奥赖利说，为麦凯恩，因为麦凯恩出现在他的电视节目。

The lesson here is clear.这里的教训是显而易见的。 If you want to win office, don’t associate with big-mouth preachers, and don’t be too honest with the American people.如果你想赢得办公室，不与副大口传教士，不要太老实跟美国人民。

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