Αρθρογράφος - John Sammon
Η διαμάχη πέρα από τη ηγουμένη Wright και ο τορπιλισμός του της εκστρατείας του parishioner του Barack Obama αποδεικνύει πόσο παιδαριώδεις και παρανοϊκοί οι αμερικανικοί άνθρωποι έχουν γίνει.

Εάν αυτό συνέβη στην Ευρώπη, Ευρωπαίοι που είναι περιπλοκότεροι και κάπως ευφυέστεροι κατά μέσον όρο από Αμερικανούς, δεν θα υπεάρχε καμία διαμάχη. Οι Ευρωπαίοι δεν θα κρατούσαν Obama υπεύθυνο για τις δηλώσεις του πάστορά του.

Λειτουργούμε κάτω από τη νύξη ότι εάν Wright την λέει, Obama την θεωρεί επίσης. Ενοχή από την ένωση. Είναι διασκεδάζοντας για να ακούσει τον εξτρεμιστή παρατηρήσεων Wright κλήσης McCain, μερικοί μήνες αφότου τραγούδησε ένα τραγούδι αγοριών παραλιών, «βόμβα βομβών βομβών, βόμβα Ιράν βομβών (που τραγουδιέται ποσό ύψους τη Barbara Ann).

Κανένας αποκαλούμενος εξτρεμιστής αστείου McCain άρρωστος.

Τι Wright έχει πει; Το Wright έχει το δικαίωμα να το πει. Είπε ότι αντί του Θεού ευλογήστε την Αμερική, ο Θεός πρέπει να καταδικάσει την Αμερική. Στη δικαιοσύνη. Εάν η αλήθεια είναι γνωστή. Μερικές από την Αμερική πρέπει να καταδικαστούν. Όπως ο κάτωθι.

1. Η Αμερική εκμηδένισε τον ινδικό πληθυσμό της και έκλεψε το έδαφός τους.

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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