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If what you set forth in your debate is true, then yes, that would be racist.
If the issue is color, not other item of interest..... |
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It's news, its not racist. This isn't just a guy that he has an occasional acquaintance with, but
someone who he considered his "spiritual mentor". I don't even think the other candidates have
someone like that in their life. It isn't the color of his skin that is making this a big deal, it
is the content of his sermons that are causing trouble and the judgement of Obama to maintain a 20
year close relationship with him.
I know this is a Howard Dean claim, but he always is claiming racism when it suits him.
I am fairly neutral in this whole thing, but i am honest to see that the story would still be there
if either candidate or reverend were white.
Sorry wrong side. |
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I'm lutheran i don't support the catholic "heirarchy"if you will. I don't really think its about
race here, even if he was white, he still would said the same thing. I'm lutheran because i can't
bring myself to worship god in a place surrounded by pedophiles and hypocrites. |
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It's pretty clear that if he were white the same thing would be happening. It's about what he said. |
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The media has been racist in this campaign, but in a different way than what is being suggested in
this debate. The Wright issue had all but fizzled until the dubious pastor himself re-appeared and
decided to give very ill-advised speeches on April 27th and April 28th, as well as a press
conference. Either Wright is a complete fool and did not realize how unwise it was to make these
statements and revive the controversy surrounding his absurd sermons a week before the primaries in
Indiana and North Carolina, or he simply wants Obama to lose the election, in order to give him
something new to rail about. If McCain's questionable pastor started giving interviews and speeches,
I am sure the media would cover that as well.
Yet much of the American media has been racist in the way in which it covered the Democratic
primaries. Journalists and publicists seemed bizarrely fascinated by Obama's race and kept referring
both implicitly and explicitly to how great it would be to finally have an African American
president. At first, white journalists had almost no interest in what Obama was actually saying,
because they were so occupied with this talented orator's ethnic background. This is really very
sad, considering the fact that Obama did not at all make race the centre of his campaign. Among the
few newspapers that provided more accurate coverage and did not become so obsessed with issues of
race was the New York Times, but many of the news networks (especially CNN) were really quite awful
in this regard. |
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No i don't agree, I think this is more along the lines of two friends fighting because one is
gaining more power then the other. The media takes the jump on that because reverend wright will
willing talk against Obama while i doubt Clinton and McCain's pastors are really angry at them or
against them and thus do not matter in this election. If Obama were to call Clinton's pastor out i
think it would be childish for one: Fighting fire with fire: And a bit useless unless clintons
pastor hates her. |
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06 May 2008 13:15
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