There's no reason to think the videos weren't similar in nature to other stuff that went on in Wright's sermons.
Of course there is, the video was likely put together by enemies of Barack O to hurt his presidential candidacy campaign. There is every reason to believe they chose the absolute worst material of Wright's 20 year career that they could find.
Do you think you could speak and hour or two per day without a script for 20 years, and not product some incredibly offensive and/or stupid material?
And remember, the question is whether the worst 15 minutes of Wright's 20 year career indicates that Obama is a failure. Of course, it doesn't. At worst, it indicates bad things about Wright.
Who's to say this was unscripted?
I think most sermons are unscripted. There may be an outline, but most preachers (I think) don't go off a word for word script.
And you keep bringing up one or two sentences as if they are more important than a 20 year career. That's totally ridiculous, but that's the desired affect of the enemies of Obama who created this video.
Besides, even one "God damn America" shouted from a pulpit is one too many for me. Although actually I think he repeated it 3 or 4 times didn't he?
No idea, I only saw the video once in passing on TV. If it were the preacher speaking live on TV to us, for me that would carry weight. As I said, if its the worst 10 minutes of 10,000 hours of unscripted public speaking, it's a weak attack using guilt by association.
And the really weak thing is that the words in the video reflect poorly on Wright, Obama has denounced them and indicated what he heard week in and out from Wright was your normal "love thy neighbor and worship God" stuff which most of us hear each week in church.
If my financial advisor spends two hours giving me good investment advice, but in a financial presentation to some group he throws out one sentence about how he "hates upper class bitches who won't date a working guy like him" and the group laughs, if the investment advice is good I'll probably keep using his service. That's normal, I think. Am I sexist if somebody catches this exchange (when I wasn't even present) on film? No. Am I even implicated in anything about the exchange? No.
I don't get why people claim not to see the problem with a man wanting to be President whose long time friend, father figure, and pastor is a hatefilled demagogue who has shouted "God Damn America" from his pulpit. Its ridiculous to argue we should ignore this.
Come on, no one has ignored it. It's all over the news! Obama has said "Wow, those particular words are offensive and improper, and I denounce them". He's also indicated his experience with the man was 99% not along the lines of the video. The weird thing is why you are trying to make the 10 minutes the definition of the man, and also (even more weird) why you are trying to make the 10 minutes indicative of a failure of Obama's.
Think of all the people you have close relations with, surely one of them holds what we would consider some offensive views. Does that make you an idiot, or just another normal human? |
