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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: puborectalis who wrote (119500)3/30/2008 11:10:27 PM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
Obama keeps insisting that what we've seen of Wright are the equivalent of the five dumbest things anyone has ever said. Putting aside whether these comments are more accurately described as hateful, malicious, or another term beyond "dumb", there's more than five, and they appear fairly regularly in Wright's career. It's hard to believe that they represent an uncharacteristic, unthinking expression after a particularly tough day.

"God d—- America."

"Chickens come home to roost."

"U.S. of KKK A."

"Garlic noses."

"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color."

He called Secretary Rice "Condamnesia" and "Condoskeeza."

"In this country, racism is as natural as motherhood, apple pie, and the fourth of July. Many black people have been deluded into thinking that our BMWs, Lexuses, Porsches, Benzes, titles, heavily mortgaged condos and living environments can influence people who are fundamentally immoral."