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To: JohnM who wrote (62173)	4/28/2008 2:03:14 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541373

I caught a few minutes of the Press Club speech. I thought Wright was way over the top in some of his comments, just being too cute. I had cut him slack at the beginning of all this, but now am revising my opinion- his ego has taken precedence over the damage he possibly can cause to Obama. He is enjoying what you call the "give and take" way too much. A narcissist. I understand his appearance on PBS was excellent, but what I heard this morning was tasteless at times, and too clever by half.

To: JohnM who wrote (62173)	4/28/2008 2:22:46 PM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 541373

Wright can sing pretty doggone good also. He's a genius by any definition.

To: JohnM who wrote (62173)	4/28/2008 3:53:31 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541373

I agree that certainly in Rev. Wright's case, he has gone the full Monty of compensating for his light skin and his middle class upbringing by going the James Cone black liberation theology route. Not only does he espouse a theology that says it has no use for the love of God that does not help fight the white enemy, but Wright drips with scorn when he mentions blacks who have left the reservation, whether referring to "Condamnesia" or "Condaskeeza" Rice, or "Tiger swinging his Cablinasian hips" (the transcript says "cap blazin'" but I think that must be a mis-transcription of "Cablinasian", which is what Tiger Woods says when he is asked his race). For 20 years, Obama was a member of this church that regards white people as enemies and blacks who abandon a racialist identity as traitors. In 2007, Obama donated over $20,000 to the church. In Obama's autobiography, he says that he was moved to tears by Wrights "a world where the white man's greed runs a world in need" sermon, and regarded his stint working for a Fortune 500 company as "going behind enemy lines." You really have to wonder how Obama feels about America, not the potential perfected America of leftist dreams, but America as it is now, mostly white, mostly capitalist, mostly Protestant country that it is. I do sense an anthropologist's cool bemused detachment.