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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27089)	4/30/2008 9:20:45 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224724

You want everyone to explain this or that. You phoney! You haven't explained your BS charges that Republicans were attacking the black church. You accused me of it. LINK PLEASE MR. LIAR

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27089)	4/30/2008 10:34:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

hussein threw wright under the bus: bleeding burruk will be dead on NOV 5, 2008

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27089)	4/30/2008 10:38:58 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

kennyboy can NOT type TEFLON: the radical pigment stuck on the skin of the watermelon !!!!!!!!!!!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27089)	5/1/2008 12:13:54 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224724

And so, with those remarks, a tightly knit relationship finally came apart — Mr. Wright had married Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, and baptized their children. Theirs was a long and painful falling out, marked by a degree of mutual incomprehension, friends and aides say. It began at the moment Mr. Obama declared his candidacy, when he abruptly uninvited his pastor from delivering an invocation, injuring the older man’s pride and fueling his anger. Mr. Obama’s campaign has been striking for its discipline. This is a candidate who prides himself on his coolness and singleness of purpose, not to mention his ability to take on opponents as formidable as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton, the former president. But Mr. Obama discovered one figure who has confounded him, his own pastor.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27089)	5/1/2008 12:15:57 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224724

Only a few years ago, the tightness of the bond between Mr. Obama and Mr. Wright was difficult to overstate. Mr. Obama titled his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” after one of Mr. Wright’s sermons, and his pastor was the first one he thanked when he gained election as a United States senator in 2004. “Let me thank my pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. of Trinity United Church of Christ,” Mr. Obama said that night, before going on to mention his family and friends. In this learned and radical pastor, Mr. Obama found a guide who could explain Jesus and faith in terms intellectual no less than emotional, and who helped a man of mixed racial parentage come to understand himself as an African-American. “Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black,” Mr. Obama wrote in his autobiography “Dreams From My Father.” At the same time, as Mr. Obama’s friends and aides now acknowledge, he was aware that, shorn of their South Side Chicago context, the words and cadences of a politically left-wing black minister could have a very problematic echo. So Mr. Obama haltingly distanced himself from his pastor. Mr. Obama announced in early 2007 that he would be running for president. He invited Mr. Wright to deliver the invocation at the event in Springfield, but the evening before the event, Mr. Wright answered his cellphone and heard an apologetic soon-to-be candidate. Rolling Stone had just published a profile of Mr. Obama that included some colorful snippets from the pastor’s sermons. “ ‘You can get kind of rough in the sermons,’ ” Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama told him. “ ‘Rather than have you out front, we thought it would be best to not have you do the invocation.’ ”