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I watched a complete sermon (GD America) by Jeremiah Wright a few days ago and was completely blown away by it. I am an ethical atheist/agnostic and very happy to be situated outside the debate of faith. I prefer to take my cues from animals, who never kill except to eat. There are animal exceptions of course, but individual animals who kill wantonly are shunned by their own kind. When was the last time you heard of a war between the gnus and the giraffes?
Anyway, as I listened to J.W. preach I found myself longing to be challenged to live my convictions the way he challenged his congregation that Sunday. This is the kind of eyes-wide-open Christianity could actually move me into a pew week after week. He was pushing the limits of his congregation that day, playing with them psychologically, manipulating them by offending them and them loving them because they were offended. At least that was my visceral impression of his sermon. You may be less shocked than I if you attend church services and your pastor challenges you in the same way. I've never experienced a more inspiring sermon. I can understand why Obama would give this man the benefit of the doubt.
Then Wright seemed to go power-mad last Monday and after having a rough time in the press, Obama was right to repudiate him. The brouhaha was certainly dramatic; it allowed Obama to give a couple of great speeches and huge face-time all over the msm. The controversy kept the spotlight on him while showing off his "toughness" in dealing with media-driven issues.
At this point in Bill Clinton's primary campaign he was dealing with bimbo eruptions on a regular basis and that didn't prevent him from getting the nomination. I loved Bill Clinton. True, he was a cheating husband, but he wasn't MY cheating husband. Maybe he is trying to give Hillary this election as payback for all her years of self-sacrifice in their marriage. I can identify that she feels that she 'earned it' years ago. Damn right, he owes her. I don't, though, and neither does anyone else. If the rules were really fair, she would have been able to take over the Presidency once she caught him with his pants down. I'm sure she would have been great as president then and we all would have been tremendously grateful to have a nice, competent Clinton running the country while the other very competent Clinton remained distracted by frivolous lawsuits.
I want the President who works at reconciliation, who can explain what he is doing and why he is doing it, who is beholden to no special interest, and who can excite the rest of the world with the possibility of change in the way the USA conducts foreign policy. Obama is our hope for the future.
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