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Gary Leupp Responds

JB — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:20:27 GMT

"All Our Efforts Will Not Stop the Attack on Iran"

Shame on the Clintons, Particularly Hillary

JB — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:27:46 GMT

Bob Herbert in the NYT has much the same to say about the Clinton campaign. Their "Southern strategy" is appalling and completely outside the traditions, principles, and morals of the Democratic Party. Her Shermanesque march on Denver will open wounds that will take a generation to heal.

Yeah, yeah ...

JB — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:23:46 GMT

This writer has flogged the idea of an Article V Consitutional convention from just about every perspective. It is not going to happen in a Congress that is afraid to impeach war criminals and liars.

Good Grief!

JB — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:21:17 GMT

This could have been a good solid report, but the puerile writing and fatheadedness of the author just about ruined for me. So much rhetorical masturbation, and so little content.

Hagee is a menace. There is no doubt about that. He cannot disappear into the rathole from whence he came soon enough to suit me.

WWIII

SueZ — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:16:56 GMT

Charles Peters, in The Charleston Gazette, questions if attending church where the pastor was obsessive with the Chinese Nationalists constitues his being in favor of WWIII...

May 4, 2008
Charles Peters
A pastor problem of my own
When I last attended church regularly, my pastor, like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was a good man in many ways but had a few truly bizarre ideas. For one thing, he was obsessed with the cause of the Chinese Nationalists who had retreated to Taiwan after being defeated by the Communists.
When I last attended church regularly, my pastor, like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was a good man in many ways but had a few truly bizarre ideas. For one thing, he was obsessed with the cause of the Chinese Nationalists who had retreated to Taiwan after being defeated by the Communists. He even seemed willing to risk World War III by having the U.S. help the Nationalists retake China. During such sermons, I usually tuned him out and used the time for the kind of contemplation and reflection not possible during a busy workweek - with, I must admit, a passing thought or two about sex or my favorite sports. If I had run for president, would I have been accused of advocating World War III because I had gone to that church?
When twice as much Wright makes a wrong
The media may have rightfully decided they were tilting toward Obama before "Saturday Night Live" ridiculed them for doing so, but since then they have been tilting very much against him. I had hoped that the speech he gave in Philadelphia would put an end to the firestorm of race stories that had lately dominated the news, beginning with Geraldine Ferraro's comments and exploding with around-the-clock cable replays of some of Wright's less judicious pronouncements. But on the Sunday after the Philadelphia speech, as I scanned the contents of The Washington Post, I found that there was not one but, count 'em, eight articles on race in the campaign - including one by the paper's ombudsman regretting the fact that the Post had not gotten on the Wright story earlier. The first and last page of the Post's Outlook section featured large photos of Wright.
What has been most disturbing to me about most of the Wright coverage is that it implies that Obama must share some of the cleric's more outrageous views. Yet there is absolutely no evidence that Obama does in fact agree with any of them.

Reverend Wright.....

GCHet — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:19:13 GMT

I listened intently to Wright's National Press Club address and was impressed.
He is a man committed to doing God's work within a mixed society, but from a minority stance... and the majority don't like the truth he speaks.

As an Australian, a white Australian, I was talking with a person yesterday about theis and the nacent racism here... the friend I was talking to is aboriginal, for him, the racism is not nascent, it is a real, every day occurence, just that us white folks don't see it that way.

Wright's words resonate for any-one who is in a cultural minority.
Bert.

The Speech

SueZ — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:25:02 GMT

The Chicago Trib. has the transcript of Obama's speech
here .

Childhood Hunger

SueZ — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:42:03 GMT

I find it a but ironic that to discuss the issue of hunger one has a dinner over which to discuss it. But what else would one do?
Childhood hunger is devastating and leads to so many other societal ills down the road.

General Betray Us

SueZ — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:39:34 GMT

And they said that the MoveOn.org advert was wrong? General Betray Us seems apropos to me!!

Petraeus and Odierno Promoted

JB — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:34:48 GMT

From the editors of the Washington Post, more from the war party. The Post may believe it is being responsible, but the only way to know is to strip the wallpaper from this room and start again.