Comments on: Roosting season

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:54:47 +0000

Listen: either Barack Obama is too weak a man to stand up to someone like the Rev. Wright, or he is too stupid to see what is directly in front of his face. Either way, I don’t see how it adds up to presidential material.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:34:41 +0000

It amazes me how so many black Americans think they are the only ethnic group to ever have been wronged. I think the Chinese who built the railroads could speak to that; the Italians & Irish who immigrated and where hated and shunned could also speak to it; the Scots-Irish were the ugly step-child nobody wanted–not the Scots, the Irish, the Puritans, The Quakers nor the Cavaliers. So they were spit on and sent out to the backcountry to eek out a living and an existence. Bottom line is that in America it is not what you have suffered that sets you apart and ENTITLES you to something, but what you have done to overcome it that EARNS you the opportunity to achieve it. Why is it so many other ethnic groups have come here and succeeded majorly? Why is it so many hispanics today risk life, limb, & deportment to get a chance to come here and stay? When people (black, white, purple, orange, male/female–whatever) take ownership for their own success or failure then they get a seat at the table. You get what u put in.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:33:56 +0000

It’s an old, old story.
One man conquers by what he overcomes.
The other is conquered by what he never could…

I nurtured grievance in my heart
I let it grow, no end, no start
The past the same as any day
The future but another way
In which I could reclaim my grudge
So that seeking might adjudge
Outwards from the place I sat
For there I sank and did begat
A newer gripe when old was stale
For what is home but captured hell?

Within that man that never sleeps
Except to wake the harm he keeps
A’nurtured in his ticking heart
Until it kills his better parts
There lives a dead thing obsolete
A’growing heavy with deceit
Which eats at men unsated yet
Those self-condemned without regret -
And yet he thinks it marvelous
To drag along, his albatross
With which he sails the seas of life
Forever wrecked by his own strife…

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:22:20 +0000

The KKK was the militant wing of the Democrat party. They drove Republicans out of the South.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:20:21 +0000

It’s a real stretch to imply that Obama secretly believes the same things that Wright believes, either overtly or covertly.

Of course Obama doesn’t believe that stuff. It is an insult to say he does. He went to that church for 20 years for other reasons. He got baptized in that church for other reasons. He got married in that church for other reasons. He donated big bucks to that church for other reasons. He sent his daughters to that church for other reasons.

By: willis

willis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:00:34 +0000

“If a most African Americans are pissed off with America, with a list of specific grievances, perhaps– just maybe– those grievances have some substance.”

Maybe so, or maybe there’s a lot of affirmative action to be had by claiming they do. In either case I’m not about to vote for someone who can’t wait to act on his grudge against me.

By: Jim Rockford

Jim Rockford — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:03:01 +0000

Punning Pundit, my list of grievances going back to third grade would be quite long too. At some point you just have to let it go.

Number of Blacks lynched by whites in 2007: 0.
Number of Blacks murdered by other Blacks in gang related activities in 2007: ??? But certainly in the thousands.

Wright told Obama (recounted in Dreams From My Father: a Story of RACE and INHERITANCE) that black kids were likely to be killed anywhere. False. Black kids are safer in Klan bastions than Black neighborhoods. Sad but true.

Blacks are 12% of the population. Extorting money out of whites to push down race-baiting of whites to a dull roar was affordable in good times. These are not good times. The majority population will not support it any more. What you are seeing is the ending of that system. To put it another way, the assassination of Rev. King was forty years ago. Roughly akin to the Crash and 1968.

By: Robert H

Robert H — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:55:01 +0000

Those in the racial hatred business, like Wright and Sharpton, do not want a Black to become President. The moment that happens, the whole Whitey hates us scam is over. The sad fact is that a majority of white voters were quite willing to elect a Black President. But they now will not vote for Obama based on his long term associations with racist pastors, left wing terrorists, and corrupt Chicago politicians. Which racial panderers like Wright will slander as racism to increase their own power and profits. How despicable….

By: Anna Keppa

Anna Keppa — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:32:23 +0000

Can anyone imagine Martin Luther King Jr. sitting in a pew for twenty years listening to Wright’s paranoid and racist tirades?

Neither can I.

By: Saint Patton

Saint Patton — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:59:07 +0000

Sure, and if I were to happen to be present at KKK rallies for the last twenty years it would also be a “real stretch” for you to imply that I believe the same things the Klanners believe, either overtly or covertly.

But you would suspect anyway, wouldn’t you, and for good reason.

But for the sake of argument let’s say Obama doesn’t subscribe to Wrights crackpot theology, why did he stay at the church for twenty years? Pandering to the black community?

Either way, Obama looks like either a freak or a fraud.