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wow jfrazell, its amazing you can call a speech glorious without actually reading it, for if you did you would notice

Given my background, my politics, and my professed values and ideals, there will no doubt be those for whom my statements of condemnation are not enough. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way
But the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man. The man I met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS.

the reasoning why he still supports wright while denouncing his comments.

I didn't read it I heard it. Wow Fizzywig, its amazing you can assume I didn't.

Wow, Obama can't abandon a racist, because it would be like abandoning his grandmother? Like abandoning Blacks? Whats going through Obama's head?

His reasoning is total Bullsh%$. The man said what he said. Until recently the church website supported the statements. The guy's a closet David Duke. Sorry I don't want someone who goes to the Church of David Duke Lite for 20 years to be my President.

This "liberation theology" that America is evil fits directly in line with statements from Obama's wife who declared she was proud to be an American only recently.

Face it, the more truth comes out the more he looks like just another Chicago politician with a deep voice and a good speech writer.

Since when is Texas a part of Canada?

JF: Look at your flag.

syr8766 wrote:Since when is Texas a part of Canada?

JF: Look at your flag.

OK, since they are in the air I can now tell the truth. We've launched the Confederate Airforce and Girl Scout Troop 777 to take Western Canada. They should be over their targets momentarily. We figure the combination of Tex-Mex and Alberta beef will be unstoppable in the world food arena. Its also so hot here, we're going to build a snow pipeline directly from Calgary to Houston to ameliorate the heat-turning both lands into temperate paradises.

Houston huh, What about the hill country!

We tried that but the environmentalists blocked it.

I saw Obama the other day across the Street near a Buca Di Beppo. Yay?

Do people think that Obama can connect with blue collar workers?

They seem to be leaning strongly towards Hillary Clinton.

Also all this whining by democrats for Hillary to drop out, its amazing that there are so many states still voting. I'd assume that usually these states are essentially wasted votes in the race for nomination...

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Do people think that Obama can connect with blue collar workers?

They seem to be leaning strongly towards Hillary Clinton.

Also all this whining by democrats for Hillary to drop out, its amazing that there are so many states still voting. I'd assume that usually these states are essentially wasted votes in the race for nomination...

That's part of the reason why so many states a couple years back changed their primaries to earlier in the year, California is a good example of this.

Personally I cannot stand politics. I feel that there are no honest politicians in existence. I believe they are overpaid, and do not see their jobs as a service to their countrymen, but rather ways to support their elitist agendas. Like Jfrazell said (I think it was him) elections for a lot of voters aren't decided because they encompass the appeal of a candidate, but really their stance on a few issues. My family's and my 2nd Amendment rights are what is going to decide who I am voting for, and Hillary couldn't lie her way out of a wet paper bag. Obama is decidedly pro gun-control, as evidenced by his voting record and recent comments, and McCain is a distant third. If Ted Nugent were running I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

I'm not sure if any of that made sense, but I tried!

I've only lived in California all my life, so I have little perspective as to how it is in other states, but being able to protect my loved ones, myself, my property, and others, the way in which I choose should not be up to anyone but me.

I really wish there would be a change of pace this election but it already seems it's about the candidates instead of the issues and their stances on them.