8 Months From NowThis is a partial answer to a couple points that GhostWriter brought up in a previous blog. He asked why the mainstream news seems to have abandoned the story of the remarks of Obama's pastor. Between the hours of 4 PM & 7 PM today, 03.17.08, it has been maybe not the main story, but has been a sizeable topic of conversation on Fox, CNN & a continuing thread on CNN Headline News. It seems that they are not ignoring it. In fact, all three of them ask a very pertinent question. How, if at all, will the main stream press handle this topic 8 months from now? Will people remember it? Will they care? I think that important. Obama is supposed to give a press conference tomorrow. Should be interesting. I wholeheartedly agree with GW when he says that someone sitting in a pew for 20 years, could not help but hearing & understanding what his pastor, his mentor, was saying. I haven't had a chance to do the research on anything that resembles a complete text of what he said, so I will reserve my opinion. A number of comments have been in the negative over this situation, mostly centering on the religious views of Obama. I agree, of course. But I find it interesting that only now are some of the more main stream comments getting interested in the religious views, current & possibly future, of a political candidate. Could it be because of the accusations of his being connected to Islam? Maybe it's something else. One has to wonder after so many have defended not only main stream religious views, but also, main stream religious actions. If religious viewpoints have such reactions, perhaps the separation principle, for which our the founding fathers provided, is starting to seem like the good idea it is. Also in the news was the research done by two different authors. One has to do with the war actually costing @ 3 TRILLION dollars, not the billions told us by the administration, and @ Achmed Chalabi, generally considered to be the main figure, with some reservations, of being behind the scenes, pushing America into war with Iraq. Hillary & McCain barely made a blip on the radar today. The financial problems of Bear Stearn/J.P. Morgan, of course was the topic du jour, that might very well hit all of us taxpayers in the wallet, the head & the tush. But we are all still here, still breathing & enjoying the weather. Maybe this monday wasn't so bad after all. Time will tell. JATFUR. RichK PS. As I am finishing this, the tale of Obama, his pastor & his comments are being discussed on NPR. GW, I don't think this is being ignored by the media. RK
Submitted by whitewolf on Wed, 03/19/2008 - 8:36am.
I will remember all that Hillery did while in the White House. Can't find papers. Hillery care. Taking papers from a crime scene, Futures trading, ect. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be a duck.
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Solo I have to agree with you on the media, when I was looking around at media outlets it was Sunday late afternoon. I didn’t get a chance to watch the news till later this afternoon, and I have to say it has been pretty well covered by cable news. I haven’t had a chance to watch the local news, but I haven’t seen anything on first coast news web site.
Solo I am a firm believer of separation of church and state. I really don’t care if your religion believes in more than one wife, or don’t believe in blood transfusions, or anything else.
But I do think if you are a candidate for the presidency of the good old US your character and beliefs need to be examined very close. Muslim I don’t care, radical, I care. See my point. If you have a pointed nose, red fur, a long tail and you hang around the hen house, what are you? Would you ignore the Fox, or count your chickens. What is going on with Obama is, were counting our chickens and rightfully so.
What I keep hearing from the Obama fans is we are taking the pastors sermons out of context. OK I will give them that, but my question would be; put it in context so I can understand the racial slurs and ramblings against whites and our country, that your pastor’s sermons appear to portray. Make me understand the thinking of the black church, as you say; that we don’t.
I have heard that Obama has a speech that he will give tomorrow @ 10: 15 am. I will watch and listen with an open mind; but I will say he had better have some very good explanations of how one can sit in a pew for twenty years and not hear any derogatory statements from his mentor and pastor. Personally I don’t see how he couldn’t have, and if that is true then one can not draw any logical conclusion other than that is his beliefs also.
As I said in an earlier blog, to me it is a natural thing to place your hand over your heart when the National Anthem plays. Now I now, some don’t, but I go to a lot of NASCAR races and usually there are a least a hundred thousand in attendance and you would be hard pressed to find someone in the crowd that doesn’t place their hand over there heart. And his wife’s comment about pride only makes since, if she has been listening to her pastors racist hate speeches for the last twenty years.
I don’t really want to be brought into the fare tax debate going on, but when I read some of the comments made in it I have to chuckle. It reinforces my theory how we tend to base our Ideas on preconceived beliefs and not on information. For I am the Ghost Writer.