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jack3566Reverend Wright controversy was mishandled: by Reverend Wright
This will more than likely be my last posting about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, not because there is nothing more to say but because the interest will not be there. I continue to write about it today because the readers of this blog are still interested in reading about him and commenting on him. But soon, he will be forgotten and fade into history as a footnote in American Presidential history. And readers of this blog and all political blogs will no longer be interested in reading about him, therefore, no audience.
Here is my two cents. The so-called “Reverend Jeremiah Wright” controversy was mishandled from the start: by Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The Obama campaign could not have handled the matter any more efficiently and professionally. Sean Hannity and his Fox Friends (some friends) managed to effectively brand Reverend Jeremiah Wright. And Reverend Jeremiah Wright allowed it to happen. The time for Reverend Jeremiah Wright to speak out about this injustice was when the controversy first started. Most public relations experts will strongly suggest that response must be swift and certain. But these “Fox Fiends” took a few select quotes and twisted them for their own devious purposes. And today Reverend Jeremiah Wright is damaged goods.
It seems Reverend Jeremiah Wright suddenly came to this realization. And he is now doing what he should have done much sooner: defend his honor. It would have been easy because he is an honorable man, after all he was a United States Marine and served his country faithfully and honorably.
Too late now because he has already been defined and branded by the low-life, Hannity/O’Reilly crowd. And it deeply saddens me because for many years this good man has been a positive part of my community. He provided leadership, black leadership if you will, when there was a vacuum there. It wasn’t just what went on inside this beautiful church’s wall. This church reached outside the community and made it a better place. They were (and still are) a shining example to the world. Yes, of course he spews this nonsense about AIDS and terrorism, but it is not anything I have not heard before. Trinity United Church will live on into perpetuity and make communities surrounding it better places to live and it is due to this fine man who says outrageous things. Unfortunately, they will do it without Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I have many friends who are great people who will give me the shirt off of their back, yet sometimes say things that makes no sense. Do I then cease my friendship with these people? Frankly, if I did, I’d have few friends left.
And for Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his is a lost opportunity. He could have had a real chance to change the world by the strong possibility of having the ear of the President of the United States, should Obama get elected. He joked about being on the ticket as Vice-President and he certainly would have had an influence of a Vice-President upon a President Obama. But that is no longer possible for Wright. He mentioned that he is not a “politician.” He got that right. I see being a “politician” as a positive force. If he had even minimal political skills, this situation would have been put to rest long ago. I hope one day Barack Obama can forgive his friend Reverend Jeremiah Wright. It would seem to me though that Wright doesn’t feel he needs to be forgiven for anything. And that is a tragedy. Reading on Walden Bookstore.
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most likely this will not be the end of the controversy,Michelle Obama is to address Wright controversy on Wednesday in interviews and appearances. I just read somewhere, that will surely keep it in the headlines.
And the more it is discussed, the worse it is for Obama. This horse is pretty well dead; time to find something else to beat on.
That’s what I can’t figure out. Obama and his surrogates should just shut up about it already. Why do they keep prolonging this controversy? It’s not helping them.
And why are there so many posts about it on this blog??? Enough already, please.
The man was villified and used as a tool against Obama. While I don’t support Obama, I know that there was a hatchet job done on him by the mass media and PTB.
I’ve done research on AIDS and, contrary to popular opinion (vox populi), there is no doubt that it was man-made. I’m not sure if it was designed for genocidal purposes, but I have the Congressional documents and the WHO documents that requested that an agent that would selectively attack the immune system be prepared. Most people who opine about these ‘conspiracy theories’ only listen to the ‘experts’ who are highly paid to lie to the people. And this is how and why we end up in situations like Iraq, Afghanistan, sub-prime mortgages, destruction of the US economy, etc…
The people in government continue to lie, and everybody knows it. But they continue to believe the lies. This makes most people who don’t complain complicit in the deceptions and the results of these deceptions as we continue to slide down the road to fascism and tyranny.
The truth exists independent of anyone’s subjective desires not to recognize it. The truth has a nasty way of popping up and biting you on the butt when you choose to ignore it!
Morpheus, I was a virologist in the day when AIDs was coming to the forefront (Computer work pays far better, sadly) and saw all the early work. And I can attest (and have never worked for any evil government agency) that the AIDs virus is natural, made the jump from the primate populations, and is not the result of some government operation. I was an expert (at the time)- most of whom are not highly paid- and have never been paid to lie. And I have actually visited some of the first sites of the epidemic in Africa recently. It ain’t pretty, and certainly hasn’t seen much in the way of government co-conspirators.
The only government conspiracy I saw at the time was the one not to discuss the probable vector that brought it into the U.S. from Africa; A gay male airline attendent who had an estimated 250 sexual contacts in a year all over the place and is the reason the virus appeared so many places nearly simultaneously. That conspiracy was to avoid possible backlash against gays at a time when the social engineers out there were working on making the gay lifestyle more acceptable.
The lack of willingness to discuss this vector, nor openly concentrate on the vastly higher transmission rate rate in male homosexuals (the misleading meme being that ‘everyone is at risk’) resulted in the decimation of the population whose image that was trying to be protected.
Only decades later is the substantial variation between heterosexual transmission rates in Africa and here are being understood. Ironically, circumcision may be a significant factor.
Mike, why do you bring up Case Zero? Does that help anyone now?
If the government had spoken about him and detailed his illustrious personal history, it would have reinforced the already popular idea tht AIDS only affected gay men. People were calling it God’s judgment, and I’m glad the government (along with the TV show “Captain Planet”) made it clear anyone could get the disease.
Bottom line: If Case Zero had been discussed openly, as well as the fact that behavior and blood were the only sources of the disease, lots of lives would have been saved that were sacrificed on the alter of political correctness.
I slam hard those idiots who call it ‘God’s judgement’; but some of the actions and beliefs of those on the other side are just as stupid and dangerous. I spent too many years of dealing with the hard lessons of medical survival to have much respect for those arguments that social engineering (or religious zealousy) trumps the need to know facts.
I guess I need a ‘Gray Zone’ posting on this subject, don’t I?