Quote:
Quote by: Winter wind  You never know. The world of politics is constantly shifting and moving. Something could happen to knock Obama down a few points and improve her chances. You never know. |
The Rev Wright is on tour now visiting many African American neighborhoods, and believe it or not a large majority of blacks believe that Rev Wright is telling the truth and the fact that Obama is trying to distance his self from that belief can also in effect, distance him from the mainstream black community. I am a white guy but I love African American music and when I worked night shift I started to listen to talk radio shows with African American hosts, and all those things the Rev Wright spoke about are shared by many of the people who called in on those shows, and I even belived that the the CIA planes under Ollie North shipped in crack to the black communities, that AIDS was a man made virus (bio-weapon) that was tested on African tribes, and that a lot of the black leaders who held offices as Mayors and Governors were "set up" by the FBI to remove them from office. Just look at the record. Many of the black leaders were "removed" in one way or another that were into protesting and so forth. And for a large part the white community ignored all this and were not even aware of what was happening. True, some of the young people in that community who did not live through the really tuff times might not have as strong of an opinion as the older folks, but as Obama attempts to distance his self from those strong opinons he is in effect cutting off the his own support group relative to the majority of that community. Now we might expect white people to be offended by Rev Wright but for a black canidate to reject what he grew up being informed about by his peers is nearly an act of teason. He should have stood up for his pastor but he took the easy way out and did the "Uncle Tom" thing, and so why would they pick him to "fight for their objectives" to get out the truth?
Where is Jessie Jackson? How come Jessie is not a loud voice in the Obama movement? He is VP material. But no - nothing on CNN about that. If Obama does not pick a black guy as his VP choice then how can he claim to advocate for the advancment of that community? He has some bridges to cross and could loose his wagon wheels.
Obama did not even attend the big Martin King Jr event, as did Hillary and McCain. What is up with that guy? He better get better in touch with his "American" roots.