You state that going to church for 20 years doesn't heal divisions.
No, I said that going to a church where the pastor is preaching a racially divisive message is not helpful.
Some people like dwelling on anger.
I honestly don't care who or what Jeremiah Wright says. He is a friend not a political advisor. Obama has made that clear.
Really? At various points he also claimed he was his sounding board. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/chi-070121-relig_wright,1,271630.story?page=1&coll=chi-religion-topheadlines&ctrack=1&cset=true) "What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice," Obama said. "He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics."
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He condemned what Wright said, yet at the same time, said he still loved the man. That was what Jesus did years ago, he embraced people he did not necessarily agree with.
I certainly don't think that Obama is anything "like Jesus". I think he is a politician out for his own self interest trying to survive a crisis in his campaign to be president. I think he has a strategy team and they sat down together and plotted out what he could do that would hurt him the least. And some people bought it and others didn't.
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Re: And because I ran out of space
Date: 2008-03-20 03:02 am (UTC)No, I said that going to a church where the pastor is preaching a racially divisive message is not helpful.
Some people like dwelling on anger.
I honestly don't care who or what Jeremiah Wright says. He is a friend not a political advisor. Obama has made that clear.
Really? At various points he also claimed he was his sounding board. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/chi-070121-relig_wright,1,271630.story?page=1&coll=chi-religion-topheadlines&ctrack=1&cset=true)
"What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice," Obama said. "He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics."
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He condemned what Wright said, yet at the same time, said he still loved the man. That was what Jesus did years ago, he embraced people he did not necessarily agree with.
I certainly don't think that Obama is anything "like Jesus". I think he is a politician out for his own self interest trying to survive a crisis in his campaign to be president. I think he has a strategy team and they sat down together and plotted out what he could do that would hurt him the least. And some people bought it and others didn't.
I'm as cynical about him as the others.