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Subject: Rev Wright is a stand-up guy
If you listen to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's controversial
speeches in context, you find that he is correct is his assertions. He
talks about how America has mostly ignored the plight of poor black people
as in hurricane Katrina. He talks about how we as a nation attacked many
countries, yet were surprised when we were attacked on 9/11. He talks about
weapons of mass destruction not being in Iraq, yet we sold biological weapons
to Saddam Hussein. He talks about the Tuskegee project where black males
were given the disease syphilis. He asks if this could be possible with
the virus AIDS. Certainly our country has not done enough to combat this
disease with education, research and compassion for its victims.
Reverend Wright's views are not foreign to the
left wing of the Democratic Party. These views are shared not only by the
African-American community, but by the majority of left leaning Democrats.
Reverend Wright is a dynamic speaker. He can justify his position on the
aforementioned topics. Obama and his wife have been very close to Reverend
Wright for some 20 years.
Obama last month said that he could not distance
himself from Reverend Wright no more than he could distance himself from
the African-American community. That was well said, and he got a lot of
credit for that speech. But now it's early May and Obama is slipping in
the polls, so what does he do? He acts like a politician and throws Reverend
Wright under the bus. Obama disowns the same views espoused by Wright that
he and his wife, Michelle had embraced for the last 20 years. Reverend
Wright had said that Obama is doing what politicians do, and that is to
say what the voters want to hear, not necessarily what the candidate really
thinks.
Reverend Wright is a stand up guy. He says what
he means, and can back up his statements. Obama on the other hand shows
that he is not principled in his beliefs as he has made a major flip flop
on the views of Reverend Wright. Perhaps it is Reverend Jeremiah Wright
who should be running for president rather than Obama?
Jim in Rochester, Michigan
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