I absolutely agree, Phil.

And somehow I'm optimistic: Is it not better to have this now than later? So maybe Jeremiah Wright is not such a stupid man after all?

He forced Obama to completely disassociate from him. That's fine, concerning the vultures at the media. ;) Besides the church must have gone through rreal hard times.

But given the scenario "Clash of Cultures" race is not such an unimportant issue. I think there are some interesting topics beneath the public surface: Race is one of them.

http://addictomatic.com/topic/Jeremiah+Wright

I think he is appalled by the elements of the Wright presentation that is conspiratorial and that almost seek to marginalize the black community.

I do think that Obama is facing similar identity issues to what you describe that you engage, Phil. That, he is trying to be president of the United States, not president of the coalition of alienated factions.

I don't think he is of the alienated left, but of the residual left (as assimilated ethnic Jews are residually Jewish). Skin color is a different issue from ethnicity.

I had an accounting client who was about 1/8 black, married to a Jewish acupuncturist. In conversation, he identified himself as a black man. My father had darker complexion. I knew him as a art teacher at a prominent prep school near where I live.

He both identified as, and was identified as a black man.

I think Wright is afraid frankly, and is unconsciously, or consciously, sabotaging Obama's campaign. I think that he might have the attitude that he doesn't want a black president, with the assumptions of assimilation as an expectation, that that role would entail.

I know that is a speculation, and not all that kind.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
It really is a Hobbes world. Sort of.

The absence of clearly defined parameters (as Ron Paul shows)
for just war, preemptive war based on the special guy who fabricated the Axis Of Evil out of pure air, The DUI preppy president who beat it as bible, I'm sure without ever thinking that unilateral gunboat diplomacy tore down the very strength
of nation state's to be sovereign… Regime change. What's good for the goose, is good for the gander.

The world is waking up.

This is no longer the world where most people only had a radio if the government gave it to them to receive orders.

Geez, how many here have children, and grandchildren?

God and Guns?

Do we need a new movie, Fiddler On The Indiana Roof?

How can you accept that but contest CAMERA's actions?

Not among me and my friends! We have watched some of his recent remarks, and come away impressed: The man is charming, smart, incisive and – most important – truthful.

That he is now at the center of a polemic is due exclusively to two factors:

1. He has challenged America's complacent ignorance;

2. Racism.

Rev. J. Wright for President in '08!

With 6 years in the armed forces, a plethora of successful entrepreneurial and non-profit initiatives, an unassailable integrity and religious fervor for speaking the truth, and no history in Washington D.C., I'd have to say Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the most qualified of any of the candidates.

(I know he must be a candidate for something because he is dominating the news cycle for over a week now, and being prosecuted for the political thought crimes of questioning zionism and imperialism.)

Richard, oh poor Richard.

I responded to your frail attempt to equate Ron Paul bots and CAMERA in another thread. Allow me to post it here:

The two are different because the Ron Paul people are locked out of power, have 0 political influence; they are frozen out of our "democracy" because opposition to zionism or the Federal Reserve are political thought crimes, which make one unfit to govern in the United States at the federal level.

CAMERA on the other hand is part of a network whose leadership boasts being able to have 75 senators' signatures on a napkin in 48 hours.

Able to see any difference, Richard?