I think Obama means it when he talks about being angry with Rev. Wright, or when he calls him divisive. But I think he agrees with a lot of what he says. This guy is a super-liberal trying to pass himself off as moderate enough to get into the White House. No political middler is going to hang around listening to liberation theology for twenty years.
I hope he pulls it off.
And you know what? I agree with a lot of what Rev. Wright says. What's his most controversial stuff? Let's take a look.
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards."
He's not wrong, boys and girls. We are hypocrites, perhaps not for being outraged at the attacks on our country, but for not being outraged by the atrocities we commit against others. By the way, did you know the United States prosecuted a Japanese officer for water-boarding U.S. prisoners of war?
As long as I'm saying controversial things, here's a comment for my old high school: Having an armed police officer in the building is not only creepily indicative of a police state, it also statistically increases the chances of a student being shot.
You may be all cozy with it now, but take it from someone living in Mexico: the next step is having to walk past cops carrying M-4 assault rifles every day, and that does not make you feel safe.
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What really pisses me off about this is that Obama is having to apologize for and distance himself from Rev. Wright like this. If you're familiar with liberation theology, the stuff Rev. Wright was saying isn't really that fucked up at all...
sigh.
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