of course! it makes perfect sense!

to be perfectly honest though I hardly consider pat robertson to be politically acceptable.

I've been very tolerant of Rev. Wright but this 'publicity tour' he went on this weekend was not helpful at all.

Obama just made this statement...
"The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago," Obama said of the man who married him...

"At a certain point if what somebody says contradicts what you believe so fundamentally and then he questions whether or not you believe it — in front of the National Press Club — then that's enough," Obama continued.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24371827/

Damn straight. Say what you will about relative sanity, but Wright at least has the appropriate endowment to go after the powerful and kingmakers. Robertson licks their boots and likes to pick on the weak and outnumbered.

That said, a couple of moments of Wright's had the effect of making him about as believable as a 9/11 Truther. Even at that conference, he came off as a reasonable and intelligent guy, but also showed (especially during the Q & A) a pretty solid knack for torpedoing himself.

But, I will also eat my feet the day that major networks provide anything near the same attention to absolute craziness of the Religious Wrong movement. We could easily start with the cult-like behavior of neo-Pentacostals who patronize only "Christian" businesses and social groups. Or perhaps openly mock the absolute pig-headedness with which right-wing preachers are out to make our children just as ignorant about the natural world as we are through Creation Science.

Naw, couldn't possibly play those guys on infinite loop.

OMG, I love it.

I also love John Ridley's Huffington Post piece, "The Undeniable Virtue of Jeremiah Wright's Pro-Blackness (and the Problem with Pro-Whiteness)" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/the-undeniable-virtue-of_b_98659.html.

WIN.

By the way, to you aspiring pols out there, this is why BEFORE you release the statement condemning the man (in this case, the speech on race in philly), you send your highest black surrogate out to meet with him, tell him what you are going to say, tell him you are still with him, but this doesn't play with the electorate. tell him he was there in the beginning and he will be there in the end (implying of course, that he won't be there in the middle).

Barack did not do this (in part because because of a lack of old civil rights type people that have the a) stature and b) willingness and expertise to do this sort of thing.)

What's happening right now is totally unfair to Barack and it is not deserved. But it is more evidence that he needs to tighten up his campaign.

I thought I'd read that Obama did contact Wright before his Philadelphia speech.

But yeah, this is another example of how being taken seriously has nothing to do with being serious and everything to do with repeating the views of the powers that be.

Pat Robertson doesn't preach racism, antisemitism, eugenics or supremist ideology like Wright does. He just thinks gays are sinful.

Wright, however, makes a living selling victimization rants, racism against whites and antisemitism, while living in a wealthy and predominantly white neighborhood. I don't like either man, but I find this sort of warped logic of moral equivalence to be inherently disingenuous at best. At worse, it is a willingness to avoid the uncomfortable reality of what Obama has surrounded himself with, racists, terrorists and antisemites .

I really did hope Obama would be the one that could make a difference.

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Robertson courts the worst of the Republican know-nothings: trying to start a war in Israel to speed the world's end, condemning New Orleans and New York to vicious acts of God and man on the basis of social mores, and building a really crappy university because he can't stand what a real education does to young minds.

Plus, look at the targets. Robertson picks on gays as a much weaker segment (in political standing) of the population. Wright gets pissed off and rails against those *actually in power.* Yes, he goes overboard and is in the paranoid style, but I can at least see his tirades as the result of something real.

No, there is no moral equivalence between Obama taking the support of a fellow like this (and perhaps turning to him for help when he was still angry and confused about his own family line), and a guy like McCain who actively courts a large number of these types and then promises to *get their agendas fulfilled.*

The agenda of the likes of Hagee, Robertson, et al of course to further screw up the Middle East, make women second-class citizens, send gays back into the closet as third-classes, and make all the rest of us into obedient little serfs.

Sorry, worked too hard and learned too much to tolerate or be influenced by such small men.

PS - You read any good Muslim Obama emails lately?

Hey Nemesis,

I had hoped to be the first to welcome you but I see Odin has done a fine job of it.

To paraphrase Frank Bullitt:
"You can sell whatever you want. Just not here, at..." BfD.

Hmm, Wright is for eugenics? Now things are looking up. Eugenics is awesome.