2008 Soap Box Archives

Revisited

The column I wrote recently about Barrack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright got quite a lot of reaction and I would like to address some of it.

First of all, the clips we see over and over on TV were not shot by some clandestine far right wing political group bent on destroying Obama's bid for the Presidency. They were readily available to the public at large on the church's website. The church made no attempt to hide them.

Secondly, I have heard the statement that the remarks were taken out of context. This is so bogus. The remarks create their own context and were delivered with such vitriol that no one could doubt they're meaning.

It was mentioned that there only limited clips that show over and over. I sincerely doubt that this man has not developed his dislike for America and the white race in a short time. These remarks, in my opinion, come from many years of seething contempt. This kind of attitude doesn't happen overnight.

Now to the meat of the situation. Mr. Wright could have preached his hateful message ad infinitum without media attention and it would have been nobody's business what he preached had not one of his parishioners been a serious candidate for President. That makes it every American's business.

We have a right to be concerned about every iota of the moral, religious, personal and private beliefs of the person in whose hands we place the future of our country, our children and ourselves.

Mr. Obama has already admitted that he did not agree with Mr. Wright's more rabid statements and I believe him, but what America needs to know is why he would sit in Wright's church for twenty years and not denounce his anti white, anti-American ranting until he was forced to.

Why would he go along with something that he now says he so vehemently disagrees with? Because if he disagrees with what Wright has preached it demonstrates a serious lapse in judgment for him to sit in that church for twenty years and not object to this message.

And America has a right to know about Mr. Obama's judgment if he expects to be trusted with the nuclear codes. There is no time for lapses of judgment in the Oval Office. The result could be catastrophic.

Lastly someone threw out, "Judge not that ye be not judged." Actually when a person enters the public political arena they have conceded that point. They are knowingly putting their lives in the spotlight of public scrutiny, in essence, asking to be judged. And if that spotlight reveals the flaws, it goes along with the territory.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

March 21, 2008