Ed Koch Feels the Same Way as Whitlock

Has Rev. Wright done anything illegal? No? Then your question is pointless.

 

No.
It counts as "forging a relationship."
They don't share the same brain, for god's sake.
And until somebody produces something Obama has said, or done, that is in line with the worstpf what Wright says, this whole thing is organized wanking.

 

OK, as long as you hold Republicans to same standard of proof.

But, back to reality, there's no way Obama didn't know of Wright's racists views. So to continue forging the relationship in light of that, without distancing himself (until he was forced to), makes me question Obama's character.

 

Cowbell's asinine argument, writ anew.

 

The defense of Obama in regard to Wright is typical hypocrisy. If it were a Republican who had a long-standing friendship with a racist pastor, not only would he/she be labeled a racist from the get-go, there'd also be all kinds of hand wringing over the "Religious Right," and plenty of outrage over the destructive influence of religion in today's society, blah, blah, blah.

 

Wright is a racist? Proof, please. Show your work.

 

If you weren't predisposed to do so anyway, why would it make you do that now?
Do you believe that the snippets we see on TV are the sum total of Wright's pastoral work? Are they enough to define his ministry? Do they make, say, his marriage counseling less valid, or his scriptural exegesis less compelling? Remember, this isn't some guy preaching out of the back of a van. He was the pastor of a large congregation in a very mainstream American Protestant faith tradition. And how does any of this touch Obama? As I've said before, the old Catholic Good Friday liturgy was a festival of organized anti-Semitism. For thousands of years. In thousands of churches, in front of millions and millions of people. Am I an anti-Semite because I sat through it for 25 odd years? Does that make you "question my character"? And, if so, why?

 

OK, what's the left's equivalent of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell? What about the raft of conservative Catholic cardinals that more almost 30 years of reactionary popes have brought us? You really don't want to say there's any equivalency as to the influence of religion.

 

I question your character because of your negligible Irish ancestry. Not your religion.

 

Negligable, my arse.
Sleep with one eye open tonight, you miserable omadhaun.

 

Just teasing, brother. Here:

 

Too late.
I already called for help.