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Man o man, they're gonna need a freakin' stadium stage for the first few GOP debates at this rate.
There's gotta be 20 potential candidates. Should be interesting to see which ones (if any) decide to cool their jets for a while.
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Maybe the Republicans can do brackets.
Bracket 1- Religious nutbags -
Bracket 2- Teabaggers
Bracket 3- Plutocrats
Bracket 4- Warmongers/Chickenhawks
and the Democrats brackets would be:
1.socialist
2.communist
3. Fascism
Obama sat in Wright's church for 20 years agreeing with all his anti American tirades. His ideology was molded by Wright.
Falwell and Robertson are preachers simply reciting what the bible says about the sins of Homosexuality and abortion. Lame comparison.
Wright is a preacher reciting what God had to say about greed and selfishiness. It kind of cuts both ways. You really can justify any political view using the Big Book of Jewish Fairy Tales. Including, ironically enough, exterminating the Jews, which Hitler totally did.
So, no, a lot of ministers tried to say 9/11 was God's punishment for whatever upset them, and it was kind of silly because, of course, there is no God and shit just happens.
Frankly, guy, you keep waging your finger at Obama, who is really about one step left of Jimmy Carter in "radicalism".
But then again, we know that wasn't the only thing that Wright said that was anti American. That's why Obama had to throw him under the bus in order to save his presidential campaign. Sad part is, Obama considered Wright his mentor.
This guy is certified loony tunes, maybe that's why you like him, you relate to him.
"Wright spoke of the United States
taking land from the Indian tribes by what he labeled as terror, bombing
Grenada,
Panama,
Libya,
Hiroshima, and
Nagasaki, and argued that the
United States supported state terrorism against the
Palestinians and South Africa. He said that his parishioners' response should be to examine their relationship with God, not go "from the hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents." His comment (quoting
Malcolm X) that "America's chickens are coming home to roost" was widely interpreted as meaning that America had brought the
September 11, 2001 attacks upon itself.
[16][17][18] ABC News broadcast clips
[19] from the sermon
[1][20] in which Wright said:
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... and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
"Confusing God and Government"[edit]
Clips from a sermon that Wright gave, entitled "Confusing God and Government", were also shown on
ABC's
Good Morning America[1] and on
Fox News. In the sermon, Wright first makes the distinction between God and governments, and points out that many governments in the past have failed: "Where governments lie, God does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change."
[21] Wright then states:
[The United States] government lied about their belief that all men were created equal. The truth is they believed that all white men were created equal. The truth is they did not even believe that white women were created equal, in creation nor civilization. The government had to pass an amendment to the Constitution to get white women the vote. Then the government had to pass an equal rights amendment to get equal protection under the law for women. The government still thinks a woman has no rights over her own body, and between Uncle Clarence who sexually harassed Anita Hill, and a closeted Klan court, that is a throwback to the 19th century, handpicked by Daddy Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, between Clarence and that stacked court, they are about to undo
Roe vs. Wade, just like they are about to un-do affirmative action. The government lied in its founding documents and the government is still lying today. Governments lie.
He continued:
The government lied about Pearl Harbor too. They knew the Japanese were going to attack. Governments lie. The government lied about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. They wanted that resolution to get us in the Vietnam War. Governments lie. The government lied about
Nelson Mandela and our CIA helped put him in prison and keep him there for 27 years. The South African government lied on Nelson Mandela. Governments lie.
Wright then stated:
The government lied about the
Tuskegee experiment. They purposely infected African American men with syphilis. Governments lie. The government lied about bombing Cambodia and Richard Nixon stood in front of the camera, "Let me make myself perfectly clear..." Governments lie. The government lied about the drugs for arms Contra scheme orchestrated by Oliver North, and then the government pardoned all the perpetrators so they could get better jobs in the government. Governments lie.... The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. Governments lie. The government lied about a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and a connection between 9.11.01 and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Governments lie.
No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America!