Barack Obama is distancing himself from his pastor of twenty years. Glenn Beck is warning that "Wright should not be so eager to encourage folks to listen to his message". Others are saying he's on a self-promotion crusade. Well, I watched him on Bill Moyers Journal the other day, and I agreed with a lot of the stuff Jeremiah Wright said. Not everything, by any means, but a lot more than I thought I would. Is Jeremiah Wright really a lunatic? What do you think? I thought Wright's statement about Louis Farrakhan being a great American was a bit weird, but then what do I know, except for what the media tell me about Farrakhan? What about the AIDS claim of Wright, that the US government inflicted the black community with AIDS? Here are some things the US government has done... (Except I think Malcolm X didn't think he was very great.) What about the AIDS claim of Wright, that the US government inflicted the black community with AIDS? I haven't seen any ...
Politics is seldom simple. But the truth usually is.