I agree that hate has a way of changing one's perspective. After a while of listening to it one becomes either so totally incensed by it or begins to fall into it's trap. Obama and the congregation seem to have fallen into the latter.

week after week, year after year.  It is liberation theology and I understand that, but Wright takes it way off to left field and he uses his Christmas sermon to say Hillary is privileged because she was never called n*gger and so she doesn't deserve to be president?  What the hell does that have to do with Christmas?  Why the heck does this church still have tax exempt status?

Why does he not talk about the plight of women?  I'll bet they are more than half of his congregation.

But he doesn't know what it is like to  be a woman in America. He doesn't mention the names she has been called.  He doesn't mention that she is given no credit for anything she does because sexist people say she only got where she is on her husband's coat tails. He doesn't mention how she would be better off professionally had she marred a man of no accomplishments.

And Obama is now throwing his "closest spiritual adviser" the man he once credited with bringing him to Christianity off the bus, "denying him" so to speak.  I think they both needs some  lessons in the ethics department.

He also doesn't mention that Obama was a legacy at Harvard because his father went there.  He doesn't mention that Hillary is one generation from a man who worked as a laborer in a lace factory.  He doesn't mention that while Obama's father was at Harvard, her's had to work to put himself through Pennstate even though he had a football scholarship.

I equate hate-speech with verbal abuse and it will incite bad actions. It creates FEAR and the whole world has suffered from BUSHco hate and fear.

We just don't need any more and we are seeing the same hateful dynamics from many Obama supporters and that is a major concern for me and should be for others.

Be it from the Rev. Wright which is a direct link to Obama or the pseudo republicans for Obama who are purposely creating this divisive climate on top of it all. Obama's campaign should have separated the two factions, but they didn't because they WANT the votes more than a good for America Campaign.  That speaks VOLUMES and many of us SEE the danger there.

I don't know if Obama, himself, can fix any of this. He should have been prepared, not so trusting as that has showed a BIG weakness in him.

We don't need another weak president. Not in these times.

Listening to the Washington Journal every morning , I hear people calling in threatening, that if Obama is not the Dem. candidate they will note vote. Isn't this great that a group of people are now threatening the Dem. Party that to get their vote, their candidate has to be the candidate. Whatever happened to fair elections?

the people who will not vote for Hillary are a smaller group than those who will not vote for Obama.  The people who won't vote for Obama don't call c-span. They are Reagan democrats and they are swing voters. If people want to make the argument that his voters are less likely to vote for her they are really missing the mark.  Let them whine on TV, the best candidate will be the one the SDs choose. I am confident that after Clinton wins WV, KY, PA, PR, Guam etc... particularly PA (big win there) Obamamania will be a thing of the past.

Thanks, rose, this should hit close to home for us all. We should not, can not, support a candidate whose 20-year long mentor spews such hatred. On many levels this would hurt our country big time. Who, in the media, will dare to really call BO out about this? That to me, is the question.

that's why i'm a democrat- all the hate USED to be coming from the republicans. i thought we were the party of inclusiveness, but now we hear it from people in our own party - first mcclurkin, now wright. sad.

Hate seeps into people especially when exposed to it over and over again. One only needs to hear the hatred coming from some Obama supporters, republicans and white supremists to understand why there is so much outrage.

Hate is the issue.Period. Doesn't matter who spouts it. Obama's Reverend has just brought it out in the open-again.

Good diary - well and simply put.  Thank you!

Excellent post Granite Stater!

I look forward to more.

personal.

My reaction to Rev. Wright's sermons is one of intimate dismay.  They say such horrible things about me (I'm white).  They suggest things that, in my entire lifetime, I have never felt toward anyone.  And I was sad that these things are being rountinely said...behind my back (kind of like discovering your friends "talking" about you behind your back - it shocks you and it makes you depressed.  "How could I have been so stupid to think so-and-so liked me??").

I know it might sound childish - but this is what Rev. Wright has made me feel.

bravo

rec'd