First part correct, second part - huh? Yeah, Aids is a US government conspiracy, Farrakhan is one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth and twenty first century... the guy's a nut.
What the hell is Obama supposed to do, pretend the double standard on wacko relatively marginal lefties vs. mainstream influential wacko righties doesn't exist? And should one approve of left wing radical nationalist idiocy just because its right wing variant is so accepted?
I think Obama was in a heads-they-win, tails-you-lose situation. Nor do I necessarily agree with Arthur's suggestion that Obama's condemnation reveals him to be entirely unprincipled. He's a politician for chrissakes, sometimes you have to kiss some damn ugly babies to get where you're going.
But I think that comment was less about Obama than the partizan nature of the trad med right-wing sycophancy. It isn't even remotely balanced, McCain gets a pass on the stuff Obama (and Clinton) get pasted over. McCain will be the guy you can have a beer with, Obama will be in fawn. keep to the Fen Causeway
Wright did kind of coldcock Obama.
But, personally, my inner conspiracy theorist is still wondering if the whole thing wasn't planned by Wright and Team O as a means to killing the issue once and for all (going along with TBG's "Obama as Uber-Patriot" theme). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
my inner conspiracy theorist is still wondering if the whole thing wasn't planned by Wright and Team O as a means to killing the issue once and for all
It occured to me too. But I think Wright has been playing the eyes-rolling scary guy far too madly for it to be a ploy. keep to the Fen Causeway
If it was a ploy, it seems to have worked, and it makes them geniuses for manufacturing such an excellent "Sista Souljah" moment. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
McCain's getting hurt by that ad in North Carolina, too. It's getting played as GOP race-baiting. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
