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Just don't expect the rest of us not to laugh at you.

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...craven images...

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Tracytaken the trouble with Bush and his cronies IMO has allways been there belief that they and they alone had the one true belief.Personally i dont care what the man in the Oval Office believes,as a matter of fact i would rather not know .His beliefs should be a private matter and he should keep them that way 'Thought that was what Mr.Jefferson and Mr. Madison had in mind,we would all be better off if we could find one canidate that would point that out to the first reporter to ask them a religous belief question .Just refuse to answer tell them you will worship in private till you leave public office ,and go inside and bow down to craven images .I know i'll sleep better

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This country is about dead....it's gone. The government is getting bigger and bigger and the only thing people seem to want is more government and handouts. We will be lucky if we survive to 2020 at this rate.

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ORIGINAL: cyberdude611
Obama's speeches dont move me. When I took political science classes in college, every one of my professors taught us to NEVER trust the words that come out of a politician's mouth. Politicians are pathological liars. They all are. The only way you can find the truth is if you look into their actions...not their words. Obama offers nothing but words. Through all my years of school, I've been educated to look well past that surface level.

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Do you mean to imply we all dont have a kindly old uncle who spews hateful racist comments.

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This country is about dead....it's gone. The government is getting bigger and bigger and the only thing people seem to want is more government and handouts. We will be lucky if we survive to 2020 at this rate.

It depends on what you mean by "survive."  I think that the empire is going to fall.  Isn't that what empires always do eventually?

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Obama's Gave $22,500 to Racist Church in 2006
Source: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-gave-22500-to-racist-church-in.html 

That would be the equivalent of me giving $22k to the DNC, or the current version of the RNC for that matter.

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So what is he, a hypocrite, or a believer?

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ORIGINAL: Alumbrado

So are people getting paid to flood the boards with this nonsense?

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ORIGINAL: Level

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Do I think Obama believes the shit his pastor spews? No. And I still hope he becomes our next president.
 
Why does  he stay in that church though? That bugs me.
 

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No offense, but I'm just not seeing all that much thinking here.  There's a whole lot of frothing at the mouth and plenty of jerking knees, but not so much thinking.

Once again, for those in the cheap seats:

“Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” he said in the statement. “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.”

Spare us the sound and fury.

~stef

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
stef,
Granted, however considering that he donated $22,500 to the cause of this church, I say the 'verbal' distance doesn't mirror his fiscal distance.

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Obama's Gave $22,500 to Racist Church in 2006
Source: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-gave-22500-to-racist-church-in.html

That would be the equivalent of me giving $22k to the DNC, or the current version of the RNC for that matter.

So what is he, a hypocrite, or a believer?

Either way, although he still is the person most likely to get my vote, I'm starting to narrow down the choices of charities to benefit for the winning bets come November.

Obama was pretty clear on what happened, why he stayed with his church and what his thoughts are on Wright. I don't think he's a hypocrite at all. I think he's a man who has loved his church for a very long time, supports it both in his heart and fiscally, knew Wright was going to retire and chose to remain loyal to the church & congregation despite the words of a single man within that church.

As far as I'm concerned, this is much ado about nothing.

Celeste

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Everyone keeps bringing up Falwell and Robertson....

But has any president actually been a member of Robertson's or Falwell's congregation?

Obama is a MEMBER of Jeremiah Wright's church!

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We never did have an "empire." It was just for awhile we were the strongest world power that had yet to fall to pieces.

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Now over the past few decades, some rivals have gotten stronger (ie: China). People think that the US has gotten weaker. Not really. We just have been tredding water for many years. The world around us continues to change.

But I think for the first time since the Great Depression, we are in danger of weakening. Cost of food is going up. Cost of gas is going up. And if you make over $30,000 a year....the Democrats want you to pay more taxes so they can inflate the size of government so they can claim they are doing something.