MrBrightside, why should age matter though? I know to many people it does, for some stupid unknown reason, but age is correlated with wisdom and experience. Who would you rather listen to, someone who is 30 or someone who is 70?
DBinMD, can you imagine all of the uproar had it been McCain's preacher that said something like that?? If Obama wins the Democratic nomination, I think McCain will launch commercials showing Wright's remarks, mention how Obama stayed there as a member of the church for 2 DECADEs and then at the end of the commercial, it will say "Can you trust this man to lead our country?" Case closed, McCain wins the general if Obama is nominated.
I agree about the age thing, but there again, I’m old, too.
Part of the fascination of this whole debacle is the free ride. Yes, if it was anyone else in the last 40 years (including Hillary) they would have been gone. It was fascinating to watch him say the same lines (like “typical elderly white women”) that would have caused anyone else to crash and burn. He was probably correct in his statement, as others before him, but the others wouldn’t have gotten away with it.
The whole affair bothers me on a lot of levels. The first is how a rational person could sit thru such hateful speech for 20 years. The next is the perversion of the Christian faith, I know I would have never returned to that congregation, and thirdly, since his mother and his children’s grandmother is white, I don’t understand how he could sit thru that in respect to her.
I think you’re right about the commercials. Hillary may have felt the need to constrain herself, I don’t think McCain will. I also suspect this will be one of the ugliest campaigns in memory.
I don’t trust any gifted speaker who doesn’t have the authority or credibility to back it up. And, BTW, I'm "one of those garlic eating Italians" by way of my dads side, Rev. W. has made it a little extra personal.