Poll shows racial divisions in view of pastor's remarks

Let me say that EVERYONE should read Obama’s Sermon he gave at a Selma, AL church, then make your own decision whether or not Obama is playing with the race card.

SELMA, ALA.--From the pulpit of the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. church, White House hopeful Barack Obama talks about the job of the "Joshua generation" and his own claim to a place in the civil rights movement.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/obamas_selma_speech_text_as_de.html

I listern today wating him to take this sick feeling away that I have felt since his pastor made the news ,I wanted to believe in him ,I wanted him to be president
BUt......... today he did not give me a good reason why he stayed in a church for 20 years and listen to that ,he would not but his hand over his heart at the national antem,his wife said she was never proud of her country ,all this fits the pastors
rubbish,so I believe he not only stands with this pastor ,he believes the same values,I wish i was wrong.but he didnt convince me at all

While 77 percent of white voters surveyed by Rasmussen Reports said the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright's remarks were racially divisive, only 58 percent of African-American voters said so.

And while voters overall were evenly divided over whether Obama should leave his Chicago church, 68 percent of African Americans said he should not.

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Every rational common human been will definitely view Wright's comments as a really offensive, abusive, coward and racist. The only group of people viewing it the opposite way is the blacks. I am not surprise at all why the blacks have enslaved for over 400 years…. Have been. A slave will always be a slave and a wild animal will always be a wild animal.

wow Edward, you are quite the vile, disgusting human being. but then lumping you in with the rest of the human race would just bring the rest of us down. don't think too hard on that one, it might hurt your little brain.

wow Edward, you are quite the vile, disgusting human being. but then lumping you in with the rest of the human race would just bring the rest of us down. don't think too hard on that one, it might hurt your little brain.

Edward's comment is indeed vile and disgusting. That said, Obama must go. He uses the race card out of convenience. Wright's words fr/ a white person would lead to hell on earth and the calling of that person's resignation, etc. Fr/ Obama's perspective it becomes the victim's scream of, oh stop it, it's racism against us to point out that we're racist. Obama speaks out of both sides of his mouth, everything is about convenience and political expediency. Huckster, empty suit, whatever you'll call it, a salesman in the quintessential sense.

NOBAMA! words, speeches, electric kool aid.. were just tired of it! We want someone who has done change and who has a plan for change not just talk change. That will bring true unity! HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT!

Sadly, this is a country that elected, then re-elected, George Bush as president.
As it's economy appears to be spiralling rapidly downwards (though appearances can be deceptive so we must not yet abandon all hope), was it even within the realm of imagination that it's voters would chose risk (Obama) over safety (McCain)?
In bad times, people will look for safe ground, and bringing back Bill, albeit through Hillary, may well seem like the safe option.
Obama is the candidate for hope, but I suspect the USA wants comfort.
How did it come to this?
Clinton vs. McCain:
who wins, who cares?

Sadly, this is a country that elected, then re-elected, George Bush as president.
As it's economy appears to be spiralling rapidly downwards (though appearances can be deceptive so we must not yet abandon all hope), was it even within the realm of imagination that it's voters would chose risk (Obama) over safety (McCain)?
In bad times, people will look for safe ground, and bringing back Bill, albeit through Hillary, may well seem like the safe option.
Obama is the candidate for hope, but I suspect the USA wants comfort.
How did it come to this?
Clinton vs. McCain:
who wins, who cares?

OBAMA ACTING LESS LIKE A PREACHER FROM NOW ON…
I always felt Obama's style was like a preacher, but I didn't know until recently that Reverend Wright was his mentor for twenty years. Obama was obviously a good student. Now, after a week of having the reverend being broadcast non-stop across the country this past week and turned into a comparison of Obama, will we ever hear Obama being the fire and brimstone preacher again? Or will he be soft-spoken from here on in, hoping that people won't wonder what else he learned from the Reverend after 20 years in his pew????

From Reverend Wright and his student Reverend Obama's own lips:

Don't tell me words don't matter!

"God damn America" - just words?

"Hillary aint never been called a Ni**er" - just words?

"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied!" - just words?

The reason I voted for Obama was that he was the post-racial candiate, he would "heal" the nation of racial divisiness. After all, weren't we all moving beyond the racial divide by putting our hopes in the first black president?
Now we learned that he sat through--and took his kids-- to hear that bigoted anti-white, anti-semitic paranoid racist spew for 20 years. And he said nothing. Why?
Because slavery is the stain of this nation. Because Jim Crow laws distorted our society. Because racism is still alive and well.
Well, I thought we were trying to move beyond all that by electing him president. Now he's telling me we haven't, and we need to undersand and emphathize with Wright's raving rants. Fraud.