Wright has lost it

[LuckyTheDog]

Rev. Wright's behavior at the National Press Club seems to confirm my suspicions: Wright has been "losing it" for the past several years. And that is more than likely why the congregation pushed him out. Obama cannot and should not be held accountable for the guy's apparent (and sad) mental and emotional decline.

Had Obama not been in the Senate for the past 3 years, perhaps he would have been more actively involved nudging Wright out of the church. But it seems entirely credible to me that Obama had no idea how far off the deep end Wright had dived. When you are not involved with a congregation from week to week, it's hard to know everything that is happening.

Wright needs to be ignored and left alone, except by the family and friends who should be helping him become more grounded.

[mattclearing]

1. Interesting take.

I doubt anyone will buy that, even if it is true.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. It seems obvious to me

I think most people would look it the same way, unless they have an axe to grind.

[mattclearing]

5. I think he meant what he said, and he was pretty well-versed about it.

I don't think someone who is losing their mind is going to be that specific about their scripture or their facts. That said, I happen to agree with most everything Wright said. It's totally embarrassing for Obama, though.

[LuckyTheDog]

11. Wait a second

Do you REALLY believe that Louis Farrakhan speaks for the black community and that the whole black community hangs on every word he says? I don't think any rational observer would say such a thing. And let's not even get into the "government created AIDS" nonsense.

[mattclearing]

15. I believe that there is a significant subset of the black community that values Farrakhan's pov.

As far as the AIDS thing, what Reverend Wright said was that after the Tuskegee experiment that went on for forty years, he couldn't discount it. But it's not just that as far as I'm concerned, because the CIA fed unknowing people LSD, flooded the market with crack, and experimented with manchurian candidate-style mind-control. With all that in mind, the AIDS thing isn't a huge leap, but all of the things before it are much more reliably documented.

[cliffordu]

22. That's exactly right.

There was an HBO documentary called "BASTARDS OF THE PARTY" about the beginning of the Crips and Bloods - how right after the assassination of two of the Panthers in south central LA two factions of the panthers split up and then started war for territory because the streets were flooded with coke, then freebase and then crack
linked to the CIA and then the Iran Contra smugglers....

Don't laugh...I bought drugs off CIA operatives in Vietnam....They funded extensive operations into Laos with the Thai stick....



:patriot:

[mattclearing]

25. I'm not laughing. I know what goes on.

One of many reasons I'm supporting Obama.

[MrSlayer]

3. I thought he was spot on.

What exactly makes you think he's "lost it"? His answers were right on the money. Or were you just not enjoying his frivolity with his friends in between questions?

[LuckyTheDog]

8. The government invented AIDS? Really?

Come on, now. Also, his behavior seemed... well, odd.

[soothsayer]

10. The military did go to congress to ask for funding for race-specific diseases

to use as weapons. AIDS was probably for blacks. Maybe they did SARS for the Chinese. Still working out the kinks, of course. Perfectly plausible. What makes you think the government WOULDN'T invent AIDS?

[LuckyTheDog]

13. AIDS was not invented by the government (nt)

[soothsayer]

18. If not invented, how about exploited? We need to get the Africans out of Africa.

They're clogging up the natural resources we want. Thus the Africa command is established. Don't worry, the NWO has all the time in the world.

It's time to stop being so naive and thinking 'the gov't wouldn't invent AIDs, the gov't wouldn't torture, the gov't wouldn't trade drugs for arms, and arms for hostages,, the gov't wouldn't plot to assassinate other world leaders, the gov't wouldn't "

Seriously. We don't have a sovereign nation. It is NOT run 'by the people' or even 'for the people'

[Seeker30]

35. Is there something in your water that makes you stupid? AIDS is not a 'black' disease

Geezus the stuff some of you say.

[MrSlayer]

17. He never said they did it, just that they were capable of it.

And who's the fool that doesn't believe that considering all the things they have done?

[The Night Owl]

28. Bullshit. Jeremiah Wright unequivocally declared that the US government invented HIV...

"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied." - Jeremiah Wright

[MrSlayer]

30. My apologies.

I only saw his answer in the Q&A session, where he said they were capable. You can't say for certain they did it as he says there. You can't prove it. It is a foolish statement.

[Guaranteed]

31. Dude, I can't believe you kicked this. nt

[Guaranteed]

32. Dude, I can't believe you kicked this. nt

[cliffordu]

23. Read post 15

[cali]

4. More long distance diagnosis

Do you know Wright? And how can you say he was pushed out? Btw, Obama has been in the Senate for 3 years and 3 months- not for 5 years.

[LuckyTheDog]

6. Did you SEE the press club thing?

The guy clearly has lost it.

I fixed the typo on the year.

[JoFerret]

7. Clearly he is out to undermine Obama

Now Obama has bitten back - what will Wright do?

[LuckyTheDog]

9. Should anyone care?

Seriously, why should anyone care?

[JoFerret]

12. Not for me to judge but wounded vanity

is a powerful motivator. It will raise the question of Obama's past judgment and whether this "outrage" means anything to people.
Obama threw his old friend to the dogs.
His old friend does not want him to succeed.

[LuckyTheDog]

14. Obama went out on a limb for Wright

And Wright paid him back by attacking Obama using irrational ranting.

Obama did the right thing here. Wright threw himself to the dogs.

[JoFerret]

21. Dog eat dog world then

.

[windbreeze]

37. I wonder how true it is, that Wright has some problems

and was paid quite a sum of money to cause Obama problems, or his(Wright's) problems were going to be exposed...??? wb

[NJmaverick]

16. I was wondering if he is suffering from Alzhiemers

[LuckyTheDog]

19. I have looked at his sermons online

The Wright from several years back seems like a different Wright than we see now.

[Sensitivity]

20. Wright is a preacher. His perspective and responsibility is different, NOT DIFICIENT!

Many progressives, especially AA, share his understanding of life and times in America.

[smalll]

24. Different not Deficient - in other words, updated, SEdated, academicized, fluffed up and airbrushed:

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL. Think about it. Left-white-brain/right-black-brain ruminations take you down that road.

[The Night Owl]

29. LOL!

Here is what Jeremiah Wright has to say about liberals...

Our hope is not built on faith-based dollars, empty liberal
promises or veiled hate-filled preachments of the so-called
conservatives. Our hope is built on Him who came in the
flesh to set us free.

http://www.tucc.org/pdf/rey_5-2006.pdf

[NNN0LHI]

26. Is this the guy who was being compared to the second coming around here last week?

Whoa dude what a turn around.

Don

[stillcool]

34. The "Second Coming"?

Jeez...the guy is a frigging human being. He didn't put himself in the spotlight. The man was disemboweled gleefully by the media...and others..24/7 for 3 weeks running, with selected excerpts from a sermon. The recent media circus that followed, whether he inadvertently or intentionally created it, is a shame. The entire farce is a disgrace. Too bad Obama's preacher wasn't Pat Robertson.

[EFerrari]

27. That would account for a lot of things. I don't see it myself but

I did notice that he seemed much more at ease in the venues he's probably used to - speaking on his own or sitting across from someone and having a conversation. He seemed visibly less at ease and even somewhat defensive during the Q&A with that smirky moderator at the Press Club.

[2rth2pwr]

33. What did he say at the NPC that is different than what he has said before?

[JoFerret]

36. Is there any evidence

that Wright of 2008 is fundamentally different from the Wright of 10, 15, 20 years ago?

This seems like a rather distasteful attempt to gaslight Wright.