Obama Attended Hate America Sermon

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Obama Attended Hate America Sermon






Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:14 PM

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Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 11:46am

I do think that people are taking a pause in their enthusiasm for Senator Obama. I am not sure that is a bad thing, since I prefer people to vote with their intellect and not their hearts. Still, there is a long time to the convention and anything could happen.


I do feel the need to weigh in on this conversation, not just in response to anything you have said. I belong to a fellowship which I believe to have saved my life. I joined this fellowship 18+ years ago, of my own free will. I chose a sponsor to guide me through the intricasies of the program. My sponsor has gone bankrupt twice, finds loopholes in laws to suit her purposes, has raised 3 very poorly adjusted children to adulthood. I do not like these things about her, and disagree with her methods on business and childrearing. She sometimes gives me advice on these things, and I ignore them. Still, I need her even today to maintain the life I have built in the last 18+ years.


Sounds a little too analogous for me. That 'first stone' thing is hitting me in the face.

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Registered: 08-30-2004
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 11:52am

Obama hasn't lost ground after this.

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Registered: 09-23-2004
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 11:54am

Is she running for President? Is she a racist? I'd guess no and no....so it's not even a fair analogy to the topic.

Understandable, but not even close to fair. It's one thing to have a mentor whose parenting choices and such you disagree with. Quite another to have a mentor who is apparently fairly well known as a racist....

I think this latest issue w/ Obama is just the tip of the iceberg. I have a feeling there's going to be more we're going to find out as this goes on.

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Registered: 08-30-2004
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 11:56am
Beth - First, I congratulate you on working through your struggles.

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Registered: 08-30-2004
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 11:58am

I think you may have missed the point.


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Registered: 01-11-2008
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 11:59am
Yeah Janet...I didn't understand the speech. It was too far over my head with all the nuances and such.
Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 12:01pm

Is a person a racist for reacting to racism? I am not being a brat asking that, it is one of those questions I struggle with myself. Sometimes I say "HECK YEAH" and other times "NO."


I really wish that, for myself, the world had less gray.


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Registered: 09-23-2004
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 12:04pm
No, I got the point...in fact I said I understood it. I just don't think it's comparative to Obama's situation.

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Registered: 02-27-2008
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 12:05pm

I have to wonder what people outside California knew about Ronald Regan or Richard Nixon prior to their running for president -- in neither case where they even Senators with the possiblity of sponsoring legislation that would be noticed by others, but simply Governors.

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 03-19-2008 - 12:05pm

Thanks, some of the oddest people have had profound influences on my life.


One was a Catholic priest, principal of my high school. He helped my family in numerous ways, but has also pled guilty to being a pedaphile. His destruction of their lives co-exists with the positive influence he had on mine. I can deplore his actions, and wish him punished, but at the same time, be grateful for what he did for me.


Like I said in my other post...too much gray in my life....

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