Disfellowshipping Religion From The Presidential Race

Hopefully people can see through much of what is being said in the media these days about Barack Obama and his former pastor Rev. Wright...

How does what Rev. Wright said years ago, or is saying now give insight to the mind of Obama anyway? Will Rev Wright's fingerprints leave as significant a stain on our nation as did Donald Rumsfeld's? Will they overshadow the bloody torture fingerprints of Alberto Gonzales? Now that is something real to think about for a change...

Tell all of the frightened people to take a big "chill pill." Barack Obama will not name Rev. Wright to his cabinet, but McCain just might make Rev. Hagee his "Secretary of Religious War."

Today I listened to a radio interview with Arianna Huffington as she promoted her book, Right Is Wrong. She stated that the "lunatic fringe has not only taken over the right, but has done so with the help of the media" which has become a mouthpiece for it's policies... She believes Democrats have weakly stood by and let it happen for fear that they would be labeled "un-American" for not backing republican war plans and war agendas...

She's right, since everything that is taking place these days is being dictated by the headlines, and the Democrats seem to have an energy crisis when it comes to speaking up for themselves and outing conservative journalists for not being completely truthful in their reporting...

Take today for instance. Obama issued denunciations for Rev. Wright based on the fear that media will injure his chances for his nomination if he did not do so. He had to do it to change the tone of the media's reporting... But why does McCain get to embrace Rev. Hagee and accept his endorsement without a media backlash? Where are the loud mouthed Democrats who need to be trumpeting this fact; this bias?

By the way, Rev. Wright was a pastor when he went on Bill Moyer's Journal, but since he has been making the press rounds and trying to influence the voting process, he is now a politician and fair game..

Quoting Arianna Huffington's article in today's Huffington Post: "Democratic leaders need to re-define the center of American politics." But I'll go a step further, 'Democrats need to fight back and stop being afraid of losing what they don't already own: THE WHITE HOUSE!'

As long as the public sees Democrats in a constant defensive mode rather than in an aggressively offensive one, voters will always have a sense that no-matter what republicans do or say wrong, they must be right since Democrats keep backing down...

Mr. Obama needs to kick Rev. Wright to the curb, and remind everyone that the Pope was once a Hitler Youth back in the day... Does that call the whole Catholic Church into question? He needs to expose Hillary for her double standards with her former ties to Rev. Wright, and point to the flawed theologies of Rev. Hagee, Rev. Dobson and the late Rev. Falwell. Also try throwing in Rev Ted Haggard for extra flavoring...

Mr. Obama needs to remind the public that it was not Rev. Wright who got us into an illegal war in Iraq; a war that both Hillary and McCain voted for... He needs to remind the public that foreclosures are at record highs, and the dollar is at a record low ALL due to failed republican policies... and he needs to say it with A-U-T-H-O-R-I-T-Y! Fight them tooth and nail because the public seems to respect politicians who fight for their true beliefs regardless to their outcomes... How else can you explain George W. Bush winning the presidency twice?

The media would go Democratic if there were more Democrats with the guts of Rep. Jack Murtha or Sen. Jim Webb who will show their political teeth, or the politically incorrect Rep. Maxine Waters who would expose a republican lie faster than George Bush would tell the truth...

The media hooked onto republicans because they were/are the most outlandish and the most aggressive. Republicans forced themselves on the American people similar to the Nazis forcing themselves on the German people... Republicans systemically took over all vestiges of government and the federal court system, while infiltrating the media with their partially false neoconistic propaganda and spinmeisters...

Due to the present state of our Union, Democrats have better than a 50/50 chance at regaining the White House, and restoring a veto proof Democratic Congress.

Time for the Dems to shine a beacon light on the truth, and do it regardless to what their poll numbers say... As my mother says: "Truth always rises to the top..."

GLM

Clinton In Focus

With a sense of contrition, I confess that I was once a Bill Clinton co-dependent. I enabled him to stand before the country and blatantly lie about an innocuous sexual relationship with an equally innocuous woman named Monica Lewinsky... Bill considered the whole thing so "innocuous" that he should not have been called on it. Many of us agreed with him.

We Clinton Democrats began our long enabling journey in 1992. We ultimately elected Clinton President and endorsed his Clintonisms, while he in turn expected us to rally to his defense as he got egg on his face... Clinton's behaviors and excesses led directly to the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.

How? Keep reading...

The American public has long been guilty of believing politicians, especially those who look and talk like we want them to look and talk. Black Americans jumped on the Democratic bandwagon, and rightfully so since it is the party that pushes through the legislation that ultimately gives us more governmental access... We rode the Clinton express like it was the actual freedom train, but where did we go?

Clinton led us to believe he was the closest thing to JFK, and that his election would benefit all Americans who wanted a better life after the economy had faltered under Bush senior. He led some to believe that he was a man of faith who could be trusted. Since most Americans at the time were church going people, Clinton played the "faith card" to get more votes. He used multi-cultural and multi-ethnic themes to attract Americans of all hues and faiths...

However, Clinton's main support came from the black community. He hung out with Grover Washington, Jr. When he got into trouble he summoned Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. to pray with him. He played his alto saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show, and commissioned Maya Angelou to read her poetry at his inauguration. Vernon Jordan, Jr. was his "best friend," and he clowned with Bill Cosby. Clinton even calls himself the "First Black President."

On to the election of 2000... Clinton was popular still, but he was not running. Al Gore was. Because Clinton behaved so "morally reprehensible" in the eyes of the white conservative church-going public, it was easy for a scoundrel like George W. Bush to play a Texas sized "faith card" to trump Gore's. Bush won almost half of the voting public, but 5 Supreme Court Justices with the help of Jerry Falwell and James Dobson put him over the top...

Because Bush looked and sounded like the republican worshipper sitting in Falwell's church every Sunday, he convinced many, with his conservative demeanor, that it was time to get back to 1952 "American Values." The American press, owned by corporate Bush supporters, was unwilling to look deeper into Bush's character, therefore leaving the non-thinking American public at the mercy of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.

Clinton unknowingly left the door open for Bush and the NEOCON juggernauts, using Monica Lewinsky as the door stop.

So here we are in 2008. Hillary Clinton, Bill's wife, is now running for President. Barack Obama, a black man is challenging her for the Democratic nomination. John McCain is the seated Republican candidate who will face either of them in November. We are still paying a major price for the failed Bush presidency, and will continue to do so for some time; even longer if John McCain is elected.

Bill Clinton is again drumming up co-dependents and enablers for his wife Hillary. They have both equivocated several important facts, such as taking fire in Bosnia, and have alienated most if not all of their support in the black community with their unfair and untruthful characterizations of Barack Obama. Bill and Hillary both have played a "race card" the size of Arkansas. Like the Monica Lewinsky affair, they both consider their race baiting and fear mongering "innocuous," and believe that they should not be called on it.

I think it is time for the Clinton-Bush presidential years to come to an end.

GLM