Have you heard that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. has been taken out of context? That's the spin that the left-wing spin machine is trying to got us to swallow. That the Reverend Wright is really a good man, and that if you took his sermons in their totality, you would reach the conclusion that he's not a hate filled bigot.

I would grant anyone the benefit of the doubt if what they said was not that own words. If they were quoting someone else and people said that they were theirs. If they were having a bad day and said something out of anger and asked for forgiveness right away. Or if they were being pressured to say something they didn't believe. But none of this is true in the case of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Reverend Wright Jr. is a wordsmith. He crafts everything he says with the precision of a brain surgeon. Nothing ever escapes his lips from the pulpit that he doesn't absolutely wants to say. So the idea that he was somehow misquoted is utterly ridiculous.

At this weekends State of the Black Church conference in Texas the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. was called a prophet by many of the attendees. So now bigots are now prophets. That's great news for the KKK and the Nazi party. Their leaders aren't vile, hate filled, evil racists, their just misquoted and misunderstood prophets. What a wonderful world we live in today. Good is bad and bad is good. 

If I hear one more person tell us that we have to put the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. into the context of the black church, I'm going to scream. Over the last few weeks I have heard countless apologists for Barack Obama's pastor say, that we have to understand the hurts of the black community. That blacks have experienced a unique history in America, and that's what's driving the anger and hatred that's coming from some of their pulpits. 

What I would like to know is, when do you ever get over the hurts of the past? At what point do you give up your anger and move toward healing? What I'm looking for is someone who can move us past the type of rhetoric that 'ministers' like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan use to keep blacks and whites from reaching an accord. I know that all of you have heard the words of Jeremiah Wright, so I won't take the time to repeat the vile things that he's said from the pulpit. But since Rev. Wright Jr. insists on using rhetoric like 'God damn America' I would like to know how anyone can put those words in the context of the black church? 

Some people thought that Barack Obama was the answer to the hurts of the past. So many people were sitting at Obama's rallies thinking he could bring the racial divide together. But does anyone honestly think that he can do that now? It seems that even when Senator Obama tried to move away from some of his pastors hurtful rhetoric, he just made matters worse. During his own speech on the subject of race, Barack Obama threw his own white grandmother under the bus by saying that she used racially divisive words that made him cringe. As if the private words used by his grandmother were morally equivalent to the thirty plus years of hate that Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preached from his pulpit. Then to make matters worse Obama referred to his grandmother again by calling her a 'typical white person' in a radio interview. 

How in the heck does anyone get away with using the term 'typical white person'? Can you imagine John McCain referring to any black person as 'typical'? The black community and press would go wild. I guess that if you're a black candidate, you can say anything you want when the press is in the tank for you. The bad thing for Obama is that, even with the press giving him a pass when he says racially insensitive things, the America people aren't buying Obama's crap. So Chris Mathews, Campbell Brown, and Anderson Cooper can keep fawning over every word that pours out of Barack Obama's mouth. But the 'typical white' voter is getting sick of the media refusing to hold Barack Obama accountable for his meaningless attempts to gloss over all the ridiculous he says and believes.

The following is a copy of a letter that I am sending to the office of Senator Barack Obama.

Senator Barack Obama

713 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510 

Dear Senator Obama,

For my entire life I have believed that when I saw a black man, I was seeing a man. I have never regarded people of other races as somehow different or inferior to me. I've always felt that at our core all people want the same thing. We all want to live our lives in peace, to be treated with dignity, and to be able to improve our standing in life. And when I became a Christian thirty years ago, I came to believe that when I meet another Christian I was seeing a brother in the Lord. That as a fellow believer, our shared experience with Jesus Christ has erased our racial differences totally and completely.

However, now that the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. have come to light, I think I need to reconsider my previously held belief. I had no idea that the theology taught in black churches was so different than the teachings that I have been exposed to. I didn't know that there was any such thing as "Black Liberation Theology". I didn't know that the Jesus I believe in had been colorized and divided into a Jesus for blacks and a Jesus for whites.

I guess I should thank you for running for President. If it wasn't for your candidacy, I would have remained blissfully unaware of the divisive and hateful teachings taking place in the "black church". I would have gone through life feeling a false sense of unity with people that at their core hate me because I'm white. That no matter what Jesus has done to bring us together, that race is a gap that God himself can't bridge. That there are "theologians" who don't want to be members of "one Nation under God".

Senator Obama, I don't know if I will ever get over the hurt I feel after hearing the words of your minister. And while you didn't say these words yourself, you remained a member of Rev. Wright's church for the twenty years. And now, you have the audacity to ask me to accept that your spiritual mentor never talked with you about his beliefs. That you had no idea that Rev. Wright preached a hateful and divisive series of messages during years and years of ministry. And that you were conveniently absent every time the Rev. Wright was poisoning the minds of his congregants. 

Senator Obama, I listened to your weak kneed excuses for the last several days. I find it insulting that you think I'm so dumb, that I'm going to believe you didn't know the theology that your own pastor was teaching. I guess you want me to believe that for the last twenty years Rev. Wright tailored his messages for your hearing. And that he cleverly managed to keep you from becoming aware of his hate filled, anti-American rhetoric. Seriously, you must think that the American people are the biggest fools on the planet. But the truth of the matter is that I'm not a fool, and neither are the American people. And while I don't know if the current situation will prevent you from becoming the Democratic nominee for President, the words of your pastor are going to follow you for the rest of this campaign.

The sad thing is that it would have been nice to see a true post racial candidate running for President of the United States, but that's not possible now. Your affiliation with a "grievance minister" makes it impossible for our country to move away from the past. I have heard your supporters screaming about all the evils of America's past on the national news. In their minds America is still guilty for slavery, discrimination, and all the activities of a small group of violent radicals that targeted black people in the far south. Now we find that America's guilt didn't end in the past, that our country is guilty for AIDS, crack, and foreign policies that caused 9/11, and a whole host of things that are too numerous to list. So, no matter what America does to heal, people like Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and his adherents will always make sure the wounds of the past remain open. And you, as a member of his church, are just as responsible for preventing the healing of our country as the people who promote this venomous ideology.

Respectfully,

Barack Obama's been under attack for some time now about his Christian faith. Some people insist on calling Senator Obama, Barack Hussein Obama in an attempt to get people to think that he's a Muslim. The implication is that he's hiding his true faith in order to take control of our country only to reveal that he's really Muslim later. This is a mean little tactic. Personally, I would be more comfortable knowing that Obama is a practicing Muslim than as a member of a church with questionable Christian teachings.

The reason I'd rather know that Obama is a practicing Muslim is because of the radical teachings of Senator Obama's church. At least if we knew that Obama was a Muslim there wouldn't be the hidden agenda that we have now. Any serious study of the teachings of the Trinity United Church of Christ will leave any mean stream Christians with extreme concerns about the theology of Obama's church. 

If you have any questions about Barack Obama Christianity just Google the Trinity United Church of Christ or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. The results of even the most basic search will reveal that Barack Obama's church and preacher are entirely Afro-centric. The Trinity United Church of Christ teaches what they call Black theology and Black liberation. A divisive belief that there's a separate theology for Blacks and Whites.  

It's fine to have pride in your ethnic background and to celebrate who you are as a person. However, the idea that you are superior to others is totally against everything we've all been taught. And that's where Obama's church is coming from. I don't believe our country would be well served by a President that's been taught that his people are better than his fellow citizens. What ever happened to "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"? If you read the teachings of Barack Obama's pastor you would be shocked to find that we aren't all created equal. While some can play their little games with Barack Obama's name, I'm going to concentrate on his belief system.

For months now we have been bombed with a message of hope and change vs. fear. But the truth of the matter is that we are being given a false choice. Of course, we all hope for change in our futures. No one wants to be stuck with a life that stays in a static position. We all want to do better in the future and we want our children to do even better. But if you haven't noticed it, change is unavoidable in this world. Everything on our planet is in a constant state of flux. The question is ,when someone tells us they are going to be bring "Hope and Change", what do they really mean? 

Barack Obama is offering himself up as an agent of change and he promises to bring us all hope. However, after being flooded with this message over and over again, can anyone articulate what the end result this rhetoric will be? Exactly what are we hoping to change? Obama says we need to move away from the politics of the past. That we need to learn to work together to fix our nations problems. And he says that he can get the Democrat and Republican parties to reach across the isle to move our country forward. The only problem with this promise is that Obama has no proven track record of doing this. Senator Obama's voting record is totally void of any kind of bipartisan activity. So why would anyone think that he's suddenly going to learn how to bring two opposing forces in the House and Senate together?

Hope and change and fear are not mutually exclusive. We can hope that the fear of terrorism is defeated. We can work to change the climate that breeds young Muslim killers that have caused so much carnage all around the world. But Barack Obama is trying to convince us that if you bring up terrorism you are fear mongering. That we should totally forget about 9/11 and that if we all close our eyes all the evil in the world is suddenly going to go away. In the mean time, we have an enemy that never stops plotting new ways to kill as many Americans as possible.

It will be interesting to see how long this false message of "Hope and Change" is going to last. We don't have to drink the Koolaid. We can go into this campaign soberly, understanding that hope and change are in our DNA. Our nation is the most hopeful place on earth. And we have allowed constant change to be our strength. But if we totally ignore fear, we are fooling ourselves. We can't afford not to be alert. We have an enemy that is a serious threat to our safety. When we are hit again all the hope and change in the world are meaningless. 

Right now Barack Obama is being treated like a rock star. He draws crowds in the thousands that hang on his every word. I've heard an NBC reporter state "that if you can listen to Barack Obama speak and not got a tear in your eye you're not an American". Obama is not the first politician to cast a spell over large crowds. But at this time in history, can we afford the cult of personality to dictate the direction of our country? We have to decide what's more important, having a political novice in the Oval Office or having a President that has been tried and tested under the most extreme circumstances one man can face. The choice is yours America. This election is going to set the course of our nation for decades to come.

The course of the Democratic primary season has been an amazing process to watch. Just a few months ago it wasn't even considered a possibility that Hillary Clinton wouldn't have the nomination in her pocket by now. It was supposed to be the Republicans that were going to have a knock down drag out fight to the finish. But then out of no where comes this up start freshman Senator from Illinois and ruined the whole thing.

One of the things that's fascinated me is how thin skinned the electorate has become. During the normal course of any election cycle all of the candidates take some pretty hard shots at each other. But during this primary season everyone's turned into a bunch political infants. It seems that every attempt to compare and contrast one candidate with another starts a whole round of whining that someone's being mean. Give me a break!

Probably the worst case of whining comes from the Obama camp. Senator Obama has taken the politics of victimization to a whole new level. I always thought that the Clintons had a lock on this tactic. But Obama has managed to make every comparison Hillary Clinton makes into a "vicious political attack". I have never seen anything like this before. I don't know how you can run a campaign against a candidate you can't say anything about.

The reason I'm so concerned about election is that in a few months John McCain and Barack Obama are going to run against each other for the Presidency of the United States. The problem is that Barack Obama is a candidate that will take every opportunity to claim he's being smeared. And when you add the racial factor into this election it'll only be a matter of time before some kind of racism claim is going to be used as a weapon. Look at what happened to Bill Clinton in South Carolina. All he had to do was mention Jessie Jackson and all hell broke loose. 

I think it's going to take an extraordinary strategy to beat Barack Obama. All the usual rules and expectations are not going to apply in this election. The McCain campaign is going to have to be extremely careful every step of the way. This election is going to be like walking through a mine field. There are groups funded by George Soros that are lying in wait with 20 million dollars in the bank just waiting to attack John McCain. With the left-wing groups so well funded and our current hyper sensitive electorate I'm sure that's it's only a matter of time before someone throws a racism grenade. Once that happens I hope that country doesn't get sucked into this gambit. I believe that if race is successfully injected into campaign season our country will experience the most difficult and painful Presidential election in our history.