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,

How long is it going to take before America gets the message that Barack Obama is not the candidate of "Change"? Barack Obama attended a church for twenty years with a minister that preached the old politics of hate. For twenty years, Barack Obama sat in the pews listening to sermons filled with Black separatist hatred. Senator Obama listened to twenty years of anti-American rhetoric in the form of religious messages. For twenty years, Barack Obama listened to vile, poisonousness, despicable language designed to pull people apart, not to put them together. And what did Barack Obama do during those twenty years? Did he talk to his pastor and ask him to stop being so hateful? Did he make any public statements about how this man was hurting his congregation? Did he get up and walk out with his wife and children in hand? No, he stayed a member in good standing. He remained a member of a church that teaches hatred and racial supremacy for the last twenty years. 

So instead of leaving this church in disgust, Barack Obama wrote the book "The Audacity of Hope" with his hate filled pastor. And now that some of Obama's pastor's sermons are finally out in the open, what does the Senator have to say? He says, I was never at church when "Reverend" Wright attacked America as the worst country in the world. He claims that he was conveniently absent for twenty years while his pastor said our government created AIDS to kill people of color, that America's foreign policy caused 9/11, and our country addicted Blacks to crack cocaine so we could put them in prison.

I don't know about you, but this kind of sounds like the Germans saying, we didn't know why there's always smoke coming out of those chimneys. We didn't know why the trains arrived full and left empty. And SS guards saying they were just following orders. It didn't work for the Germans, and it's not going to work now. Barack Obama can claim that he had no idea what "Rev." Wright was preaching for the last twenty years. He can claim that every time his pastor was preaching his hate filled sermons, he wasn't at church that Sunday. He can swear that he never heard any of "Rev. Wright's messages but I'm not buying it.

What Barack Obama wants us to accept, is that he never attended one service in twenty years, where any of the sermons in question were preached. Then he wants us to accept that no one ever told him what his pastor of twenty had preached on any given Sunday. Then he wants us to believe that the man that helped him write a book, never expressed any of his beliefs while they worked together for hours and hours. I guess that Barack Obama thinks that we are a nation of fools. I guess Senator Obama thinks we are the dumbest people in the world. But I'm not a fool and I'm not dumb either. And I pray to God that our country comes out of this long national stupor and wakes up to who Barack Obama really is before its too late.

For the last few months, the conservative talk show sound machine has been attacking Senator John McCain. This loud crowd of the yammering class have insisted that Senator McCain just isn't conservative enough. These self appointed right-wing harpies have tried to convince America that a Senator with an 83% lifetime conservative voting record just doesn't measure up to their standards. I would like to know who crowned Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ann Colter as the arbiters of all things conservative. 

I don't like litmus tests. Just look at the disastrous history of all the countries from the 20th century that imposed purity tests towards a particular ideology on their citizens. But fortunately, the good sense of the America people saw past the attacks of a few so called influential radio hosts and chose a Republican candidate that has the best chance of winning in November. These loud mouths from the far right have proven that they don't have the power they thought they had. They have proven themselves to be powerless paper tigers. 

So now that we have a candidate that can win, we need to engage the Moveon.orgs of the world, starting today. Let's join together now, to defeat the powerful left-wing forces that have aligned themselves to change America into a socialist state. We are facing a battle for the soul of America. This election season is going to be a knock down drag out fight between the right and the left. I believe this campaign is going to the ugliest election in U.S. history. It's going to take all the efforts of the center/right oriented voters in this country to bring down the powers of the extreme left. Let me encourage you to talk to anyone who has an open mind about the direction the Democrats would take us in compared to the steady leadership that John McCain is offering our country. 

The soaring speeches of Barack Obama have propelled him to be the presumptive front runner spot for the Democratic nomination. The Senator has an innate ability to move crowds to raucous applause. With his amazing skills as an orator, Barack Obama can move people to tears. There have even been numerous cases of people who have fainted while the Senator has been giving one of his enrapturing speeches. There hasn't been a politician in recent history that can work a crowd up in such a frenzy. But what does all this emotion mean if there isn't any substance to all his flowing rhetoric?

When you look back at the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was fighting the evil of segregation, you can appreciate his need to move people to action. And when you listen to the words of John F. Kennedy, you can be awe struck by his ability to get Americans moved to serve there country during a time of get social change. But what is the great cause of our day? What is so wrong with our country that we need Barack Obama to save us? Are we being oppressed? Are we losing our freedoms? Are the secret police waiting at our doors?

I don't know about you but I don't want Barack Obama and the Federal Government to save me. I don't want the nanny state telling me what to eat, when to exercise, to get a check up, and when to brush my teeth. What I do want the government to do is protect from Islamic extremists, people entering our country illegally, and street gangs from South America. I want the government to make sure the Chinese send us safe products, make sure that shipping containers aren't carrying nukes, and that our products are given a fair shake in the world's market place. In other words, I want the government to leave me alone to pursue my life's work and keep those that would stop me from living my life my way and your life your way.

We don't need some slick, young, freshmen Senator telling us that our country is broken. That our society is a complete failure. And that without him at the helm, our nation is heading to its' ruin. What we need in leadership is someone who understands that hard work and perseverance are the answers to success. Personally, I have found all this talk about Hope and Change tedious and tiresome. Barack Obama's message isn't inspiring, it's depressing. He doesn't build our country up, he pulls it down. His message to us is that America is unfair to it's citizens and that you don't have a chance of ever being anything. That your only chance to accomplish your life goals are entirely dependent on the government helping you make something of yourself.

The problem with the rhetoric of Senator Obama is that it's patently untrue. Our country is filled with millions and millions of people that came from humble beginnings to be extraordinarily successful. The Senator and his wife are prime examples of what America can do for us as individuals. Both Barack and Michelle Obama are living a life that would be almost impossible to have anywhere else. They used their God given intellect and hard work to have more success then I'll ever know. They have had privileges in life I would give almost anything to have had. Yet over and over again the Senator says the system is tilted against us. That we need to have him level the playing field. What ever happened to not biting the hand that's feeding you. My family has never had the chances that the Obama's have had, and we never will. If we make anything of ourselves it won't be because its been handed to us and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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.