Racism Bites Back, Using Religion as its Pawn

Faith is and will become increasingly important.

For example having faith in what I am saying now, simply based on what I had written 2 – 7 years ago or more has all happened.

Many of the fictions that snag our attention today will become irrelevant.

Some rivers will be 2 - 3 miles wide within perhaps two years, so plan now, have faith in what I say.

Reminds us of the Noah’s Ark story, no one listened to the divine because of ego and they were swept away, naturally. It tries to help.

I actually know how to engineer solutions so we can all adapt … doesn’t look like it is going to happen though, more and more I am thinking it is not supposed to be that way.

More important than knowing the solutions is knowing how to dissolve the ego impediments that block their rapid implementation, for example on the floors of congress.

One way to gauge a correction in the collective attention would be the American Idol ratings would drop. Funny isn’t it worshipping false Idols (fictions), I think they call it Idolatry. I am not really saying American Idol is bad, our collective priority is simply not one based on wisdom.

Some rivers will be 2 - 3 miles wide within perhaps two years, so plan now, have faith in what I say. This is based on the new volumes of water they must carry.

Do you think the current dams will hold? What does it mean when they are gone?

I think it might be time for me to change course like the rivers..

If you aware then there is nothing to fear.

One can be in error without being evil, pagan. Neither Aires Or Rezko belonged to his church both are however definitely leftist. Both his associates and his website are pretty much hard line left. Why should I expect that he wouldn't be? He wants to add more government spending at the Federal level than Hillary and McCain Combined. That is a leftist mindset. Like Reagan I don't assume leftist are evil. I do, like Reagan, believe, that they believe a lot of things which just aren't so. That makes them misguided but not necessarily evil.

The phrase also has nothing to do with shoddy workmanship. The dam isn't the patch.

Ah, don't much like people attributing sinister motives to you, do you, Gary?

Why you seem so bent on doing it to others?

Well, I'll take you at your word on your intent, there, Gary, but the phrase has kind of morphed beyond calling people shoddy workers, which is pretty much where the phrase has its origins.

And, we still don't hear anyone calling into question affiliations with that white Catholic guest preacher or *his* own church, ...maybe they're all 'leftist radicals' too?

Of course the content of *that* sermon seems to have been taken out of context by the soundbite crowd.

Certainly, now that people want to smear Obama over suspicions of being a 'left wing radical' cause of something a *member of a different church* seemed to be saying while he wasn't even in attendance... they can't sensibly claim he 'threw his faith under a bus' when it's clear that the media circus, if nothing else, became intolerable, both as damaging to the campaign so many rest hopes on, and the very church he once was so attached to... and he *did* resign his membership.

There certainly *is* a double standard involved.

Of course, the Right will smear anyone on anything, but in this case, certainly they're exploiting racism.

If you believe there are all these 'black radicals' out there like you fear... well, here's a man who has met them and chosen to be part of healing the wounds of our country's legacy of racism: they're still felt keenly in a lot of places, ...has it never occurred to you that this can be an *asset* in a leader, given how the country is going?

Among my very earliest memories in this life are my father coming home, doubtless exhausted, in riot gear because of the strife around 'busing' and other racial issues... scenes almost unthinkable, now. I didn't end up a racist, and for that matter, neither did my father, though I was exposed to it constantly. Including in a religious context.

Things have definitely changed since Wright's formative days, and Obama repeatedly discusses how things must be forward-looking: he's clearly not a carbon copy of Wright, and has articulated just how and why, but that clearly doesn't stop certain folks, does it?

It's as I warned, you start mixing all that religion and politics, even in the name of a 'Christian Majority,' ...then what happens... It becomes about 'which sect, which church, who claims to have 'faith' and who do we want to believe about it?'

One reason I don't buy the arguments used that Christians ought to be able to impose their tabooes on everyone else in the name of a 'majority,' cause there is none.

That takes what needs to be a rational national dialogue and takes it out of the realm of reason and into various manipulations.

Obama's not a robot. His life experiences are varied and deep, from that church to the Far East, to Harvard University.

You seem to be demanding a President who has some 'purity of viewpoint,' ie, only your own, with nothing you can find 'suspicious.'

What's that? Xenophobia.

Listen to the man himself.

Are you completely nuts. It's the circle a tinker makes around the hole in a pot before he patches it which he then grinds or files away after words hence to be not worth a tinker's dam means simply mean's that it isn't worth the value of an item that is extremely temporary in nature and in fact useless and not existant after a brief period of time. The phrase was used even by tinker's and has no religious connotation.

Before you jump my case about something you better figure out exactly what I'm talking about. This time you had no clue and fire for effect revealing only the level of your ignorance.

Please note that Jeremiah Wright appears along side Father Pflager. No one worth your time or mine cares at all what color they are. We do care about there hate filled rhetoric which frankly is far worse on the left and far more common as well than all but a handful of conservative sites.

And please note compared to the Average article at the dailyKos and the Huffington Post the rhetoric of Pflager and Wright is fairly tame.

Oh, yeah, and the phrase 'Not worth a Tinker's damn' is bigoted, too. (ie, At risk of sounding too 'PC' for your loving Christianity, they're Traveling People, more properly, but saying their word is worthless is an insult.)

Some biases are just habitual, but just cause of that doesn't mean they're right.

"No one gave a tinker's dam what color Father Pflager was."

Not since, it turns out he was a white Catholic imitating 'black' accents and speech styles.

Maybe we ought to question the character and judgment of the area Catholics or anyone who associates with them, too, eh?

Mr. Chopra brings up an important point.

Obama's always been on the side of healing these divides, not just insisting that anyone near them must be a 'hater.'

How absurd Mr. Chopra. This isn't about racism so much as very different views as to what America is. No one cared what Color Jeremiah Wright was. They cared very much about his slanderous accusations.

No one gave a tinker's dam what color Father Pflager was. They cared a very great deal about what he said and to a much lesser degree how the congregation reacted to what he said.