Obama the Human
Jeremiah Wright is the typical fanatical kook. Akin to the same types as Falwell and the televangelists, a zealot and a fool.
But let’s be honest here people – it is only self-evident that when you give a crazy man the stage, he will take it like wildfire. I’m sure that Wright in his lack of infamy was assuredly not as vocal about his mental defects while Obama was attending the church.
And if you’ve been attending a church for 20 years, yes, you will know that your pastor may believe in certain things that are contrary not to both your own, but the ideals of the Church and the bible in and of itself.
Regardless it doesn’t reflect upon you that your pastor is insane. As it does not reflect upon ourselves as Americans that George Bush slaughtered millions of Iraqi innocents in his crusade on Terror.
So Obama didn’t want to publicly deface and call his pastor a lunatic.
If your mom was a fanatical “Zionist” would you publicize that on television if you were famous?
Would you take the stand and say, “Hey guys, I just wanted you to know – my mother is a lunatic, so don’t listen to her.”
Is that the type of person we want as a leader or President? Someone with no compassion, no feeling, no sympathy for the people’s feelings?
The fact that he did not immediately denounce Jeremiah Wright shows a respect and sympathy for others that is not inherent in the militant and money-driven politician framework that we view today.
In fact I am glad to see that Obama is a human, and does share a sympathy or care towards others, and even if he doesn’t always come across in the greatest way, at least he tries, and he’s honest, instead of putting up a happy face and feeding people shit they want to hear.
I don’t see him as a fraud, or a liar. Admittedly you can’t stereotype all of Wright as a complete lunatic, assuredly there were at least a few valid things that he preached or taught. But people are so quick to generalize and mark.
At the end of the day – I don’t harbor any regret or anger towards Obama for having a lunatic pastor. It has nothing to do with him. What I would not condone however, is if the pastor began gaining publicity, and he was not denounced. America is supposed to be about “innocent until proven guilty”. Obama gave the man a chance. He took advantage of it. And it’s Obama’s responsibility to denounce him. And he did.
No damage has been done. No lives were lost, no net negative effect. The only result is that people are slinging mud like children, continuing to avoid the things that really matter, but hey – that’s what America’s all about right?
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