Halfway there

The (D)emocratic Party, the "Party of Halves and Have-Nots" (spelling correct) brings us another half.

If a (R)epublican candidate were associated with, say, a preacher who countenanced the killing of abortion doctors, the (D)emocrats would cry that said candidate must rid him/herself of that association, entirely. Those (D)emocrats would be correct, and said (R)epublican candidate would do it.

So, Candidate Obama has closely associated himself with a pastor who preaches hatred of his country and claims that the Federal Government itself is the source of racism here. Then, subsequent calls, some of them by (R)epublicans, ask Candidate Obama to dis-associate himself from this hateful pastor.

Now, after resisting these calls for better than a week (and the calls actually started over a year ago, but only recently became loud and strident), Candidate Obama takes the half-way step of distancing himself from those hateful videotaped remarks of said Pastor Wright.

Candidate Obama did not denounce the man, he denounced the man's video-taped remarks, and carefully removed the remarks from the entire personna of the pastor as he denounced them.

This is classic liberal half-way confession. It is exactly what makes the liberal philosophy personally repugnant to me. Most followers of this political philosophy do not have the personal courage of their convictions to stand on said convictions.

Oh, BTW, it was reported last night that Pastor Wright has taken a vacation to an un-disclosed location, and after said vacation, he will be on a 3-month sabbatical from his church, and is therefor unavailable for comment.

The (D)emocratic Party, having held up Candidate Obama as a man who follows the Christian religion closely, and thereby has accepted it's principles, now takes his obviously UN-Christian pastor and hides him from public scrutiny just as that cleric's complete lack of Christianity becomes painfully apparent to the entire nation.

That would be the "ObamaNation" Pastor Wright has preached his hate to, not my Nation.

The (D)emocrats have only succeeded, with this half-apology, in further demonstrating their callous disregard of the basic principles of civilization here in my Nation, an important one of which says that an adult must take personal responsibility for the acceptance and following of any philosophy.

That's personal responsibility for the whole package, Senator Obama, not responsibility to snip out a few words from this hate-monger and approve the rest of it and the hateful man as well.

Comments

[Grumpy Old Ham]

"Personal Responsibility"

and

"Democrat"

are mutually exclusive concepts -- proven by the last 35 or so years of American history.

[papabear47]

I was an ardent Demorat until Jimmy Carters term of office,at time I made excuses for his poor statesmanship and was less fervent as a Demorat.Reagan moved me towards the center,G.H.Bush and his NEW World Order slowed my progress to the right.And then came two terms of B.S Klinton and big Jan Reno....That was it,I became a registered Republican....And now the idiocy of what G.W.Bush is perpetrating,Illegal aliens swarming into America for the benefits,NAU,Destruction of our constitution(it's just a damned piece of paper....I am now an independent and want nothing but good people in office who understand and support this "piece of paper"....No thanks to you Mr.Bush.

[Mainframe]

If standards are good then double-standards must be *twice* as good! (the liberal mental analysis at work)

[GUYK]

Right you are RiverDawg..and Obama ain't seen nothin' yet..if he thinks that Kerry was "swiftboated" just wait until he gets the nomination. All those meetings he had with the ex-Weathermen commies as well as his wife's association with same will come out..moreover the public will be asking why he attended a radical church whose leader was calling for the distruction of all that most Americans hold dear..

The press has given him a free ride up until now because they didn't want to be labeled racist..labels be damned and if it racist to point out that this man is a dangerous radical then just call me a racist..