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05.12.2008 5:37 pm

Welcome to the age of Doublespeak

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I believe we are now in the age of George Orwell’s “Doublespeak.”  Senator Clinton states a verifiable fact that a certain group of white voters will not vote for Senator Obama. She is then called upon to stop her racist remarks or to stop injecting racism into the election. Senator Obama openly courts and panders to the African-American voting population and successfully collects about 92 % of the Black vote in just about every area of the country. These voters were once staunch supporters of Sen. Clinton. Additionally, he follows a racist, anti-semitic pastor for over twenty years and that is acceptable. The so-called man of God, Pastor Wright is not only allowed to say the most awful things about whites, the government, political figures, etc but is also given a national forum on all of the major networks for three-days running. He was the beloved pastor of Senator Obama and only after the fact does Obama distance himself from these racist rants.  None of this is deemed racist in regards to Sen. Obama and all of it is not only tolerated but in many instances defended by the major networks talking heads and the sycophantic followers of Sen. Obama.  All of this makes Don Imus seem like Walter Cronkite.

Gene Dalton

St. Louis  County

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The horse the writer is beating is a dead one, never to be revived again with any meaning.

There are times when some think that a horse (issue)is dead, they get pretty comfortable and certain in their bad deeds and then the unrespected happen, the issue is revived again, but the next time with all the right timing, destroying what they have built and acomplished on a very shaky foundation of inequity and lies, suprising all. But, this will not be the case with Obama and Rev. Wright or anything else that is thrown at Obama.

No doubt the writer is being honest according to the lens that he is seeing things through. His vision however is distorted. His mind is totally closed to any fairness in weighting the possibility of anything being truthful concerning any of the things that Rev. Wright has stated in his sermons and speeches.

Over 30 years of sermons and this is all that the demons can dig up? Rev. Wright is truly a righteous man. Not to mention that he is being slandered as being a racist when not one person can name anything that this man has said that would or could cause him to be a racist. In fact, he is not a racist.

— D. Walker
9:52 pm May 12th, 2008

Wright is a racist. So are the freaks jumping around in his pews. Obama is a bad parent to let that nutjob baptize his kids, too.

— hardhat rioter
1:45 am May 13th, 2008

hi

well first off i don\’t agree that obamas racist, his connection to that pastor are minimal at best, also you cant accuse obama of dishonesty when hillary goes round pretnding to be a hunting, rootin tootin member of the wokring class.

either way, a democrat would be far better than mccain, and hilary cant get the candidancy, shes hanging on till grim death and only dmagaing the democrats campaign.

finally, HAVE YOU READ 1984? HAVE YOU STUDIED USE OF LANGUAGE.

the term double speak is not found in 1984, only \”double talk\” and \”newspeak\” are found in the book, same idea, but doublespeak is similar term coined by another.

— thomas
7:38 am May 13th, 2008

After reading the majority of the comments supporting Obamma and Wright its obvious we no longer need cartoons for entertainment!!
LS

— HAM
9:03 am May 13th, 2008

Siding with D. Walker’s candidate of choice makes one profoundly uncomfortable, so allow me to briefly go to the Dark Side. Reverend Wright is indeed a kook. Pastor John Hagee is also a kook. Pat Robertson is a kook. Joel Osteen is a kook. Robert Schuller (both of them) and Jimmy Swaggert are kooks. Even kindly old Billy Graham is a kook. I interviewed the late Jerry Falwell several years ago; he was the king of kooks. Anyone who cannot manage to separate a candidate’s personal religious affiliation from public policy is a kook. Sen. Obama attended Rev. Wright’s church for twenty years. I watched Star Trek for twenty years. This should in no way imply that Sen. Obama, in any way, endorsed, approved, supported, or agreed with some of Rev. Wright’s kookier ideas, any more than I subscribe to the existence of Vulcans. Inquiries pertaining to a candidate’s ecclesiastical beliefs are totally invalid and come from kooks, be it Chris Matthews, or the Pope himself. Check your faith at the door! It is completely immaterial and we don’t care anyway. By the way, ditto with the candidate’s ethnic background. Live long and prosper.

— Commander Barkfeather
9:06 am May 13th, 2008

Making religion to influence ones life to enrich it is one thing, but subscribing to every word that a religious preacher says and making that part of your life and belief system is quite another. Until lately I thought only fringe groups like the Taliban subscribed to the latter. But many here apparently believe that we have had such elements on our soil for a long time. It seems just as we have 9/11 conspiracy theories on the left, some elements on the right have their own share of insecurities and paranoias.

— BluePlanet
10:45 am May 13th, 2008

Talk about double speak. Obama has said he will not talk to Hamas because they will not renounce their terrorist ways and will not recoginze Israel to exist as a nation. However, this very far left liberal radical has no problems with talking to Iran and Syria without any preconditions. And yet Iran wants to wipe Israel off the face of the map while trying to obtain nuclear weapons as does Syria. In case Obama has been asleep, Hamas is supported by Syria and Iran, a nation that denies the Holocaust ever happened. So Barack, what the hell is the difference between talking to Iran and Syria, but refusing to talk to Hamas. It is even more amazing at how stupid liberals has proven themselves to be, especially Alan Colmes, when they try and make a distiniction betweeen the two. There is no distinction. You can’t condemn Hamas while wanting to talk to Iran and Syria when they both want to wipe Israel off the face of the map. Mark Levin was right. Liberalism is a mental disease when he says they are appeaors and sympathizers of terrorism. It is no surprise the mainstream liberal media won’t even makde the distinction. Liberalism will destroy this nation if people who really care about it don’t try and stop it.

— JMP
9:01 pm May 13th, 2008

Commander Barkfeather,

I see, they all are kooks, but you are sane and the an angel of light?

Yes, you sound as sane as Bill O’Reilly who is always calling ones crazy and kooks. It is not surprising that you think of these pastors as kooks. You do realize that most thought that Jesus and the disciples were crazy and also kooks.

hardhat rioter,

Who did you allow to baptise you and your children, assuming that you and any children you have, have been baptised as a public display to people and God that you have repented and turn away from your sins and have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior. That is what baptisim is all about. My child was recently bapised by one of the youth pastors in my church. It is not about the pastor that baptised my child, but about my son’s desire to commit his ife to following after Christ.

How do you think God sees you? Think He is pleased with what He sees when looking at you? This is what you should be more concerned with.

How do you think God sees you in by your statememt: ” Wright is a racist. So are the freaks jumping around in his pews. Obama is a bad parent to let that nutjob baptize his kids, too”.

Do you even know the teachings of Christ and can you not see how corrupted and sick your heart is?

— D. Walker
2:55 am May 14th, 2008

D. Walker,

Anyone who determines their 2008 presidential preference based on their interpretation of a 3000 year old document, sounds pretty kooky to me. If there is, indeed a Supreme Being looking down upon us from above, I somehow doubt that the 2008 election is all that important to Him. And who, exactly is the “angel of light” here? Re-read your previous posts (including to hardhat rioter, immediately after you chastise me). You consistently somehow divine what is in every man’s heart and soul, and proceed to offer theological platitudes to show them the error of their ways. To presume that you and you alone are in on some grand divine secret plan, and adopt, as your mission in life, the enlightenment of all us unwashed heathens is the epitome of arrogance. Piety from the left is every bit as repulsive as piety from the right. Go ahead and vote for Barak Obama. I think I will myself. But do it for Sen. Obama, do it for your country. Do it because, in spite of unsubstantiated slurs from conservative camps, there is something about his character that merits your vote. Do it because, in spite of conservative attempts to misrepresent his views, you agree with his policy views. Don’t do it because you think it is somehow fulfilling God’s will. Although I avoid quoting the New Testament, isn’t there something in there somewhere about “Render unto Caesar…?” Jeremiah… you are not!

— Commander Barkfeather
10:43 am May 14th, 2008

Barkweather, what unsubstantiated slurs concerning Obama are you referring to? I haven’t heard any slurs against Obama from conservatives. What attempts have been made to misrepresent his views. You are a loony tune. He has no character in anyway, shape, or form. When a candidate like this has associates like Bill Ayers, Farrakhan, Rev. Wright, he is a radical. And it scares me when naive and blind people like you support this nutacse becasue you can’t seen through him or you refuse to see through him. He has no character at all. I wouldn’t vote for Obama if he was the only candidate running.

— JMP
8:41 pm May 14th, 2008

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