carlos_amezcua's Blog

I agree that religion should be the last and least important aspect of a candidate. More wars have been started and more blood has been shed in the name of "Religion" than all other reasons combined.

Carlos, I think your missing the point. Perception IS reality and you are who you associate with. It's a fact no one can get away with. Hey, Even Oprah went to that Church "once" and never came back because of that Pastors racist rhetoric. You have to ask yourself. Why did it take Oprah one speach from him for her to see that this guy a racist and Obama spent 20 years taking in his racist rants and only now that Obama's cult of Personality is finally being investigated is he backing away from this pastor. Let's face it. Lots of people hated Bush's friends and advisors. But, now we see something alot worse than rich oil guys and the media (including you) are saying Never mind the man behind the green curtain. You need to open your eyes and the rest of the media need to stop being so star struck and start doing their jobs and investigate Obama. Like his 2002 1 million dollar earmark for that hospital in Chicago that his wife worked for and how how salery when from $100K/yr to $314K/yr (chicago tribune). THere's a very good reason why Obama doesnt want anyone to investigae his earmarks prior to 2005. Carlos, go do some investigative reporting on those earmarks. It will open your eyes and it will wipe that new car smell of Obama. Change,yeah, change my ass............Same old sleasy fast talking politician. Just covered in a new wrapper.

"...He's a Muslim. He was sworn into office on the Koran. He doesn't say the Pledge of Allegiance. His pastor is an anti-Semite. He's a tool of Louis Farrakhan. He's anti-Israel. His advisers are anti-Israel. He's friends with terrorists. The terrorists want him to win. He's the Antichrist.

By now you've probably seen at least some of these e-mails and articles about Barack Obama bouncing around the Internet. They distort Obama's religious faith, question his support for Israel, warp the identity and positions of his campaign advisers and defame his friends and allies from Chicago. The purpose of the smear is to paint him as an Arab-loving, Israel-hating, terrorist-coddling, radical black nationalist. That picture couldn't be further from the truth, but you'd be surprised how many people have fallen for it. The American Jewish community, one of the most important pillars of the Democratic Party and US politics, has been specifically targeted [see Eric Alterman's column in the March 24 issue, "(Some) Jews Against Obama"]. What started as a largely overlooked fringe attack has been thrust into the mainstream -- used as GOP talking points, pushed by the Clinton campaign, echoed by the likes of Meet the Press host Tim Russert. Falsehoods are repeated as fact, and bits of evidence become "elaborate constructions of malicious fantasy," as the Jewish Week, America's largest Jewish newspaper, editorialized."

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/79627/

HOPE TO SEE YOU AT WESTLAKE WHEN FOOTBALL SEASON KICKS OFF. SEE IF YOU CAN DRAG BILL HANDEL TO SOME OF THE GAMES. LOL

I MAY HAVE TO GIVE JIM ANOTHER PEP TALK BEFORE THE SEASON STARTS SO THE TEAM CAN GET OUT THERE AND KICK AZZ WITH ALL THEIR HEART!!! (smile)

NEWSISLAME: Call anyone by any name you wish, but what is your point? So what if Barack Obama's middle name is "Hussein." What does that matter?

My point is - WHAT IS YOUR POINT? Are you implying because of his middle name he's unfit to be President?

Is that how you this we should decide our votes in America, we being the paragon of democracy? Well, that's your prerogative. But I suggest you take a more thoughtful approach to these important issues.

Attempting to defame Obama by bringing up his middle name says more about you, than it does about him.

And if you want to change the subject from what Carlos is saying, and discuss the name Hussein and middle names, then lets do it. Hussein is an Arabic name that means "good; small handsome one". President Bush's middle name is "Walker" - refers to a person in Old England who walked on damp raw cloth in order to thicken it.


Obama was right about this War in 2002 - where did you stand?

Let's separate these issues into their correct classifications.

It's not a question of religion, but of racist rhetoric.

Obama states he is a Christian. That's religion.

Here's the racist rhetoric and the difference between the democratic candidates. While Ferraro was SUPPORTER OF CLINTON, whose words and philosophy caused the candidate to distance herself from her, OBAMA SUPPORTED a PHILOSOPHICAL leader who espoused hatefulness and divisiveness.

One cannot control what one's followers and supporters do and say, but one controls one's decision to follow another. The follower makes a determination, the leader attempts to sway its followers.

Obama followed the preacher, year after year, and now POLITICALLY shields himself from THAT CHOICE. It's not his religion I question, it's his judgment.

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OBAMA SUPPORTED a PHILOSOPHICAL leader who espoused hatefulness and divisiveness.

-WordWise

Well OK Pastor Wright is a hateful murderer whose church is hateful and vicious and mean and cruel. It's not that these folks face the reality of mid-west racist institutions with SOP's dating back to the 50's. It's not that the members in this church contended all their lives with power-bases of rich families and fire departments and police departments and judges and lawyers who ran them down with rhetoric and double reverse racism and quaint little cliche' arguements of the most redundant kind.

I'm so sorry that when we vent it doesn't sound like the non-racist and hateful way like when more reasonable patriots vent... however like the teacher said "Oppression maketh the wise man mad."

statueman:
Huh?

You seem to be reading in more than I wrote, yet less than I meant. Why are you calling the Rev a murderer? You lump gun control into this topic? Those are oddly emotional overstatements of the issue.

What do you know of oppression? When were YOU oppressed and what have you done to right such oppression? Give me your personal perspective so I may understand.

Do you recall what Obama said in his speech, today? Paraphrasing, he said that white men need to understand the oppression that the black community feels and that the black community needs to stop hating for misdeeds from the past. I agree with the speech. White people, in general, have no idea and many black people hold a grudge.

My point is that Obama CHOSE this man, twenty years ago, as his spiritual leader and now stands against the man's words, which are offensive, to a nation, which is now considering electing him as president. Even he claims to be offended. To me, that's a judgment flaw.

I am awake and I read the words of others. I claim NO superiority to anyone. I am a student of all. Nonetheless, my opinion is legitimate despite your dislike of it. Accusatory, belittling, and ridiculous banter will not change my opinion. Only real communications and enlightened discussion can do that.

I was laughing when Obama said, and im paraphrasing here," Im sure we all have had pasters that voice their opinions in sermons that we completely disagree with". I gotta say, Ive never been to church where the paster said something more controvercial than love your fellow man, family and that god loves you. Maybe its because im Lutheran and we tend to be a mellow group. But, I just had to laugh atthat statement. I guess he thinks. All americans are angry people that think churchs are places of hate speech. I don't take part in that kind of generalizing.

Hate speech Hate speech

oh heck you folks just hate speeches where you have to stay focused on the context of what a man is saying. Pick out a line change a word or two and wahlah isssa racial izzu!!!

Call it 'hate' cause you hate it when a person preaches about the injustices he hates.

Double reverse racism with a catch phrase of 'Hate Speech' for affirmation in the mutual admiration society of the new persecuted minority of the why is everybody blaming poor old white me.