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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Did Senator Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia convince people that he is still a viable candidate to be President of the United States, despite the adverse reactions to statements by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright?

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Wolfie20075 months, 3 weeks ago

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"No one had to be in church the day Wright made his inflammatory and obscene remarks to know about them.
The cable news journalists who are playing the tapes of those sermons were not there. The tapes were on sale in the church itself. Obama knew that because he had bought one or more of those tapes.
But even if there were no tapes, and even if Obama never heard from other members of the church what their pastor was saying, he spent 20 years in that church, not just as an ordinary member but also as someone who once donated $20,000 to the church.
There was no way that he didn't know about Jeremiah Wright's anti-American and racist diatribes from the pulpit.
Someone once said that a con man's job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe."
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  RedRiverJ5 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Excellent article by a brilliant man. He made may points that I feel and said it so well.
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Wolfie20075 months, 3 weeks ago

Thomas Sowell is the man who has shaped my political opinions.
I can only wish he would run for President. He has my greatest respect.
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SonOfTheMask5 months, 3 weeks ago

I respect Thomas Sowell very much. Great submission, Wolfie!
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Wolfie20075 months, 3 weeks ago

Thanks, Son, he is awesome.
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abntv5 months, 3 weeks ago

Good article...

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cherev5 months, 3 weeks ago

Excellent, Wolfie. Sowell is, indeed, someone worthy of respect.
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aniokly5 months, 3 weeks ago

I read Thomas Sowell religiously. He makes so much sense. Several Presidents have ased him to serve, but he thinks he does more good educating the rest of us. He is right about Obama. I am sure his readers will agree.
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tanglang5 months, 3 weeks ago

Obama on Don Imus.
He said that his comments were so offensive that they made him sick. He also said that had Imus worked for him he would fire him and that he hopes nbc does fire Imus.
He said this at the same time Wright was working for his campaign.
I think that pretty much sums everything up.
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  TOD3965 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  Now tang, you are jumping to conclusions. We really don't know that Obama heard of Rev. Wrights wacko sermons. After all, Obama only attended the church for a scant 20 years. Really, how much can you learn about a preacher's opinions in the pulpit when you only get to listen to him for say, 1,000 times or so. Imus on the other hand, Obama probably heard a few times and he immediately knew how wrong Imus was.
  Can you imagine if Obama is elected, and takes 20 years to determine if something is good or bad for America?
  Truth is, Obama is caught between the rock and the hard place. There are those who state that his recent speech tackled racism head on. Were they watching the same speech? Obama was side-stepping hard facts. How can he accuse Imus and accept Wright? Talk about a racist and a bigot. Obama is right up there. Is it true he is thinking of Louie Farrakhan for VP?
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HateKoolAid5 months, 3 weeks ago

Obama is a living example that the old saying "Once you have learned to fake sincerity you have got it made" really is true.
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Klarissa5 months, 3 weeks ago

I was talking with my husband about this subject. He was in Gemany in the 1930s. He said it reminded him of the herding instinct. People don't want to be left out of the group, which was part of Hitler's appeal. When one person cheered, others did too. Pretty soon they were all cheering ( like clapping when someone blows their nose.)
It becomes a heady atmosphere, and easy to get caught up in it.
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  Wolfie20075 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Klarissa
  You've hit the nail on the head and it was the first thing about Obama that scared me.
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HOUSEMD5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tom Sowell would be a good mentor for anyone. Obama chose Wright.
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Klarissa5 months, 3 weeks ago

Another consideration of Obama's campaign.
We know that McCain and Hillary can handle stress quite well.
Obama had a difficult time in High school and College dealing with the stress. This may be a real problem for him when things don't go as expected or if he feels he can't quite handle the heat.
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stephen-johnson5 months, 3 weeks ago

"Someone once said that a con man's job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe."
-Thomas Sowell
Bingo!
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  nostalgia5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  That was the line that really stood out for me when I read the column!
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Endoscopy5 months, 3 weeks ago

I found the that comment very insightful.
It is what I see on the site.
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  pc255 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  they were
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      nostalgia5 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      "George W Bush - Governor of Texas - Bankrupted State"
      Really????
      Aug 4, 2000 by Moore, Stephen
      Bush cut Texas's taxes and ran surplus
      Gore is right about one thing: The tax burden has gone down under Gov. Bush-in sharp contrast to the situation in Washington, D.C., where Al Gore cast the deciding vote in 1993 on the largest tax hike in history.
      He came to Austin promising tax cuts, budget control (his predecessor Ann Richards was the biggest-spending governor in Texas history), tort reform, and a more pro-business regulatory climate. More or less, he kept all of those promises.
      Gore's mudslinging at Bush for unbalancing the budget says more about the Vice President's arithmetic skills than about the governor's fiscal record. The latest state comptroller report indicates a $1-billion-plus budget surplus in Texas, not a deficit. In fact, Bush has produced a surplus six years in a row.
      http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is...
      
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      Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      My goodness you like to rewrite history don't you. In the state legislature Obama did almost nothing. The state senate majority leader put Obama's name on a lot of legislation his last year in order to give him credentials for running for the seat he has now. That angered those who had worked on and pushed those bills. What legislation he voted for and helped on in the US Senate was the very liberal tax and spend bills. Mostly he was elsewhere.
      If you think Bush bankrupted the nation look at what both Democrats want to spend. They will need half of YOUR income to handle that spending. But then a Democrat never saw a spending bill or a tax they didn't like. There is a real reason Republicans refer to Democrats as tax and spend.
      Who pays the tax on businesses? The people who buy things from them. That is one reason that our businesses have a hard time competing in the world. The rest of the world figured that one out.
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  nostalgia5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  There were many conservatives who didn't vote for Bush - but you wouldn't know that, would you?
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    Endoscopy5 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    How about the liberals who did?
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      nostalgia5 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      Well, I live in TX and know many who would not vote for him. They didn't like him as governor either
      I do know many Democrats who did vote for him
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  Georgia505 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Alz:
  I was. That's why I voted ABG.
  ANYONE BUT GORE.
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Albmore5 months, 2 weeks ago

Bush is not running for president!!!!!!!!!1
We want change, and not any change positive change.
Lets look at the democratic race til now. We have Bill making racist remarks, we have Ferriro making racist remarks. We have Hillary going to court in the sommer, * by the way still NO tax forms. We have Obamas close friend before court. We have this so called rev. damning America , honoring the racist Farrakan, and making racist remarks. We have Obama denying such this preached when he was there on one day and admitting it on another. We have Obamas wife stating until now she was never proud of anything in America.
We see a party that has not even been able to run a democratic election correctly without scandle {Florida, MI}.
20 years of poor judgement, exposing ones children to such hate speech.
Why do we not seem to have such scandles about race from Colon Powell, and Rice..

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Albmore5 months, 2 weeks ago

They have arose above color and have proved they are more intelligent to let the color stamp hold them back. Then again they are republicans.
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