LIKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CAP GUN AND A SHOTGUN BLAST

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.
And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position.
He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.
And the country is caught up in the concept.”

Geraldine Ferraro

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye." "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant. Because the stuff we have done overseas has now brought right back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

AND
(Of African-Americans): "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people." "God Damn America"

Reverend Wright

I do not, and cannot approve of any of the three quotes above.

But in his Philadelphia speech, Obama seems to treat all three as if they were basically on the same level., which is of course, absurd. Ferraro wonders if any white one year Senator could run for the Presidency and be taken seriously, and it is a good point, and a good starting point for an intellectual debate, much in the same way John Edwards could wonder aloud if he were black, would he have gotten as far as he had. This is not racist, it is racial, and there is a difference.

However, to preach from his pulpit just after 9/11 that that tragedy was somehow deserved ("our chickens are coming home to roost"), was mean spirited, hateful and anti-American. And then to back this little gem up with one claiming the American government is feeding drugs to Black people with the sole purpose of incarcerating them is sheer lunacy.

Never mind his "God Damn America" sentiment.

And this is from a man who he admits is a "part of me?"