TMZ Bible Thumped by Rev. Wright

76. America has a huge race problem, whether it be black or white, Alot of this is due to the older generation such as reverend wright. You can't change some of them but ask yourself, do you stop "hanging out" with friends and family members who make racist comments. The answer's probably no. Does it make you a racist? Maybe and maybe not. It depends on your ability to think for yourself. The younger generation can change america and prove the other wrong.
A friend of mine grew up on the N word and decided never to use it. He made a difference in his life becoming a wonderful foster parent to children of color. You can make a change!!

Posted at 2:09PM on Apr 29th 2008 by janB

77. Zodiac your mother...

Posted at 2:21PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Sean Hannity is a Neo Nazi aka FoxNews

78. Dallas, I am forward your link to the the https://tips.fbi.gov/...just in case.

Posted at 2:24PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Sean Hannity is a Neo Nazi aka FoxNews

79. McCain Has Two Standards on Drug Abuse
The GOP candidate is a hawk in the drug war, yet his wife got no penalty
Stanton Peele



Much has been made of allegations of possible youthful use of illegal drugs by Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush. Meanwhile, his chief GOP opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, has admitted that his wife not only illegally used drugs but walked away from criminal charges. The McCains have worked to make Cindy McCain's addiction into a political asset—despite the fact that she stole the drugs from a charity she directed and used them while mothering four young children.


John McCain

In 1994, Mrs. McCain admitted that she had solicited prescriptions for painkillers from physicians who worked for an international charity that she founded, the American Voluntary Medical Team. She then filled the prescriptions in the names of her staff.

There are two ways to react to this behavior. According to the Betty Ford model, people can sympathetically respond to the oppressed and ignored wife of a busy politician who has bravely come forward to admit her overpowering addiction. Mrs. McCain took this posture when she first tearfully confessed her addiction. She and her husband repeated this performance in October on the NBC program "Dateline."

The other possible public reaction is one of anger. Americans are prosecuted every day for such drug use. While most drug abusers purchase their drugs from street dealers, Mrs. McCain used her status as a charity director and senator's wife to cajole the drugs she wanted.

In fact, Mrs. McCain was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration after the agency was approached by a former staff member of her charity. The investigation resulted in no charges or prison time for her, and she entered a diversion program. While these records were not made public at the time, Mrs. McCain eventually confessed her drug use when she learned that a reporter was investigating the story.

Is Mrs. McCain to be judged as a pitiable victim or as a criminal felon? This debate is at the heart of the discussion of American drug policy. Should we deal with illicit drug users as victims or as criminals?

Let's examine Mrs. McCain's position in these terms. She was the privileged wife of a prominent family and spouse of an important politician, a person who had her own position of prestige and power. Should she not be held at least as accountable for her actions as an uneducated inner-city drug user? After all, she could enter drug treatment at any time she chose, unlike many drug users who find themselves in prison.

Moreover, Mrs. McCain was violating a position of trust by stealing from a charitable organization, using its money and medical expertise to fuel her drug use. Is this not morally more reprehensible than simply purchasing drugs illegally?

Finally, Mrs. McCain was the mother of four children at the time she admits to using drugs—between 1989 and 1992. Her children were born in 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1991. In other words, Cindy McCain was using drugs while raising small children, one of whom she adopted while she was an addict. In most states, family services will remove children from a woman who is known to be an active drug addict, and she would certainly not be allowed to adopt a child while addicted.

John McCain is a hawk in the drug war. He advocates stricter drug laws, penalties and enforcement against drug sellers. He has had nothing to say about redressing our punitive approach toward drug users. Of course, McCain also supports family values. Yet if John and Cindy McCain were not well-off and influential, they might not have a family at all. McCain's lack of concern for street drug users contrasts sharply with the support and understanding his wife received. It's the old American double standard. For "straight-shooter" McCain, charity begins at home—and ends there.



Stanton Peele, a New Jersey psychologist and attorney and author of Diseasing of America (Jossey-Bass, 1995), is a senior fellow of the Lindesmith Center, a drug policy think tank in New York and San Francisco.

Posted at 2:34PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Sean Hannity is a Neo Nazi aka FoxNews

80. Jules..

first Obama has said he is ok with having the Terrorist backing him because he can't condemn someone for doing something that happened when he was 8.

Clinton pardoned him (Which is another reason to hate Clinton)

but that doesn't unbomb the buildings he blew up now does it? People could have been killed which made them no better than what they were protesting against. In fact... 2 officers did die during a bank robbery that was perpertrated by 2 of the Weather underground Organization.


And also - Bill Ayers still says today that his only regret is that he didn't blow up more buildings during that time period.


Obama's ok with that tho. That's not ok with me.

also

TO BLONDIE who made that reference to Sean Hannity...

Who the frell cares? Hannity isn't looking to run the entire United States. He's not even running for any office. He's a talk show host.

Bad comparison.

Posted at 2:35PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Mayu

81. Someone should report why this extremist went to Libya with the nation of islam . It was reported that he received funding, clearly he is not christian (maybe never has been).

Posted at 2:40PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Minister

82. If white people had a Rev Wright spewing this anti American racist crap heads would roll. I'm freaking sick of black people being able to run their mouths while white people are fired and ridiculed for it.

Where is the Caucasian college fund?

Where is the Caucasian Al Sharpton?

I want to turn on my TV on a regular basis and see a white person correcting the blacks for every little thing they say and do.

I want a public apology from Rev Wright, if he were white he would have been made to apologize long ago.

The craziest thing I have ever seen is the day Obama was talking in his all mighty black power MLK voice chanting yes we can and behind him was a sea of white faces with their fists raised chanting with him. UNREAL!!

Posted at 2:45PM on Apr 29th 2008 by pfftttt

83. 16. BAROCK HUSSAIN OBAMA "Do we really want the President of the United States with this name?????????????????
I say NOOOOOOOOOOOOO. He is a radical, left winged liar. Dosn't wear a flag, and grew up MUSLIM> Wake up America. Don't be duped. He may be a plant.

Posted at 12:41PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Elizabeth


Obama did come out today and condemned the Rev. Wright, but I agree with Elizabeth. He may be a plant.

Posted at 3:02PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Jane

84. I dare you, to anyone of you who have never thought of a racist or hate thought/made a racist or hate comment, post your comment here freely without worrying that karma will come back to bite you hard in the ass...These days people seems to be guilty by association. Funny thing is, you might be amzed to find that the person who does not associate themselves with cult members are the most disturbed human beings with so much hate and amorsity towards others. All i am saying we all have a discreet place called our HEARTS. No other person but GOD sees or knows what goes on in each of our individaul hearts and in that regard we are in NO position to say one person is better than the other simply because they are aqauinted with certain people or organizations. Is there any one or two things in particular that Obama has done to label him as a racist or terrorist beside knowing reverend Wright and maybe going to his church? We are all passing through this world and at the end of the day, it is neither here not there. It will be our hearts, how we spend the time that was given to us on this earth and our good deeds that will count on judgement day. God sees our hearts deep within, when all is said and done at the end of the day, i guess it is all about how you market yourself and who can tell the most lies and give false hopes. At least Obama is trying to run a clean and honest campaign here. I honestly feel more comfortable when he takes time to answer and gives an honest one in stead of blabbering quick untrue juicy responses. SO i say look deeper before we are quick to draw conclusions and condemn people. We can all speak for ourselves and knows exactly what goes in in our soul and absolutley NO one elses. So again i say unless Obama has given us evidence by the things that has come out of his mouth or he acted on something hurtful towards mankind, don't jump to conclusion on the same tone, if for no other reason than you are just not comfortable to a bi-racial person being president come out and say it likewise, it is your right.

Posted at 3:02PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Just a dude...

85. All I have to say Rev. is that your Mother would NOT be proud!! Where are you coming from, Rev? You grew up in diverse, comfortably middle-class Germantown, and went to Central High, a very prestigious school! Your mother broke racial barriers at not one but two schools in Philly, one of which I attended. She was my Vice Principal, and she was tough as nails yet FAIR! I don't know where this anger comes from, but both your parents were very well educated and as you were, and you are retiring to a 10,000 square foot house bought for you by your congregation....who says education and hard work doesn't pay! Get the rest of the flock off the persecution block, or is that the only way you, Sharpton and Jackson justify your existence by stirring the pot?

Posted at 3:02PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Class of 224

86. Betrayal, deceit, corruption and John McCain

By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
http://www.usvetdsp.com

November 14, 2007

Last week, Sen. John McCain launched on fellow Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani criticizing the former New York City mayor because Bernie Kerik, police commissioner under Giuliani, was indicted and accused of fraudulent dealings.

"A president's judgment matters and Rudy Giuliani has repeatedly placed personal loyalty over regard for the facts," declared McCain, suggesting that Giuliani's support of Kerik showed a serious lapse in judgment.

Kerik, 52, according to a 16-count federal indictment, received cash and gifts for lobbying regulators on behalf of a New Jersey construction and waste-management firm. Prosecutors allege that Kerik cheated on taxes and lied to investigators--including those recommending him for a cabinet-level post on behalf of President George W. Bush.

McCain has forgotten his own history of involvement with betrayal, deceit and corruption

When McCain returned to the United States in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war, he found his wife was a different person. Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The accident "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight." Despite her injures, she had refused to allow her POW husband to be notified about her condition, fearing that such news would not be good for him while he was being held prisoner.

But, just a couple years later, McCain, while pondering a future in politics, met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a very wealthy politically-connected Arizona family. While still married to Carol, McCain began an adulterous relationship with Cindy. He married Cindy in May 1980 -- just a month after dumping his crippled wife and securing a divorce.

McCain followed his young, millionairess wife back to Arizona. Not long after settling in, the former POW newlywed was introduced to Darrow "Duke" Tully, publisher of the conservative and powerful Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette.

Tully, who quickly became a close friend of McCain, wasted no time in using the power of his newspapers to jump start McCain's political career. His newspapers endorsed McCain's first run for Congress and touted him as successor for retiring Sen. Barry Goldwater.

Described as "equal parts cowboy, commando, swashbuckler and elegant tycoon" by the Chicago Tribune, Tully was "a George Patton who drove a Corvette, a Randolph Hearst who flew an F-16, a John Wayne in aviator glasses and Air Force dress blues."

Tully appeared to have a lot in common with his close friend, former Navy combat pilot and war hero McCain. Tully boasted of his 100 missions over Vietnam, retiring from the Air Force as a lieutenant-colonel. Tully's military service, according to Tully, included air combat in Korea, where he once was forced to crash land his P-51 Mustang fighter and spent time in a hospital as a result--so he said. His smashed front teeth were replaced with stainless steel, he also said.

Tully, just like his friend McCain, claimed he had received the Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry.

Tully painstaking groomed McCain for public office. He introduced him to the influential and gave him guest column space in The Arizona Republic. He manipulated endless favorable references from the paper's other columnists. McCain, in turn, honored Tully by asking him to be godfather of one of his children

However, the day after Christmas 1985, it was revealed in the Chicago Tribune, that McCain's close friend Duke Tully had "an imagination as big as his ego."

Tully had never even been the military.

At the same time McCain's political ambitions were being assisted by Tully, he had cultivated political relationships with developer and future Arizona governor Fife Symington III and lawyer, politician and banker Charles Keating Jr.

When Goldwater did not to run for re-election to the Senate in 1986, McCain's powerful new friends quickly catapulted him into Goldwater's Arizona senate seat.

In the senate, McCain managed to stay low key until suddenly he found himself on television trying to explain himself as one of the "Keating 5," five senators who became enmeshed in the scandal involving the collapsed Lincoln Savings and Loan and the financial machinations of Charles Keating.

Keating was convicted of federal fraud and racketeering charges and in 1997, McCain's friend Symington was forced out of office after being convicted on seven counts of fraud.

For years McCain has successfully cultivated a false facade as the "straight-talking" politician unsullied by big-money influence of special-interest groups. He has shrewdly manipulated most of the national press corps into ignoring (or forgiving) facts that expose him as a disreputable character and enemy of the truth..

Reports from a variety of U.S. publications exposed McCain's true scandalous character

The Arizona Republic - October 17, 1989" . . . both in telephone conversations with reporters and on a live radio talk show, the Republican senator was far from calm. He was agitated. Angry. And the way he dealt with unpleasant questions was to bully the questioners . . . 'You're a liar,' McCain snapped Sept. 29 when an Arizona Republic reporter asked him about business ties between his wife, Cindy McCain, and Keating . . . 'That's the spouse's involvement, you idiot,' McCain sneered later in the same conversation. 'You do understand English, don't you?' ". . . Not content with just bullying reporters, McCain tried belittling them: 'It's up to you to find that out, kids.' . . . McCain wasn't talking to liars. He wasn't talking to juveniles. The senator was talking to two reporters."

The Arizona Republic - October 17, 1989 -- "McCain, in a radio talk-show appearance last week condemned disclosures of his family's ties to Keating as 'irresponsible journalism.'"

The Phoenix Gazette, November 13, 1989 -- "Reporters also 'discovered' that the senator's wife and father-in-law invested $359,100.00 in one of Mr. Keating's projects in 1986 . . ."

The Arizona Republic, April 29, 1990 -- "McCain's involvement with Keating . . . when reporters called him with questions last year about previously unknown ties to Keating, an investment by wife Cindy McCain in a Keating shopping center and trips to Keating's Bahamas home, McCain went into a rage."

New Republic, Dec. 31, 1990--"The only Republican of the bunch [the five Senators], John McCain of Arizona wins credit for finally drawing the line. After the second of the two April meetings [with Federal regulators] he told Mr. [Sen. Dennis] DeConcini [D-Ariz.] and Mr. Keating that he wouldn't lean on the regulators any more. Mr. Keating called him a wimp. But before the rupture, Mr. McCain and his family were regular guests of Mr. Keating's on trips to the Bahamas. Mr. McCain reimbursed the owner of Lincoln Savings and Loan for only a small fraction of the cost of these holidays. Yet, he never reported the vacations on Senate disclosure forms, or his income taxes. He said he thought his wife had paid Mr. Keating back. This is hard to believe."

Economist, Mar. 9, 1991--"Mr. McCain, despite his claims of innocense, was the only one of the five who benefitted personally--family holidays in the Bahamas on Mr. Keating's tab."

New Republic, Sept. 9, 1991--Calling McCain part of the "Senatorial Lincoln Brigade," the New Republic reported that Keating, while bankrupting his savings and loan, had channeled $1.4 million to the campaigns or causes of the five senators, who in turn pressured the savings and loan regulators to back off our friend."

Regardie's magazine, April-May 1992 issue. "Ultimately, the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan will cost the U.S. taxpayers $2 billion. It lost $1 million dollars a day from the time Keating bought it in 1984 until its collapse in 1989, and yet he continued to pay off McCain as 'one of his assets.'"

Cindy McCain escaped prosecution for stealing/using drugs

The Arizona Republic, August 24, 1994 -- "Cindy McCain, the wife of U.S. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, admitted in a series of media interviews Monday that she became addicted to the painkillers Percocet and Vicodin. She said that she used the drugs from 1989 to 1992 and acknowledged that she had stolen some pills from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a charitable organization of which she is president . . . at one point, McCain, 40, was ingesting 15 to 20 pills a day . . . the normal dosage for seriously ill patients is 6 to 10 a day for a short period."

The Phoenix Gazette, August 25, 1994 -- "Cindy McCain was investigated recently by the Drug Enforcement Administration for stealing and using Percocet and Vicodin, both narcotic painkillers from her aid organization . . . the county attorney's report provides a window to drug dealings within Cindy McCain's nonprofit corporation . . . Gosinski also alleged that Cindy McCain abused her husband's office and diplomatic privileges by transporting illegal substances overseas. He also claimed, according to her lawyers, that Cindy McCain tried to prevent him from providing accurate information to the DEA."

Playboy, July 1999. -- "Ms. McCain admitted stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, an organization that aids Third World countries. Percocet and Vicodin are schedule 2 drugs, in the same legal category as opium. Each pill theft carries a penalty of one year in prison and a monetary fine." However, McCain did not face prosecution. She was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program and escaped with no blemish to her record. Source: James Bovard, Prison Sentences of the Politically Connected.

McCain's Crime family connection

The Arizona Republic Jan. 17, 1995 "About 300 guests turned out Saturday night to celebrate the 90th birthday of Joseph 'Joe Bananas' Bonanno, retired boss of New York's Bonanno crime family. He retired to Tucson in 1968 . . . John McCain, R-Ariz., and Gov. Fife Symington sent their regards by telegram."

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Posted at 3:11PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Sean Hannity is a Neo Nazi aka FoxNews

87. @ dallas I can come to any site i d@mn well please if you cannot take my comments then you need not visist this site. And if you read my post you have notice that i said there is no excuse for ANYONE to be racist!!!!

Posted at 3:14PM on Apr 29th 2008 by rev wright supporter

88. McCain has all but painted himself in Christ's blood this campaign.

After spending most of his life an Episcopalian he magically became a South Carolina Baptist for the first time this year.
He's dragged these extremist right-wing Christian preachers around with him since Iowa. And all the while these "advisers" have been consistently spouting their racist hate speech. McCain will not repudiate them. He holds them dear.

Shame on him for his hatred and his bigotry.
He aligns himself with anti-Semites and racists who preach hatred and violence.

Posted at 3:20PM on Apr 29th 2008 by what about the John Mcbush = 100 years in Iraq

89. Dave he is a smart n@@@ with a PH.D. Go to get your ged and leave the trailer park...

Posted at 3:23PM on Apr 29th 2008 by White Trash

90. My direct ancestor came here 380 years ago. We have fought in every major conflict from the 7 years war to the present before we had the right to even call this our own country. We also were abolitionists that freed slaves (because slavery is wrong) and put our lives on the line in the Civil War in the Navy at the battle of New Orleans and every war since. If Mr. Wright wants an apology I want one also. My family put their lives on the line so Mr. Wright could have the freedom to hate this country as much as he does. I am proud of my family history and what he is doing is wrong.

Posted at 3:25PM on Apr 29th 2008 by Hoya