Delicious Schadenfreude

March 17th, 2008 | by Craig |

After so many years of candidates from the right being pounded for their various pastors, isn’t it delicious to see the shoe on the other foot?

That’s a rhetorical question, but I’ll answer it: Yes. Yes it is.

While we’re speaking of race (sort of), I’m ashamed to live in a country where, even in these enlightened times, we still resort to the stereotypes of a people who were once treated as sub-humans, and were held in slavery by our ancestors.

For shame, people. For shame.

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  1. 17 Responses to “Delicious Schadenfreude”

  2. By Trevor on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply

    I find it interesting that McCain accepts the endorsement of this man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee and the media is silent about it.

  3. By Craig on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    The media is silent about it? What media outlets do you watch/listen to? Or what are you smoking, and can I have some?

    But let’s be intellectually honest and compare apples to apples, shall we? The only way this is a valid comparison is if McCain actually attended that church for 20 years, and called Hagee an uncle.

  4. By Phil on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    I wouldn’t want anything that Trevor is smoking, Craig, it seems to be laced with something that makes you blind and deaf.

    Be very careful.

    But back to your post topic, my favorite part of this whole thing is listening to the leftosphere try and downplay this entire debacle as though it were nothing.

    Redirects like Trevor’s attempt were to be expected. But the contortions caused by their blatant acceptance of bigotry is something to wonder at.

  5. By JP on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    Everyone loves Magical Trevor.

  6. By Eric Coobs on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    I think it tells us a lot about where Barack Hussein Obama’s roots really come from.

    Rev Wright preached to him for two decades, officiated at his wedding, baptised his children, and until today was a campaign advisor.

    Rev Wright hates America, hates white people, and is outspoken about it.

    No wonder Obama’s wife hasn’t been proud of her country in her entire adult life, and that Obama puts his hands at his side or in his pockets during the singinfg of our national anthem.

  7. By Rocky Smith on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    I may be alone, but I think it’s presumtuous to pin one man’s words on another. I have many elders whom I love and respect. I don’t always agree with them. My grandfather was one of my favorite people, but he had racist tendencies.

    I’m not voting for Obama, but I believe he is a better man than to really support the tripe his Pastor spewed.

  8. By Walter Greenspan on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    Rocky Smith, while you didn’t choose who would be your grandfather, Barack Obama chose his pastor and there is strong reason to suspect that 23 years ago Obama purposely chose this specific pastor and his African-centric church as part of a well thought out political decision.

  9. By Trevor on Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

    Just for fun, let’s try a couple of Google searches.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+wright+site%3Acnn.com

    http://www.google.com/search?q=mccain+hagee+site%3Acnn.com

    Notice at the top-right that is shows how many results were found? At the time I post this, the McCain query has 263 results and the Obama query 3,950.

    So, I apologize for saying the media is “silent” on the McCain/Hagee story, but they (CNN, atleast) has over 15 times as many mentions of the Obama/Wright story.

    Yes, Wright was his Pastor for 20 years. Obama denounced his comments, while McCain accepted the endorsement of Hagee (Google around for his remarks). Furthermore, I thought just a few weeks ago everyone was crying that Obama was a muslim. Now everyone is up in arms because of things his CHRISTIAN Pastor said?

    And if you really want to get biased, change the “cnn.com” in those search queries to “foxnews.com” and look at the results.

    Also, Walter Greenspan: You are hilarious to think that Obama was planning to run for President (or any Office) 23 years ago when he “chose” his Pastor.

  10. By JP on Mar 19, 2008 | Reply

    Cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever. Look at him now, disappearing a cow. Where is that cow headed right now?

  11. By Cammy on Mar 19, 2008 | Reply

    Earworm!

  12. By Walter Greenspan on Mar 19, 2008 | Reply

    Trevor, you are naive to believe that it was for any other reason than political opportunism that Obama chose that particular pastor and church. Obama was a product of elite private schools and then the Ivy League, and needed that pastor and that church to prove his African-American credentials so that he could be accepted by African-Americans in Chicago, who he had very little in common with, and begin a political career.

  13. By JP on Mar 19, 2008 | Reply

    My work here is done, Cammy. ‘Least for now. Heh.

  14. By Trevor on Mar 19, 2008 | Reply

    Well, Walter, I respectfully disagree that he chose his Pastor over 20 years ago for political reasons. I will just point you (and anyone else) to watch at least one good-minded Conservative talk about the Obama/Wright issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFLOu8fjxU

  15. By Dani on Mar 19, 2008 | Reply

    The real reason I can’t believe Obama’s excuses is because Wright was a campaign adviser. That, to me, is undeniable proof that Obama endorses what the man has to say. It’s one thing to attend a church and disagree with an occasional nasty diatribe and quite another to reward such a person with a role in a Presidential campaign. Obama wasn’t just tolerating the man, that much is clear.

    Not only that, other advisers warned him about Wright from the get-go. I really can’t believe Obama thought those videotaped sermons wouldn’t find their way into the headlines.

  16. By Eric Coobs on Mar 20, 2008 | Reply

    Dani, don’t overlook the possibility that Barack Hussein Obama probably agrees with Rev. Wright.

  17. By Dani on Mar 20, 2008 | Reply

    I haven’t. I’m just taking his words at face value, and even then they don’t make sense.

  18. By Walter Greenspan on Mar 21, 2008 | Reply

    Trevor, As (Barack) Obama recounts in his memoir, he went to meet Pastor Wright because he was advised that it would “help your [community organizing] if you had a church home. . . . It doesn’t matter where really.” So he became a member of the largest black church in the neighborhood, thereby furthering his activism and eventually getting the votes of Trinity’s 8,000 congregants.

    Source:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120606678433153975.html

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