Well, Fantz... I don't hate either Bush or Clinton... I dislike and hate some of what they have done... Bush more than Clinton...

I did not like Clintons caving on "welfare reform" which was punitive and ill-thought out and as a result incresed poverty levels in the US... I didn't like Clinton having an affair and then lieing to his family and the nation about it... I do not like some of the code words that mostly BIll had used in this campaign to change the conversation toward race...

As for Bush??? Geeze... The tax cuts, the war, Katrina, post-911 posturing and chest pumping, his combative foriegn policy, his "No Child Left Taught to Think, etc...

But no, I don't hate them...

And I do get what Jeremiah Wright is doing... He is defending himself... I understand that... Of course, it was the white media that pounded and pounded away at him for a month before he had had enough and when he had had enough he came out of the corner with fire in his eyes just as I would have expected... Now he has scared white people who have little understanding of the black culture or the black church experience and it has white people caught off guard...

If it costs Obama the presidency this year, so be it... It will toughen him yup for thw '12 campaign but more importantly it may do one of the good things that Bill CLinton did in '97 and that is have a real discussion about race in America... Tnat is long overdue and perhaps has to happen before a black man or woman can be electyed president...

I think back to the beginning of the conservative movement... It was '64 and Goldwater was smashed... But what he said sank in and maybe that's what is happening here... Maybe the country would be better off having McCain ***and*** a "discussion on race" if they can't have Obama...

I see this, at the very least, good for America...

Go, Jeremiah, go... You rock, brother... You rock!!!

B~