Oops! Above flew out the door before I proofed it.

Above 'considering how often I've been in Afrocentric churches (I'm in them as often as I'm...'

should read:

'...(I'm in them as often as I'm in predominantly white churches--don't forget I live & work in the heart of St Paul's African American community), as I said above, I wasn't the least bit shocked by Wright's sermons, as I've heard it all before a million times.'

Hope that helps to clarify my point.

Which isn't what *I* think. The points I'm making are about what general election voters will think.

I am not espousing my personal opinions, beyond that I think many voters (including some here at Mudcat) have been hoodwinked by their hatred of Bush. Many of these voters engage in the very sorts of guilt by association games they accuse the Republicans of engaging in, by smearing ALL Republicans w/the same black brush they use to paint the neo-con machine. But all Republicans haven't been on board with the neo-con machine, and sadly, most of them were ousted from Congress by the hatred of Democrats for Bush. Which is just shooting the nation in the foot. These same Bush haters then turn around, and claim what they are truly all about is the Obama "Yes We Can" cure for what ails our deeply wounded and wronged nation.

These same people espouse deep hatred of all Republicans routinely here, but then take on this "Like Obama, I'm all about hope and unity and rising above political divisions" crap. THAT is the sort of hypocrisy I find contemptible, and we see a lot of it around here, as posters like beardedbruce have pointed out of late in the political threads.