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Thread #110707 Message #2327815
Posted By: GUEST,Fantasma
28-Apr-08 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Race & Religion Cards & Censorship in US
Subject: RE: BS: Race & Religion Cards & Censorship in US
Holy shit! From the Washington Post, 31 minutes ago:
Obama's Pastor Reignites Race Controversy
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom.
Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered - and added lighter fuel.