That clip from Rev. Wright's Sermon was a barn burner!  Whoo!

Why is he so angry?  And how dare he say 'God damn America'?

In this diary, I intend to examine each and every one of his claims from the clip to see if anything he said makes any sens at all.  Please follow me belos the fold...

Thanks to rikyrah over at jack and jill politics for stating what most of us are feeling today.

Hillary Clinton won through race-baiting, fear-mongering, smears and lies. That's who she is. She has no character, and she showed her true self, and the true self of those that she surrounds herself with. She claimed MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA in her speech last night. Michigan - where she was the only one on the ballot, and Florida - where no one competed. Well, if you can't win fairly, then I guess you lie and cheat and try and change the rules in the 4th Quarter of a 4 Quarter game. Thus is Hillary Clinton. THIS IS WHO SHE IS - FACE IT.

Something was torn beyond repair this past weekend.  It was the Clinton's relationship with African-American voters.

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I have read comment after comment dscussing the reasons Hillary Clinton should drop out of the primary race after failing to win big in Texas and Ohio on Tuesday, March 4th.  Comment after comment about the fatigue people are feeling, how ready they are for this to just...be...over.  The Hillary supporters are reading all of this as well and they are forming their strategy accordingly.

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Update:  Since I was frozen out of the comments section yesterday for some reason, I am trying again today.
"I'm vetted and tested!"

"No new scandals!"

"Obama has never had to endure the republican attack machine like I have!"

These are chief among Hillary Clinton's arguments for her candidacy.

She runs around talking about Tony Rezko and Exelon, both tempests in tea pots.  She would like us to reject Obama because one of his campaign contributors owns the lot next door to his house.  It's not even guilt by association.  It's guilt by proximity.  And then she makes a big stink about Exelon and a piece of legislation she co-sponsored.  And we find out that her chief advisor, Mark Penn also works for Exelon.  

After everything the Clinton's have been through, you would think they would decide not to do unto others what has been done unto them.  But, no.  They want to spread the misery.  And yet, no one is more in need of a civil campaign, free of mudslinging than Hillary Clinton.

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Aunt B. from Tiny Cat Pants breaks it down in a post called  When All Else Fails Blame Black People for those who don’t understand the Imus incident.

Election night, November 2004.  I live in Columbus, Ohio and I will never forget the length of the line I stood in to vote that day, chatting with my neighbors and then with the loyal poll workers, those sweet elderly people who come out every election.  Kerry hadn't been my favorite candidate in the primary but I volunteered for the campaign, I hosted a house party fundraiser for the campaign and I voted for Kerry/Edwards and had high hopes that Bush would finally be unseated.

Then the reports of 'irregularities' started to come in.  Down in my old neighborhood, at the Franklin Middle School polling place, they hadn't delivered enough voting machines.  How odd!  Surely they knew this election was going to have a record turn out?  The day was chilly, misty and rainy with thousands of people standing in line to vote for many, many hours.

My husband took me to the opera in Cincinatti - Ken Blackwell country; or so I thought.  We were the guests of his boss who is a big patron of the opera.  You can also buy tickets to a catered dinner that they hold upstairs in the ballroom and we were his guests at dinner as well.  The ballroom was packed to the rafters with wealthy Republicans.   I kept busy minding my manners and sticking to noncontroversial subjects at dinner when our host suddenly brought up politics.

He pointed to an attractive woman, sitting at another table, and told us that she is a very succesful political fundraiser in the state.  For years she had worked solely for Republican candidates.  But this year, there was a change of heart and now she is raising money for Ted Strickland.

I'm not done.  Keep reading.

After a particularly painful breakup with the Democratic Party in November, 2004, I turned to the Ohio Green Party as one turns to a new lover on the rebound from a failed relationship.  There were valid reasons why I turned from blue to Green.  The first was John Kerry's abdication speech the day after the election and before all the votes were counted.  The second was that David Cobb filed suit to contest the election on behalf of the Green Party while the Democrats sat on their hands and let George Bush steal the election.

My 15 year old son asked me to go with him to the peace rally and march yesterday.  I was so honored that he would ask to spend such an important time with me.  We got on a bus at midnight at the Ohio State student union and arrived in Washington around  9:30 in the morning.  When we arrived, there were already around 100,000 people there.  Some were on the Elipse and others spilled across the street around the Washington monument.

We chose signs to carry.  I chose one supplied by United for Peace and Justice.  My son chose a sign from A.N.S.W.E.R. because it had a picture of Malcolm X.  We were impressed by the size of the crowd and it just kept growing as the time to begin the march approached.

There were lots of police all along the march route.  Some people were very antagonistic toward them, which I did not understand because they were being very polite, respectful of us, and helpful when they were needed.

There's a spiritual we used to sing at Vacation Bible School when I was little,  All God's Chillen Got Shoes. There was a part where we used to sing 'everybody talkin' 'bout heaven ain't going there'...  So when I read about what happened to a UCC congregation in Virginia in a Ruminate This post I remember being that little child and wondering what that meant.  Well, now I know.  We have people walking the streets of our cities and towns, professing that Jesus Christ is Lord, who believe it's OK to torch churces because of their DENOMINATIONS stance on gay marriage.  Jesus had a word for people like that...hypocrites.

My husband and I had dinner with some other couples before going to the opera last Saturday night.  One friend had just come from meetings at work about her employer's latest contract.  The company is a small environmental cleanup firm that is trying to branch into commercial construction with this new project.  The new project is in Iraq.  They have recieved some subcontracting dollars from Haliburton to help with the reconstruction efforts.

Of course we teased my friend a little about whether she was planning on going over to Iraq herself to work on the project.  I mean, how bad could it be over there?  And this is what she told us...

I want to go on record as having been against the war in Afghanistan.  It went down absolutely as I predicted.  We killed thousands of civilians.  We changed the government from something unreliable into something that would let us build our oil pipeline without interference.  We failed to capture Osama bin Laden and we failed to stop al-Quaeda.  In short, it was yet another exercise in Imperialism. And then we went on to do the same thing in Iraq.  Only this time, it was too late to stop the train George Bush had set in motion.  Next stop Iran!  I can tell you right now.  My kids aren't going.