Search on YouTube for "Obama Wright" and currently 99% of the videos returned are posted by Right Wingers (now Wright Wingers?) showing the Worst of the Worst of Jeremiah Wright's awful statements.
We need to reverse this or at least blunt it somehow and here's what I propose.
Over the course of 30 years, Rev Wright given a lot of sermons and I'm sure that 99% of them are of the Christian "love-thy-neighbor" variety. We need to take the Best of the Best of Rev Wrights sermons and cut them down to 20-30 second sound bytes. Then we need to post these over and over on YouTube until a search of "Obama Wright" returns 99% clips of Rev Wright saying good things.
If we can show the other side of Reverend Wright, and highlight the good things he has said, perhaps we can help mitigate some damage that might be done by his incendiary remarks.
When posting these clips should be given ambigous titles - such as "Can you Believe Obama's Reverend Wright Said This?" which would lead more people to watch them.
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I also just want to comment on some things that have been "twittering" in my brain over the past few days.
* 30 years of preaching is 1500+ Sundays. How many of those did Rev Wright deliver and how many were considered "controversial"? * TUCC has 6000 members. One of them is Jeremiah Wright. Should Barack have thrown all 6000 under the bus and left his Church because of some statements made by the Reverend from the Pulpit? He was there to help the people of his community, not run away from them when they got controversial. * Obama is to be admired for not running from Rev Wright and TUCC because of a few statement that he didn't agree with. To understand the deep seated resentment of his Reverend and others of his generation he needed to be near him - not run away and close his ears to what was happening in his own neighborhood. * It is Reactionary to run from Controversy. It is Progressive to stick around and try to understand it. * A RWTP has developed and the chattering Wingnuts are hammering it on my TV: "Obama sat there for 20 years listening this hatred spew and did nothing. Why would he let his kids be exposed to this?". Buchanan and Tucker and Scarborogh are repeating this every segment they discuss this issue. This one needs to be knocked down as it vastly inflates the problem from a few sermons to a life long endeavor by Wright to preach Anti-American sentiments. * Obama's kids are not that old and likely would have been in diapers when the Sept 2001 sermon about 9/11 was given. Also, it is up to the parents to talk with thier kids when they are exposed to remarks they don't agree with. Sheltering them from issues doesn't give the parents a chance to have an open discussion about them. * On pulling out of Iraq - Obama is willing to be America's "savior" and do the right thing by getting the hell out of Iraq. He is willing to be crucified by the Republicans for thier sins of Iraq even as they attack him and label him a Defeatist. He gives the Bush-enabling Republicans a way to save face and hang all the failures of Iraq on a Democrat and end this fiasco. And you know what? I don't care - I want this war to end even if a Democrat has to be blamed for "losing the war".Thanks for Reading. Take it away Woody:
I ain't the world's best writer, ain't the world's best speller
But when I believe in something I'm the loudest yeller
If we fix it so you can't make no money on war
Well we'll all forget what we was killing folks for
