winter wrote: 

Don't even joke about that man...They are out there and they are watching...

 Beaker wrote: 
Beaker, I'm an atheist preacher's kid. The church I grew up in was nothing like what is shown on TV. I don't have the patience to watch preachers now. I watched the clip of Jeremiah Wright. Some of what he said is out there (the government knew about Pearl Harbor?) but some of it isn't (Uh, Tuskegee??) and I have to say that a lot of what Wright said isn't that far off-base. I watched the video three times. Take the delivery as you will; it is charismatic. The pastor who prayed for Obama's death is probably a charismatic speaker too.

I think I'll stop here. It's late, and Jonesy is trying to sit on the laptop. Go ahead and shoot down everything I've said. Good night.

 arsenault wrote: 
Not exactly a small town: it's a suburb of Phoenix with over 100,000 residents, and it's home to Arizona State University.

That said, it's a little storefront church. Send ten reporters and you've probably doubled their attendance. Doesn't justify hateful behavior, but even here they're getting more attention than they deserve.

You can walk down the street in any major city and hear whackaloons preaching about the Illuminati or the CFR or the leprechaun-unicorn cabal controlling the world. We don't make a big deal about it. We don't pretend they're any part of the political process. They have a right to their free speech, however irrational or ridiculous or offensive. And we have every right to ignore them as irrelevant crackpots. 

 zipper wrote: 
he would have been fine if he had said 'god damn america'
plus, how far did they have to go to find him?...tempe arizona?..not chicago illinois..

 Beaker wrote: 
Let me count the ways in which hypocrisy can be justified...

 Beaker wrote: 

Topic	Posts	Author	Last Post
LeftWingNutZ	15	Beaker

Can you say 'hypocrite'?

 Beaker wrote: 
No, you didn't. I've never heard Jeremiah Wright preach, but as far as I know, he didn't call for the death of George W. Bush. As for the rest of of it, I'm going to claim ignorance. YES. Ignorance. Just as I didn't care what John McCain's, or in the past, John Kerry's, or G.W. Bush's, or Al Gore's, or (insert any former candidate for president) 's pastor said, I don't really care what Barack Obama's pastor said.

No, really. I don't care.

Double standard? Maybe. Perhaps I only wake up when a pastor wishes for the death of another human being (how Christian!).

 Beaker wrote: 
Hey muppet! Howzit hangin'?

 Beaker wrote: 
If your buddies didn't spew forth this kind of Hate, it wouldn't be available to post.

 Beaker wrote: 
Pastors are different when they bring politics to the pulpit. Forgive me for holding pastors to a higher standard.

 brandog wrote:Pastor Steve Anderson is a Hater. 
Those who rush to his defense are, likewise, Haters.
Look around, there are Haters everywhere.

 Beaker wrote: 
Hey Beaker, I don't want to fight with you, but did it occur to you that maybe he felt like it fit in with the thread topic?

 zipper wrote: 
I dunno. Did any pastors publicly pray for GW Bush's death?

 brandog wrote: 
wow, the nutroots would never do something like that regarding the leader of the free world.

The radical right is looking for a "spark"

 brandog wrote: 
You conspiracy theorists are just kaaaa-razeeee!

 MsJudi wrote: 
I think the real consipiracy is that the administration leaked the rumor, created the furor, and all those howling oldsters who stress out, freak out, and DIE are, well, the targets.

False ‘Death Panel’ Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots

Not that proof it's a lie will stop the wackos from insisting that there will be "death panels".

 owld_skipper wrote: 
These people suffer from such fear! Whether it is because there is a black man in the WH, whether they feel the loss of their power, or whether they are just fearful that they will lose everything they have, they are scared to death, and endangering the rest of us in the process.