The nightmare pastorsI'm sorry to see Barack Obama's campaign in so much trouble over the latest comments of Rev. Wright, but you have to admit: This is a great argument for the separation of church and state.
Religious figures say all kinds of strange things -- and frankly, while I (obviously) don't agree with Wright that AIDS is a government plot, it's pretty well established that the Reagan administration's failure to respond to the epidemic in the crucial early years was, if not a government plot to kill anyone, certainly a government plot not to save the lives of gay men.
But here's the question: Why so much media attention on Obama's religious albatross -- and so little on John McCain's? McCain, lest we forget, is pals with Paston John Hagee, who believes, among other things, that the Catholic Church is a "great whore," that "all Muslims have a mandate to kill Christians and Jews," that God wants us to bomb Iran -- and that God damns the United States because of gays, Catholics and Muslims.
Me, I'd rather have a guy who rails against the U.S. for racism and imperialism than a guy who says God hates gays. But then, I don't go to church.
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Here's my bead on the Wright signal: Obama is playing out the reverse Oedipal drama we all wish W. had -- killing his father figure BEFORE he trashes the world over it. No drama Obama. Will that be the psychological narrative the press picks up on?
Posted by Marke B. | April 29, 2008 05:11 PM