Romney deserves high praise
Lewis DiuguidRepublican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney should get high praise for denouncing a conservative super PAC’s efforts to pull President Barack Obama’s former pastor into the 2012 campaign.
The Ending Spending Action Fund planned to run a $10 million ad campaign drawing attention to racially provocative sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at his Chicago church. The super PAC clearly is trying to inject race into the presidential contest.
To a lot of people’s dismay, Obama, the nation’s first African American president, has barely brought the issue of race into his first term in the White House.
But race clearly hasn’t presented itself at all in this year’s campaign. In Florida Romney told The Associated Press: “I think it’s the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign. I hope that our campaigns can be respectively about the future and about issues and about vision for America.”
Way to go Romney.
Bob Jones
1 year ago“Obama, the nation’s first African American president,…”
But wasn’t his mother white???
Regardless, hats of to Romney, but one has to wonder if Obama’s election team will play as nicely. If past history is any indication, that answer is most likely no!
Steve Alleman
Kansas City
1 year agoI think this whole kerfuffle may have been a set-up all along. Planting this story gave Romney and a few other Republicans an opportunity to seem even-handed for a change, while the details of the ‘proposed’ ad campaign still got out there to inflame to nutbags who live to be inflamed. The media got played.
Kent Mueller
1 year agoWhy is it racially provocative to discuss the racially provocative Rev. Wright? Who gave him a free pass?
Phil Cardarella
1 year agoHalf-Italian, half-Irish in descent — and I agree with Jerimiah Wright more than I agreed with Jerry Falwell.
But, then I have listened to more than 30 seconds of the silliest thinges each has said.
Ministers are human — and sometimes wander off on a topic without engaging their brains. Heck, if early Christians had followed Paul’s preached preference for celebacy, Christainity would have died out in a generation.
FYI, Rev. Wright was a decorated soldier before taking to the clothe.
And, let’s face it, Mitt does not want the nuttiest aspects of anyone’s religion to be the center of this campaign. So, he did well by doing good.
Kent Mueller
1 year agoPhil, what does Jerry Falwell have to do with this? We were talking about Rev. Wright. And you think Wright wandered “off a topic without engaging” his brain? As many times as he said what all he has said and he was just wandering off topic? And he has never said that was not what he meant and that he just wandering off topic. Phil, that argument simply can’t be made. For it to be off topic would mean that Wright would have to say he didn’t mean what he said. And he hasn’t ever said that. Quite to the contrary.
What does being a decorated soldier have to do with this? Really, what?
Your last paragraph is confusing. You refer to the nuttiest aspects of anyone’s religion. So, are you now saying Rev. Wrights comments are nutty aspects to his religion, and there for true? Or is he still wandering around off topic. Explain which?
JR Beillenhouser
1 year agoTo a lot of people’s dismay, Obama, the nation’s first African American president, has barely brought the issue of race into his first term in the White House.
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Oh boy… that is funny. Kinda like how you don’t bring race into everything you write.
Dear Mr. Diuguid: You are absolutely right—Romney did the right thing in blocking attacks on Rev. Wright. The nation’s race relations are inflamed enough with the ongoing controversy over the Trayvon Martin tragedy without “dumping fuel on the fire” by running such ads on national TV. If the communications media does not start acting with greater responsibility we are going to have all over the nation the sort of riots we had in LA in 1992. Take care. Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Ernest Evans
Suzanne Conaway
12 months agoLewis, I lived in Saudi Arabia when I was a teen and, I have to admit,Rev. Wright’s comment about ‘chickens coming home to roost’ is, unfortunately very accurate.
My father refused to learn more than the very minimum of Arabic: count to ten, polite phrases, cuss words. Yet an Arab, in his own country, who could not speak English was, to quote Dad, a ‘damn, dumb raghead.’ Unfortunately, my father’s attitude was the norm, not the exception.
After having Americans treat them with such disdain for so many decades, it’s not any wonder that they hate us. 9/11 was not a fluke. It was more an explosion of pent-up anger.