Dear Mr. Cooper:
I believe your sentiments are truer than anything our president or any of the current politicians who aspire...and creepily, desire...to replace him have ever uttered on the record. For my money, the following excerpt hits one of our coffin nails squarely on its head:
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"...I like the reverend Jeremiah Wright. Barack Obama used to like him, but the more forcefully and clearly his pastor told several obvious and painful truths about our land of the free, the more sad and sullen the candidate became. Reverend Wright, it develops, is divisive. Pretty much every politician and pundit says so.
Now, the whole damned yammering crew of reactionary know-nothing loud-mouth dim-wit fools on talk radio is divisive, and that whining toad of a preacher James "Praying For Armageddon" Hagee John McCain sucked up to is divisive, and the God-soaked, death-loving nuts running the Supreme Court are divisive, and if you call Dick Cheney divisive he'll probably shoot your face off. But it's Jeremiah Wright who has Newsweek and NBC and even old dour, sluggish, liberal-to-a-degree Dan Shore on Public Radio agreeing that his ideas are so "extreme" that would-be president Obama "had no choice" but to "distance himself" from the man.
...I watched Jeremiah Wright on the Bill Moyers Show and I listened to his conversation at the National Press Club. He's smarter than President Bush, more decent than Vice President Cheney, has more integrity than Senator Lieberman, more courage than Senator Reed or Representative Pelosi. If I believed in God and went to church and he was my minister, I might argue with him about this or that, but I'd listen to him and I'd think about what he said and I'd for damned sure not disown him.
Because for all the thrill that the idea of an Obama candidacy and possible presidency raises in the hearts of most of my liberal friends, it is just this sort of calculation and compromise that makes him insufficiently distinguished from all that his party has become. You want to be president? There are things you cannot say, must not do, opinions that are forbidden. I'll say that I think much, if not most of what reverend Wright says is obvious and true and that his ministry is an asset to our nation and to the families he has served. But I'm only keeping the books and running the town meetings for the town of Alna. If I wanted to be president I'd strap on the flag pin and stop thinking about things that don't make us proud and satisfied. And I'd sell out the memory of my own mom, if Katie Couric and Brian Williams thought I ought to to pick up a few score votes or turn a superdelegate.
He didn't do so formerly, but I hear him do it now, since Reverend Wright stood up and said the unsayable: Barack Obama has taken to ending his speeches with the satisfying, soothing, "God Bless America," required form for every candidate since Ronald Reagan..."
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Perhaps...since you are miserably misunderstood, mischaracterized or misled by your cruel wife and selfish children, your corrupt business partner or the amalgamation of customers whose desires for home repair and augmentation finance the parts of your life not wholly accommodated by the generous salary and benefit package provided by your journal...you would be receptive to a grassroots push to catapult you to Chairman of the Federal Reserve or Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
You get it, that there's only so much money with which to work. You get it, that you can't get blood from a rock.
Hell, maybe we should write you in as President.
Thanks for the sign of intelligent life in my country...it was starting to seem like an inner city public school.