Clinton out of the race but Obama damaged by Wright lies

"Governments lie. The government lied about the
Tuskegee experiment... The government lied about bombing Cambodia...The government
lied about the drugs for arms Contra scheme orchestrated by Oliver North...
The government lied about a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and
a connection between 9-11-01 and operation Iraqi Freedom. Governments lie."

I don't know about you, but I've not heard one statement that isn't
categorically, historically, and absolutely true. As my good country buddy, Bro.
Willie might ask, "What the problem is?"

Obama's response, served up to placate the fascistic right, sounded like
an apology: "I reject outright statements by Reverend Wright that are at
issue."


As Clinton loses..radicals are rallying to the Obama camp.

However radicals are kept out by the US two party dictatorship. From the belly of the beast in prison in Philadelphia award winning journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal writes.

Glad to be able to post from perhaps the most important political journalist on the planet, right here on another green world.

Mumia points out that the voice of reason belongs to Jeremiah Wright and on this issue Obama is wrong.

Who's Uncle is Really Crazy?
[col. writ. 5/1/08 (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal


When conservative hit-shows first began raising questions about Barack
Obama's former pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, the Democratic candidate
essentially played down the relationship, suggesting that Wright was like the
'crazy uncle' common to many families.

Due to the pressure of the 24 hour news cycle, we have come a long way
from there, to here.

While Sen. Obama no longer refers to him in this way, it's more than
worthwhile to examine just what the Rev. Wright did say, which set off the
belfry of mad bats who hold forth from the dark universe of right wing radio and
TV commentators.

Among the Rev. Wright's "controversial" comments were these:

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked
far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted
an eye... and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas
is now brought back into our own front yards. America's chickens have come
home to roost... Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And
terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y'all, not a black
militant... An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to
wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now
poised..."

Rev. Wright's words on how America has treated her darker citizens were
also termed "controversial." These are some of them:

"And the United States of America government, when it
came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put
them on reservations. when it came to treating her citizens of Japanese
descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came
to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put
them in chains, the government put them on auction blocks, put them in
cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put
them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, and put
them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist
bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of hopelessness
and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons,
passes a three strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.'
No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America-that's in the Bible - for
killing innocent people."

On the role of the U.S. government overseas, Wright preached the
following:

"Governments lie. The government lied about the
Tuskegee experiment... The government lied about bombing Cambodia...The government
lied about the drugs for arms Contra scheme orchestrated by Oliver North...
The government lied about a connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein and
a connection between 9-11-01 and operation Iraqi Freedom. Governments lie."

I don't know about you, but I've not heard one statement that isn't
categorically, historically, and absolutely true. As my good country buddy, Bro.
Willie might ask, "What the problem is?"

Obama's response, served up to placate the fascistic right, sounded like
an apology: "I reject outright statements by Reverend Wright that are at
issue."

The problem isn't that Rev. Wright was crazy, but that he spoke the
cold, sober truth. That's the problem.

The US nationalists demand that anyone who states such truths be
'denounced.'

When will a candidate emerge who will denounce imperialism, and the
endless ruinous wars against much of the Third World, for the profit of
corporations here?

If this election is any measure, no time soon.

Who's uncle is really crazy? Uncle Jeremiah or Uncle Sam?

--(c) '08 maj