ViceZilla’s Views

Politics and Religion, a caustic mix if there ever was one. The two thought processes are better left separated in their own little worlds, and never the twain should meet. There has been much hype about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church and his relationship with his parishioners, namely one Barrack Obama. And thanks to the media storm that has surrounded their particular relationship, it seems that everybody now has an opinion on the situation.

Unfortunately these opinions were made over every possible twist the media could find to put on their headlines. It was shameless and it was ruthless, especially the You Tube videos of Wright’s sermons that were cut and spliced and taken out of context of what his message was. They were taken way out of context, but sometimes ‘context’ doesn’t sell newspapers nowadays does it?

I’m not defending Jeremiah Wright by any stretch of the imagination, because he did say some things that I don’t particularly agree with. But that’s my right, as well as his. This used to be a country where freedom of speech was encouraged, and vigorously defended. The only problem with Wright’s sermons as of late was that one of the church’s parishioners decided to run for President of the United States of America. Then all hell broke loose!

The only mistake Obama committed while the media was having a feeding frenzy at his and Wright’s expense was not realizing that he should have nipped the problem in the butt long before it became an issue. What Barrack did today, he should have done long ago, not only for political career, but also for his relationship with wright and his church. But now, after all is said and done and the dust is settling, the damage has been done.

I find it ironic that the media got their panties all bunched up over things that Rev. Wright said, and turned it on Obama as if they were his words and thoughts, but yet gave John McCain and Rev. Hagee a free pass over his views that God destroyed New Orleans because of it’s sinful ways.

If anybody should be have to answer for their actions in this debacle, it is the media people who perpetrated this monster in the first place! But now that Obama has done what he has needed to do, and that is sever the cord between himself and Rev. Wright, its time to move on and proceed with the business of politics. Because that’s what this election is all about, politics and not religion.

Tags: 2008 Presidential Candidates //