tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post2943760241639502690..comments2024-01-03T17:02:06.646+00:00Comments on ASTROTABLETALK: Barack Obama and Rev Wright: an Old, Old StoryBarry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-77062929064445948402008-05-03T23:12:00.000+01:002008-05-03T23:12:00.000+01:00DR--what a great posting. I have been appalled an...DR--what a great posting. I have been appalled and mystified by Wright's behavior, but now understand that he has continued on his path with no regard for Barack, if indeed he ever had any. Barack, on the other hand, has again been betrayed by a father figure.<BR/><BR/>On this side of the pond, I have been more and more dismayed by the relentless attempts to discredit Obama by Hillary. She is downright manic these days---has a totally crazed demeanor. If she manages to somehow steal the nomination, I truly believe we will see the creation of a new party in the USA. Those of us who were Democratic "hangers-on", subscribing to the ideals the party purports to represent, while bemoaning the machine politics that rendered the party hardly different in practice from the Republicans, realize now that not only is change desirable, it is utterly necessary. <BR/><BR/>I love hearing your takes on our politics and I know I am reading this a day late and you have gone on to your own PM's meltdown. But I hope you get to read this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-82464848959480820262008-05-02T20:45:00.000+01:002008-05-02T20:45:00.000+01:00Jeremiah Wright could care less about Barack Obama...Jeremiah Wright could care less about Barack Obama. I see a man totally lost in his ego. He is visibly ecstatic about being at the center of more attention than he has ever known in his life, and he loves it. He feels not an ounce of remorse for what he is doing to Obama, who is, as Wright puts it, a "politician," while he, Rev. Wright, is a man of God. What nonsense! Given what Jeremiah Wright says and does, he too is a politician!<BR/><BR/>The black men of Jeremiah Wright's generation had a choice. They could follow the way of Martin Luther King and preach nonviolence and peace, or they could follow the way of the Black Panthers and preach an eye for an eye, hatred begets hatred. And Jeremiah Wright at times chooses to be a vehicle for expressing the dark side of the black experience. And by his position he had power and influence in the black community, and that is why Obama was in his church. Obama himself has said that Rev. Wright was not his spiritual or moral teacher, obviously not since they have come to different conclusions. What Obama was garnering in his relationship with Rev. Wright was political and oratorical prowess, but also the persona of the preacher which Obama skillfully projects (he is a Leo). GWB astutely calls Obama "The Pope." <BR/><BR/>Also Barack Obama chose to be, and was, raised by his grandparents. I would conclude from this that he did have a male figure involved in his upbringing. And I see in his personality characteristics of one raised by older parents. What people identify as his being an "old soul," which is also associated with being Scorpio Rising, although some question that he has Scorpio ascendant because the time of birth is uncertain.Venushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04872999615847944726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-16751805982453139942008-05-02T20:08:00.000+01:002008-05-02T20:08:00.000+01:00Thanks for your practical understanding on the sub...Thanks for your practical understanding on the subjects you write of. The mythic themes of your subjects have been written about many times before,but your writing about it in human terms, in present time, has such a healing quality to it. Your neutral awareness is awesome.<BR/><BR/>Appreciation and Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com