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Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and other Hollywood Lefties have all said that a McCain presidency will be "dangerous" for America. Let's forget for a moment that the only way this statement can be even close to true would be if John McCain were to raise an army, march on Washington, seize the government by force, and declare himself the new monarch of the Empire of America.

He should, perhaps think about this...

I think that perhaps the Hollywood blowhards should remember that we have had over 200 years of politics in our history. That's over 200 years of different people, different political parties, different circumstances such as peace and war, and civil disturbances and such... Through all of this, the country has survived, and in fact, it has prospered.

I have about the same reaction to the Liberalista blowhards on this as I do toward my friends who have said before this or that event that the country was "doomed". In fact, the country was not doomed due to the actions of any one President, it's not been doomed through the actions of any political party, it's not been doomed through the actions of any private citizen or company, and it's not been doomed through trends, such as the trend in the late 1800s toward relatively weak and ineffective Presidents.

The problem I have about this is not so much that Baldwin, Robbins, and others are once again running their mouths. The thing is that this is not the first time that these people have said "OhMiGod, we're doomed! I'm moving to Canada if Bush is elected!" As recently as this week, none of these Liberalistas have put their money where their mouth is. A number of prominent Conservatives have even offered to pay for the trip, provided that it is a one-way trip.

And what are the Hollywood Liberalistas worried about? One quick look at the scoail scene shows that the rich and famous can live quite well in Europe, not to mention that the adoption cradle of the stars is a whole lot closer if the parents-to-be live in Europe.

The whole whining argument is actually a good defense of the United States. These cinema stars don't want to lose the rights that allow them to get in front of the camera and microphone and make complete STUPID FOOLS of themselves.

You only get to do that in America, and by NOT leaving, the Hollywood Liberalistas prove that they really like the place...

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The following two snippets are from the online
coverage of the statements of Rev. Jeremiah Wright
which have caused a major controversy, and could,
in fact, ruin the candidacy of Barack O'Bama...

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In a fiery sermon in April 2003, Wright said:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds
bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and
wants them to sing God Bless America.

No! No No!

God damn America … for killing innocent people.

God damn America for threatening citizens as
less than humans.

God damn America as long as she tries to act
like she is God and supreme.”

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“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.”

“We have supported state terrorism against the
Palestinians and black South Africans, and now
we are indignant because of stuff we have done
overseas is now brought back into our own backyard.
America is chickens coming home to roost.”

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Now, I hear African-Americans all the time defending
statements like the above, and I heard it again while
watching Bill O'Reilly's coverage of the story. Both
of the guests who were supporters of Barack O'Bama
supported and defended the statements of Pastor Wright,
saying that Bill, and the rest of White America could
not understand the "Black Church", and what goes on in
the "Black Church".

Now, I am not about to tell you that I understand the
collective roots of African-Americans. I understand what
slavery was, how it happened, and how it was ended, but
I understand it because first, I happened to be listening
in my school classes, and second, because I became a
historian, and that makes it my job to undestand these things
on some level...but I don't have the racial or ethnic
background to trully understand what such things have meant
to African-Americans.

However, I also realize that neither me, nor African-Americans
live in that time anymore. Slavery was abolished throughout the
world during the 1800s. Civil rights for African-Americans
have steadily improved since 1865, to the point where successful
African-Americans are serving as justices on the Supreme Court,
they have served as governors of Virginia, and now, in New York,
they are found in high places in government, and they are all
over the corporate world. There is no real place for
African-Americans to say that today's America is the same as the
America of the days of slavery. To do so is to ignore over a
century and a half of history, and is an insult to African-Americans
who have been successful, and an insult to African-Americans who
dared to stand up against the segregationist majority in the 1960s
and declare "I have a dream!"

As far as Pastor Wright and Barack O'Bama are concerned, the right
thing for O'Bama to do is to get rid of the man...he serves on an
unofficial religious advisory group. He needs to publicly disavow
Wright's statements.

Totally.

This is important because as others have said, O'Bama is running
to become the next President of the United States...not President
of the African-American United States...he hopes to become my
President too. And as such, we have a right to know his views,
his policies, and how he got to all of them.

If Pastor Wright is anywhere near any of it, O'Bama is unfit
to be President.

John B.
Blog Guy