I am a 60 year old expat (white male retired soldier) living in Africa.
I so desperately want to see new life breathed into
America and I believe that Mr Obama can bring this about.
I now realize that it is not to be.
Why?
Because some crackpot attention-seeking 'holy man'
has decided he is more important than is flock, to be precise
The Reverend Wright
I am not an expert in politics, but I know a sh*t-load about Africa and HIV/AIDS.
The Reverend is 'talking bollocks' as the Brits would say.
He has fallen into the same trap as President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, believing the nonsense of deluded snake oil salesmen, rather than scientific evidence - if by any small chance one of Wright's followers reads this blog, I would ask them to Wiki 'cognitive dissonance'.
I am surrounded by HIV/AIDS, I have been, for six years and more.
I know how this started, it jumped from monkey to man, because we [Africans] eat them. If Americans knew how Africans catch, kill and eat monkeys they could understand this.
HIV/AIDS existed in Africa long before it appeared in the US, it was called 'slim' back in the late 70's.
The Reverend is showing appalling hubris in not doing something as simple as reading the literature before he waxes lyrical in front of the media. Then again, it may be he does not give a fig for the truth or America, it is all about him.
Maybe he wants to be 'Famous for Fifteen Minutes' telling the truth or not
Well,he should know that he has single-handedly re-ignited another round of anti-Americanism, this time in Africa. And it is all based on his bigotry.
Lord forgive me, I am driven to use a 'Clintonism' to describe his actions - "Shame on Him! Shame on Him!"
If he changes his mind and wants to listen to the truth, ask him to take a plane to Atlanta and listen to CDC
Mr Obama sir, I am sorry.
I think you are a good man
and America seems not yet ready for you
And for that I am so terribly sorry