Cindy Sheehan: "Senator Obama needs to denounce me"

That seems like a no-brainer.  (via Sweetness & Light)

"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 the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
Reverend Jeremiah Wright; Sept. 16th 2001

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Barack Obama has denounced the above remarks of his mentor and pastor, Rev. Wright saying: "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies." Let's parse the Rev's statement.

"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."

Yes, on December 7th, 1941 (another day that will live in infamy), a US Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by Japan. On that day, 2338 American service personnel were tragically killed, but there was little of what our Pentagon calls "collateral damage," civilians killed. As a matter of fact, during WWII, Japan killed very few American civilians. However, the US military command in the Pacific killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians in aerial bombings and with the use of the new WMD; H-bombs. General Curtis LeMay informed future Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara (who was under LeMay during WWII), that if the US had lost they would have been tried as "war criminals." The loss of innocent life in Japan was numbered in the hundred of thousands and I don't hear Senator Obama denouncing those acts of cowardice.

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans,

I think there is little dispute that Israel (which I assume is what Obama refers to when he says "allies") receives approximately three billion dollars in aid from the U.S. each year and have brutally oppressed and occupied Palestinian lands for decades. In a one week's period this month, Israel killed over 300 Palestinians and was "shocked" when 8 Jewish seminary students were killed in return. I hate and reject all loss of innocent life no matter what is the color, religion or nation of origin. I think Senator Obama may buy into the neocon lie that somehow Israeli or American lives are more precious than Arab lives or black lives. Not only has the US supported state-sanctioned terrorism in such places as Palestine and South Africa, but we are committing some more of our own in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Blah, blah, blah.  "Chickens coming home to roost".  Hate America first.  Maybe Cindy should run for President with the Rev. Wright as her running mate.  She might find out that while most of us acknowledge America's shortcomings we also realize how blessed we are.  And the fact she can speak freely about her hatred of her country speaks volumes, but Ms. Sheehan is incapable of figuring that out all by herself.

But she does ask a good question:

Senator Obama also denounced any remarks that "disparaged our great country." Hmm…does he denounce remarks that his own wife made about being proud to be an American for the first time in her "adult life?"...

Hmm...

Obama will be giving a speech tomorrow on “the larger issue of race in this campaign,”.   

“I am going to be talking about not just Reverend Wright, but the larger issue of race in this campaign,” he said.

Bull Dog Pundit:

The issue here isn’t race, it’s about the views of this nut Reverend Wright who happens to be black, and why Barack Obama didn’t see those views as problematic until he ran for President.

Comments

[Harvey]

Jesus! Just when you think Crazy Cindy can sick no lower! Of course hating America has all it has ever taken for Cindy to get on her knees for you! What a pathetic woman!

[Scott Allan]

I'll denounce everybody!

[mad_cow]

Well that covers it! A blanket denunciation. If you ever run for office you'll be way ahead of the game! (And I'll vote for you)

Yes, Cindy is the poster child for hate America first. Will she ever go away?

[Scott Allan]

I used to think I had too many skeletons in my closet to run for office, but the bar gets lower almost every day, Clinton, McGreevy, Spitzer, et al.

I still think I may not be corrupt enough nor lack enough common sense or intelligence to hold political office.

[mad_cow]

The bar has truly been lowered. I think I could even be your running mate!

The corruption is depressing. Add to that the pandering and the lying, the lengths to which some will go to get elected, and stay elected. I don't think this is what our Founding Fathers had in mind. When are you going to start that new country?

[Scott Allan]

Right now the country would have to be the size of my backyard. I can't afford an island at the moment. Luckily I don't have people trying to sneak in to my country right now.