Thursday, April 17, 2008

Words of wisdom regarding Wright

Over on Daily Kos, Devilstower had this to say about George S.'s question to Barack Obama at last night's debate about whether Rev. Jeremiah Wright loves America as much as he does.

Who loves America? Jeremiah Wright loved it enough that while Dick Cheney was getting his string of five deferments, Wright voluntarily gave up his student deferment, left college and joined the United States Marine Corps. Wright was valedictorian of his class in Corpsman School. When asked about the sacrifices he'd made, Wright said he was inspired by the words of John Kennedy that he should "ask what he could do for his country."

And he did that at a time where there were many restaurants in this country that wouldn't serve him food, hotels where he could not get a room, neighborhoods where he could not hope to live, and whole states where he could not obtain justice. That, damn it, is how much Jeremiah Wright loves this country.

If only Barack Obama could have said this.