Before starting this post, I'd introduce myself; I am Michael van der Galien, co-founder and editor of PoliGazette, a mostly right-of-center news and opinion website. We are one of the fastest growing such sites on the Net.
I'm a 24-year old American Studies and Oriental Studies student at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. I'm a Dutch conservative, which makes me pretty centrist to right-of-center in the United States; that means, definitely not a 'liberal' but also definitely not a hardcore conservative either.
Thanks to Susan for letting me contribute to Wake Up America! I hope you all will enjoy my contributions.
The first post is called Using Wright. Here it goes:
In a recent blogpost for The Daily Beast conservative pundit Tucker Carlson argued that John McCain’s campaign should attack Barack Obama for his ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity Church Chicago. As is well known, Wright is a radical anti-American preacher, yet Obama attended his church for 20 years. Wright is the man who ‘brought Obama to Christ.’ The latter even went so far as to call Wright his ’spiritual mentor’ in his autobiography.
But he is a radical. Shortly after 9/11 Wright said: “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…America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
In another sermon the good reverend had the following to say: “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
He also is in the habit of refering to America as AmeriKKKa, which is undoubtedly not a terminology most Americans would feel comfortable about.
There are enough videos out there which the McCain campaign could use to attack Obama over his ties to Wright - Hillary Clinton’s campaign did so with magnificent results. She was trailing Obama in the polls before her campaign attacked Obama over Wright, but made a comeback once the attacks started. In the end, Obama was forced to quit his church, and to distance himself from Wright, even though he had tried to defend Wright initially.
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