Can someone explain to me why Sen. John McCain has renounced his "agents of intolerance" label of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and not received criticism, while Sen. Barack Obama has denounced the words of his pastor and is still being attacked?
Falwell and Robertson blamed the terrorist acts of 9/11, in part, on the ACLU, feminists, gays and lesbians, while the Rev. Jeremiah Wright blamed the attacks on U.S. foreign policy. McCain has embraced Falwell, given the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University and flip-flopped from his "agent of intolerance" label. Falwell and Robertson essentially said that God was damning America for the decisions of the U.S. justice system.
While some of Wright’s words do run contrary to Obama’s message of unity, it seems hardly fair to label Wright a “radical extremist� for his 5-year-old speech that blamed U.S. foreign policy — a policy that included the arming of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. And it is a great injustice to call Obama “anti-American� for his association with Wright. One might as well conclude that McCain, by his association with Falwell, blames gays and lesbians for 9/11!
I am truly sick of all the "spin" that is going on to help explain support for or against a candidate. I am sick of all the attempts at pigeonholing everyone according to their race, age or gender. I hope voters will stop paying attention to all of the "noise" and start paying attention to the policies of each candidate and what each candidate says or has said — what they say, not what others say. Don't listen to the "pundits" and the old party classifications. Who has supported a war and do you? Who has spent us into a recession and do you support it?
— David McNamara, Moorpark
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