Obama’s Defining Moment

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Oh, Alexis---I can't believe you are buying this speech. I am a faithful Fox Business viewer. Being from the West Coast, many days I get up early to see much of your show. I also love your blog and the pictures of your "boys" are terrific. They are as cute as can be. But getting back to the Obama speech, he never said he would break from either Rev. Wright or Rev. Wright's church. He is running on hope, change, and charater. Well, if he had real charater and is asking us to change then he should stand up to Rev. Wright comments. He should also leave that church whose own web site uses hateful and anti-white statements. When he was interviewed on Fox news, he indicated that he had never remembered hearing those statements. Now in this speech he indicates that he does remember hearing those hateful lies but it makes no difference. It seems that he will continue to associate himself with Rev. Wright. Now I understand why his wife for the first time in her life said she is proud to be an American. I have always been a proud American. The speech was a defining moment for me as I believe actions speak louder than words. I'll wait to see action! Keep Bogging, Virginia

Alexis, you aren't listening. Just like many other liberal, they are quick to point out problems, but have no real answers. Hope is just that - Hope. I recommend that you stay with business and not get burned with politics. You are too trustworthy and not curious enough to think through the hype.

Alexis, I am surprised at you. You have drunk the Obama Kool-Aid. This is not a man who preaches "change". He preaches despair, gloom & doom, coupled with a sense of hopelessness. If a white pastor, say Hillary's or McCain's, put forth such hatred, the race would be over. Words and velleities are not the mark of a leader. His anti-business rhetoric should chill every American. Who does he think creates the jobs? In his view it's the government. He did not shake off the anti-American hatred and venom spewed by his "pastor". This misanthrope helped shape his beliefs over the past 20 years. Rhetoric does not change this.

Some people are comparing Obama to Martin Luther King today. I marched for civil rights in the 60's. Reverend King believed in peaceful demonstration and protest. He believed you could not fight bigotry and hatred with even more hatred. And, he often publicly admonished African-Americans who used hateful, anti-white, rhetoric. When Reverend Wright said his hateful anti-white remarks, Martin Luther King would have gotten out of that pew, walked out of that church, and never come back. I am absolutely sure of that. Barack Obama is no Martin Luther King! Take Care, Sharon

He did not respond the question that was asked. Why does he take his children to hear a Reverend that speaks that way.

Yes I have seen it and it was a good speech. But here is the thing that is so troubling to me. If the shoe was on the other foot. If Barak was white and his pastor was white and his pastor was bashing the black community. The black community would be asking Barak to resign from the senate and drop out of the presidential race. Rev Al would be asking for heads on a platter. It doesn't matter to me what his pastor says. Freedom of speech is an individual right. People in this country have to learn to listen with discretion. I have friends that I converse with that are misguided "In my eyes", but who am I to say that their views are not correct. There is just a popular opinion of what is right and wrong. Not an absolute. Your pastor does not form your morals, scruples and ethics. They should stem from your family. And this country dwelling on what his pastor is advocating in a time of financial crisis is just plain stupid. There are bigger problems that we are facing. All this is, is a distraction. Karl Ron Paul 2008