Time to take your blinders off, folks

Regarding the March 21 editorial, “Obama’s challenge to look below the surface”:

The editorial implies that we need Barack Obama because of his speech. Why exactly did he give that speech? Only because he had to. He’s been found out. You see, he’s been attending a church where hate speech is a regular part of the sermon. Where racism is applauded, anti-semitism is applauded, the hatred of the U.S. is applauded, and lies are told from the pulpit about our country.

We deserved to be attacked, Jews are bad, white people are bad, white people in charge of the government started AIDS to kill the black community and other vile diatribe is spewed from Obama’s “mentor, spiritual leader, friend, confidant,” the person who married him, and baptized his children. He sat there for 20 years and listened to this vile (oh, yeah, he never heard any of it, wasn’t there, but later admitted maybe he did know of some of it). He knew all of it, either sitting there personally or heard of it.

What kind of parent takes his kids to a church like this? His pastor Wright goes to Libya with the greatest racist and hate-monger Farrakhan and then Obama’s church gives him an achievment award. How could a man running for the presidency not be held accountable for this complete lack of judgment? You want this guy making life and death decisions for our country? Take off your blinders folks, this guy is not who he pretends to be.

If John McCain attended the KKK church for 20 years what would be going on now? One thing for sure, no one would be writing the paper to tell us what a good speech he made. No fancy speech will make this go away (and it should’nt).

Mike Mitchell

Stanwood