johnbon

Mr. Arouet: The URL for article you refer to ("Untangling Barack Obama's audacious mumbo jumbo) is http://ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=guest_op&article=73. A very useful hyperlink annotated PDF version is also posted here at Scribs under Politics. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/2934127/Untangling-Barack-Obamas-audacious-mumbo-jumbo- This is all a perfect example of Christopher Hitchens’ indictment that “religion poisons everything.” Enough with these troublesome preachers in the public square. No one can fairly call the Rev. Wright homophobic but, like African American scholar Debra Dickerson ("Some of Obama's Best Friends Are Gay. No, Really," Mother Jones 2007), Mortimer is correct about Obama’s pandering to black homophobic religious hate. If you search Utube you will find the unedited version of Obama’s famous Philadelphia speech before the mass media cleansed it of the not-so-subtle religious message. We saw only American flags on TV but before Obama could mount that public pulpit or walk off camera he had to pass before a double phalanx of preachers all lined up like it was shot gun wedding. The mass media conveniently edited ...

To paraphrase Enlightenment philosophe Denis Diderot, "The world will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last preacher." And to quote the greatest philosophe of all Ecrasez l'infame!!

If this rubbish can even partially fulfill the requirements of a B.A. in sociology at Princeton then one can only wonder how dumbed-down the admissions process has become. As Christopher Hitchens wrote, "To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be "read" at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn't written in any known language."