Wait just a minute Senator Obama, wasn’t it your wife who was telling the American People that in order for anyone to get a slice of the pie someone was going to have to give up their piece? Yet, you tell everyone in North Carolina yesterday that we can all have our piece of the American Dream. Why not quit pandering and start being honest with America?

But that would not befit the most liberal Senator in Washington, now would it? We all have to remember that there is no way to spell Liberal without L I E. It’s crazy uncle Jeremiah again isn’t it? He’s just like a crazy uncle, you don’t agree with him, but he is family. When it became politically expedient to do so, you threw him under the bus, probably to scare your white grandmother who you threw under there a few weeks back.

But, that’s just My Arrogant Opinion.

Over the past few days there has certainly been no shortage of reports about Jeremiah Wright in the news or blogosphere. It seems that everywhere you turn, you hear his ‘bombastic’ shouts on the airwaves. The question that comes to my mind is, why is he getting all of this attention? Obviously, he is no friend of Obama’s, or he would have kept his voice quiet and faded into the woodwork until after this election was over. So exactly what is the agenda that Wright is trying to advance?

A retired preacher who claims to have been preaching Jesus for 30 years is strangely silent about the message of Peace and Love for Mankind that the Jesus I know preached when He was on this Earth. It sounds more like Wright is trying to take over the mantle of Al Sharpdon with his ‘bombastic’, arrogant, hate filled racist message he pushes. He certainly wasted no time in jumping into the media spotlight after his name was mentioned on national news. And now, instead of trying to shrink from the light to allow it to shine on Obama, he is basking in that light and blocking it from Obama.

Obama, now trying to backpeddle and decisively state that he does not agree with Wright, that his hate-speech is not what Obama believes, is having a hard time convincing anyone of anything. He has waited too long to cut ol’ Uncle Jeremiah loose. His judgment, honesty and integrity all have to be called into question over this issue. How good is this Presidential candidate’s judgment to not recognize, first that this was the message Wright has been peddling for the 20 years he has known him, how honest is he in telling us that he doesn’t agree with Wright’s position, and what does this all say about the man’s integrity, that he would throw first his Grandmother and now his pastor under the bus for political gain?

Mr. Obama, it looks to me as though you are simply too inexperienced for this job, you have demonstrated your lack of honesty and integrity, and if I were living in your district of Illinois, I would be wondering if you had the ability to represent me in Congress after these things have seen the light of day.

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

I noticed on the news last night that Reverend Wright was trying to make nice with the MSM and tell them that he felt that he had been done wrong with the constant looping of his “God Damn America” comments. He thoughtfully pointed out that anyone could be made to look bad with a single comment taken out of context and looped and played over and over like this one was.

The problem is, this comment was not taken out of context. Sure the MSM had to shorten the bite to fit their time constraints, but when the story hit, there was no shortage that I was aware of in hearing the comments in their complete context. I know that I first heard them on Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Program while I was eating lunch. I remember it well as I was stunned that this could have possibly been uttered from the pulpit not even a week after 9/11.

Ed Morrissey posted a piece entitled “The Wright Stuff: ABC provides the context” on HotAir.Com yesterday and it contains the printed transcript of the entire tirade Wright made from his pulpit. It is pretty much as I remember hearing it on the radio when the story first hit, so his complaint that this was taken out of context seems to just reinforce the idea that this is not the person best qualified to be the ‘spiritual advisor’ to POTUS.

But, that is just My Arrogant Opinion.

Our rights to free speech have come under fire of late and that should be of concern for all Americans. We are hearing terms we have never heard of before like “Hate Speech,” which is not defined by our Constitution. Exactly what is “Hate Speech,” and why is it a danger to our freedom?

Several months ago a comic was on a stage in California, that bastion of liberal theology, doing a stand-up routine. He was being heckled by some blacks in the audience and he responded angrily. Michael Richards was the comic, and he called the blacks, “niggers.” This started a firestorm that, like the California wildfires last year went completely out of control.

Someone in the club had a recording device and filmed the altercation. This recording made it onto the news. All of a sudden we have Civil Rights activists involved as Al Sharpdon and his ilk started yelling about his hate speech and use of a racial epitaph. The same epitaph that has been used as stock in trade by black comedians for years. I can’t imagine a Richard Pryor set that didn’t have him using nigger repeatedly.

Ah, but Richards was hurling invective at blacks in the audience. Don Rickles made his fortune by insulting audience members, people who shelled out hard earned money to sit in the audience hoping that he would pick them out for some insult. These are the types of things you expect in a comedy club setting, if you don’t like this type of thing, don’t go to the club. If you go to the club, and feel insulted, don’t go back. You do not have the right to infringe upon the comic’s material by recording it and handing it off to the news media.

While Sharpdon was demanding apologies and boycotts I am curious where that champion of individual rights the ACLU was while Richards was being subjected to an unauthorized video surveillance. Isn’t this the type of thing that they just live for? Seems to be a little hypocritical to me, that they would be silent on this issue. Maybe it is only when the issue is on their liberal radar that they stand up to defend the rights of the individual.

While I don’t agree with Richard’s outburst, I strongly support his right to use whatever language he chose to express his anger. Better to have invective flying across the room than to have bullets doing the same.

In the same time frame, we have another Hollywood type getting into trouble. Mel Gibson went out and got drunk, then got stopped while driving under the influence. It just so happened that the officer who stopped him was Jewish, and Mel took the opportunity to make some racial slurs against Jews. Again, not the smartest thing that could be done, but certainly his right to express his feelings. Let’s not forget either, that the man was drunk when the slurs were made. Since according to the law he was not capable of operating a vehicle safely, how can he be said to be making good decisions in his choice of words? He had just demonstrated the fact that his judgment was impaired by the fact he was driving when under the influence. In the words of the left, it wasn’t his fault.

These incidents were followed a bit later by some comments on a morning radio program by Don Imus. Don is paid to be edgy and to be controversial on the air, it is his stock in trade. Imus made a comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team when he said they looked like a bunch of ‘nappy headed hos’. Now in the same sentence he talked about how he thought the girls on the Tennessee team they were playing were good looking, there were blacks on both teams.

In rushes Al Sharpdon to call for the firing of Imus, screaming ‘Racism!’ raising such a stink that NBC did terminate Don Imus for his remarks. Of course Don turned around and sued NBC because he had a contract where he was contractually obligated to be controversial. He won.

Now I’m not wild about Don’s humor, but it is his right to say what he wants without being labeled a racist by some self-righteous black activist. When we start bowing to the pressure brought to bear by some special interest, we come dangerously close to losing one of the freedoms this nation was built upon. What may even be worse is that these activists are trying to dictate our attitudes and morals. If we continue to allow it, how far will it go?

I was saddened a little bit yesterday. My daughter went to my old college for new student orientation. While I am proud that she is going to my old Alma Mater, I was saddened by the fact that my old Alma Mater isn’t the same as she used to be.

Our old school mascot for Arkansas State University was Runnin’ Joe. All over Jonesboro, when I was there you could find the caricature Indian all over town. In a fit of Political Correctness, some one high up in their ivory tower decided that some one, some where might be offended by this cartoon image of an Indian. The decision was made to change the school mascot from an Indian, to a wolf. Now they are no longer the Arkansas State University Indians, but the Arkansas State University Red Wolves.

This was all after a transition period where the Runnin’ Joe image was replaced by a more traditional Indian figure. I guess that was to make the change less traumatic for those of us who loved ol Runnin’ Joe.

Barack Obama, seems to have a pretty good handle on life in America. All us poor folks just cling to our guns and religion. Well, I guess that is when we aren’t punishing our daughters with babies.

It seems like the man cannot open his mouth without sticking his foot in it. Which, I hasten to add, is a good thing because before the race started to get heated up all we heard was him pontificating about Change, and Hope, and Hope for Change. We still have no substance, but at least his true colors are beginning to show through.

I guess I need to point out that there was no racial slur or implication intended by the use of colors in the preceding paragraph because no one can open their mouth against Barack without it being considered a racial slur or racist remark. Personally, I think the man needs to take a chill pill and get over it, no one is really concerned about the color of his skin, they are concerned with the depth of his character.

When it comes to racism, Barack’s spiritual advisor, the right reverend Jeremiah Wright takes the cake, and we all need to be concerned with the amount of influence that Wright can bring to bear on Obama if he were to make it to the White House.