Dubya's admission that his decision was already made by Billy Graham is all the more telling because he is on record saying that "God told him to invade Iraq." Whatever Wright's rhetoric tells us about Wright, we haven't lost nearly 4000 (just those the Pentagon admitted) troops and tens of thousands of maimed and permanently disabled servicemembers in addition to close to a million dead or dying Iraqis because of something Wright or Obama said. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

The difference between Wright's words and Obama's association with Wright is that their brand of politics isn't exactly, well, kosher. Obama's childhood background in Indonesia doesn't help his case either. The Religious Right marches in lockstep with the Lobby and will always get the benefit of the doubt, which explains why Dubya and his father were not taken to task for comments made by Pat Robertson et al. In Dubya's tenure as president, the Religious Right has shown a blind allegiance to the Lobby because many of the evangelical leadership (on down to their flock) see the situation in the Middle East as some sort of Biblical prophecy and are easily manipulated by Israel as a result. I find this personally troublesome because while those evangelicals are waiting for the Rapture and their ticket out of here, they are shirking their responsibilities as Americans and citizens of the world, which means that no one is paying attention to what is really happening over there. I would even go as far as to say that they WANT an nuclear exchange over this because they welcome death for everybody in the world. As macabre as that sounds, I sincerely believe many of them don't have any fight left in them to fix the problems that we all face while they are small enough to fix. DO YOU HAVE THE WRITE STUFF?

Billy Graham has made comments that are equally controversial compared to those that Rev. Wright has made. In 1993 he made the following statement about aids: "Is AIDS a judgment of God? I could not say for sure, but I think so." In 2002 the US government released some of Richard Nixon's tapes on which Graham made various remarks about Jews such as "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country" and he said that the Jews had a stranglehold on the US media "This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain". No one ever questioned George W. Bush for invoking Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson and we all know what the later two said about 9/11.