How is what Obama's preacher said, different from this song at the GOP debate?

[Hamlette]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77R_prkCkg

I mean, really. The song is entitled Why Should God Bless America? and rants about how America has gone astray because we took prayer out of schools and legalized abortion. It concludes God should have mercy on America.

[baldguy]

1. Rev Wright is a black man.

[rateyes]

3. Did you watch the video?

It is a black choir, for the most part.

[rateyes]

2. Thanks for

making me throw up. :puke:

What a disgusting song.

[Hamlette]

4. here's a great comment from TPM when it was first posted

I found it at balloon juice, tried to post it as a video here but found it had been posted last year.

from tpm:

I'm trying to imagine the response if, say, Yearly Kos hosted a Democratic presidential candidate forum, which started with a rewritten version of "God Bless America" that disparaged the United States.

It's the kind of thing Fox News would jump all over -- and every Democratic candidate on hand would be asked whether they agreed with the song's lyrical condemnation of the country. Bill O'Reilly would tell us that "God Bless America" is fine the way it is, and it doesn't need to be rewritten by liberals to serve a radical political agenda.

Admittedly, it gets tiresome to hear "if this were a Democrat..." but in this case, I think it's appropriate.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053945.php

[soleft]

5. Here's a great commentary from Rachel Maddow

www.maddowonline.com

[Hamlette]

6. she's the best, great find. n/t

[girl_interrupted]

7. Two wrongs, don't make a right

Both are offensive.

[Hamlette]

8. I don't find either offensive

I think you get to question your government and your country.

[superkia]

10. If your controlled and not a free thinker, you just accept what...

the media throws you and get outraged at what the media tells you to get outraged over. Too many people in this country may be book smart and intelligent but many people lack common sense.

[wndycty]

9. Oh the hypcrisy is rampant on the right

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