The media still remains relentless in assailing Obama and Rev. Wright for his sermons. How much longer can they milk this story? If they’re going to be fair, not much longer. Since Pandora’s box has been opened, it’s now time to give Team Clinton the same kind of scrutiny. By the way, Hillary already vetted? Don’t bet on it. Check out:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html and http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich

Two issues are key to the argument about religious beliefs: Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric and Team Clinton’s right wing values, which are demonstrated in their religious affiliations, along with their political dedication to the Third Way as well as many PNAC aims.

Is there a justifiable defense for Wright’s assertions? In part, yes: rage and distrust of the federal government, which is rampant. That doesn’t, however, make them correct. Nonetheless it doesn’t take much to extrapolate numerous circumstances, including the experiments conducted by the CIA/army over the years with LSD, nuclear radiation, and toxins on the unsuspecting public, into a belief that the U.S. developed AIDS as a bioweapon. It doesn’t seem likely if that were the case that the target was African Americans, but it’s easy to see how a fair number of reasonable people suspect such a thing.

Part of Wright’s rage, of course, is associated with race and the indignities suffered by blacks for many decades. Thus, insisting the government intentionally spread AIDS is also, figuratively, a way of representing the aggregate injustice done against blacks. While, probably, not empirically accurate, it’s representative of a legacy of abuse. Obama is certainly smart enough to see the difference, and has emphatically said so.

Wright also vigorously condemned the war in Iraq, albeit with the “Goddamn America” phrase. Pat Robertson and others also claim God damns America for its sins, but, being far more culturally conservative, those concerns include abortion, boozing, and drugging rather than conducting immoral wars. In the end, self-righteous condemnation is the same breed of belief. Logically speaking there is no difference.

Team Clinton’s alignment with neoChristianity, however, isn’t based on the same kind of outrage Wright shows for the war. Their brand of beliefs are sympathetic to the End Timers who expect the world to end soon and The Rapture to arrive and save the blessed.

Why is this worse than Wright? Wright is merely an angry black minister, at times, who’s also aiming for the kind of peace Christ worked for, and is enraged by a senseless war. On the other hand, the Family and its ties to Fundamentalism is in closer alignment to the End Timers - basically the same core belief as W has had while shoving the “War on Terror” down America’s throat. Wright insensitively protests the war; the End Timers, however, are content to see it carried out for they can’t wait for The Rapture to occur.

Consequently, Hillary threatens to “obliterate” Iran. In this way, the PNAC Neocon strategy of American neoimperialism and protection of Israel is unified with Christian Fundamentalism’s throw-caution-to-the-wind strategy so that there’s little hesitancy to light the fire in the Middle East. After all, God’s coming to save the redeemed according to their beliefs.

The problem with Clinton’s Kool Aid drinking followers is that they’re mesmerized by all the domestic policy promises while forgetting that once the U.S. goes to war against Iran, or any other Middle Eastern nation, oil will rise above $250/bbl, the Strait of Hormuz will be blocked, a draft will be necessary to assemble the numbers needed, and Americans will be lucky if they hold onto exiting Social Security and Medicare programs. Forget all of her other promises and pandering; they will be impossible.