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This was an interesting part of his speech, about how music between cultures differs, where the majority of European music focuses on 1&4 of a 6/8 beat are emphisised (think Blue Danube), and the majority of African music focuses on the 2,3,5 and 6 beats.

oh, I mean...

Look at the funny dancing controversial man!

Moment of Distraction - Wright Dance

Fixed.

@The Magnolia Electric Co, did you also like the part of his speech where he says that blacks and whites learn differently?

Apparently whites are Left-brain thinkers who are logical and analytical.

Blacks are left brain thinkers who are creative and intuitive.

Doesn't that sound like old scientific racism?

This poor man has been so vilified and just saw on Crooks & Liars that now even Barack is trashing him saying he's not the same man he met 20 years ago.

I guess it's bad to be "bitter" about the state of affairs in America now?

God damn American politics and the media slime that have polluted this nation with ignorance and sensationalism.

I thought black guys had rhythm.

Obama says he is "outraged" by Wright's latest comments.

It's a shame Obama can't muster up any "outrage" over what Bush has done to the Constitution . . .

"This poor man has been so vilified and just saw on Crooks & Liars that now even Barack is trashing him saying he's not the same man he met 20 years ago."

He has been vilified, but it was his choice to do a press conference at the national press club. It was as Obama said a "spectacle". Luckily for Obama the press is focusing on the reaction to Obama and Wright and not on the outrageous things that he said and repeated at the press conference. It's one thing if you have a very unhinged, public friend who's very dear to you but differs with you on important issues. I didn't expect Obama to disown Wright. But now Wright has decided to use the opportunity as a platform to keep repeating the same views, dragging down Obama even more and even claiming to know how Obama and the black church really thinks. This is no longer about throwing someone under the bus, it's about repudiating someone who is an active force against your campaign and what it stands for.

If only America could fix this Rev Wright problem. Who cares about the war, $4 a gallon gas, loss of jobs, crime, poor public education, the environment, the falling dollar, the mortgage crisis, urban sprawl, health care, and those other minor issues, we need to stay focused on Rev Fucking Wright! Keep your eye on the ball, people.

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Bizet's Habanera as (Nietzsche's?) obsession with things African, the out of phase (triplet): ink, but ink don't blink, but ink don't blink,... huh huh?.

"focuses on the 2,3,5 and 6 beats."

That's what I said.

It is an almost Zeno of Elea-like obsession with the Inbetweens*, motoric internal combustion:

Or, the squares: panem et circenses, with gas-bags' gas-tax holidays, that's the ticket to buy...

(launch the blimp from) a Mesopotamian Zuggurat in the saline desert of our future. As Terah Terra firma a foundation as you could possibly want.

*There must be some happy medium:

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I am passing gas, gassing out, gas, sting, ouch, rather, casting, out... the Devil!

If led, Delphi will answer, personally whiff....

Is that sulfer?

Never again!

In hydraulis, pied Pythagoras, Wright is hereby disowned: well I'll be a Monkey's ...in Darwin* trust.

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tone,

Do you write in code because you fear the online intimacy that is involved in using standard language communication?

I find Tone's postings as stream of consciousness Poetry, where the closer you are to knowing what Tone knows, the more sense it makes.

I used to decry the seemingly offtopic rants, but occasionally, they are beautiful wonderful contributions to the discussion, albeit wrapped in a twinky and deep fried. IF you ever hear Michael Eric Dyson speak, the fluidity of the language is much the same, yet more focused. In fact, most of the time, i hear Mr Dyson's voice in my head reading Tone's posts; it just seems to fit so well.

Jon Stewart has had a lot of segments which are supporting Obama, and I haven't seen a single one of those here. I wonder why?

I thought black guys had rhythm.

Yeah, that looked like an American Indian dance. The American Indians have rhythm, but the rhythm is "different" ;)

I find Tone's postings as stream of consciousness Poetry,

Me too. I thoroughly enjoy his stream-of-consciousness posts.

Norm,

Some of your comments re Israel in the past have been as critical of Isreal as are some of Reverend Wright's comments. You are supportive of Jimmy Carter, and yet Jimmy Carter said:

I get the feeling that it's okay if you speak out on the Israel/Palestine issue, and it's okay if Jimmy Carter speaks out on this issue, but if someone connected to Obama speaks out on this issue, it's not okay.

As you support Jimmy Carter, why do you not provide a link to what he had to say about Reverend Wright?

Jimmy Carter said:

In the first segment, Carter said he would not have left Wright's church after hearing his remarks, and that Wright wouldn't be "anything permanent or damaging" to Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy.

CARTER: I grew up in Plains, Georgia and we have 600 people and 11 churches. And the largest and most powerful church is the Lebanon Baptist Church, which is an African-American Baptist church, so I have heard this kind of preaching all my life when we visited their church and they came to mine. What I think he's teaching is a liberation theology and his origins... I think sermons are still shaped by the deprivation of racial discrimination that our country has felt for 100 years after the civil war.

Jimmmy Carter has a well-balanced commentary, and I respect this man a lot.

Jimmy Carter said:

I think [Obama] has brought a new level of eloquence and inspiration to a lot of people. Hillary has also surprised a lot of people with her tenacity and her capability as a formidable candidate. I think at first she was kind of in the shadow of her husband. I think now she's blossomed forth in a very formidable fashion. If I were she, I would not withdraw until defeated and if I was Obama I would go forward as well.

Did anyone else actually watch the whole speech? It was funny as hell! Discovering Wright has been one of the best things to come out of this campaign. He is awesome! People need to stop looking for fault in everything that he says and just enjoy this unique American voice.

It is a shame that Obama has felt the need to distance himself from this honorable man.

Rogan: I agreed with you until I saw the other two speeches he gave over the weekend, where Wright basically got up in front of the audience and started soaking up the 15 minutes of fame, basically throwing Obama (and the nation he's trying to fix) under the bus, dragging everyone back into this conversation that he's trying to control.

Like (a)dancing-song with... a snake in your mouth. Rattler. Rainsounds. Not my belief system,

"Yeah, that looked like an American Indian "dance". The American Indians have rhythm, but the rhythm is "different" ;)"

Yeah, like as if a puzzle were assembled, glued in place, and then re-jig-sawed in a different pattern. Only its the mountains, the sky, the lake even. But... beware, public trance is much safer than private Shamanism. Catholic priests aren't the only ...Jeremiah Wright is a cult wannabe himself, David Koresh in the making... Shree Rajneesh-like cults are...real...for real...bad...medicine, evil meds for any unsuspecting... tourist. I like the Kung fu/shao-lin-type concept much better. A moment/millennium of Zen.

"the online intimacy that is involved in using standard language communication?" Yes, and I was poking fun at the Pythagorean secret society where beans are forbidden,at my obsession with blimps (sky, big beans, aloft), at Syn-gas, bags (under my eyes?), at allegedly athletic Obama-supporters-as-a-cult-phenotype, with secret hand-shakes, et cet., in the beginning, there was some paranoia, post-FBI-harrassment stress syn-drome, yadda yadaa, yaquity sax player-with-msword.

Red, my mind.

Speaking of reds (devils), and of blues (see below), Wright, is white, his skin, it's too light by half, he's less than Halfrican-American as Barackan-American is. About the same as Jimmy Carter.

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*"Latin" music (unlike the Blues) really is African, even in North Africa/Spain. Orange-hot chili-pepper stuff (the female plant, please). The blues though, that's indigenous, stolen by blacks, who, in turn had it stolen by Anglos, particularly English Anglos who honored, took the prophets much more seriously than they were in their own land. Then invaded, made a killing. If I were real I would surely be an ethno-mucicologist. Either that or I would have tried to study al Oud (a lute) at UCSB, California (Chumash country).

cool

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5517

Further evidence of how Biased the coverage of wright has been.