We don't need people like either Jeremiah Wright or Barack Obama to take us backward.

People on the far left like to flatter themselves that they are for the poor and the downtrodden. But what is most likely to lift people out of poverty-- telling them that the world has done them wrong or promoting the work ethic.

Will they have the skills of science, technology or medicine?

Or will they have only the resentments that have been whipped up by the likes of Jeremiah Wright or the sense of entitlement from the government that has been Barack Obama's stock in trade?

My thoughts exactly - happy to see them expressed. I am a second generation Sicilian, and I know my grandparents had a rough time of it when they came here, and in some respects the Italian people still do, so I understand bigotry very well, but maintaining a victim philosophy in life doesn't get you anywhere. I noticed in one of Rev. Wright's sermons when he spoke about the Romans taking Jesus, he spat out something to the effect of those "garlic" people, which I found personally offensive. As for Obama, he is so far left that he scares me, and I don't really believe he never heard all those things he now denounces. It's too bad he turned out to be just another politician.