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TigerHawk —
... Nagasaki by dropping nuclear bombs on innocent. People." Huh?!? Conservatives were up in arms over the "God damn America" sermon, but I have a bigger question. Why did Barack Obama spend twenty years listening to a man whose command of history is such that he thinks that December 7 commemorates the day the United States bombed Hiroshima? The reader who sent me this link points out that the media rather deliberately covered up Wright's embarrassing ignorance. The Chicago Tribune 's account makes Wright's error sound like a political decision: Noting the date, Dec. 7, which ...
Re: A preacher that will live in stupidity
The Corner on National Review Online —
... a good question: Why did Barack Obama spend twenty years listening to a man whose command of history is such that he thinks that December 7 commemorates the day the United States bombed Hiroshima? By the way, here's how Manya A Brachear of The Chicago Tribune " reported " the sermon: Noting the date, Dec. 7, which marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Wright instead chose to focus on the thousands of Japanese civilians who died four years later when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. [MY EMPHASIS] In related news: " ...
