Basically the way people are trying to put out there that Obama hates America, and are afraid for the country, or crying that they want their country back, means that they are questioning the country. And so by the same logic you place on Obama, there is a "very good" chance that you too hate America.
It is a piss poor argument.
Obama's pastor's words (notice the dual genitive, in essence removing responsibility from the first noun) were interpreted and juxtaposed intentionally for the reason of providing foundation for facetious claims. And besides, the pastor said, NOT Obama.
Adding to this. The pastor was talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Study_of_Untreated_Syphilis_in_the_Negro_Male This when he made that speach, and had very good reason to.
Basics of it:
The
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male[1] (also known as the
Tuskegee Syphilis Study,
Public Health Service Syphilis Study, or the
Tuskegee Experiment) was a
clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 in
Tuskegee, Alabama, by the
U.S. Public Health Service. Investigators recruited 399 impoverished
African-American sharecroppers with
syphilis for research related to the natural progression of the untreated disease, in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks.
So the government did a 40 year study watching these people die and not treating them, and charging them for coffins and funerals of them and their infected families. They kept the truth from them to see what would happen if the disease ran the full course (which was horrible) by not giving them the drugs that were already in place.
After talking about those events for an hour and talking about how the children died people going blind, wives where were not part of the experiment getting sick and dying horrible deaths, because a group of doctors wanted to see what happens, I think it would be hard pressed for anyone to be in love with the country.
Do I think that Rev. Wright is a nut, yes. But that just happens to be a time that he had a very good argument for it.