“Don’t tell me words don’t matter. ‘I have a dream’ — just words. ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ — just words. ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself’ – just words. Just speeches.”
…Barack Obama
In a well publicized speech, Barack Obama tries to dodge the accusation that he is an empty suit with flowery language and nothing else. He tries to equate his words to those of words that have formed the history of the United States.
While Obama makes a valid point showing that well crafted words can encourage, challenge and motivate us, he misses a more important point that if all we had were these words, without the action that followed them, none of these words would be remembered.
And so it is now with Obama. For the past ten days he has been using words to attempt to explain his affiliation with Jeremiah Wright and to distance himself from Wright’s hateful language.
Words like:
"I reject them completely "” they are not ones that reflect my values or my ideals or Michelle’s."
or
"If I thought that was the repeated tenor of the church then I wouldn’t feel comfortable, but frankly that has not been my experience at Trinity United Church of Christ.”
Now it is found that Jeremiah Wright used his column in the chuch newsletter to reprint a Hamas hate manifesto, Obama uses these words:
“I have already condemned my former pastor’s views on Israel in the strongest possible terms, and I certainly wasn’t in church when that outrageously wrong Los Angeles Times piece was re-printed in the bulletin,”
Hey Barack, there is a point where words without actions mean nothing. You have reached that point. No one should believe another word about your alledged disgust with the positions of Jeremiah Wright until you not only talk about it, but denouce your affiliation with the church that has been the host of his hate messages for these past 20 years.
If you don’t follow your words with actions, we can only assume that in fact, they are JUST WORDS!
