This is annoying

I'd been logged into LJ all day, reading and commenting just fine. I went to edit--edit!!--a post, and LJ made me log in again.

WTF? How in the hell did my cookie expire?

Anyone else experience this?

(I'm particularly annoyed because I've paid to have a permanent account so I don't have to see advertising. And I had to see! It was vaguely horrifying.)

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I was out of commission for a couple of weeks, so I'm coming to the Obama/Wright story from behind.

I started with Obama's speech, declining to read any reviews or analyses of it beforehand.

Then I sought Jeremiah Wright's sermon that was at the center of the controversy.

I found nothing there that was so inflammatory, nothing that would have prompted Obama to give the speech that he did. But I guess that's what I get for not getting swept up in the media spin.

Edit: As others have pointed out, I ran across a different Wright sermon--however, one that was very cogent and uncontroversial. So, as for the one that is at question, can anyone tell me its name so I can search for it properly?

Further edit: ljdemocrats had this nearly 10-min clip of the "9/11 sermon".

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