Charles Krauthammer: Smacking his forehead, Obama splits from pastor

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | May 4, 2008 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

[rhema]

"I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother."

BARACK OBAMA, PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 18

Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia "race" speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. A New York Times columnist said it "should be required reading in classrooms across the country." College seniors and first-graders, suggested the excitable Chris Matthews.

Apparently there's been a curriculum change. On Tuesday, the good senator begged to extend and revise his previous remarks on race. Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative. Poor Geraldine Ferraro, thrice lashed by Obama in Philadelphia as the white equivalent of Wright's raving racism, is now off the hook.

These equivalences having been revealed as the cheap rhetorical tricks they always were, Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.

At a news conference in North Carolina, Obama explained why he finally decided to do the deed. Apparently, Wright's latest comments -- Obama cited three in particular -- were so shockingly "divisive and destructive" that he had to renounce the man, not just the words.

What were Obama's three citations? Wright's claim that AIDS was invented by the U.S. government to commit genocide. His praise of Louis Farrakhan as a great man. And his blaming 9/11 on American "terrorism."

But these comments are not new. These were precisely the outrages that prompted the initial furor when the Wright tapes emerged seven weeks ago.

[ExTexasRedhead]

What color Kool Aid does the Liberal DemoRAT party want to drink at their convention celebrating the next corrupt dictator they’re nominating?

[Always Right]

The greatest speech ever, has long been forgotten just a few weeks later. I just don’t understand it. I mean Chis Matthews wet his pants during that speech. What happened?

[F15Eagle]

I can’t believe anyone with an I.Q. over 40 is fooled by this stunt by Obama. Jeremiah Wright is still the racist moonbat America-hater NOI-supporter he has always been, for more than twenty years. Obama knew all of this stuff and attend his rantings for two decades.

Obama does this to pretend to voters that he suddenly had an epiphany. His only epiphany is sagging poll numbers from folks who finally woke up.

[caseinpoint]

Krauthammer says the turning point was the venue. I love him and his columns but it seemed to me that Obama was most offended by Wright’s offhand remark that Obama originally distanced himself from Wright because he wanted to get elected. To me, it seemed Obama had no problem hearing Wright castigate whites and American and European culture but you better not call Obama a “politician” or you are off the reservation.

[ought-six]

“Obama does this to pretend to voters that he suddenly had an epiphany. His only epiphany is sagging poll numbers from folks who finally woke up.”

Exactly.

[SoldierDad]

Unfortunately, Obama appears to be lulling many of them back to sleep judging from the comments the Lame Stream Media gets out of people on the street they inteview. How any one can believe any lie these dimocRATS tell is beyond me.

[Fox_Mulder77]

Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative.

ROTFLOL

I wonder when Obama is going to apologize to his granny. She worked hard raising him and this is what she gets!!! Obama is a scumbag.

[F15Eagle]

I know. It’s incredible. They already said there might have to be a public distancing. Here it is. A dog-and-pony show; a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then again, some folks think mad mo created a “religion of peace”.

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BARACK OBAMA - FREE INTERNET VIDEO

Obama’s Pastor Celebrates 9/11 (explicit)
Only 5 Days After 3,000 Americans Killed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhl-endvco

Jeremiah Wright Says America Deserved 9/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9HUdF9OZa8

Obama: Bitter Americans Cling to Guns and Religion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJAl8a3d9Q

Meet Barack Hussein Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onOYL2ZG7fk

Gaza Strip Palestinians Campaigning for Obama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g

Obama’s Racially-Divisive Pastor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA

Obama Disrespecting U.S. Flag and Anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkgg5Kjo

Summing up Barack Obama

http://www.primetimepolitics.com/primetime/site/video/summing_up_obama/

The Audacity of Barack Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjnT4eJJvs

The Audacity of Barack Obama 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8BE-2T_k

Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Wright & Senator Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4

Obama’s Pastor - 9/11 Fault of Israel Association

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s

Obama - Cult of Personality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7lUGn7HWk

Name Obama’s Accomplishments if you can #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o

Name Obama’s Accomplishments if you can #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFOOcEQtP0

Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU

The Two Things Senator Obama Accomplished

http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/27/obamas-empty-change-message/

The Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Award

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg

Barack Obama Doesn’t Want His Daughters ‘Punished’ With a Baby

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNzmly28Bmg

[SoldierDad]

I’ll ping this to view the links later when I’m not on a server with a netnanny.

[Abathar]

"Obama's newest attempt to save himself after Wright's latest poisonous performance is now declared the new final word on the subject. Therefore, any future ads linking Obama and Wright are pre-emptively declared out of bounds, illegitimate, indeed "race-baiting" (New York Times editorial, April 30)."

Look, the little boy just took his ball and is going home now.

Baraq gets nailed in one lousy debate that should have never happened except for Operation Chaos and now it comes to this. He makes one quick speech and 20 years worth of hatred and bigotry gets wiped away and he has a clean slate.

I don't think it is that easy Baraq, most people are sheep, but even sheep can figure out on their own where the water bucket is if you lead them there enough.

[Proverbs 3-5]

I wonder if he still likes himself?

[Blood of Tyrants]

They are leaning towards Commie Red.

[Candor7]

"I can no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I can disown the American electorate"

Yeah right. Obama is toast.

Hang up your offensive, slick, logic suspending rhetoric Obummer, and fade into the obscurity you deserve.

[Biblebelter]

Obama changed his mind on Wright for one reason only. Super delegates were calling his campaign in a PANIC.

[Mercat]

This has appeared in numerous newspapers over the last three or four days and has been reposted numerous times.

[MainFrame65]

I am beginning to believe that the entire Wright/Obama outrageous restatement and disavowal sequence was pure charade - an act, worked out and scripted in advance.

Wright’s task was to bloviate - to be as publicly and flagrantly outrageous as possible. Obama would then have his own opportunity to disavow his mentor and spiritual guide - to distance himself from the racist rhetoric that he had immersed himself and his family in for the past 20 years, as though it had never happened.

Wright did his job to perfection. He found two PERFECT opportunities, in two perfect venues, to attract the maximum possible attention to his screeds.

But Obama was not quite up to the task. Instead of seizing the opportunity to totally renounce, reject, and condemn reverend Wright and his wrongheaded “Wright” ideas, he tried to walk the tightrope between condemnation and rejection. But he fell off - to the left, of course - and has been falling ever since.

[ExTexasRedhead]

That’s “right on.”

[bmwcyle]

Cultural Marxism with a black flavor.

[bmwcyle]

TOONS of Obama

[Ditto]

I mean Chis Matthews wet his pants during that speech.

That guy wets his pants so much he has moved on to extra absorbant Depends.

[the invisib1e hand]

“Obama does this to pretend to voters that he suddenly had an epiphany..."

"Thank you for calling Epiphanies on Demand. May I help you?"

[MomwithHope]

Love the Krauthammer and he is usually dead on right. Plus he has the sexiest eyes.........