Posted on 05/30/2008 2:22:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is why Obama should have laughed off Rev Wright. Hillary would have. She would have just snorted "That's a minister for you, always preaching hellfire and damnation. Of course I'm not responsible for anything a minister says!"
But Obama didn't do that. He accepted the Republican frame that he was tied at the hip to the preacher in his church. He took it all seriously.
So now here we go again -- this time with a white guy, a Father Michael Pfleger, who belted out a mean-spirited, ugly, gratituous anti-Hillary skreed last Sunday at good old Trinity United:
". . . We must be honest enough to expose white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head. I said before I dont want this to be political because, you know, Im very unpolitical (mocking tone, huge laughter). When Hillary was crying (gesturing tears, uproarious laughter from audience)and people said that was put onI really dont believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought This is mine (laughter, hoots). Im Bills wife. Im WHITE. And this is mine. And I jus gotta get up. And step into the plate. And then out of nowhere came, Hey, Im Barack Obama. And she said: Oh, damn! WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? (Crowd going nuts, Pfleger screaming). IM WHITE! IM ENTITLED! THERES A BLACK MAN STEALING MY SHOW. (SOBS!) SHE WASNT THE ONLY ONE CRYING! THERE WAS A WHOLE LOTTA WHITE PEOPLE CRYING!"
Obama can't laugh this off now, that ship has sailed. So Obama has now released the usual deeply disappointed statement, and Pfleger has issued the usual blame-the-victim non-apology apology:
"I regret the words I chose on Sunday. These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message, and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them."
Gee, don't overdo it, eh?
No doubt we'll be seeing this video again and again.
And every time white Americans see it the subtext will be, Obama thinks you are white trash. Not exactly the message he wanted his campaign or candidacy to promote.
20 years ago Obama was a small fish in a South Side political pond.
He grew into a bigger fish in that pond.
The fish can't help but be contaminated and malformed.
Throw the fish back.
Bobarian’s Creed: Assh0les come in all colors and both genders.
“What’s down in the well will come up in the bucket.” That should be the GOP’s line on Obama at every stop.
Astonishing stuff. Whats worse is that fake-outs like this nutjob are nothing but racists of the worst sort.
The kinds who think they can go in there and civilize the natives. Im willing to be he doesnt regard those black folk in that church and “his” community as anything more than poor n*ggers, who hes going to save.
He’s offensive on so many levels, its incredible.
IF?
What the heck kind of apology is that?
And my take on that is?
Yeah Right!
AS they say today, He's gone WIGGER!
I like your post! Additionally, I think the Fathers antics show 2 thing,imho! 1)he’s way into his femine side 2)see what happens if you don’t have a good woman to keep you grounded(no offense intended to my Catholic brethren)
He does have a good woman, he just isn't listening to Her.
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