Posted on 03/19/2008 4:00:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Did Senator Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia convince people that he is still a viable candidate to be President of the United States, despite the adverse reactions to statements by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright?
The polls and the primaries will answer that question.
The great unasked question for Senator Obama is the question that was asked about President Nixon during the Watergate scandal; What did he know and when did he know it?
Although Senator Obama would now have us believe that he is shocked, shocked, at what Jeremiah Wright said, that he was not in the church when pastor Wright said those things from the pulpit, this still leaves the question of why he disinvited Wright from the event at which he announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination a year ago.
Either Barack Obama or his staff must have known then that Jeremiah Wright was not someone whom they wanted to expose to the media and to the media scrutiny to which that could lead.
Why not, if it is only now that Senator Obama is learning for the first time, to his surprise, what kinds of things Jeremiah Wright has been saying and doing?
No one had to be in church the day Wright made his inflammatory and obscene remarks to know about them.
The cable news journalists who are playing the tapes of those sermons were not there. The tapes were on sale in the church itself. Obama knew that because he had bought one or more of those tapes.
But even if there were no tapes, and even if Obama never heard from other members of the church what their pastor was saying, he spent 20 years in that church, not just as an ordinary member but also as someone who once donated $20,000 to the church.
There was no way that he didn't know about Jeremiah Wright's anti-American and racist diatribes from the pulpit.
Someone once said that a con man's job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe.
Accordingly, Obama's Philadelphia speech -- a theatrical masterpiece -- will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama supporters. They will undoubtedly say that we should now "move on," even though many Democrats have still not yet moved on from George W. Bush's 2000 election victory.
Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama's speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the "useful idiots" useful.
Best-selling author Shelby Steele's recent book on Barack Obama ("A Bound Man") has valuable insights into both the man and the circumstances facing many other blacks -- especially those who were never part of the black ghetto culture but who feel a need to identify with it for either personal, political or financial reasons.
Like religious converts who become more Catholic than the Pope, such people often become blacker-than-thou. For whatever reason, Barack Obama chose a black extremist church decades ago -- even though there was no shortage of very different churches, both black and white -- in Chicago.
Some say that he was trying to earn credibility on the ghetto streets, to facilitate his work as a community activist or for his political career. We may never know why.
But now that Barack Obama is running for a presidential nomination, he is doing so on a radically different basis, as a post-racial candidate uniquely prepared to bring us all together.
Yet the past continues to follow him, despite his attempts to bury it and the mainstream media's attempts to ignore it or apologize for it.
Shelby Steele depicts Barack Obama as a man without real convictions, "an iconic figure who neglected to become himself."
Senator Obama has been at his best as an icon, able with his command of words to meet other people's psychic needs, including a need to dispel white guilt by supporting his candidacy.
But President of the United States, in a time of national danger, under a looming threat of nuclear terrorism? No.
ping
ping
Jeremiah was a bigot
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-with his whine
And he always bitched some mighty fine whine
Singin’...
Joy to the world
All minority boys and girls now
Dump all the whities in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me
Obama’s Philadelphia speech — a theatrical masterpiece — will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama “...supporters. They will undoubtedly say that we should now “move on,” even though many Democrats have still not yet moved on from George W. Bush’s 2000 election victory.
Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama’s speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the “useful idiots” useful.”
Right on.
The article is spot on.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If only we could see a debate between Obama and Thomas Sowell...
LLS
Obama
1) knows Wright is racist and
2) says Wright is too old to change his racist ways.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I have wondered if the moonbats are going to post the other unanswered question. Who would Muhammed kill? And for that matter, who would Muhammed spare? And to carry it a bit further, is Wright suggesting by implication, that Muhammed is one of the chickens coming home to roost in America?
Lot’s a great quotes and points in this article. Thanks for posting.
Obama’s grandma got run over by a political speech.
He was hyped by MSM and the Rats as the racial healer, when in fact Obama is nothing more than a racial divider and race pimp just like JJ,Sharpton and others.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thomas Sowell would win the debate hands down
Senator Joe Lieberman said that what Obama is lacking is a willingness to take on the core constituents of the Democratic party, specifically Moveon.org, the Teachers Union and the Antisemitism within the African American community at large.
He has been unwilling to reach across the isle in the Senate during his 3 1/2 years in Washington DC. He has also failed to distinguish himself from the pack of candidates for the Democratic Party's nomination. He, like all of the rest, refused to debate on the FOX News Channel. If he is afraid to take a lead on that, how can he be expected to stand up to our real enemies?
This does not make him attractive as a candidate for the POTUS, especially when we have a struggle for our very survival going on.
Does anyone remember the “Omen” trilogy? I see a link between Damien Thorn and OsamaObama. Does anyone else?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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