Print out Gerson’s editorial, grab a sharpie and write “Exhibit A” up top. Underline key punches like this one: “This accusation does not make Wright, as Obama would have it, an ‘occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy.’ It makes Wright a dangerous man.”
Now go watch Barack Obama’s speech *in its entirety”.
I don’t mean to put Obama or his words on a pedestal. But occasionally people meaningfully tap into deeper truths, help us grasp what will get us unstuck. This time around, for a day anyway, Obama “gets it”. Gerson doesn’t.
For small words like these — the fear and insularity of the worst of a Gerson or Wright — we are all the poorer. Just like Wright and even Obama... you, Gerson, can do better. We all will be better for it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
I have watched the speech, in it's entirety, twice, and read it as well. I just don't see what you are talking about. What is the deeper truth that Obama grasps?