Posted on 03/20/2008 4:34:51 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Supporters of Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama insist he's said enough about his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose rabidly anti-American ravings have been a 24-hour-news staple since last week. The senator has expressed firmly his disagreement with the worst of the Rev. Wright's utterances, describing him as "like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with."
So what's Sen. Obama supposed to do now? His renunciations of the most unpatriotic and racist examples of the Rev. Wright's sermons have been unambiguous. When does an expression of disagreement degenerate into a parody?
Make no mistake: The Rev. Wright's sentiments are politically toxic. He says things about 9/11 that make disgraced former professor Ward Churchhill's vicious remarks about "little Eichmanns" seem tame. He spouts myths, long ago discredited, about the CIA deliberately infecting urban blacks with AIDS. There is nothing left to interpretation when the reverend bellows, "God damn America!" And it cannot have escaped many Americans that when Michelle Obama asserted she never felt a moment's pride in her country until her husband became a credible presidential candidate, she parroted the Rev. Wright's perspective on the black American experience.
The problem for Sen. Obama is every possible explanation for his decades-long association with the Rev. Wright diminishes him.
Some commentators have suggested Sen. Obama joined the Rev. Wright's church to establish himself among angry, activist African-American voters in Chicago. He rarely attended church and never heard the worst of the tirades. Under this interpretation, he's a cynic, no different from serial adulterer Bill Clinton walking out of church, looking almost saintly with prayer book in hand and loyal wife by his side.
The second possibility is Sen. Obama still shares the Rev. Wright's world view, or at least concurs with the tone if not all of the details. That would make him a faithless liar for denouncing the reverend's words.
Finally, Sen. Obama once may have bought into the racial anger and resentment so vigorously expressed by the Rev. Wright over the years, but has evolved past it and now believes something different. This would be a corollary to Republican former presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney's epiphany on abortion rights. Advocates call it growing and learning. Foes call it a flip-flop. Significantly, Mr. Romney is no longer in the race. That's the fate that awaits Sen. Obama if he's unable to thread the racial, religious and ideological needle the Wright controversy has placed before him.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Poor nObama has shrinkage issues.
In other words we should move on because this is exposing Obama for what he is a marist style racist.
"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
He should stop swimming in the gene pool.
That fate does not await BHO. Mitt was not the anointed darling of the press. There is no way Obama is out of this.
So BO is either a racists or he tolerates racism. What’s the difference?
The ship is going down. It should read... 'The radical reverend sinks the USSofKKK Obama'.
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