Posted on 03/21/2008 3:22:37 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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Obama explicitly denied that he was excusing Wright’s views, even as he did it in exceptionally high-toned sophistry. The reason Obama had to give a 38-minute speech is that he was incapable of saying four unadorned words, “I made a mistake.” He could have said long ago that his gratitude to Wright for bringing him to Christianity and his bond with the church community blinded him to Wright’s lies about America and hateful rants. Most of the public would have understood, and forgiven him.
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In the end, Obama made the case for the respectability of a man who is a hater — and did it, amazingly enough, in a speech devoted to ending divisiveness. At one moment, Obama said we needed a searching national dialogue about race; at another, he suggested we needed to get beyond all that and unite around a clichéd left-wing agenda of anti-corporatism. But whatever Obama is advocating at a given moment, his solution is always himself in his glorious personhood, the salve to the country’s ills.
For now, Obama’s speech worked. But questions about his judgment and candor will linger.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
I don’t think he pulled it off.
It all gets more sobering when you consider that Wright and his church, Trinity, have been in the mainstream of Black America for a quite a while. And there are many other, similar, congregations as well.
“Wright and his church, Trinity, have been in the mainstream of Black America for a quite a while.”
Typical...
Such nonsense would never find it's way into anything other that a badly written Hollywood "B" script just because the totality of the historical facts do not support the premise.
Slavery did not originate with White Europeans. The first slave owners were People of Color. The northern African Egyptians enslaved the Jews (caucasians) for over 400 years alone.
Do we see Haischa Imperfeldt screaming for reparations, or condemning the Africans? No. Haischa and his people grabbed themselves by the bootstraps, pulled themselves to their full height and made something of themselves without whining for a handout because their ancestors had been mistreated.
So when we talk about White-on-Black slavery, was there perhaps a reason why it occurred? I believe there was.
The roll of the dice. It was our turn. Get over it, America.
And even if you can't get over it, your displacement of aggression which finds expression in (of all ridiculous things) a self-effacement brought on by guilt over being among the planet's "Have's" for a few decades is no reason to hand the reins of the greatest Nation in civilized history to an America-hating black man whose peculiar brand of Christianity looks more and more like Islam whenever you peel back the layers of its hatred for White America.
America should learn to accept history's penchant for rolling the dice with some grace and dignity. The same can be said of Obama and his angry "I want a handout" hangers-on.
We could all learn something from Haischa Imperfeldt. And we better do just that, before it's too late.
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Ditto.
It may have worked on the pages of a synchopantic press, but did it work in the hearts and minds of Democrat voters. I don't believe it did. No one can deny that Obama supports a black, bigoted church. With that continued support, can he ever be a unifying president? I think not.
That's not the Christianity that I've studied and been taught.
What Obama -refused- to do was triangulate his answer the way Hillary would have done.
BTTT
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