Posted on 03/21/2008 5:21:45 AM PDT by shrinkermd
But that is not the question. The question is why didn't he leave that church? Why didn't he leave...Obama's 5,000-word speech, fawned over as a great meditation on race, is little more than an elegantly crafted, brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.
His defense rests on two central propositions: (a) moral equivalence and (b) white guilt.
(a) Moral equivalence. Sure, says Obama, there's Wright, but at the other "end of the spectrum" there's Geraldine Ferraro, opponents of affirmative action and his own white grandmother...
"I can no more disown [Wright] than I can my white grandmother." What exactly was Grandma's offense? Jesse Jackson himself once admitted to the fear he feels from the footsteps of black men on the street.
Yet Obama compares her to Wright. Does he not see the moral difference between the occasional private expression of the prejudices of one's time and the use of a public stage to spread racial lies and race hatred?
(b) White guilt. Obama's purpose in the speech was to put Wright's outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism...
This contextual analysis of Wright's venom, this extenuation of black hate speech as a product of white racism, is not new. It's the Jesse Jackson politics of racial grievance, expressed in Ivy League diction and Harvard Law nuance. That's why the speech made so many liberal commentators swoon: It bathed them in racial guilt while flattering their intellectual pretensions. An unbeatable combination.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
the item about Wright’s reprinting the LAT Hamas-written op-ed , justifying the denial of Israel’s legitimacy, in the church newsletter, ought to drive off even the sycophants. But I’ve been disappointed before.
Obama’s purpose in the speech was to put Wright’s outrages in context. By context, Obama means history. And by history, he means the history of white racism...
Exactamundo.
Typical, aint it?
Excellent.
...It seemed to me as honest a speech as one in his position could give within the limits imposed by politics. As such it was a contribution. We'll see if it was a success. The blowhard guild, proud member since 2000, praised it, and, in the biggest compliment, cable news shows came out of the speech not with jokes or jaded insiderism, but with thought. They started talking, pundits left and right, black and white, about what they'd experienced of race in America. It was kind of wonderful. I thought, Go, America, go, go..."
The title of her speech is A Thinking Man's Speech and it can be found on FR as well as: HERE.
his grandmother would probably prefer to be disowned after the number of times she has been used this week to prop up his campaign.
now whe is a “typical white person”, and is afraid of blacks.
hmm, would that make a “typical black person”, someone who avoids work, spends time in prison, bails out on his family obligations,blames everyone (ie whites) for their problems? nahh, that would be racist.
It’s nice to see some focus on what Obama actually says rather than how good he says it.
Thank you, Charles.
Thank you Mr. Krauthammer, brilliant as usual.
First Obama declares he won't indulge in a particular behavior. Then Obama indulges in it. If I had a penny for every time he did it, I'd be a rich woman.
Hahah, what a wonderful wordsmith Krauthammer is. Spewing coffee here... Thanks for posting.
And even if they didn't make it to church that day, didn't they at least even hear about that sermon? Considering they were regular parishioners you'd think they'd know someone -- or several somebodies -- who would have clued them into what had been said, i.e. "Oh, you should have been in church Sunday. You should have heard what the Reverend said..."
...”end of the spectrum” there’s Geraldine Ferraro, opponents of affirmative action..”
Anyone who opposes AA is a racist? Supreme Court must be racist when they ruled Michigan’s AA program was reverse discrimination.
AA is simply a racial spoils system and won’t end until college presidents and admission officers are frog walked off campus in cuffs for violating the civil rights of non black applicants.
Still, he looks strong enough to tap Wright on the shoulder.
And he looks strong enough to whisper into Wright's ear that he is scandalizing the young people in his congregation.
Is Obama only capable of speaking through a microphone to strangers?
Were the wife and kiddies in church to hear the good reverend.
Note that when Reverend's Wright accused the government of creating the aids virus to destroy blacks, that accusation falls on the Jimmy Carter, who was president when the first aids cases appeared.
The Sunday church services immediately after 9/11/01 drew crowds, as a rule, because people wanted comfort & answers.
I remember it clearly (as clearly as I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot) and the church I had been attending in Los Angeles which drew modest crowds, was packed to the rafters.
I doubt Obama & Michelle's memory bank is that deficient.
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