Posted on 03/25/2008 11:45:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Will the preachings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright continue to be a problem for Barack Obama? The balance of opinion, after everyone has had a chance to digest Obama's March 18 speech, seems to be yes. Or at least that's how I read such varied commentators as ABC News's Jake Tapper, Charles Krauthammer, the New Republic's Dayo Opolade, University of Chicago Prof. Charles Lipson, the New York Daily News's Michael Goodwin, and the international treasure Mark Steyn in the Orange County Register.
In my Creators Syndicate column this week, I look at these comments from a somewhat different view. In Democratic primaries and caucuses, Obama has been winning extraordinary percentages of support from black voters and young voters. His support from black voters is no surprise, though one must remember that back in November 2007, only four months ago, he was running behind Hillary Clinton among blacks in some polls in some contests. His support from young voters--from the millennial generation, to use the terminology of William Strauss and Neal Howe, rose to extraordinary levels much earlier in the cycle--and was reflected not just in polling results but in volunteer efforts and campaign contributions. I cited Morley Winograd and Michael Hais's very interesting, just-published book Millennial Makeover for the proposition that these young voters find racial conflict and anger very off-putting. Obama's portrait of himself as a leader who transcends race has been very attractive, I think, to millennial voters--responsible as much as anything else for their allegiance. To these same voters, the rantings of Reverend Wright are profoundly unattractive. Will the facts that Obama has been a member of Wright's congregation for more than 20 years and has named Wright as his spiritual mentor diminish Obama in millennials' eyes? I don't know, but it's a critically important question. If the answer is yes, then the chance that Democratic superdelegates will award the nomination to Hillary Clinton seems to rise.
Wright is simply reflecting the hatred, resentment, and victimhood mentality of his "constituency group".
I myself didn't realize the hatred until I saw and heard people defending Wright by repeating what he said and insisting that he was right about the things he ranted about.
Myself? I am shtfull. It's time to set a standard of behavior and a common set of rules for everyone. If you don't work, you don't eat. You have a kid out of wedlock, it's your problem. Don't marry the father of your kids and they get into trouble? Yes, we'll build more prisons. Riot? Burn down your own neighborhoods, I don't care, try it elsewhere and be shot.
Upon much consideration:
1. It depends on how long this stuff percolates. People who would vote democrat have selective or short memories, or no higher brain functions whatsoever. So, all could be forgotten, all forgiven, by November. But lets’ break it down by group.
2. Much to my dismay, racial division in America is alive and unwell, due in large part to the Wrights, Jacksons and Sharptons. Therefore,
2a. The majority of African Americans will support BO to the last ditch. He can do no wrong in their eyes simply because he’s black. And they will defend Wright, too. It’s the same thing we saw with the OJ Simpson trial. Black pundits then said “trust us” when a black jury was empaneled. The result speaks for itself. Much to my dismay, black bigotry against whites probably now exceeds white bigotry against blacks. Black racism is justified, white racism is created where it doesn’t exist, and is then vilified.
2b. To the extent that white bigotry still exists, you most likely find it among working class whites, long a core component of the democrat coalition. I’m not sure a democrat can win a presidential election w/o this group. Wright’s statements, the defense of Wright by other black “talking heads” and Barack’s response to all this, means these people will not vote for BHO. But they were already voting for clinton.
3. The elite effete white liberals will blanch initially, but then go back and guzzle the BHO Kool-Aid; they’ve been programmed to bear “white guilt” since the indoctrination began in kindergarten, and it has been encouraged at home. Allowed to digest this for a while, the elite effetes will eventually blame themselves, and as penance will renew their support for BHO.
4. HRC, as an opponent to BHO, is running the most incompetent campaign in modern history. Never before have I seen a candidate start in such an advantageous position and yet squander every advantage she had. Prime example; immediately after the Wright fiasco hands her a prime opportunity, she bungles it by trying to sound like Rambo on a USO tour. Rush and Hannity aren’t talking about Obama today, they are pounding HRC as a liar again.
5. The MSM has taken sides and they have chosen BHO as our next president. They are actively participating as BHO’s propaganda organ, and they will spin nothing but positives about him. Wright will be forgotten in the fog of “hope” and “change.”
So, short term within the context of the democrat nomination, the Wright fiasco will hurt BHO, but it will be a blip and he’ll recover to win the nomination. Someone could find a video of BHO engaging in a sex act with a ten year old boy and a German Shepherd while accepting a bribe at midnight in the basement of the Chinese Embassy, and it won’t matter. HRC will bungle it with another gaffe, the MSM will say he’d known the dog for a long time and explain it away, and pile on HRC.
The long term, where it matters in November, I think the Wright fiasco WILL cost BHO the election. It will crystallize the divisions in the democrat party. Those who support BHO will continue to do so through November. Those who currently support HRC (the white working class) will probably NOT support BHO in November. And because of that I don’t think he can win the states he has to win to be POTUS.
I like the way you think.
***The DemocRATS are flying on autopilot and are heading directly into the side of a mountain.
Just like ron brown
Rev. Wright is not really the issue. Perhaps, he has reasons of his own to be bitter and angry and to hate America. Sorry, of course, that he does, but the issue here is Obama. Rev. Wright is not asking to be president, Obama is. If Obama shares Wright’s hate-America views, a lot of people, rightly, don’t want him to be president.
I’ve been saying it for years that many blacks are racists towards whites, hispanics and asians.
The amoiunt of times I have corrected a black person because they say hey white boy or white trash or get your white arse here etc etc
I ask them everytime would it be alright to say black boy, black trash and everytime they say no that’s racist and they say it with a straight face even the white libs don’t see the point I make.
This has made some aware that blacks can be racist just like any colour
There is a double standered with blacks from affirmative action to blacks saying it’s OK for them to say Nig### to even a certain black man who owns a NY basket ball team saying it’s ok for a black man to say Bit## or ho# but not alright for a white person.
It is a wake up call for everyone and hopefully a wake up call for those who thought about voting for obama
the reason why the Wright issue resonates, in my opinion, is that Michelle Obama’s comments seemed to strike the same discordant note. Hannity had been pushing the Wright angle for awhile, but it gathered steam after MO ranted on being proud of her country for the first time.
You just gave me an idea. I’m going to look into buying a medium size helium filled balloon, like the ones the car dealers often use, paint Typical White Person on it...... and raise it up in my yard.
It might also look good on a flag too.
Michelle’s statement about not being proud of America was a bit inexplicable until Wright’s rants came out.
Then we knew why she thought that way, and more to the point, what
VALUES THAT Barry WANTED HIS FAMILY TO HAVE.
>>This kind of empty-headed emotionalism is dangerous.
No kidding. I’ve been saying for some time, that Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” should be the theme song for the Obama campaign.
Cult of Personality video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY
Cult of Personality lyrics
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/living-colour/cult-of-personality.html
I am not sure they do live in poverty. My impression is that Trinity is a congregation of generally fairly wealthy black Chicagoans. If I am wrong, I would appreciate being corrected by someone who has actual familiarity with the congregation.
I’m shocked that Fox has many blacks on their channel who are just as racist as the rev and obama and his wife.
These people have PHD’s etc and they sit on fox sticking up the for racist view against whites.
one man especially who is a professor the name eludes me but he clearly is a racist like sharpton and Fox has them on to view their racist minds
I now just turn the channel over . I use to think it was a minority but now I am havng second thoughts
As one black guy told at work, getting a white bit## is a trophy, they’re easy bi##### and will do anything you tell them
believe me my jaw dropped and when I told him what I thought he thought nothing of what he said was wrong
I can't speak for anyone else, but as a late baby boomer (b. 1960) I think I rock! LOL
I’ve been posting your shorter version on Topix and blogs for weeks now.
sounds like it. Plus perking just beneath the surface there is the earmark to the hospital that had just doubled/tripled her salary. It could be that MO and not Wright is the actual torpedo to the campaign, and , while he may be a dead torpedo, she’s still very much alive and likely to do more damage.
I think this Wright thing has exposed white people to the level of hatred that is there.
No matter how much we’ve done throughout history, the resentment has just grown.
Time to cut them off. Everyone can play by the same rules in our society.
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