The Pastor Casts a Shadow (Rev. Wright goes to Washington to bury Obama)

The New York Times ^ | 4/29/08 | BOB HERBERT

[XR7]

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.

Smiling, cracking corny jokes, mugging it up for the big-time news media — this reverend is never going away. He’s found himself a national platform, and he’s loving it.

It’s a twofer. Feeling dissed by Senator Obama, Mr. Wright gets revenge on his former follower while bathed in a spotlight brighter than any he could ever have imagined. He’s living a narcissist’s dream. At long last, his 15 minutes have arrived.

There he was lecturing an audience at the National Press Club about everything from the black slave experience to the differences in sentencing for possession of crack and powdered cocaine.

All but swooning over the wonderfulness of himself, the reverend acts like he is the first person to come up with the idea that blacks too often get the short end of the stick in America, that the malignant influences of slavery and the long dark night of racial discrimination are still being felt today, that in many ways this is a profoundly inequitable society.

This is hardly new ground. The question that cries out for an answer from Mr. Wright is why — if he is so passionately committed to liberating and empowering blacks — does he seem so insistent on wrecking the campaign of the only African-American ever to have had a legitimate shot at the presidency.

Sunday night, in an appearance before the Detroit N.A.A.C.P., Mr. Wright mocked the regional dialects of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. I’m not sure how he felt that was helpful in his supposed quest to bring about a constructive discussion about race and reconciliation in the U.S.

What he is succeeding in doing is diminishing the stature of Senator Obama...

[ricks_place]

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright ministers to Oprah too?

[txzman]

Great video. Exactly why our nation is a Republic and not a Democracy, and why we have an Electoral College.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Look at this guy. He’s a poseur. He’s whiter than I am, and I’m a cardcarrying honky.

All this black liberation theology claptrap is just atonement for his earlier attempts to “pass”.

[DungeonMaster]

It’s black on black crime at the highest level.

[y6162]

“The “Obama as martyr” narrative.”

Who would have thought Wright would swiftboat Obamba.

Moonbats aren’t going to like this...

[Aquinasfan]

Mr. Wright mocked the regional dialects of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Rev. should take Howie Carr's advice. "Hold your arms out! It makes it harder for them to put the net over you!"

[Biblebelter]

Beyond that, the apparent helplessness of the Obama campaign in the face of the Wright onslaught contributes to the growing perception of the candidate as weak, as someone who is unwilling or unable to fight aggressively on his own behalf.

Barry no fighter. He is simply a sympathizer. He don't throw no bombs, but he know they that do. Barry just hanging around, hoping a fellow with shaded skin and an Arabic name can fall into it big time.

[Biblebelter]

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright ministers to Oprah too?

That is the interesting question, yet to be answered. It is known that Oprah attended the church and it is also known that Oprah left the church. One can only speculate that Oprah's street smarts exceed Barry's by a great deal. Oprah evidently recognized that an association with this hate mongering demagogue could do a public figure little good.

[Bender2]

This just gets better and better!

[singfreedom]

ROTFLMAO! Wonderful advice.