[2ndDivisionVet]

Good and funny analysis of the Jeremiah Wright fiasco.

[padre35]

Too funny, the Netrooties raise money, they have little political moxie, and the more they lead people into defending Wright, the farther Average American is repulsed away from the Obamao Campaign.

Now they are in a quandry, they cannot dump Hilde, and they cannot Dump Obamao, one is dodging imaginery sniper fire, the other is taking Fratricidal Fire.

The more they accuse the American People of being racist or sexist, the less chance they have of winning over Mad John...

[TornadoAlley3]

[counterpunch]

So, it's worth asking, why do so many on the left feel the need to defend Wright when the proper political move would be to dismiss him as irrelevant and the proper moral move would be to decry his offensive comments?

Because they understand that it does matter. Obama himself has made his faith and his church central to his campaign.
He's had a house of cards from the start. Think about it. Having an arabic name "Barack Hussein", meaning "blessed handsome one", and an Indonesian upbringing, he knew he would be accused of being a Muslim. So his defense was always that he was a devout Christian who attended his church, um, religiously. He must have known this facade could only hold up so long beyond the nature of his "church" was exposed. Perhaps he thought he could skate by because it was just too "exotic" for white folk to understand and he'd get a pass on it.

So it matters, greatly. It speaks to Obama's experience, his judgement, the company he keeps. It matters especially because we don't know Obama, all we have to go on is his personal references. And those references are Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers.

So the left now has to defend their Messiah's friends, but it is a losing battle and they are already surrounded. It's only a question of when Obama collapses completely. Will it happen before or after he is able to secure the nomination?

If Obama fails, and Hillary becomes the nominee (something still highly unlikely) then do not mourn. Obama has already achieved much of what needed to be achieved against her. He has exposed that the Empress has no clothes. She is not inevitable. She is not invincible. And a whole lot of the Democrat party is very unhappy with her. A whole lot of them have publicly said some really nasty things about her, openly declared war on her and Bill. And Obama has yet to really go to work on her with a hammer and tongs. But that may be about to change. The Obama campaign has signaled they will begin using Whitewater, Travelgate, and other Clinton era scandals against her.

She will not get the nomination, no matter what, with out a really nasty, racially charged fight at the Democrat convention. Even if Hillary does get it, she will only have two months to reassemble her fracture coalition. And that will not be possible after Denver explodes.
 

[roaddog727]

The “Rev” Wright is by NO stretch of ANYone’s imagination a Frederick Douglas.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

At some point when you find a spare moment or three, you really ought to take a deep breath and brave the fever swamps over at (say) DU, or the HuffPo. The ‘rat denizens therein are hysterically lauding their beloved, race-baiting Wright as some bizarre sort of amalgam between Martin Luther King, Moses and Prince. ;) TOO funny!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

For those interested in seeing just how precisely dead-on accurate author Barnett genuinely is, in this instance:

Reverend Wright my brutha! I love you!

Listen Up! Angry Black Man Here!

Make no mistake about it, the Rev. Wright "affair" is a vicious assault on Black America

Could Rev Wright hire an attorney and sue for defamation/libel/slander?

Read. Point. Giggle. Be grateful that -- unlike that of the typical DUer -- your fontanel sealed up properly, years ago. ;)

[Izzy Dunne]

Panic among the KOSsacks. Get your popcorn here!

[3catsanadog]

Heck, if you want the left to love you, just start yelling about American imperialism and racism and declaring that her citizens (i.e., white, Republican, conservative, Christian everymen and women) deserve to be hit again ala 9/11.

They'll welcome you into town with flower petals strewn at your feet and singing choruses of "Hosanna".

You'll be signed up for appearances on shows such as Bill Moyers. You'll be on the covers of Time and Newsweek and maybe even Rolling Stone!

[Inwoodian]

David Gergen took the ultra-left position on Rev. Wright? But, but he was the conservative counterpoint to Mark Shields on McNeil-Lehrer. You mean they were both liberal all along? Gee Willikers! On PBS!

[driftless2]

Wright has not been denounced by the elites of the Donkey Party because they are almost as wacko as he is. They most likely find very little to criticize in what Wright as spouted. They know blue-collar Dems as well as conservative Republicans don’t like him, but that’s only because they’re filthy, nasty racists who need the wisdom of the liberal hierarchy to guide them and tell them how to think. Darn it, if these stupid rubes would only realize what a horrible, evil country the U.S. is things would be a lot better. That is how they and Wright look at things.