Posted on 04/29/2008 5:42:39 AM PDT by SE Mom
Dana Milibank has a sober review of Wright’s morning rantings — and what they portend for the Obama campaign. For weeks now Wright has insulted the United States, whites, Jews, Israel, Italians, et al., but confined his media attacks to talk radio and cable news. But at the Press Club he showed disdain for the liberal corps, and that is a felony of a different sort. So expect outraged reporters to strike back.
All this will be fatal to the Obama candidacy. Had he set an example of moral outrage at his pastor, Wright would be gone and Obama would have recovered by now from any backlash from the African-American community.
But the problem is that by contextualizing Wright, Obama has lost any high ground in commenting about race, and essentially given Wright a blank check to say what he wants without being “disowned”. Moreover, Obama’s de facto original embrace of Wright — in a Faustian exchange for the racial fides that jump-started his Chicago campaigns — initially set a particular tone in the African-American community, to such a degree that a racist who lectures the NAACP about genetic brain differences is now canonized rather than jeered out of the hall.
The white poor and middle class, Hispanics, Asians, etc. look at Wright’s middle-class upbringing, his mansion and perks, and wonder why he is, Ayers-like, so venomous toward the society by which he has done so well, and how he gets away on national television lecturing about genetics and the relationship between race and brain DNA. As far as the electorate's response: as in the case of Michelle Obama, if prosperous upper-middle-class and wealthy African-Americans show such disdain toward the United States, and are applauded when they do, then the less well off of other races and backgrounds will tend to give up on race relations, as if there is no point to addressing grievances and victimization that seem exaggerated and endless rather than empirically based.
If conservatives at first thought the Obama/Wright catastrophe was ironic, given Obama’s liberal sermons, or in a political sense timely in helping the McCain candidacy, I think by now they and most other Americans instead see the mess as tragic for the country, and a radical setback in our collective racial relations. Everyone of good conscience should deplore Wright in the strongest terms, and implore Obama once and for all to disown this extremist.
Otherwise I think some day Barack Obama will have a lot of answering to do in empowering a bigot who has done so much damage in so short a time to his country. Right now Wright and what he has said to the nation are the legacy of his campaign.
04/29 07:49 AM
January 20 2009 The Reverend Wright steps to the microphone to deliver the opening prayer for President Elect Barrak Hussein Obama’s inarguration.....
God Damn AmeriKKKa the chickens have come home to roost....
or something along those lines with the emphasis on extreme unabbreviated gloating.
Exactly!! The last thing in the world this country needs right now--is a DIVISIVE President. Even worse--a RACIALLY DIVISIVE President. And the worst possible situation--is a PATRIOTIC DIVISIVE President!!!
Between Obama's complicity in the spewing of sickening racial hate and venom, and his refusal to wear a flag pin, and his refusal to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem, and his belief in "pre-emptive" surrender in Iraq, and his belief in 'class envy and class warfare' with his socialist/Marxist economic policies,,,
a left-wing EXTREMIST like Obama would be the MOST DIVISIVE PRESIDENT EVER!!
Obama is a scary person. A very scary person indeed.
How could he show “moral outrage at his pastor” of 20 years?
The outrage should have shown itself shortly after attending the church for several sessions.
As others have siad- Obama is now in an impossible situation. He will have to walk a fine line if he decides to come out against Wright’s latest tirade(s). The first time he lumped it altogether saying he disavowed the controversial comments. That will not be good enough this time. He needs to get specific- black and white brains wired differently? The US government is a terrorist organization? The same government probably responsible for AIDS being inflicted on Black America? The list goes on...
If he completely and specifically disowns Wright- he risks alienating part of his base of blacks. It he doesn’t- he risks alienating many whites and blacks outraged by Wright.
It’s ugly.
All this episode has done is that it has elevated Wright into a position where he can make some serious dollars, being yet another pariah to the black community.
But he is going to have to try and real the MSM, more Democrats, and the Independents back in who are, understandably, waivering. This "speach tour" gives him the perfect opportunity to make (at least publically, because I believe he would continue to have Wright in the basement) a hard, clean break.
Actually, I think it is "beautiful"! < / snickering >
Brit Hume said yesterday that Jesse Jackson refused to comment on Wright. What’s up with that?
Twenty years is not undone by another speech.
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Excellent tagline material! Will you make it available or use it yourself?
Finally, someone states that Wright/Obama have taken us a step backwards in race relations.
The dems have allowed them to get too close to their dream of a black president to abandon Obama.
What a beautiful mess.
Have at it.
I don’t think, as some have suggested, that Jeremiah Wright is trying to hurt Obama. I think he is speaking becasue he believes Obama as President is inevitable and that his own time has already come for such bigoted rhetoric. The more he is in the news, the more blatant and arrogant Wright becomes.
I think that is exactly right and why he now seems to be in the news 24/7 - he has become his own enterprise thanks to the infamy and is now a separate entity from Obama.
Now that is one impressive post Grampa.
Get it thru your heads.....THE UNAMERICAN DEMOCRAT PARTY is an enemy of the United States of America.
And any man or women in this enemy movement should be treated as such.
Hussein Obama is NO victim of Wright or Clinton, they are all on the same page vying for leader of their anti-American radical Democrat Party
That's the whole point of "superdelegates" ... to go against the will of the people if the people choose wrong.
Your comments pretty much sum up my feelings. I will add that the senator is worse than his advisor, and almost as bad as his friend and wife. Just my 2 cents.
Obama has been done in by the double standard blacks have been allowed for forty years. Any black man who took “advantage” of that double standard wilfully put himself in a ghetto. Obama made his choice a long time ago and it cost him his big dream. He won’t be president.
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