Obama's Chickens Come Home to Roost

RealClearPolitics ^ | April 30, 2008 | Robert Tracinski

[2ndDivisionVet]

Over the weekend, the Obama campaign suffered a further disaster: the Reverend_Jeremiah Wright finally seized his 15 minutes of fame.

Lured by the irresistible glow of the spotlight, the reverend launched a media blitz that took him from a softball interview with Bill Moyers on Friday, to a speech to a Detroit meeting of the NAACP on Sunday, to a press conference at the National Press Club on Monday morning.

Barack Obama is now declaring himself shocked and disappointed at Wright's unrepentantly racist and anti-American views--but Obama_can no longer plausibly claim innocence in this matter, because he is the one who has encouraged Wright by trying to excuse and explain his views.

This time around, the Reverend Wright told his audience Sunday night that blacks_and_whites have different methods of thinking. Blacks rely on "right-brain" thinking, which is more creative, while whites rely on "left-brain" thinking, which is more logical. Oh yes, and blacks have a better sense of rhythm. As Victor Davis Hanson points out, if any white man had dared to breathe these hoary stereotypes--particularly the view that blacks are less suited to logical thinking--he would have been permanently cast out of polite society. The fact that Reverend Wright expressed those views to the NAACP_(and received, by all accounts, a positive response)_merely indicates how far that once-venerable organization has fallen.

To the National Press Club, Wright reiterated his claim that AIDS was created by the United States government as a racist plot to kill blacks; he explained that Obama's "distancing" himself from Wright was only a political calculation "based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls"; and he also repeated his praise for Louis_Farrakhan--the anti-Semitic, quasi-fascist, dictator-loving leader of the Nation of Islam--as "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century."

[flaglady47]

P.S., I agree with you that Obama won’t be President, unless McCain screws up big time. He will now be easier to beat than Hillary would be, as she has beaten him up for us Pubs. Hillary feels if she can’t win she will take Obama down with her.

[pepperhead]

I am sure Wright and Obama are shocked it had to come to this......

Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job.

“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”

[txrangerette]

Obama and Wright both look like idiots and/or liars.

If they hatched a plot to make themselves look like such idiots and/or liars that Obama becomes political poison in the general election, their “plot” would have not only done them no good, it would have done them in.

Obama: This is not the man I knew for 20 yrs.

Rush: The American people are not going to buy that THEY know Obama’s pastor better than Obama knows him (as they had Wright figured out from the get-go when they heard & saw him).

Glenn Beck: If Obama truly didn’t know, he cannot be elected President of the United States. He isn’t fit.

If he did know, he’s a proven liar. He isn’t fit.