Posted on 04/30/2008 11:41:33 AM PDT by seanmerc
At the start of his campaign, Obama ran in counterpoint to the previous candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Here was a black man running for president on issues that had nothing to do with race as he rose above the victimization rhetoric that characterizes so many speeches of African-American political figures.
Now, in attacking the Rev. Wright as he did Tuesday, Obama can further define himself in contrast to Wright, just as he did earlier vis-à-vis Jackson and Sharpton.
So if, as the Chinese ideogram suggests, crisis is a synthesis of danger and opportunity, the controversy surrounding Wright presents plenty of both for Obama.
In his statement Tuesday, Obama moved decisively and well to seize the opportunity that Wright’s wrongs pose.
The danger Wright presents is obvious enough. He has come to epitomize everything white Americans fear in an African-American public figure, secular or clerical. He is anti-white, anti-American, and avidly embraces and propagates all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories.
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“He is anti-white, anti-American, and avidly embraces and propagates all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories.”
Don’t have to be black to be like that. That’s pretty much liberalism in a nutshell.
So, Obamahammed is either an oblivious dimwit or a lying racist. At least I understand now why libs love him so much.
Twenty years is “mentor”.
Can’t walk away from that so easily.
People on average aren’t that stupid.
Wright's bluster as well as Sharpton's recent New York rants are all designed to set up a long hot summer.
It`s a no go, Hussein`s painted himself into a corner.
Either he sat at the feet of the racist Wright for 20 years and agreed(make no mistake, Wright has been spewing his hate that long) or, he used Wright to ingratiate himself into the community and become popular among the hyde park radicals knowing full well he`d dump Wright when he was finished using him.
So, Hussein,do you believe in black liberation theology, yes or no?
Obamanation...
He needs to explain why we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — to save millions of American and Japanese lives, which would have been lost in an invasion. He should defend our support of Israel and take issue with Wright’s characterization of our backing for its efforts to protect itself as “terrorism.” He needs to speak out about America’s moral role in the world and differ sharply and publicly with Wright’s worldview.
I will applaud anybody, ANYBODY, including O'bama, who does that.
But if O'bama does it, it's not enough.
Why was he there for TWENTY-TWO YEARS?
Is the riff a ruse?????
IMHO I think it is!
That either means he is incompetent regarding judgment to deal with forces like Iran, Korea, Russia and so forth or it shows he is expedient as a typical politician who is willing to abandon anything and everything in exchange for the power of the Presidency. No change seen in this politician, lots of black racism seen though.
NOBODY believes Obama didn't really know about Wright and I believe most figure he was quite fine with what Rev. Wright said and educated to the black community.
To believe otherwise requires a suspension of reality IMO.
Hussein,do you believe in black liberation theology, yes or no, or are you just another cynical self-centered politician who`ll do and say anything for power and privilege ?
Just for the record, Mr. Morris, I'm not too fond of ANYONE of ANY COLOR, secular or clerical, who is anti-American and embraces and propagates bizarre conspiracy theories.
That is THE current definition of Liberal mentality
Dick Morris allows his hatred of the Clintons to blind him to Obama’s problems - Obama couldn’t have sat in that church for 20+ years without be well aware of Wright’ racist anti-American insanity. Not a chance.
I think Obama doesn't have the stones for that move. He knows that it would be throwing away a lot of black votes... he can't afford that. Obama is THE man in the middle... and Black America has had if both ways on this issue for so long that NO candidate who won't abjectly patronize black voters will be accepted. Morris overlooked this basic reality of Black American voters.
When are the main stream media and psuedo-media nitwits like Morris going to wake up and realize that the Obama/Wright Tiff is a H.O.A.X.
It's all a smokescreen to get the minds of the American off the FACT that Obama is a Muslim who happens to hate all White people especially Jews. And, he hates America!!
You don't sit in a pew in the mosque for 20 years without some of that rot rubbing off on you.
Obama didn't appreciate or celebrate that he happened to be a very intelligent man... instead he's been looking for Mr. Goodbar all these years in people like Farrakan and Wright...
Now, whose chickens have come home to roost???? huh huh huh
:: End of Reality Check ::
“So, Obamahammed is either an oblivious dimwit or a lying racist”
You forgot door three, “an oblivious dimwit lying racist”
Read the article with this in mind: Dick Morris absolutely hates the Clintons.
And someone on an earlier thread suggested a third possibility: He really may believe the stuff that Wright spouts (or at least Mrs. Obama does).
You beat me to it. That's what I was going to post.
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