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We're Not in Philly Anymore - Jeremiah Wright is now disowned, and Barack Obama is forever...
National Review Online ^
| May 02, 2008
| Charles Krauthammer
Posted on 05/02/2008 7:28:45 PM PDT by neverdem
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May 02, 2008, 0:00 a.m.
We're Not in Philly Anymore
Jeremiah Wright is now disowned, and Barack Obama is forever discredited.
By Charles Krauthammer
“I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother.”
— Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18 Guess it’s time to disown Granny, if Obama’s famous Philadelphia “race” speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. A New York Times columnist said it “should be required reading in classrooms across the country.” College seniors and first-graders, suggested the excitable Chris Matthews.
Apparently there’s been a curriculum change. On Tuesday, the good senator begged to extend and revise his previous remarks on race. Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative. Poor Geraldine Ferraro, thrice lashed by Obama in Philadelphia as the white equivalent of Wright’s raving racism, is now off the hook.
These equivalences having been revealed as the cheap rhetorical tricks they always were, Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised... |
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; jeremiahwright; krauthammer; orwelliannightmare; revisionisthistory; stalinisttactics; starkravingsocialist; wrightwingconspiracy
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To: msnpatriot
It’s time to eliminate the Clintons from the equation, and get on to the issues. Everything else is ‘nonsense’!
Aw, c'mon; let us have some fun. (See my tagline.)
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:17:17 PM PDT
by
no dems
(The Democrats destroying each other gives me moments of pleasureable reflections.)
To: neverdem
Brilliant and lacerating.
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:38:10 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: neverdem
The thing is that Obama looks down on the rural working class everywhere (rednecks) because they cling to guns, God and bitterness (xenophobia).
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:39:08 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: neverdem
They say that if Obama isn’t the nominee, there will be widespread defections from the Dim party. But where are they going to run to? I just don’t believe it.
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:42:30 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
To: Intolerant in NJ; neverdem; keats5
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:47:27 PM PDT
by
LucyT
To: msnpatriot
get on to the issuesThe main issue is that the entire federal government needs to keep its nose out of the peoples business as much as possible. Since none of the three running will do that, it boils down to which one of the candidates is less of a scummy rat.
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:47:39 PM PDT
by
Stentor
To: Tribune7
You can only fit so many bodies under the bus before it high-centers & can't go anywhere.
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:49:10 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
To: neverdem
What a great column!
BUMP!
To: TheThinker
They say that if Obama isn’t the nominee, there will be widespread defections from the Dim party. But where are they going to run to? I just don’t believe it. Let them go to the Working Families Party. They can take over urban governments and wreck them completely. We can pick up the last of the blue and yellow dogs. I want to see that disloyal party destroyed.
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:56:57 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: Miss Didi
Thanks for the transcript & link.
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:57:48 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: LucyT
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posted on
05/02/2008 9:59:51 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: wardaddy; Joe Brower; Cannoneer No. 4; Criminal Number 18F; Dan from Michigan; Eaker; Jeff Head; ...
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posted on
05/03/2008 12:06:49 AM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: Tribune7
"Dang, he’s going to throw everybody under the bus LOL"It's a biiiig bus...
To: TheThinker
"They say that if Obama isn’t the nominee, there will be widespread defections from the Dim party. But where are they going to run to? I just don’t believe it."They've been known to sit on their hands a time or two. Check Kerry's numbers.
To: msnpatriot
...on to the issuesObama's positions on the issues are very easily summarized. He wants to implement every failed domestic and foreign policy of Jimmy Carter.
To: neverdem
The Rev. Wright attitude was on display when blacks cheered the verdict in the O. J. case.
Has anyone come across B.O. himself cheering the verdict after it came out?
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posted on
05/03/2008 3:54:16 AM PDT
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar.)
To: neverdem
To: neverdem
Thanks for the thread...Dr. K. is brilliant as usual.
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posted on
05/03/2008 6:28:27 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: neverdem
Thanks for the thread...Dr. K. is brilliant as usual.
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posted on
05/03/2008 6:28:27 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
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05/03/2008 10:19:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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