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Charles Krauthammer: Smacking his forehead, Obama splits from pastor
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | May 4, 2008 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

Posted on 05/05/2008 7:12:20 AM PDT by rhema

"I can no more disown [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.

At a news conference in North Carolina, Obama explained why he finally decided to do the deed. Apparently, Wright's latest comments -- Obama cited three in particular -- were so shockingly "divisive and destructive" that he had to renounce the man, not just the words.

What were Obama's three citations? Wright's claim that AIDS was invented by the U.S. government to commit genocide. His praise of Louis Farrakhan as a great man. And his blaming 9/11 on American "terrorism."

But these comments are not new. These were precisely the outrages that prompted the initial furor when the Wright tapes emerged seven weeks ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: barackobama; democratparty; democrats; elections; emptysuit; feckless; jeremiahwright; krauthammer; lightweight; obama; shallow; wright
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To: Always Right
I mean Chis Matthews wet his pants during that speech.

That guy wets his pants so much he has moved on to extra absorbant Depends.

21 posted on 05/05/2008 1:48:48 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: ought-six
“Obama does this to pretend to voters that he suddenly had an epiphany..."

"Thank you for calling Epiphanies on Demand. May I help you?"

22 posted on 05/05/2008 3:57:33 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (what is it you hope to find here?)
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To: rhema

Love the Krauthammer and he is usually dead on right. Plus he has the sexiest eyes.........


23 posted on 05/05/2008 4:01:59 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Our country sure has some slim pickin's on both sides for 2008!)
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