[jch10]

Obama will have more delegates than Clinton but she will get the superdelegates and be the nominee.

He is toast.

[fightinJAG]

Although I abhor his politics, I too was deeply disappointed to discover that, rather than being the post-racial candidate, Obama on this point was the same old crapola, even down to pulling out the list of handouts to be demanded and trumpeting that “everybody else” needs to do more in the face of one community’s institutionalized lack of personal responsibility.

[kjo]

The way the media has circled its wagons around Obama/Wright is simply unbelievable. A year ago I would have said that the MSM would have been afraid to demonstate such open bias...but here it is.

There’s not even a pretense of objectivity in the mainstream press anymore, the big networks, the NYTs, WaPo, and CNN are carrying water for the Obama campaign.

This is a new low.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...in that sonorous baritone that makes his drive-thru order for a Big Mac, fries and strawberry shake sound profound...”

I love it! Obama: The Fast Food Mentality Candidate. :)

[TalBlack]

Obama is done. And I’d be willing to bet so is Hillary. I wonder how the party is going to boot these two and for whom? There is very little doubt in my mind that that is EXACTLY what will happen in the fullness of time.

[MaggieCarta]

Thanks for posting this.

[magooey]

Rev. Wright's sermons are profoundly disappointing and sadly bigoted. Mrs. Michelle Obama's inferiority complex after attending top Ivy League schools and just "not testing well" is also unpleasant. The bigoted statements of herself and Rev. Wright make one wonder whether it is time to end Affirmative Action and other Great Society programs that were meant to fix the historical injustices.

This is the payback for the hundreds of thousand killed in the Civil War, deaths of the Abolitionists (John Brown's body etc.), the martyrs of Civil Rights struggle both black and white, the many Americans who lost life opportunities to Affirmative Action in the name of social peace. Americans have paid in blood and gold, and don't deserve such a payback.

It is time now to rethink the 40 year old policies of LBJ's Great Society. Maybe cutting people loose will help them find the strength to stand on their own feet and take pride in their own efforts.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[samtheman]

There’s been a lot written on this subject, but Steyn hits the home run.

This article should be required reading in every high school, college and university in America.

Please read the whole thing, not just the excerpt.

[kellynla]

[syriacus]

Great column! Thanks for posting it.

[Tax-chick]

It makes no difference to white folks when a black pastor inflicts kook genocide theories on his congregation: The victims are those in his audience who make the mistake of believing him.

Bingo. This is Larry Elder's thesis in "Stupid Black Men": those who believe the nonsense are only holding themselves back, while sensible people get jobs, get married, and succeed in life.

[twntaipan]

Steyn nails it ... again.

There is something profoundly wrong about a man that will twist the words of his own flesh and blood for political gain, will equate a racist pastor’s 20 years worth of insanity with grandma’s single incident all for the sake of some political gain.

It says much about B. Hussein Obama’s character—but then he is a dhimmicrat and character doesn’t count for them.

[Enchante]

Steyn nails it!! Whatever actual beliefs about race and America exist in Obama’s empty soul, the FACT is that he has entrusted this deranged racist hack of a “minister” with his family’s spiritual care. To be the “post-racial” candidate Obama had to pretend to be the man to heal racial divides etc. Now the country can see that his background is steeped in the most one-sided kind of bitter hateful racism which he still can’t renounce.

If Shrillary’s minions don’t pull off an upset with the Superdelegates then Obambi is toast in the fall. The 527 ads just make themselves with the rants of this nutty minister. Although the MSM will desperately try to inoculate Obama by calling for a moratorium on all references to race, there is no way a majority of Americans are going to vote for this charlatan.

[aculeus]

When the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dumped some of his closest Cabinet colleagues to extricate himself from a political crisis, the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe responded: "Greater love hath no man than to lay down his friends for his life." In Philadelphia, Sen. Obama topped that: Greater love hath no man than to lay down his grandma for his life.

[savedbygrace]

You can understand why Obama is so anxious to meet with President Ahmadinejad, a man who denies the last Holocaust even as he plans the next one. Such a summit would be easy listening after the more robust sermons of Jeremiah Wright.

Classic Steyn. That's gonna leave a mark.

[Enterprise]

Steyn as usual makes a very powerful point. If his grandmother is a typical white person, then she embodies the best of white people. Tolerant, caring, loving.

So my question to Obama is this: Is Jeremiah Wright a typical black person?

[Malesherbes]

I've read that the Obama campaign diligently keeps the media away from Granny Dunham. His Kenyan grandmother, however, is accessible and gives interviews which, although translated from the local Luo dialect, seem free of racial bias.

I had assumed that they were simply protecting Granny Dunham's privacy but maybe it is more sinister than that. Is it possible that she is “a typical white person” and will spout racist invective if exposed to the MSM? Maybe she believes that black people cause the plague, are responsible for earthquakes, and want to bring the New Black Panthers to power.

[wolfpat]

I keep hearing that Pastor Wright’s attitude is understandable considering 350 years of oppression.

But he doesn’t look a day over 70.

[Hardastarboard]

If Reverend Wright is correct that the US Government invented the AIDS virus to destroy the black man (Steyn makes the marvelous point that AIDS is entirely useless against moral people), it has been known for centuries that disease as a weapon is moderately effective at best.

The US released penicillin resistant gonorrhea in Viet Nam, and look what that did. In the forties, they released tularemia (rabbit fever) to control the rabbit population. Now you have to be extremely careful with handling wild rabbits after you shoot them to avoid getting tularemia, and they're as plentiful as ever.

Even if he's correct, the Wright Reverend has driven home, once again, that government programs fail, or succeed poorly, no matter what the purpose. I'm sure Senators Obama and Clinton would agree with me on that obvious point. /sarc