The Obama Crash and Burn

NRO ^ | 24 mar 08 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MrB]

Notice that leftists nearly ALWAYS have a conniption when they are challenged on an indefensible falsehood?

Nope, the Wright business blasted off the veneer. Barry is just another product of the perpetual grievance industry.

[cornbreadmuffin]

ROTFL Well, the 4x4 lapel-button is a nice touch and that might help a teeny-tiny bit but he!! will freeze over long before Michelle quits wagging her finger and gets down off her high horse.....

Michelle can cancel her fitting for her Inaugural ball gown...probably save a couple of thousand dollars. She won’t enjoy watching Cindy dance.

[1Old Pro]

The funny thing, he WON the nomination and it’s only a matter of pride when Hillary finally realizes she can’t get the nomination

[Polybius]

VDH is a little wordy, but that’s the best take I’ve seen on Obama’s speech.

Here is the Reader's Digest version:

"God DAMN America" ...... Rev. Jeremiah Wright

"Blah, blah, blah, .... my grandmother .. racist ... blah, blah, .... oppressed .... blah, blah, blah, cannot disown ... black community ... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah" ...... Barack Obama's speech

“Forget the speech. I would never vote for Obama after listening to Wright.” ...... Majority of American voters

[AlphaOneAlpha]

“Obama has to have the votes of ‘typical white’ people. I don’t get his strategy dissing the electoral majority.”

Simple. There were likely 3 key thrusts in the strategy:
1. There’s a lot of time to allow this to all blow over
2. Most American voters are uninformed and pretty dumb
3. Hang the suggestion of racism on the whites. It’ll work.

[television is just wrong]

don’t see shrillery walking away quietly.

[jetson]

The whole Obama syndrome is like someone you know admitting they drank from a glass of water that a plague victim drank from. As each day passes more and more people start keeping their distance.

[spokeshave]

Tin ear ping

[Mase]

BTTT

[fightinJAG]

We learn now that Obama is the last person who wants to end the establishment notion that a few elite African Americans negotiate with liberal white America over the terms of grievance and entitlement — without which all of us really would be transracial persons, in which happiness and gloom hinge, and are seen to do so, on one’s own individual success or failure.

This is the truly disappointing thing about this whole incident. Obama has set the clock back a million years by buying into this victimhood mentality and legitimizing the racist plantation on which many blacks voluntary enslave themselves to the government/Rat party.

Although I abhor Obama's politics, I did think his run might demonstrate how colorblind most whites are in this nation. Instead, it has demonstrated how color-obsessed many blacks are. Most Americans had no idea how very MAINSTREAM this garbage is in the black community. They thought Jesse and Louis and Al were crackpots out there on the fringes. But apparently, no.

[fightinJAG]

If nothing else positive comes out of the Wright horror, at least now more people should be empowered to stand up and speak the truth without flinching: those who adhere to Wright’s views, or anything like it, are RACISTS, pure and simple.

It’s about time people of good will, who love this country, can say that in public and publically push back against this madrassa-system of perpetuating irrational hatred.

Wright: you are a racist. And anyone who agrees with you is, too.

[fightinJAG]

That’s what I’ve been mulling lately: “what is the remedy?”

Little Palestinian children do not hate the Jews until they are taught to do so.

Little black Americans do not hate white people, or their country, until they are taught to do so.

What is the remedy?

We can’t shut down these madrassas (black liberation theology churches) (although it’s hard to see how they get tax exemption), but the rest of us can stand up and denounce racism wherever we see it.

That wasn’t always the case as many of us grew up in a culture steeped in political correctness. Maybe the power of PC-thinking is waning and we will become free at last!

If people of good will can and will denounce this thinking as pure racism, and continue to do so without fear or care of any social reprisal, we might actually make some progress.

[DeLaine]

ping for later

[fightinJAG]

But if Obama loses the nomination because of his racist background (his long and intimate association with Rev. Wright-—BTW, Wright and Obama preached this garbage-—the infamous “Quiet Riot” sermon-—to a packed house at the Hampton Colliseum in June, 2008), people of good will need to be willing to say so without reservation: Obama lost not because he’s black, but because he’s associated with racist hate-mongering.

And not back down.

No matter what.

The blacks who willingly enslave themselves to the government, the Rat party, and the racist hate-mongerers by internalizing victimhood rather than an ethos of personal responsibility, where people are judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin, will never get off the plantation otherwise.

[fightinJAG]

If Barack and Michelle had simply sat down and thought things through he would have coasted to the nomination. Thankfully they didn't - now it's the humpty dumpty campaign and it's over!

This is one thing that is truly disturbing about all this. Obama and his wife are so steeped in this garbage, so used to it, so accepting that it is the mainstream "black" experience and perspective, that it seems to never really have occurred to them that most Americans would not only object to the tenets of Black Liberation Theology, but find them highly repugnant RACIST hate-bombs against OUR country.

That is truly clueless and that's disturbing in someone who would be President.

[fightinJAG]

It’s time for everybody else to loudly and without backing down hang the description of RACIST on Obama and Wright et al.

It’s time this was said in public and shouted from the mountaintops.

[fightinJAG]

Good analogy.

[Grampa Dave]

"For some bizarre reason, Obama aimed his speech at winning praise from National Public Radio, the New York Times, and Harvard, and solidifying an already 90-percent solid African-American base — while apparently insulting the intelligence of everyone else."

Hussein Obama’s racist pseudo minister has turned the Dems' run for President into party's train wreck!

Devastatingly, Steele writes, Obama has "fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own (white) mother."

Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons? (Plenty)

“Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.”

Obama’s supporters want us to ignore this story… just push it under the rug. While they’ll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, they’re trying to convince us that Obama’s 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.

“When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obama’s deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.”

“Wright says that blacks can’t be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.”

Here is the link to the Star Spangled Banner video with obama standing there without his hand over his heart...

Notice her ear ring!

[Verginius Rufus]

--the infamous "Quiet Riot" sermon--to a packed house at the Hampton Colliseum in June, 2008...

June, 2008?

[gura]

Buy stock in Kool Aid; election night after he gives his concession speech is going to make Jonestown look like a kid’s birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.