Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:16:46 PM
Obama condemns Wright’s “incendiary rhetoric,” but says he can’t “disown” the man. What is it about this Democratic presidential candidate that attracts the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and The New Black Panther Party?
Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards once famously quipped, “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
After being caught in bed with a live racist-/America-hater, Senator Barack Obama did rhetorical hand-stands to explain away the liaison.
Obama delivered his 5,000-word rationalization (“A More Perfect Union”) in Philadelphia on Tuesday. The New York Times was positively orgasmic, headlining its editorial hosanna “Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage.”
The senator finally confronted his Wright problem out of necessity, not courage. His campaign threatened to sink under the weight of the minister’s nutty rhetoric. (Mean conservative talk-shows kept playing cuts from recordings of Wright’s sermons.)
You have to admire the way Obama nimbly pirouetted around Wright’s hysterical anti-Americanism.
Describing Wright’s statements as “incendiary language to express views that have the potential to widen the racial divide” and which “denigrate the greatness and goodness of this nation,” the candidate heroically declared that he had already “condemned” said statements “in unequivocal terms.”
Gee, maybe the New York Times is right. I guess it really takes guts for the front-runner for his party’s nomination to pronounce America “great” and “good.”
Then, the fearless candidate proceeded to forthrightly address what he knew and when he knew it – sort of.
“Did I know him (Wright) to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.” Of course, initially Obama claimed plausible deniability. (“None of these statements were ones that I had heard personally in the pews.”)
Note the following: Obama never tells us what form Wright’s occasional fierce criticism of “American domestic and foreign policy” took. He never explains in what ways the Rev’s rhetoric is considered “controversial.” Most importantly, he never discloses the form his allegedly strong disagreement took.
Did he:
1. Stand up in the middle of one of Wright’s hate-filled sermons and shout “Enough of this crap!”
2. Threaten to resign from the congregation.
3. Send a letter of protest to his pastor and spiritual mentor?
4. Express outrage to the church’s governing body?
Answer: None of the above.
For 20 years, Obama occupied a pew of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ and listened to Wright spew his poison week after week, month after month, year after year. But until the last few weeks – when his association with the rabid Rev. became an impediment to his triumphal march to the presidency -- there is no record of Obama protesting a single word of Wright’s “controversial” criticisms.
However, we do know that Wright married Obama and his wife, that he baptized both of the candidate’s children, that Obama once made a $20,000 gift to the church, that he called Wright his inspiration, and that he based his 2004 speech to the Democratic National Convention (and later the title of his best-selling book) on one of Wright’s sermons.
Just come clean Barack, admit that you and your lovely wife hate America and all the white people in it. Admit that you both pray before bed that people just like me will go away and turn the whole country over to you without a fight. Admit that white people aren't the only ones you distrust and fear; tell us about your disdain for Hispanics and Asians as well. Admit the only white people you do like are from France and Russia. Life's too short, even when you live to be 104, to keep all this bottled up inside.
Your pastor knows better. He opens himself up before God and everyone else to admit his hatred for America and anyone who's not considered black at least on a weekly basis. Wait, doesn't that mean he's supposed to hate you too Barack? How did he get past the fact your mother's white, and that you were raised by both her and your white grandmother who now has big fat tread marks on her from being thrown under the bus? Deep down inside, when your cowering under the covers late at night in fear and hatred of whitey, do you wonder if your pastor actually hates you too for your genetic inferiority? I'm just full of questions today Senator. Let's see if I can come up with some more.
Did Jeremiah Wright sigh in relief when he married you to a black woman instead of having to realize his worst fears come to life before his very eyes? Did he wince when he baptized your children knowing that they're one-quarter white? Being your mentor, and having just now come to know the character of the man; surely these things have entered your mind once or twice in the past weeks. Did you worry if you were going to get away with it? Have you been quaking with guilt and having nightmares of "pastor" Wright condemning you at the pulpit instead of your enemies?