Posted on 03/19/2008 2:54:22 AM PDT by suspects
Forget the Straight Talk Express. Barack Obama’s campaign has the biggest bus in this presidential campaign and yesterday he threw everybody under it.
Even his grandmother.
As a former speechwriter myself, I was looking forward to Obama’s remarks yesterday because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how anyone could talk themselves out of Obama’s predicament. How does Obama - the Kumbaya Candidate - explain his 20 years at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s black power church? How does a uniter spend every Sunday in the pews where anti-white, anti-Semitic and anti-American conspiracies and kookery are preached on a regular basis?
It’s like discovering that John McCain is a closet pacifist, or that Hillary Clinton is Rush Limbaugh’s Client No. 9.
Yesterday I got my answer. Blame everyone.
I knew we were in trouble when Obama compared the hapless but harmless Geraldine Ferraro with the Rev. Wright on the “racial insensitivity” scale. And invoking the memory of the O.J. Simpson trial in a speech on racial unity left some of us wondering if the Tawana Brawley references were cut at the last minute.
Obama did say that some of Wright’s comments were “wrong” and “divisive.” He also admitted that he had in fact been in church for some comments that “could be considered controversial - just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests or rabbis with which you strongly disagree.”
Uh, no.
As a graduate of Oral Roberts University who grew up attending church five times a week - including tent revivals, healing services and the handling of less-than-friendly reptiles - I can honestly say that I never attended a service where the minister preached race hatred, anti-Israel paranoia or used the phrase “ridin’ dirty” in a theological context.
And other than Obama...
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That’s a shame, clearly codewords for anti-Semitism, which is what landed Fr. Coughlin in trouble(rightfully so). The Church has always had a strange issue with money-making and money men.
I used to work on Wall Street and would pop into the little church, Our Lady of Victory on Pine Street for Mass from time to time. Suffice it to say, we got sermons against greed, but never an anti-Semitic remark. No one would have stood for it. Avaritia facit bardus (Greed makes us stupid).
Well, I would be very disappointed with that. I feel no guilt for black slavery nor do I think I owe anything to anyone of this generation because of it. Half my family were Irish that landed in New England and were reviled when they did. Heck, they were slaves of the British for 700 years. I hold no grudge. As Muhammad Ali said about America after visiting Africa, “I am glad my ancestors got on the boat.”
Amen Roy!
LLS
I thought this to be more anti-capitalist than anti-Semitic.
I think he’s declared victory on keeping Hitlery in the race and it has nothing to do with backpedaling - he’s still promoting “Operation Chaos”, right ?
I like what Rush is doing right now - critique ‘em all.
All right. I will make the pop corn for this show.
So far it’s a good show - gear up the popcorn machine. Did you see the Obamanator’s latest gaffe ?
Life is getting to be full of minefields if you’re a Dem.
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