Something smells rotten in the Hood. Here’s my take on it. I think Obama and Wright are as thick as thieves, I think they are in total cahoots. I think everything that has happened in the past week has been planned and masterminded between Obama and Wright and perhaps one or two other key players on Obama’s campaign staff. I think everything has been coordinated.
Preacher Wright comes out and does his round of inflammatory speeches at the NAACP, and the Nat’l Press Club, and in his Bill Moyers interview. Funny that these three are all clustered within days of each other, all at once. As Obama blew his first chance at refuting Wright for his behavior for the last 20 years, both of them thinking the whole issue would die down, Obama needed a second bite of the apple. A second chance to condemn the Reverend Wright. Hence the setup. Wright does his radical religious/political rap thing three times, and Obama then says he’s finally had enough and condemns and refutes and sort of disowns (however if you listen to Obama’s words, he really doesn’t) Preacher Wright.
Now it looks as if the two of them are at great odds and no longer like each other, right? Wrong, in the sense that this was the desired end result, to make it look like they are now at odds. Mission accomplished. Obama is now off the hook. Obama even makes sure he has an out in the very careful, slow speaking manner with which he refuted his mentor. He says Wright may do more of the same kind of speech, but he, Obama, won’t be responsible for it as he can’t do anything to stop Wright, and has now disowned Wright anyhow. Isn’t this Machiavellian? Isn’t this fun?
Now for the proof of my thinking. Preacher Wright and Obama have known each other for 20 years, both in and out of the church pew. Obama went on Louis Farrakhan’s million man march. Obama named his book after a phrase used by Rev. Wright, “The Audacity of Hope”. They are very close. Obama knows exactly where Wright is coming from, both theologically and politically. And (here’s the kicker) vice versa. Wright knows everything about Obama too. He knows how Obama really thinks politically, after all Preacher Wright groomed him for the last 20 years, or perhaps indoctrinated would be a better word. Wright knows what Obama has said to him over the years, has done for and with him over the last 20 years, and has the goods on Obama big time. Wright could blast Obama into space and out of the presidential race on a politically dirty rocket in a nanosecond. Wright probably knows more about Obama’s inner workings, shady deals back in Chicago, connections to Obama’s political benefactor Tony Rezko now up on influence peddling and other charges back in Chicago, and may have been in on some of those deals himself. Wright could take Obama down faster than greased lightening if he wanted to. But he won’t. Because they are working in tandem. They are still joined at the hip, and what we are seeing this past week is all a charade, a Potemkin village, smokey (until that became un-PC) backroom dealings to get Obama out of hot water in the political short and long run for his relationship with Wright.
Mark my words here; my political antennae are waving in the breeze. And to top it off (I believe this is coming out of Obama’s camp too), the blogs are buzzing around that somehow Preacher Wright and Hillary Clinton are working behind the scenes to undermine Obama, and that Hillary’s camp was somehow involved in setting up financially some of what Wright was up to this past week. I think a whisper campaign of “it’s all Hillary’s fault that this is happening” has been let loose on the internet to shift the blame for Wright’s actions of late on her. How convenient. Obama isn’t behind this, why it’s Hillary. And the MSM are swallowing it whole. The MSM in general hate Hillary and will blame anything and everything on her. They will believe anything about her. Never mind, as I stated before, that Wright/Obama have a 20 year relationship, and that Wright could bring Obama down so fast his head would spin with what Wright knows about Obama and how he really thinks. Its Hillary and her henchmen to blame.
Obama and Wright must be laughing up their sleeves at how a naive and lazy press that is on Obama’s side anyhow in this race, will swallow this. Tell me, does anyone really think that Wright and Hillary got together to “get Obama”? Do you not think that Wright wants Obama in the White House where Wright can have all sorts of influence on his protege? That Wright wants to be kingpin at the National Prayer Breakfasts? That he wants all that access to grants or funding for his church causes? That he wants to push his own peculiar brand of church politics? His Black Liberation Theology? You better believe he wants Obama in as President. They both just have to get over this little speed bump of whether Obama secretly thinks just like Wright does, and is really a divider disguising himself as a uniter, fooling us all. Preacher Wright knows exactly where Obama is coming from. If he blows the whistle on Obama publicly on what he knows, then I am wrong. If Wright doesn’t, well, then draw your own conclusions. I’ve drawn mine.
Until 20 years ago, Obama was an atheist raised by atheists. He moved to Chicago having no roots in the area. He was told by the Democrat Machine that
1. Atheist don't get elected in ChicagoNow for the proof of my thinking.
2. Rev Wright could provide street cred in the neighborhood
So he joined the Church and became a "Christian". Wright has shown that his "church" is really just a money making scheme based on black politics and pandering to blacks' worst fears.
Obama has squeezed all he can out of the bitter black urban church and now can move up with his elite prep school/ ivy league friends. He can still claim the kind of religion that you get from Harvard that doesn't actually require going to church. Just like he can have the kind of Harvard patriotism that doesn't require respecting the flag.
I have been thinking the same thing. He said he could never disown Wright anymore than he could disown the black community, and what he heard from Wright over the past few days is nothing new than what he has said in church off and on for over 20 years. Something sure doesn’t pass the smell test here.
Obama will then lose some (not much) of his black support if he says why they are nutty, or lose LOTS of his white support if he doesn't. Moreover, he can't appear to have "not heard" the Rev. say these specific things, because Wright is then going to start producing "pwoof" that Obama was there and heard it and congratulated him on the sermon afterward!
No, this isn't a tag team match. Wright is beyond a loose cannon on the decks, and Obama is about to get knocked overboard.
That occurred to me too -- for about 10 seconds.
Obama's speech yesterday proved that that theory --that Wright and Obama are in cahoots and that "everything that has happened in the past week has been planned"-- could not be true.
Why? Because Obama let slip that the REAL reason for his new public attitude toward Wright was not his "outrage" at Wright's outlandish claims, but Obama's irritation at being personally "dissed" by Wright.
That was a huge misstep. It proves that this whole thing wasn't planned. It also makes it clear that Obama, far from being "brilliant," is really pretty dumb politically.
It doesn't matter, even if he rejects Wright's views, the question revolves around his judgement and the sort of people he's comfortable surrounding himself with.
If I accept everything Obama said yesterday, I still have to consider the fact that until Wright attacked him personally, Obama was perfectly comfortable with the relationship. He had the sense to keep it out of public view, but in his "famous" race speech, he specifically refused to condemn Wright. Add to this Bill Ayers, terrorist, in whose home he lauched his political career, Rezko who financed him, assorted fundraisers for palestinian terrorists, and you've got a candidate who is clearly comfortable in the midst of political radicals. It's reasonable to assume they'd surround President Obama, just as they've surrounded Candidate Obama, Senator Obama, and State Senator Obama.
My first thoughts.... to the letter. This was a planned and calculated way to ‘dis-own’ the misunderstood and perpetually challenged (by the evil white people) black minister.
Sorry, I may be white, but I’m NOT STUPID!