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Obama discovers audacity
NY Daily News ^ | May 02 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 05/02/2008 9:46:09 AM PDT by knighthawk

Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia "race" speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. A New York Times columnist said it "should be required reading in classrooms across the country." College seniors and first-graders, suggested the excitable Chris Matthews.

Apparently there's been a curriculum change. On Tuesday, the good senator begged to extend and revise his previous remarks on race. Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative. Poor Geraldine Ferraro, thrice lashed by Obama in Philadelphia as the white equivalent of Wright's raving racism, is now off the hook.

These equivalences having been revealed as the cheap rhetorical tricks they always were, Obama has now decided that the man he simply could not banish because he had become part of Obama himself is, mirabile dictu, surgically excised.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; krauthammer; obama; wright

1 posted on 05/02/2008 9:46:09 AM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 05/02/2008 9:47:31 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: knighthawk
Great article by Krauthammer!!!

I guess if Obama is true to his words (remember, according to Obama "WORDS DO MATTER"),

he will now have to disown not only his grandmother,

but also his BLACK RACE!!!

3 posted on 05/02/2008 9:48:15 AM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: stockstrader

He threw his grandmother under under the bus,but sent his crazy uncle to sit in the back!


4 posted on 05/02/2008 9:51:53 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: knighthawk

If I had a choice of speeches that first graders and college students would be made to read, I’d pick Krauthammer over Obama, however many tingles Chrissy feels in his leg.


5 posted on 05/02/2008 9:52:46 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Dr. Ursus
lol - When it comes to "AUDACITY",,,

Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) is SECOND TO NONE!

P.S. He also scores incredibly high on the elitist, arrogant, cocky, and condescending scales too!

6 posted on 05/02/2008 9:53:50 AM PDT by stockstrader (CHANGE--a euphemism for further dividing our country along racial, social and economic lines)
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To: knighthawk

That was a serious bitch-slap by Krauthammer


7 posted on 05/02/2008 9:54:30 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: knighthawk

Nice one by Krauthammer!
Thank you for posting it, knighthawk!

Did you read the comments?
It’s amazing how some people seem to think he’s the second coming!


8 posted on 05/02/2008 8:58:43 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Operation Chaos has resumed...)
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To: dixiechick2000

Well he is a great writer. He adds humor to clear facts, very nice to read.


9 posted on 05/03/2008 9:36:46 AM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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