We're Not in Philly Anymore - Jeremiah Wright is now disowned, and Barack Obama is forever...

National Review Online ^ | May 02, 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

[neverdem]

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May 02, 2008, 0:00 a.m.

We're Not in Philly Anymore
Jeremiah Wright is now disowned, and Barack Obama is forever discredited.

By Charles Krauthammer

“I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother.”

— Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18

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...

[Tribune7]

Dang, he’s going to throw everybody under the bus LOL

[Libloather]

Wait a second. Whatever happened to the Obomber speech that topped MLK’s?

[weegee]

Comrade, you will go to re-education center gulag to get the new history. Stalinists demand it.

[mamelukesabre]

Yeah, who’s next? His wife?

[Ilya Mourometz]

As usual, Krauthammer is right on the money. This article should be “required reading” in all Obamabot nurseries (e.g., MSNBC).

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: The haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, was on DNCTV yesterday. The info babe anchorette Alex Witt talked to Senator Kerry, who served in Vietnam. And she said, "A 20-year relationship, Reverend Wright married him, he was the one who baptized -- godparent, in essence, to his two daughters. How personally painful is this for Barack Obama?"

KERRY: Well, Alex, could I just say something to you? Obviously, it's painful, and he said it. But you know something? You folks need to let go of this. Television needs to stop dwelling on something that is in the past. I think you guys have gotta focus on the things that really matter to the American electorate.

RUSH: Like...?

KERRY: I think the other thing is just worn out, old history now. This guy had his narcissistic moment, and it's finished.

RUSH: It's not over yet, Senator Kerry. We haven't heard the last of the narcissist Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I think it takes a narcissist to know one. This is rich, Senator Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, calling Jeremiah Wright a narcissist. Mike, we gotta go back, because he's just given me an example. I gotta find Michelle (My Belle) Obama. Yes, audio sound bite number nine, before we get back in order. Michelle (My Belle) Obama was on the Today Show today, along with her husband, Barack, who, in case some of you forgot, is running for president. Meredith Vieira said, "Michelle, do you personally feel that the reverend betrayed your husband?"

MICHELLE OBAMA: You know what I think, Meredith? We gotta move forward. You know, this conversation doesn't help my kids. You know, it doesn't help kids out there who are looking for us to make decisions and choices about how we're going to better fund education.

RUSH: Oh, come on. You think the kids are worried about how you're going to fund education? All they want is to be able to play at recess. They can't even play at recess anymore. In fact, I saw there's a story, I didn't print it out, but there's a story, school district somewhere is looking to hire somebody, pay 'em $46,000 a year to work one hour a day managing play, permissible play during recess at some grade school. But you can't play dodgeball, you can't play tag, you can't do anything. Anyway, this is the old Clinton line. Bob Dole really reamed him in a debate, and Clinton said, "No attack ever fed a hungry child," and here's Michelle (My Belle) Obama, "Well, that's not doing anything about kids," and so forth. "Can't we move on to the future?" This is pathetic. You people in the Obama campaign are disappointing me. For example, where are the Obama spokespeople? You in the Obama campaign, I know you're worried the next shoe to drop is going to be Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn. Why not put them to work? Have them go out and talk about their good friend Susan Rosenberg? Does the name ring a bell, folks?

Do you people in the Obama campaign even know who Susan Rosenberg is? She was a terrorist in the Weather Underground, and Bill Clinton pardoned her on his last day in office, out from under a 58-year sentence for terrorist bombings. So, yeah, you think you're waiting for the next shoe to drop on Bill Ayers, where is the Obama campaign out there talking about Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary, pardoning a Weather Underground terrorist. And, by the way, there's another name, Linda Evans. Linda Evans, another Weather Underground terrorist that Clinton pardoned on his last day in office, out from under her 40-year sentence for terrorist bombings. Who knows Rosenberg and Evans better than Ayers and Dohrn? Come on, Obama, you got Ayers and Dohrn out there. Go out and get them talking about the associations with the Weather Underground that the Clintons have. This campaign is really letting me down. It's disappointing me. Frankly, Obama, I'm getting tired of having to waste precious broadcast time here on the EIB Network telling you how to straighten this out. You have people out there speaking for you like John Kerry?

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Dick Durbin sort of like loses his cool lecturing Andrea Mitchell. She played this sound bite for Durbin. This sound bite is Obama right after his "courageous" press conference on Jeremiah Wright going right back to his old line of blowing off the Wright story. So this is a sound bite from Tuesday night, Senator Obama in Hickory, North Carolina, after the big press conference on Jeremiah Wright.

OBAMA: They're talking about, uhh, W-w-what -- what? W-who is he? Do we know his values?" and, "He's not wearing a flag pin right now," and, you know, "His former pastor said some crazy stuff."

RUSH: Okay. So she plays Durbin that sound bite, and then she says, "Isn't he trying to trivialize an issue that only a couple hours earlier said was really very important and needed to be acknowledged?" (cont.)

Obama Campaign Comes Apart

[msnpatriot]

It’s time to eliminate the Clintons from the equation, and get on to the issues. Everything else is ‘nonsense’!

[weegee]

With the Clintons, we CAN tackle the issues.

With Obama, it’ll all be about race baiting the public.

Both candidates are Marxists. That term (or Socialist) is not spoken in the MSM. Mormonism is supposed to be more controversial than Islam and Marxism. Okaaaaaaayyy.

When do the Conservatives get to ask questions at a Democrat debate?

[smalltownslick]

“Yeah, who’s next? His wife?”

I wonder if he would have the nerve for that. Or if she would throw HIM under the bus. That’s more likely.

[msnpatriot]

I respect your opinion, just have different views.

The established connections that McCain & Clinton have will be harder to deal with, Obama has to create them if he's elected, and will be more effectively criticized.

It's obvious to many the govt elites and heads of both parties are poised to force and make permanent a massive invasion across our borders, grant more visitation stays from foreign countries, increase entitlements to illegals, and keep the borders open.

McCain & Hillary are the ones who will force this on us, thats the fix. They will do nothing about gas prices, high taxes, and concerns of the ppl.

If Obama is elected his benefit will be that he sends a message that it's time for younger people to get involved in politics, and would unify the conservative base again like never before.

This is why the mainstream media is starting to turn on Obama. His becoming elected destroys age old ties of control over the people.

And if Obama runs against McCain the mainstream media will turn against Obama for this reason. Obama is a replay of the problems JFK created for the govt once he got in office.

This time they intend to stop him before he gets there!

***With the Clintons, we CAN tackle the issues.

With Obama, it’ll all be about race baiting the public.

Both candidates are Marxists. That term (or Socialist) is not spoken in the MSM. Mormonism is supposed to be more controversial than Islam and Marxism. Okaaaaaaayyy.

When do the Conservatives get to ask questions at a Democrat debate?***

[Gator113]

Krauthammer is spot on.

Now if only those idiot dems could comprehend his words.

[OeOeO]

[Cobra64]

When do the Conservatives get to ask questions at a Democrat debate?

If you can find one with a spine, let us know.

[steel_resolve]

I haven’t read such a devestating indictment of an individual since “Europe thy name is Cowardice” (forget by who) - Krauthammer has NEVER been better. A complete devestation of that fraud Obama. Complete and utter. Bravo Mr. Krauthammer.

[Hamilcar_Barca]

Interesting article, the old Soviet Union used to do this. You’re in one day and on the list of required reading. The next day you’re a counter revolutionary and on your way to execution or the Gulag and you’re works are banned.

[keats5]

From the article:

“Obama decided to cut off Wright not because Wright’s words or character or views had suddenly changed. The only thing that changed was the venue in which Wright chose to display them — live on national TV at the National Press Club...”

I love that. Obama keeps forgetting that he, and his pastor, now live in a fishbowl, and he needs to convince the people he hates to vote for him.

What a conundrum.

[no dems]

I LOVE CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER ! ! !

[Intolerant in NJ]

“The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons ...for me as surprising and scary as Wright's anger was the anger and acclaim for Wright's ranting by his audience. The reason for such support became clear a few nights ago when Glenn Beck played a three minute section of one of Wright's "sermons" - the one about AIDS - to put it in context. It was a three minute recitation of the supposed lies told by our government, including that we knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened and deliberately killed native Americans, punctuated periodically by Wright shouting "The govenment lied" and urging the audience to repeat the phrase with him - "Give me 'the government lied'". It was blatant indoctrination and brain washing, and clearly what Rev Wright puts out is thought control, not sermons.......

[AnotherUnixGeek]

LOL - Krauthammer tears Obama a new one.

[no dems]

It’s time to eliminate the Clintons from the equation, and get on to the issues. Everything else is ‘nonsense’!

Aw, c'mon; let us have some fun. (See my tagline.)

[Interesting Times]

Brilliant and lacerating.

[TheThinker]

The thing is that Obama looks down on the rural working class everywhere (rednecks) because they cling to guns, God and bitterness (xenophobia).

[TheThinker]

They say that if Obama isn’t the nominee, there will be widespread defections from the Dim party. But where are they going to run to? I just don’t believe it.

[LucyT]

[Stentor]

get on to the issues

The main issue is that the entire federal government needs to keep its nose out of the peoples business as much as possible. Since none of the three running will do that, it boils down to which one of the candidates is less of a scummy rat.

[ApplegateRanch]

You can only fit so many bodies under the bus before it high-centers & can't go anywhere.

[Lancey Howard]

What a great column!
BUMP!

[neverdem]

They say that if Obama isn’t the nominee, there will be widespread defections from the Dim party. But where are they going to run to? I just don’t believe it.

Let them go to the Working Families Party. They can take over urban governments and wreck them completely. We can pick up the last of the blue and yellow dogs. I want to see that disloyal party destroyed.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the transcript & link.

[neverdem]

LOL!

[neverdem]

Somebody tell McRINO. Global warming is cooked.

Chill Out on Climate Hysteria - The Earth is currently cooling.

A tale of two thermometers

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[StAnDeliver]

"Dang, he’s going to throw everybody under the bus LOL"

It's a biiiig bus...

[StAnDeliver]

"They say that if Obama isn’t the nominee, there will be widespread defections from the Dim party. But where are they going to run to? I just don’t believe it."

They've been known to sit on their hands a time or two. Check Kerry's numbers.

[SupplySider]

...on to the issues

Obama's positions on the issues are very easily summarized. He wants to implement every failed domestic and foreign policy of Jimmy Carter.

[Mark was here]

The Rev. Wright attitude was on display when blacks cheered the verdict in the O. J. case.

Has anyone come across B.O. himself cheering the verdict after it came out?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Miss Didi]

Thanks for the thread...Dr. K. is brilliant as usual.

[Miss Didi]

Thanks for the thread...Dr. K. is brilliant as usual.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[SunkenCiv]

See, Fred? How could the Demwits *not* nominate Obama?

During the 1984 campaign, the occasionally humorous Mark Russell ( http://www.markrussell.net/ ) said, regarding Ferraro’s VP nomination, “that’ll hold ‘em four more years.”

Obama has been tapped to play 1972’s George McGovern (or, if you will, Robert Redford’s character in “The Candidate”, if he happens to win in November).

Come to think of it, a party-line liberal college buddy said (of Mondale after the 1984 defeat) that the reason for his nomination was to make way for a new generation (that turned out well, eh? Clinton for eight years). Some say that’s the reason for Dole’s nomination in 1996 — to move him off into retirement.

Some probably say that of McCain in 2008...

[Fred Nerks]

See, Fred? How could the Demwits *not* nominate Obama?

I think I'm out of lightbulbs.

[GOPJ]

As usual, Krauthammer is right on the money.

That does seem to happen a lot...