Right about Obama: The latest Jeremiah Wright episode tells us a lot about his former parishoner.

Weekly Standard ^ | 5/3/08 | Matthew Continetti

[MartinaMisc]

Last week's highly entertaining episode of the Jeremiah Wright Show didn't tell us anything new about the demagogic reverend. He stands by his sick notion that American foreign policy and jihadist terrorism are equivalent, his defense of Louis Farrakhan, and his wacky conspiracy theory that the AIDS virus was cooked up by the federal government.

But we did gain a new perspective on Wright's former parishioner, Senator Barack Obama. And it's not flattering. It took the Democratic frontrunner 20 years--and 50 days since videos surfaced of Wright's incendiary sermons--to discover that the man who helped him become a Christian, officiated at his marriage, and baptized his two daughters is a conspiracy theory-loving self-publicizer. What does that say about Obama's "judgment," on which he largely bases his claim to the presidency?

Worse, one of the main reasons for Obama's unequivocal split from Wright had nothing to do with the reverend's hateful ideology. You see, Wright had the temerity to suggest that Barack Obama is just another pol. "What I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciations of his remarks were somehow political posturing," Obama said. This only confirms Obama's reputation for being thin-skinned and self-absorbed. Go ahead and count the "I"s and "my"s in this passage from his news conference:

In some ways, what Reverend Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything that I've done during my life. It contradicts how I was raised and the setting in which I was raised. It contradicts my decisions to pursue a career of public service. It contradicts the issues that I've worked on politically. It contradicts what I've said in my books. It contradicts what I said in my convention speech in 2004. It contradicts my announcement. It contradicts everything that I've been saying on the campaign trail.

[Texas Jack]

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[gunnyg]

Could it be that old what’s-his-name was Right?

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[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?

[MNJohnnie]

What the Obamites in the dinosaur media do not seem to grasp is what Obama tells us about what kind of President he would be. For 20 years Obama choose an utter lunatic like Wright to be his spiritual adviser.

What does that tell us about who Wright would appoint to his Cabinet? To Judgeship's? to Ambassadorships? to the Federal Bureaucracy?

[iopscusa]

Without the teleprompter, BHO cannot even construct a decent sentence much less a bit of logic...10+ I’s & My’s in that short paragraph , this freak-toid sounds like a 10 year old making excuses!

[freema]

On that, yes.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Without the teleprompter, BHO cannot even construct a decent sentence much less a bit of logic...10+ I’s & My’s in that short paragraph , this freak-toid sounds like a 10 year old making excuses!

BINGO! Take his script away from him and his teleprompter and Professor Obama is a stammering inexperienced amateur liberal elitist politician ... which is exactly what he is.