Posted on 03/15/2008 11:35:59 AM PDT by bahblahbah
The Obama Implosion
In a nutshell, Obama just doesn’t get it. The more he keeps hedging and huffing about the demagogic (“God damn America”) Wright, while simultaneously preaching about ethics, tolerance, and healing, and the more his own prior sermons are juxtaposed to Wright’s venom, so the more Obama appears an Elmer Gantry-like figure.
He obviously either doesn’t fully grasp the degree to which his intimate relationship with a peddler of hatred offends Americans; or he feels that the Wright narratives are merely a wink-and-nod part of the local Chicago African-American landscape, and thus not that big a deal; or he finds some sort of psychological fix in listening to a surrogate provide a vitriolic, vicarious payback; or he is so indebted to Wright for providing him the requisite racial fides to start his career that he simply cannot say, “I was wrong to have been a part of Rev. Wright’s church; it is divisive and at odds with what I have tried to achieve in this campaign, and I’ve resigned from it.”
I pass on the fifth option that someone like Obama really believes the Wright lunancy.
Hard to Believe
Given Obama’s past sanctimonious dismissal of the Christian right (“The so-called leaders of the Christian right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”), he now is in danger of not just playing the hypocrite, but the fool as well. Referring to Wright as a “respectable biblical scholar” et al, is laughable—given that almost everything Wright seems to assert, whether about the Roman Empire or the origins of AIDs, is buffoonery.
The notion that Obama never heard any such nonsense is, well, nonsense—given that he frequented the church for 20 years, laughed off some of the Wright hyperbole in his own memoirs, and has a wife whose invective about America as not worthy of her pride, mean, etc dovetails with his pastor’s sermons. Moreover, his own past interviews belie his most recent assertion that Wright was merely his pastor, rather than a political advisor. And we learn that during those tough years in which Michelle Obama was whining about having to budget money to pay back those government-guaranteed student loans to Harvard Law School, the Obamas were giving thousands of dollars each year to subsidize the Wright hatred. Messiahs are supposed to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—and all the time.
This is hope and change and the new transparency?
The Dean Syndrome
What we have here is a bright, eloquent, and utterly insular candidate, incredibly naïve, with terrible judgment who is absolutely clueless about America. He seems an improved model of Howard Dean—opinionated, snazzy, faddish, riding on popular insanity—and then in one fell swoop (“Yeaaahhhhhhh”) ridiculous. It may well be that the old guard Democratic elite, as nervous now at the popular Obama hysteria as they were over the flash-in-the-pan Deanomaniacs, may have to impose a buyer’s remorse “Kerry solution” and step in as super-delegates to stop the hysteria nonsense and get behind the plodding Hillary workhorse. But unlike the Dean implosion, the Obama crack-up is much later in the game.
You see, the problem is that the Obamas have had two only audiences in their lives, both narrow and, worse, fawning: one, apparently a highly politicized and often angry Chicago African-American constituency that believes in AIDs conspiracies and the pathological role of the United States, and, two, a guilt-ridden elite white audience in the Ivy League and the media who does not object to, or in fact enjoys, being told why America is the sort of awful place Rev. Wright depicts.
Harvard Square and the Chicago Hood are not necessarily America
But leave that womb? Very shortly you enter the majority world of downtown Los Angeles, Toledo, Upper Michigan, West Texas, upstate New York, the Salt Lake City suburbs, northern Florida, East Fresno, or Reno. When those driving to work in those environs hear on the radio each morning the crudity and coarseness of Rev Wright’s snippets—and that they are directed at themselves no less and have a creepy quality when listened to rather than read—they more or less explode.
If Obama keeps talking about his new politics of hope and change while contextualizing Rev. Wright’s hatred, soon in the middle of one of Obama’s inspirational speeches, someone is going to stand up and shout, “Depart, I say; and let us be done with you. In the name of God, go!”
Apparently Obama’s saving grace so far has been the protective mainstream media that is teary-eyed and lip-biting over these disclosures, and, more importantly, the dramatic news breaking around Obama’s own tawdry mess—the Wall Street earthquakes, the Fallon resignation, the dollar, gold, gas, etc—which reminds us that while we fiddle over Rev. Wright, our world seems to be burning up.
“Obama—An American Tragedy”
The tragedy is that this thoroughly unaccomplished, affirmative action Marxist can get so close to being elected Commander of Chief.
Even if he goes down in flames, the fact that a bereft of ideas, platitude-spewing racist can rise so high, speaks to the REAL problems in present-day America.
Just like Eliot Spitzer being brought down by the very thing he prosecuted others mercilessly for, Obama is the ultimate hypocrite. He preached during his prez run about racial forgiveness only to have an anti-American racist, wacko as not only a pastor but as MENTOR!!!!. Unbelievable that someone like Obama did not analyze his past associations better. Did he actually think that ordinary, patriotic Americans would take kindly to the demented ravings of his minister?
But unlike the Dean implosion, the Obama crack-up is much later in the game.
Yup - but I think the optimal time is after he gets the nomination. I wish people could keep their powder dry with respect to Obama, then let him collapse with nomination in hand.
I’ll bet Hillary wishes she had found out about this a couple of months ago. Maybe early primaires weren’t such a good idea. The Dems are going to be left with a dirty sack come election time.
This seems like an accurate description. And his attempts to defuse the controversy have come off as classic political evasion. Before this broke I saw him as utterly wrong in his political positions, but at least a sincere person. No more.
The rats and the drive-by media are in a huge mess. But it’s their own fault for worshiping rather than vetting Osamabama when they had the chance. How this plays out will be fun to watch.
Hussein ObamaSamma gave $22,500 to this Racist Church in 2006. He must have loved what he claimed not to hear.
“When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obama’s deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.”
“Wright says that blacks can’t be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.”
I don’t think it will matter. In order for Hillary to win, the super delegates are going to have to override the popular vote. That will cause a terrible backlash among the black community.
In a nutshell.
A lot of wrights sermons that I have heard also reflect on what I have heard coming from democrats over the years.. start with murtha. and our troops, durbin and our troops. Kennedy dissing our troops. Maxine waters has the same opion of aids, Harry Reid does not have much positive to say about the US either, most of the dems keeps harping how awful the US is..Some black congressman have the same views about blacks being in prison verses the population..I have heard Al Gore screaming about George Bush... and also Hillary screaming about disagreeing with this administration..We have white americans who think Geo. Bush, had an inside job on 9-11, Our politicans went to Libya, Pelosii I believe it was.. I disagree with what this man said about my country.. but a lot of the socialist congress people have the same views.. and do any thing to bring our country down..I have heard Jesse Jackson yelling as well, and he counseled Clinton when he was being impeached..Al Sharpton is another who disses the US when he gets a chance.. I think all the democrats should dis a vow the party, as they spew a lot of hate America .
Hillary knew about this a long time ago. She couldn’t alienate the black voters by bringing it out before now. In Hillaryland, desperate times call for desperate measures. She offered Obama second seat and he laughed at her. Then, she lowered the boom, effectively ruining his chances for President AND Vice President. When Hill says “now the fun part starts,” she ain’t joking.
You are correct. I thought he was a “nice guy”.
For Obama-lama-ding-dong to have this come out about his long time clergyman, when he has been touting his own “judgement”, is absolutely devastating to his candidacy. In my opinion.
Mama always said: “If you lay down with dogs...”
<”I’ll bet Hillary wishes she had found out about this a couple of months ago.”>
You bet.
She’ll never get the black vote now.
Obama is the black community’s messiah, their new religion. She will never be forgiven for bringing him down.
McPain shouldn’t even need to break a sweat in Nov.
I’ll take option (door?) number five, Monty.
He obviously either doesn’t fully grasp the degree to which his intimate relationship with a peddler of hatred offends Americans; or he feels that the Wright narratives are merely a wink-and-nod part of the local Chicago African-American landscape, and thus not that big a deal; or he finds some sort of psychological fix in listening to a surrogate provide a vitriolic, vicarious payback; or he is so indebted to Wright for providing him the requisite racial fides to start his career that he simply cannot say, “I was wrong to have been a part of Rev. Wright’s church; it is divisive and at odds with what I have tried to achieve in this campaign, and I’ve resigned from it.”
VD raises some good points.
He doesn't have a clue who Elmer Gantry was, though, but that's to be expected from him.
Actually, Jeremiah Wright is a lot closer to Sinclair Lewis's fictional Elmer Gantry than Obama is.
Good summation.
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