I always found it interesting, if not surprising, that the mainstream media, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dem-Cong tried to anoint Senator Barack Obama (Socialist-IL) as the candidate who could transcend race and even politics. Given the rampant skepticism with which I view most any politician, I certainly wouldn't mind listening to someone who could actually do that (assuming such a person exists), but it isn't this guy. Since the whole scandal regarding his pastor and spiritual advisor, Reverend Jeremiah "G-d Damn America" Wright broke, perhaps the most surprising thing about all this is that the mainstream media is actually reporting it. First, Obama tried to say he didn't know about such statements and hadn't heard anything like those statements, then he had heard those statements and didn't agree with some of them, and finally, in his widely trumpeted speech on race, he defended his pastor, rationalized and equivocated, and closed by throwing his white grandmother who raised him under the bus WHILE accusing all white people of racism.
It may not be enough for the Hildebeast to overtake him in the polls or keep him from the nomination, but I can guarantee that those statements, along with his wife's comments that America is a mean country, will not endear Obama to the average voter. It will make for an interesting general election, and if anyone but Mr. Civilized (read: politically spineless), John McCain, were running against him, we could be looking at quite an opportunity to run away with the election even though it's six months away. As it stands, Obama will likely edge out Hillary for the Dem-Cong nomination, the MSM and the other Dem-Cong enablers will rally around him, McCain will squander this golden opportunity, and we will be in for another razor-thin margin of victory in Election 2008. Here's a linkfest, courtesy of Newsmax (here, here, and here), GOPUSA (here, here, and here), and Emperor Misha (here, here, and here), along with some money quotes below. Obama is not the candidate who transcends race, he is the candidate of race...and while he may not be the second coming of Jesse Jackson as Bill Clinton suggested, he has no qualms about using the same, tired old race-baiting demagoguery and ethnic warfare that has been a staple of the Dem-Cong for the last 40-50 years, so in my book, he's a part of the same sorry lot.
Newsmax
Ron Kessler:
"When we hire anyone for a job, we look at their record. Barack Obama’s record is now clear for all to see. For two decades, Obama has been attending a church where paranoid hatred of America is preached on a regular basis. For two decades, the senator has counted as his minister, friend and adviser a man who says that America created the AIDS virus to kill blacks, puts blacks in prison rather than killing them off, and deserved to be attacked on 9/11 because of its racism."
“If your spiritual advisor makes outrageous statements, it’s incumbent on you as a leader to denounce those statements,” says Brad Blakeman, a former Bush White House aide who heads the conservative Freedom’s Watch. “Silence is an admission that you agree with what your spiritual advisor pronounces.”
Michael Reagan
"Try as he might, Barack Obama cannot claim the innocence of a lamb in his long years of worshipful association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. He was either fully aware of the seething racial hatred that motivated Wright, or something of a blithering idiot who can’t spot a racist hater when he spends years genuflecting at his feet.
Barack Obama is not an idiot. He is a brilliant orator who exudes charm and arouses near-worship from his host of giddy, hypnotized supporters. He is also a committed socialist and a talented salesman for his brand of Marxist snake oil.
Beware of camels bearing gifts, and politicians promising utopia."
GOPUSA
Doug Patton:
"We are judged not just by our words, but by the company we keep. The litmus test should not be whether or not everyone a candidate knows is ideal. That is an impossible standard. The true measure of a man is in his ability to choose friends with which he can be proud to stand shoulder to shoulder, not those about whom he must equivocate and for whom he must apologize."
Thomas Sowell:
"There was no way that he didn't know about Jeremiah Wright's anti-American and racist diatribes from the pulpit.
Someone once said that a con man's job is not to convince skeptics but to enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe. Accordingly, Obama's Philadelphia speech -- a theatrical masterpiece -- will probably reassure most Democrats and some other Obama supporters. They will undoubtedly say that we should now "move on," even though many Democrats have still not yet moved on from George W. Bush's 2000 election victory. Like the Soviet show trials during their 1930s purges, Obama's speech was not supposed to convince critics but to reassure supporters and fellow-travelers, in order to keep the "useful idiots" useful."
Michelle Malkin:
"Barack Obama -- the self-anointed soul-fixing, nation-healing political Messiah -- has lost his glow. That is the takeaway from the beleaguered Democratic presidential candidate's "major" speech in Philadelphia yesterday.
For all of his supposedly unique and transcendent understanding of race in America, Obama's talk amounted to the same old, same old. The Glowbama mystique has gone the way of the Emperor's clothes. Instead of accountability, we got excuses. Instead of disavowal of demagoguery, we got whacked with the moral equivalence card. Instead of rejecting the Blame America mantra of left-wing black nationalism, we got more Blame Whitey. Same old, same old. ...
Even as he denied that he was justifying and excusing Wright's demagoguery, Obama was doing just that by invoking slavery, Jim Crow, segregated schools, violence in the inner city and, yes, denial of access to FHA mortgages, to explain how we get to Wright spewing "G-d Damn America!" on Sunday morning."
Emperor Misha
"Not convinced? They’ve been members of this church for over 20 years and contributed $22,500 to in 2006. We can only conclude that the views of this alleged church and pastor agree with their own personal ones. Uncle Jeremiah is simply put, an anti-semitic, segregationist, race-baiting, America-hating bastard. ...
Attempting to down-play the bigoted bastard as representative of other influential black pastors isn’t answering the question. Social Gospel? I suppose that’s the anti-semitic portions of your ideology Jerkemiah. It’s pretty obvious now that we’ve had a peek into the ’spiritual’ life of the Husseinasiah, of his real feelings."
"Hopey McChangitude is just concerned about the pore and oppressed masses, bringing joyous tidings to them in the form of greenbacks freshly stolen from you and me. It’s called “politics” and “buying the votes that brung you."
"Senator Obama’s speech was enlightening, not for his remarks on the ‘original sin’ of slavery, nor how he threw his own grandmother under the bus. What is truly the gist of his remarks is how people that are outraged must be outraged for a reason.
Injecting race into the remarks of Jeremiah Wright is the obvious thing to do, but I don’t care one wit about race. Nor does Barak Obama; except to use the discussion to parry the criticism. The real problem with the Reverend’s comments is the outrageous rhetoric. ...
He seems to be saying that people who are perpetually outraged must have a valid reason and it is up to me to figure it out why and do something about it. ...
I, for one, am outraged that Barack Obama accepts this outrage as “natural“. This is not how civilized people interact. People like this “Reverend” need to be shoved off to the fringe and not be taken seriously. Senator Obama has not marginalized him in 20+ years— he must believe in the way the message is spoken.
For all you outraged people: I’m sorry, but I don’t feel sorry for you."
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