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May 1, 2008

On 'Wright's Wrong' And Obama's Response

Topics: Political News and commentaries

As Scott at Powerline points out, at the time Barack Obama gave his "More Perfect Union" speech in Philadelphia on March 18 to tamp down the furor caused by the release of videos excerpts of his pastor's sermons, Obama himself had already proclaimed the importance of his pastor to his life over the past twenty years in books and interviews. Both circumstantial and direct evidence demonstrated Obama's knowledge of Reverend Wright's sick and indefensible views.

Yet, as Scott also notes, rather than forthrightly condemn them in his Philadelphia speech, Obama chose to give the appearance of transcending them.

[...] Obama reviewed American history going back to the founding, provided autobiographical reflections, and presented himself as the man come to redeem racial relations in the United States. Obama denied familiarity with the statements whose revelation gave rise to his speech and suggested that they unfairly represented the man.

[...] In Obama's eyes, the most serious wrongdoing in Wright's statements is their disrespect of Obama. From the revered father figure who could not be disowned, Wright has become the the father from whom separation must be achieved in favor of his own identity, or the boorish relative who cannot be tolerated. The adolescent grandiosity and adolescent pettiness of Obama's remarks are perhaps the most shocking revelations of this entire episode.

Continue reading Scott's spot-on perspective: Wright's Wrong.

What we are seeing (except of course the blindly naive Obamaphites) is that Obama is far less about hope and change and much more about inexperience and naivite. Yet that's not the biggest problem with Obama; the problem is his character, judgment, and truthfulness. The most damaging thing Rev. Jeremiah Wright said at the National Press Club had nothing to do with God damning America, or AIDS, or chickens coming home to roost. It had to do with whether Barack Obama is telling the American people the truth about himself and whether his judgment can be trusted. One can only surmise, based on what we've seen so far, is that Obama is not truthful and exercises poor judgment - until he's caught red-handed - and then attempts to stick his head higher in the air and pontificate smoozles on the American public.

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Posted by Richard at May 1, 2008 3:02 PM

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