Tue 18 Mar 2008
I just read the text of Barack Obama’s race speech, and I can sum it up very simply. Everyone, black, white, and otherwise, is angry, everyone’s a racist, and the answer is socialism.
More later about that later.
Also, I am anticipating the delayed audio feed of this morning’s Supreme Court oral arguments about the D.C. Gun ban case, D.C. v. Heller, scheduled to begin in about 30 minutes.
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March 18th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Senator Obama’s speech was enlightening not for his remarks on the ‘original sin’ of slavery, or how he would throw 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.
When discussing slavery, my eyes glaze over. I never owned a slave. I never met a slave. I did have two relatives fight to free them and reconstruct the South into the Union.
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.
Speaking of that rhetoric, Mr. Obama states:
“But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.”
He seems to be saying people that are perpetually outraged must have a valid reason and it is up to me to figure it out why and do something about it.
In Oregon and Berkeley Code Pink is outraged over the military. In Seattle anarchists were outraged over the G-7. Al Gore and his minions are outraged over the Kyoto Accords and Glowbull Worming. Islam is outraged over cartoons. Hugo Chavez is so outraged he called our President ‘The Devil’. Last summer illegal aliens were so outraged that they took to the streets in protest.
The outrageous remarks don’t stop there. There are people that believe 9/11 was an inside job. And the war was for oil.
I, for one, am outraged that Barak 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 told.
For all you outraged people: I’m sorry, but I don’t feel sorry for you.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I thought this speech was supposed to explain Barack Obama’s relationship to Jeremiah Wright and what he was going to do about it. His explanation about the relationship was rather weak. Obama met Wright a long time ago and that Wright showed him the Christian faith and how to love one another. But Obama also said he knew Wright was a “fierce critic of American” policy and that Wright made remarks that were controversial as well. But last week, I think on Friday, Obama dumbed up during an interview (Fox news I think) and said he was unaware of the controversial remarks made by Wright.
While Obama admitted Wright’s statements were divisive, he then goes off to say there are other problems that are more important, such as health care or the terrorist threat (and I thought the war on terror was a bumper sticker courtesy of Edwards) or climate change. It’s a nice way of pushing Wright’s comments to the background.
But ultimately Obama is running for president based on his judgment, after all his resume is rather thin. I guess we could look at his leadership abilities, such as voting present over one hundred times.
But in the end he didn’t disown Wright or the church. What are we supposed to make of that considering that he will most likely continue to contribute thousands of dollars to the church? In this speech he was giving cover to Wright and the church.
One comment that kind of frosted me was Obama’s assertion that “Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan coalition”. What Obama, and so many democrats, do not understand is that we were tired of ineffective foreign policy that led to the takeover of the embassy in Iran and a domestic policy that said we better get used to being in a state of malaise.
In short I think Obama is nothing but a big phony, right there in the John Edwards tradition.