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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Brent Bozell :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obama's Clintonesque Speech
by Brent Bozell
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"White folks' greed runs a world in need," but Wright never disparaged whites to Obama's face? Does Chris Matthews think lying is Lincolnesque?

The press was content to let Obama explain away Wright's viciousness by suggesting his reverend was raised in a segregated world where opportunities were constricted and blacks had to scratch and claw to get ahead.

But as Morton Klein wrote in The New Republic, this passage, too, struggled with the facts. Like Klein, Wright went to Philadelphia's Central High School, an academically prestigious school that was 95 percent white, and lived in an upper-middle-class neighborhood.

The press was content to let Obama explain that the anger and bitterness of Wright's generation over their experiences with discrimination have not faded. They did not wonder: Since when does a minister of Jesus Christ preach a gospel of bitterness, vengefulness, and hatred? What kind of man of God expresses an unwillingness to forgive? Why would Obama the Uniter allow this generational bitterness to be handed on like a legacy to inner-city school children, so that they too could despise a White World of Greed? Where are the faith and the hope and the charity in that message?

Obama tried to claim that the outbreak of Wright's poison was a distraction, not a real issue, and the press obediently echoed his complaint. But Barack Obama can't be a Messiah of Unity and embrace his minister who proclaims "God Damn America" and makes crackpot allegations that the AIDS virus was invented by the government for black genocide.

Embracing Wright is not a distraction. It is a disqualification.
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Reply # 1
Date: Mar 27, 2008 - 8:15 PM EST
White Folks Greed?
"Obama told of an early sermon that preached of a world of white greed, "a world where cruise ships throw away more food than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere."

And I suppose the Arica-Centric "Pastor" Wright would blame the misery present throughout African-run Africa (ever heard of Rwanda and Zimbabwe?) is also all a result of "white Greed"
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Reply # 2
Date: Mar 27, 2008 - 5:27 PM EST
Why is Barack Obama running for Pres?
He claims that he is uniquely qualified to “bring our country together” and that despite his lack of experience and relative youth, he has demonstrated superior “judgment”.
Obama has now acknowledged Reverend Jeremiah Wright, used incendiary language that widened the racial divide. Obama says of (his) fellow congregants that (their) anger is real; it is powerful; and that not understanding its roots, serves to widen the chasm between the races.
If Obama is really the Reconciler and Chief, why didn’t he change the hearts of Rev. Wright and his flock over the past 20 years? Everyone is asking what influence the good Reverend had on the candidate, but shouldn’t we be wondering why the very people Obama knew best; still hate America, the White Man and Israel?
With regard to the issue of judgment; Obama demeans President Bush, John McCain and the Clintons claiming that they didn’t know what was going on inside Saddam’s closed police state, (10,000 miles away) meanwhile he didn’t know what was happening in the pew right next to him.
I think that pretty well puts the qualifications issue to rest.

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