Barack Obama Just Sat There
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While Reverend Jeremiah Wright was preaching that the US got what it deserved on 9/11
for its "terrorism" around the world, Barack Obama just sat there.
While Jeremiah Wright preached that the government of which Barack Obama was official representative and would be chief executive created AIDS to kill black people, Barack Obama just sat there.
While Jeremiah Wright lauded and praised antisemite Louis Farrakan, Barack Obama just sat there.
While Oprah Winfrey left Trinity United Christian Church because of Jeremiah Wright's incendiary remarks, Barack Obama just sat there.
What does all this mean, and why should we not be tired of talking about it? I'll tell you.
Obama claimed later never to have heard all of this stuff. He affirmed his tolerance for Reverend Wright's preaching as much as for his own grandmother's racial nervousness.
And yet the videos are on the Web, in full context, showing the snippets to be not isolated remarks, but the central point of the sermons.
And still, he just sat there.
He cannot explain this one away. Because Oprah leaving Wright's church should have been a signal to Obama that there was something wrong with the Kool-aide. It shows that leaving the church was not a hypothetical action that only a typical white person would have taken, but a real option that Obama must have weighed and rejected.
While Winfrey was leading, Obama was not even following. The winds of Change were blowing. The evidence was clear, and the course of action outlined, political cover given by one of the most powerful and influential people in media.
Barack Obama just sat there.
w/t: Robert A. Hahn
cross-posted from the Academy
(minor edits, typo fixed)
I tell my sisters all the time that watching her is supporting and empowering all the crazies on the left no matter how much she extorts from companies and gives away in her name.
I just do not understand how folks who start out with little or nothing and work crazy hard achieve huge success then decide that the very system that allowed them to succeed is broken because it’s too hard. Never realizing that it’s the hard that makes it great.
For Oprah that was TV ratings and for Barack it was political power. That district he represented in the State Senate was the most far left in the city so having guys like Ayers and Wright on your side was good for buisness. The only thing that I cant understand about this, is why didn't the IL GOP use this aganist Obama in 04? Just another example of why the IL GOP is the worst run political operation in the country.
McCain '08
ILGOP in '04 was a defenestrated, passive, reeling mess. They had been vanquished on just about every level and that's why Barack Obama walked through the door without any concerted resistance.
The same people who supported Obama among the intelligentsia in Illinois were responsible for kneecaping the Ryan Administration over licenses for bribes and then giving a complete butt-whooping to the Illinois GOP in terms of its senatorial chances. It was a complete blowout, and almost incalculable collapse.
Barack Obama is here today because the Illinois GOP was stupid, badly run, poorly managed, impotent, ineffectual, and overmatched.
It's just that simple.
The most pathetic thing in the world was to watch George Ryan stand up at Northwestern University next to Mike Farrell and every anti-death-penalty intellectual in the State and grovel while they debated how much of his arse they should rip off and make him eat.
In the end, this collapse goes back to the Ryan administration. The Licenses for Bribes deals that caused the downfall of Governor Ryan in Illinois set the stage for the Donks to absolutely rule the playing field in Illinois. I know, because I worked for DePaul University and personally knew some of the people who were personally involved in bringing him down.
If anyone doesn't think academics is mostly political, particularly in law schools, they're CRAZY. It's the most political place in the Universe, and very pointedly so, particularly at the highest echelons.
Telling part is she was secure in her blackness he wasn’t and needed help being black. She left in the 90's because she knew Wright was way over the edge and she didn’t want to offend her mainstream (read white?) viewers and as you said he just sat there soaking up the hate.
Wow sounds very post racial to me.
Obama was abandoned both by his father and, later, with more resentment, by his mother. A stronger personality may have asserted his personhood and avoided a self-identification by race altogether, but BO succumbed to mother/white aversion (hence, he "pushed away" his white girlfriend) and sought to enhance his "blackness." The pro-black, anti-white rhetoric of TUCC reinforced this effort. No doubt, part of Michelle's attraction for him was her "us-vs-them" mentality as evidenced in her thesis.
I imagine them both quite comfortable in the pews all those years, getting regular doses of white/oppressor vs black/victim vitriol.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Orifice under his nose, even when not in a pew.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
while Wright read "My Pet Scapegoat" to the Sunday school class over and over again.
The proper adjective is either "asleep", "absent", or "enthralled".
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
I didn't get the reference, but I still thought the irony of being stunned for 20 years was funny. Just so you know I wasn't correcting, but piling on.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Oprah may have been canny about severing her ties to Wright as a matter of mainting her Chocolate Bulldozer (not my words, but they were sweet) status when it comes to maintaining talk-show dominance, but she also endorsed Barack Obama.
So how does that figure? Does endorsing the guy who does nothing but you hope will be the President because of your endorsement -- and therefore much more powerful than you -- make sense?
I mean, let's say that as a local businessman I object to carjacking and I sever my ties with people who publicly state their affection for carjacking -- but then I go and endorse for Sheriff a guy who looks the other way at carjackers? Does it compute? Or is it just my failure to agree with liberal compartmentalization and "personal truth?"