So yesterday I went for a walk, and then I watched a little TV, and when I looked at the web again I discovered, to my disgust, that Obama apparently repudiated Wright some more. I can't pretend I'm happy with the way he has been handling this. Basically, he accepted the right-wing's characterization instead of fighting it and taking the opportunity to make a real show of values. Now that right-wing characterization has solified into "fact", And it doesn't work. People who have aided and abetted the murder of over a million Iraqis and the destruction of our economy and an American city think they are in a position to condemn Jeremiah Wright. What's that about? How do you let them get away with that? These are people who condemn America all the time, and they think Jeremiah Wright went too far with a few strong (and basically true) words? Hey, he's not the guy who remorselessly killed hundreds of thousands of Afghanis and Iraqis (and over 4,000 US troops) for no good reason. He's not the guy who shrugged off the danger to New Orleans and then made matters worse as the city was washed away. He's not the guy whose economic policies are breaking the backbone of America's middle class. He's not the guy who ignored the warnings of a coming real terrorist attack on America that blasted a big hole into the New York skyline. Nor is he the guy who has been shredding our Constitution and lawlessly torturing people. What the Republicans have been doing is anti-American and indefensibly immoral, and the media has helped, and they think Wright needs to be condemned? But apparently, Obama does, too. I guess we just don't kill enough ragheads and fags. Go ahead, tell me how Arthur Silber is wrong
People who have aided and abetted the murder of over a million Iraqis and the destruction of our economy and an American city think they are in a position to condemn Jeremiah Wright. What's that about? How do you let them get away with that? These are people who condemn America all the time, and they think Jeremiah Wright went too far with a few strong (and basically true) words?
Hey, he's not the guy who remorselessly killed hundreds of thousands of Afghanis and Iraqis (and over 4,000 US troops) for no good reason. He's not the guy who shrugged off the danger to New Orleans and then made matters worse as the city was washed away. He's not the guy whose economic policies are breaking the backbone of America's middle class. He's not the guy who ignored the warnings of a coming real terrorist attack on America that blasted a big hole into the New York skyline. Nor is he the guy who has been shredding our Constitution and lawlessly torturing people.
What the Republicans have been doing is anti-American and indefensibly immoral, and the media has helped, and they think Wright needs to be condemned? But apparently, Obama does, too. I guess we just don't kill enough ragheads and fags. Go ahead, tell me how Arthur Silber is wrong
First part correct, second part - huh? Yeah, Aids is a US government conspiracy, Farrakhan is one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth and twenty first century... the guy's a nut.
What the hell is Obama supposed to do, pretend the double standard on wacko relatively marginal lefties vs. mainstream influential wacko righties doesn't exist? And should one approve of left wing radical nationalist idiocy just because its right wing variant is so accepted?
I think Obama was in a heads-they-win, tails-you-lose situation. Nor do I necessarily agree with Arthur's suggestion that Obama's condemnation reveals him to be entirely unprincipled. He's a politician for chrissakes, sometimes you have to kiss some damn ugly babies to get where you're going.
But I think that comment was less about Obama than the partizan nature of the trad med right-wing sycophancy. It isn't even remotely balanced, McCain gets a pass on the stuff Obama (and Clinton) get pasted over. McCain will be the guy you can have a beer with, Obama will be in fawn. keep to the Fen Causeway
Wright did kind of coldcock Obama.
But, personally, my inner conspiracy theorist is still wondering if the whole thing wasn't planned by Wright and Team O as a means to killing the issue once and for all (going along with TBG's "Obama as Uber-Patriot" theme). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
my inner conspiracy theorist is still wondering if the whole thing wasn't planned by Wright and Team O as a means to killing the issue once and for all
It occured to me too. But I think Wright has been playing the eyes-rolling scary guy far too madly for it to be a ploy. keep to the Fen Causeway
If it was a ploy, it seems to have worked, and it makes them geniuses for manufacturing such an excellent "Sista Souljah" moment. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
McCain's getting hurt by that ad in North Carolina, too. It's getting played as GOP race-baiting. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
