Today Senator Obama went on a Philadelphia radio station to explain that Grandma is “not a racist” after he threw her under the bus in yesterday's speech. Then he said she is just a “typical white person”. Now I do not believe in any way that Senator Obama meant anything by that. But there is such a double standard when it comes to even the most unintentioned racial comments. Barack Obama actually had the audacity to equate Geraldine Ferraro's comments that some will vote for Senator Obama because he is black with the venemous hate spewing forth from Reverend Wright.
What if John McCain said something about a “typical black person”? He would be called out as racially insensitive by the Jackson/Sharpton/Wright wing of the black community. Trent Lott was pressured into giving up his post of Senate majority leader because he made a joke about Strom Thurmond that was ill considered and branded racist by some. Obama called for Senator Lott's resignation for being so insensitive. By the way, Obama also called for Don Imus to be fired for his regrettable comment.
It seems clear that Obama joined this church for political reasons to boost his credentials in the black community. It helped him get elected to the Illinois legislature, where my research shows that his primary accomplishment was voting “present” 130 times. If Obama really is the candidate that wants to transcend race then he should have objected many years ago not just to the hate speech, but to the indoctrination of the congregation with offensive falsehoods like the government killing the black population with HIV.
Listening to Reverend Wright sounds a lot like the radical Islamic mosques and television programs that "train" children from the earliest age that the United States is the "great Satan" and that the Jewish people are sub-human animals.
I think the speech yesterday helped calm his supporters. But it did not help with people on the fence. For the working blue collar class voters with whom Hillary has already done well, the Reverend Wright debacle will seal this segment for the Clintons in the remaining primaries. She is going to win huge in Pennsylvania.
The fact that Obama only sought to disavow and spin Reverend Wright and black liberation theology after getting "caught" makes him just another hypocritical politician who says what he needs to when he needs to win. He is certainly smart enough to have known better. Barack Obama was editor of the law review while at Harvard Law School.
What are the choices then for loyal Democrats? Barack Obama, who proclaimed to be the candidate of change who transcended race? Barack Obama who claimed to be the candidate that would lead not just the red states or the blue states but the United States? Instead he simply looks like a typical politician with unoriginal leftist policies that pander to big labor and the other special interests to which the Democratic Party is their patron. Plus, he has he has been unable to win the "big" states that are mandatory to winning a general election.
The other choice is Hillary Clinton. Do Democrats really want to have another round with the Clintons? The Clintons thrive on drama, careening from one self-induced crisis to another. Plus, her just released schedule while in the White House shows that she played the typical ceremonial role of a first lady. She is no more experienced to be President than Laura Bush - and Obama is even less experienced than that!
A while back I had pretty much given up hope of the GOP retaining the White House. But I am more optimistic than I have been in a long time. Hillary, Obama or McCain? I think a lot of voters in a general election will think McCain is a pretty good choice. He certainly is the only candidate of unblemished integrity.
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