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| Mark Steyn: "If he can wriggle out of this tonight, he's some kind of genius." |
| 2008-03-18 |
| If, as some folks are arguing, hanging with Uncle Jeremiah is simply the price of doing politics in black Chicago, that makes the Senator not the change you can believe in but just the same-old-same-old. And at least a sliver of the electorate will find it hard to accept that even the political realities of Illinois require a man to raise his daughters in a church led by a vulgar kook who makes humping motions from the pulpit when he discusses Bill and Monica. Jeremiah Wright is not most Americans' idea of a pastor, and the longer he's in the spotlight the more he distances Obama from the electorate. Accepting (as everyone assures us) that the candidate himself is not an Afrocentric liberation theologist who believes every crackpot conspiracy of the last 70 years, every other explanation as to why Barack Obama spent two decades in the company of a profane race-baiter leaves the Senator looking either weak or weird. If he can wriggle out of this tonight, he's some kind of genius. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 What does Sullivan know? He hates Christianists. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2008-03-18 22:31 |
| #6 nice job Andrew. A Christianist Bukakke for Race...only too willing |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-03-18 19:41 |
| #5 Yup. What the Bama did was to win back those who had a brief insight but would prefer to sway with emotion instead. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-18 19:29 |
| #4 Well Andrew Sullivan now loves Obama even more than before, "...(from his Atlantic Monthly blog) this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history. And it was a reflection of faith - deep, hopeful, transcending faith in the promises of the Gospels. And it was about America - its unique promise, its historic purpose, and our duty to take up the burden to perfect this union - today, in our time, in our way. I have never felt more convinced that this man's candidacy - not this man, his candidacy - and what he can bring us to achieve - is an historic opportunity. This was a testing; and he did not merely pass it by uttering safe bromides. He addressed the intimate, painful love he has for an imperfect and sometimes embittered man. And how that love enables him to see that man's faults and pain as well as his promise. This is what my faith is about. It is what the Gospels are about. This is a candidate who does not merely speak as a Christian. He acts like a Christian..." |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-03-18 14:23 |
| #3 "and the longer he's in the spotlight the more he distances Obama from the electorate." Saw a comment on another board yesterday that the pastor has been shipped out of the country -- possibly to Africa. This, along with Obama scrubbing his website of any mention of his "uncle" leads me to believe he is hoping...see no evil, hear no evil. Obama is no genius. He's simply a coward. |
| Posted by: ClemScheck 2008-03-18 09:47 |
| #2 The libs are looking for cover, not a resolution. All they want is enough cover for indulgences not true repentance. Remember, for party faithful, it's about how you feel, not about truth. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-18 09:36 |
| #1 Never underestimate the power of a Lib to obfuscate forests for trees for toothpicks. You see, it's all about context! /snark-off/ |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2008-03-18 08:26 |