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2008-05-01 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by ryuge 2008-05-01 06:12|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 This week we learned the limit of a dream in American politics. At Barack Obama's darkest hour, not one prominent ally came forward to support him. Everyone abandoned Everyman.

No prominent black clergyman came forth to make even the simple point that Jeremiah Wright's notion of the "black church" is but one point on a spectrum of faith. Rev. Wright, now written off as a virtual nut case, got more support from black clergymen than did Obama.

Barack Obama was bleeding by Monday and needed cover. Where, when he could have used them, were Obama's oh-so-famous endorsers: Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Oprah, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, Tom Daschle, Amy Klobuchar, Claire McCaskill, Jay Rockefeller, John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Roger Wilkins, Eric Holder, Robert Reich, Ted Sorenson, Alice Walker, David Wilhelm, Cornel West, Clifford Alexander, Donald McHenry, Patricia Wald, Newton Minow?

Where were all the big-city mayors who went over to the Obama camp: Chicago's Richard Daley, Cleveland's Frank Jackson, Atlanta's Shirley Franklin, Washington's Adrian Fenty, Newark's Cory Booker, Baltimore's Sheila Dixon?

It isn't hard for big names to get on talk TV to make a point. Any major op-ed page would have stopped the presses to print a statement of support from Ted Kennedy or such for the senator. None appeared. Call it profiles in gopher-holing.

How do you say "Buck-buck-braaaawk!" in Democrat?

Posted by Mike 2008-05-01 06:52|| 2008-05-01 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Quite telling indeed. I suspect had OB defended Reverend Wright's comments, even moderately, his supporters sould have immediately joined him as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-01 07:53|| 2008-05-01 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem of goofy, afrocentric nonsense in some black churches is one that most people (the prominent supporters of Obama included) would rather pretend doesn't exist.

Its kind of like the problem of Islamic 'kill the infidel' talk. Its existence is uncomfortable.

Posted by mhw 2008-05-01 08:16|| 2008-05-01 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of whites flock to another black church [it has to do with principles].

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-01 09:16|| 2008-05-01 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The church that Procopius writes of is a real church, not a fake one.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-05-01 15:10|| 2008-05-01 15:10|| Front Page Top

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