THE AUDACITY OF OBAMA

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Barack Hussein Obama gave his race speech today in an attempt to deal with the storm created by 20 years’ worth of remarks made by his racist, anti-American minister, Jeremiah Wright.

Essentially, what the Obamessiah said was:

• You can’t cherry-pick items from Wright’s sermons and use it to define him.
• I cannot disown Wright any more than I can disown the black community.
• If this gets us government-run health care and gets us out of Iraq, it’s OK.
• It’s all the fault of conservative talk radio and bloggers.

Interestingly, Michelle Malkin points out that the Baltimore Sun reported that Obama uncharacteristically concluded a news conference by saying “God bless America.” This is a man who refuses to wear a simply flag pin on his lapel or place his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance or National Anthem. But now he says “God bless America.” Did he really mean it, or is it more symbolism over substance designed to make people forget about his mentor’s “God damn America” comments?

Obama said of Wright:

Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed…

Sorry, but his wave of the hand dismissal of Wright’s incendiary, racist remarks doesn’t wash. In fact, it rings rather hollow. Calling Wright a fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy doesn’t deal at all with the specific allegations that the U.S. experimented on its own people, referring to the U.S. as the “United States of AmeriKKKa” and the “United States of White America” as well as the rest of his racist rhetoric. Calling them controversial is like saying Michael Jordan was a decent basketball player.

Specifically, Senator, which of Wright’s views do you “strongly disagree” with? Once again, dismissing it with the wave of the hand like most Americans go to chuch don’t really agree with church teachings isn’t going to make this go away.

Obama continues:

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.

Of course he can. Wright is a racist, a bigot, an anti-Semite and an anti-American hatemonger. Just like the man Wright embraced, Calypso Louie. Obama certainly can disown him. Obama is choosing not to, in effect trying to split the baby in half, to use the old King Solomon reference. He needs the support of the bigoted hatemongers in the black community as well as the independents that view him as the means of change and hope and unity. Like the Hildabeast trying to play both sides of the national security question, needing the support of voters who put national security first as well as the troop-hating, anti-military moonbats that make up the base of the Democrat Party, Obama won’t be able to have this both ways.

According to pollster Scott Rasmussen, Wright is hurting Obama. Just eight percent have a favorable view of Wright, while 56 percent say they are less likely to vote for Obama because of his association with Wright. In addition, Obama’s favorable ratings dropped five points from 52 to 47 percent from Thursday, when ABC News first broadcast Wright’s hate-filled, venomous remarks. of those surveyed, 66 percent said they had seen or heard of Wright and his comments.

Meanwhile, ABC News isn’t backing off. Instead, the network posted a story in which it cites a Wright sermon in which the bigoted preacher called the U.S. a “racist superpower.”

Other sermons reviewed by ABC News, from videotapes sold by the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, reflect Rev. Wright’s repeated attacks on the U.S. government as a “racist and arrogant superpower” that does not value its black citizens.

Among the tapes ABC News reviewed, Wright stooped so low to take personal cheap shots at Tiger Woods. Wright said:

For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat, at the Masters, with his cap-blazing hips, playing on a course that discriminates against women. For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course.

Tiger Woods needs to get beat? Why? Because he’s good? Because he doesn’t play the black victim card? Because he pursues excellence and achievement instead of relying on government handouts? Why does Jeremiah Wright hate Tiger Woods? Because Woods is the proof that hatemongers and bigots like Wright are wrong (no pun intended).

Of course, whose fault is it? Not Wright’s. Not Obama’s. It’s the fault of talk radio and conservative bloggers for actually exposing Wright as the racist and bigot he is.

Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.

The Obamessiah’s solution? More divisive, class warfare rhetoric:

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze – a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many

In other words, add billions on new spending programs, raise taxes, let the government take over health care, tax the bejesus out of corporations and withdraw from Iraq immediately and everything will be all right.

Ace of Spades fisks Obama’s Clintonesque speech. More “depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is,” “I didn’t inhale,” etc. Parsing of words, diversionary tactics. In other words, same ol’, same ol’.

This is, as I understand it, the sermon delivered on Sunday, September 16, 2001. Firemen were still digging through skin-blistering ash in a futile effort to find more survivors of the 9/11 attacks. And putting their health at risk breathing heavily in air heavily tainted with asbestos and toxins.

Even if I’m wrong on the date (which I might be; I have been unable to confirm that this is in fact that sermon), is there any date upon which this would be acceptable?

Now, once again: Watch Wright’s relish — his nearly orgasmic delight — in saying “America’s chickens… have come home… to roost.” Watch this blackhearted monster dance and flutter his hands in a happy flourish as he celebrates and exults in the deaths of 3000 Americans and foreign nationals, all civilians and all innocents, as it represents a vindication of his sickening worldview and a well-deserved comeupppance for the nation he so deeply hates.

And Barack Hussein Obama says these are remarks that could be considered controversial? They were, as Ace says, vicious and vile, not controversial.

I have a feeling this isn’t going away any time soon, no matter how the Left tries to equate Wright to Bob Jones and John Hagee.

The moral equivalency card isn’t going to work here.

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