It seems to be “all Obama’s Pastor, all the time” on most of the radio stations today. Are you as sick of hearing from this guy as I am? The MSM keeps reminding us how smart he is, his degree, his multiple languages, and on and on. He mentioned his military service, and used it to take a swipe at Vice President Cheney who did not serve in the military. Careful with your slams there sir, Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh, and John Kerry also had military service. Ronald Reagan did, but Joe Lieberman and Bill Clinton didn’t. Nor did Jesse Jackson or Louis Farrakhan. Nor did Barack Obama. It has nothing to do with patriotism. Cheap shot, Rev… but it’s still about Barack Obama, not Rev Wright.
Are we impressed yet? Nothing I’ve heard today takes away from the fact that this man Wright is an intimate advisor to a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. This advisor is a bigot and a racist. He calls himself a Christian, but he preaches a political gospel based on race, black vs white, and class, slaves vs masters, and wealth, evil rich vs oppressed poor. A lot of this same rhetoric we’ve heard come out of Barack Obama’s mouth as well, offering the government as the source of salvation for flawed men, and the oppressive society they’ve built.
Barack Obama’s progressive/socialist/salvation by goverment speeches, and his association with radical leftist Vietnam-era terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, are simply pieces of the puzzle. Reverend Wright is another piece. For me, they all call into question the suitability of the candidate, who at the very least has not stood up and walked away from this kind of mentoring. And does saying that make me some kind of intolerant racist myself? Hardly. I think it is a perfectly legitimate way of judging the candidate. The more I know about Obama, the less suitable I find him to be. Too bad, because all the fainting rallies and rock star treatment was amusing while it lasted. But it’s still going to take more than the hype of a well rehearsed stump speech and a bunch of media groupies to get elected. And THAT, my dear readers, is what I call “hope”.
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