Open Thread + A Rant
By SusanUnPC on March 16, 2008 at 11:24 PM in Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
From our great video magician C.S., here’s this video of a CNN interview of Iraqi soldiers:
And then there’s this true story from a neighborhood somewhere in America, along with a rant by me:
A pal spotted this comment in a thread at Taylor Marsh’s outstanding blog:
“One neighbor (a founder of moveon.org) took down his Obama sign today. I saw him and said in jest, “Hey, the race isn’t over yet – your guy might still win”. His reply. ‘Hate is hate. I have never accepted or condoned it in anyone my entire life — I am not starting now.’”
Mr. Obama, you can say that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is your “former” pastor, as you did in Indiana yesterday. You can minimize him by saying that he’s no longer with the church — that he’s on “sabbatical,” as you repeatedly told the Indiana gathering. (Isn’t that convenient. Whose idea was it for him to go on “sabbatical”? Axelrod’s?)
The thing is: Your minimizations sound just like criminals who, even as they acknowledge their crimes, seek to minimize the cruel damage they did to their victims.
It’s not working anymore, Mr. Obama. And every American, except the Kool-Aid intoxicated, sees through you.
You can’t minimize your way out of this one. You sat in those pews for 20 years. You gave more money to his church than any other charity — twice as much, in fact. You referred to him frequently as your “mentor” and your spiritual adviser. You took the name of your book — The Audacity of Hope — from one of his sermons.
He married you and Michelle. He baptized both of your daughters. He “blessed” your new mansion.
You asked him to speak at your big announcement that you were running for the presidency. At the last moment, your campaign pulled him from the roster because he’s controversial. You CANNOT claim you didn’t know about his hate-filled, racist speech. You knew. You knew ALL along. And your wife Michelle mimics his anti-American speech.
You can’t weasel out of this one, Mr. Obama. It’s taking some Americans a bit of time to figure out who you really are. But they are figuring you out, and you’re going to be finished soon.
Let’s hope it happens before the Democratic party — hellbent, it seems, on shooting itself in the foot once more — nominates you. Because if Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean can’t get beyond their inflated egos and see you for who you are, and stop you before it’s too late, the Republicans will finish you off in a general election, and we’ll be stuck with President John McCain.
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I may be quiet tomorrow morning. One of my cats, my beloved Bear, has a serious wound that is infected, and we’re going to try to get him in to the vet first thing. Wish him well. He’s the dearest, dearest cat. But he’s pretty sick and weak. I’ll let you know more after we get him to the vet.
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