Words Matter, Even for a Liar
By SusanUnPC on March 21, 2008 at 9:17 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Race, Race Card, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Square these words — these wholely different versions of the facts — Senator Obama.
You told CNN’s Larry King last night, “They were statements that I wasn’t aware of, were not brought to my attention until fairly recently. I wasn’t in the church when he said those things.”
However, in your supposedly historic speech the day before, you said, “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.”
As someone just said on television, “If a white politician sat in a church where David Duke spewed his racial hatred, they would be finished.” Why not you, Mr. Obama? Especially since you’ve lied repeatedly, back and forth, whether you ever heard Rev. Wright’s anti-American and highly racist rhetoric? And you’ve lied about whether or not you were in church.
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Yes, it is by Pat Buchanan. But, no matter your opinion of some of his political positions, everyone who I know agrees that he is an astute observer of the political scene and has an intellectual and historic grasp of politics like few others. In his words below, I feel his anger and his frustration. And, quite honestly, I share some of his anger:
A Brief for Whitey
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted: 03/21/2008
How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
That’s right. It’s on you and me. We’re responsible for Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism and racism. Buchanan then provides the typically cited reasons.
Buchanan says, “We hear the grievances.” Then, listing the trillions of dollars spent in trying to right the wrongs of our nation’s history of racism, he dares to ask, “Where is the gratitude?”
You must read Buchanan’s piece in full (A Brief for Whitey) — I cannot quote all of the examples that Buchanan cites. Here is how he concludes his essay:
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Now go ahead and call me a racist for quoting Pat Buchanan.
My problem is this: I have seen and heard examples of REAL racism. What Geraldine Ferraro said was not racist. It was, at worst, ill-advised. It was not racist. How dare Obama bring her up in comparison to Rev. Wright. And how dare he — especially — bring up his dear grandmother who sacrificed so much to ensure that he would have the best possible education and life?
Whenever people scream “racism” over every slight — including the most ridiculous instances — they infuriate people like me who DO care about the instances of REAL RACISM. Worst of all, they harm the validity of the cases of people who HAVE suffered from real racism.
Someone anonymous wrote, in an e-mail, the following, and it sums up the indignation I am feeling right now. This person had just read Buchanan’s essay. This person is a proud liberal. But this person is angry:
I loved Doris Lessing, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Lit this year and a disavowed Communist, saying:
“I hated the 1960′s feminists. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience in life.”
Right now, because of the use of racism by the Obama campaign, I’m not in a very good mood to discuss what one race has failed to do for another. Right now I’m not in the mood for us to start work on the economy, the war, health care. In fact, I’m rather irritated right now with
this diversion to save his campaign.The Knave from Chicago strikes again.
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