Rev. Wright Attempts to Sully the Memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
By SusanUnPC on April 29, 2008 at 12:27 AM in Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Rev. Wright mocked the Boston-accent pronunciations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and mimicked him — wholly inaccurately.
Not only does Rev. Wright not have a good ear for accents, he does not have a good ear for how his outrageous, self-aggrandizing remarks are received by the larger whole of American people.
| Here is John Fitzgerald that historic day in January 1961: |
Barack Obama’s utter failure to forcefully condemn and rebuke Rev. Wright’s comments spell the end of not just his quest for the presidency — sought solely to sate his own unending desire to win — but the end of his ability to win the presidency.
When a candidate for the most important job in the world does not DEMAND an apology for remarks like these, and does not wholeheartedly condemn such remarks, he is NOT FIT to be president. |
Lest there be ANY mistake, Barack Obama is no John Fitzgerald Kennedy: He has no backbone. He is not presidential timber.
I sense why Barack Obama is so tentative in his so carefully phrased disapproval. While he hopes to calm the deep concerns of middle-class bedrock white Americans — which his weak remarks will NEVER do — Obama, for some reason (?), moreso FEARS the attacks from the most aggressively radical elements of the black community. We know, from Juan Williams’ commentary — Williams wrote a book about black churches — that preachers of Wright’s ilk are very few, perhaps 1 in 10, he estimates. So I wonder why Obama fears the anger of the very few sufficiently that he cannot muster the courage to categorically rebuke Rev. Wright’s insanely anti-American and rabble-rousing remarks.
I wrote this in January. It must be read again. Especially by those who still hold onto romantic notions about an Obama candidacy:
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Obama and Kennedy: Gut vs. Experience
The Obama campaign has often summoned the spirit of John F. Kennedy. That evocative association is finally and forever severed in “Ask Not! Why Obama is No JFK,” a new Washington Monthly article by Ted Widmer — who Steve Clemons calls “one of the most insightful historians of early American political history and Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. …”
[Image top right: Kennedy's book, Why England Slept. Widmer writes: "[Kennedy] had acquired travel experiences that most people take a lifetime to accumulate, richly detailed in 
biographies like Robert Dallek’s An Unfinished Life. His father was ambassador to the United Kingdom in the pivotal year 1938, and young Kennedy was in the audience of the House of Commons as the Munich deal was furiously debated (the experience shaped his first book, Why England Slept).]
“Ask Not! Why Obama is No JFK” points out:
[T]he comparison falls short when voters consider the key question for 2008: foreign policy experience. It’s true that Obama, like Kennedy, is a youngish senator (at 46, three years older than Kennedy when he ran for president), but the parallel falters after that. The more one looks into Kennedy’s lifelong preparation for the job, the more one realizes how misleading it was, then and now, to describe him as inexperienced. Everyone who has stressed Kennedy’s youth, from Dan Quayle in 1988 to Obama today, has bumped up against the uncomfortable fact that JFK was an extremely well-informed statesman in 1960.
Ted Widmer provides “rich detail on key points of comparison between JFK and Barack Obama,” says Clemons. Widmer then examines Obama’s claims, and finds them wanting, as have former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Larry Johnson, and others.
“Ask Not! Why Obama is No JFK” continues the comparisons:
[E]xcept for a brief stopover in London, returning from Russia in 2005, [Barack Obama] has apparently never been to Western Europe since launching his political career. What renders this gap especially surprising is that Obama is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe. Not only has the Senator not visited the region his committee oversees, but as Steve Clemons of the Washington Note has observed, Obama’s committee has not held a single policy-oriented hearing since he’s been chairman. Europe may not be the central playing field it was in Kennedy’s day, but it remains essential to the global set of alliances and relationships that the U.S. needs to cultivate in the new century. In fact, there is no place where it will be more urgent to rebuild bridges. As Obama knows, the United States cannot do it alone—and Europe will need to play a supporting role in whatever strategy the next president articulates.
It is encouraging that Obama has several times displayed what his campaign calls independence, expressing his disapproval of the Iraq war in particular. But disapproving Iraq is not exactly independence—it is more or less the standard line on the left, and quite different from developing a nuanced third position, which was Kennedy’s strength in the 1950s, as he steered between the hand-wringing of Stevenson liberals and the mindless conservatism of many Democrats and Republicans on the right.
Widmer’s remarks about Obama’s very ill-advised comments about Pakistan are especially worrying:
It’s true that Obama threatened to bomb Pakistan, a position that most people on the left would find scary—but that is not the kind of measured solution, tough but practical, that most of us associate with JFK. In fact, it is a rather extraordinary lurch to the right, like an involuntary tic, that most on the right would actually disavow. It is difficult to see how a bombing run over Pakistan would do anything to help anyone except the very people it was designed to punish.
A “lurch to the right.” Again, we find Obama embracing rightwing talking points (as he has on Social Security and health care).
This is an image of John F. Kennedy’s heavily-revised manuscript of Why England Slept from the Museum of World War II site.
I’ll close with Widmer’s recounting of John F. Kennedy’s “long and literal” journey to the presidency:
In 1939 alone, he took in the Soviet Union, Romania, Turkey, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Greece, France, Germany, Italy and Czechoslovakia. As the war was ending, he attended the San Francisco conference that created the United Nations, filing seventeen dispatches for the Chicago Herald American.
He maintained this lively interest in world affairs as a young Congressman. In 1951 he went on two extraordinary journeys, the first a five-week trip to Europe, from England to Yugoslavia, to consider the military situation on the continent. Then, a few months later, a seven-week, 25,000-mile trek that included Israel, Iran, Pakistan, India, Singapore, Thailand, French Indochina, Korea and Japan. It was this trip, in particular, that awakened a sense in him that the old colonial empires were doomed, and that the French effort to keep Vietnam was especially futile. In the aftermath of his trip, he gave speeches that ridiculed the French (and by extension, the American) position, and proved that he was no simplistic Cold Warrior. In 1957, he continued to chart a maverick’s course with a deeply-informed speech on Algeria that criticized France and the U.S. for trying to sustain an unsustainable conflict against an insurgent population. It infuriated both Democrats and Republicans, and France, a NATO ally at the time, was enraged—but obviously he was correct.
Critics and admirers alike have generally neglected the full extent of Kennedy’s early experience. But clearly it shaped him profoundly, and each journey deepened his portfolio. Further, each trip empowered him, and gave him the confidence to swim against the tide, a trait that would prove essential in the presidency. While dedicated to veterans and certain core principles of American defense, he also showed, well before his election, a growing skepticism of the extremes of Pentagon thinking. Perhaps most impressively, he found the courage to reject the knee-jerk isolationism of his most important backer—his father, Joseph P. Kennedy.
To be sure, even with all of that training, Kennedy showed inexperience during his early months in the White House, including the disastrous decision to invade Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, and his ineffective performance at his first summit with Khrushchev in Vienna. But he soon righted himself, and returned to the independent judgment that he had acquired during his long and literal journey toward the presidency.
John F. Kennedy with his “deck pals” during World War II.
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Taylor Marsh has more thoughts on this extraordinary article.
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Special thanks to V4Hill for the video of Wright’s remarks about JFK.
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How many more people can this jerkoff insult? I just finished watching The Daily Show and saw this doink. Man, just let this moron keep spewing, seriously, it will give Hillary a chance to take a much needed few days off while Obama makes another “historic speech” to cover his ass.
Gotta love those soothsayers at Obama campaign HQ.
JFK had grown up in the world of politics….Even as children they were challengd by their parents on discussion of issues of the day daly at the dinner table.
The Kennedys were a family that was geared toward public service.
Joe Kennedy had great ambitions for each of his children ( excepting Rose ) and schoole them both formally and in life experience toserve in the pubic sphere. If Joe jr. had not been killed in WWII he is the one who was the first choice to build a political career that would lead to the presidency.
JFK was tempered by the events in his life to have the courage and the vision to be a remarkable president.
Pastor Wright displays his arrogance and his ignorance in mocking JFK.
I’m sure Wright was an early supporter of teching EBONICS as well.
He is a PUTZ. Wright is an embarrassment…..
I have read, also, that one of the hallmark’s of Kennedy’s courage was the ability to disagree with his father, break with his father, given his patronage, and power.
Very very difficult, given the intricacies of the father son relationship, the parent child relationship. Look at Obama, and Wright, even the two Bush’s.
I think it concerned US entry into ww2, among other issues.
JFK did not need his father’s validation, very important when a President makes decisions, who is he, or she, looking to for approval, for love, for security?
Agree with Simon. JFK was a whole and complete person.
I believe that his experience in WWII forged him in steel. He was not a perfect man but he never strove to be. His was an honest wllingness to serve his country. There is no way he would’ve been able to have LBJ in his administration without the ability to be visionary. strategically astute, a strong belief in principals and a good student of history. Both JFK and RFK had strong powers of intellect coupled a surpising ability to use their charisma to appeal to people. ( surprising given their wealthy upbringing ) I thnk it was the scrappy self made IRISH in them….Theirs was an IRISH success story.
Obama does not have the fortitude or the substantive talent for POTUS….
He was empathetic, able to learn, that is what struck me most about his personality, he was always learning, always incorporating the new and relevant into his decisions, and you cannot ask for a better trait in a President.
But he was also brilliant.
And serving in the war gave him even greater empathy with the working people of this country.
The same is true of Bill Clinton, btw.
Simon, JFK is the reason I am a Democrat. I’ve been one since I was about five when I saw his Ask Not speech,and I’ve never looked back. Well, I was a member of the green party for about two days..then I sobered up.
Agree….and Bill Clinton was my JFK….I thought He and Gore were both effective.
Sen. Clinton is my FDR/Truman…..So to speak…
Absolutely, although I think that Bill Clinton is even a more gifted politician than JFK. And I also believe that of Hillary now. No one else would have been able to do what she has done with the media, the blogosphere, the Democratic Party elites, the Repubs etc. with much less money and still be in the position to win the nomination. A truly remarkable and brilliant politician and she will be FDR/Truman.
Agree with you. The astonishing thing about the Clinton/Gore administration was how they sucessfully moved the party to the center. The New Democrats were the natural heirs to the legacy of FDR. FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society programs needed an overhaul to make them more flexible with the economic and social conditions of the times. Clinton/Gore were able to accomplish this because it is central in the CENTRIST platform. The is why the New Democrats are hated by both the GOP ( it’s the economy stupid ) and the OLD GUARD LEFT within our own party.
Clinton understands like FDR that it is the economy that effects all other issues….SOCIAL AND POLITICAL.
We are due for not only an overhaul but have an even bigger mess than what ST. REAGAN left….
My sister modeled for me what a empathetic democrat should be, from a very young age I was taken to see people living in abject poverty, it was hard for me to reconcile the words and ideas of Ronald Reagan, say, with the living conditions of an 80 year old woman going without food, medical care or decent housing on the South Side of Chicago.
He, and those republicans, struck me as selfish, obtuse and infantile, angry at their parents.
Bill Clinton gave voice to democrats for the first time in years, unfortunately the country was still caught up in the greed of the eighties, and then the selfish, short sightedness of “libertarian” silicone valley.
He was, though, for me, our first real democratic president, and a wonderful role model, brilliant, and empathetic, not afraid to fight, really, like Kennedy.
As far as I’m concerned, the Kennedy Clan has fallen out of grace, favor and importance. After their absolutely disingenuous spectacle of making Obama the heir to their father/brother’s political fortune, one can’t help but wonder just how far these has-beens will go to keep themselves in the forefront of a dynastic history that is long since GONE!
We should ask ourselves: Had JFK not been assassinated, would we look upon his presidency with more critically astute hindsight? How would the myth mutate or unravel?
Hard to guess who’s left for him to insults. We already have the following non-supporter blocks and pissed off people:
Jews
Italians
Irish
Catholics
Typical White Women
Baby Boomer Women
Seniors
Gays and Lesbians
Blue Collar Workers AKA Bitter People
Florida
Michigan
Most Latinos
That pretty much leaves him with the definitive winner of
College Students (but less than half of them in PA)
Old Baby Boomers still on the bong
College professors
African Americans
To use Barry’s own words: “The math”.
Obama has also thrown AA’s under the bus, so we can add many of them to the group he has offended. Some people called him an Obamanation back in Chicago because he didn’t represent them, he partied it up with their landlord. And many people can see how he’s talking down to them with his Popeye’s fried chicken comments. He also won’t take any leadership and condemn death threats against people like Tavis Smiley or black superdelegates. He could set the tone if he wanted and reign in some of these attacks black people are facing from Obama supporters. If he cared and if he had any leadership abilities, that is.
I think Obama’s AA support is being skewed and misrepresented by the media. I read a poll yesterday that only 6% of black supporters would refuse to vote for the Dem nominee if their candidate wasn’t chosen. Compare that to white women who are running somewhere between 28% and 50%.
In my community, blacks are Hillary supporters. It’s interesting because it doesn’t go along with what the media is saying. Hillary has a lot of black support, but the media really dismisses them.
Racial profiling meets the MSM meets politics?
Correction: If an unarmed black man is shot 50 times by police and a judge finds them not guilty, Obama condemns violence.
If SuperDelegates decide in favor of Hillary at the Denver Convention, then riots/violence and there will be blood in the streets. (See the R68 website.)
Obama: a man of the people or a man out for himself?
You make the call!
Well I fit 4 of the above offended groups.
I’m most offnded as a Democractic party member and an American citizen by the election shenanigans of BABY-O’s candidacy.
Hey Uppity, I’m a college professor and there’s a truck load of us that wouldn’t vote for Obama if he was the only cockroach left on the planet.
Not all us folks in ejicashun r elitist..
Good to point this out. It is also true not all professors are leftists.
LOL…..The answers that BABY-O gave on economic issues in the last debate surely did not win over the Professors at THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS at The University Of Pennsylvania……No ?
College kids are so stoned these days they would not know when Rev Wrong insult them.
Hey, I am a college professor and I am also pissed off.
Does anyone here know about what’s going on in Hammond, Indiana? Obama’s campaign - including members who are on the school board in Hammond - used school buses to bus hundreds of high school students, who were told to vote for Obama, to the early voting places in Indiana last week. After they voted, they were treated to a steak dinner at Ponderosa for voting the way they were supposed to vote — for Obama. The principal said this was “a civics lesson”.
The mayor of Hammond, a Hillary supporter, complained about the principal of this high school doing this, and the Obama supporters promptly called the man a racist.
Does anyone know if this story is being covered by the media? It’s classic Chicago vote-buying and busing a captive audience to vote for one candidate.
http://taylormarsh.com/hot_topics.php#3175
3 questions -
is this legal?
were these high school kids even 18?
anyone know people in indiana papers and tv/radio news who can do stories about this?
Forward any info to the Hill campaign</a?.
the story is on taylor marsh
and i know they are very good with it
so i just posted here so we the average people can post it everywhere else for other people to know
Or mail it to: tips@hillaryclinton.com
Sonia,
I noticed that no one at TM has even commented on this yet. We should forward it to the media.
It sounds like the school board and the principal need a ethics lesson not a civics lesson.
That does not surprise me…..In Texas there were Teenagers that were not even eligible to vote who showed up to Caucus for Obama and took advantage of the disruption at some precincts to caucus ILLEGALLY for Obama…..Over 2000 complaints of voter fraud and intimidation on the night of the caucuses in Texas…..
The state party quit counting the caucus results after only an estimated 40% of the results were reported…..
The whole thing was a sham…..As is Obama’s campaign….
my thoughts too. How is it any different from paying
the denizens of skid row $5 to vote or having dead people vote? No difference.
Great to see Obama’s albatross continue to drag him down. Thanks for the post!
kennedy said[ask] wright needs to get his ears cleaned
people here what they want to hear
You have to wonder why some of the Kennedy clan (Teddy, Maria Shriver, etc.) were supporting Obama.
Obama has no backbone and when he won’t stand up to his preacher, how do you expect him to stand up to some dictator or terrorists?
I can hear Obama now, talking to his friends in Al Qaeda:
Aw, shucks. Would you please quit blowing up our ships when they enter the Straight of Hormuz or a port in the Middle East? You’re killing our soldiers and we’re starting to run low on ships.
More likely he would be asking them for a cut.
Same for his republican counterparts.
I hope Teddy Kennedy is happy with himself. He spurned Hillary over some overblown imagined insult about his brother (he was evidentally pissed off that she gave a lot of credit to LBJ, rather than Kennedy, for passage of the Civil Rights Act). Now his chosen one has a minister who is making his brother look like a buffoon.
How ironic!
well, TeddyK has not spoken yet so we can assume that he is still in the tank for obama.
I will NEVER forget The Chappaquiddick Lifeguard crapping all over Jimmy Carter, giving rise to Reagan Democrats and giving us twelve years of dipshittery and general mendacity.
Fuck him. Fuck any of his surviving relatives. Fuck the horse he rode in on. Fuck his little cat that sings the Blues.
Strong post to follow…
No.
His brothers were assassinated for this country, they gave their lives for service to this country.
I would say it was Kennedy who set the tone for American conduct in the cold war, conduct which led to victory. The JCOS wanted to nuclear bomb Russia, for god’s sake, what kind of flaming moron is that, can you imagine what Kennedy had to deal with, the absolute loon?
We would have lost the greater cold war, given that action, hands down, the guy was a NUT, and a stupid one, at that.
I am often amazed at those who fail to see this, who simply think ” Reagan won it man…”
Heh.
Kinda dumb, there.
OK, really dumb, there.
Agree with you Simon….The elevation of St. Reagan is a continual embarrassment.
JFK and RFK had a HUGE influence on LBJ and that is saying a lot.
It is too bad that LBJ is only remembered for the Viet Nam War.
Clinton was correct about LBJ and the Civil Rghts Bill.
Only a politician with LBJ’s history and power could have pushed that legislation through…..This is one of the reasons Kennedy chose him as a running mate….
LBJ delivered the South and Kennedy knew he would need his POLITICAL CLOUT to get any legislation through congress.
LBJ had his flaws but he achieved much in his presidency.
There was more to it than Viet Nam.
Agreed, and I will reread my books about Johnson, see him in a different light, in terms of poverty, and civil rights.
PBS The American Experience is re-running The American Presidents series now on the internet and on TV in May….
I’ll bet that’s gotta chap BABY-O’s ass…..No ?
>>> His brothers were assassinated for this country, they gave their lives for service to this country.
Which makes him…?
He pulled exactly the same number in 1976 that Obamabots are accusing HRC of even as we speak, to wit, fragmenting the Democratic party so as to hand the GE to a Republican.
JFK and RFK dying violently adds nil to his stature, which is non-existent outside Mass, unless one’s yearning for Camelot is excessive.
Here’s a hint: Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
and don’t forget that famous bill, leave all children behind!
I wonder how Caroline feels now…?
Teddy’s no JFK either.
Ah … there’s that …
And no RFK.
I had the opportunity to hear Chris Gardner speak about his book The Pursuit of Happyness. He is a really amazing guy to hear. He used the expression “placism” several times during his presentation, and that resonnated with me. Kennedy had a truly unique opportunity due to old Joe. You can’t discount the connections and situations. Joe wanted one of his sons to be president and from the very early days, everything about how they were raised led to that day. That’s one form of “placism.”
Agree with you on that one….Of the brothers Teddy is certainly the weakest…..
Just so were clear….
My father (a Lutheran Minister) and I were just talking about whom he was thinking about Voting for, Hillary or Obama. I was curious to know if the Rev. Wright’s exposure had affected his decision, he asked me if Obama was going to be held responsible for every sermon/word Rev. Wright had ever given/said? Said he’d been switching between Lou Dobb’s and Hardball today and that it was so much Wright this Wright that he had to turn it off after 10 minutes. He said that if anyone out there thinks any of this is doing anyone any good or helping the discourse in this election or country. They’d be clearly mistaken. He also told me most folks at his church were also un-swayed by the attacking of Obama through Rev. Wright, and that is was pretty much pissing them off (And not in the way No Quarter/ Taylor Marsh/ FOX wants it too) I said to him “yeah they certainly hope this is the poop that sticks” he laughed and said he’s use that one on his parishioners next weekend…
Keep slinging it guys, not sticking on my dad’s mostly white Lutheran congregation…
Hey Bill…. thanks!
Yes… enough of the Wright stuff … we already know that Obama blew handling of this long ago.
On to AYers, Auchi, Rekzao, Bitter, clinging, Not proud of America, no experience, questionable votes, present votes, oops votes, never holding a meeting that you chaired, on and on and on and on and ond
So much to talk about .. so little time.
Hhhmmmm …. so, your dad’s talking about Obama (translate: politics) in church, huh? Isn’t that in violation of the church’s non-profit, tax-exempt status? BTW…what was the name of his church?
Well that settles it! Your father is the final word!
Bill Stuff a sock in it.
I could give a damn what you supposed father thinks about anything.
The fact that Obama CHOSE to go to REV shit heads church for 20 years — and now shit head is telling “his version” filled with racism and ignorant stupidity — needs to be discussed.
Obama has NOT been vetted — and now he is being vetted — and we are doing the vetting using RAW material from his shit head minister.
Nice try — Obamabot.
The fact that he took his kids to hear Wright is what bothers me most.
Well just goes ta show if you accept superstitous crap as reality and shape your world view any shit will be acceptable. Tell your Dad’s congregants to kiss my athiestic, reality based world view and watch their favorite racist, homophobic, misogynistic, lying coward AND his JooJoo man crash and burn for all the world to see.
This would almost be persuasive if you hadn’t been an Obama shill here before.
You can bring your entire family and all of the churches they attend ….
If you think that Obama’s handling of Reverend Wright — like he’s some kind of soiled diaper that has to be handled at arm’s distance — while he has a hair trigger on the racial comments of others (real or imagined) isn’t obvious to the average voter and they don’t draw their own conclusins, you’re out of touch. Try reading Herbert in the NYT this morning. A staunch supporter of Obama who raises serious leadership questions.
I am sure that if your Dad and his congregation was for Obama the coverage would turn him and his congregation off. Wonder why talk about Obama and Wright on a sermon at the church? What’d be “the lesson”?
Wright is indicative of Obama’s values, of Obama’s thinking.
Look deeper, and Wright is most likely indicative of Obama’s corruption, too.
So, your dad needs to really think, and examine the issue, some very uncomfortable truths.
ELCA, I take it?
my dad says obama sucks! so there!
Nice Story Susan..Good Job…His comments about JFK offended me too…and I wonder what the Kennedy Family thought..It was insulting ..and degraded a Great Speech .. Why did Weight say that..? Why Kennedy..?? It wasn’t funny or Meaningful..
Think about it.
Reverend Wright has been pushed to the side.
Barack and Michelle are on stage with Ted, Maria and Ethel stumped for BO in Pennsylvania.
How is 20 years rewarded? Reverend Wright is PISSED. He’s starting to realize that being compared to Barack’s white grandmother was not flattery!
Agreed, and could be a liabilty.
I agree! He is angry. Think of the other alternative — him on the stage or with him campaigning, like his father would have, perhaps. Instead he was relegated to do a prayer with him out of the view of cameras. It would be interesting to find out when they started selling those videos — my hunch is it was intentional. Because Hannity has been talking about this for a year and it had not caught on fire until the videos surfaced — Hannity asked Gingrich what had changed for his own reversal on this issue and his answer was the videos. I think Wright started selling it to screw this guy because he was angry he was left out of the campaign.
what hasn’t been mentioned is the behind the scenes network among aa ministers is having on the campaign. you know the ole phone list. you can bet that rev wright has every phone number of every aa minister with influence in this country. did anyone wonder why the rev equated himself with the black church? i did. it was a warning to barry. now barry is between the rock and the hard place here. he can’t afford an ongoing battle with the rev. in the end of the aa ministers will side with the rev. they’ll circle the wagons. i am waiting to see what the rev will now say and do. he isn’t through. he can’t afford to let barry win and has nothing to lose at this point by getting back in barry’s face whereas barry has everything to lose.
I am sure that Ted Kennedy is very proud of his Barack endorsement today…. awwww …. grab a pillow Teddy so it doesn’t hurt so much when you sit.
Teddy is biting his pillow…..There are members of the Kennedy clan who support Clinton.
Typical of a Narcissist, Obama fancies himself as important as JFK, RFK, MLK. Typical of his cultish following, they fancy him that way as well. Anyone who knew all three of them in real-time knows he’s nothing next to these three men. Nothing. Nothing. I can see why a Narcissist would hang out with a Megalomaniac minister. They fed each other’s needs. Of course when a Narcissist has a chance to become famous, a megalo is never pleased. Thus we are watching the Dueling of two Sociopaths playing out in front of our eyes. What we are seeing here is a serious clash of importance. You see, if Barack Obama were to be president, or even the fact that he is running for president, Jeremiah Wright’s entire “program” is interrupted. How can Jeremiah Wright possibly be an important megalomaniac and carry the hatred banner if a barack obama proves him wrong and is actually able to get this far running for president? It is NOT in jeremiah wright’s best interests for this to happen. I am serious as a heart attack here. Add to that the fact that a megalo like Wright simply cannot STAND to watch another black man have more fame than he has. It’s a collossal clash. A collossal one.
In the same vein, a Narcissist like Barry is totally stumped as to why anyone would not recognize his own superiority. The clash of the two self-assigned Titans. Brilliant. And VERY entertaining. This is all one more reason why candidates for higher office should always be mentally tested first. I am serious here. And it is a serious confirmation of why Vetting a candidate is so important. As time goes on, we find Time is not Barry’s friend. His warts and cracks are showing. He looks like he’s been rode hard and put away wet. He is weary. He can’t handle stress, he retreats. He has shown over and over that he cannot think on his feet. When pressured to do so, he either walks away or says something stupid (thus the “bitter” remark). When he’s tired he makes huge mistakes. Repeatedly. He is a Plastic Jesus, just as so many of us have suspected all along.
He does not have the leadership qualities of a President. In the private sector, he would not be a CEO. More Human Resources person, but no CEO. He will never be president.
WOW — good job!
Obama does NOT have the temperament to be President.
Very often ministers are narcissistic personalities — especially the ones that love to put on a performance. And that’s what REV shit head is doing — putting on a performance.
You covered just about all of the bases —
Obama is unelectable.
Then we have Hillary, one of the most tireless, determined, strong, intelligent and UNSTOPPABLE women I’ve ever seen, looking still fresh and invigorated against this man who’s 14 (?) years younger. Mr. Hope is definitely outta his league here. He needs to take his and Michelle’s ego back to his South Chicago mansion and do some more community organizing. That’s more his speed. Dumb ass. What an arrogant man. He thought he was untouchable because of one freakin’ speech? He actually thought none of this shit would come out? Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Auchi, Farrakhan? That’s one HUGE damn ego and really does show how narcissistic he is. I guess the Chicago machine failed him.:) I can’t wait to witness him going down in flames. I especially can’t wait to see Michelle’s face at his concession speech.
did i miss something? is wright on the ballot? any ballot?
Nice try.
did we miss something
was bill clinton on the ballot????
was chelsea on the ballot ??
was monica lewinsky on the ballot???
Exactly!!!
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Wright suggested that Obama was insincere in distancing himself from his pastor. “He didn’t distance himself,” Wright announced. “He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American.”
Explaining further, Wright said friends had written to him and said, “We both know that if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.” The minister continued: “Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls.”
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rough…es_race_c.html
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This is exactly Wright! Obama is saying what he has to say to get elected. And what he has to say isn’t the truth!
It’s as simple as that!! No muss, no fuss.
bwana ,,,,,,,,,,no fuss
Well……I believe Wright has stated he’s interested in the VP slot….
And here I thought Michelle was Obama’s Dick Cheney…
LOL…Simon….PRICELESS AND ASTUTE…..
No, Wright is a character witness.
Since Obama does not have a thick resume we have to rely on all sources we have to see what kind of a man he is — is he fit to be become the president?
Even to hire a painter for my house, I want references. Why would I not consider what this guy has to say whom Obama has called an Uncle, a mentor, a spiritual guide?
So far all characters Obama hung out with in the last 20 years, Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Auchi.. do not impress me. In fact, where are the good guys?
In Mr. Hope’s own words, racist Wright has been his spiritual adviser and like a member of his family. Uncle Jeremiah was connected to Mr. Hope by the hip….FOR 20 YEARS. There’s no spinning that one. Obviously, Mr. Hope agrees with the racist Rev.’s views of our country and of white people (”typical with people”) or he would have exited that church 20 years ago. Keep on trying to spin it though….you can’t get Mr. Hope out of this one. He owns it. Racist Wright is HIS.
actually yup the rev is on the ballot. he is on obama’s back and isn’t climbing off. live with it.
Had Colin Powell not sullied himself by working for the Bush administration, i believe that he could have had the best chance of becoming the first African American POTUS. Until he made that mistake he had far better credentials and respect from people than Obama will ever have in his lifetime.
I agree. I can still see the pain on Powell’s face. He Regrets. This was a beloved man whom America truly trusted, both sides. A highly capable man of great esteem. He did try to resist but the pressure was too great. And then there was his sons prestigious job appointment. He fell for it. What we do for our kids. I know that today, Colin Powell has great regret, he has so much tried to say it. I would forgive him because I think he learned a huge lesson. He would still make a great President. I truly believe this.
i agree. i think that all of us would forgive powell his momentary failure with the idiotic bush administration and give him our wholehearted support. however, the one problem i have with powell is that he supports obama. i hate to see a gifted, intelligent person demean himself by supporting this jerk. there can be on reason other than race. so i guess what i’m saying is that i would have forgiven powell, but now i’m on the fence.
in any event, clearly powell is so far superior to obama it isn’t even funny.
if we are going to make a big deal out of “the first black president” - which to me says we haven’t solved our race problems anyway or it wouldn’t be a big deal - i think we need to make sure the person isn’t a terrorist sympathizing, racist, unqualified asshole like obama. i much prefer powell. or j.c. watts. or ________ (pretty much anybody). obama is just too disgusting for words.
Really good comment. Has there been any speculation on who’s up for Hillary’s VP? What do you (or others) think of Wes Clark for some position in a Clinton administration?
I think Hillary will chose strong Govenor who can deliver strategic regional support…..I see Clark as a cabinet member….
Sec. of Defence…..His skills are needed to repair the damage done by Rumsfield.
Powell’s support of Obama is disappointing but not surprising…
And I really have to question the former head of the JCS supporting a man who may have DIRECT terrorist connections.
Really, you’re supposed to protect Americans against those people, not enable them.
See, terrorist chic and denial isn’t just for the stupid left.
Simon….Who do you see as Clinton’s choice for Sec. of State….
I enjoy hearing speculation of potential cabinet posts….
Thanks. I’d love to see some rational Republicans in the administration too. I don’t know who they would be, but I’m sure they exist. Powell, Clark or Clinton(s) could probably come up with a “list” of such candidates pretty fast.
unfortunately (for you), the loser doesn’t get to pick a VP.
Jason…Tum podem extulit horridulum..( sigh ) Plenu stercoris es.
DERIDEO TE !…..Biting your pillow…eh ?
put a sock in it, jason.
Yupper- As disappointed as I was in Powell, I believe he would acknowledge his mistakes. He would truly have had a viable chance to be President.
It is beyond me that any of the Kennedys could have endorsed Senator Obama in the first place.
Thankfully the smarter Kennedy kids endorsed Senator Clinton.
Senator Teddy can’t be feeling too great about this right now. But I won’t lose any sleep over it.
Teddy was always the screw up in the family. His two brothers outshined him even when they were sleeping.
i know. teddy was always the kid brother, butt of jokes, not taken seriously. the only reason he ever got any attention at all was the tragedy that all the older ones were killed.
and, of course, the women in the family were considered irrelevant. kennedy tradition that.
Sad thing here is he did the right thing for the wrong reasons. Protect and Defend Family Honor. For a perceived slight. He is a weak and silly man.
all ted had to do was hold a press conference and say with a tearful voice that though i care for hillary and bill, i am chagrined with this supposed diss of my family. gee ted, you didn’t need to jump off the roof. personally i think ole ted was in the tank with obama long ago.
Good point. Ted himself couldn’t get elected, so he thought maybe he could pull Obama’s strings?
Nothing but PROPs on this artical, SusanUnPc.
My parents are from New Bedford. You want to talk about accents? We’re also Kennedy’s. Not those Kennedy’s since our annual Kennedy family reunion on Cape Cod involves bringing your own lawn chair and a covered dish.
Senator Obama’s poll numbers in Massachusetts were already bad. His minister mocking a New England accent means bye bye Red Sox Nation.
As Uppity says above - how many people can he insult?
How ironic can this contest get?
They tried to link him to a legacy he didn’t deserve.
Hillary got slammed by Teddy for omitting JFK!
Wright just pissed off the already unhappy Massacusettes voters and more Democrats who voted for Obama based on his undeserved comparison and now clearly see it was just spin and hype.
I’m still reeling over Garlic Noses and still trying to understand exactly what a garlic nose means.
JFK said ASK, clear as a bell. No stereotype or cause for smear is too weak for an equal opportunity hater like Wright. The word pastor doesn’t apply to him at all. He is a preacher of hate and division.
His attempt to smear all black churches with his own filthy vomit should make them say “not in my name.”
Hang in there, the truth will prevail and justice will be done.
Hope Teddy has a few things to say about this soon…
He’ll drape his arm around Obama and excuse his relationship with Wright. Ted knows him some bad relationships …
Ted Kennedy has angered and alienated a large constituency in MA. But I still don’t see how he can distance himself from Obama after having put himself staunchly at his side.
Seems to me there are going to be some big name Democrats scrambling to cover their sorry asses real soon. They could have acted as senior statesmen/and women by staying neutral. Instead they chose to support Obama.
They could have acted as smart pols by seeing which way the wind was blowing further down the road. Many of them were not only wrong, they were dumb wrong. That’s gonna hurt.
Live by Obama and die by Obama would be my guess.
Re: Garlic Noses: My assumption here is that we Italians eat a lot of garlic.
Uppity….Was Pastor Wrights’ pronunciation of Capish ( sp ? ) correct
or was it ebonic…..
It be pronounced wrong.
JFK had an accent, don’t most of us? If Wright is referring to accents, so be it. But if Wright is referring to ebonics and/or a confusing re-arrangement of English grammar and syntax, it just doesn’t fly in the world of work.
Exactly Uppity. This man is too ignorant to breathe.
All Americans have regional accents. Accents have nothing to do with language, grammar, syntax. He has just further confused an already confused situation regarding the absurdity of Ebonics, which is dialect (and a whole other story) as a viable mainstream language. No one is criticizing the AA accent. What’s at issue is being able to speak Standard English. JFK, Boston accent and all, was still speaking English within the rules of grammar and syntax.
It’s this kind of ignorance that has the black community stymied and paralyzed. “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Get educated! And know the difference between accents and language. Accents, btw, affect every language. People in certain regions pronounce words with different emphasis. As long as the rules of grammar are obeyed, that’s all that counts.
Wow. Great and informative post. Thank you SusanUnPC!
Can you imagine the public outcry of racism if a white public figure made fun of Martin Luther KIng’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech including doing it in a very poor impersonation of a Martin Luther King?
NO KIDDING!!!!! Why the friggin’ double standard? It makes me want to puke. I’d bash any white pastor who did that, but Wright is allowed to bash one of America’s greatest speeches and get away with it because of his skin colour. Not fair.
Get away with with the MSM and spineless “leaders” who won’t speak out against that vile man.
The MSM is becoming irrelevant but when they won’t notice until their house of cards collapses around them.
WE notice and that is what matters.
Someone forgot to send the memo to Wright that you don’t uplift your people by denigrating other people or groups (Italians, Jews, gays, etc.) in the process. MLK would puke.
i am so sick of cable everynight with these gasbags of any skin tone telling me how great obama is when i already know different.
Does Barry count? He’s half white and he does a poor impersonation of Martin Luther King every time he gives a speech.
What date, this tape of Wright? If very recent, I find the implications mind boggling.
Not a tape. Yesterday in Washington DC at the National Press Club I believe.
I should have seen that instantaneously from the backdrop. Thanks. Didn’t hear this part.
Oh my God. What happens to this country if Obama is assassinated? I am sorry beyond words to speak that. I don’t want him for president, but I sure don’t want the conspiracy that does not exist (who are watching their monetary financial scam go through an implosion that does not exist) who were trying to use him to be sure Clinton would not get the nomination, and are now scrambling for plan B, to do this.
What better way to serve the final blow to what was once our great country? I am seriously shaken. I said “If very recent, I find the implications mind boggling.” Wright is stirring up the rationalization that will be used to explain the action I fear. If someone had experience with intel analysis, I’d want them to look and see if they see a pattern here. I have no such credentials or experience. Shit! I’m shook. I will seriously try to shut up. Tell me why I’m wrong. Please.
I had not seen any of Wright’s speech before now except for the limited stuff I noticed on TV. This is truly offensive. I cannot imagine that the Kennedy clan are cool with it.
I so very much enjoyed the video of JFK. As I listened to him I saw no real comparison between Obama and him except perhaps the cadence of the speech.
If I were a betting man I would bet the house that Obama studied Kennedy’s speeches and patterned his own speech cadences after him. But the real and HUGE difference between them is that JFK spoke with authentic passion. Obama, not so much.
Obama also studied Bill Clinton on video……Why do you think Bill was so pissed off…..
Jeramiah Wright is not only dishonest, he covers it up with incoherence. He makes a statement (eg the US invaded Panama and killed innocent women and children), then does not follow up with supporting facts and background, but rather with raucous name calling and blame. The CNN and MSNBC “newscasters” do this as well. This type of arguement appeals to people who think with their emotions. Obama leans in this directions, as well, making general statement re: H.’s honesty, then not explaining what he means but rather working the crowd into into a lather with sarcasm and half-truths. Older women, working people, anyone who thinks coherently, do not fall for those kind of arguements.
Jeremiah Wright is a debaucher.
Bee…..I would call Wright a recalcitrant reprobate who regularly practices BLASPHEMY FROM THE PULPIT…..Blasphemy according to the standard classic theological definition that is…..Since Wright invented his own religion this may not be relevant within his own theology or MYTHOLOGY as I would characterize it…..I would call Wright a heretic…..
Wrights’ religion is a HERESY…..
Watching President Kennedy and knowing — as we do now — what he would not live to see and how he would fall just made me sick.
Could he not find someone else to ridicule? A republican for Christ’s sake? Arnold?
To take the memory of someone who died as violently as Jack and who did so much for the AA community is just so disgusting that it is on the level of some pornography I have seen. It really is the height of trash.
Wright is a BATSHIT CRAZY MOFO WHO MADE UP HIS OWN RELIGION.
Nuff said……The fact that Barry came to his reigion and his politics through this heretic of obvious limited intellectual capacity speaks volumes about the development of Obama’s character….
Is it any wonder OBAMA has a serious conflict with his INNER CRACKER…….
Did you mean “scoundrel” as in “the last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism”?
Scoundrel. n. an unprincipled, dishonorable person. a villain.
Random house dictionary…….
Guess that fits too with regards to Pastor Wright…..
Apparently there’s that too. I stil recall him humping his blessed podium when discussing Hillary.
ot…..Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama is giving $2,300 in presidential campaign contributions to charity — money he got from Aiham Alsammarae, a dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen who posted more than $2.7 million in property to help spring Tony Rezko from jail.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/920701,CST-NWS-obama29WEB.article
More Obama news.
2,300?
And just who was that accountant?
Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha….
Kefa…I’d say this is timely news…Chicago Political Corruption will not play well in IN. no matter how many HS students BABY-O busses in to the precincts….Shapin up to be an EXCELLENT WEEK for Sen. Clinton.
Wright is like a spoiled child craving all the attention, so he screams curses waiting for the adults to react. Wright making fun of JFK is in this category. The Rev has some serious personality disorder, that’s obvious. Obama can never disown him you know he said so. Ha.
They’re going to keep pounding Obama downticket with Wright. Do you blame them? This is like a gift that keeps on giving for Republicans. Don’t forget, Obama just can’t disown him, dontcha know.
Obama… what coattails?
It’s pretty fascinating to me to see what BO will do next. He can’t really distance himself from Wright at this late date - Wright is proclaiming himself spokesperson for the “black church” and media pundits have had other prominent black pastors on more or less supporting that claim….if BO says anything more about Wright he risks pissing off those blacks that buy into the Wright spokesperson for the black church meme. BO is stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place!!
Wright must be so pissed at BO to be doing this at this time. Part of me thinks that he doesn’t want BO to get the nominee, because perhaps that would prove some of his racist views wrong, his world view of the black as oppressed would be shaken…
I’m going to repeat here what I heard an AA woman proclaim at the Hillary rally yesterday, “I am voting my race - the HUMAN race - Hillary Clinton”!!!
I think we assume because people claim to be clergy that they actually believe what they preach. Do they? Some do, some don’t. When there is power and money involved we should question everything.
Ehemmm……Rev. Wrong I think that since Wright made up his own religion the man believes anything he manufactures in his FOG OF ONE.
Susan, you hit the nail on the head — if Obama can’t take on (or is afraid to for whatever reason) the RADICAL/FRINGE elements of his community, is he presidential material. I think some of the sane (and courageous) Black leaders have to step up and say Wright does not represent their churches (see what Obama is doing now — he is dividing the black community.) What is with this guy? and Why won’t everybody see it?
the black church leaders aren’t going to do that. there are some exceptins of course. but have you seen one speak out yet. i haven’t.
Oh boy, I wonder how Rev Wright mocking JFK is going over with people across the country?
I know my grandma had a picture of JFK and MLK in the dining room her entire life. Those two were like saints,icons,you don’t joke about them, you certainly don’t mock them or make fun of the way they speak. This would be like sacrilege to her, like desecrating a grave.
At my paternal grandparents house there were 4 pictures given prominence: Their wedding photo, Pope John, JFK, and MLK. Dissing JFK seems like the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Obama dissed the Clinton Presidency and the Clinton haters were fine with that. How are they gonna find a way to spin about Wright, Obama’s “mentor” dissing JFK? I’m sure they will, because they will excuse anything that comes from Obamaland no matter how it harms the Democratic/Progressive Ideals, Ideas, and/or policies.
Have to laugh when kos had the chutzpah to agree that Hillary Clinton is not a “real” Democrat. That’s a spin worthy of Obamans from Obamaland who are NOT Democrats or Progressives or Liberals, they are Obamacrats. And they have formed their own cozy little party and have told the rest of us to leave. Which is exactly what we should do.
As mimi so often, and so correctly says: “Let them try to win without us”. Especially with Reverend Wright hanging so prominently around their neck.
It is the only way for BABY-O to win. he is trying to split the AA vote along generational lines…..He has nothing to offer.
All he can do is destroy.
We have a picture of JFK in our office here at home. Many, many, many people adore that man. Rev. Wright insulted an entire nation with his vitriolic speech. How DARE he insult JFK and THOSE WORDS.
I’m wondering how Ted Kennedy is feeling today. If Hillary pissed him off by omitting JFK in the Civil Rights “issue”, I can only imagine what Ted thinks of the racist Rev. and his prodigy, Mr. Hope, today.
Really have to wonder. Ted Kennedy, catholic. How many priest do the “Wright” schtick in church, ass slapping, hip gyrating schitck in church.
He didnt think past the end of his nose when he endorsed Senatoa Obama. His personal puppet.
Shame on Wright.
JFK PULLED strings to get combat duty. He suffered a broken back and malaria, and then spent 20 hours alone swimming in shark-infested waters trying to rescue his men.
JFK gave all of his government salaray every year to the United Negro College Fund.
Rev. Wright doesn’t deserve to even use his name.
A number of people–including the Clintons–have pointed out that, while John F. had the rhetoric, it was Johnson who actually got things done. Hear tell that Ted Kennedy endorsed Bambi in part because of this perceived slur against John. If that’s true, I wonder how he feels now?
JFK and LBJ were an effective TEAM. JFK needed what LBJ brought in terms of legislative political clout and regional ( the south ). It was a smart strategy….When Bill Clinton asked Al Gore to be VP it was a smart strategy. Gore brought much to the ticket to counter balance Bill who was not as well known nationally. Gore’s dynastic Wash. pull coupled with his own Service were a plus…..
There was no “slur” of John Kennedy. JFK didn’t live to accomplish what he wanted. Johnson was able to do many of those things after Kennedy’s death because of the reverence for an assassinated and loved President. Johnson deserves credit for what he managed to push through.
If Teddy is that sensitive he wouldn’t have lasted in politics for all these years. Seems to me he wanted a chance to polish the Kennedy image with him as the beneficiary instead of the “also ran” Kennedy brother.
He also wanted a chance to take down the “Clinton” machine and replace it with the “Kennedy” machine IMHO.
Agree…..Teddy is jealous of Bill Clinton because Bill Clinton is and was everything Teddy could never be…..
Teddy is also intimidated by Hillary Clinton because she is a strong woman and a better and more effective wonk on EVERY ISSUE….
Teddy is just trying desperately to hold onto his DEATHGRIP of LEFTISH hold on the party…..
All I remember is the Cuban Missile Crisis and how terrifying it was! Can you imagine another crisis like that with Obama staring down the enemy? He can’t even stare down Rev Wrong. We have some very formidable, hateful enemies these days that make the Russians of old look like fun cronies. I don’t think Mr. Not Ready for Less Than Prime Time can handle it. SHUDDER!
Wright, certainly remembers the wrongs of the past when it comes to segregation and treatment of blacks. Why does he not remember JFK and RFKs place with Dr. King in the civil rights movement? Selective memory? His commens are “jaw dropping”. Wright is a circus act. Obama is being “done in” by his own people.