Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Obama’s Chickens Come Home to Roost.
Now Barack Obama is outraged.
And it only took him 20 years to get there. Talk about a learning curve.
After sitting in the Chicago church Sunday after Sunday after Sunday where senior pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright was preaching the gospel according to his own twisted thoughts, after being married by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to his wife Michelle, after having Rev. Jeremiah Wright baptize his two beautiful daughters, after admiring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as his “spiritual mentor,” after disinviting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to deliver the invocation at his February 10 presidential announcement, after weeks and months of dodging his relationship with the controversial and hate-filled Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after day after day after day of recently answering questions from the eventually interested mainstream media about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s divisive beliefs and inane claims about the government creating AIDs to eradicate the black man among other ridiculous and baseless assertions, now he’s outraged and saddened over the spectacle.
Now he believe’s that he may not know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as well as he thought he did. Oh? And you want to be president with your keen judgment? Now he denounces the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Only after Wright went on his “Ego Across America” tour this past weekend, dancing and prancing and ranting and railing to anyone and everyone who would pay him any attention. Clearly Wright’s asinine antics were dragging Obama down faster than an anchor tethered to a teaspoon.
Now it’s enough? Now it’s disrespectful? Now he’s gone too far? To paraphrase the radical Reverend Wright, Obama’s chickens have come home to roost. Obama played the game of politics and he played it badly. By not doing the right thing and kicking the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his kooky commentary to the curb years ago, and by waiting until Wright went completely whacked out before a national audience again and again this past weekend, Obama is now forced to try and save the ship before his heretofore loyal followers break out the life rafts.
If you refuse to pour water on a small flame you run the risk of getting burned when the flame eventually roars out of control…
The Hillary Clinton camp has to be beside themselves with glee at these devolpments. Obama’s campaign oceanliner, once sailing the political seas full speed ahead, is now officially adrift at sea and taking on water fast. The last time this scenario played out the ship sank with titanic results.
Obama, thought politically naive by some, and believed to be completely unprepared to be president by others, is guilty of choosing to walk through the mindfield of trying not to upset his African-American base by condeming Wright when he should have, versus trying to gradually distance himself from Wright just enough to keep prospective white voters interested in voting for him. Not unexpected, Obama has stepped where he shouldn’t–and oh boy has he stepped in it.
Obama and his strategists clearly miscalculated how to play this card. Obama, in essence, created the monster that is now the Rev. Wright and now he is paying the price. Politics is not just a game Sen. Obama, it’s a bloodsport and you’re being bloodied-up by your own pastor. Talk about irony…
And this political Frankenstein isn’t being any better received by the townfolk than was the original Frankenstein. Unlike the original Frankenstein, the Rev. Wright has an ego as big as Texas and apparently loves the attention that is now shining upon him. He has arrived on the scene and he isn’t going away. He is simply going to hound you and your harm your campaign for months to come. He is now a controversial celebrity and he’s loving the lifestyle and the limelight. Move over Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, there’s a new media-darling in town.
If Michelle Obama thinks America is downright mean, what must she be thinking right now about her own pastor torpedoing her husband’s presidential hopes?
Will today’s damage-control condemnation by Sen. Obama stem the tide of turmoil before his campaign hopes crash upon the rocks? Only time will tell. Will the Rev. Jeremiah Wright go quietly into the night anytime soon? Don’t bet on it. Is John McCain laughing his ass off with each and every passing day the ubelievably unlucky Democrats implode their chances of taking back the White House? You betcha.
Seed Newsvine
Excellent post…the sad part is Obama’s failure will be blamed on racist Amerikkka.
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Anyone who thought we could get through this groundbreaking presidential campaign without confronting some of the seamier sides of American culture overlooked the very nature of politics in the age of incoherence. Let’s face it: whether you call it Who Wants To Be President?, Survivor: Pennsylvania Avenue, or American Idle, they’ve turned the campaign for president of the United States into a reality show.
Wait a minute! This makes no sense. For weeks now, all of these Obama-supporters have been on every blog known to man explaining how Wright’s original comments were simply “taken out of context” and a “swift-boating of Obama” and were somehow “dirty Republican tricks”. Is Rev. Wright as some say “just responding to what he perceives as an attack on him”. I don’t think so.I think both Rev. Wright and Sen.Obama see what they have done in the past from a soap-box and think why not!… I can explain away anything and everything (remember the only words speech) with the right words. I don’t think anyone knows his motivation for coming out now,but it has wall-to-wall coverage now.The republicans (most of foxnews) will hit him with everything even a frying pan or two.Lets see what happens in Indiana next week.On to a better day I hope.
I think Obama could kill a man with his bare hands in the middle of his office on film…and he will still beat McCain.
The question is how this will hurt him. Obama may very well lose the nomination, this will go down to the convention floor. But, either Hillary or Barack will pummel McCain. The American people will be annoyed w/ Obama over this. They will ask the bottom line question: “is this how Barack Obama really feels?” The answer is no. Was he stupid to stay in a church run by a nut-job? Yes. Does that make him stupider, more incompetent, and more distrustul to lose to Hillary? Maybe. McCain? Absolutely not.
The pastor of my Catholic church raped a kid, but I haven’t left that church.
See my rant against Buchanan for taking advantage of Wright for his own purposes.
http://crosspolemics.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/buchanan-spews-his-own-brand-of-racism/
And then see the conervative spin on race from my partner – our site pits Liberal against Conservative. All are welcome.
http://crosspolemics.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/ill-have-what-shes-having-the-conservatives-view/
Cheers,
The Left
Obama moves (carpetbags) to Chicago and time after time relies on the solid block voting of the African American community to get elected.Now,while at the same time saying he transcends race as the very people that are voting for him are doing so because he is black.Now he dumps Rev. Wright the man probably most responsible for his political start in Chicago.Rev. Wright sees the Obama candidacy as a bait and switch for Black America and goes before The National Press Club and now here we are. But then again, both Hillary Clinton and John McCain also have a history of carpetbagging.Now on to Indiana.