smellthecoffee on April 7, 2008 at 11:27 AM
AND because the speech that he gave that was supposed to make all this go away contained the three words that will mark him forever as a phony. Typical. White. Person. You cannot, absolutely, and unequivocally CANNOT use that kind of formulation, and be “post-racial.”

Not to be nitpicky, but Obama didn’t use the term “typical white person” in his race speech on March 18, 2008. The word “typical” does not even appear once in the speech. Neither does the word “person”. The word “White” does appear 30 times in the speech, which is understandable in a approximately 40 minute speech about race. Source: http://www.drudgereport.com/flashos.htm

I think you are conflating a different incident in which Senator Obama is reported to have used the phrase “typical white person” in describing his grandmother. Obama was quoted in a radio interview on March 20, 2008 as saying: “The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know (pause) there’s a reaction in her that has been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and it sometimes comes out in the wrong way.” Source: National Review

Just wanted to correct your mistake.

smellthecoffee on April 7, 2008 at 11:27 AM

AND because the speech that he gave that was supposed to make all this go away contained the three words that will mark him forever as a phony. Typical. White. Person. You cannot, absolutely, and unequivocally CANNOT use that kind of formulation, and be “post-racial.”

Good point. All in all, Obama’s speech to quell the Wright controversy actually did more harm than good for him. In spite of the MSM adoration.

WSJ: Wright Stuff still looms over Obama campaign

Hopefully like a wall about to fall over and crush him!

Obama also stirs crowds into a frenzy of cheering and clapping when he talks about treating military veterans with respect, of giving them the best possible equipment, of providing top-notch health care for the wounded.

“They have earned our respect,” the Illinois senator exclaims.

And yet he wants to cut military funding, how exactly does that work?
There are so many issues that are coming up and out and getting attention now, thanks mostly to the rev. Wright disaster. I hope to God that the majority of sane people listen to this stuff and shrug off their white guilt when they go to vote in the general.

The Wright Stuff continues to resonate for three reasons.

No. The reason that the Wright Stuff continues to resonate is that Obama did not state Wright’s specific statements to denounce them, did not apologize for his own lapse in judgment by staying in the church*, and did not resign from the church. aunursa on April 7, 2008 at 9:11 AM

AND because the speech that he gave that was supposed to make all this go away contained the three words that will mark him forever as a phony. Typical. White. Person. You cannot, absolutely, and unequivocally CANNOT use that kind of formulation, and be “post-racial.” That formulation, and being the bearer of a message of racial healing do not belong in the same area code, much less the same speech. If McCain said that someone were a “typical black person,” or a “typical Mexican,”–game over. Obama would probably say that it was a forgettable “misstatement,” if someone were to press him on it , but the “typical white person,” such as you might find in Ohio or Pennsylvania, may not find it so forgettable.

Obama loves America so much he wants to transform it into the antithesis of itself… from capitalist to socialist, from limited government to big government, from melting pot to multiculturalist class/race/sex warfare, from classical liberal individualism to Marxist collectivism, from free markets to state-controlled markets…

After all, hating America is the highest expression of patriotism. Jeremiah Wright’s “God damn America” is an expression of pure patriotism, as it shows he loves America enough to ask God to curse it.

and the “I didn’t inhale” rationalization coming from Wright’s most famous parishioner.

Great line, Ed.

We get to see first hand the practice of what he preached.

Ed writes, “Most importantly, no one really knows Barack Obama.”

I’d say we know quite enough about him by his CHOICES and JUDGEMENT. This includes all his “present” votes, as well as his 20-year commitment to Reverend Wright.

As to…”moving beyond”…:

How much distance is there between

GOD and DAMN and AMERICA

or

I and CANNOT and DISASSOCIATE and MYSELF and FROM and REVEREND and WRIGHT…?!

Maybe even…

u n e l e c t a b l e

funky chicken on April 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM

You’re conflating…

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“God Damn America”

He is a gay liberal Democrat Brit, who claims to be a dissident conservative – despite being hilariously unable to identify a single issue on which he actually agrees with conservatives — he supports a racialist liberal with Marxist followers for President, a guy without a single position that could be described as anything other than radically liberal. He’s a writer by trade, but isn’t very good at it; a blogger now without a readership other than his critics, apparently.

Does anyone give a crap what Andrew Sullivan says about anything, and if so…why?

And then, I heard David Axelrod, on Morning Joe this morning, telling us how “consistant” Obama is.

franksalterego on April 7, 2008 at 9:19 AM

Axelrod says Obama is consistent? That’s funny. Obama has been all over the place on the Iraq war, despite his claims that he has always opposed it; that’s a “fairy tale” (Bill Clinton was right for once when he said that). And look at Obama’s position(s) on gun control: he supported a total ban on handgun ownership, but he also says that the Second Amendment ensures that individual citizens (and not just militias) have the right to possess guns. Obama’s been on every side of every issue. The only thing Obama has been consistent on is his desire to be President, and he’s willing to do or say anything to achieve that desire.

Wright must be quite talented at brainwashing lots of those poor people.

From the Blog Roll this morning, good stuff you should go read
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Quite a different story than the one we’re hearing, now.

And then, I heard David Axelrod, on Morning Joe this morning, telling us how “consistant” Obama is.

The only thing consistant about obalma is, his inconsistancy.

“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”

“He didn’t just cross the line,” Obama said. “He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women — who I hope will be athletes — that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It’s one that I’m not interested in supporting.”

Though every major presidential candidate has decried the racist remarks, Obama is the first one to say Imus should lose his job for them.
– http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3031317

And then, I heard David Axelrod, on Morning Joe this morning, telling us how “consistant” Obama is.

The WSJ says that Obama May Not Have Fully Contained Damage From Ex-Pastor, and I tend to agree with that. Obama may have jumped back up in the polls, but we need to keep an eye on the areas that he he needs:

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The Wright Stuff continues to resonate for three reasons.

No. The reason that the Wright Stuff continues to resonate is that Obama did not state Wright’s specific statements to denounce them, did not apologize for his own lapse in judgment by staying in the church*, and did not resign from the church. Had he done that, this story would have ended in March.

* By contrast, see McCain, who apologized for opposing the MLK holiday in Arizona.

WSJ: Wright Stuff still looms over Obama campaign

Great work Sherlock.

Canceled my subscription to that waste of trees too.