but we don’t see how anyone could question his commitment to transcending old racial battles and finding common ground.

There is no evidence that he tried to transcend the old racial battles; in fact, he let his wife & children stew in it under Rev. Wright while apparently still stewing himself over the bleeding wounds inflicted on him by his typical white grandmother.

But no one, for me, can show where Obama’s public policy views emanate from the racialist worldview of Wright.

Wright preaches that white America continues to oppress blacks and deny them equal opportunities. Obama supports more affirmative action and racial preference programs. In 2006, Obama recorded a radio commercial in Michigan, urging voters there to reject a state ballot initiative that would prohibit the state from giving advantages in hirings for state job to applicants based on their race/gender. (The initiative passed, despite Obama’s efforts to defeat it).

Wright preaches that “white man’s greed runs a world in need.” Obama is sponsoring a Senate bill to give nearly $1 Trillion U.S. tax dollars to the United Nations over the next 15 years, on top of the U.S.’ already substantial foreign aid contributions, to combat “global poverty.” Obama also advocates tax policies in the U.S. that would redistribute income to make it more “fair.”

2. Combine this with the observation: although segregation has been outlawed, whites and blacks have largely continued to choose to socialize separately.

3. Add the observation: racism and intolerance are largely taught and passed on in social situations where only one race is present.

And it logically follows it falls upon whites to speak up among their fellow whites – and blacks among blacks -against racism, racist attitudes and intolerance when and where it occurs. If they are visionaries and hope to change the future of race relations, the most important, actually critical time when they absolutely must speak up is wherever and whenever they find one existing intolerant racist spreading his\her disease to others.

From what I have been able to get out the revelations about his associates, Senator Obama has been living in an environment with abundant opportunities to establish a long history of on the job experience asserting his leadership and demonstrating his track record of working toward racial reconciliation for the present.

Their must be someone out there this leader of hope and change for the future tried to save from a lifetime of bitter feelings and racial intolerance?

Some letter, or paper, or article or speech on the topic that predates the exposure of Wright?

Anything Obama says now could always just be chalked up to political expediency.

Senator Obama?

Obama’s reality: He grew up amoung peers who really did resemble “a U.N. gathering” for the mix of races and he was not alienated; in spite of this he chose to be bitter and sunk below, and now his chosen associates foment harsh racism.

Talk about change…

The Post, in attempting to have it both ways, makes itself incoherent.

The Washington Post in a nutshell.

How long until Chris Matthews waxes “What does this say about America…?”

Better plan on a trip to the bitter, bible thumping, xenophobic gun shop for a new pair of ear plugs before it all starts.

Question: Where has Obama shown in his public career anything that indicates that he believes in any of the noxious nonsense spewed by Wright? . . .

SteveMG on April 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM

Obama certainly doesn’t have much in common with the folks at Trinity. But I’ll answer your point it in the following manner.

I have young kids and like most parents, we try to regulate the things to which we expose our kids. That means we monitor and regulate exposure to TV, Movies, Music etc….because for better or worse, we believe that young minds can be unduly influenced by the things that they are exposed. This is what loving, caring parents do and I don’t think we’re alone in this view.

I have no reason to believe Mr Obama and his wife would not be concerned about exposing their kids to things they found offensive or might due damage to their kids. Quite the opposite, I would think they are loving, caring parents who only want what’s best for their kids.

Within this context, it is worth noting that not only did Mr Obama and his wife attend this church, but they took their kids to Trinity as well. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that they believed there was some benefit which could be derived by exposing their kids to the messages preached at the church and the socialization that would occur by interacting with like-minded people.

Obama stayed with Wright in whatever relationship they had for personal ambition.
SteveMG on April 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM

Link please.

Obama built his career around leftists, marxists and black nationalists.

Of course, it was ambition. But if you were politically ambitious, would you join hands with Rev Wright? Obama joined hands with someone like-minded.

IMO Obama was not angry over Wrights statements… at least until he pointed out that Obama was a typical politician and HAD to say those things…

Thats what ticked him off… thats why yesterdays anger was there… not the black racist rant, but the personal betrayal.

Romeo13

Exactly! Barry was fine with Wright right up until Monday. It’s only when he saw the film and the personal comments directed at him did he finally get angry. All we need now is an affair and this would be the perfect daytime/nighttime drama.

Almost everyone will agree that Barry used the church to gain a political foothold in the community, and they accept that! I’ve see people here at HotAir not care about that one fact. To me it shows how morally corrupt he is and not what I want in our President. Unreal.

Yet Obama claims that he never heard Wright make any racially divisive statements until this weekend.

Strains credulity past the breaking point.

1) If Wright’s words are true, then is it white’s that are 2/3 human, or blacks? Where do the Illegal Alien Illiterate Peasants fall into this conversation? Are they right brain, left brain?

2) Funny how the Leftist Media shows so much tolerance for BIGOTS, as long as the BIGOTS support their philosophy.

Question: Where has Obama shown in his public career anything that indicates that he believes in any of the noxious nonsense spewed by Wright? . . .

SteveMG on April 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM

I have heard that Obambi signed a declaration on joining the Trinity church agreeing with the venomous ‘Black Liberation Theology’ that Wright preaches. I can’t find it now on the Web; maybe someone else has a link, preferably to an image of the signed document.

But Mr. Obama is right when he says that his entire career is antithetical to the divisiveness of the Rev. Wright’s comments.

What “entire career” is that?

That’s Barry’s problem and what’s going to do him in.

Yes, liberals will vote for him. Of course the nutroots left secretly agrees with everything Wright said, and secretly believes too that Barry does as well, and that they’re all in on it together to fool the rubes.

But the hard left and blacks are the McGovern coalition. They ain’t enough.

The rest of the country will wonder why this guy and why now. Maybe they’ll still even like him, but ‘you’re young Barrry, do something and ask us again in ten years. You’ve got some potential, but you need time in the minors.’

Myself, I think Barry’s running now because he is hard enough left that he’d rather not have a record of achievement that put him outside the mainstream.

But the game’s up. I just hope he wins North carolina and the Dems run this guy. Or, if they wise up, that maybe someone on the right can call in some chits with Hillary, who would be dead if we weren’t so dumb, and maybe get us one not entirely activist supreme court nominee.

You’re never alone with a schizophrenic.

Obama does belong to and financially support an organization headed by a blatant and vile racist, whom he regards as his mentor. For 20 years.

Which counts more?

Question: Where has Obama shown in his public career anything that indicates that he believes in any of the noxious nonsense spewed by Wright?
SteveMG on April 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM

A fair question, Obama has not been in any kind of leadership role but for a few years…he hasn’t the experience to have used or shown where his value lay.
So, we go to the most visible record, his relationships, who he has chosen to help him move “forward”, and we see at least too very troubling people.
One, his spiritual advisor for 20 years, a man with beliefs like, whites infected blacks with hiv, and other disparaging weird thoughts. After one year a regular attendee of church knows his pastor and their beliefs, let alone 20 years and being a “prodigy”. Ayers, a most despicable man (read a little about that man, no one should be seen in public with that animal), that would be like if I hung out with McVeigh after he was out of prison and saying, he is a great guy…no worse, Ayers felt he didn’t kill enough innocent people. And then the million man march, to get a little “street cred” he shows up at a march put on by the most anti-Semite, anti-white, anti-christian, bigot in the U.S. Each of these, maybe not so bad, but as group it shows a pattern of who he is influenced by. Oh, and add to this his wifes belief of how bitter she is about the U.S., and it completes the picture…no you don’t need any “official” public statement or action, just look at the man and his relationships. He will never vote to “kill the white man”, he just associates with others that do.

In other words while it was angry words they were accurate words. So therefore there wasnt anything wrong with what was said only how it was said.

That has proved to be wrong not Wright.

In this editorial, the Post resembles nothing more than Obama’s own campaign.

One shade less partisan than the NY Slimes is what we’ve come to expect and adore about the WaPo.

Wright bathes in the hate of Cone, and it’s scary.