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Right Side Politics ExaminerDan Spencer has been blogging at, and as, California Yankee since 2003. He lives in Connecticut and practices law in New York. Here he will discuss the politics of the Right.
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by Dan Spencer, Right Side Politics Examiner
Charles Krauthammer revisits Obama's highly touted Philadelphia "race" speech:"I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother." -- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18
Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia "race" speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. A New York Times columnist said it "should be required reading in classrooms across the country." College seniors and first-graders, suggested the excitable Chris Matthews.Obama decided he had to banish Wright only six weeks after telling the world he could no more do so than he could "disown Granny." Poor Granny.
Apparently there's been a curriculum change. On Tuesday, the good senator begged to extend and revise his previous remarks on race. Moral equivalence between Grandma and Wright is now, as the Nixon administration used to say, inoperative.
Obama cited three of Wright's comments, which Obama now finds "shockingly 'divisive and destructive' enough to justify his flip flop on dissociating himself from Obama:
Wright's claim that AIDS was invented by the U.S. government to commit genocide. His praise of Louis Farrakhan as a great man. And his blaming Sept. 11 on American "terrorism."As Krauthammer points out, these Wright outrages are not new. Rather, these comments were precisely the comments that prompted the initial furor back in March. More important, the association with Wright bring Obama's judgment into question:
This 20-year association with Wright calls into question everything about Obama: his truthfulness in his serially adjusted stories of what he knew and when he knew it; his judgment in choosing as his mentor, pastor and great friend a man he just now realizes is a purveyor of racial hatred; and the central premise of his campaign, that he is the bringer of a "new politics," rising above the old Washington ways of expediency.Let's face it, when we elect a president what we are selecting is the candidate's judgment.
Topics: Obama , 2008 Election , Wright , Granny
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