The Continuing Story of Jeremiah Wright
The whole Jeremiah Wright story actually has some interesting side effects, because it’s killing two birds with one (crazy, possibly racist) stone. First, it’s hurting the campaign of Barack Obama, who, off the top of my head, is one of the purest, most tax-happy liberals I can think of.
I used to think that Hillary as President would mean the end of civilization as we know it. Now, even she argues for less taxes than this guy. I’m not going to say that Hillary is more palatable to me, since I would still never vote for her either, but at least with her she’s willing to pander enough to moderates to have some semblance of economic sanity. But I digress.
Second, the Jeremiah Wright story is revealing just how crazy some people in this country are when it comes to racial issues. Whenever I hear someone clap for something insane that Jeremiah Wright says, I wonder how it’s possible to find people that agree with him, much less are willing to go out in public in order to hear him speak.
Of course, I’m white, so naturally nothing I say about race counts. Instead, let’s see the daffy things Rev. Wright said recently at the National Press Club:
On attacks on the “Black Church”:
As I said, this is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright. It has nothing to do with Senator Obama. It is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition.
Really? An attack on “the black church?” It’s more likely that the media has found something sensational to link to a popular political candidate - Rev. Wright’s sermon footage - and used it as a relevant story.
I was not aware that a “Black Church” exists. Of course, for racists, it’s important to separate “Black” and “White,” is it not? Imagine if your pastor started talking about how everyone attacks the “White church.” He’d sound a little crazy.
On Obama separating himself from Wright:
Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever’s doing the polls.
That must be when Obama shouted at the TV for Wright to shut up.
On his grandmamma:
As I said, this is an attack on the black church. It is not about Obama, McCain, Hillary, Bill, Chelsea. This is about the black church.
This is about Barbara Jordan. This is about Fanny Lou Hamer. This is about my grandmamma.
Show of hands. How many of you think this is about Fanny Lou Hamer and Wright’s grandmamma?
Keep in mind, all of this is coming AFTER he’s already made a mess of things for Obama, his friend . I can only assume Wrights wants to help him win the Presidency.
On one hand, he claims all of the thousand Fox News clips of him saying stuff like “[Gosh Dern] America!” leaves out much of the context; on the other, all he does is provide new, insane fodder. Why? In case the old, insane fodder was too out of context?
Then he goes around saying that Obama HAS to distance himself from Wright because Obama’s a politician, another way of saying “Wink-wink, Obama really agrees with me, he just can’t do it publically.” It’s like Wright is on Hillary’s payroll.
So he’s hurting Obama’s campaign. That much is clear. The question is, why? Why not retire to your nice house and let things blow over so your boy can become President? Obama must be insane with anger that Wright continues to take up headlines. The guy who baptized his child(ren?) and married him and Michelle is basically selling him out for his fifteen minutes.
Answer: the guy is clearly nuts. Maybe not in the legal sense, but Jeremiah Wright’s on some sort of power trip that most of us don’t understand. Maybe for him, any kind of publicity is good publicity. Maybe he likes dancing on podiums in Detroit. I can only assume someone who’s charismatic enough to shout at the top of his lungs to a crowd of applauding supporters must, in some way, bask in the attention.
But like I said, the Continuing Story of Jeremiah Wright has its good effects. He’s hurting Obama’s campaign; maybe not irreparably, but enough to make North Carolina’s primary more interesting.
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