Wednesday, April 09, 2008

"A Brilliant Fraud"

Charles Krauthammer writes here about Barack Obama's speech to try to answer critics of his virulently anti-America, racist pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Krauthammer sees right through Obama's "brilliant fraud." If you have not already read the whole thing, I hope you will. Here is his last paragraph.


"But Obama was supposed to be new. He flatters himself as a man of the future transcending the anger of the past as represented by his beloved pastor. Obama then waxes rhapsodic about the hope brought by the new consciousness of the young people in his campaign. Then answer this, Senator: If Wright is a man of the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness? This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well. Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?"

3 comments:

shoprat said...

I wish we could have had a panning of the congregation during those sermons. I bet he was there and cheering.

Dionne said...

Krauthammer and Jason Whitlock have been the best on Obama and the Rev. Wright saga so far.

Terri Wagner said...

Emotionally based people will always respond to well spoken words designed to influence their emotion while logic based people will scratch their heads in puzzlement. I have ceased trying to understand Obama supporters. He is just a cheesy/sleazy politican. As you can tell, I'm logic driven.