Clintonistas and Rev. Wright (don't get looney)
Okay, so for all you bewildered neocons and Hillary supporters who portentously harp on the implications of Obama's association with Reverend Wright, I have to ask: what exactly are you so afraid of? I want specifics here, guys. I know, some of you are just using Wright's outbursts as a new and convenient justification for why Hillary should get the nomination. It's kind of flimsy, but whatever, nothing new in the perennial wishful thinking of ye olde Clintonistas. I suppose this comment is directed more at those people who keep forecasting that Wright's speeches are some ominous indication of how Obama will run the country as president. I'm just wondering if you'd care to elaborate on these fears? Because asking "Just WHO is Barack Obama???" is getting awfully inane, despite all the new anti-Obama scuzz Sean Hannity manages to dredge up. Personally, I think you have a better chance in whining about Rezko and Obama's ability to bring about change than your new approach of suggesting that he is somehow deceiving the American public, eagerly waiting to plunge the country someplace very big, very bad, and very black. I mean, I don't really know what you're getting at when you talk about how you can't support him because he's known this pastor for twenty years...is it that you think this association has poisoned Obama's character? That he's just talking a nice game of post-partisan unity and change, but the moment he's sworn into office he's going to put white America in one giant labor camp, appoint Louis Farrakhan as his veep, declare himself ruler for life and beyond, bomb Israel, and sell our children to Iran to build nuclear weapons? That he's really a glib hatemonger? It sounds like you're edging towards that wonderful new e-mail smear that Obama is the antichrist. It's sad, because I'd like to think you'd be able to keep your rancor on the level, instead of following Hillary off the edge of sanity like a herd of buffalo off a cliff.
Look, I love my father. He's a kind, insightful, and generous man. But he grew up in a blue-collar area of Long Island, his father was a railroad worker, and sometimes his opinions on groups like homosexuals and hispanics are pretty offensive (he is, by the way, an Obama supporter). Sometimes the things he says really makes my skin crawl, but nevertheless, I understand that he grew up in a different time, with different social and cultural norms and influences. In the end he's my father, and I've always been smart enough to discern the wisdom from the sixty-year old prejudices. It's just an inevitability (or perhaps tendency) of the older generation, I'd say. My father remains my mentor and continues to offered me priceless advice, but that hardly means I've ever agreed with him on any of his close-minded opinions. Ever. We've gotten into plenty heated arguments about it, but in the end what's meaningful about our relationship isn't based on an ignorant, bygone cultural understanding from the 1950s. So Lord knows, I am not going to hold Obama accountable for the sins of the father--especially seeing as how Jeremiah Wright, being a crusader in the Civil Rights campaign, must have infinitely more reasons to be angry than my old man.
The HuffPo article titled 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?' got it right (no link, because I'm lazy). You twits need to stop jerking off your visceral fears and examine what it is you're actually so afraid of. One user wrote something on Huffington along the lines of, "Try to understand where this racist is coming from? I don't want to understand!" Well, I suppose some people have already learned all they'll ever need to know about black people from rap music and basketball, so there's no need to look any further into the history an feelings of some of those 1960s Civil Rights fighters who had hot coffee poured on their heads or dogs set on them. Let's disregard the fact that racism doesn't end just when you get rid of colored water fountains, and systematic oppression and discrimination is still alive and well in this country today, and might cause a bubbling reserve of slightly irrational but righteous indignation among oppressed minorities. Let's not even give them the benefit of the doubt. No, let's just take this outburst as a militant threat against white security and cry foul because Geraldine Ferraro didn't get so much understanding. Rev. Wright doesn't speak for Obama, and I don't see how on earth Obama could ever be a hatemonger...unless I'm to believe these oh-so-rich allegations that he's a *secret* hatemonger with a *secret* agenda for America that he'll *secretly* pass despite our time-honored (well, maybe less recently) of checks and balances.
In sum, Hillary people, please stick to dismissing his change. Then you can be snide and all knowing and we can start touting the math and call you delusional and we can all go back to agreeing to disagree. But I'm begging you: do not go down this looney road. I mean, what's next? He's going to paint the White House black? Please.
As for all of those trolls who have started to jabber about how this outburst has sounded the death knell for Obama, I would like to remind you PA is six weeks away. Media coverage is a capricious mistress...or maybe an a child with ADHD...anyway. NAFTAgate was what? Two weeks ago? And who even considers that relevant at this point? If this Wright codswallop is as intense and unrelenting in six weeks as it is now, then maybe you little wonky Nostradamuses can start with the predictions. But 48 hours is a little too soon to start consulting your crystal ball.
So uh, suck it.
Peas
Look, I love my father. He's a kind, insightful, and generous man. But he grew up in a blue-collar area of Long Island, his father was a railroad worker, and sometimes his opinions on groups like homosexuals and hispanics are pretty offensive (he is, by the way, an Obama supporter). Sometimes the things he says really makes my skin crawl, but nevertheless, I understand that he grew up in a different time, with different social and cultural norms and influences. In the end he's my father, and I've always been smart enough to discern the wisdom from the sixty-year old prejudices. It's just an inevitability (or perhaps tendency) of the older generation, I'd say. My father remains my mentor and continues to offered me priceless advice, but that hardly means I've ever agreed with him on any of his close-minded opinions. Ever. We've gotten into plenty heated arguments about it, but in the end what's meaningful about our relationship isn't based on an ignorant, bygone cultural understanding from the 1950s. So Lord knows, I am not going to hold Obama accountable for the sins of the father--especially seeing as how Jeremiah Wright, being a crusader in the Civil Rights campaign, must have infinitely more reasons to be angry than my old man.
The HuffPo article titled 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?' got it right (no link, because I'm lazy). You twits need to stop jerking off your visceral fears and examine what it is you're actually so afraid of. One user wrote something on Huffington along the lines of, "Try to understand where this racist is coming from? I don't want to understand!" Well, I suppose some people have already learned all they'll ever need to know about black people from rap music and basketball, so there's no need to look any further into the history an feelings of some of those 1960s Civil Rights fighters who had hot coffee poured on their heads or dogs set on them. Let's disregard the fact that racism doesn't end just when you get rid of colored water fountains, and systematic oppression and discrimination is still alive and well in this country today, and might cause a bubbling reserve of slightly irrational but righteous indignation among oppressed minorities. Let's not even give them the benefit of the doubt. No, let's just take this outburst as a militant threat against white security and cry foul because Geraldine Ferraro didn't get so much understanding. Rev. Wright doesn't speak for Obama, and I don't see how on earth Obama could ever be a hatemonger...unless I'm to believe these oh-so-rich allegations that he's a *secret* hatemonger with a *secret* agenda for America that he'll *secretly* pass despite our time-honored (well, maybe less recently) of checks and balances.
In sum, Hillary people, please stick to dismissing his change. Then you can be snide and all knowing and we can start touting the math and call you delusional and we can all go back to agreeing to disagree. But I'm begging you: do not go down this looney road. I mean, what's next? He's going to paint the White House black? Please.
As for all of those trolls who have started to jabber about how this outburst has sounded the death knell for Obama, I would like to remind you PA is six weeks away. Media coverage is a capricious mistress...or maybe an a child with ADHD...anyway. NAFTAgate was what? Two weeks ago? And who even considers that relevant at this point? If this Wright codswallop is as intense and unrelenting in six weeks as it is now, then maybe you little wonky Nostradamuses can start with the predictions. But 48 hours is a little too soon to start consulting your crystal ball.
So uh, suck it.
Peas
