Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:36:01
Barack Obama is just a nicer version of Al Sharpton *UPDATED*
Why won’t Barack Obama hold Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the same standard he held Don Imus to less than a year ago?
I’ll say it. What the hell do I care? No one can fire me or force me to apologize.
BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.
That’s the sum total of the entire reason why Barack Jesus Kennedy Obama is not allowed to be questioned, why he’s not held to any standard of honesty and why he is not expected to tell the god-damned truth. It’s why he can claim to be about hope and change while maintaining business-as-usual levels of Chicago corruption. It’s why he gets away with changing the subject completely from Jeremiah Wright’s complete lunatic HATE - yes, hate - of white people and makes it about why YOU are a racist for thinking anything other than “Obama is the new Jesus and Jeremiah Wright is his Father.”
And lastly, it is the sum total of the reason Barack Jesus Kennedy Obama will not hold Wright to the same standard he set for Imus, despite the fact that Wright’s nonsense if approximately three million times more hateful, insane, race-baiting and dangerous; BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. Which one? Well, both, actually. Obama won’t hold Wright accountable because Wright is black, and Obama desperately needs black people to vote for him simply because of color. By the same logic, Obama won’t hold Wright accountable because Obama is black, and as stated, he needs black people to vote for him simply because of color. He cannot afford to be seen as throwing Wright under the bus because that would alienate the specific kind of black voters that believe white Americans created AIDS to kill black babies - and they are vocal as hell, even though they are a tiny, tiny number of cranks and kooks. They can easily shift perception simply by making noise and calling Barack a sell-out, etc.
But...he has to say *something* so as to not alienate the white morons who can see themselves as enlightened enough to vote for a black man, even though voting for him because he is black is racist on its face. So we got that empty speech that sounds great until you actually look at what is being said.
All that crap about race relations in America was exactly that; crap. Nice words on paper. When push comes to shove, Obama’s actual actions support none of what he said in his speech. He allowed himself and his family to be shaped - spiritually and morally - by a vile, racist old hatemonger with nothing but hate in his heart for white people. Now Obama has shifted the blame and responsibility for all of this to those who won’t make apologies for the racist old man. Obama has made it OUR fault for being offended at a hatemongering racist. How dare you be offended! You’re white! Anyone can say anything they want about you, and you do not have a right to ask for accountability or to be offended and question that person’s ability to lead the nation.
You’re white. Shut up and get in line.
When that 700 Club idiot Pat Robertson and his jerky compatriot Jerry Falwell tried to blame 9/11 on gays and feminists a week or so after it happened, I was livid and disgusted, and rightly so. Why should I be any less disgusted by Jeremiah Wright? A person who is not disgusted by the things Jeremiah Wright said isn’t someone I want to know, much less lead my country. What sort of person isn’t disgusted by Wright? Who wouldn’t find that crap offensive enough to utterly denounce the man and leave his church?
Barack Obama, that’s who. God damn America? God damn you, Barack Obama, for making me actually want Hilary Clinton to win anything.
Is anyone else sick of being told to shut up and get in line every time you turn around? Left, right, black, white, foreign, domestic, government, corporate, it makes no difference. Everyone is constantly telling us to shut up and get in line.
I’m fed up. Why aren’t you?
*UPDATE*
Via frequent commenter Rann’s LJ, we get this from Caroline Glick. While I suggest that you read the whole thing, the last bit is great:
The fact that he didn’t, and the fact that he upheld this man until just a few months ago as his spiritual mentor and still refuses to condemn him and his deeply flawed character tells me everything I need to know about Barack Obama. I think that he is an opportunistic, weak man. I hope and pray that he doesn’t become President.
We are currently on the tail end of a eight year stretch with an opportunistic and weak man as our leader. We did another eight year stretch before that. Unfortunately our choices are between one of (currently) three weak and opportunistic people. Time to make a decision: Lesser of two (or three) evils, or do we draw a line in the sand?
I still don’t know what I am going to do come election day. I just know I am sick to death of men and women like Obama, Clinton and McCain.
By the way, what Rann wrote in response to the Glick piece is also worth a read.
It sounds like a good speech. I’ll definitely try to sit down and read it today.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to shake the feeling that it’s a bit like the Emperor thoroughly describing his magnificent new clothes.
Bingo.
*UPDATE* 2
Oh look, Andrew Sullivan went all hysterical again. If you don’t agree that the sun shines out of Obama’s mouth and “The Speech” wasn’t the greatest thing since MLK’s “I have a Dream” speech, then you’re a racist. That Sully. So intellectually honest....
Posted by JimK at 03:36 PM on March 19, 2008
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#3 Posted by Joe R. 
on 03/19 at 09:25 PM -
No fair, I’ve been using the Emperor’s New Clothes bit for a while now, albeit only in coversation. I don’t think I’ve written it yet.
#4 Posted by supercore on 03/19 at 09:40 PM -
Here’s a thought, What if this was Condoleeza Rice in Barack’s place? There’s no amount of speechifying that would or should get her out of it. I believe it’s less because he’s black so much as it’s because he’s as far to the left on most stuff as can be imagined and the people who support him, while giving lip service in the other direction, pretty much agree with Wright. Obama’s trying to play to the middle but Wright’s shit is bread and butter for his most zealous supporters.
#5 Posted by mgnmfrc1 on 03/19 at 11:10 PM -
Ok, so lets review for us white guys who are not RINO’s
I’m not voting for Obammy, therefore I am a racist
I’m not voting for Shrillary, therefore I must be a chauvunist anti-feminist.
I’m not voting for Mcamnesty, therefor I am a liberal communist supporting hippie.
Just makes me warm and fuzzy all over.
#6 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 03/20 at 12:26 AM -
Is it just me, or does Sully’s site have a distinct lack of a comment feature?
That’s so… familiar… like another shrill shrieking hysterical accuser with a beard we sometimes talk about…
#7 Posted by bendparker on 03/20 at 10:28 AM -
This is the best post I’ve read in quite some time.
#8 Posted by Buzzion on 03/21 at 10:00 AM -
When that 700 Club idiot Pat Robertson and his jerky compatriot Jerry Falwell tried to blame 9/11 on gays and feminists a week or so after it happened, I was livid and disgusted, and rightly so.
There’s a pathetic shit over at the moorewatch forums attempting to use these guys for the justification of Wright. Of course he’ll just claim its all about debate, and for you to actually assign a position to him based on what he post… well that’s just wrong.
Get this, he actually believes that Republicans get a media free pass when these preachers spew their bile.
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BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.
Sums it all up nicely.
I found this interesting, linked from AoS to POJ media:
Roger Simon