Truth
UPDATE. Race card played: Criticism of Wright is an ”attack on our senior paster and on the history of the African-American church.” It’s actually called the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Hertz donut.* Your host at PJM:
We owe a debt of gratitude to the Democratic Party, its two remaining presidential candidates and their campaigns for the important lessons in sensitivity and political correctness they have offered in recent weeks.
Speaking of PC Obamitudes, Malkin has the teacher’s pet nodding in class.
Steyn, in Pastor Disaster, gives Irving Berlin a reWright:
“God damn America
Land that I loathe.”
I understand the Ellis Island experience of Russian Jews was denied to blacks. But not to Obama. His experience surely isn’t so different to Berlin’s – except that Barack got to go to Harvard. Obama’s father was a Kenyan, he spent his childhood in Indonesia, and he ought to thank his lucky stars that he’s running for office in Washington rather than Nairobi or Jakarta.
Now that’s a string of inconvenient and hurtful truths.
Yuks from across the aisle, Kinsely with Offense Taken:
Basically, in the modern political campaign, there is no room for remarks of any sort on any subject which could be interpreted as giving offense to anyone, and that covers just about every subject there is. Therefore, my campaign will enter a cone of silence from now until I am sworn in as president next January. And I call upon my distinguished opponent and her campaign to do the same. The stakes in this election are much too high for anyone to say anything.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:44 am on Sunday, March 16, 2008
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March 16th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Good thoughts JC. Throughout all of this nobody has mentioned the Civil War. My family, like a lot of other then recent immigrants, had members in Mr. Lincoln’s Army, though they could probably barely speak English. Black America was the ultimate benefactor of the sacrifice of several hundred thousand mostly white and often recent Americans, and while it was far from a perfect outcome, it set the course correctly. I would go so far as to say the resulting 100 years until the Civil Rights Act were a cold war of sorts in which black America was again the ultimate benefactor. I think this point of view it has been portrayed best in the recent movie “Remember the Titans”, where Denzel Washington implores his encamped newly biracial team to consider Gettysburg as “holy ground”. Because it is holy ground, America’s holy ground of racial healing and reconciliation.
If I ever met “Reverend” Wright, or indeed Senator Obama, (as I am certain he has heard Wright’s virulent message), I would ask them to consider looking on America’s enormous 150 year contribution to the freedom and equality under the law of all Americans and to either move forward or to retire to the margins of society where the few remaining racists either whisper the “n” word to each other and giggle or damn the one place on earth that has condemned such behavior.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Most (if not all) of the bile spewed by The Most Revereend Wright and his ilk is intended to reinforce the victim status of all blacks in America. A status at odds with the facts, but, hey, since when do scam artists worry about facts?
March 16th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
All the prominent reverends, Jesse, Al and Jeremiah, seem to have large elements of the scam artist lurking in their holier than thou breasts.
I’m sure there is a plethora of black ministers out there who have a lot more credibility with the actual teachings of Jesus than Jeremiah does.
Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog, sing along