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David Reinhard
You know that http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4401" who “has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe”) when he addressed the Jeremiah Wright Jr. matter the first time? It roared back down the campaign trail Tuesday, and Obama tossed Wright — the man, as he said in his Philadelphia speech, “I can no more disown . . . than I can disown the black community” — under there with granny.
The only question that remains is the same one that remained after Obama’s first stab at putting distance between himself and Wright’s hate-filled crazy talk: What took so long?
“What we saw yesterday out of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4367 . . . is antithetical to our campaign, it is antithetical to what I am about,” Obama said of Wright’s Monday show at the National Press Club. “It is not what I think America stands for. . . . I cannot prevent him from continuing to make these outrageous remarks, but what I do want him to be very clear about, as well as all of you and the American people, is that when I say I find these comments appalling, I mean it.”
OK, fine. Obama’s had it with Wright. The question still remains: What took so long? After all, Obama’s pastor didn’t break any new ground Monday when it came to “outrageous” and “divisive.” It was the same racial poison and anti-American claptrap he’s trafficked in for years. Hailing Louis Farrakhan, equating America with al-Qaida, blaming the U.S. government for unleashing the AIDS virus on the black community — the Monday material that Obama found nasty enough to condemn was the stuff of old Wright sermons.
The only thing new was Wright’s assertion that Obama had to distance himself because he’s a politician. Perhaps this is what Obama deems outrageous and appalling — the notion he’s just another politician — though it’s the sanest thing that Wright said at his lunatic extravaganza.
Obama is asking American voters to believe that all this wrongheaded Wright stuff is all new to him. This is asking too much. His claim that he never heard, or never heard of, Wright’s exotic pronouncements over two decades is just incredible. In fact, after initially denying he’d ever heard anything controversial from Wright, Obama admitted in his Philadelphia speech that he had found some of Wright’s views offensive.