Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Yes You Can
Barack Obama says he could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than he could disown his own grandmother.
Horsefeathers. Casting off old friends who aren't quite cut out for the Big Time is precisely what presidents can and should do. Two of the greatest debacles of the current administration were strongly enabled by Bush's failure to put Michael Brown and Donald Rumsfeld to the knife when it first became obvious they were losing control of the ball.
Obama's tacit endorsement of Wright also does a grave disservice to the thousands of black ministers who manage to preach empowerment and against injustice without spouting batshit-crazy theories about the origin of AIDS and whether the CIA invented crack to keep the black man down. And if you don't think that the white voters of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida approach race relations with the same mentality as Cantabrigians, then you'll quickly realize why this stuff could be electoral poison in November. ¶ 11:13 AM
Barack Obama says he could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than he could disown his own grandmother.
Horsefeathers. Casting off old friends who aren't quite cut out for the Big Time is precisely what presidents can and should do. Two of the greatest debacles of the current administration were strongly enabled by Bush's failure to put Michael Brown and Donald Rumsfeld to the knife when it first became obvious they were losing control of the ball.
Obama's tacit endorsement of Wright also does a grave disservice to the thousands of black ministers who manage to preach empowerment and against injustice without spouting batshit-crazy theories about the origin of AIDS and whether the CIA invented crack to keep the black man down. And if you don't think that the white voters of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida approach race relations with the same mentality as Cantabrigians, then you'll quickly realize why this stuff could be electoral poison in November. ¶ 11:13 AM
