While effete liberals at the NY Times and gourmet dog biscuit shops smugly suggest they are not racists but they know it lurks in less cosmopolitan parts, perhaps those "rubes" in West Virginia got it right.
Perhaps the NY Times should abandon Barack Obama on his racist reconciliation tour of blue collar car plants and at the Edwards loser lovefest and take it to TUCC, where real racism resides. Stanley Kurtz, in National Review's May 19th cover story, explores the Rev. Wright's black liberation theology based on the writings of James Cone. At his infamous speech at the National Press Club Wright reaffirmed his reliance on Cone, and Cone has claimed Wright's church exemplifies his beliefs--TUCC, the most radical church in America--Barack Obama's church for 20 years. It's worth reading in full, but I will give you this from the print edition:
Indeed, one of the most striking features of Black Theology and Black Power is its strident attack on white liberals. According to Cone, "when white do-gooders are confronted with the style of Black Power, realizing that black people really place them in the same category with the George Wallaces, they react defensively, saying, 'It's not my fault' or 'I am not responsible.'" But Cone insists that white, liberal do-gooders are every bit as responsible as the most dyed-in-the-woll segregationists. Well before it became a cliché, Cone boldly set forth the argument for institutional racism--the notion that "racism is so embedded in the heart of American society that few, if any, whites can free themselves from it."Cone does soften his stance a bit against the white middle class Antichrist churches,The liberal's favorite question, says Cone, is "What can I do?" He replies that, short of turning radical and putting their lives on the line behind a potentially violent revolution, liberals can do nothing.
"This does not necessarily mean burning of their buildings with Molotov cocktails." He has also said black hatred of whites is every bit as justified as hatred of Germans by Jews. According to Kurtz, Wright's radical philosophy permeates every sermon, every bulletin, every issue of his magazine--there's no way Barack Obama could not have known what Wright was about. Most of Wright's original congregation left, and relations with the parent church were strained over its radicalism--yet Barack Obama stayed, you might say he clung to it. Religion being the opiate of the people and all. Marxist, black separatist Kool-Aid.
Hugh Hewitt, Townhall has key excerpts from Kurtz's look at Wright's Trumpet magazine, which offers some insight into Obama's remarks on the flag pin and phony patriotism. We are apparently all white supremacists now. So liberals, perhaps you had best ask, in this context, why do they hate us? Obama used religion to campaign in Pennsylvania, and now Kentucky. Left Coast Oregon version? Meanwhile, more separatism.
Why is Barack Obama's hope based on hate?
UPDATE: Tom Bevan, RCP on Hillary's biggest mistake and the Rev. Wright. Newsweek asks, Does Edwards Matter? And Karl Rove on the GOP challenge:
Republicans also face challenges with the young (whose opposition to the war and attraction to Mr. Obama have made them Democrats) and Hispanics (the fastest-growing part of the electorate). A recent survey offers some encouraging news. Mr. McCain is polling as high as 41% with Hispanics – close to President Bush's 44% in 2004.Democrats shouldn't be complacent after Tuesday. Their problems start with Mr. Obama's 41-point loss to Hillary Clinton in West Virginia. Mr. Obama lost the primary because the rejection of him by blue-collar voters is hardening. The last Democrat to win the presidency without carrying the Mountain State was Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
--crossposted at BackyardConservative
Posted by Anne Leary on May 15, 2008 5:12 AM
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Who believes that his association with Rev. Wrignt reflects poorly on Obama? That's an interesting question.
There are two major classes of White voters, roughly defined by the fact that half of all voters have below-average intelligence.
The upper half is mostly college educated and either professional or working in offices where their work involves language and communication. These people include many atheists, agnostics, and people who go to church infrequently or for mostly social reasons. They listen politely to the sermons, which are usually a rehash of previous sermons, but are there mostly to meet others and exchange personal and family information and gossip. These people do not get their political opinion from their pastor or priest. They have minds of their own. One example: a large majority of Catholics use various means of birth control and oppose repeal of Roe vs. Wade. Among the better educated Catholics, this majority is much larger.
The lower half of the IQ spectrum has a different story. They are less educated and often do manual work. They go to church regularly and take their religious beliefs seriously. They look to the pastor or priest for both moral and political guidance. The often believe that he extrudes wisdom from every orifice.
This difference between the two halves determines their attitude toward Obama. The bright people know that Obama sits through Rev. Wright's sermons only in order to be elected and re-elected again and again to the Illinois Senate.
They know that Obama doesn't look to Rev. Wright for anything else but religious affiliation.
The duller people really believe that Obama is like them, that he gets his political ideas and ethics and wisdom from his pastor. These people will therefore associate Obama's beiefs with Wright's ideas.
The course for Obama is clear. Tell the truth. He needed TUCC only as an electoral base. It worked very well and he has spent the last eleven years in Springfield, Illinois or Washington, DC., not sitting in that church.
And that's the truff!
Posted by Atrooper4 | May 15, 2008 5:28 PM
Posted on May 15, 2008 17:28
ATrooper4, you sound just like Obama with the Marxist/Class Struggle/IQ analysis. Obama cannot tell the truth about his attachment to BLT, that is the central subject of his own life, he even published a couple of books about BLT. The real issues that BHO cannot tell the "truff" about is the Chicago Way politics that he came from, the Rezko trial is about to conclude and we will likely see the BHO Campaign once again trying to put Humpty dumpty back together.
Posted by Moultrie | May 17, 2008 4:52 AM
Posted on May 17, 2008 04:52