Dull apple
The Barack Obama campaign has released a photo of Bill (not Hillary) Clinton shaking hands with the now-infamous America basher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. For someone who talks constantly about making a “change” in the politics-as-usual of D.C., this seems an awfully politics-as-usual move, following a week of politics-as-usual moves.
The HRC campaign’s e-mail response is hilarious:
Urgent indeed — a picture — oooooooo!
(Cleaning nose projectile coffee from keyboard, give me a moment)
One can only wonder what conclusion we are intended to draw from the release of the photograph. Is there to be some moral equivalence between having a 20-year relationship with “uncle” Wright and a photo op at a prayer breakfast attended by roughly 130 people?
The last couple of weeks have been tough on the candidate Chris Matthews recently compared to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. We learned he was being far less than honest about his relationship with indicted friend Tony Rezko, and similarly less than honest about his familiarity with Wright’s controversial view of our country. Along the way, he drew another, equally dishonest moral equivalence between Wright and his “typical white” grandmother.
“Change” is starting to bear a striking resemblance to the status-quo for D.C. Spin, deny, spin some more, then tar your opponent with the same brush.
Is it safe to say the shine is off the Obama apple?
Sen. Obama uttered a blatantly racist statement in that radio interview. He referred to his grandmother as “a typical white person”. Full quote: “But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, well there’s a reaction that’s in our experiences that won’t go away and can sometimes come out in the wrong way”. Go listen to the interview yourself. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried: http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=8a521134-e10b-4bfb-8aec-690d61794d50
The pertinent clip starts at about 2:20.
So on Obamaworld, all you white folk out there are typically racists - not that you want to be mind you, you just are. Sen. Obama made it painfully clear how he views the “typical white person”. That statement was deeply offensive to hundreds of millions of Americans.
Imagine the reaction if Sen. McCain or Clinton had uttered the phrase “typical black person”. There would be justifiable outrage, because it is indeed stereotyping an entire class of people based on skin color, and blatantly racist! Why is there silence for Obama?
Sen. Obama should be held to account for that racist statement, and for throwing his still living grandmother under the proverbial bus, for his own political expediency. Shame on you Sen. Obama….