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Hitchens: Is Michelle Obama Responsible For the Wright Fiasco?Interesting as always, but I find Hitch sadly, knee-jerkedly in a headlong rush to excuse Barack Obama himself (that old leftism is hard to quit), which in turn finds him looking for a convenient scapegoat. You can click on the link for his attempt to absolve Barack by blaming Michelle; I'll just quote this. Liberal comment on Wright, and on the incredible damage that this conceited old fanatic has done to the Obama campaign, tends to dwell on the negative effect that black chauvinist rhetoric has on white working-class voters. Fair enough, I suppose. But why should a thinking black member of the working class want any truck with a Farrakhan fan or with a moral idiot who thinks that the drugs and disease in the black community are imposed by an outside conspiracy? I don't need any condescending liberal to explain to me why black Americans are inclined to be touchy about the way their forebears were treated any more than I require a patronizing former Harvard law student to guide me through the anxieties of the gun-owning and hunting community. I can quite easily understand these points without pedagogic assistance. What I won't be told is that Tawana Brawley was right, or that AIDS is the fault of the government, or that Jews were behind the slave trade, or that there is a secret Masonic code in the dollar bill. And the apologist for murder "Minister Farrakhan" and his big-mouth Christian friends flirt with this kind of half-baked garbage every day. Let me get to the left of Hitchens and rap him for seeking a Lady MacBeth in Margaritaville -- some people claim there's a calculating, malign woman to blame. Whatever "influenced" Obama to choose and support a conspiratorial racist demagogue as his "spiritual mentor," it was still Barack Obama's decision to do so. Barack Obama had at least one reason to seek the blacker-than-thou cred that Wright gave him that Michelle Obama lacks -- Barack Obama, being mixed race, had to strive to show his "authenticity," a need Michelle Obama didn't have. Thanks to both CJ and Alice H. You Definitely Can't Blame Oprah Winfrey... who left Wright's church long ago, when Obama should have. Winfrey was a member of Trinity United from 1984 to 1986, and she continued to attend off and on into the early to the mid-1990s. But then she stopped. A major reason—but by no means the only reason—was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Great National Dialogue On Race -- Um, Where Is It? A good point: Right about now, his much-heralded tutorial on race relations is looking more like Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech than the Gettysburg Address. Because, after last Tuesday's formal renunciation of his ties to Wright -- and presumably also his white grandmother and all blacks -- Obama looks not only tardy but thoroughly hypocritical. Didn't Obama's vaunted speech call for an open national dialogue on race, a subject he said was too important to ignore? Didn't he urge us to address those "old wounds" that still fester today? Whether you agree with him or not, isn't that exactly what Wright was doing last week when he reappeared in public to make more provocative statements on race and politics? | Recent Comments
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