The Silence is Deafening
Posted by Adam Graham in : Presidential Race 2008Over at Red State Rebels, a few days a go, this note appeared:
Meanwhile, 1984 VP nominee and Clinton backer Geraldine Ferraro is getting heat for a seriously racist remark she made last week.
No word at all on Barack Obama’s longtime spiritual mentor going off against the country. and particularly whites. The point has been made many times that the vociferousness of Wright’s statements as well as their anti-semetic, anti-American, anti-White content would be akin to John McCain having attend the Westboro Baptist Church the past 20 years. To believe Obama’s explanation stretches believablity:
The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.
In 20 years, a man of Wright’s views, temperment, and attitudes managed to pull the wool over Barack Obama’s eyes and never express his most extreme political views to his most powerful spiritual disciple? And Obama just happened to miss every sermon when this pastor used racist language, every time he attacked our country.
Even if true, Obama decided to remain a member of a church for a year knowing about these remarks and remained in the church. Would John McCain have stayed in a church if he found out his pastor was a white supremacist? I know I wouldn’t.
Yet, Obama did, and it’s the audacity of Barack Obama and our double standards on race that will allow this story to slide quietly into the night with much renewed enthusiasm for him from the left and millions more streaming into his coffers.
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Comment by Julie Fanselow
Adam, of course you know that the Rev. Wright is no longer on the Obama campaign (and he also is no longer the minister of Obama’s church).
The difference with the Ferraro situation was that Senator Clinton basically refused to call her out on what she said, just like the Clinton campaign has winked and nodded its way past so many race-baiting comments its surrogates (including Bill) have made in recent months.
Comment by Adam Graham
Julie, this is much bigger than Ferraro. This man was Obama’s spiritual mentor and he gave an unbelievable response. Again, this would be akin to John McCain’s close pastor for 20 years being Fred Phelps and McCain claiming not to know about Phelps’ views.
Comment by Howard
Obama can’t be believed!
After 20 years of attending the Trinity Church, and choosing racist Jeremiah Wright as his pastor, mentor and advisor, all of a sudden, Obama is outraged by Wright’s remarks and all of a sudden, Obama denounces Wright? Only a fool would believe Obama didn’t know, and didn’t support Wright’s words for 20 years … that’s 20 years! Obama has claimed that he’s the candidate of ‘change you can believe in’ … but his claims of not knowing Wright’s position for 20 years makes Obama unbelievable. His 20 year association with Jeremiah Wright makes Obama’s current denouncements of Wright unbelievable. And, his 20 year involvement with the divisive Wright makes Obama’s call for unity
unbelievable as well. Unfortunately, sometimes people believe what they want to believe, rather than what’s true … and, unfortunately, this is one of those times.