Obama points a finger
Now that Barack Obama’s speech the other day has him back in the good graces of the Kool-Aid drinkers who swoon at the mere sound of his voice, the presidential hopeful is trying to win over the more discerning folk among the Democrats.
While the liberal press coos over Obama’s “honesty” in addressing his pastor’s racism, the Obama campaign has resorted to some classic underhanded diversionary finger-pointing by releasing a picture to the New York Times showing President Clinton shaking hands with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s racist, anti-American pastor.
The event was an annual prayer breakfast with religious leaders, at which President Clinton discussed his personal experience with sinning, just hours before the Starr report was released detailing his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Al Gore is visible in the background of the photo, and Hillary Clinton was also in attendance at the breakfast. Notably, President Clinton was asking for forgiveness, something Obama refused to do the other day.
Wright was among many pastors invited, and he received a thank-you note for his support some six weeks later. The note read:
Dear Pastor Wright:
Thank you so much for your kind message.
I am touched by your prayers and by the many expressions of encouragement and support I have received from friends across our country.You have my best wishes.
Sincerely,
Bill Clinton
The message of Obama’s speech was “I’m not a racist despite hanging around a racist kook for 20 years, because blacks can’t be racists, and you must be a racist if you think I’m a liar, even though I’ve clearly lied about my association with Pastor Wright.”
The message of the photo’s release at this time is “Bill Clinton must be a racist because he shook Pastor Wright’s hand once — and we all know that Bill Clinton is married to Hillary. Gasp! Hillary must be a racist! … (but I’m not!)”
If somehow there are still people who don’t question Obama’s judgment and character, the fact that his campaign is actually suggesting that a hand shake by the husband of a presidential candidate is equivalent to a candidate who himself supported and followed a racist, anti-American nut for 20 years, should clarify the issues.
When Obama claims he’s going to change Washington, apparently he means for the worse.
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RACIST AMERICA AND ITS DOUBLE STANDARDS MAKING WRIGHT WRONG!
Obama’s preacher has said that America brought 9/11 on itself, but first consider:-
In 1979 did the then Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
Did the C.I.A give monetary and military assistance to resistance fighters that fought the Soviets under a banner of Islam?
Did the same fighters funded in what some have called “Charlie Wilson’s war” not morph from Mujahadin into the Taliban?
Since the Mujahadin and Taliban were trained with US help then is it illogical for Wright to focus on the original monetary source of the funding, with bin Laden being a beneficiary, himself accused of being behind the 9/11 attack, to conclude in by reference to those interrelationships that – in a certain sense America did bring the 9/11 attack upon itself? Having fanned the flames of militant Islam with the C.I.A’s money, then the militancy was unleashed on America – is Reverend Wright so wrong about that?
With America having marched into Iraq for its oil, it is now the Iraqis to be blamed for resisting the illegal invasion and US occupation – not Bush and his misguided foreign policy.
With true double standards so many are up in arms about what Reverend Wright has to say about America, but just consider from 19th March,2008, ABC’s Good Morning America just how much VP Cheney cares:
CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success.
RADDATZ: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.
CHENEY: So?
RADDATZ So? You don’t care what the American people think?
CHENEY: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
I had to edit this for length. Thanks for your response, though.
On the topic of opinion polls, I have to agree with Cheney. They’re not reliable, and government shouldn’t be run by the opinion poll of the week. That was one of the weaknesses of the Clinton Administration.
Re Afghanistan, if we hadn’t funded the mujahedeen in 1979, the Soviet Union might still be hanging around, as it would have continued to push southward to acquire a warm water port, which was one of the primary goals. Far from fanning the flames of militancy, we’ve been big defenders of Muslims around the globe — Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kuwait. The mujahedeen did become the Taliban, which shows how far gratitude will get you. But bin Laden himself is a Saudi from a wealthy oil family, not an Afghani. You could just as easily make the case that by blocking oil drilling at home in places such as Alaska or the Gulf of Mexico, environmentalists increased our dependence on OPEC, which increased bin Laden’s wealth, thus leading to 9/11. In fact, that might be a stronger case, since the Taliban weren’t directly involved in 9/11.
Then there’s the thing about how we “went to war for oil.” Three points I’d like to make about that: 1) It’s not true. If we had, gasoline wouldn’t $4 per gallon. 2) If we were inclined to invade countries for oil, we would have invaded Canada (No. 1 supplier) and Mexico (No. 2 supplier) first. 3) What would be wrong with fighting for oil if we DID decide to do it? Our country runs on oil, we need it in all our industries and at all levels of our economy. Better in our hands than someone else’s. Corn squeezings and solar power are a losing formula, and until we get the guts to go nuclear, there is no better choice than oil.
As for the war being “illegal,” Bush went through Congress and the U.N. to get approval for the war, so there is no rational basis for calling it illegal. And some of us still recall average Iraqis celebrating when we toppled Saddam. Most of the “resistance” has been orchestrated by Syria and Iran through their puppets in Iraq.
Comment by Courtenay Barnett — March 21, 2008 @ 10:31 am