blatherings

as we have come to learn a little more about Mr. Obama, we have found that he has neither experience nor much of a moral compass.well they're outta there!  barack and michelle obama has finally decided to withdraw their membership from the racist trinity united church of christ in Chicago. 

the likely democratic nominee finally leaves his toxic church after once again news broke on the vile hateful preaching coming from its ministers and guests -- the most recent father pfleger of st. sabina's catholic church in chicago.

when even the associated press notices the racism and standing ovations at obama's church it became the beginning of the end for the obama's at trinity.

can you actually throw a whole church under the bus?  it's already being called a "wimp out" by those on the left.  remember, obama has attended this church for over 20 years.

just like he did with jeremiah wright, it took another outburst from the pulpit before obama decided to distance himself from the racist church.  politico has a bit more on the story.

in the press conference following his announcement, obama said that he is not denouncing trinity church "It is not a church worthy of denouncing!" 

oh really?  if this church and all its racist antics are not worth denouncing, i frankly don't know what is.  he also said he didn't want his church experience to be a political circus.  you're kidding right?

barack obama, democratic candidate for president of the united states.  he once said "The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass."  you can read more about his personal faith (if you haven't quite seen enough) here. 

now there's a man of principle, willing to stand up for his friends and spiritual mentors.  uh not really.  it shows obama’s willingness to throw anyone over the side when the boat starts sinking.  and as we have come to learn a little more about mr. obama, we have found that he has neither experience nor much of a moral compass.
 

 

ok. so many politicians lie.  and when they do, its usually for convenience sake.  but numbers don't lie.  a recent rasmussen poll showed a majority of likely voters think the only reason that barack obama finally denounced reverend jeremiah wright was because it was politically convenient.  

well, ya think??
 
the same poll shows 56 % think that it's somewhat likely that he shares some of rev. wright's controversial views about the US.  26% say it's very likely.

so what's the point?  barack obama has invalidated his entire campaign.  from day one of his candidacy, he wanted us to think that he was different; that he's a washington outsider' that he's not going to play politics as usual.  "I'm a fresh face that we can trust."  now it's quite clear he's part of the problem, not the solution.

we all know for 20 years, obama sat in rev. wright's church.  he listened to his sermons.  he had wright perform his marriage ceremony, baptize his kids, bless his home.  obama even appointed this guy as an official spiritual adviser to his campaign, a "sounding board" as he called it.  cough*clangingsymbols*  you've heard all of this -- i've blogged all of this.

it only took you and me a couple of weeks to recognize the racist, angry, anti-american hate speech in all of those sermons that obama sat through -- like a sponge? --for 2 decades!  all along, obama kept saying, "That's not the guy I know."

say wut?   

last week, reverend wright went out of his way to prove that he IS the man he's always been: 20 years ago, last week, and today.  when it was obvious that nobody was really buying into obama's story anymore, he decided that it was best for him to denounce wright.  it's simply deception for any of us to still believe that barack obama didn't know exactly who this guy was the whole time and what he believed.

it's painful for some of you i know, but barack obama is just a politician, not a messiah.  and politicians have one goal in life:  to get elected.  telling the truth is many times a last resort  -- we learned that lesson from the clintons didn't we? 

and now that we know this, we can finally admit this election really IS about race...  the race for the presidency and doing whatever it takes to stay in it.

today i listened to barack obama's "redemption" speech along with the rest of the free world.  if you want a transcript, you can get it here.  and after mulling on it for a bit, i have a few random thoughts:

the more we learn about him, the more obama seems to be a rather opportunistic politician, impressively smart and disciplined, who has put together a good political career and a terrific presidential campaign.  but as i've been saying for a while now, there's not much "audacity of hope" there.  this is however calculating ambition coupled with hubris that attempts at great length to convince our nation that this campaign and this candidate are "different."



today's speech gave a good analysis of race relations and injustices from a broad perspective but obama simply failed to take responsibility for having an apparently close twenty-year relationship with a racist, anti-american pastor to whom hateful rhetoric from the pulpit appears second nature.  obama seemed to claim in his speech that rev. wright's words were only sentiments of an earlier generation -- one that lived precariously through the civil rights era.  if that were true why were there so many young people in all those clips whooping and clapping their approval during rev. wrights' rants?

isn’t obama's platform one of taking responsibility to the next generation, to end that kind of rhetoric?  if obama is a change agent and the candidate who wants to move us all beyond racism to a "one america," shouldn’t he have spoken out at his own church about rejecting the bitterness and racism of the past? 

as obama lectured the nation today on race relations, how responsible or courageous was it of obama to remain silent for 20 years in his own community while this kind of hateful rhetoric was preached week after week to generation after generation including his own little children?  he doesn't glow for me.

is this race baiting or simply speaking truth to power? 

barack obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God d**n America...."  *blink*

this is all so jarring.  by now many of us have heard the incendiary rhetoric from the pulpit of reverend jeremiah wright.  vid clips of his comments have been all over tv and the internet.  in a campaign appearance earlier this month, obama tried to explain away some of this rhetoric by saying rev. wright is like the nutty old uncle in the corner.  i am not so sure....
 
listen closely to rev. wright.  pay attention to how he thinks, who he is, and the culture of his church...

rev. wright has been obama's pastor for 20 years.  does obama bring his little girls to church to hear this?  is this the spiritual teacher obama lets speak into his life?  does this kind of hate speech inspire obama?  maybe this explains in part why michelle obama is so tragically unhappy with america.

obama has said publically many times that his best selling book "the audacity of hope" was inspired by a sermon of rev. wright.  it is that very book that obama has molded his campaign philosophy around - hope and change.

so here is my issue:  though i am concerned about the "association" with wright, i am more concerned with the "judgement" of barack obama for staying in a church and aligning himself with a mentor and spiritual leader for 20 years where race baiting and anti-american rhetoric is preached openly and routinely from the pulpit.  The obvious deception on obama's part is he would have us believe that in 20 years of attending that church and being very close to this pastor he only became aware of "one" of these clips in the last year and the rest, more recently this last week.  this is incredulous to me and speaks loudly of lousy judgement on obama's part.

was obama aware of his pastor's belief system and never really cared until it had political consequences?  maybe. though rev. wright was on obama's campaign team in a largely ceremonial role, formal ties between obama and wright are at an end.

remember the now famous "3 am campaign ad"?  hillary implying she had more experience to be president when a disaster or terrorists struck at 3 in the morning?  obama hit back by saying HE had the better judgement to take a 3 am call as president. 

 

yikes.  um, i don't think so senator.

alrighty then...

now to help rinse your palette of all the above gunk.  here is a fun treat guaranteed to make you smile, cheer, and be proud of your country (unlike michelle).  turn it up ...



yep, its kate smith singing "God Bless America" from game 6 of the 1974 stanley cup finals in philly.

hat tip  M/M