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To: LindyBill who wrote (242870)3/20/2008 9:52:31 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran  Read Replies (1) of 794214
 
Buried in eloquence indeed!

One additional fatal flaw in Obama's speech on racism in America is his attempt to balance his continuing relationship with the Reverend Wright, an outright hatemonger, and that of his white grandmother.

Obama says he remembers his white grandmother uttering certain racially tinged comments while he was a boy under her care. He could not and would not disown his grandmother for such racial views. Nor could he nor would he disown his relationship with the Reverend Wright because of Wright's anti-white and race baiting diatribes on behalf of the Black Liberation Theology.

Obama understands both his grandmother and the Reverend Wright.

But one thing that Obama misses in his rhetorical attempt to phrase the issues so that they are acceptable to the American public is this:

Obama did not choose his grandmother. That choice was not open to him. His grandmother was a gift. He could not choose to accept or reject her. She was his grandmother.

But the Reverend Wright and his church were both a conscious choice on Obama's part. Obama chose to worship at Trinity Church of Christ. He chose to listen to Wright's diatribes (although he doesn't remember any of the bad parts). He chose to have his daughters baptized by the Reverend Wright. He chose to have the Reverend Wright officiate at his wedding to Michele.

Obama did not choose his grandmother even though he chose to throw her under the train.

Obama did choose the Reverend Wright and now chooses to emphasize all of Wright's good points while minimizing the bad

And now Obama does not choose to disavow the Reverend Wright's racism any more than he can choose to disavow his white grandmother's racial comments.

Obama understands good rhetoric and how it can be employed to score debating points.

But good rhetoric is not enough to enable Obama to so easily dismiss or answer the real problem.

And the real problem is Obama.

Talk about Slick Willie! Bill has finally found his match in Obama.

And it boils down once again to the riddle:

It all depends of what is is.
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