Obama: nightmares from my father substitute
Neoneocon coming to the same conclusion - Wright as Obama's missing father figure - that several of us voiced earlier on this thread:
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I’ve not read either of Obama’s books. But I’ve read enough about the first one, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, to conclude that it’s highly possible that Obama’s search for his absent father and the black part of his heritage has been a huge factor in his attraction and loyalty to Wright.
It’s a cliche, and perhaps an obvious one, but there’s an excellent possibility that Wright, Obama’s pastoral father, stands in the psychological place of the biological father who deserted the young Obama and his white mother. As such, Wright would have filled the gaping psychological hole left by that trauma. Thus the difficulty of breaking with him, even if politically expedient, even if failure to do so would be political suicide. How can Obama desert his own psychological father, Wright, after he searched for him for so long?
Obama said he could no more leave Wright than he could leave his grandmother. I submit that this was not hyperbole; it was a psychological truth. This does not mean Obama shares Wright’s views, but it does explain his cowardice in failing to challenge them back when it would have made a difference, or to condemn them strongly enough when the issue first emerged in the Presidential race.
Explain—but not excuse.
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