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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (23205)	3/17/2008 12:49:26 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

the pretense that over all these years Obama had no idea that Wright was saying such things is hard to sustain. This doesn’t mean that Obama agrees with Wright’s thoroughgoing and conspiracy-heavy anti-Americanism. Rather, Obama seems to have seen, early in his career, the utility of joining a prominent church that would help him establish political roots in the community in which he lives. Now he sees the utility of distancing himself from that church. Obama’s behavior in dealing with Wright is consistent with that of a politician who often voted “present” in the Illinois State Legislature for the sake of his future political viability. The more you learn about him, the more Obama seems to be a conventionally opportunistic politician, impressively smart and disciplined, who has put together a good political career and a terrific presidential campaign. But there’s not much audacity of hope there. There’s the calculation of ambition, and the construction of artifice, mixed in with a dash of deceit — all covered over with the great conceit that this campaign, and this candidate, are different. I hope this (that Obama associated with Wright and his church for political benefit) is true. The alternative is that he really buys Wright's message. Either way he's a deceitful fraud, but I'd rather he be a fraud w/o the anti-American hate of Wright. What gets me is why he didn't disassociate himself from Wright and Trinity earlier than this. He could've used his election to the Senate as an opportunity to transition to a more traditional church in the WA area and kissed Trinity and Wright good bye a couple years ago. I have to assume Obama genuinely considers Wright a close friend and has no real problem with his hate-mongering.