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To: LindyBill who wrote (242734)	3/19/2008 7:35:10 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793970

I agree - Obama wronged his grandmother (and Geraldine Ferraro as well) by comparing them to a hatefilled demagogue. And he did it for a bad reason - to minimize Wright's pathology.

To: LindyBill who wrote (242734)	3/19/2008 12:36:34 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793970

Roger L. Simon: 'BARACK, I DIDN’T DO IT FOR THIS': AN HOMAGE TO ANDREW GOODMAN March 18, 2008 8:23 AM Barack Obama’s speech today moved Roger L. Simon to poetry for the first time since high school. He apologizes for the inadequacies. Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers by Roger L. Simon Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I was a civil rights worker… South Carolina, 1966… 22 yrs old … helping old folks register to vote, teaching kids to read and write, directing Raisin in the Sun… Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I dream of my kindergarten best friend Andy from Walden School, Manhattan, born one day after me, shot dead in Mississippi 1964. Barack, I idolized Stokley Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Barack, I lost the full use of my left hand for life in South Carolina. Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I gave hundreds to the Black Panthers for their children’s breakfast program when I was 25 and a young screenwriter in Echo Park, Los Angeles, even though I knew Huey was crazy and was worried my money might have been going for guns, even though I had my own children in the house when the Panthers came over, their jackets bulging. Barack, I made excuses for the Black Power Movement even though I knew it was turning racist. Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, your speech was bullshit. Barack, this isn’t about generations. Barack, this isn’t about the black church. Barack, this is about a pathological minister whose uncontrolled anger wounds his own people and keeps them down. Barack, this is about a man who ignored that rage for his own political gain and even now won’t admit a huge mistake and looks for nuance and excuses. Barack, this about a woman who went on scholarship to Princeton and Harvard and still hates America. Barack, you say you want Black-Jewish reconciliation but you hung with an anti-Semite. Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Roger L. Simon is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, novelist and blogger, and the CEO of Pajamas Media.

To: LindyBill who wrote (242734)	3/19/2008 10:45:52 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

Throw grandma under the bus, part 2 Yesterday I referred to the false equivalencies in Obama's extenuation of, and attempt to change the subject from, the fulsome Jeremiah Wright. I focused on the false equivalence Obama drew between his grandmother and Wright. Mickey Kaus meticulously teases out a number of other false equivalencies in the speech. Steve Sailer contrasts Obama's account of his grandmother in Dreams From My Father with the account in his speech. Sailer concludes that Obama threw his grandmother "under the wheels of the BS express." Jim Hoft has compiled a Grandma Dunham roundup. (Thanks to reader Julian Biggs for the tip to Sailer's post.) PAUL adds: All of these links are very much worth following, and Sailer's is indispensable. According to Sailer, in yesterday's speech, Obama distorted the facts surrounding his grandmother's comment about being afraid of black men. In the speech, the black men she was afraid of merely passed her in the street; in the book a black man panhandled her very aggressively at a bus stop. It's bad enough, as Scott has said, to speak unfavorably about grandma (the one person in his family who consistently attended to Obama) in order to use her as a political prop. To cast her in a false light for that purpose is very low, indeed. Fortunately, Sailer's post contains comic relief, albeit dark, in the form of grandpa's response to grandma's distress and young Barack's effort to obtain guidance from the local African-American Communist party member. UPDATE: I see that James Taranto elaborated on the false equivalence between Wright and Grandma Dunham yesterday afternoon in his Best of the Web Today column. To comment on this post, go here. Posted by Scott powerlineblog.com