Hope, Change, Hate

BHO has tried to campaign almost entirely on his skills as an orator, his now almost self-parody of stating change, self-styling himself as a bipartisan healer, and an ideas of post-racial unity. He's saying he's beyond the normal politician.

For bipartisan chops... his record speaks for itself (remember that previous post about that being a dirty trick?). This is why his campaign has been fuzzy on the details and high on the savior rhetoric.

He's even got posters made up for himself using the same artist behind "Obey the Giant".
What used to be satire of Soviet propaganda is now earnestly being used to stump for the latest "Dear Leader"


For the racial healing and unity part...

Neglecting the question of if it's even the job of the US president to "save our souls", "heal our meanness", or "bring us together". Does BHO even have the ability to do it?

Consider the situation with Revered Wright.
This was a pastor in a church that BHO reached out for, one that he has gone to for twenty years, has donated to. This is the same preacher that he had marry him and his wife, that baptized his daughters, that was even the source for his autobiography (kind of odd that he's already written that).

So this is not a casual relationship.

And what kind of man is the Reverend? A youtube search can be very illuminating.
Look up things like: CIA, US government, Jews behind crack-cocaine, AIDS being made by the US government to kill blacks, that America deserved 911, that whites are responsible for a whole litany of ills.

In short, the man is a hater and a racists. He preaches hate.

I'm sure that the proper "context" would make it all better. And it's only fair. I mean when it came out that Huckabee's spiritual advisor has spewed a constant stream of racists and paranoid ranting... Oh wait that didn't happen. It doesn't take much imagination to see what would happen if a Republican had a history with a preacher of this degree of hate.

Now you'd think this, spiritual mentor, to BHO would be an ideal candidate for him to help?
But you see... that would require BHO to actually do something and take an uncomfortable stand. He'd rather have it both ways.

Just look at his tepid response to this scandal

Until this speech BHO was saying he never heard his pastor say such hateful and unhinged things. Which given the 20 years meant that BHO was either lying, massively unobservant, or astronomically lucky.

One nice thing about this speech. It clears things up, BHO was lying.

His response also shows how he tries to wriggle and two step around this issue. He won't condemn this hateful man, but he'll criticize the rest of us for not getting the context.

At least one nice thing is that this has shown that BHO is just the same old politician we can expect from the far left. Unwilling to deal with the madmen and snakes in his own party.

He's met with members of the 60's radical group The Weathermen. Unapologetic domestic terrorists.


But like the Rezko scandal and the Powers scandal (wow... BHO also touts his judgment... guess it doesn't apply to when he picks associates) this is just Obama playing politics.

He worked with Rezko, wheel greaser extraordinaire to help get further in the Chicago political machine, and he associated with this church for a long time to build up his reputation in the "Black Community".

Well it's either that or BHO really does like listening to hateful, vitriol.

He's also said he would no more disown Wright than he would his Grandma. Obama also seems to forget that while you can't pick your family (or at least his racist white grandmother) you can pick your friends. Or in this case your pastor.



Oh yes... how does BHO deal with racism in past instances?


I doubt this would mean much to those that already feel Obama will heal their souls, but to those still on the fence... it's disturbing.

It's been a very... interesting election.