"Four score and seven years ago...no wait...uhhh....When in the course of human events....uhh...no...uhh.."We the People, in order to form a more perfect -- yeah, yeah, that's it......"
With those historic words Barak Obama embraced the mantle of a former President of the United States:
President William Jefferson Clinton.
Obama tried to play both ends against the middle while at the same time trying to show he was "above the fray" all while making a political campaign speech. This was classic Clinton triangulation.
You might ask "what do you mean, TJ?"
Here, let me show you...
QUOTE FROM TODAY:
"Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely" LINKBut wait...On Friday, 14 March 2008, Obama said this:
"I wasn't in church during the time that these statement were made. I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally. Either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew, he always preached the social gospel. ... If I had heard them repeated, I would have quit... LINK TO FRIDAYSo, we are supposed to believe that Obama heard some amorphous controversial statements, but just not the ones played on the airwaves over the last few days and all contained in a SOCIAL GOSPEL?
Really?
Is Obama telling us that there are more statements out there that we have yet to discover...but ones that are just not bad enough for him to quit his church?
Uhhh....yeah, whatever.
Barak likes to quote the Founding Fathers (who Jeremiah Wright obviously hates), so let me provide a more contemporary Presidential quote:
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. " - Abraham Lincoln (does Wright hate him too?)
6 comments:
I will admit that it's kind of nice watching Obama squirm with a third-rail issue. He's been just a little too packaged and squeaky-clean of late.
I think it's interesting though that the preacher's firey oratory has put the issue of how "race" preceives America in this country, and race in the race, squarely in the headlights. Now it can't hover out there as a sort of whispered issue; the American voters will have to deal with it and decide one way or another whether they can support a non-white candidate for president.
For a long, long time the black community has leveraged this sort of reverse-racism to unify and stir up their constituencies, and to some degree, they will have to face the consequences of those words becoming part of the public forum.
Allow me to provide a more relevant presidential quote to explain Senator Obama's strategy: “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
Obama is SO full of shit.
What's amazing is that the lefties know that he's serving a turd burger, and they're still going to take a big bite.
Leb, Ortho, Brooke -- great comments.
LEB, I believe whites also leverage reverse-discrimination (racism), but I've always felt (being raised by Democrats), that it is the Democrat party that keeps us separated.
Ortho - excellent quote -- I shall have to borrow that.
Brooke - Some people can convince themselves of anything...of course atheists say that about us too. But since atheism declined yet again this year, we seem to be winning that argument.
ortho - That quote is every bit as enjoyable in this context as it was the first time I heard it.
rogue - Is that so? Sounds like you and al-Qaeda both have something to celebrate!
Hydralisk,
We do -- we even share the same God ...
Isn't it a shame that Man tends to corrupt so many things he touches?
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