We would argue that the 2008 candidate who most resembles John Kerry is
Barack
Obama. Just as Kerry presented himself as a war hero when the reality
turned
out to be more, shall we say, nuanced, so Obama's claims of being a
unifier
and a "postracial" candidate have fallen apart with the revelation that
his
"spiritual mentor" is an anti-American and antiwhite reactionary.
Someone calling himself "Universal," posting on MyDD.com--an Angry Left
site,
mind you, not a Republican one--has put together an anti-Obama ad that
juxtaposes footage from the attack on the World Trade Center with clips of
Jeremiah Wright saying "God damn America," "chickens coming home to roost"
and
other greatest hits, along with Obama's wife, Michelle, declaring that she
has
never before been proud of America, and Obama himself announcing his plans
to
slash defense programs.
The video, too long at almost five minutes, is amateurish but powerful.
Again,
its author is a Democrat, who means to warn his party of the perils of
nominating Obama:
If we choose Obama as our nominee, we are locked-in to this
narrative. There is no going back, no bogus NBC polls to save
the day. No Anderson Cooper softball interviews or phony
charges of racism that will rescue us.
The opponent doesn't care. All the thoughtfulness and restraint
of a Democratic adversary will be gone.
We are on the precipice of electoral disaster. It is our
party's leaders' RESPONSIBILITY to give us a chance to compete
in November.
Will the Demcorats listen? We doubt it. The other day we got an email from
a
friend of ours, a left-wing intellectual, who professes to believe that
"God
damn America" is a patriotic sentiment and who argues that criticism of
Wright
is racist because it doesn't make allowances for the idiom of the black
church. Echoing that latter argument, in an interview with the Chicago
Tribune, is a respected scholar of religion:
Wright "goes beyond the bounds. That's why it's so hard to
translate and why excerpts don't do well," said Rev. Martin
Marty, a retired professor at the University of Chicago Divinity
School. "In today's world, where you can debate these things
instead of blast away like the prophets did, it's sort of an
alien language for most people."
It reminds us of that scene in "Airplane!" in which the old lady says, "Oh
Stewardess! I speak jive!" But Wright is not speaking a foreign tongue or
some
impenetrable slang. "God damn America" is plain English. The problem for
Obama
is that the words of his spiritual mentor are easy, not hard, to
understand.
Are his sup****ters really going to call American voters racist for finding
profane verbal assaults on their own country offensive? Good luck trying
to
win an election that way.
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