The mighty Hewitt speaks
So, was Obama just as naive as a child for 20 years, or as disingenuous as any major political figure of the last forty years when he denied knowing the real Pastor Wright this morning?
Either way it creates a huge issue for voters. Is Obama a dupe, or just duplicitous? Do you want him in charge of the nation’s security, making judgments about our enemies?
Follow-up reporting should focus on the depth of the relationship between Wright and Obama. In Philadelphia Obama described a deep, strong and personal bond. How deep? What did they talk about all these years? How could you miss the government-created-AIDS etc?
“I did not vet my pastor before I decided to run for the presidency,” Obama declared today. That’s not the point. The point is Obama’s judgment. Or his truthfulness.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. If a ‘white’ person had been sitting under a spiritual mentor like this, not to mention supporting him with tens of thousands of dollars and legitimizing his statements by his membership in the good Reverands church, he’d be ran out of town by the media and maybe garner 10% of the vote. The fact that Obama is being allowed to stutter his way out of his association with this garbage by anyone of any political persuasion, and still be a viable candidate for anything more important than precinct committeeman, is a serious indictment of our decayed political values and the greatest example of the media giving someone “a pass” that I have seen in my adult life.
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Exactly Dave.
The pundits are trying like crazy to spin this as good news for Obama - he’s finally put the issue behind him - but they are wrong.
hairybeast
29 Apr 08 at 7:19 pm