I previously wrote here about Barack Obama's "spiritual guide" (Obama's words) Jeremiah Wright. Check out the latest video of Rev. Wright:
What conclusions to draw?
1. It appears that for Rev. Wright, white people are by their very whiteness his enemies. Rev. Wright seems to have an essentially racialist view of the world. This may explain Rev. Wright's friendliness towards Louis Farrakhan, a man who believes white people are the creation of the devil.
2. I am not an expert in tax law, but if Rev. Wright's church is a tax exempt body, as most churches are, then he cannot advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for office. He seems very close to doing that here.
3. Does it not seem odd to say that Barack Obama is a poor, unprivileged man? A man who went to Harvard as a legacy applicant and who now lives in a multi-million dollar mansion?
4. We now know in part where Obama gets his demagoguery. Rev. Wright makes little appeal here to anything other than anger, resentment, and pure emotion. Obama's demagoguery goes down sweeter, but demagoguery it is.
Along with his calls for God to damn America rather than bless her, Rev. Wright, who gave the title to Obama's book The Audaciousness of Hope, is a liability to the Obama campaign. Obama has to cut ties with the Reverend, no matter how painful that is, or it becomes increasingly difficult to present himself as a uniter when his spiritual guide produces so much hate.
See Rod Dreher for more analysis.
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