Another Speech
March 19, 2008 on 4:05 pm | In Race for Prez |
The editorial pages of the major papers are falling all over themselves in praise of Obama’s speech about race. I’ve only viewed bits and pieces, but I, too, liked what I saw. Black rage of the kind shouted by Rev. Jeremiah Wright is something white men like me will never fully understand.
Obama is half white and half black — genetically in a perfect place to help heel the wounds of hundreds of years of oppression. But I have a feeling he’s not being honest when he says he’s never been present in Wright’s church during one of those celebrated tirades. If Wright has been Obama’s spiritual mentor for 20 years, then it stretches credulity to think he’s never seen this side of the reverend.
If indeed Obama sat impassively on a pew when Wright sermonized about the US KKK of A, then he will have a big problem going forward. I’m sure there are dozens of journalists looking into it even as I write this. Come to think of it, what Wright said is only a stone’s throw away from what Obama’s wife said a few weeks ago.
As one professor told The Wall Street Journal:
“The more he has to talk about race, the blacker he becomes in the public imagination.”
I’m afraid this could turn out to be less about race than about honesty.
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No, what this is really about is old school lefty politics dressed up for a new Millennium. That’s fine as far as it goes. But in a world where China is growing at 10% a year, Eastern European countries are rolling out flat tax policies, and Korea is making more cars than Detroit, I’m not sure New Deal politics, after being fully vetted, are going to gain much steam.
Comment by Jake — March 19, 2008 #