Contrabamadictions
Filed under: US Elections
So let's see now.
Barack Obama was able to instantly find out that Geraldine Ferraro, while working for Hillary Clinton, had made anti-black racist comments in an obscure local newspaper in California, and he immediately confronted them.
Yet, he had no way of knowing that his own church pastor was a pro-black racist lunatic because he just happened to miss every single one of the sermons that pastor delivered that were offensive and never heard anyone talking about them (he doesn't know anything about YouTube, but still he's a man of the new century, a vibrant and dynamic new kind of leader), and he had no way of knowing that Newsmax had reported months ago on his being present at one such sermon even though its reporter had repeatedly tried to contact him, and only learned about that recently too.
Uh, OK.
And even though Obama skipped so many sermons, we still have to accept that he's a very religious Christian, certainly not Muslim or anything, a Christian who attends church regularly and diligently.
Errmmm . . . got it.
And even though he had no idea of what his own pastor of more than two decades was doing, a person he'd made a ranking figure in his campaign apparatus and cited on his campaign website, we still have to accept that he's a brilliant, well-informed man capable of making a new kind of foreign policy for America.
Grrrrggle . . . mmmmmhhmmmm.
Thanks, MSM. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post:
Obama has learned to rely on a sycophantic media that hears any criticism of him as either (1) racist, (2) vaguely racist or (3) doing the bidding of Hillary and Bill Clinton. You only have to turn your attention to the interview Obama granted MSNBC's fawning Keith Olbermann for an example. Obama was asked whether he had known that Wright had suggested substituting the phrase "God damn America" for "God bless America.""You know, frankly, I didn't," Obama said. "I wasn't in church during the time when the statements were made."
But had you heard about them? Did your crack campaign staff alert you? And what about Wright's honoring Farrakhan? Had you heard about that? Did you feel any obligation to denounce those remarks -- not Farrakhan's, as you had done, but those of Wright himself? Don't you consider yourself a public figure whom others look to for leadership? Do you think you failed them here?
Olbermann asked none of those questions.
All nice and clear now?
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