Obama Crying “Uncle”

Excuses and obfuscation are the basic tools of ideologues who want to short circuit an argument. Barack Obama's speech on Race was entirely a non sequitur. Does he accept Wright's contentions on 9/11; the spread of AIDS; Israel as a war criminal (and America's support of same); etc.? If not, then how can he take spiritual advice from someone who holds such erroneous beliefs and, apparently, not challenge him until there is a public outcry? Has he sat down with his "uncle" and tried to discuss these issues? Just because Wright (and, apparently, 30% of Blacks) holds these beliefs "sincerely", does not excuse giving them a pass, without discussion and argumentation. The most blatant non sequitur of all (obfuscation, really) was for Obama to drag his grandmother into the speech for expressing private views on Blacks or other groups, and equivalence her attitudes with the actions of a public figure whose sermons are deemed to be significant enough to be (unashamedly) recorded. This is a blatant attempt on Obama's part to play the classic Liberal game of moral equivalency. There is no comparison!

All this obfuscation not withstanding, facts are still facts! Either the things Wright says are correct or they are not! Either the US spread AIDS among Blacks or it didn't; either Israel commits war crimes with American connivance or it doesn't. If Obama wants to lead, then he has to confront. If he wants to analyze and sooth then he should be a preacher or a psychiatrist, not president of the United States of America! He should have taken his "uncle" to task when he heard him speak this nonsense (Wright is supposed to be a leader in the Black community?) and set him straight or emphatically denounce him. And what is more, he needs to have done it on his own, not wait till after the hue and cry of the last few days!

What is the great "unifier and leader", Obama, doing to change these erroneous perceptions in the Black community as he goes about trying to change the hard hearts of Whites?

When are eternally guilt-ridden Liberal White commentators going to start holding Mr. Obama to the same standards as White politicians? When Liberals will accept (for example) that a White politician can go to Bob Jones University, “sincerely” talk about policy (social, foreign or domestic), without being made to answer for the school’s policy on inter-racial dating, they will be free to give a pass to any Black preacher, politician or whatever who spouts wrong-headed nonsense without expecting to be tainted on more "spiritual" matters. Geraldine Farraro had it right, but she was on the wrong side of the politically-correct divide

Poetry is fine, in its place, Governing requires leadership! Governing requires hard decisions - even personal ones. Would he still support his "uncle" if he caught him committing an "indecent" or a criminal act? Where does “family” (and racial) loyalty end for a "leader"? After-all even Hillary wasn't prepared to "stand by her man" indefinitely (especially if he were no longer politically useful to her).