Geraldine & John, Sitting in a Tree
Geraldine Ferraro is talking to the Daily Breeze again this week, objecting to Obama's equivocation between her and Jeremiah Wright. "To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable. ... He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred."
Here's what Obama said:
"On one end of the spectrum, we've heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it's based solely on the desire of wild- and wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap." On the other end, we've heard my former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation and that rightly offend white and black alike."
It seems self-evident that Ferraro's comments are nowhere near "one end of the spectrum" of racism, that lynchings are systematic discrimination would rank a bit higher on the white racist scale than saying Obama's race is a boon in this election. And I think John Kerry would agree.
In a surreal moment of hypocracy, Obama-backer John Kerry is "riffing off" of Ferraro and making her point even more explicitly:
“It would be such an affirmation of who we say we are as a people if we can elect an African American president, a young leader who is obviously a visionary and got an ability to inspire people,” Kerry said. “It will give us an ability to talk to those countries, to in some cases go around their dictator leaders to the people and inspire the people in ways that we can’t otherwise.”
The Massachusetts senator said Obama has an ability to perhaps even empower moderate Islam “to be able to stand up against the racial misinterpretation of a legitimate religion.” Asked by a reporter what gave Obama the credibility to do so, Kerry said, “Because he’s African American. Because he’s a black man, who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country." (Emphasis added, video here)
Then, on a Pennsylvannia radio show, Obama defended the portion of his speech that called out his grandmother's fear of black men on the street by saying:
"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, uh, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know there's a reaction that's been been bred into our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way and that's just the nature of race in our society." (Audio here)
Taylor Marsh, highlighted in the WSJ's "Best of the Web" on Thursday) responds: "Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton said someone was a "typical black person?" Seriously, Barack Obama basically called all white people racist."
Add to that the attention being garnered by Obama's lies about what he heard in church and his hypocritical lambasting of Don Imus and Trent Lott; it doesn't seem like the Wright issue is over.
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