Obama's Self-Destruction

A survey of the blogs' sphere and the news clips suggest that the Rev. Wright story has "legs" and is breaking into a full trot. Tracking polls show Obama slipping dramatically ......

The story is amplified by Michelle Obama's "never proud of America" comment and the Pledge of Allegiance and flag lapel pin stories.

Throw in his own campaign foreign affairs advisor telling an interviewer that he is not ready to be commander and chief......

It really looks like the Democratic Party was done in by its own pedantic political correctness. They just refused to vet this guy because he was black. Affirmative action is not a very effective technique to select Presidential candidates.

I predict that this stuff will spiral out of control at this point. Obama is a very brittle guy when hit with adversity. His responses on this issue get progressively worse and less credible as each new one contradicts the last one. This stuff is particularly poisonous for Obama, who pretentiously tried to say he was above politics and on some kind of mission from above.

My favorite new stuff on this is linked below.

Randy Mott

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Gotcha, ObamaPlus--Psst! It's Holbrooke either way!
By Mickey Kaus SLATE.COM
Updated Monday, March 17, 2008, at 2:05 PM ET



Obvious Non-Trivial Gotcha: These two Obama statements do not sit easily together!

1. "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial."

2. "When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.

Let me repeat what I've said earlier. All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn.

... And while Rev. Wright's statements have pained and angered me .... [E.A.]

If he was so agonized "at the beginning" of his campaign that he was thinking of leaving the church, why did he then reassure people during that campaign that his church wasn't controversial? ... [And is this a "new kind of politics."--ed Yes, that one's always there too!]



"It [Trinity United Church of Christ] also helped give him spiritual bona fides and a new assurance. Services at Trinity were a weekly master class in how to move an audience. When Mr. Obama arrived at Harvard Law School later that year, where he fortified himself with recordings of Mr. Wright’s sermons, he was delivering stirring speeches as a student leader in the classic oratorical style of the black church." New York Times, April 30, 2007:


"Obama's going to have a hard time explaining that I take to be the truth, namely that his relationship with Trinity has been a bit cynical from the beginning. After all, before Obama was a half-black guy running in a mostly white country he was a half-white guy running in a mostly black neighborhood. At that time, associating with a very large, influential, local church with black nationalist overtones was a clear political asset . . . . Since emerging onto a larger stage, it's been the reverse and Obama's consistently sought to distance himself from Wright, disinviting him from his campaign's launch, analogizing him to a crazy uncle who you love but don't listen to, etc." Matthew Yglesias.




Obama big endorsement of Rev. Wright June 2007 video: here.


Obama’s “blow back” – trying to be black in 2004 and using the church and now trying to ditch it:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/16/video-juan-williams-lowers-the-boom-on-obama/