Despite being Senator Obama’s spiritual mentor for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright has to be the absolute last person that the senator would like to see go on a self-serving media tour. Obama is slumping in the polls today, and Wright’s appearances serve to provide Obama’s detractors, a group that includes yours truly, with additional material on the man who had served as Obama’s pastor for the past twenty years. This is the man who baptized his daughters and married Obama and his wife. On Friday, PBS aired an exclusive interview of Wright by Bill Moyers, last night, Wright spoke at a NAACP event, and this morning, Wright spoke at the National Press Club in Washington.
Barack Obama was sworn into his first term as a US Senator on January 4, 2005. Barely three years later during his rookie term, Obama is the front runner in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination. He has been dogged with questions of whether or not he can deliver the working class voter in order to win important swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and Texas.
Bad news for Obama supporters, so far he is 0-4 in those states. If Senator Hillary Clinton of New York manages to beat Obama in Indiana, she will have a compelling argument to make to superdelegates that Obama is unelectable in a general election against Senator John McCain. She can argue that Obama has failed to win support from the white working class vote and that Obama’s delegate lead has been built with a clever strategy to focus on states that will most certainly go to Republicans in the fall. While it is a strategy that may win Obama more delegates, it is ultimately a strategy that is doomed to fail in November.
Obama has had already to deal with Wright by delivering a politically motivated speech on race out of necessity, he has had to deal with his association with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers in a nationally televised network debate on ABC, and possibly most damaging he has had to try to spin his elitist remarks indicating that small town Americans cling to religion and their second amendment rights out of bitterness. Those remarks were made at a private fund raiser held at a mansion in San Francisco where he had every reason to believe that his comments would not be leaked in the media.
Despite spending three times what Clinton spent in Pennsylvania, Obama still lost the closed primary by nearly 10 points.
So now we have Wright again. This is almost too good to be true for those of us who believe that Obama is woefully unprepared to serve as the United States President and Commander in Chief. The transcipt of Wrights speech at the NAACP event can be read here.
At the NAACP event, Wright’s rhetoric once again proved to be divisive. This time he chooses to divide America’s children. Instead of focusing on the problems shared by all children, he focused on the teachings of Dr. Janice Hale based off of her research conducted during the 1970’s over 30 years ago. In his speech, Wright states the following:
Dr. Hale’s research led her to stop comparing African-American children with European-American children and she started comparing the pedagogical methodologies of African-American children to African children and European-American children to European children. And bingo, she discovered that the two different worlds have two different ways of learning. European and European-American children have a left brained cognitive object oriented learning style and the entire educational learning system in the United States of America. Back in the early ’70s, when Dr. Hale did her research was based on left brained cognitive object oriented learning style. Let me help you with fifty cent words.
Left brain is logical and analytical. Object oriented means the student learns from an object. From the solitude of the cradle with objects being hung over his or her head to help them determine colors and shape to the solitude in a carol in a PhD program stuffed off somewhere in a corner in absolute quietness to absorb from the object. From a block to a book, an object. That is one way of learning, but it is only one way of learning.
African and African-American children have a different way of learning.
They are right brained, subject oriented in their learning style. Right brain that means creative and intuitive. Subject oriented means they learn from a subject, not an object. They learn from a person. Some of you are old enough, I see your hair color, to remember when the NAACP won that tremendous desegregation case back in 1954 and when the schools were desegregated. They were never integrated. When they were desegregated in Philadelphia, several of the white teachers in my school freaked out. Why? Because black kids wouldn’t stay in their place. Over there behind the desk, black kids climbed up all on them.
Because they learn from a subject, not from an object. Tell me a story. They have a different way of learning. Those same children who have difficulty reading from an object and who are labeled EMH, DMH and ADD. Those children can say every word from every song on every hip hop radio station half of who’s words the average adult here tonight cannot understand. Why? Because they come from a right-brained creative oral culture like the (greos) in Africa who can go for two or three days as oral repositories of a people’s history and like the oral tradition which passed down the first five book in our Jewish bible, our Christian Bible, our Hebrew bible long before there was a written Hebrew script or alphabet. And repeat incredulously long passages like Psalm 119 using mnemonic devices using eight line stanzas. Each stanza starting with a different letter of the alphabet. That is a different way of learning. It’s not deficient, it is just different. Somebody say different. I believe that a change is going to come because many of us are committed to changing how we see other people who are different.
How easy for Wright to be able to lump all black children in one category and all white children in another category. How about Asian American children? How about American children of middle eastern descent? How about children of mixed ethnicity? Furthermore, isn’t Barack Obama himself proof against this divisive theory?
Then this morning, Wright was defiant and combative. In an AP article titled “Analysis: Wright does Obama little good“, Nedra Pickler writes the following:
“If Sen. Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected. Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls,” Wright said. “Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors, they have a different person to whom they’re accountable. Whether he gets elected or not, I’m still going to have to be answerable to God November 5th.”
Although many of the clips of Wright that have been dogging Obama’s campaign were from sermons that were several years old, the pastor repeated some of the same ideas for television cameras Monday.
He criticized the U.S. government as imperialist and stood by his suggestion that the United States invented the HIV virus as a means of genocide against minorities. “Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything,” he said Monday.
Jeremiah Wright apparently questions the honesty of Obama’s denouncement of Wrights anti-American rhetoric as primarily being out of political necessity. We are also reminded of the anti-American and racially charged sermons that were delivered by Wright and the fact that he stands by his hateful statements. That makes it just as relevant today to ask, why would Barack Obama spend twenty years sitting at Trinity listening to Wright and as a parent, why would he subject his family including his two young impressionable daughters to this man? These are questions that Obama has not answered completely, and they will dog him for the remainder of the primary season and into the fall if he becomes the Democrat nominee.
Of the three major party candidates remaining for President, Senator John McCain is clearly my first choice despite his less than conservative record on many issues. With that said, if McCain were to lose in the fall, a Clinton administration is a far less scary proposition in my opinion given how little we know about Obama today.
Michelle Malkin has coverage of protesters at the National Press Club here.
Eric Scheie has coverage of the Wright debacle over at Pajama’s Media in his article titled “Pastor Wright’s Fantasy World of Hyperbole.” In it he writes:
Earlier today, however, I was asked by Pajamas Media to write about this morning’s appearance by Reverend Wright at the National Press Club. Fortunately (so I thought), I didn’t see the email until after the event was over, so I replied that I’d missed it, although I did venture that if I could find the video online I’d watch it and write a piece if it wasn’t too late.
As it happens, it didn’t take me long to find the Wright event on video in six YouTube segments.
Er, now that I’ve watched them all, I should say, six sickening YouTube segments .
20 minutes in, I was just about ready to throw up. The more I watch this malignant man, the less I want to watch. For starters, I find myself unable to stand Jeremiah Wright’s smarmy, sing-songy voice. Now, lest I be accused of racism in the way some have been accused of sexism for not liking Hillary Clinton’s voice, let me say that one of the things I most like about Barack Obama is his voice. He has a pleasant speaking manner, in stark contrast to Hillary’s screechy braying.
I’m no Hillary fan, and I may regret saying this lest it sound favorable to her, but Wright makes Hillary Clinton’s screeching and braying sound almost pleasant.
His supercilious insincerity, and mocking, deriding tone — all while he spews hateful and vindictive far left claptrap — belongs on Berkeley’s Communist controlled KPFA radio, if it even belongs there.
I’ve included the 6 YouTube videos below (after the break) — you may want to wait at least 30 minutes after eating before watching. This is megalomania personified!
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