In 2008, the Right told the nation what a mistake Obama would be.
Thin resume....no experience....radical background.....Jeremiah Wright....
Let me STOP you right there.
That is a perfect example of why the Right continues to struggle and have brand issues with regard to the independent or moderate voter.
You list 4 things, 2 of which are valid points.
*Thin resume.
*No Experience.
Radical Background - WTF does that even mean? That talking point falls apart when most people understand that the Clintons left no stone unturned, investigated him from all angles, and they found very little that could be used against. All this Fox News "he's a radical" bullshit is pathetic. Especially considering he's been the very definition of a moderate: indecisive, slow to take a firm stance, quick to compromise and give up points to get things moving, trying too hard appease the opposition.
Jeremiah Wright - there's a reason McCain wouldn't touch that. It's veiled racism. Fox and the far-right wanted to play on white peoples fear of the angry black. Obama distanced himself in a very public way from Wright when the video clips first broke -- so much so, you almost felt sorry for both of them as there was obviously once a friendship there. Many people have had the experience of having to break off a personal or professional relationship -- you once felt close to that person, but they did something you can not abide and you need to cut your ties.
It's called being human. Obama cutting his ties with Wright made him more human and likable. McCain understood this as
he was a mature and honorable man who has likely gone through the same thing during his long political career.
Sarah Palin, the immature, vindictive woman from Alaska with ambition ten times the size of her intellect and character -- she wanted to "go after" Obama on Wright.
1. "Radical Background - WTF does that even mean? That talking point falls apart...."
I do my best to educate folks like you in the limited time and space available...but your educational impediments are daunting. Still, in brief:
a. To gauge how successful this infestation of the university has been, note that the nation elected a President with an extremely radical view, in part:
The wealth of the imperial countries is our wealth too, writes Franz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon fought in the Algerian revolution against he French;
Obama says that in college he relished reading and quoting Fanon. or in a very concrete way Europe has stuffed herself inordinately with the gold and raw materials of the colonial countries
.Europe is literally the creation of the Third world
.wealth stolen from the underdeveloped peoples.
Dinesh DSouza, Obamas America, p. 11.
b. If economic exploitation is the cause of said poverty, then why are those parts of the
Third World least touched by contact with prosperous nations so often the most destitute of all? Blame is much easier to understand than causation, far more emotionally satisfying, and, today, more politically convenient.
Sowell, Economic Facts and Fallacies, p. 189.
c. "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos.
The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk- rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed
neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy."
Barack Obama
d. Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them. George Orwell.
2. "Jeremiah Wright - there's a reason McCain wouldn't touch that. It's veiled racism. Fox and the far-right wanted to play on white peoples fear of the angry black."
First...you're a fool, and, secondly, being an uneducated dunce, you believe what you wrote, and you fail to learn about
Wright's beliefs, and, therefore, Obama's.
Obama spent some 20 years in the anti-American and anti-Semitic Trinity United Church of Christ, with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Never heard a thing.
a. Wright was
a former Muslim and black nationalist who had studied at Howard and Chicago, and Trinity's guiding principles--what the church calls the "Black Value System"--included a "Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness.
Wright became not only Obama's pastor, but his mentor. The title of Obama's recent book, The Audacity of Hope, is based on a sermon by Wright. "
Barack Obama's Unlikely Political Education | New Republic
b. The brand of Christianity taught at Trinity United Church of Christ,
black-liberation theology, is of the far-Left variety that focuses on a few features of Christianity plus the racial anger that is the hallmark of that particularly American brand of Islam, the Nation of Islam.
Geller, The Post-American Presidency, p. 77.
c. While denying any proclivity toward Marxism, the reliable Democrat voter rushed to pull the lever for a 20-year congregant of
a James Cone inspired Black-Liberation church. Cone: Marxism as a tool of social analysis can
help Christians to see how things really are.
Cone, For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church, p. 187.
You Didnt Build That!
So, being as ignorant as you are of the background, of the facts, you could be easily fooled into believing that racism was the basis of objections.
