Posted by
CUBFAN on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:30:00 PM
Mr. Jeremiah Wright. Period.
He is not deserving of the title of "Reverend." Hardly.
His 15 minutes of inflammatory rhetoric is up. Kaput.
Wright's most recent coming out party--his last-gasp "Uncle Jerry's Mad Hater Tour"--placed him front and center for all to hear and see. Unfortunately.
Dallas: He bore his cross as a "public crucifixion" at the expense of his political protégé. Vanity.
Detriot: The NAACP got their sideshow as "Jeremiah and His Multiracial Boombox" came to town to enlighten us on the intricacies of "white music" and "black music," and then he donned his sweater as the affable host of "Mr. Wright's 'Hood" to school us on "white brains" and "black brains" (or was it apples and rocks?). Quaint.
Washington, DC: The National Press Club served as the bully pulpit for his defense of the media's attack on the black church and black liberation theology, and he gave his best "aw-shucks" performance while dismissing audience questions as being mostly ignorant. Smug.
Finally, Mr. Obama checked his TIVO Monday evening to catch up with Wright's whirlwind tour-de-farce. Enough.
That was Obama's reaction: "Enough."
But will it be enough to simply place Wright in the rearview mirror where "some objects are closer than they appear"? Perhaps.
As for the forward-looking, future-seeking Obama campaign: Change We Can Believe In? Not.