In the latest,
Hearing Mr. Wright's venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through numerous similar sermons by Mr. Wright.
Uh, I respectfully disagree.
Among the charges:
- 1. America fought the cold war. America did ugly things. Repeating, America did ugly things.
To call people to a higher moral standard than killing based on a security theory, so to speak, is not necessarily something to walk out on. To call people, instead, to ignorance of their history in the name of Conservative-Patriotism is profoundly jingoistic. We did not fully distance ourselves from the apartheid regime in S. Africa. - 2. We certainly did bomb Japan - far more than just the a-bomb - in ways that have led even McNamara to conclude the proportionality in war is real, not just something to be poopooed by the Generals.
- 3. Obama doesn't need to distance himself on the HIV issues anymore than he already has in action, words, and legislation, and the trouble-making WSJ knows this. Our government certainly didn't start HIV, but it certainly could have done more to prevent the spread of it, yes?
- 4. Anyone who thinks that Israel hasn't "managed the conflict" by force, in many cases, not just by right, is in no position to ask others to explain themselves ...
- 5. That Hillary Clinton has been winning because she is white, "fits the mold" or didn't grow up in grinding poverty is disproved on the facts and is not anything that Obama himself needs to "answer for". If Hillary wants Wright "to go", I suppose he could leave the campaign because of these remarks. But I suspect that with one supporters tit-for-tat already under their belts, the campaigns are ready to move on.
