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Do Rev. Wright and Rev. Sharpton want to stop Obama?

Well, look at it this way:

1 - Obama's nomination would fundamentally change the dynamic that to be a leader of the black community you need to follow the MLK model and have that "Rev." before your name.

2 - Obama's election to the presidency would do serious damage to the animating myth of these reverends--that the United States is a fundamentally racist country, looking to do violence (economic and physical) to blacks at every opportunity.

3 - Worst of all, a President Obama would mean that the structure where there are many people who could claim leadership of the "black community" (whatever that actually means) would be shattered. There would be only one real leader, and he would be the leader of the whole country, not just a range of skin tones.

So what do you think the Reverends really want?

Having seen part of Moyer's coming out party as well as the entirety of the NAACP and Press sessions, I am really left scratching my head. It is as though the quite entertaining and obviously gifted man, Mr Wright, is inhabited by multiple personalities. I think he comes across as way too clever and self-indulgent to even begin to appreciate the impact he casts onto Mr Obama. He comes across as a megalomaniac.

Hey, I enjoyed his gigs. There is too much devil-child-saint-abaser for me to clearly see where he has and continues to severely damage Obama. I just sense it strongly. Whether one thinks it fair or not, I think it is a fact. These three days have to be regarded as very unsettling.

Why has he done this, over and above his obvious self-worship? Could there be a cold rational reason to this? Could his 'black right-brained feeling' logic simply not realize that he does not want Obama to be successful in gaining the presidency because it would yank a major plank out from under his own understanding of reality.
"Obama, you ruined my case!" I don't know.

When a market is uncertain, people tend to sell. Mr Wright has only served to increase the uncertainty.

Michelle Obama is difficult for anyone to control! She spoke in Indiana recently!

I thought that Michelle Obama had become less prominent on the campaign trail, but on Friday she spoke at a rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana. C-SPAN broadcst the speech last night. It seemed to go on forever, but the seeming length was proportional to the pain inflicted by listening to it.

By contrast with Barack Obama, Michelle Obama doesn't know the words and won't learn the music of American politics. She therefore does not wear well. While she preaches the gospel according to Barack, she wears resentment and bitterness on her sleeve. In her Fort Wayne speech she expanded on the condescending political sociology that Barack Obama preached at his closed-door fundraiser with the San Francisco Democrats.

Given the modesty of her and her husband's family backgrounds, Mrs. Obama denied that she or her husband could be elitists. Yet her political sociology is the mother's milk of those such as the San Francisco Democrats to whom Barack Obama preached. Apparently Mrs. Obama believes that only those born to wealth are capable of looking down their noses at their fellow citizens. In her case the proposition is self-refuting.

Barack wasn't born with "silver spoons" in his mouth, she said. And nobody knows the trouble they've seen. The burden of paying for her undergraduate education at Princeton and her law school education at Harvard remains a motif of her stump speech. No one is granted a chance to ask her if she thought about attending the University of Illinois, or if she's grateful for any of the financial assistance that facilitated her and her husband's attendance at the finest institutions of higher learning in the United States.

Mrs. Obama omitted her admonition to the Los Angeles disciples of Barack from her current iteration of the gospel she preached in Indiana:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
As long as Senator Obama won't require us to listen to the missus, I might be willing to settle for the compulsory mental readjustments.

"close enough to give skeptical white voters an excuse."

Nice. Yep, all us non apologetic whiteys are just latent racists looking for an excuse. If whitey McCain had a whitey pastor of 20 years (in the church where he was married and his children were baptized) saying the kind of vitriol Wright says, they'd have lynched McCain by now. Oops. I said a word that I no longer own.

One of the questions above is: "Are his observations about race and education in America divisive or, as Wright put it, "descriptive"?

I think they are both...let's face it, many of the things the "good" pastor has said are very divisive. But the fact that many percieve them to be true, and that it is a reality that many Blacks still struggle under the enormous shroud of racism (that many white people cannot ever understand), makes it both.

That does not excuse his hate filled rantings and anti-American rhetoric, but does bring into sharp contrast just how far we have (or have not) come. How far have we come anyway...perhaps we should ask the Groom and Bride?

Through YOU Pastor Wright the American people have gotten a TRUE PICTURE of OBAMA and what he REALLY believes in and we may yet avoid the biggest mistake since re-electing GWB.

Pastor Wright is a BITTER man---not a generational thing at all if Obama and his Mrs can sit there for 20 years and consider him part of their family.

We don't NEED a bitter black man running our country. What happened to his being proud of his WHITE HERITAGE since his black-African father ran out on his WHITE American mother. ?