Is The Left Turning On Reverend Wright?
First the left defended Wright as they felt they had to in order to defend Obama. But now that Barack himself has given them the go-ahead to be offended at what Wright is saying, the Obama faithful are turning on their Messiah’s spiritual leader.
The blogging leftists are leading the charge:
Many of you will disagree with what I have to say, however it’s rapidly becoming clear that it’s now time for Senator Obama to sever whatever ties or perceptions of ties exist between himself and Jeremiah Wright.
Let me be clear, his controversial positions are damaging enough, but they are far from the worst of it.
Rev. Wright is trying to attach himself to Senator Obama: to fuse his cause, his fortunes, his solutions, and his grievances with those of Obama.
I suggest you re-read that last sentence, for it contains the death of our hopes for a progressive president within it.
The media leftists are following suit:
What’s interesting is that these folks aren’t far off the mark when it comes to Wright. He is absolutely trying to fuse his cause to Obama’s, and as I theorized previously may even be trying to scuttle his entire campaign. An Obama Presidency, which would mean that America isn’t nearly the oppressive racist state people like Wright claim it is, would be bad for the “civil rights” business of people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Wright himself.
As Booker T. Washington once said:
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Has the left finally stumbled on to the ugly truth about the modern civil rights movement? And if they have, what does that portend for the general efforts of the liberal left to make all Americans a class of one sort of victim or another all of whom need to be serviced by an ever-growing class of government politicians and bureaucrats?
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