Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright Will Continue To Be A Problem For Obama
Despite the left-wing media’s attempts to make it seem as though the opposite is true:
As Barack Obama makes his slow but steady way toward the Democratic nomination, the assumption in the admiring precincts of the press corps is that voters have dismissed as irrelevant his longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that may prove as mistaken as the assumption, back in 1988, that voters would not be impressed by Michael Dukakis’s 11-year support of a law granting weekend furloughs to convicts sentenced to life without parole, an issue brought up in the primaries by Al Gore but largely ignored in press coverage at the time. . . .
Most reporters are liberals, whose circles of friends and acquaintances have included people with views not dissimilar to those of Wright or William Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground bomber with whom Obama served on a nonprofit board and at whose house his state Senate candidacy was launched. Such reporters don’t find these views utterly repugnant or particularly noteworthy. But most American voters do. And they wonder whether a candidate who associates with such people agrees with them — or disbelieve him when he says he doesn’t.
Though most in the press won’t admit it, that’s a problem — for the Obama candidacy and for the whole Democratic party once it nominates him.
Like it or not, liberals, every single Democrat who has gotten elected to the White House since Lyndon Johnson has done so while campaigning as a moderate. If anyone thinks that Obama is going to waltz into the highest office in the land carrying Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers and all the America-hating radicalism they represent on his back they’re fooling themselves.
Obama is Jimmy Carter, except not electable even a single time. Which really makes him more like the second coming of Michael Dukakis.
