Say Anything Blog

Check out this opinion piece/article that I found in the Edmontonsun.com Remember Canada isn’t some bastion of right wing thought it is a socialist Utopia.

Barack Hussein Obama entered the marathon of presidential politics with the thinnest resume of any aspirant to the White House in modern times.

He gamely set forth to win his party’s nomination by parlaying weakness, the very lightness of his empty political suit—a first term senator with no legislative record of any merit—into strength as a post-racism candidate promising to unite a divided country.

The gamble almost worked—it might still with the Democrats—for Obama’s empty suit rode the jet stream of political discontent in a country at war. The jet stream raised him to popular heights his party rivals with longer resumes could only watch with disbelief.

Obama’s candidacy, like any gamble, was a risky venture. It was made more risky given the tightly guarded knowledge that revelations about Rev. Jeremiah Wright—Obama’s pastor of some 20 years—could well bring down the junior senator’s “audacity of hope” to be elected America’s first non-white president.

Seems as if the Reverend Wright thing isn't going to go away and is probably going to do more damage than good.

But Wright did more, as Bob Herbert of the New York Times wrote, by going to Washington “not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.”

The senator’s pastor derogatorily dismissed the promising post-racism candidate as a mere politician, meaning an individual who will say and do whatever is needed to get elected.

The question then is who has it right? Is it Wright who has known the aspiring politician for the past two decades, or is it Obama?

The candidate lately has been appalled that his pastor, preaching sermons laced with bigotry, is not the same person he knew and of whom he said some weeks ago in Philadelphia he “can no more disown than I can disown the black community.”

I am beginning to think that this is true. This isn't the first time that I have heard this. I think the Democrats have painted themselves into a hole and they are going to have to make some tough choices.

UNELECTABLE

In Steele’s view Obama is unelectable because he “has fellow-travelled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother, who was white.

Obama’s candidacy, to quote Steele again, has been “based more on manipulation of white guilt than on substance.”

The primary season has worked as it is meant to work, and for now it has brought down to earth a candidacy filled with hot air.