Charles Krauthammer challenges Obama’s Wright Speech
March 21st, 2008 at 08:21pm KMorrison
Charles Krauthammer wrote a very interesting article entitled The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud. His article points to the reason the issue of Pastor Wright isn’t going away for Senator Obama. While many have come to a conclusion about Obama’s ties to Wright, Krauthammer points out the many questions that remain. These and other questions about Pastor Wright will continue to dog Senator Obama if he chooses to avoid them. It’s a difficult issue, but people have legitimate concerns about how tolerant he was of hate filled sermons. Maybe Senator Obama has a legitimate answer for these questions, but he has to bite the bullet and answer them as intolerance and prejudice should not be accepted in any form.
Excerpts from The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud by Charles Krauthammer
“The beauty of a speech is that you don’t just give the answers, you provide your own questions”….
“The question is why didn’t he leave that church? Why didn’t he leave — why doesn’t he leave even today — a pastor who thundered not once but three times from the pulpit (on a DVD the church proudly sells) “God damn America”? Obama’s 5,000-word speech, fawned over as a great meditation on race, is little more than an elegantly crafted, brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.”
Addressing the problem of the grandmother/Wright comparison he notes Obama’s statement, “I can no more disown (Wright) than I can my white grandmother.” and continues…
“Yet Obama compares her to Wright. Does he not see the moral difference between the occasional private expression of the prejudices of one’s time and the use of a public stage to spread racial lies and race hatred?”
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1. Charles Krauthammer chall&hellip | March 21st, 2008 at 8:41 pm
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2. Michelle | March 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 am
Acropolis Review, Charles Murray and Drew Westen summarize some of the important points:
http://acropolisreview.com/2008/03/video-barack-obamas-philadelphian-unity.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/the-meanings-of-obamas-s_b_92381.html
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjI3MWMyOGFkNmQ2MGFjNzRhYzYwMGVhZWJhMjcyOGM=
3. Brad Marston | March 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 am
It was a brilliant speech but then again Barack Obama is known for giving great speeches. As Krauthammer points out, one needs to listen to what Obama is actually saying. That is not so brilliant…and the polls are reflecting that.