Is Rev. Wright Right?
By Lisa Fabrizio
March 27, 2008
With all the heated feelings and rhetoric surrounding the firestorm that is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a bit of truth telling may be in order. Conservatives have demanded that Barack Obama repudiate all of the controversial statements made by his spiritual advisor, while supporters of the Illinois senator believe that he has sufficiently distanced himself from them. But what if there is actually some truth in Wright's allegations?
Barack Obama is said to be a tremendous orator, and the speech he delivered last week was hailed by many as superb and spiritually moving. And he should know about preaching and inspiring events; after all, his justification (web site) of same-sex unions based on the Sermon on the Mount earlier this month was quite illuminating. But, laying aside his racially-tinged, finger-pointing diatribe itself, let's go to the veracity of a few of his Pastor's statements and the extent to which Obama and those of his party may or may not be in agreement with them.
One of Wright's dependable mantras is that America is a country controlled by "rich, white people," who, according to him, are doing harm to people of color. To a certain extent this is true. There is a large group of people for whom it is politically expedient to keep blacks in "their place." But these rich white folks -- let's call them limousine liberals -- are those who support Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
Almost from this country's founding, politicians of all stripes have been known to make promises to those in need of government largesse. But Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his New Deal coalition to form a solid Democratic base of big city political machines, labor unions, subsidized farm groups and ethnic and racial minorities, which purchased millions of votes via federal handouts.
This was honed into an art form in later years by Democrats who, unlike their predecessors, sought to keep those in need perpetually needy, and therefore dependable on Election Day. This is the ugly truth of modern liberalism. Keeping minorities dependent on government help instead of self-help is their goal; and race and class envy are their weapons. Indeed, in his "healing" speech, Obama identified our "corporate culture" as the "real culprits of the middle-class squeeze."
We used to salute as "Captains of Industry," risk-takers who invested their own money in order to found solid companies which used their profits to create jobs for all classes of people. These men drove the machine that fueled the American dream. Today, those once proud men are now shunned as "culprits" by liberals, some of whom have grown wealthy investing in the very corporations they seek to vilify and drive into submission via unionization, litigation, regulation and taxation. And when these burdens become too heavy to bear and these companies are forced to relocate offshore, they are deemed un-American.
Rev. Wright has famously said of the 9/11 attacks, that Americans were "indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." And, despite the view of liberal relativists who believe there are no objective truths--such as, you're either with the terrorists or against them--this charge actually has a ring of accuracy to it.
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