qrayjack
04-29-2008, 05:50 AM
Wright's Voice Could Spell Doom for Obama
Dana Milbank - Rough Sketch, WaPo
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom.
Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered - and added lighter fuel.
MORE (http://blog.washingtonpost. com/roughsketch/?hpid=topnews)
*Obama has nobody but himself to blame for the rantings of this maniac. He could have denounced Wright, Ayers etc. et al at the beginning and put it all to rest, but he didn't because this is who Barak Obama is. His political philosophies are not far removed from the radical ideas of his associates, and his arrogant elitism leads him to believe that everybody who counts, thinks the same way. Obama hasn't the vaguest notion of mainstream America's thoughts and feelings. I don't see how he survives this.
Dana Milbank - Rough Sketch, WaPo
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom.
Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered - and added lighter fuel.
MORE (http://blog.washingtonpost. com/roughsketch/?hpid=topnews)
*Obama has nobody but himself to blame for the rantings of this maniac. He could have denounced Wright, Ayers etc. et al at the beginning and put it all to rest, but he didn't because this is who Barak Obama is. His political philosophies are not far removed from the radical ideas of his associates, and his arrogant elitism leads him to believe that everybody who counts, thinks the same way. Obama hasn't the vaguest notion of mainstream America's thoughts and feelings. I don't see how he survives this.