Obama's Bad Judgment

Is this the kind of experience he would bring to Washington as President?

Trinity United Church of Christ/Religion News ServiceSen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., senior pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, March 2005.

“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation,” --Barrack H. Obama


Barrack Believeable?
Only to people who's sipped a bit too much of the leftie Kool Aid!

Barrack Obama has made the case to his supporters that he represents change from the politics of the past as represented by his rival for the Dem nomination. We all know how expert both Clintons are at turning a phrase, or defining "is" to suit their needs. But apparently, that's one characteristic Obama does not intend to change.

Look back at the text: "not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation." This begs the question did you KNOW about these statements. In an interview on Fox News Obama said: "they weren't things that I was familiar with. "

When asked if he would have quit the church if he had heard those statemements Obama gave a long rambling non answer. When pressed he said "If I had heard them repeated, I would have quit."

So, we are led to believe that Obama never heard directly, or was even "familiar" with Pastor Wright's hate filled sermons. The next question would be: did others in the church ever come and talk to you about these sermons? Had you heard that Wright was saying these things, why didn't you go and confront him?

A Typical Sunday When Obama Was in Wright's Church

REV WRIGHT: Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

USHER: signals Wright that Obama has left the sanctuary and is headed to the restrooms.

WRIGHT: "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

USHER: signals Wright Obama is coming back down the hall. As Obama enters...

WRIGHT: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

As usual, Victor Davis Hanson sums up the problem well:

Race and the Democrats, Part III
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Corner
March 14, 2008

Betrayed?

3) Sen. Obama has proclaimed a new politics of hope and change that were supposedly to transcend such venom and character assassination of the past. Thus besides being politically dense, he suffers—unless he preempts and explains in detail his Byzantine relationship with the Reverend—the additional charge of hypocrisy in courting such a merchant of hate. And then he compounds the disaster by the old-fashion politics of contortion and excuse by suggesting the Rev. Wright is not that controversial, or is analogous to the occasional embarrassing outburst of an uncle—some uncle.

4) There is a growing sense of betrayal among some of his supporters. Sen. Obama promised to transcend race; millions of sincere people of both parties took him at his word and invested psychologically and materially in his candidacy. Part of his message was that collectively America had made great progress, and their Ivy League and subsequent careers, in addition to his rhetoric of inclusiveness and tolerance, bore witness to that progress in racial equality. Now we learn, that for much of his career, he was not only attending hate-filled sermons against “rich white people” and the “g-d d——d America” (in hopes of solidifying his racial fides in regional Chicago politics?), but subsidized that ministry of intolerance. So while he promised an evolution beyond the race-identity politics of Jesse Jackson or the Rev. Sharpton, his own minister trumped anything that either one of those preachers might have sermonized. All in all—a betrayal.
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So now in place of a critical discussion of issues from taxes to the war, welcome to the Politics of Change.

Judgment to What?

What've learned this past week is that the man who claimed the "judgement to lead" and promised "change we can believe in" is nothing more than a good speechmaker. His Clintonesque phrasing and attempts to distance himself from the man he embraced as friend and mentor for 20 years is more of the same from the Democrat Party.

And for Barack Hussein Obama, it gives us insight into his true character and perhaps better explains the photo below where Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson both stood with hands over their hearts as the national anthem was playing at an Iowa event last year.