Posted by
Andrews on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:29:50 PM
I have
previously said that Obama is just like other politicians. I now take that back.
Other politicians are not sleazy enough to malign their grandparents to defend their presidential aspirations. Obama apparently is, having said he can no more disown the racist, divisive Rev Wright than:
... I can my white grandmother--a woman
who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a
woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a
woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the
street...
In other words, granny has to take one for the team, and appear a racist to try to make Wright more palatable.
Of course, this is also part of Obama's attempt to paint Wright as senile old
"uncle" who just happens to be getting up in years and started spouting racist screeds. Of course, that ignores the fact that these screeds have been going on since 2001, at least, that such screeds are sold on video by the church itself, and admitted freely on the church website. But that is not my point.
My point is that I cannot understand how anyone can endorse a man who pitches aside not only longtime friends, but even his own grandmother in his pursuit of the presidency.