Posted by
Andrews on Monday, April 07, 2008 4:36:41 PM
The entire Reverend Wright affair puzzles me. Not because of any of the facts, those are pretty clear. What puzzles me is what is the position of Obama and his supporters. As they have adopted so many, I still don't know what they actually believe.
At first, Obama had never heard Wright say anything. Then he had heard it, but it was an aberration, the ranting of a "crazy uncle". Then it was understandable, as Wright had been afflicted by American racism. And finally Wright said something but there was some undefined "more" to him.
Now we have
Wright's successor arguing that Wright is much like Martin Luther King, making people uncomfortable with his prophecy.
So, which is it? Is this a set of cherry picked comments? Or the aberration of an addled old man? Or is it his intentional prophesying?
It can't be all of those. So, is Wright speaking his mind or is his speech being distorted? Is he proudly proclaiming words with which his former (and Obama's current) church agrees or is his former (and Obama's current) church ashamed of his senile rants? It seems the pastor at Obama's church thinks Reverend Wright's speeches were not only intentional, but on the mark. As Obama is still attending services there, I have to wonder if Obama will now leave, or will continue his tradition of 20 years silent assent.
And yet somehow the Democrats claim that this issue has been settled. Makes me wonder what their definition of "settled" is.