It's clear Barack Obama is not well. He's maybe not as sick as his pastor, but he's clearly ill. He sought out a racist hater and made the man his advisor, and in his one chance to denounce Jerry Wright, Obama not only refused, but he equated the minister's hatred, his racism, and his many character flaws to his white grandmother's rational fear of black men – an incredibly incongruent comparison. And he attacked an innocent bystander, Grandma, in the process, the woman who raised him and made this all possible, while at the same time he showcased his "two wrongs make a Wright" mentality.
The next day, Barry himself uttered a racist remark when he labeled his own grandmother "a typical white person." I don't know about you, but I'd love to hear granny's reply.
So then is Obama a typical black person? Because he's certainly typical of the "worshipers" at Trinity Church. Do they even have white people in their congregation? If they do, I would certainly agree they aren't typical white people. They're sick too.
In an amazing bit of coincidence, while defending Reverend Wright and Trinity on Day Two TS (in the year of The Speech), Barry lamented that people had taken a few examples and painted them as representative of the pastor and the church, and he added, "if you go there on Easter, on this Easter Sunday, and you sat down there in the pew, you would think this is just like any other church."
Well, here's what attendees heard two days later, Easter Sunday, 2008:
Rev. Otis Moss: "No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching. The lynching was national news. The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, National Publican Radio had it on the radio. The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on how do you feel about the lynching?" "…If I was Ice Cube I’d say it a little differently — ‘You picked the wrong folk to mess with.’"
The title of the sermon: "How to Handle a Public Lynching." A church pamphlet decried Wright’s treatment and reinforced the concept of a "modern-day lynching."
"We are all being vilified," Pastor Otis said. "This is an attack on the African American church tradition."
We can only audaciously hope that's true..
The bigger question is, are there people out there who care enough about B.O. to stage an intervention?
The sickness is in the eye of the beholder. In case you are too stupid to understand that (duh!) what I mean is that YOU are the sick puppy. Are there people out there who care enough about you to stage an intervention?
If moral relativism were true, M, your “sickness is in the eye of the beholder” statement would be exactly right. If YOU are too foolish to comprehend that, it means your response betrays your belief that enduring principles are, indeed, absolute. Otherwise, you’d display the behavior of a rock, while the world comes apart around you. You wouldn’t even care enough to respond with “moral outrage” to Ted’s piece.
Now that we know you really don’t believe in moral relativism and are thus impaled on your own hypocrisy, I am curious what buttresses your belief that Ted is sick. Is this a philosophical assessment, or are you an M.D.?
Chad,
I’m responding to you because of the enormous respect I have for you, and not to the irrelevant and immaterial slop above yours. Ordinarily a comment such as the one Multiplex posted would get him blocked on my blog due to its lack of any meaningful substance. I suspect it’s because he himself is incapable of anything beyond the superficial, that he has no moral grounding, and that, in fact, his entire affinity for Bobo is based solely on feelings and thus he has an end-justifies-the-means mentality.
However, I am not willing to engage in any discussion with him to prove my point. I’ll leave that to others who enjoy making fools of riffraff.
And now that I feel I’ve fulfilled my duty, I must say that parting is such sweet sorrow that… you know the rest.
Multiplex? Dang, I thought he was a Superman fan- then I remembered it’s Mr. Mxyzptlk I was thinking of.
I wondered if you would respond, Ted. I do understand your reticence at such an excursion. Salvage operations of this kind are usually doomed from the start, which is why in certain test cases it’s better to just draw your sword and “out with it.” That’s where these discussions go most of the time anyway. Likely your breath would’ve been wasted, since Mytzlphlik’s political orientation requires an interpreter on his/her end, provided, of course, he/she decided to hang out and lurk. On the other hand, if M had no intention of returning (only to purposefully misunderstand anyway), your very salient comments would’ve derived the same way, this time falling on absent ears. I sometimes wonder if, practically speaking, there’s really no difference between a substantive message which was misunderstood and one which was never received because the audience conveniently tuned out. That’s why I say it derives the same way. I’m not sure there is ANY difference.
Anyway, thanks for dropping in and have good one old friend.
This does, however, raise a bigger question: How do you think anything gets better when nearly half the people are raving idiots who vote?
I’m writing a piece right now about how Republicans have blown it and continue to blow it such that there are no good alternatives left to consider.
Cheers,
Ted
Trog,
Clearly, he chose his username the way you’d expect him to – like a chimp – he plunked his fingers down on the keyboard, and the result perfectly captured his essence.
That’ll be a provocative piece, I’m sure. Let me know when it’s ready.
With so many people just voting without being informed, it does make me wonder. Think of all the people who cast their vote based on race or party affiliation. That’s pretty scary stuff, indeed.