Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, November 03, 2008 2:29:27 PM
My friend Pam at Atlas Shrugged
got this video over the weekend of Rep. Jerrold Nadler telling
Floridians what has been blindingly obvious all along. It shows both
why the Jeremiah Wright string would not resonate and why it actually does
have some real value in assessing Barack Obama. Nadler tries to explain
why Obama couldn’t simply leave Trinity United, and Obama comes off
looking like a cold, calculating, manipulative pol
Obama didn’t have the political courage to make a statement and walk out.
That’s been the reason that most people have shrugged off the Wright
Stuff, which John McCain left on the cutting-room floor in this
election. Most people have reached the same conclusion that Nadler
gives his New York constituents. Obama joined Trinity for political
connections and got them, as well as the power base of 8,000 members in
the South Side. When Obama’s aspirations moved from Chicago to
Washington, he had no trouble dumping Wright and TUCC.
Except that doesn’t quite square with reality. Obama
remained close to Wright until this year. He gave $26,000 to TUCC in
2006, well after Obama won his seat in the US Senate. Until Wright
accused him of exactly the kind of political opportinism that Nadler
suggests, Obama planned to stick with his demagoguic minister while
attempting to explain him away as the product of a bygone generation.
He gave a nationally-watched speech on race and refused to repudiate
Wright until Wright made his lunacy too explicit just weeks later.