Diane
2008-04-23 11:33:33
“We are supposed to wink at this because, after all, Obama, of mixed race, was trying to make it in black Chicago politics and wanted street cred (twenty years’ worth).”
I have heard it said that the reason Obama won’t fully repudiate Rev. Wright or Trinity Church now is because, should he fail to become president, he’ll need these folks in his re-election bid for the senate.
There’s leadership for you.
And we’re supposed to think that once he’s POTUS, Obama will cut these unsavory ties… why should he? This is a man who has some disturbing similarities with our current president — chiefly, a pious confidence in his own infallibility.
Also on the list:
- inexperience
- irrationality
- stubbornness
- dogmatism
- vanity
