Posted by
Tom G. on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:09:00 PM
Obama will be ellusive about his past if you will be...his Gentleman's Agreement...
Did he address the issues at hand? NO
Sen. Obama spoke eloquently today about Race in Amerca, but did not address the issues he facing. In the effort to continue to deflect the seriousness of charges against his relationship and support for is Pastor, Obama avoided the underlying issue. Choosing instead to talk about loyalty to family, faith and friends, Obama did not deal with the real issue---His ability to Lead the greatest Nation on Earth.
A leader has to make decisions, often under great duress, and more often in the face of our enemies or crises. The Crisis that has emerged in the Obama Campaign is what kind of Man is Barrack Obama? What are his leadership Skills? And ultimately who is Barrack Obama.
We are told by Obama, that he is not going to abandon his Spiritual Leader, the man who Married he and his wife, and Baptised his children. WE are asked to beleive that Obama is not like his Spiritual Mentor. He attempts to equate Bad Behavior by offer other Bad Behavoir by his "white Grandmother".
Obama tells us that men raised in times worse than our current time should be allowed to offer Hatred and Bigotry, and that we should stand by them instead of calling them out. Obama claims to have never heard the Most Damning Sermons of Wright's, but had witnessed some he did not support. Obama tells us that because of certain facts, like Wright having experienced racism against himself, or that he has spoken to some of the most prestigeious Seminary's in the country that for some reason, he did not see it important to STAND UP AND DENOUNCE his Pastor.
Obama has grown up in this Church and now so have his wife and Children, among thousands of others...Are they better off for hearing Rev. Wrights rants of Bigotry and Hatred? Do they no he is a liar and wrong, and accept it for some unwriten reason, or do they beleive it?
What are the diffences of White verse Black Hatred, aren't they both wrongheaded?
Obama who was mentored under Frank Davis while in Hawaii, raised by a Mother who divorced her second husband because he was becoming too American-ized, and whose faith formation came as a disciple of Rev. Wright, wants to become the President who Unites America...
Around what, I ask?
While in the Illionis State Senate and the United States Senate, Obama has been regularly one of the most Liberal members. While in Illionis, he did not cross over and work with the GOP, and niether did he do so in the US Senate. Rather all 26 bills he sponsored, that passed and became Law in Illionis were in a 1 year period while the Senate President introduced only Barrack Bills. This State Senate President opined that he was Creating a Senator, while others who toiled in the process were stripped of ownership of Bills. Is this the Uniting of which he speaks.
Obama has offered his own Gentlemans Agreement, like the Movie, he will not talk about his past IF you don't!