If on November 5 we have crossed a historical threshold and elected our first black president, I will eat crow, feathers and all, but I don’t think it will happen. In a previous post, before the blasphemous blowhard Jeremiah Wright arrived on the scene, I thought, like many Americans, Republican or Democrat, that Obama was a nice, smart guy. He was a refreshing change, if only in style, from the brain-dead liberal elders in his party. He was, most emphatically not the craven lamp-and-ashtray throwing heir to a decade of moral rot that is Hillary Clinton. If there was ever a Democrat that would change the tone in Washington, if not his political positions, it was Obama. And if he happened to be black, who cares, I live by a code of a (capitalist) meritocracy and it matters not a whit the guy’s skin color.
Picture George Washington sitting in the colonial era Falls Church in (now) Falls Church, Virginia. It is not far from Mt. Vernon and he was known to frequent the church as it was located near the falls of the Potomac River. Washington was a pious man and loved his country with every fiber of his being. Would he have selected a man such as Reverend Jeremiah Wright as his pastor, a racist America-hating “clergyman” who talks about someone “riding dirty” on an intern while executing pelvic thrusts that would make Elvis blush. At the risk of beating it to death, watch again and put Washington in the congregation.
Theodore Roosevelt, the hero of San Juan Hill, commander of the Rough Riders, and Medal of Honor recipient would have, upon hearing “God damn America,” strode up to the altar, grabbed Wright by the collar and belt and heaved him out the back door. He would have then turned around, pushed up his pince-nez, glared around the church daring someone to make a move, and strode his stocky body purposefully out the front door.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Five Star General in the United States Army, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, Planner of the D-Day Invasion, and Nazi-Slayer, would have heard Wright’s sermon, thought of the brave boys of Pointe du Hoc dead on the beach at Normandy, shook his head and wondered if he was stuck in a bad dream in Berlin circa 1941.
Would any of these men have chosen Rev. Wright to marry them to their sweethearts Martha, Edith, or Mamie? Would they have had their children baptized in that church? Would they have continued to subject the children to caustic sermons brimming with rage against their own country?
Barack Obama did. America doesn’t elect people like that.
Bill Dupray is a lawyer living in Northern Virginia.
Obama, if elected president, would be head of the executive branch. He would be responsible for picking hundreds if not thousands of staff members (with the help of people he picked). Unfortuatly, he is just not good at picking people. The U.S. doesn’t need he director of the CIA to go off hunting for alien space ships, the FBI director publicly smoking a crack pipe or the Secretary of Education claiming that books promoting Communism will be manditory reading. That’s not far off what Carter picked and Obama had picked some of he same people to advise him. If Carter didn’t make the news because of stupidity, one of his staff members did. Obama will have the same problem.
Good analogies. I used them in another response I gave with credit to you.
“If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
Jeremiah Wright? Or is it Abraham Lincoln expressing the same sentiment in the second most beloved speech in presidential history?
Thanks MM.