This article by Elizabeth Wurtzel pretty much tries to explain away all of Obama’s character issues as being no big deal because….wait for it….because Obama is expecting us all to act like we all have some brains and can get over it.
Just no big deal:
In a way, the public is saying that we don’t want the country erupting into a divisiveness akin to what created the ’60s scene, the atmosphere of the Weather Underground. Even Jeremiah Wright, an embarrassing pastor who would probably have brought down a less-deft political prestidigitator, will not do in Barack Obama. The Reverend rants and raves. It’s a mess. But Mr. Obama’s campaign will carry on.
As for Mr. Obama’s friends, the Weathercouple: By all accounts, Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers are unfathomably charming, brilliant and comely people, absolutely irresistible. Everybody who meets them is taken and forgets what they should know.
Mr. Obama expects us all to understand this, because we understand everything else. He is doing something most unusual: He’s acting as if the American people are thinking with their brains. He’s giving all of us a lot of credit. Could it be that we deserve it?
Amazing.
So we should all just forget about Obama’s very bad judgement in befriending the likes of Rezko and Auchi, Odinga, Ayers, The New Black Panther Party, La Raza, Farrakhan, Mr. Wright, and the homophobe Rev. James T. Meeks.
Not likely. Nor should it be when picking the next President of the United States.
There is one interesting point Elizabeth makes tho in her article:
Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there’s been some press about the senator’s friendship with this controversial Weathercouple. Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as “flimsy,” that the senator’s relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close.
Now isn’t that interesting. Is she saying that reporters from our MSM are not reporting on facts they know to be true, that being the fact that Obama and the terrorists are quite close, because they just want people to get over it?
But just get over it people and let him win dammit! He is the messiah don’t ya know?
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“He is doing something most unusual: He’s acting as if the American people are thinking with their brains. He’s giving all of us a lot of credit.” – Now that one had me laughing for a while!
If anything , BHO is treating the American public like they are a bunch of idiots, and desperately hoping he can keep us fooled with his “hope” and “change” show long enough so that the “distractions” (read well founded concerns of the voting public), don’t drag him down before he’s taken up residence in the White House.
Case in point one: As part of his campaign for Congressional office, BHO puts out “Dreams of my Father” (which could have alternately been titled “Whitey is Evil”). This was a real hit with his constituency, stoking the fires of Identity Politics that those on the left so love! However, years later as he makes his bid for the Presidency, there’s very little mention of this book by either his campaign or the MSM (yes, telling all the white people out there who you’ve been trying to convince that you’re a “post-racial” politician about a book where you deride them dozens of times could be bad for your electability). Instead, he’s been trumpeting his newer book “The Audacity of Hope,” a title inspired by his “former” pastor Jeremiah Wright.
This brings us to case in point two: BHO is now trying to convince us that now (after 20 years!) that he has finally realized that Jeremiah Wright is a racial bigot, and that he doesn’t believe in Wright’s ideology. Yes, everybody ignore the fact that I was in the pews for 20 years without complaint, and defended the man as recently as last month; now he’s crazy and BHO isn’t connected to him anymore. Buy that one, and you can dry it out and fertilize your lawn with it…
Case in point three: His “flimsy” ties with Ayers and Dohrn, which even this piece from a sympathetic author points out are actually quite friendly and warm. BHO counts on Americans to be uninformed enough to forget about the Weather Underground, and the fact that this couple are quite unrepentant about their domestic terrorist activities. Yes, good friends for a President…
Okay, I’ve said my piece, let the BHO true believers begin their shrill, knee-jerk defense.
Thanks for mention on the Rev. Meeks story, Curt.
Best always.
That last line was EW’s tribute to her pimps in the MSM. Good the WSJ has a sense of humor & let’s a crazed fashionista try her hand at heavy lifting. She failed to even clean the barbell.
Wurtzel also mentions that Dohrn worked at the brown-shoe law firm of Sidley Austin with “the two Obamas” and there is speculation that Michelle was “mentored’ by Dohrn when MOmarosaObama interned at SA in the ’80s. Michelle in turn “mentored” Barry Hussein Obama & married up when he joined the firm.
I knew Ayers back in Ann Arbor when he was Diana Oughton’s lesser half. She was gorgeous & shouldn’t have trying punching above her weight. He is a total bantamweight sillyboy who is as arrogant as he is witless. To give him tenure is another indictment of Academentia.
Obama’s relationship with Ayers, his father, brother and wife had gone on for years. I remember Axelrod tried to pass the relationship off as meaningless because it was only an association of the two families because their children attend the same school. Axelrod was obviously ignorant of the age difference of the children in each family. But the story keeps evolving, they will have enough people convinced and confused enough to stay in the Obama camp. Ayers and wife are not nor ever were terrorists, bombing buildings and threatening innocent lives was just a silly sixties thing, look away. nothing here.
Interesting peek into how the Hillary vs Obama supporters are handling the Ayres/Dohrn/Obama friendship. Spent a bit of time reading through the comments and the links they provided. Kind of an entertaining morning.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/2/14191/05660