G-d Damn Obama!

By now you've no doubt seen the play and reply of the outrageous behavior of Obama's Pastor-In-Chief, so there's no particular need for me to link to it here.

Is this what is meant by a "new future?" Is this what is meant by "change?" His Pastor-In-Chief is a hate monger, a black segregationist. He's got a friend from the Weather Underground who was on the run for terrorist acts. He befriended and benefited from the largesse of a Chicago thug. Is this what is meant by "change"? Is this where we are investing "hope" for the future? Is this really moving forward, at all? Or is this taking us backwards? Obama takes office as a US Senator in 2005. A few months later his wife gets a 200% salary bump from her employer and then her employer gets a $1 Million earmark, courtesy of Senator Obama. (The Hospital of course says the two were not related.)

Now, Obama obviously has no responsibility for the words that spew forth from the Reverend Wright, but he has chose to remain a member of this church for years, was married in this church, and had his daughters baptized in this church. The Obama's donated $20,000 to this church only a year or two ago. At what point does Obama have plausible deniability in not knowing about these sermons and then withdrawing his membership from this church?

Here's my problem with a church that proclaims that their congregation is unashamedly black and that they are an African people: the G-d of your church should be color blind and geography neutral. One of the lessons of your faith should be that G-d loves ALL his children. And don't be so proud of Africa, the cradle of civilization was in the fertile crescent of present-day Iraq. One may even nod in the direction of Egypt, but the ancient Egyptians were all different skin colors but not black, so this worship of the "cradle of civilization" as something distinctly black is a delusion.

If you are a black born and bred in America, you should be proud of being an American, not an African. What does Africa have to be proud of? After thousands of years of civilization, Africa is still a cauldron of racial, ethnic and tribal hatreds with a barbarity only matched by the growing Muslim populations. Don't believe me? Ask the man on the street in Zimbabwe, or the man on the street in the Soweto area surrounding Joburg. How about the people a little further North? What about the man on the street in Liberia, Cameroon, the Cote d'Ivoire, Chad, the Sudan, or Nigeria?

There is nothing, absolutely nothing to be proud of. There are hundreds of millions of Africans going to bed every night praying to G-d to allow them to wake up one day free and safe in America, yet this church has the stupidity to want to be an "African people, and remain true to our native land." You fools, you are already in the promised land.

That man, that "reverend" in the video you've no doubt seen is the same man who Obama credits with being his "moral compass," and who gave another sermon that inspired the title of Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope. Would we not expect a similar outrage if, oh I don't know, any of the leading contenders for the Republican nomination had had the "reverend" Phelps as his "moral compass?" Puleeze.

In the end, I'm with Mona:

I am coming to believe that Barack Obama is one of the greatest con artists we've seen. His entire campaign has been about "coming together," a post-racial consensus, etc. Any mention of his middle name was immediately condemned as ignorant fear-mongering. He has played the role of racial unifier with great skill and finesse.

Obama's book is strewn with hints of his far left sympathies, as when he tells an African cousin who complains about the hardships of life in Kenya that things are no better in America. Or when he suggests that the lives of poor black young men in the inner city are blighted by white racism. He never says it explicitly, but it's there.

He has been very friendly with Rashid Khaladi, the fierce anti-Israel professor who took Edward Said's post at Columbia.

My own theory, FWIW, is that Obama acquired his far left views at least in part to make himself as authentically black as he could to compensate for having a white mother. His mother, of course, was very left herself. But looking the way he does, and having been raised among only white people (mother and maternal grandparents) he felt the need to better identify with his black heritage. That struggle is what the book is all about.

One can have sympathy for his psychological predicament . But that sympathy certainly does not extend to electing him president of a country that I sincerely believe he does not love.

Mike

Update: Ace, as usual, is all over the story. First by highlighting Anderson Cooper's apologetics for Obama's predicament with Wright to be "On the wrong track," yet discussing Romney's "despicable" Mormonism, complete with funky graphics during a Romney speech! Next, Ace highlights the spin inherent from the usual nutters in the Daily Kos and Josh "Boutros Boutrous" Marshall/TPM progressive community.