Unfortunately, I am going to be tied up today so I won’t be around to blog about Obama’s big speech on race until later this afternoon/evening. Use this thread as an open thread to comment on it, and whatever else you want to talk about.
Over the weekend, Rocco di Pippo at the Autonomist blog did some digging and found a Newsmax piece written in August 2007 by Jim Davis, in which Davis asserted that Obama was in attendance at a Trinity United Church of Christ service on July 22nd of that same year. Davis also reported that Obama allegedly “nodded in apparent agreement” when Wright was going on one of his now infamous “US of White America” diatribes.
It always, always happens. Anytime someone on the left is called to the carpet on a controversial comment, action, or association by the right, inevitably the left will, in turn, play the moral relativist card by claiming “but so and so on the right” has said/done the same thing. Saying “they all do it” is, of course, a cheap attempt at trying to negate any criticism, even when the criticism is legit. So it’s no surprise that since the heat started being turned on Barack Obama for his longtime association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has praised Louis F., who in turn endorsed BO, that The Usual Suspects would try to morally equate Wright and Louis F. with Christian megachurch pastors John Hagee from Texas and Rod Parsley from Ohio, endorsements from which McCain sought. Alan Colmes did it tonight on H&C, and other diehard moral relativist lefties both in the punditocracy and in the blogosphere have been doing it over the last few weeks as well.
I’m sure we all remember the various Clinton/Gore fundraising scandals, including the one where Al Gore was suspected of making campaign fundraising calls from the WH. I’ll never forget one of the defenses he tried to use when questioned by the FBI about it:
Well, OK – not really, but so many faithful devotees believe he is, even when article by article slowly trickles out proving that he’s really not. Like this one (from the NYT, no less) about how he’s finally released a list of the earmark requests he’s made over the last three years (h/t: Jim Geraghty):
Barack Obama’s controversial black nationalist reverend is back in the news today, thanks to some detective work from ABC News (language warning):
