Ben Smith over at Politico has the details, notes this flyer put out in Philadelphia (PDF) has Obama mentioning that it was after Wright’s sermon that he converted to Christianity. Let us quote a bit:
…one Sunday I put on one of the few clean jackets I had and went over to the Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. And I heard Reverand Jeremiah A. Wright deliver a sermon called “The Audacity of Hope.” And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him…
Side note: “one of the few clean jackets I had”? Does Obama keep a supply of dirty jackets around along with a selection of clean? Anyways…
Admirable words, and words that any one of ten million Evangelicals could repeat - those very same Evangelicals that Obama, and the rest of the left, denigrate in various ways…such as Obama’s recent remarks that such people are “bitter” and “cling to God” due to ill-feeling. The really sad thing is that this flyer is clearly designed for the urban black Christian demographic - there is no problem with courting such a vote, but you won’t see Obama wanting this to get on national television where his “practical atheist” upper class white supporters might see it (what is a “practical atheist”? Somone who, regardless of claimed faith, lives life as if God doesn’t exist).
Its a terrible thing, the way our liberals have to be - to pretend to be all things to all people; to hide their real beliefs, to try and convince everyone that they are with them 100%…but to be so would mean they can’t be 100% with the other group, so neither group must find out just what the liberal is saying to the other. Why don’t they try honesty? Because they don’t want to be stuck with 25% of the vote…
Tags: Crackerquiddick, Extremism, Jeremiah Wright
April 25th, 2008
From Mark Steyn:
Sen. Obama’s remarks about poor dumb, bitter rural losers “clinging to” guns and God certainly testify to the instinctive snobbery of a big segment of the political class. But we shouldn’t let it go by merely deploring coastal condescension toward the knuckledraggers. No, what Michelle Malkin calls Crackerquiddick (quite rightly – it’s more than just another dreary “-gate”) is not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It’s an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God ‘n’ guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.
How’s that working out? Compared with America, France and Germany have been more or less economically stagnant for the past quarter-century, living permanently with unemployment rates significantly higher than in the United States…
…In my book “America Alone,” I note a global survey on optimism: 61 percent of Americans were optimistic about the future, 29 percent of the French, 15 percent of Germans. Take it from a foreigner: In my experience, Americans are the least “bitter” people in the developed world. Secular, gun-free big-government Europe doesn’t seem to have done anything for people’s happiness. Consider by way of example the words of Keith Reade. He’s not an Obama speechwriter, he’s a writer for the London Daily Mirror. And the day after the 2004 presidential election he expressed his frustration in an alarmingly Obamaesque way:
“Were I a Kerry voter, though, I’d feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets. The self-righteous, gun-totin’, military-lovin’, sister-marryin’, abortion-hatin’, gay-loathin’, foreigner-despisin’, nonpassport ownin’ rednecks, who believe God gave America the biggest d*** in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land ‘free and strong.’”
Well, that’s certainly why I supported Bush, but I’m not sure it entirely accounts for the other 62,039,073 incontinent rednecks.
First off, I had missed that from Malkin - “Crackerquiddick” - ROFL…love it!
Anyways…
We incontinent rednecks - bitterly bringing our guns to church so that we can hate foreigners, or some such - got an earful from Obama, and methinks it is finally crystalising in the public mind just what liberals are all about. I’ve noted that in some recent polling, McCain is clobbering Obama nationally, and especially in the critical battleground States. There hasn’t been much movement in Demcorat polls, as most Democrats don’t see any problem with what Obama said, but out there in the world of independents, its another story…and its a story of people being outraqed over Obama’s comments. Right now, I’d have to say that Hillary has a better chance of beating McCain than Obama does - though, of course, it is mighty early and 100 things may change between now and November.
More importantly for the long-term, Obama’s remarks also point out just why America is the only major industrial democracy which is not in terminal population decline - even without or immigrants (legal and otherwise), we’d still be holding even in population. The source of this strength is what is considered on the left to be our weakness - that would be our continuing enthusiastic worship of God; our willingness to defend ourselves and, indeed, go overseas to defeat tyrants; our insistence upon freedom; our continued respect for tradtional morality. Liberals put this down to a combination of ignorance and hatred - really its just a common sense view of life and the world, and it is liberals who are ignorant…and their ignorance feeds their hatred, which comes out in boneheaded statements, such as that uttered by Obama.
Just as long as Americans “cling” to God, so will America remain a viable nation - once get to a point where a majority has cut itself off from God, and you’ll soon have a disarmed, socialist America dying along with Europe…
Tags: Crackerquiddick, Extremism
April 20th, 2008
