March 17. 2008

If there's one lesson that has been abundantly clear from the fall of public figures over the last few years -- Bill Clinton, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro, Eliot Spitzer, Mike Vick, Alberto Gonzales, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera -- it is that the bad deed is not what does in the person who commits it; rather, it is the persistent lying about it that does.

Barack Obama's continued pathetic attempts to spin (read: lie about) the situation regarding his involvement with Jeremiah Wright's black-separatist megachurch shows that he, like all of those listed above and so many more, is afflicted with the same elitist mindset that drove the others to maintain that they were innocent of those things which they were rightly accused of.

"Those other guys got caught, but they'll never catch me"--or some variant thereof -- seems to drive these elitist jackasses to deny, deny, deny in the face of all evidence and logic. Somehow, they will be the ones who don't get caught, despite the fact that history shows they will, sooner or later, have to pay the piper in some form or another.

In this case, Barack Obama is spinning like a top trying to marginalize his association with the pastor of his church. The fact that this pastor, Jeremiah Wright, was chosen by Barack and Michelle to officiate their wedding and to baptize one of their children, and served as the inspiration for the title of Obama's autobiography is making that feat a little bit tougher than Barack "The H is for Hope, not Hussein!" Obama might wish. But don't worry -- Obama is convinced enough of your stupidity and of his superiority that he'll keep spinning and lying until he has talked himself into a corner from which there is no escape.

Obama now has surrogates like Dick Durbin (D -- of course -- IL) out spreading incredibly weak lies on his behalf. For example, Durbin is apparently arguing that Wright made most of these "controversial" (only to White Republican Racists, of course!) statements and comments long before Barack ever started coming to the church. (The other argument, as made to this point by Obama and some of his other surrogates, has been that he was conveniently absent from the building on the days that the firebrand, racist, bigoted pastor gave so many of his racist, bigoted sermons -- and that he never once heard about them from any of the tens of thousands of members.)

Now, it takes an ego the size of a mountain -- and faith that your countrymen are mind-blowingly stupid -- to make such an insipid and pathetic argument as this on Obama's behalf. Two basic, obvious reasons come to mind immediately:

1) If Wright had made all of these statements before the Obamas joined the church -- and the Obamas "vehemently disagree" with them -- why did they join it at all? This pastor had a track record of being a racist bigot who was anti-America and anti-white, and was alleged to have made every single controversial statement along these lines before the Obamas stumbled into his little piece of bigoted heaven -- and they never sensed, heard about, or found out in any way about these messages while they were investigating whether or not this church was the right place for them to make their spiritual home?

The fact is, as has been documented in the past, Barack Obama has had a problem establishing his bona fides -- or his "street cred," if you will -- with the activist African American community. Sidling up to people like Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan helped solve that problem of "authenticity"; therefore, they were expedient political allies. Joining Wright's church was either about religion -- which is evidence that Obama likely has far too much in common race-and-America-hating-wise with Jeremiah Wright than anybody allowed near the presidency can be rightly allowed to have -- or it was about politics and snowing the public into thinking that he had certain religious beliefs, until such a time as that relationship of political expediency was no longer needed -- something which is troubling in its own right.

2) In keeping with the trend of belief that Americans are some of the stupidest people on the planet, Dick Durbin, in using the line of defense that Wright had spewed his entire fill of hate before the Obamas joined his church 20 years ago, is counting on the memories and math skills of average Americans to have been so dumbed down by the public schools that they don't know which comes first, seven years or twenty years.

You see, it was Wright who, from the pulpit, called 9/11 something America brought on itself, and who screamed "GOD DAMN AMERICA -- that's in the Bible!" during one of his many hate-filled sermons after that tragic event, which happened 6 years, 7 months ago. ...But the Obamas have been members of Wright's church for twenty years, have they not? Now, I never finished my Astrophysics degree -- something I plan to do one day -- but I think that my simple arithmetic skills will suffice to determine that September 11, 2001 did not take place before BarackObama joined Wright's church 20 years ago. Anybody disagree with that?

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Regardless of all of this, Barack HopeChangeHopeEmptyWordsAndNowLies Obama's current situation is one of his own making. In trying to be all things to all (leftist) people, he has painted himself into a corner like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. In an attempt to escape the stigma of his rumored-to-be-Muslim childhood, and his distasteful middle name, and in an attempt to promote his Authentic Blackness to the community whose support he needed to get elected to office in Chicago, Obama played up his membership in Jeremiah Wright's church as much as he possibly could. "He's not a Muslim -- he's a practicing, church-attending, devout Christian!" we were told over and over and over again.

Now, that lie is coming back to bite the wannabe Messiah in the backside. It's too bad, really; if BarackObama had decided to attend a real Christian church, instead of a racist, bigoted, politics-and-profanity-from-the-pulpit sewer of a "church," he might have learned the most valuable lesson of all: man's fallibility.

Sadly, he's now in the process of learning that one the hard way -- as well as the lesson that he is not, regardless of his, Michelle's, and their diehard supporters' apparent beliefs, a messianic, overman figure.

Nope -- he's just a man. And a pathetic, lying man at that.

Sad.