Diatribune - Obama's Condescending Defense of Jeremiah Wright - Comments

Are you joking? Obama uses a

Jacob Freeze — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:42:17 -0600

Are you joking? Obama uses a word straight out of Jim Crow in a description of his pastor that was already condescending, and you blame me for quoting him!

Double standards are typical for Obamabots on Daily Kos and elsewhere, but I have to give most of them a little credit for being slightly more subtle about it than "alexwierbinski."

Did you even read my description of Reverend Wright?
"...a fluent and highly educated man burning up enough energy to run a marathon in the course of every sermon."

This is the absolute opposite of an "uncle!"

Obama used a Jim Crow word in exactly the same way that a Southern racist would have used it in 1951, as a mark of condescension, and I criticized him for it.

The obtuse "alexwierbinski" missed the whole point of my essay, even though it was obvious enough for a third-grader to understand it.

I am concerned with your use

alexwierbinski — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:12:21 -0600

I am concerned with your use of words, not theirs. Your seizure of their terms put it into a different, very disturbing context that is reminicent of the use of the race card by Bill Clinton.

Slippery, but obvious.

Somebody is irresponsible, and it is not me. And I will not ask you to apologize, but to consider if your goals are worth the means you employ to attain them.

"Uncle" is Obama's word, as

Jacob Freeze — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:00:31 -0600

"Uncle" is Obama's word, as you would know if you followed the link in my diary.

He likened Mr Wright (who has recently retired) to “an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with.”

So the "racist" language you identify originates with Barack Obama, and my diary criticizes it for exactly that reason.

If "tarpit" has any racist connotations, I don't know what they are, and the image of a dinosaur in a tarpit fits right in with Obama's condescending excuses.

Obama's paternalistic picture of Wright as a doddering "uncle" is a throwback to Jim Crow, but I describe the reverend instead as a vital and intelligent man who made a stupid mistake.

...the Jeremiah Wright I see in the famous videos is a fluent and highly educated man burning up enough energy to run a marathon in the course of every sermon.

...mentally, Jeremiah Wright can talk and think rings around Barack Obama in every form of human communication except reading a speech from a teleprompter.

Your accusation of racism is groundless and irresponsible, and appertains more to Barack Obama than to me. If you have any class at all, you'll post an apology.

You might want to hide your

alexwierbinski — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:48:06 -0600

You might want to hide your racism a littel better. "uncle?" "tarpit?"

Here's the deal: wright is right, you are just wrong in soooo many ways. Just one: your intense partianship makes you an unreliable analyist. Your biased partisanship has led you into a thinly veiled racist attack.

Maybe you should take a step back from yourself.

Alex

Obama's Condescending Defense of Jeremiah Wright

Jacob Freeze — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:12:22 -0600

The media have been flooded with paternalistic excuses for Jeremiah Wright, and Barack Obama's was the most condescending of all. First, Reverend Wright was Obama's crazy old "uncle," and now he's a dinosaur mired in the tarpit of segregation:

For the men and women of Reverend Wright's generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.

Poor old guy! He thinks it's still 1951. Don't wake him up!