Sen. Obama could have taken the normal political course and run from the contradictions inherent in his initial denials about his mentor/pastor Jeremiah Wright. But he didn’t. At least not in his speech today in Philadelphia. I didn’t see it but read the transcript here. He didn’t explain why he chose twenty years ago to align himself with conspiracy-minded Black Liberation Theology, divisive as it is for a man who talks unity. But he made a fine stab at explaining why it is the way it is, and going some distance to refute it. His overall "from many, one" message also was impressive, and truly unifying. Now, if I only believed in the reliability of Democrat-run government to right all these wrongs he enumerates (though I disagree with him on Iraq, his attacks on corporations and the idea that government should help people "find good jobs"), I might want to vote for him. But I don’t, and so I won’t. But I do admire his unusual willingness to confront the Wright issue that, all by itself, could yet bring him down.
MORE: OTH, the speech really P,Oed Roger L. Simon, who calls it B,S. He makes a good point:
"…anyone who finds moral equivalence between Wright’s racist screeds and (Obama’s) white grandmother’s admitting to him in private that she feared black men on the street has got a serious problem."
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