Michael Crowley on Obama-Wright Relationship
TNR’s Michael Crowley has posted something on TNR’s blog that is today’s must-reading. Here’s how Mr. Crowley cuts through the clutter and highlights what’s important:
Jeremiah Wright’s 2003 “War on Iraq IQ Test” underscores that the now-infamous Wright clips playing on television were neither isolated outbursts nor mere efforts at
being “provocative,” as Obama described the post-9/11 tirade to the New York Times last April. (People didn’t much note this at the time because a) the Times didn’t directly quote from the sermon and b) seeing/hearing the rhetorical power, and anger, of Wright’s rhetoric takes it to a different and jarringly visceral level.) It’s also clear that the question of whether Obama was present for those particular sermons now in the news isn’t really the issue. Wright’s oft-iterated political worldview, which apparently includes the belief that the US created AIDS to keep the Third World in poverty, should be quite apparent to anyone who knows him as well as Obama does.
While it’s important to know if Obama attended any of these services from the standpoint of whether Sen. Obama is honest, it isn’t that important from the standpoint that he must have known that his spiritual mentor had a penchant for anti-American diatribes.
It’s time for Sen. Obama to come clean, even if it costs him the election. Without giving the American people a straightforward, honest explanation, there’s no way Sen. Obama will ever be Commander-In-Chief. It’s just that simple.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog