Barry gave his speech yesterday. I thought he did what he could do: dismiss and reject Jeremiah Wright’s caustic remarks as products of a past which still haunts some people, reject those remarks in the current context, and embrace Jeremiah Wright as a man and mentor. Of course, for aught I know, Obama is a black separatist at heart. I doubt he is a practicing Christian.
My question, though: What did the New York Times say?
Well, in today’s editorial, the Times had a comparison for Barry’s speech: “Inaugural addresses by Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt come to mind, as does John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech on religion.”
They concluded:
[H]e not only cleared the air over a particular controversy — he raised the discussion to a higher plane.
And anybody who doesn’t get this, they hold, is a moron.
Mr. Obama’s eloquent speech should end the debate over his ties to Mr. Wright since there is nothing to suggest that he would carry religion into government.
Wrong. We’re not worried about Obama’s religion, if he indeed really has one; rather, we wonder what are his core views on any racial divide. Does he want to let all Americans forge a community in which we all have opportunity and respect? Does he want to separate us? We can’t take a man we don’t know very well at his clever word.
But that’s nothing to the blind and lost souls at the NYT.
