Letters to the Editor
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Obama may be finished
As a former card-carrying liberal and self-admitted (now reformed)leftie, this article as well as the subsequent comments, are almost caricatures of current liberal thinking, and excellent examples of why I now think Glenn Beck (in general) is actually more in tune with reality than any of the left-leaning commentators.
Kuriya is famous for his fuzzy-headed illogic, and weak journalism, but this piece is truly pathetic. If "knee-jerk" applies, it's to his lame and convoluted explanations of why anything coming from the Obama camp is really OK, no matter how dishonest, disingenuous, or outright corrosive, as in the case of Wright.
The stark realities here, which as usual have completely escaped Kuriya, are: 1. Wright is an unabashed racist and anti-
Semite 2. Obama was closely associated with him in various capacities for nearly 20 years, and it's therefore completely unbelievable that he didn't know what kinds of things his "pastor, friend, and close spiritual adviser" was regularly saying. 3. We all know that if the majority of any congregation strongly dislikes a consistent theme from its pastor,priest, rabbi, etc. they can and do change the person in that position.
The hypocrisy of the Obama campaign in continuing to insist he's the candidate of "change", and "unity", and
"new begnnings on race" in the face of these revelations is conspicuous. Perhaps one can ascribe that, at best, to "politics as usual", but that's a far cry from his self-portrayal as a "different kind of President".
But what's even more striking than Obama's evasive dishonesty on these matters is the elaborate lengths his supporters including Kuriya will go to in attemtps at dissembling the obvious unvarnished truth about Wright's hateful intolerance, and Obama's at least passive support thereof.
And the irony here is that what currently passes as liberal thought in this country is caricatured by this slavish adherence to a very deficient candidate who (with his "peeps") personifies nearly everything the left claims they abhor--racism, intolerance, misogyny, dishonesty, and divisiveness.And in so doing left-leaning liberals have unfortunately come to be seen by many middle-of the-road types as totally out of touch with reality.
Which is why I now listen to conservative talk radio...