Breaking up is hard to do.
Barack Obama said he wouldn't do it. He said he couldn't do it. But yesterday, he tried.
He threw dear "old Uncle" Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of the house and slammed the door in his face.
Barack Obama claimed that he couldn't take it anymore.
In order to keep his candidacy alive, he had to break off his relationship with Wright. He knew he had no choice. Obama's quest for personal power trumped loyalty for his pastor of 20 years.
Of course, the lib media are in full spin over this, contorting to rationalize and excuse Obama's amazingly transparent politically expedient move.
Poor Obama. He was in such an awkward position. It's so hard to run for president. Vetting is hard!
Wright was so selfish. Remember, he betrayed Obama, not the other way around.
In the The New York Times' account of this very public personal break-up, one is encouraged to feel Obama's pain.
“We’ve got nine elections to go through June 9,” [Bob Mulholland, a superdelegate from California], said in an interview. “I’ve never been involved in a successful presidential race where the candidate had no trouble in the primary. It’s challenging to him. He is a young man, and this is the first time he’s run for president. I see this as a learning experience.”
Asked how he thought Mr. Obama was doing, Mr. Mulholland paused before responding. “Getting better,” he finally said.
Awww. Obama is a young guy. This is his first time running for president. He needs to learn. Cut him some slack. After all, Day One is still months away.
The appearances by Mr. Wright, which began Friday and concluded Monday, were anticipated by the Obama campaign, but aides said they were taken aback by the tenor of the remarks. His first interview, with Bill Moyers on PBS, offered few hints of what he intended when he arrived at the National Press Club on Monday.
Why was Obama's campaign taken aback by the tenor of Wright's remarks?
What he said was the same old, same old.
“At a certain point, if what somebody says contradicts what you believe so fundamentally, and then he questions whether or not you believe it in front of the National Press Club, then that’s enough,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s a show of disrespect to me. It’s also, I think, an insult to what we’ve been trying to do in this campaign.”
Wright was so mean to Obama. Poor baby.
Mr. Obama became a Christian after hearing a 1988 sermon of Mr. Wright’s called “The Audacity to Hope.” Joining Mr. Wright’s church helped Mr. Obama, with his disparate racial and geographic background, embrace not only the African-American community but also Africa, his friends and family say.
Mr. Obama had barely known his Kenyan father; Mr. Wright made pilgrimages to Africa and incorporated its rituals into worship. Mr. Obama toted recordings of Mr. Wright’s sermons to law school. Mr. Obama titled his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention “The Audacity of Hope,” and gave his next book the same name.
My eyes are welling up with tears....
Obama was abandoned by his biological father. Now, Wright has hurt him, too.
As Mr. Wright’s more incendiary statements began circulating widely, Mr. Obama routinely condemned them but did not disassociate himself from Mr. Wright. In his speech in Philadelphia, Mr. Obama tried to explain his pastor through the bitter history of American race relations.
Five weeks later, the men seem finished with each other.
“Whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed as a consequence of this,” Mr. Obama said Tuesday. “I don’t think that he showed much concern for me. More importantly, I don’t think he showed much concern for what we’re trying to do in this campaign and what we’re trying to do for the American people.”
Oh, how sad!
All the father figures in Obama's life let him down.
Maybe if people vote for him to be the next president then he'll feel valued and loved.
Where's Oprah?
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