dr. hanson: the response you are alluding to from "the civil rights community" will remain elusive because that area of society has become a victim oriented industry. there are objective responders out there such as juan williams and bill cosby, but they havent been able to staunch the black animosity because they are not of the inner circle of civil rights activists. the people who could snuff out this attitude wont because it personally pays too well.

and the result of obama's speech, which did nothing so much as re bruise the slowly healing collective feeling of historical white guilt that his early campaign seemed to accomplish, will be an emotional distancing of regular, well meaning "typical white people" over the course of this summer and fall.

if this indeed happens, then historians may look back at obama's campaign and pinpoint that wretched speech as the turning point towards failure.

Apr 10, 2008 08:11 AM

VDH, as you noted, you are right in your predictions that the hate speech will continue to bubble up (or spew forth) from anti-American, anti-Israel leaders in the black community. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that these public outbursts of hate speech are the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

The strategy Barack is employing to minimize the flood of negativity that is sure to come is to "Win the White Vote" with high ideals and empty platitudes that "the typical white person" will fall for. Look no further than his pathetic "get out the vote" at the bowling alley in Pennsylvania. And most recently, Michelle Obama's staff asked for "more white people" please... and sit them right here in the middle so they can look "typical" for us. Indeed, Barack and company, in stark contrast to there rhetoric, have done more to set back race relations than any typical white person I know (and I know quite few).

Barack's response to Rev. Wright and others has been so self-indulgent and condescending it insults my intelligence at the deepest level. I'll make my own prediction... "the typical white person" combined with the typical American, regardless of their skin color, is deeply offended by hate speech in any context and Barack won't be able to talk his way out of it because his actions clearly don't match his words.

Apr 10, 2008 10:19 AM

The problem here is that there already is a double standard for who gets to express what racism. Terms like "racism" and "hate" already carry certain unspoken implications. There is a tacit agreement that a Rev. Wright, by definition, cannot really be considered a racist because that is title we reserve for others.

Even before this latest episode there has been a silent assumption that people who have victim status are allowed to say and do things that the rest of us can't. This is why Obama's supporters don't find this controversy disturbing. They know the rules of the game, and agree with them. Victimhood (but only certain types of victimhood, really) gives you special rights when it comes to freedom of expression.

There is a parallel standard in effect internationally. When westerners kill or abuse non-westerners it is a crime, but when non-westerners kill or abuse each other it doesn't count for much. After all, who are we to judge these people? This is why horrific conflicts in Africa and Asia are not taken nearly as seriously as those in places like Iraq, where westerners are directly involved.

I don't point this out to justify it or because I agree with it. But the fact is that judgements in the court of public opinion do carry a certain kind of weight, o matter how insane they may be. A Rev. Wright is simply not held to the same standards as a Don Imus or Larry Summers.

The next time racist comments are made by a prominent white, the condemnation will still come fast and furiously, and attempts to use Obama's contextualization will fall on deaf ears, or not even be attempted. However racism from the likes of "the oppressed" will continue to be excused and ignored.

Apr 10, 2008 11:11 AM

Lee's still digging (pdf)

I further referenced in my speech that my response to the Rabbi was that the Black Power Movement emerged after the assassination of Dr. King and it was a direct response to the negative characterizations of African Americans through the silver screen, TV and the music industry, industries that are influenced by many in the Jewish community. I then stated to the Rabbis that the Black Power Movement was our effort to define for ourselves our own identity rather than be defined by anyone else. I then indicated in my presentation that I told the Rabbis’ that before a genuine coalition could be rebuilt between our communities, there would have to be dialogue and efforts made to deal with the negative characterizations of African Americans.

Apr 10, 2008 12:37 PM

I am of the opinion that Sen. Obama's run for President was based on the following: the new JFK (only black) who will dodge any close scrutiny of either his past or his positions. In that respect, he reminds of Chauncy Gardner in "Being There."

The WSJ ran a photo comparision of Michelle Obama to Mrs. Kennedy. They had very similar clothes; except for the pillbox hat.

Young. Change. Charisma.

But no experience, no judgment and no press scrutiny.

Camelot of 2008.

But the media elites are (and always have been) disconnected from reality and the public.

It will be a McGovern-like landslide provided McCain runs a decent campaign. McCain does want to win and a guy who graduated from the Naval Academy and the Hanoi Hilton has the will to win.

And when Obama loses, the racism charges will be loud and numerous. When a black woman lost her run for Mayor of Omaha she said the next day that she lost because of the color of her skin. In retrospect, the white guy who won the race was a superior mayor. (He did many good things for Omaha that she never could have done.) Race had nothing to do with who won.

Apr 10, 2008 03:05 PM

Sen. Obama drew a line in the sand when he gave political cover to Rev. Wright and contextualized the bile and hatred, the lies and slander, the racism and anti-Semitism that spewed from the pulpit in Sen. Obama's church, which was received with smiles, applause and cheers by his fellow congregation members.

"Us", embraces the class warfare/racial warfare amphitheatre spectators...each of whom can give the thumbs up to any vicious attack from the pulpit. The raw meat thrown by Rev. Wright, or Rev Meeks or Rev Moss, tenderized by pretty words and lofty speeches.

"Them" consists of a potpourri of various groups of white people, Jewish people, Asians on occasions, guilty of original sin by birth, if not merely by association.

We got a glimpse of the raw meat crowd when a double murder played out on national television and "Us" cheered wildly at an acquittal of the prime suspect, while "them" watched stunned, confused and in horror.

Oh, it all got contextualized and set aside to fester. What it lacked, was political cover.

Viral "Them"ology, has taken its next logical step. It has added nitrogen to the glycerin. It has added the Nation of Islam to its leftist Manifesto and made an incendiary cocktail of racial warfare and class warfare.

Crazy "Uncle Joe" Stalin meets Crazy Uncle Jeremiah Wright.

And for a revolutionary stew, the raw meat of black liberation theo-politics adds just the right amount of cover, for a man who went seeking his black identity and street credibility to be layered upon his lifelong attraction to extreme leftist political heroes.

Daddy Obama was a socialist, for whom communism was an attraction. "Frank" was a member of the communist party, he sought out his most radical leftist professors, and has the furthest left voting record in the Senate.

Every person close to him, every mentor, every admired professor, every inner circle member from whom he sought advice, counsel and direction...has hated America. Has not been proud to be American.

Daddy Obama, "Frank", Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, Rev. Moss, Saul Alinsky, Ayers & Dorhn, members of the Nation of Islam on his staff, ...if ever there was someone who sought out and embraced viral "themology", this seems to describe him.

His wife is not proud of this country, his pastor is not proud of this country, his replacement pastor is not proud of this country, his Daddy wasn't proud of this country that educated him, his friends Ayers and Dohrn aren't proud of this country.

That is fine. Most leftists who adhere to Viral Themology hate and blame America...so often, it's like a facial tic. It's constant and reflexive, but they have had it so long they don't even know it's there.

Pretty words won't make it go away though. Lofty speeches won't cure it. Sen. Obama has put makeup on it. It's called cover.

Please, take your American flag off your lapel and give it to someone who will wear it proudly.

Please, keep your hands in your pockets during the National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance, we'll keep ours over our hearts.

Please, feel free to cheer and clap when someone says that 9-11 was our chickens coming home to roost, we'll keep their loved ones in our thoughts and prayers.

Please, spread the suspicions that white supremacists invented the AIDS virus to kill blacks, we'll keep donating millions to cure the afflicted here and in Africa.

Please, accuse our allies of apartheid and pay friendly visits to our enemies, we will give loyalty to the former and seek justice from the latter.

And please, feel free to run for the highest office in our land seeking to divide "us" vs. "them", deserving of reprisal, redistributing wealth and undermining our foundations... we will exercise our freedom to vote for someone who is proud of America and sees us as one nation, deserving of respect, honor and glory.

Apr 10, 2008 05:16 PM

With respect, I still think you're being a bit unfair with your characterization of the Obama speech. Obama pointed out deep-seeded racial problems on both sides, and invited the public to accompany him in starting on the road to rising above them.

I think Obama would argue that these people's comments should be condemned. However, rather than condemn and disown the people who make them, we should change their minds, because they are not alone in the ideas they purport.

Apr 10, 2008 05:52 PM

Dear Professor,

I sure hope you're right about a coming Obama meltdown. I was beginning to believe that a majority of people would continue to be oblivious to all the evidence of Obama's charade.

So many of his closest people say that they don't like America. Are his fellow congregants winking at eachother knowing that he must say things to get elected but they really know he's one of them - full of scorn for whites?

You were off on your prediction of the outcome of the last congressional race if I remember correctly. I hope you're not overestimating the judgement of our Democratic brethern. I hope they vote for McCain.

McCain was good on The View. He's good...well except for maybe ANWAR.

I'm hoping the coming presidential election will be like those before when the Democrat got Mass. only.

My 30 year old son moved to Boston 8 years ago. I think it's in the water. He has a great job and a condo but he likes Bill Maher and Keith Olberman. Where did I go wrong?

Apr 10, 2008 07:31 PM

Obama/Wright has set back race relations more than forty years.

Who knew how much hatred for
"whitey" was being preached in black Christian churches? I thought such hatred was exclusive to the Black Muslims.

Worse, who knew how much disdain and hatred for America was part of the black Christian church ministry?

That's what I find most intolerable. And it is why I now oppose giving Black Democrats any political power whatsoever.

I no longer trust Black Democrats ministers or politicians. The idea of giving such Black racists and America haters political power now makes me ill. That's a new sentiment for me That is what Obama's campaign has wrought.

A poll should be taken in Iowa to see how much "buyer's remorse" there is among the overwhelmingly white electorate that voted for Obama.

Apr 11, 2008 10:10 AM

"Now any hate-monger, it seems, can go on a public racist rant, with the expectation that there will be no credible and absolute public condemnation."

That's only half of it. These race hustlers also learn that they will be financially rewarded by guilt tripped whites. "Barry" Obama will not "get us past race." Subconsciously, it behooves him to keep reopening the wounds. If they heal---he must find another way to achieve glory and a larger bank account.

Apr 11, 2008 11:15 AM

JA Lineberry - Here's what a "typical white person" thinks of the Obama speech that you think VDH is "...being a bit unfair" in his characterization of it.

Obama wasn't being proactive (read, a true leader) in his speech. Obama was FORCED to give his speech to save his political life. This is an extremely important point. In my humble, white opinion... Barry (sounds white) or Barack (sounds defiant) whichever you choose to call him, has carefully crafted his own "Kennedy Camelot" (Dave Begley -Omaha) using every willing accomplice at his disposal over the last 30 years.

What we're seeing with Barack Hussein Obama is nothing more than liberal socialism in its finest hour. Barack's zeal for liberal socialism and his ability to communicate this "fuzzy logic" with extraordinary eloquence is only surpassed by the willingness of weak minded Americans to accept it without question.

Take yourself for instance... JA Lineberry wrote: "I think Obama would argue that these people's comments should be condemned. However, rather than condemn and disown the people who make them, we should change their minds, because they are not alone in the ideas they purport."

Uhhhhh, excuse me, but didn't Barack try to tell us that he objected to Rev. Wright's comments in the strongest possible terms? Therefore, (as you rightly suggest) shouldn't Barack be working at changing Rev. Wright's mind on hating rich white people, America and Jews? Shouldn't Barack be working on changing his close friend ("He's like family") and mentor's mind to break away from hate and maybe, just maybe let the love of God have full reign in his life? I mean, after all, they call him REVEREND for a reason... RIGHT?

So you tell me, what's 'ol Barack been up to for 20 years at Trinity Black Liberation Theology Church? CHANGE? The answer of course, is NO! Barack has been shaping his unique black liberal socialist theology so he can foist this CHANGE upon us. The evidence is overwhelming and Barack will have to answer for this mountain of evidence just as he had to do in the now famous "speech."

It is not too late JA Lindeberry... gently remove your rose colored glasses and see the evidence that demands a verdict, regarding Barack Hussein Obama. Socialism is a failed experiment no matter who is wearing the lab coat. The arrogance of a liberal socialist like Barack Hussein Obama says... socialism didn't work because I wasn't in charge.

Center Field Bleachers - Bleacher Bum? (cfbleachers) - Well said! Now, if we could only get that on a bumper sticker to help the weak minded masses while they sit in traffic pondering CHANGE! :-)

Apr 11, 2008 11:18 AM

It seems that we are rapidly reaching a sort of scary situation in which the black pastor will say whatever he wishes, no matter how anti-Semitic and racist, and then almost dare anyone to challenge that hatred, knowing that his congregation will support him, African-American intellectuals will contextualize him on television, and politicians like Obama (cf. Hillary’s past hugs of Sharpton) will defend him.

And I would like to thank the Democratic Party of the United States for this 45 year regression in race relations.

Really guys, thank you for erasing all the gains we've made over these past decades.

Apr 11, 2008 11:51 AM

In an interview on NPR, an actress in the new version of the musical “South Pacific” said they have to explain to the audience that 60 years ago, a man having an affair with a “colored” woman was a problem. Post-racial, mixed-marriage America has to be told today what everyone understood 60 years ago. As a nation, it’s evident that we are truly getting over historic racist views.

We must send a message to our political leaders, by vote, that we are ready to move the final steps past racism. Until politicians are willing to take-on the tough challenge of racism and set a single standard of intolerance for racist speach, the black racist politicians using racism for their own ends will continue to perpetuate a racist America.

Apr 11, 2008 12:46 PM

Professor:
Unhappily, I must hark back to a post I made to a previous blog that a race war is brewing that will make the Civil War look like a picnic in the park. As your blogs, and the comments here have noted, the ever-increasing hostile behavior is breeding an atmosphere of growing resentment among majority of the white, non-elite people in this country who care for their country and families. This one will turn into a round-robin of destruction involving blacks, whites and latinos in the mix. it isn't going to be pretty.
As for the Jews in this country, thier blindness reminds me of a story told of when Raoul Wollenberg went to Budapest in 1943 to rescue at least some of the Jews, while their leaders stood around wondering if Hitler was really "serious." I would think that at least, when someone reviles you and threatens to wipe you out, you would take the threat seriously, but who knows?

Apr 11, 2008 12:48 PM

I did not read your critique of Obama's race speech because I knew that Obama had lost the war as soon as he conceded the necessity of that speech. He was to be the first 'post-racial' candidate in America's history, a burden uniquely born by blacks in America.

Conservatives all note, tongue in cheek, that candidates like McCain are hardly expected to be 'post-racial' and that in fact everything they might say on race is defacto 'racist' as it comes from white males. And by this logic decide in resignation not to say anything at all pertaining to race. It is a lazy way to success, but it works. Keep quiet lest the crazy people think you're crazy.

So the presumption that "someone of stature in the civil rights community issues a zero-tolerance speech of the sort Obama should have given but failed at" will end the madness is preposterous. Who is there of stature in the civil rights community that is not black? Which is to say what white American has become an objective paragon in these times? Is there perhaps someone at the ACLU? Is there some Republican we know who is automatically associated with civil rights? No. The Civil Rights Establishment is none other than those blacks in politics who gained office, power and influence by harping on the one subject that the rest of America automatically conceded, which is their rights for redress of their racial victimization. America couldn't see fit to vote those people into power under any other circumstances. The Civil Rights Establishment is black for a reason. It is the establishment we all built.

Apr 11, 2008 01:26 PM

I was at an event in Chicago attended by a number of Hyde Park liberals. Obviously, a segment of society where a sober judgment of Barack Obama was nary to be found. However, I was stunned, note the is was before the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and Mrs. Obama's "first time I am proud" comments, that one of the folks stated to me that "McCain will carry 40 states".

The cult of Obama has percolated for years in Chicago - it is a necessity as there really isn't anything else to found one's belief in his candidacy. He hasn't won an election! He ran unopposed in his run to the Illinois state legislature after he chased out the incumbent and other opponents by challenging their respective petitions (not sure if there has ever been a legitimate petition in the history of Chicago elections). In the primary for the Senate seat, his opponent, Blair Hull, who had a significant lead, was taken out by reports of verbal and physical abuse in his marriage. No charges were filed, but the damage was done. On to the general! Jack Ryan, the Republican candidate was running neck and neck with Obama when files from his divorce became public. Alas, Jack had to drop and Alan Keyes was literally flown in at the last minute to oppose Obama. Obama carried 70% of the vote.

As his constituent, I am obviously stunned by the extent in which Mr. Obama has considered his Senate seat as nothing more than a platform to launch his presidential campaign. Those of us in Chicago are au courant to the black victimology that prevails in the pews of the south side churches and mosques of Meeks, Wright, Farrakhan et al. The least black black man in America has decided to find his "roots" in such a mindless, self-defeating ideology speaks volumes to his deficient judgment.

Apr 11, 2008 02:57 PM

One can only imagine what all that hate mail looked like - I'm guessing most of it was incoherent.

But do any of Wright's apologists ever have actual arguments with which to refute what you've been saying?

Are there points to be made beyond those standard-issue rationalizations about untrained ears, good works, and such?

I certainly haven't heard any.

Apr 11, 2008 06:06 PM

I wonder what the white half of Obama thinks of all this. He is no more black then he is white but he sure will be black when it comes time to get elected.

He is the poster boy for all those that cry racism what it is convenient for them. He can write books and talk about his youth when he wanted to be looked at as a white guy, but its all a smokescreen for what he is. A racist with an identity crisis. Who wants that kind of person in the White House?

Apr 11, 2008 08:58 PM

Victor Davis Hanson's six paragraphs are the most concise measure I have read on the harm Jeremiah Wright has inflicted on race relations.

The black community has lost moral authority to form marches and speak out in indignation when a white person utters a sentence that can be construed as racist.

If Wright's offense can be mitigated by his Marine Service, etc. why couldn't Don Imus' (of whom I am not a fan) remark be mitigated by the unprecedented work he has done for cancer victims?

Imus wasn't even voicing his opinion; he was just doing the shtick called for in his contract.

The handling of Rev. Wright has given license for all whites to speak their minds in whatever terms THEY deem appropriate. If there is black condemnation this 'typical white woman' will walk in the streets to demand that all hate speak be treated with one standard.

Apr 12, 2008 08:02 AM

As ever, Dr. Hanson, you strike at the heart of the matter. I wish only to elaborate:

Whither the Feminists? The Wahhabists and their ilk are enslaving women openly, by "Divine" decree, punishing rape victims by stoning, subjecting young women to genetic mutilation, celebration the routine beating of their wives, depriving the entire gender of education, employment, the right to drive, even the right to show their faces. Where stand Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, etc., facing this torture and subjugation of their Arab sisters?

Or is "multiculturalism" not a prophylactic term for bigotry, even outright racism? Do the Feminists regard their Arab sisters as subhuman?

FM

Apr 12, 2008 01:35 PM

Senator Obama is a coward. He lacks the courage to stand up to black racism.

While there are black leaders who speak the unvarnished truth about the problems in the black community (e.g., Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Bill Cosby, etc.), the fact is white people are not standing up to black racism, and that's a form of racism in and of itself and it has to stop.

The problems in the black community are largely self-inflicted, at this point. Blacks are seven times more likely to commit murder than whites are. Unmarried, young black teenage girls getting pregnant and black children eschewing education in order to garner "street cred" are infinitely more responsible today for the problems in the black community than white racism.

It's high time the black community take a long, hard look at its own behavior and stop laying blame at the feet of others.

Apr 12, 2008 07:59 PM

Is there a pattern here?

Based upon the comments made about "flyover country"...the pattern is becoming clearer each passing day.

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, ... And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” (Sen. Obama on BILLIONAIRES ROW in SF.)

"we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents." (Michelle Obama, in South Carolina)

"Whether because of New York's density or because of its scale, it was only [there] that I began to grasp the almost mathematical precision with which America's race and class problems joined; the bile that flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia's bathrooms as well, where, no matter how many times the administration tried to paint them over, the walls remained scratched with blunt correspondence between niggers and kikes."
Source: Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama, p.254 Aug 1, 1996

"I was not raised in a religious household. For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. However, in her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. In sum, my mother viewed religion through the eyes of the anthropologist; it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well.
This spirit of hers guided me on the path I would ultimately take. It was in search of confirmation of her values that I studied political philosophy."

Source: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p.202-4 Oct 1, 2006

"In the black community, the lines between sinner and saved were more fluid; the sins of those who came to church were not so different from the sins of those who didn't, and so were as likely to be talked about with humor as with condemnation. You needed to come to church precisely because you were of this world. You needed to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away-because you needed an ally in your difficult journey.
It was because of these newfound understandings-that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world-that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptised"

Source: The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p.207-8 Oct 1, 2006

When a white teammate expresses empathy for young Barack, feeling awkward and clumsy after being taken to a black party after a basketball game, Sen. Obama wanted not to heal his friend's awkwardness, he wanted to punch him.

When young Barack was 12 or 13, he decided to divorce himself from his mother's race.

In fact, he found that it was best to engage in duplicity with white people, they responded to someone who was articulate and polite and it would serve him well to not be upfront with them.

At one point, Sen. Obama is internalizing Malcolm X's words and wonders about having every drop of his white blood removed from his veins.

The evolution of young Barack into Sen. Obama is one of a steady entrenchment into hard leftist notions, anti-American values, and his worldview of America has been shaped by some of the most virulent anti-American forces within our borders.

Ayers is a smirking, smarmy, sneak attack proprietor...Rev. Wright is a bombastic flame-thrower of hatred and bile, "Frank" was a Communist antagonist, and Michelle is a Magnet School, Ivy League, millionaire ...perptetual victim.

The prism through which Sen. Barack and Michelle Obama see our nation, sets them so far outside the fringe left...that it is little wonder they think and say the things they do. Behind close doors, with the Billionaire Brie set..."typical white people" are gun toting, Bible-thumping, mouth breathing Neanderthals.

He won't lose a single vote from the arrogant and puerile who harbor this ignorant conceit themselves.

But it is myopic and dangerous for anyone to hold these views, but it is more dangerous to believe that they haven't been indoctrinated in enough people to take root.

Where are we being led...and by whom? That is the important question...and yes, there is a pattern.

Apr 13, 2008 05:45 PM

Wright's anti-Semitism is a common feature of liberation theology. For a full examination of this subject, see Dr. Amy-Jill Levine's The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, which was published in 1996.

Apr 13, 2008 06:13 PM

G-Whiz: I do understand and identify with white concerns, being a "typical white person" myself.

And you may be right about Obama's inevitable regression into a socialist philosopher king. But wouldn't you also argue that it would've been more politically agreeable to have simply condemned and disowned Wright from the start? Obama tried a path wholly different and altogether a road less traveled, for better or worse. If his only concern had been his own political well-being, which I'm sure was on his mind, he would've certainly chosen the other path. Whether his intentions were genuine or not, he put his political neck out even further in giving that speech, which is either evidence of his arrogance or bravery -- or perhaps a bit of both.

Apr 14, 2008 10:49 AM

This and other your excellent articles can be called “The Rise and the Fall of the Democratic Party”. I am not an American, but European. I would like to propose my “European” point of view on “Obama affaire”:
Thanks to the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright we can now make the exact idea of the Obama’s spiritual milieu. This milieu is clearly fascist, racist and anti-Semit. White or black fascism, the essence is always the same. It is very significant the hate for America that this new “Jeremiah” preaches. His “anti-U.S. remarks” only repeat the old and most infamous falsifications that Russian communists and European leftists have been spreading: AIDS virus have been produced in American laboratories, the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks have been prepared by American Government, etc. In one word, this priest, God knows of what cannibal demon, wants to say that all the evils come from America and therefore this country must be destroyed. I understand that also in the US there are many the pathological idiots which hate their country and long for suicide. They found in Obama, elected by Luis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s infernal trinity, the ideal prophet of Hate and Death.
The enthusiasm for Obama indicates also a radicalization of the Democratic Party. The Democrats have taken a bad example from the European socialist parties which have split in two extremist groups, communist and fascist. In any way political and social radicalization leads always to the catastrophe for the radical political party itself and for the country if this party takes the power. The European experience helps to understand the actual political situation in the Democratic Party. Some prevision is possible to make just now: the “apocalyptical” battle that we witness will destroy both adversaries (Obama & Hillary) and also the Democratic Party as a punishment for its total inability to see the reality of its own Country and of the World.
Obama’s phenomenon disquiets all of us who see in American Democracy the only guarantee of freedom and human dignity. This man has expressed clearly his sympathy for the most hateful and reactionary regimes protesting against Iraqi War, defending a criminal organisation like Iranian Revolutionary Guard that can be compared only to the GPU’s special troops. All the most sinister individuals (not only black, but also white), like Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Wright, Rev. Eric Lee, Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi and other similar personages have gathered around Obama. What does mean it? Do feel the US citizens, after the heroic efforts in Afghanistan and in Iraq, the tiredness of their historic responsibility? Does repeat destine of the ancient Roman Republic?
So I see in these elections a fight not between one and other candidate, but between two kinds of human and national existence – worthy and unworthy. What will choose Americans?

Apr 14, 2008 11:13 AM