I’ve gotta think that about now Barack Obama is seriously regretting the day he became involved with the goofy buffoon known as the “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright. If anything stops Obama’s nomination it will surely be, in large part, due the antics of this fool.
His circumlocutios histrionics are amusing to watch, in a bizarre way, but I am so amazed at the liberal pundits who keep talking about how “eloquent” Wright is.
Eloquent? I suppose if you don’t count syntax and content you might find him “eloquent,” in much the same way that Al Sharpton is “eloquent,” in that they both like to “speechify” and rant and make spectacles of themselves.
But when I think of eloquent I think of people like Robert Kennedy, Winston Churchill, or Barack Obama. I certainly don’t think of hatemongers and rabble-rousers.
To add insult to injury Wright is now demeaning the accents of former presidents*, and is once again resurrecting the ridiculous concept that “Ebonics” are real. Anyone who has traveled to Europe knows that American Black speech patterns have nothing to do with so-called Ebonics or anything else known in the real world. When speaking English, Blacks in Germany do not have any noticeable similarities in speech comparable to American Blacks, ditto France and England. I can attest to that by first hand knowledge.
Of course the problem of Ebonics is much more than a problem with accent*. It has to do with the “big picture of basic enunciation/pronunciation/composition/grammar/syntax.
(Ebonics is little more than an embarrassing concept conceived by liberal educators meant as yet another excuse as to why it is acceptable to demonstrate to generations of kids that it is not necessary to learn serviceable English.)
(This sort of cultural pandering is in itself a disservice. I cannot imagine that there are many job opportunities available to people who cannot verbally communicate clearly and/or effectively.)
On another level, it seems to me that what is more disturbing than the megalomaniac rantings of Wright are the idiots who stand up and cheer him on and encourage him to further excess, this includes not only his home base but the liberal press who have until now supposedly been on Obama’s side. Suddenly Jeremiah seems to think that the democratic nomination is about HIM. In his speech of the 28th he was mugging for the cameras, cracking wise, being flip, and I suppose he thought “glib,” as though he was auditioning for a primetime sitcom.
I am not, however surprised that he also is now painting himself as the victim, that portrayal is the coin of the realm for his ilk. But I am puzzled by Wright’s claim that he has been defined by “sound bites” which were “taken out of context.”
The “context” in question was a series of clips, or sound bites, if you will, provided on a DVD which is for sale in the gift shop of Wright’s own church, assembled for his own congregation as a “best of” compilation of his “sermons” of the “gospel.” (So far the only “gospel” I’ve heard Jeremiah Bullfrog expound is the “gospel” according to him, playing class against class, race against race.)
(As an aside I’ve always found that gift shops in any church are a bit creepy. I seem to recall a story about Jesus driving the money changers out of the temple…I just don’t equate a house of worship with retail. But that’s just me.)
I’ve said it before but a fanatic is a fanatic is a fanatic and a racist is a racist is a racist, regardless of color or creed.
Jeremiah Wright is a racist. He is likely a fanatic and may yet to prove to be the penultimate spoiler.
After all, if he can contribute to Barack Obama’s downfall then later he can point out that America refused to elect a black man to the presidency because of “racism.”
In a way he will be right, but the racism will be the effluvia that Wright himself vomits out every time he hears the click of a microphone or the whir of a video camera in his immediate vicinity.
*(Wright pointed out in a speech on April 28th, 2008 that both John Kennedy and LBJ had thick regional accents. He pointed out that no one reprimanded them for this “failing” at the same time implying that the Black community is constantly castigated for the “cultural” variations in their “accents”…)