Medic! Medic! He's Bleeding!

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Jeremiah Wright cuts Barack Obama and he bleeds in Indiana:



Jeremiah Wright cuts Barack Obama and he bleeds in North Carolina:



Jeremiah Wright cuts Barack Obama and he bleeds from sea to shining sea:

The evidence, as seen in these Real Clear Politics charts, shows pretty conclusively that the Jeremiah Wright kerfuffle has wounded Obama and it is easy to assume that if it happened earlier in the primary season the damage might well have been fatal. But it isn't early in the season and the current lay of the land can spell nothing but trouble for the Dems.

Obama has gotten closer to a major party nomination than any Black man in history and the possibility of a Black President is so real to Black voters that they can taste it. He currently has close to 90% Black support and should Hillary Clinton get the nomination, especially if she were to get it at the convention via some sort of closed door chicanery it might anger Blacks enough to keep a large enough percentage of them away from the polls in November to sink any chance Hillary might have.

Rush Limbaugh has considered the above scenario and isn't convinced and gave a pretty compelling exegesis on his show today on why Dems might decide to stick it to Blacks and dump Obama without worrying about Black disaffections:

RUSH: Now, for those of you who are Democrat superdelegates; may I have your attention, please? As you know, I addressed your fear yesterday, and I know how you people are thinking. You're in the depths of fear over what to do now, because it's clear that you, the superdelegates, are going to decide who is your party's nominee; and in the process, you are going to be committing political murder against one of these candidates. You alone are going to decide, and it used to be six months ago you were proud to be able to do this because you were operating from the context of confidence and inevitability. It was like a slam dunk. Now you're operating from fear, and incorrect decisions are made during times of crisis and fear. And the greatest fear that you superdelegates have... I mean, you can see the trend lines here.

You know what's happening. The bloom is off the rose. The messiah, it has turned out, cannot walk on water. Mrs. Clinton's been hanging in there. She has got the testicle lockbox, and it's opening and shutting on schedule. You can see the trend lines, but you're scared to death to take this away from Obama because he leads in delegates; and you're really frightened that you are going to lose the black vote, perhaps permanently, if you take away the nomination. It must be apparent to you that Senator Obama will not lead you to victory. You have to know this. But you fear that denying him support will create a permanent fissure between black voters and Democrats. No Democrat has the courage to examine this flawed premise. It is up to me to advise and address you superdelegates to consider some facts. President John Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy wiretapped Dr. King. Black voters stayed with Democrats. Democrats stood in the schoolhouse doors vowing, "Segregation forever!"

Democrats voted against landmark civil rights legislation; Republicans passed it. Blacks stayed with Democrats. Bull Connor was a Democrat. Blacks stayed with Democrats. Democrats created the welfare state, destroying millions of black families. Blacks stayed with Democrats. Democrats bent over forward for the teachers unions, ruining public education for generations of black kids; leaving them unequipped to participate as equals in American society. Yet! Black voters stayed with Democrats. Democrats urged the early release of criminals to further prey on law-abiding black citizens. Blacks stayed with Democrats. Democrats threw blacks under the bus during the immigration debate. After Rosa Parks finally moved to the front of the bus, Democrats threw blacks under it during the immigration debate because Hispanics are now the largest minority voting bloc. Blacks stayed with Democrats. Democrats have not supported blacks achieving power.

Carl McCall was running for governor of New York, and was denied funds from Terry McAuliffe at the Democrat National Committee. This audience contributed to McCall's campaign. Civil rights icon Maynard Jackson wanted to be head honcho of the Democrat National Convention. He was denied. Blacks stayed with Democrats. Earlier this year in Selma, Alabama, Mrs. Clinton shows up; mocks the way black people speak. Her husband, Bill Clinton, the reputed "first black president," shows up in South Carolina and plays not the race card, but a whole deck of race cards! (doing Clinton impression) "Obama? Ha! Of course he gonna win. I mean, it's like Jesse Jackson. I mean, he's the black guy." Blacks stayed with Democrats. You superdelegates in the Democrat Party, you're worried about denying Obama the nomination because you fear that your black voters will abandon you permanently? Come, come! Review your history with me once again. You Democrats have already done far worse to black voters than yanking the nomination away from Barack Obama. Have no fear, superdelegates. Be confident. Blacks will stay with you. So will Jesse Jackson, so will Al Sharpton, and you can have them.

Although Rush is right on the history here I have a feeling this issue cuts to the bone with Blacks and it might be just the thing to break what can only (in light of the facts Rush recited) be considered the unnatural hold the Democratic Party has on Blacks.

The bottom line here, though is that Obama is a weak candidate but most of the Democratic power structure has already thrown in with him so that and the above mentioned fear, whether reasonable or not, that Blacks might turn on them will probably be enough to secure him the nomination. But if he's bleeding here in the Democratic primaries there is a very good chance that in the general election he will turn out to be an electoral hemophiliac.

Now if we only had a real conservative running instead of John McCain...

Where Wright Was Wrong And Obama Was (Almost) Right (Even Though He's Left)

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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike that Barack Obama's March 18 speech, A More Perfect Union, is the greatest bit of rhetoric ever to be uttered since the Sermon on the Mount...at least according to the mainstream media. To those of us in the real world of course, this is nonsense. The speech was, first and foremost, a political necessity, a way to stop the immediate, alarming and potentially fatal slump in Obama's poll numbers in the wake of the revelation of Jeremiah Wright's, Obama's pastor and close friend of many years' hate-filled videos. As such, it had to walk a fine line, sounding credible to all sides and not alienating either African-Americans (including those of Wright's paranoid mindset) and Whites, who are ready to vote for an African-American, as long as he won't don a Dashiki and deliver an address titled Payback Time at his Inaugaral. Any speech with such broad goals is bound to have some bits that are going to please any group, even conservatives who are skeptical of Obama's Leftism. And so it did.

Among best parts of the speech, from a conservative perspective are the following lines:

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright’s sermons is not that he
spoke about racism in our society. It’s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country – a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old -- is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. But what we know -- what we have seen – is that America can change. That is true genius of this nation. What we have already achieved gives us hope – the audacity to hope – for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

Unfortunately, immediately thereafter he starts to go wobbly:

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means
acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

It is in "acknowledging that what ails the African-American community" that he starts to head into the tall grass of the Left. What ails the African-American community at this point isn't racism and the lingering effects Obama sees, ingrained societal attitudes and policies that are keeping Blacks down, but the belief that this is true as well as those who profit from that belief. It is understandable that after generations of slavery and Jim Crowe, Blacks should have incorporated victimhood as part of their identify. But that paradigm is now false and clinging to it no longer serves a positive purpose. Instead it is perpetuating the problem.

While not denying that racism exists in the form that the Al Shartons, the Jesse Jacksons. the Jeremiah Wrights and the Democratic Party say that it does, the reality is that it exists to a much smaller degree than they would have us believe. And the evidence of that is everywhere for those willing to see it.

One of the best ways to view how people feel about each other is to see how they interact on an intimate level and one of the best ways to do that in this situation is to look at Black/White intermarriage. In the '40's and '50's only about 2% of Black men married White women, the societal taboo against such a thing being very strong. By the 80's and 90's that percentage had risen to about 10%.

Also, economically the disparity between the races is not nearly as profound as many would have it appear. Thomas Sowell, one of the truly great intellects of our time and a man who fearlessly confronts the lies of the zeitgeist daily, frequently addresses this issue head-on in both his column and in many of his books. Those who have a vested interest in continued racial discord often point to the disparity in household incomes between Blacks and Whites. Sowell has pointed out that the problem with this comparison is that it doesn't take into account that fact that Black households comprise a far higher percentage of single mothers, a much poorer income group among both Blacks and Whites. He also points out in this example, that a Census Bureau study of a few years ago,

"... with dozens of pages lavished on income disparities, mentions in one brief sentence that the real per capita income of whites rose 13 percent from 1989 to 1999, while the real per capita income of Blacks rose 24 percent during that same period."

Maybe the most startling statistic that militates against racism being responsible for economic hardship is the fact that immigrants from Barbados, almost exclusively Black, have higher incomes than Whites.

The fact is that today most of the disparities between African-Americans and Whites is caused cultural factors, and by that I specifically mean the retention of a debilitating belief system that says that Blacks can't get ahead because of White racism. It isn't true but what is true is that such a self defeating world view can be self-fulfilling. Which is just what both racial con men like Jeremiah Wright and the Democratic Party need for their own purposes. An excited and inflamed audience keeps the pews full for Wright and a large, aggrieved constituency is needed by the Democrats whose only hold on power is through the manipulation of identity politics.

If Barack Obama had really wanted to make the greatest speech this side of the divinely inspired he might have tried really speaking "truth to power" and said some of the above. But his objective here wasn't nearly so lofty. He was really just trying to get himself out of a jam and despite the media's fawning reception, he went only as far as was necessary to do just that and no more. Thanks to the media he may just have succeeded in his limited goal, but the opportunity that existed to do so much more, sadly went unfulfilled.

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