Not a batty old uncle
May 5, 2008 by John Rich
When first publicly confronted with the rantings of his long-time pastor and spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama attempted to minimize the damage by jokingly referring to Wright as some sort of batty old uncle.
But Wright isn’t Obama’s blood relative. Obama chose Trinity and Wright. You don’t get to do that with uncles. And we must not make the mistake of taking Jeremiah Wright for a joker, some kind of black Borscht Belt comedian. Obama tried that tack, with his “batty old uncle” attempt to minimize the damage.
Given Wright’s Racial Rant Tour of a week past, we’re way past being able to laugh at Jeremiah Wright. We need to take radical haters like Wright seriously. They are not joking. And know that anyone who sits in Trinity UCC for 20 years has made one of the following choices:
- Obama knew exactly what was going on at Trinity and approved;
- Obama knew exactly what was going on at Trinity and disapproved but since it furthered his political ambitions, did not let it bother him;
- Obama did not have a clue to what was going on.
Which choice should a possible president of the United States have made? None of them is acceptable. Any or all should be disqualifying.
