The Wright Ticket To The McCain Comeback
Posted by papundits on 10/15/2008
THE WRIGHT TICKET TO THE McCAIN COMEBACK
TonyfromOz prefaces …..
PA Pundits is pleased to have a new source for articles that we can post to our site. Donald Douglas is an Associate Professor of Political Science, and teaches in Southern California. He also has his own blog, American Power. We will be picking up on some of his articles to add them to our list.
The Los Angeles Times reports that John McCain is looking for another comeback
John McCain unveiled a feisty new campaign speech Monday, but the talk of change and promise of a fist-shaking fight to November failed to allay Republican concerns that the presidential race may be slipping beyond his grasp.
With 21 days to the election, there was widespread agreement that Wednesday night’s third and final presidential debate would be a crucial opportunity – and perhaps the last one – for the Arizona senator to change the course of a race that appears to be moving strongly in Democrat Barack Obama’s direction.
But the consensus ended there. For just about every Republican urging McCain to focus relentlessly on the economy, there was another who said McCain should continue questioning Obama’s character by citing his association with William Ayers, a Vietnam-era radical. Some said the GOP nominee needed to do both, and also bring up the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., Obama’s controversial former pastor; others called that a mistake and said that a mix of messages was part of McCain’s problem.
It now appears that McCain will raise Obama’s relationship to Ayers in tomorrow’s debate.
I’m one those who’ve been disappointed in McCain’s aversion to attacking Obama’s radical ties, although I understand the reasoning: McCain’s been searching for the right approach that balances toughness and the bounds of decency (for fear of being labeled “racist”).
It’s been a difficult process, and it may be too late in many respects, at least on Ayers and ACORN.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is another story, however. Obama was badly damaged by viral videos and revelations of his pastor’s fire-and-brimstone anti-Americanism. If McCain wants to get serious about attacking the Illinois Senator’s questionable associations, Wright’s the ticket. Obama admitted a close friendship to his pastor, and he attended Trinity United Church for close to two decades.
Stanley Kurtz, who’s done more than anyone else to reveal the extent of Barack Obama’s radical associations, has a new report indicating that Obama’s relationship to Wright was more significant than previously reported – that from Wright, to Ayers, and the Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama’s radicalism can be seen as a set-piece of funding, planning, and indoctrination.
Can this be the October Surprise?
It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy – and a whole lot of money – to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.
John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.
Read the whole thing.
Barack Obama’s ties to anti-American pedagogists and extremist black-separatists are not insignificant.
For John McCain, in looking for a comeback, he need look no further than Barack Obama’s long history of funding and empowering groups who would denounce the U.S. as an “ineradicably racist Eurocentric civilization.”
Read more great articles from Donald Douglas at American Power.
Image Credit. Los Angeles Times.
gail said
Saint Obama grows smaller the closer we approach him and find out the truth that CNN & MSNBC cable news pundits can’t seem to find or report? Obama is an empty suit. From the day he was sworn in to the Senate to the date he declared his run for the presidency, is only 145 days on the job. He has literally no experience. (Not figuratively, literally!) He’s not qualified to run a Dairy Queen. No longer can Americans trust the media, which was given special constitutional privileges to look out for the folks. Obama was AWFUL as usual in the debate! Obama was no more than his usual bumbling, grunting, lost in thought, no nothing. Senator John McCain absolutely owned the final Presidential Aspirant debate this evening. It was a complete rout in favor of John McCain. Senator Barack Hussein Obama was not only schooled and spanked, he might as well had never shown up. I saw it in his body language and he even began copying the McCain Smirk. John McCain was all Presidential while Barack Obama was like the small child on the knee of a Great Sage. And, another thing…what is with the Barack “graying of the temples”? He didn’t have that yesterday and he sure didn’t have it earlier in the day today. Was someone trying to make him look older and wiser? If so, it didn’t work. Clearly, McCain won this debate overwhelmingly this was all planned by Senator John McCain to unload on the enemy. It was brilliantly executed. A vote for Obama is a vote for the beginning of the END OF OUR GREAT BUT TROUBLED COUNTRY!
What possible reason could there be not to vote for Obama? Maybe because he isn’t the right man for the job, regardless of race. Proven Obama has most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate. Obama is to the left of Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Russ Feingold, Pat Leahy and Barbara Boxer. That’s extremely difficult to do. Obama is a textbook big-government, tax-and-spend liberal. He plans to raise income tax rates; capital gains tax rates, Social Security taxes (by virtue of eliminating the cap), dividend taxes, inheritance taxes, and introduce a slew of new taxes. His plan will destroy this country.
“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is,” Biden said in 2007. “The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.” In debate among Democratic hopefuls, moderator George Stephanopoulos pressed Biden whether he stood by a recent quote. Biden said, “I stand by that statement.”
WE AGREE JOE!