The Wright Time


by Ernie Fitzpatrick - Date: 2008-04-30 - Word Count: 426 Share This!

There's this concept called turning lemons into lemonade and now is the RIGHT time for Barack Obama to take advantage of the WRIGHT time and make hay while the proverbial sun shines. That which our enmies propose for our demise we can turn into a victory m,ore often than not if we have the right (wright) perspective.

I'm talking Jeremiah Wright here of course!

Why WRIGHT decided to wait a month before continuing to be WRONG, I don't know. There are a lot of conspiracy theories out there though. It is "silly season" in politics you know. Did Reynolds,a Clinton backer, get Wright to speak so he could hurt Obama more? Who knows? But what is known is that Wright Wronged himself again.

"The people who were close to him pleaded with him not to do it," said WVON radio host Roland Martin. "We knew what the questions were gonna be, but it really was the antics, the looks the dismissive tone, the strut. It was being flippant, some say being pompous and arrogant." That appearance Monday was far from a pastor's comfort zone, like St. Sabina on the South Side, the site of Wright's first appearance after his words drove a wedge between him and Obama.

Can you say a CANYON?

The danger Wright presents is obvious enough. He has come to epitomize everything white Americans fear in an African-American public figure, secular or clerical. He is anti-white, anti-American, and avidly embraces and propagates all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories. If he is to be believed, which is a very bad idea, the United States caused the AIDS virus in order to destroy the African-American population. The reality is the opposite: America took the lead in developing treatments for the disease, with the result being that a diagnosis of AIDS is no longer tantamount to a death sentence.

Wright says that we give drugs to our children. Again, he is 180 degrees wide of the mark. We do more than any other nation to battle drugs and risk the lives of tens of thousands of noble and able DEA agents to keep them away from our children. America is seen as coming off like Usama-Osama.

But if Wright has come to be the poster child for what America fears in a black public figure, he gives Obama an opportunity to be the opposite. By playing off Wright, by attacking his views in depth and detail, Obama can define himself as the un-Wright, reassuring Americans and carving out his identity in opposition to the reverend's rantings.

Now is the time Barack!


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ernie@lrchouston.com

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