Sen. Obama's Abysmal Leadership and Judgment

It's been 290 days since Sen. Hillary Clinton declared U.S. victory in Iraq; more than 425 US military personnel have been killed in Iraq since Sen. Clinton's declaration of victory.

Also, it's been 307 days since Sen. Hillary Clinton declared the U.S. mainland safe from terrorists.

Next, this sentence appeared in the Boston Globe in a news account of Sen. Clinton pandering to the black community on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Clinton recalled that as a 14 year-old living in a nearly all-white Chicago suburb, her youth minister (always with the religion with these Democrats, can't stop rubbing their religion in our face!) took her to hear (Dr.) King speak, and she stood in line to shake his hand." The reader is given the impression that Sen. Clinton did shake his hand but note the reporter couldn't report she did because I'm positive Sen. Clinton didn't say she did. Duck! Incoming sniper fire!

After I posted at 9:00 am this morning, I wrote the following letter to the Boston Globe; this letter was added to this post at 10:00 am:

Editor,

I noticed how carefully the Boston Globe reported Sen. Clinton's claim that her "youth minister (always rubbing their religion in our face are these Democrats!) took her to hear (Dr.) King speak, and she stood in line to shake his hand (Candidates pay tribute on King anniversary, April 5, A8)."

The reader is given the impression that the Senator heard Dr. King speak and she shook his hand but that cannot be concluded as the sentence is written; so very Clintonian.

Anyway, given the liberal media's feeding frenzy in investigating a misrecollection of Gov. Romney and Dr. King, I hope the liberal media is half as industrious in finding out where and when a 14 year-old Sen. Clinton did nothing, apparently, than go someplace to stand in a line. (End of letter.)

Finally, below is the link, in two parts, again, my attempt to stay clear of any copyright infringements with the Wall Street Journal, of a column, Obama and King, by NPR political analyst, Juan Williams, from the April 4, 2008 Wall Street Journal. As readers of this space know, I've quoted extensively from Mr. Williams' books on race and race relations in prior posts.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print

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Please do yourself a favor and read the whole column. If you choose not to cut and past twice, it can't really get much easier than that!, I give you some excerpts:

(Begin excerpts from Williams column.) While speaking to black people, King never condescended to offer Rev. Wright-style diatribes or conspiracy theories. He did not paint black people as victims. To the contrary, he spoke about black people as American patriots who believed in the democratic ideals of the country, in nonviolence and the Judeo-Christian ethic, even as they overcame slavery, discrimination and disadvantage. King challenged white America to do the same, to live up to their ideals and create racial unity. He challenged white Christians, asking them how they could treat their fellow black Christians as anything but brothers in Christ.

When King spoke about the racist past, he gloried in black people beating the odds to win equal rights by arming "ourselves with dignity and self-respect." He expressed regret that some black leaders reveled in grievance, malice and self-indulgent anger in place of a focus on strong families, education and love of God. Even in the days before Congress passed civil rights laws, King spoke to black Americans about the pride that comes from "assuming primary responsibility" for achieving "first class citizenship" . . . .

. . . Instead (Sen. Obama), in a full political pander, is busy excusing Rev. Wright's racial attacks as the right of the Rev.-Wright generation of black Americans to define the nation's future by their past. He stretches compassion to the breaking point by equating his white grandmother's private concerns about black men on the street with Rev. Wright's public stirring of racial division. (End of excerpts from Williams column.)