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April 29, 2008

With Friends Like These . . .Who Needs Hillary?

They just won't leave him alone.

It's not bad enough that Obama has to tread a delicate path around the Lion's Clubs and Pancake Houses of Indiana and North Carolina, carefully avoiding the Hillary campaign surrogates that nip at his ankles like so many annoying, agitated chihuahuas.

No, he’s also faced with the head-smacking reality that his own former pastor seems more interested in preening in the klieg lights than actually helping Obama become President.

Instead of obeying the first rule of holes and just holding his hyperactive tongue in check, Rev. Jeremiah Wright threw open his arms and embarked on some kind of puffed-up self-proclaimed speaking tour at a series of well-publicized events right before the final crucial democratic primaries. With each appearance his ego grew, as did his overblown rhetoric. First he appeared on PBS with Bill Moyers on Friday night, followed by a Sunday morning sermon in Dallas and speech at the Detroit NAACP later that night. The blitz culminated in an audacious performance at the National Press Club on Monday, where he brought a Greek chorus of his congregation members to whip up the crowds. The Hillary or McCain campaigns couldn’t have asked for a better gift.

Bob Herbert writing in today’s New York Timessummed it up nicely: “So there he was lecturing an audience at the National Press Club about everything from the black slave experience to the differences in sentencing for possession of crack and powdered cocaine. All but swooning over the wonderfulness of himself, the reverend acts like he is the first person to come up with the idea that blacks too often get the short end of the stick in America . . .”

During his outrageous act on Monday, Wright refused to retract his previous comment that the United States might have invented HIV, saying that “Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything." Then he defended the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, explaining that Farrakhan wasn’t his enemy because he’d never put him in chains or put him in slavery or made him this color. Wright continued to bounce, preen, and mug for the cameras: “Louis and I don't agree on everything . . . . He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century. When Louis Farrakhan speaks, it's like E.F. Hutton speaks, all black America listens.” What was that? I think I just heard Barack drop a bottle of pancake syrup at “Missy’s House of Muffins” in Terre Haute.

Bob Herbert had this to say about Jumpin’ Jerimiah’s NAACP speech in Detroit: “Mr. Wright mocked the regional dialects of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. I’m not sure how he felt that was helpful in his supposed quest to bring about a constructive discussion about race and reconciliation in the U.S.”

You knew it would be bad when the Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP branch, excitedly anticipated Wright’s address, saying at a press conference before the dinner that he was excited to invite the "hottest brother in America right now." The performance was hot, but in a nuclear waste kinda way. Bob Herbert’s description of the JFK and LBJ dialect diss wasn’t colorful enough. The wrong Rev. Wright – in an attempt to explain why it’s unfair to criticize the speech patterns of black children - pinched up his face and did a simpering JFK impersonation: “John Kennedy could stand at the inauguration and say : "’Eesk not what your country can do for you. Eesk rather what you can do for your country.’ How do you spell ‘eesk’?” In this case I’d spell it b-u-f-f-o-o-n.

So what can Obama do? Instead of focusing on legitimate campaign issues and those pesky Clinton puppies peeing on his pants legs, he has to stop and – yet again – distance himself from this man who has morphed into some kind of malevolent cartoon clown that thrives on constant attention, regardless of the consequences.

Jeff Zeleny, also writing in today’s New York Times had this to say about the Obama defense: “‘He does not speak for me,' Obama said. ‘He does not speak for the campaign. He may make statements in the future that don't reflect my values or concerns. I think certainly what the last three days indicate is that we're not coordinating with him, right?’ Obama made his remarks at a hastily called news conference on the tarmac of the airport here late in the day, with the engines of his campaign plane buzzing in the background. His decision to address the issue directly reflected the extent to which Wright has emerged once again as a problem for his campaign. And at a sensitive time: Obama has been seeking to appeal to white, blue-collar voters who voted in big numbers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania, and is trying to convince uncommitted superdelegates to rally to his side.”

Adding insult to injury, at one point during his National Press Club comedy routine on Monday, Reverend Wright said that “I am not running for office, but I am open to being Vice President.” To which we can only collectively exclaim: “no! he didn’t . . .!"

--KBM

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