Of Character And Crowns**

Knowing that Barack Hussein Obama has been hurt by his 20-year close relationship with that racist, anti-Semite, anti-American Reverend Wright, the left is now starting to try to establish a similar connection between McCain and some controversial preachers who support him.

Now it would be a legitimate political attack on McCain if the two situations were remotely alike, but clearly they are not. On the one hand we have a two decade-old close, personal friendship with the man who married Barry and his delicate little flower of a wife Michelle and baptized their children, and on the other hand we have a politician who is courting his base by accepting the endorsement of some TV preachers who mean little to anyone outside of their viewership and who have had no influence on McCain’s life to date, nor will they have in the future knowing McCain’s maverick attitude towards his own party.

The left can try to make that comparison, but I don’t believe that Independents nor moderate Dems are going to buy it. I certainly don’t. But then again, I read on another blog that those of us who don’t are either hypocrites or racists, so take what I believe with a grain of salt being that I am a gun-toting, God-clinging white guy whose brain is wired differently from progressive liberals and blacks. It’s just my burden to bear I guess.

Still, my burden is not as heavy as Barry’s according to Michelle, who says he has almost reached his boiling-point over having to answer questions about his character and judgment.

Wow, his boiling-point huh? I wonder what happens when he reaches it. Does steam come out of his big ears? That would be cool it if did.

I really don’t know why the lovely Michelle and the great Barry don’t know this, but anyone running for president should expect to have his or her character and judgment questioned. I mean every damn person who ran for that office before was questioned in that manner, so why is Barry exempt? Oh yes, as Don Surber says, we should just go ahead and coronate the guy. He is bringing hope and change for heaven’s sake, so why the hell should we question him at all? That’s want his supporters have decided. He’s the guy no matter what his past relationships - terrorists, racists, shady Chicago slum-lords - and we should just shut the hell up and place that crown on his head.

One has to wonder though. What will Barry and Michelle do if he is elected? The questioning of a candidate’s character and judgment doesn’t stop after the inauguration. Hell, that’s when it really gets started.

Just ask G.W. Bush.

QUICK UPDATE:

Here’s a very interesting article, the thrust of which is why Oprah left the Reverend Wright’s church back in the 1990s, but which also explains why Barry joined and ultimately remained.

Friends of Sen. Barack Obama, whose relationship with Wright has rocked his bid for the White House, insist that it would be unfair to compare Winfrey’s decision to leave Trinity United with his own decision to stay. “[His] reasons for attending Trinity were totally different,” said one campaign adviser, who declined to be named discussing the Illinois senator’s sentiments. “Early on, he was in search of his identity as an African-American and, more importantly, as an African-American man. Reverend Wright and other male members of the church were instrumental in helping him understand the black experience in America.

So he joined the church to find his African-American “identity,” as defined by Wright and his church (We sure know how they define it, don’t we?) - something that was necessary to win any public office in Chicago - but now has dumped Wright to help shed a bit of that identity to win over the white working-class voters he is losing every day.

Calling the man an empty suit is too kind really.

** Changed the title again. I just do that sometimes.

Some Morning Ginger