ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:
The speech delfected the main point that his mentor is a racist!
And his 80 year old white Grandma isn't?
ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:
Obama may not have agreed with Wright’s solutions, or even with his final judgements, but something about Wright’s anger had to have attracted Obama–had to have seemed tantalizingly “authentic.”
What lead you to think that it was the anger that drew Obama?
ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:
In this positive attraction to anti-American anger (even if that anger is not quite entirely shared) Obama embodies the sensibilities of the elite academic radicals that are his real heritage and milieu.
Makes about as much sense as saying McCain is stringently anti-Catholic because he has not rejected Hagee's endorsement outright. Sorry, your getting rabid and trying to paint too much with one brush of anti-Americanism. Something you have a history on this board of doing.
He did address the root cause of the anger and he shows a deeper understanding of it, not an infatuation for it.