Shots Across The Bow

The Company You Keep

Barack "Don't use my middle name" Obama has a problem and it goes much deeper than his middle name.

He doesn't want people using his middle name because of its negative connotations, yet look at the people he surrounds himself with. His spiritual father, a man who Obama himself says has become a part of his family, spouts some of the most hateful rhetoric I've heard; "God D--n America!" He's accused the US government of creating the AIDS virus as a genocidal weapon. He's referred to Zionism as white racism.

And Barack stands by him.

Oh sure, in his speech the other day, he repudiated what Wright said, but he still stood by the man himself. I'd believe that Obama was sincere in his repudiation, except...

Ms. Obama espoused some similar sentiments, didn't she? She claimed she'd never been proud of America until her husband began his run for the White House, presumably because of lingering racism.

Here's the thing. The more we know about the people around Sen. Obama, the harder it is to dismiss the idea that maybe, just maybe, he quietly holds feelings and ideas similar to those the people he chooses to have around him espouse openly.

Birds of a feather, don'tcha know.

So Obama's problems are not on account of his middle name; his problems are coming from the actions of the people he chose to be part of his life.

Incidentally, charges of white oppression coming from a couple who made just under a million dollars in 2006, who both graduated from Ivy League colleges, who both hold law degrees from Harvard, and who both hold or have held positions in government, is just a bit hard to swallow.

Posted by Rich at March 20, 2008 1:59 PM | TrackBack