The Speech Didn't Work

Early on and for most of his run for presidency Obama claimed his run was not about race, despite sprinkling in comments on race here and there.

Now he is playing the race card - big time.

Rich Galen writes about Obama and the speech that didn't work.

What's more, he keeps accidentally stepping in the excrement he is shoveling out.

For instance, after throwing gramma off the train and under the bus , for good measure, he put the bus in reverse and ran over her again. But, in doing so, he made sure the bus swerved from curb to curb, cutting a wide swath to ensure that he not only got gramma but that he got whitey along the way too:

"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't.

But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."

The harder he tries to dig himself out, he finds having dug himself deeper in sh umm - the doo-doo pile.

Bobby Eberle writes, "Obama has built his campaign around a message of "coming together" and "moving beyond race." However, his speech did nothing to show that he, the candidate of change, has done any moving at all. In fact, despite specific words in which he denounced some of Wright's comments, the overall message of his speech was that Wright's comments were OK and that we just need to "understand" why he made them. Sorry Barack... you had your chance to move "beyond race," and you blew it.

Michelle Malkin characterizes Barack's big speech in Philadelphia this way: "For all of his supposedly unique and transcendent understanding of race in America, Obama's talk amounted to the same old, same old. The Glowbama mystique has gone the way of the Emperor's clothes. Instead of accountability, we got excuses. Instead of disavowal of demagoguery, we got whacked with the moral equivalence card. Instead of rejecting the Blame America mantra of left-wing black nationalism, we got more Blame Whitey. Same old, same old.

Finally, Charles Krauthammer says, "But Obama was supposed to be new. He flatters himself as a man of the future transcending the anger of the past as represented by his beloved pastor. Obama then waxes rhapsodic about the hope brought by the new consciousness of the young people in his campaign."

Then, Krauthammer wants Obama to answer this: "If Wright is a man of the past, why would you expose your children to his vitriolic divisiveness? This is a man who curses America and who proclaimed moral satisfaction in the deaths of 3,000 innocents at a time when their bodies were still being sought at Ground Zero. It is not just the older congregants who stand and cheer and roar in wild approval of Wright's rants, but young people as well. Why did you give $22,500 just two years ago to a church run by a man of the past who infects the younger generation with precisely the racial attitudes and animus you say you have come unto us to transcend?"

Legitimate questions, I think.