Obama Hates America!

And Related Issues

Spring is on the calendar, if not in the air. But since nothing is growing just yet, garden writing will take one (last?) back seat to a political rant.

I must say, the latest "Obama hates America" meme has been done with more skill, and has attracted much more attention, than I expected. (To be sure, with Republicans, conservatives and backers of the Clintons all interested in maintaining the story, I should not have been surprised.) And the issue, his pastor Jeremiah Wright's angry and unhinged sermons, is not a bogus issue. But I don't see how, in the real world where Democrats must choose between Obama and Clinton -- politicians of similar ideology, but quite different character and history -- Jeremiah Wright is an issue which should be dispositive for anyone with a sense of proportion.

Imagine, if you will, how the Wright issue could have been worse for Obama:

Imagine that, instead of merely making incendiary, and anti-American sermons, Wright went so far as to also build and set bombs, for the purpose of killing government employees. And went to prison for these crimes.

Further imagine that: instead of merely listening to Wright's speeches and closely associating himself with Wright, without actually adopting Wright's harsh language or beliefs; Obama had abused the power of his public office to pardon Wright, freeing him from prison in contradiction to normal procedures under which Wright would never be eligible for pardon, such as Wright's public lack of repentance. And imagine that this pardon was an obvious way for Obama to curry favor with Wright's followers, to get their votes.

Next imagine that there are 14 Wrights, all of them such unrepentant terrorists, and all of them pardoned by Obama, to get more votes in Chicago.

Finally, make the anti-American terrorists Puerto Rican FALN members instead of black Chicago residents, and make Obama the Clintons, and this becomes another issue altogether: this is the true reality of the depth of disgrace to which that couple sunk the Presidency in their pursuit of Hillary's continued power.