Prometheus 6

The only part of the speech that made me shudder was this sentence: “But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.”

Let’s Not, and Say We Did
By WILLIAM KRISTOL

I shuddered only once while watching Barack Obama’s speech last Tuesday.

It wasn’t when he posed the rhetorical questions: “Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church?”

The real question, of course, is not why Obama joined Trinity, but why he stayed there for two decades, in the flock of a pastor who accused the U.S. government of “inventing the H.I.V. virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” and who suggested soon after 9/11 that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

[P6: Given that he answered that question, we must assume Kristol is, how shall we put it...shit stirring.]