Ironic?

While Obama confronts (or perhaps more accurately, America would want Obama to confront) his suspect associations with a racist, anti-American pastor and domestic terrorists, Arianna Huffington knows who the real wackos are. (Sorry, no embed. Gotta Click here... tell you what, we'll spare you the trouble - she is of the belief that Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are part and parcel to the fringe Right and therefore the true threats to the Republic.)

“They will not be as powerful when we are done dealing with them.” Why does the creepy factor go up when spoken in that Euro-accent?

Article here claims its high noon for the American Left. For over 40 years now decent patriotic FDR/Kennedy liberals have had to share the big (D) tent with the likes of Reverend Wright and William Ayres who are held far more in “mainstream” regard than “fringe” in the Party structure.

From the last paragraph of the article:

“So the entire American body politic has a festering sore on its hands. This will not go away by itself. It will not be bought off by more money. It must be repudiated by the sensible Left, if it is still there. Just as William F. Buckley denounced the anti-Semites on the right, and sensible Americans rejected segregation and the Klan, just as American unions expelled Stalinist unions from the AFL-CIO, the time has come for the decent Left to draw a bright line in the sand, and keep the hate mongers out.”

(Referenced but unnamed, Samuel Gompers is the man singularly responsible for keeping American unions free of Communist influence and a man on our list of most underrated Americans.)

That quote “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me” attributed to Ronald Reagan comes to mind here.

The challenge offered for the Democratic Party will be far more daunting though than the convulsed birthing of the conservative movement within the Republican Party in the 60s as the defeatism, anti-Americanism and relativism that informs and guides much of Party policy, legislative agenda and rhetoric is far more engrained even than the “me-too”, Rockefeller country-club vibe of the 50s and 60s Republican Party.

Pragmatically speaking, the good liberals’ dreams of universal healthcare, a “living wage”, affordable housing and the like suffer because of these associations. And contrary to the claims that Republican demagogueing of “wedge” issues is responsible for middle America voting against their own best economic interests, its these associations that are at the core of what’s (really) the matter with Kansas.

Update #1: Wright’s speech at the National Press Club earlier today. For the most part, he refrains from tottering off the beam. Click here if embed is inop.




And round-up of his speech yesterday at the NAACP can be found at Gateway Pundit, including some interesting parallels between Wright’s reasoning on the differences between African and European brains and those of the KKK.