Even as progressives complain that Obama has moved Right even if he occasionally talks Left, the hard-core right-wing see him a black revolutionary shaped by Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s black liberation theology with allusions to Malcolm X and Kenyan communists thrown into the mix to “prove” their case.
Never mind that Obama threw his one-time religious mentor Wright under the bus in 2008, or that his policies rarely speak of the needs of a black community suffering under the burden of high joblessness, foreclosures and growing poverty.
In fact, real black revolutionaries like Cornell West find the President a sell-out and an embarrassment even if their community embraces him more as an identity issue or on the basis of shared pigmentation,
The recent proposal for Wall Street trader and Cub's owner Joe Ricketts to recycle the alleged Obama-Wright conspiracy into a defamatory political-ad campaign spoke more to his advisers’ demagoguery than to any truth-based assessment. Had the New York Whore Times not exposed it, this $10 million dollar race-based smear likely would have gone forward.
Because it was exposed, even Mitt Romney — who hasn’t met a right-wing talking point he won’t embrace – had to distance himself from it,
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