Huckabe looks at Wright motives

Clarence Page:

After cutting ties with his controversial former pastor, Sen. Barack Obama received a word of sympathy from an unusual place: a Republican.

Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright wants to derail Obama's bid for the White House for a simple tactical reason: Wright does not want Obama to prove that we've made that much racial progress.

"His campaign is not being derailed by his race," Huckabee told reporters following a fundraiser in Montana. "It's being derailed by a person who doesn't want him to prove that we have made great advances in this country."

Huckabee, himself a Baptist minister, added that "Jeremiah Wright needs for Obama to lose so he can justify his anger, his hostile bitterness against the United States of America."

It's hard to imagine that Wright would turn on the rising political star whom he led to Jesus Christ two decades ago at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, when Obama was a community organizer. Yet Wright has been offering enough evidence to indicate that Pastor Huck might have uncovered an awful truth.

Obama's repudiation of Wright came after Wright blew an opportunity at the National Press Club news conference to smooth the nationwide feathers he has ruffled.

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Instead of joining with Obama's call for reconciliation, as he has done on other occasions, Wright flamboyantly issued a taunt at the National Press Club.

With his finger raised defiantly toward the firing squad of news cameras, he recalled saying to Obama last year, "If you get elected, November the 5th, I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people."

Oh, really? After all that, I don't imagine that a President Obama would be eager to return Wright's phone calls. Wright may have single-handedly done enough damage to make sure Obama never gets to the Oval Office anyway.

If so, Wright probably will blame the white man for the defeat, but the rest of us will know who helped.

There is evidence for this thesis in "snippets" of Wright's sermons, especially the one about Hillary never being called the "N" word. It is interesting to see how their interests diverge. Wright is very invested in black victimization which means unity and reconciliation can not be allowed. Obama has campaigned on doing just that and Wright is an example of how poorly suited Obama is for accomplishing that objective. I am on the same page with Page and Huckabee on this.