Amazing analysis from TPM Cafe on Wright/Ferraro

Sorry for not providing more of my personal input into this diary. But I will let "The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve" speak:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com...

Here are SOME excerpts of this long article.

Let's start with Rev. Wright.

The the same logic that says Obama must reject and denounce Rev. Wright requires millions of people in the South, and indeed, throughout the nation, both black and white, to reject and renounce their grandparents and never enter their homes again. At least, that's apparently what they have to do to hold public office.

Obama should have tried to change Wright? A thirty or forty odd year old congregating trying to change the views of a man that age? How utterly presumptuous and futile that would have been. Obama should have found another church where there was no chance that, on occasion, the pastor would let loose with some cringe-inducing rant of anachronistic brimstone? How utterly pointless, and yes, I dare say wrong, that would have been.
In a brutally funny routine (aren't they all?) Chris Rock observed that the most prejudiced people in the world were old black men, the reason being that they grew up when "having the white man on your back" meant having a the white man on your back. Forget not getting a taxi, they were the taxi -- and here he pantomimed a man jumping onto another's back cracking the whip and shouting "heeyah, giddyup boy!" Younger black men recognize this, make allowances for it and take the bad with the good. Just like we white people do with our own elders. [...]
This is exactly what Obama was alluding to when this Wright clip was raised before, and what I hope he (tactfully) sends out the same message again: our old people grew up in a harsher, uglier time and much of that ugliness is permanently etched into their souls. Many have achieved far more change within themselves than we could ever have believed possible had we lived in their times. We take the good that they all have to offer and let the bad pass by knowing with certainty that it will die with them, soon enough. [...]

Barack Obama is a staggeringly accomplished man. Merely to describe his accomplishments makes one sound like a drooling star-struck Kool Aid drinker with a Chris Matthews style man crush. Obama got his B.A. from Columbia, majoring in political science with an emphasis in international relations. He was a community organizer in his twenties who, among other things, was behind a remarkably successful voter registration drive in Chicago. He received his J.D. From Harvard Law, Magna Cum Laude.
He was research assistant to Lawrence Tribe, who called him "the most all-around impressive student I had seen in decades." [...]

And yet when you look at the comments of Hillary's supporters on this blog, over and over again, you see him dismissed as "an empty suit." It is a central meme in Hillary's campaign now.
Empty suit. Pretty speeches and no content. Just a vacuous, content-free pretty boy.

Do you really think anyone would buy that drivel if he were white? That's the subtext Gerry was pushing. "Accomplishments? C'mon, he's a moulie. Columbia? Affirmative action. Harvard? Quota baby. President of the Harvard Law Review? Just a bunch of northeastern liberals exorcising their white guilt. University of Chicago? Reverse racism. Illinois legislature? Blacks takin' care of their own. Senate? Affirmative action. You know how it is today. Those blacks get everything, and us whites get the short
end, know what I'm sayin'?" [...]

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com...