Due to his startingly prescient predictions about the Iraq War, Bill Kristol was given the cherry job of columnist for the New York Times.
Today he excretes one about Obama, and Kristol doesn't even trouble with the race-baiting code anymore. He says it outright: Obama is an uppity negro hustler who hates America.
Follow me into the filth...
Let's start with America-hating:
But Ronald Kessler, a journalist who has written about Wright’s ministry, claims that Obama was in fact in the pews at Trinity last July 22. That’s when Wright blamed the "arrogance" of the "United States of White America" for much of the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks. In any case, given the apparent frequency of such statements in Wright’s preaching and their centrality to his worldview, the pretense that over all these years Obama had no idea that Wright was saying such things is hard to sustain.
And for what esteemed, award-winning news organization does "journalist" Ronald Kessler work for? That would be NewsMax (no link, ick). But it's nice that the New York Times is now sockpuppeting for NewsMax.
Funny thing: Turns out Ronald "Pulitzer" Kessler was wrong about Obama being in the pews on 7/22/07; Obama was not.
But the point Kristol is trying to make is the obvious one we've been hearing the last few days: Obama is a secret America-hater.
Let's move on to Hustling:
This doesn’t mean that Obama agrees with Wright’s thoroughgoing and conspiracy-heavy anti-Americanism. Rather, Obama seems to have seen, early in his career, the utility of joining a prominent church that would help him establish political roots in the community in which he lives. Now he sees the utility of distancing himself from that church. Obama’s behavior in dealing with Wright is consistent with that of a politician who often voted "present" in the Illinois State Legislature for the sake of his future political viability.
Aha! "Utility"! "Political viability"! Now we're in Bill Clinton draft-evasion land, complete with eyes-on-the-presidential-prize from decades back. See, Obama doesn't really believe in what Trinity UCC stands for; it was just a step on the ladder to presidential success. Unlike, say, John McCain, who would never NEVER change affiliations for political purposes. That Obama, what a slick hustler.
And last, but not, no, never, sadly, least, Uppity:
With no particular dog in the Democratic fight, many conservatives have tended to think it would be good for the country if Obama were to win the Democratic nomination, freeing us from the dreary prospect of the return of the House of Clinton. Now I wonder. Might the country be better off with the cynicism of the Clintons than the conceit of Obama
(my emphasis)
Well, here we have it. He's conceited to want to be president without the Kristol Imprimatur, the Dispensation of Willie. Whither this uppitiness?
Obama's campaign, in the face of this race-baiting, is almost, oh, what's the word I'm looking for?...audacious.