Was it really only two weeks ago that Democrats and Liberals were in full, indignant cry over Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain?  Of course, in this election cycle, two weeks is an eternity.

Now, with a new flaming Revered Dr. Jeremiah Wright hate-bomb dropping every four to five hours, I’m guessing Howard Dean and the folks at the official Democrat Party web site are so wishing they hadn’t written this:

John McCain Should Denounce Hagee Endorsement, Anti-Catholic Remarks

In his struggle to shore up his base, John McCain has once again cast aside his principles by embracing Rev. John Hagee, saying he was “pleased to have the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee,” despite his intolerant comments about Catholics, women, African Americans, Muslims and LGBT Americans.

Yes, way back on February 29,  the rafters of the liberal blogosphere were ringing with anguished laments about how “sad” and “revealing” it was that McCain would allow himself to be associated with someone as “divisive” as Pastor Hagee.

But for sweet irony, it’s hard to beat consummate liberal blowhard Glenn Greenwald’s posturing about the Hagee endorsement here. In the bright light of the Revelation of St. Wright, it’s so chock-full of petard-self-hoistage it’s hard to choose just one example. This nugget is tasty though. Greenwald wrote:

The fact that McCain thinks he can get away with openly embracing one of the most influential and hateful bigots in the country is a reflection of the profound media double standard he knows favors and protects him. Just imagine if Obama had issued a statement similar to McCain’s with regard to Farrakhan: “I am very proud of Minister Louis Farrakhan’s spiritual leadership to thousands of people” and “don’t have to agree with everyone who endorses my candidacy. I’m still ‘honored” to have his support.”

(emphasis is Greenwald’s)

Of course we don’t have to “imagine” Obama saying something like that. He has said precisely that. But not about some distant preacher he’s never even heard speak. He’s said it about his pastor and mentor of two decades.

Let’s set aside for a moment the dubious equating of John Hagee with Louis Farrakhan. The fact is, McCain, being McCain, quickly distanced himself from the Hagee endorsement. But as others have pointed out (here, here and here for example), there is no way Obama can repudiate Wright’s growing inventory of hateful and kooky pronouncements without either looking like an idiot or a conniving cynic.

The Obamas have sat under Wright’s teaching for more than 20 years. The title of Obama’s signature book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by a Wright sermon. Thus, we are left with only two possibilities:

1. Barack Obama actually believes the hateful and dangerous Black Liberation Theology that his pastor espouses.

2. He has been cynically and dishonestly attending Wright’s large Chicago church for two decades for political advantage.

Neither is a particularly flattering option—especially for a unifying political savior who’s going to help us all “rise above politics.”

But given Michelle Obama’s famous pronouncements about what a mean place America is and how she has not found a single thing about this country to feel pride in during her adult life, I think we can safely guess which of the two options above is true for her.

John Derbyshire says Rev. Wright is a fatal pre-existing condition for the Obama campaign.

The MSM can’t smother this, not in the age of the web, though they are trying mightily. (The Sunday New York Times “Week in Review” Section had nothing about Wright; neither did the main news section.) Americans are a fair-minded people, who find double standards obnoxious. A guy who says “nappy-headed ho’s” in an irreverent radio show is dragged round the city walls behind a chariot to the delighted howls of a mob of self-righteous “anti-racists”; yet a man who uses the authority of the cloth to damn our country and curse white people, is praised as a “biblical scholar” by a candidate for the presidency? I don’t think so. This won’t stand. The man is toast.

Propaganda posters from early in the 20th Century.

Propaganda posters from early in the 21st Century.

The creepy dimensions of the Left’s Obama fetish just continue to unfold. And if many of the official and unofficial Obama posters bear a striking resemblence to marxist and fascist “Glorious Leader” posters from last century, it’s no accident. The guy who is designing many of the Obama posters is the same guy whose “art” involves creating posters such as these.

American Digest has a fascinating analysis of this whole propaganda vibe. And as I suggested in the headline of this post, the same clueless trend-sheep that buy and wear Che Guevara T-shirts think the whole retro-propaganda thing is oh-so-very chic. And if you’re using it to sell jeans and skateboards, maybe it is.

But when you appropriate the aesthetic of those who marketed the divinization of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and the rest of the 20th Century’s blood-soaked, genocidal monsters in order to promote a candidate for the most powerful elected office in the world. . .

Well you’ve just turned the creepy knob to “11”.  

 

Chris Matthews’ Leg to Obama: “You Make Me Want to Be a Better Limb” 

The President was here this morning and spoke to a luncheon. I wasn’t able to attend but heard it was very good.

UPDATE: Here is a transcript of the President’s speech to the NRB.

Meanwhile, Friend-of-Blather, Bonnie has posted some healing reflections on the recent atrocity in Jerusalem. Read “Finding the Quiet Center.”

I’m sitting in one of the lobbies of the leviathan Gaylord Opryland Hotel watching the toupees go by.

I’m taking the annual dose of punishment required of all who wish to particupate in the Christian media industrial complex–attendance at the National Religious Broadcasters convention.

It’s sort of like that initiation ritual Richard Harris’ character had to endure to be a member of the Indian tribe in “A Man Called Horse.” Only the ordeal happens every year.

Okay. Perhaps I’m being a bit dramatic. You hardly ever get hung up by hooks through your chesty parts at these things.

Jerusalem Post: “Attack Will Be Seen in Messianic Terms”

Ben-David: “An Assault on the Heart of Zionism”

DEBKA: “Leads to Hamas-Damascus, Hizballah – or both – in Jerusalem students’ murders”

Israel Insider: “Why there’s a Hamas-Israel war.”

YNet: “Hamas Countdown Has Begun“

Here is footage no U.S. News organization has the huevos or integrity to show you. Palistinians in joyous celebration of the successful slaughter of Israeli students.

Naturally, the blame-the-victim reflex among America’s “progressives” kicked in before the blood had been mopped up off the floor.

There is a war coming, dear readers. Israel will not allow Olmert to appease and restrain much longer. In fact, the last straw may have already hit the camel’s back.

. . .if Hillary somehow finds a powerplay that gets her the Dem nomination? Pretty darned ugly if this is any indication.

When I was composing my Moses post (below) last night, James Lileks was having similar thoughts about the same time:

 . . .if Moses was tripping we wouldn’t have ten commandments. We would have three. The first would make sense, more or less; the second, written half an hour later, would command profound respect for lizards who sit on stones and look at you, because they’re freaking incredible when you think about it, and the third would be gibberish.

Never mind the problem of getting the tablets down the mountain – anyone who has experience of watching stoners try to assemble pizza money when the doorbell rings doubts that Moses could have hauled stone tablets all the way down.

Scroll down for the whole thing, here.