RBO: Uncle Wackadoodle Returns

I have a feeling we are going to be hearing yet more sickening shit from this nutbag for the next four years.

Cross Posted from RBO.

Uncle Wackadoodle Returns

RBO just couldn’t have come up with a better headline than the one used by Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey for his blog post — “Uncle Wackadoodle sends a warning”:

Jeremiah Wright apparently has no intention of going away quietly. The former pastor of president-elect Barack Obama tells the Chicago Tribune about the hurt feelings from the presidential campaign and how his former congregant didn’t even bother to inform him personally about being tossed under the bus. Wright warns Obama that he won’t cut him any slack, either:

Watching the election returns on TV—Wright was apparently not invited to the Grant Park rally—was somewhat bittersweet, he told Sirius XM Radio host Mark Thompson.

“It was like a mixed bag of being proud of him and being blessed to have lived to see something my parents would never have believed was going to happen while at the same time having been put up as the whipping boy by the media to be the weapon of mass destruction to destroy his candidacy,” he said.

Though he hopes to talk with Obama again once he leaves office, he also said he won’t hold back in criticizing Obama’s administration.
“I’ve already told . . . Obama: On Nov. 5, I’m coming after you,” he said. “It’s not you the person . . . it’s the policies of this country. And as long as you are presiding over policies that grind God’s people into the earth, I’m coming after you.["]

Morrissey adds:

Wright professed to developing a sense of humor about the press he received during the campaign, including adopting the “wackadoodle” label applied to him by a New York Times columnist. I guess we can look forward to lots of “garlic nose” jokes and demonstrations of high-school marching band routines over the next four years.

Obama may actually welcome attacks from Wright over the next four years. He needs to get as much distance from his former preacher as possible, and if Wright wants to carry that mileage, that should suit Obama just fine. It will make Obama appear less leftist and more mainstream to have Uncle Wackadoodle performing his routines from the sidelines.

According to an Associated Press report, Wright said “he had to keep his sense of humor during the turmoil, laughing when his granddaughter showed him a New York Times column that called him a ‘wackadoodle’.”

The NYT column was written March 23, 2008, by Maureen Dowd, who wrote:

Hillary got a boost from the wackadoodle Jeremiah Wright. As a top pol noted, the Reverend turned Obama — in the minds of some working-class and crossover white voters — from “a Harvard law graduate into a South Side Black Panther.”

It appears that Wright pretty much finds out where he stands with Obama through television:

[He] knew Obama would at some point separate himself from him, Wright said he was hurt when the campaign removed him from Obama’s African-American religious advisory committee last spring without sending word.

“That kind of opened up a wound because … I found out I was put off the committee by watching television on a family cruise in the Caribbean,” Wright said. “Now that hurt.”

Ben Smith at The Politico also reported on the interview, which, at one point pretty much calls Obama out as liar:

Wright also seemed to dispute the notion that the inflammatory moments that aired on cable television and the Internet were out of character, though he said they were out of context.

“I’ve been preaching the same thing for 40 years,” he said, saying that white audiences couldn’t be expected to understand a form of worship they’d never seen, and was once practiced in secret.

Clear, is it not, that if Wright has been “preaching the same thing for 40 years”, at some point in those 20 plus years Obama sat in the pews he had heard it all.

Additionally, in this comment from Smith’s article, we find another proof of what Obama knew about the role race would play in his campaign and at least one person from whom he heard it:

Wright also repeated his perception — which helped convince Obama to cut him off after initially refusing to in his speech on race — that politics was part of his former congregant’s calculus.

“He’s running for the presidency of the United States of America, which is a country where blacks are a minority,” he said. “To get the votes that he needs in electoral politics, he has to distance himself from me, because his support would dry up when certain parts of the constituency found out who I was.”

His greatest disappointment, he said, wasn’t in Obama, but in some of his fellows in the black church, who “just rolled over and played dead while we in the black church continue to be hammered for who we are.”

So nice that Wright understands Obama’s need to distance himself from him during the campaign. But, was he more concerned that the “constituency” would discover what a crazy, racist, hate-spewing “wackadoodle” he was? Or was he concerned that the truth would come out and — heaven forbid — the “constituency” would understand who Obama really is?