Jeremiah Wright, Obama (The Messiah) and Some Very Gullible Historians

I eagerly await the spin...




Not to long ago many of the nation's leading historians signed their 500 word manifesto: "Historians for Obama." Obama claims he knew nothing of his "spiritual advisor's" repugnant and insane views until just last week. Obama has declared war on American producers and wants our sovereignty surrendered to the U.N. Michelle Obama has had no reason to feel pride in her country for her entire adult life. Obama had no problem accepting support from convicted terrorists. Then there are Obama's patriotism issues. And there is old-fashioned Chicago Machine politics corruption ala Tony Rezko. I wonder how many other friends and mentors Obama is going to have to disown in the rest of the campaign.

It is hard to understand how trained academics who are supposed to exercise a little reasonable skepticism could be taken in by a vacuous windbag with such unsavory company. But they were. Perhaps Wright's rhetoric, and Obama's knowledge of it, is something the "liberal" historians will either find not worth commenting on or something to just excuse away. Maybe for those academic historians on the left-wing fringe it won't be a problem at all. Or, they may feel the need to invite Jeremiah Wright to campus to give a speech on "chickens coming home to roost" on 9/11/01.



Update: The "liberal" historians, demonstrating their openness to contrary ideas, have blocked me from commenting over at History News Network. Of course by their own rules of conduct, I have done nothing to merit such treatment, except for disagreeing with the "liberal" zeitgeist.

Crossposted at The Dougout