Barack Obama is having a real hard time trying to explain why he threw his grandmother under the bus in his big speech this week. He was on Philadelphia radio last night and called her a “typical white person”. By that he meant that she was “bred” to have certain ideas. Those comments are obviously racist in origin, but nobody will call him on it.

Barack Obama has been trying to portray himself as beyond race. From his comments in his speech and his “clarification” last night on Philadelphia radio, Barack Obama is showing himself to be a “typical” black politician. He is willing to say anything to anybody to get elected. But, when pressed has racist ideas that come out. That may fly in the Democrat primaries and even get him nominated, but ordinary Americans will see that the Emperor has no clothes.

Barack said that his grandmother was a good person and cared for him well. But, she harbors fear when confronted by black men on the street. She is afraid of being attacked. Let us look at that statement for a minute. She is afraid of being attacked by black men on the street. Who commits a majority of the crime in this country? Black men by far commit the most crimes. It is not unreasonable to be afraid when meeting black men that you do not know. That is not something that she was born with; it is something she has learned by watching the news programs.

To think that the fear of his grandmother, of being attacked by strangers, is equal to the comments by the Reverend Wright is crazy. Reverend Wright attacks America as being a bad place. He wishes that God will condemn America. He said that America deserved the attacks on 9/11 because of the atomic bombs we dropped on Japan to end WWII. Those comments are not fears that were learned because of watching the news. Those ideas are crack pot ideas at best. They are offensive to most Americans. They may resonate with some people, but they are outside of the mainstream of American thought.

All women have some fear of being attacked by strange men when they are alone. For Barack’s grandmother to have a fear of being attacked by strange black men is perfectly in line with what women think. She would probably have a similar fear of being attacked by strange white men if she was alone and they dressed like they were up to no good. You also have to remember that Barack’s grandmother is still alive and well.

Reverend Wright has cooked up his crazy ideas out of whole cloth. They have no basis in reality. Even if you look at blacks that were slaves, they did not have such crazy notions of America. They all looked at America as a place of opportunity. Reverend Wright looks at America as a place of oppression and woe. The pulpit is not the place for political opinion. I know that some political opinion will creep into what a person says from the pulpit. It cannot be divorced from what you say. Even when I give talks about Jesus Christ, my political opinion probably can be found in the way I discuss Jesus. But, I would hope that my political opinion would be difficult to find. Reverend Wright put his political opinion out for everyone to see. That is a very different situation. There is nothing wrong with ministers discussing politics. It is where they discuss politics that bothers me. When they preach from the pulpit, they have an audience that came to hear them discuss some scriptural doctrine of Jesus Christ. They did not come to hear a political speech. If the minister wants to talk about politics, he/she should schedule a separate time and place to do just that.

There have been political leaders that have run for President or other political office. I have no problem with that as long as they did not talk about their political candidacy from the pulpit. If they kept the two separate, then there is no problem with them running. Many people that are/have been ministers have held public office. I applaud them for having the spark to run and to serve. The pulpit is not a place for political discourse. I know that Democrats love to tell Republicans that they should not preach from the pulpit. Then those same Democrats go to church and do just that. You rarely, if ever, hear of a Republican politician speaking in a church. You regularly hear of Democrat politicians speaking in primarily black churches. I believe there is a problem here, but nobody will say anything about it.