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3.21.08 @ 12:01AM

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Jeremy Lott has been duped by the audacious Barack Obama. Despite his disingenuous pabulum Obama is clearly a protege of vitriolic racist Jeremiah Wright -- even Democrats are starting to realize the "messiah" isn't all that he claims to be (Hillary is nicely positioned to seize the Democrat nomination from the Obamanation). As for Obama's mendacious speech on Tuesday Victor Davis Hanson effectively dissected its defense of African-American racism and it insipid message in a competing conservative journal.

If anything Mr. Lott reveals that too many conservatives are easily enamored with style over substance. It is reminiscent of 2006 when conservatives wanting to "punish" Republicans duped themselves into believing "blue dog" Democrats were "conservatives" and would miraculously move the radical Democrats to the right. There were outlandish declarations that the "blue dogs" would even enforce fiscal sanity on the party of tax and spend. Jim Webb and the last 2 years have proven just how gullible and foolish these conservatives were and in the case of those mesmerized by Obama still are.

The nation does owe Senator Obama a debt of thanks for revealing the insidious nature of the Religious Left and the vitriolic racism and hatred that emanates regularly from its pulpits. Obama's friend, patron, mentor and spiritual advisor would feel right at home in an extremist madrasah extolling the "virtues" of murdering innocent men, women and children. This fact goes a long way in explaining why Obama himself is sympathetic to genocidal dictators and Muslim terrorists. If one can get beyond the facile rhetoric they will find the "savior" is in fact a doctrinaire leftist and neo-Marxist of limited intellectual prowess.

Unlike Mr. Lott I don't have to hate Barack Obama to vote against him and Democrats. Simple reason long ago taught me to follow the example of Ronald Reagan and always vote a straight Republican ticket. Maybe Lott should stick to extolling the virtues of his father for President -- at least then he knows what he's writing about, because he's too easily hoodwinked by an old-time Chicago pol like Barack Obama.
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

The lucubrations of Dr. Lott display a significant shallowness that is running amok in the fifth estate! Meditations on the race card or post racial issues are overplayed and banal at this point. The politics of grievance have redounded in the favor of huge blocks of our African American class. This trajectory in hiring preferences and education admissions are at the expense of others.

Senator Obama knows truly nothing about the coarseness of impoverished, inner city life. He has had a pedigreed, well heeled existence to date. His "outing" of his grandmother on a national platform as having any equivalence with this vitriolic pastor of some non-church is reprehensible, Dr. Lott! if you want to indulge yourself, and you obviously are in need, of intelligence, right reason and unflappability on the struggles and successes of our black citizens in the twentieth century concern yourself with Dr. Thomas Sowell, not this empty suit Barack Obama! This article was drivel.
-- Edward Del Colle

Spare us your soliloquy about Barack Obama, Jeremy Lott. I could care less about "hating" this person but I don't find him that likable either. I perceive him as a phony. He sounds good and he's able to fluff off incidents like this off pretty good with his oratory. However, looking at the proposals he has put forth shows an old time liberal who believes government will solve all the problems. It's the typical entitlement mentality of the left and Obama has packaged it in a sound good feel good wrapping, while the focus is on how he handled this Wright flap. I think once the primary is over and the real campaign gets under way, the real issues will surface and people will not be so enamored of this fellow. After all, the majority in this nation consider themselves independents and McCain is leading big time among that group.
-- Pete Chagnon

One doesn't have to be "mad as hell" to not vote for Obama. His very liberal leanings are enough for me. However, the very ugly images of Rev. Wright spewing his hate speech will stick in the consciousness of many voters and the eloquence of Obama's damage control did nothing to resolve his twenty year relationship with such a man.
-- John Nelson
Hebron, Connecticut

The question is not whether having Obama step down for Hillary will cost her African-American votes this election, the question is whether it will cost Democrats the African-American vote for the foreseeable future. Imagine a series of ads run throughout the campaign in heavily African-American markets and venues that highlighted the history of the Civil Rights Movement with emphasis on the Democratic Party's opposition to it. Start with images of Rosa Parks being ordered to the back of the bus so that a white man can take her seat, then cut to a montage of Barack Obama victories with the delegate count, followed by Hillary's sudden leap into the nomination. Another would show prominent Democrats making the kinds of racist comments that they normally get a pass on from the mainstream media. Robert Byrd's use of the N-word, followed by Cruz Bustamente's, followed by a few more examples, then fade to archive footage of George Wallace or Bull Connor using the same language. A truly enlightening one would feature Jesse Jackson, then and now, with speeches from his pro-life, anti-welfare days, cut against his current sell-out positions. And of course, a vote tally from the passage of the Voting Rights Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act, with the "No" votes of prominent Democrats highlighted (especially Al Gore Sr's), intercut with Eisenhower forcibly integrating Little Rock, Teddy Roosevelt fighting for anti-lynching laws and stills of Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation being read in the background. Emphasizing the Republican Party's origin as the party of abolition and emancipation in the context of a Democratic backroom deal would be a no-brainer. The only question is why it didn't happen sooner.
-- Mike Harris
MAJ, U.S. Army

He does not have a good shot at winning the Pennsylvania primary. In fact, he has dropped in all the polls, and his presidential campaign may be dying, although he will surely win the Democratic nomination.
-- Ed Vidal
New York, New York

"Obama's speech...won over many of his skeptics(?)" He won over precisely you. Perhaps you missed the Rasmussen poll that indicated that 0% (that's right-not one) of Republicans look more favorably at Obama after his speech. Now you are either not a Republican or you are in the 2% of Independents who look more favorably upon Slick Obie after his grandmother slamming apologia. Save your starry-eyed longings for the Daily Kos!
-- Ralph Alter
Carmel, Indiana

I am amazed at the condescension in Jeremy Lott's column. What has hate got to do with conservatives' reaction to recent developments concerning Barack Obama? People are raising legitimate questions about a presidential candidate who belongs to a church which is basically an offshoot of the Black Power movement of the '60s.

You can ignore that and sweep it under the rug and bring out the old "conservatives are haters" routine, or you can look at the facts. This man wants to be our president. He has not been thoroughly vetted by the mainstream media and now will capture the Democrat nomination. It's time to look at Barack Obama warts and all and not give him a pass because he says some things that make you feel good.

Hate has nothing to do with it -- unless it's the hate of Obama's pastor for his own country. We need to know who Barack Obama really is. He wants to be our president, and we have a right to ask questions about where his loyalties really lie.
-- Deborah Durkee
Marietta, Georgia

I gather from Mr. Lott's column on Obama that Mr. Lott has certain character traits that I would appreciate in a business associate. I am in the real estate development business and have a few properties in 'natural wetlands' and others with 'enhanced mountain views' in which I can tell that Mr. Lott would be interested. I will send over one of my smooth talking confidence men, uh, I mean salesmen, and I'm sure Mr. Lott will soon be a happy, happy, uplifted purchaser. Get out your wallet Mr. Lott, we'll be right over.
-- Fred Z

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