350 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographywould be beholden in the White House to none of them, but rather to blue collar workers. She had
evolved in the direction of the Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal on a number of issues. Most
important, Hillary and Bill Clinton offered the greatest potential in sight for escaping the status of
puppet of the banking establishment which has been the tendency for post-1944 presidents.
Together, they might even hope to approximate a new FDR presidency. Sen. Clinton’s considerable
fighting qualities were our best bet in this regard; she had already stopped the Obama coup several
times, when weaker figures like Edwards ran away.
REVEREND WRIGHT: OBAMA JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN
Obama’s marplot spiritual guru was not about to hop in his Porsche, drive home to his $1.6
mansion, start enjoying his $10 million line of credit, and taste the many joys of leisured and
affluent victimhood. On the last weekend of April 2008, Reverend Wright went on the offensive to
assert the validity of his personal school of racist provocations. He was interviewed by Bill Moyers,
LBJ’s former flack and salesman for the Vietnam war, and now the dean of the foundation-funded
media whores in public television. Here Wright suggested that Obama was simply a prevaricating
“politician” who responded like a politician, trimming and fibbing according to the needs of the
moment. It was not a good ad for Obama’s pretentious claim to float above the vulgar political fray.
Then there was a stop in Dallas, where Wright revealed that he had been crucified by being denied
the honorary degrees and triumphant lecture appearances which he clearly felt were his due. Then it
was on to the NAACP dinner in Detroit, where the Jeremiad proffered his view that the media were
unfairly stressing that the candidate was “Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Barack HUSSEIN Obama,
Barack HUSSEIN Obama.” At the National Press Club in Washington on the morning of April 28,
Wright was in the full exultance of the manic phase. He basked in attention of hundreds of reporters
of thirty television cameras. He repeatedly identified the black church with his own inflated ego, an
act of gross historical injustice to the majority of black traditionalist churches who wanted nothing
to do with the cursing and hating of his own style, nor with the synthetic religion that was black
liberation theology.
What finally did Wright want? Above all, he wanted attention, since he was a megalomaniac in
no way inferior to Obama. What else did he want? As it turned out, he wanted an apology for
slavery and racism. All this sound and fury for mere words, a mere piece of paper expressing
sorrow for the wrongs of the past. It showed that Wright was not capable of formulating demands
that might be meaningful for the lives of the real victims of today, the majority of the black
population who remained trapped in the poverty of the inner city ghetto. The black majority, the
black underclass, needed something far more meaningful than a mere apology that would leave
them exactly where they were. They needed housing, jobs, health care, education, urban mass
transit, a ban on foreclosures, measures to control the gas price, and a whole series of other
improvements in the material conditions of their lives. The resources needed for those
improvements would be measured in the trillions of dollars. But what of that? In March 2008 alone,
Bernanke had pumped almost half a trillion into the banking system to deal with the Bear Stearns
debacle. The same money pumped into American cities would create a new world. A few of those
injections, properly invested, would go far towards lifting the Other America out of poverty and
despair. The beneficiaries would be inner city blacks, to be sure. But they would also be poor whites
in Appalachia, the high plains, and the rest of rural America. They would be Latino migrant farm
workers. They would be super-exploited Vietnamese, Koreans, and other Asians. And that would be
a united front of the American people against Wall Street. This, of course, was the eventuality that
the Ford Foundation and other sponsors of black liberation theology were paying good money to