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What Wright has been doing for his whole career is speaking in a prophetic voice. This voice is as old as the Bible and as hallowed in our tradition as Abraham Lincoln. It calls the nation to account, reminds us of our sins, and offers hope borne of correction and new life. Jeremiah Wright seems to have the crazy notion that our national sins involve economic and racial injustice rather than, say, too many gay people in New Orleans or too many lesbians and ACLU members in New York, but it’s all a matter of emphasis. Any preacher who will not call her country to account for its sins is no preacher of God’s Word at all but a huckster and a fraud.
In other news, Barack Obama subscribes to the Sun-Times! He must think the Illini are poseurs! Senator Obama, Big Ten fans demand you renounce Jay Mariotti!1
- Then again, Goldberg says he “dodges” the word, not that “Obama uses it less than McCain” or “he’s only used it 10 times in the 2008 campaign for a patriotism-to-speech ratio (PTSR) of 0.17, threatening to break Walter Mondale’s all-time modern-era, Vietnam-adjusted low.” No, he “dodges” it. Which is an opinion, not a statement of fact. Which means they don’t have to correct it, because who actually knows what that means? It’s just his opinion, man.
