Governor Spitzer's central argument for resigning from his office is that the integrity of the office he held be preserved and that he be honest to what he had stood for in principle as a prosecutor. Although there is no defense for the Governor's actions, neither do I know if this is his "real" reason for resigning or the best face to put on a bad situation; but the fact is, he recognized that American honesty and integrity left him no choice but to resign.
Senator Obama's unfolding overall hatred of America and Americans does not lead him to the same conclusion. Nor is he even attempting to amend the fact that he was wrong, wrong, wrong, and evil, evil, evil. This all comes from his own mouth, through his speeches, and from his own hand, in his written autobiography.
Senator Obama's spiritual leader, mentor, and teacher is an unrepentant racist, anti-Semite, anti-American, and an imbecile concerning historical facts. I am not going to go over all the statements that the so-called preacher has spewed; but, no one of any reasonable thought process would disagree that he is a Black version of the KKK, nothing more and nothing less. What is really sad is that Senator Barack Obama, unlike New York's Governor, just does not get it. He has aligned himself his whole adult life with the ultimate evil in this Country and now that he has been "uncovered" the Senator does not recognize that he has lost all integrity and credibility. The only thing left for him to do is to protect the office.
In protecting the office, I am speaking of the Democratic Party demanding that Barack Obama remove himself from any connection with the Party itself. This is consistent with what the Republican Party did when David Dukes tried to run as a Republican. Although both parties consider themselves "big tents," that inclusiveness does not have to be universal and absolute. There are always limits. For example, it is highly unlikely that the Democratic Party would accept Louis Farrakhan as a Democratic candidate if he were to run. The same must now be true of the Senator.
I would further argue that in the year 2008, the Senate of the United States should censure and remove him if it can, or at least indicate that it disassociates itself from Barack Obama. This should really be a bi-partisan effort and should have no questions of why.
Obama's situation is analogous to the Governor of New York, not to some uncle in the family or even to Obama's earlier endorsement by The Nation of Islam's Louis Farakkahn. Obama has clearly stated that his Pastor is him. He has placed this self-hating traitor in a number of important functions in his campaign. The most important fact though is that Obama and his wife have clearly said for twenty years, over half their lives, and have written that the most influential day to day person in their thinking has been Pastor Jeremiah Wright. I did not claim that; the news media did not claim that; the Republican far right-wing "conspiracy" did not claim that; it was the testimony of Senator Barack Obama himself with his wife that made that claim.
This is not a wayward uncle. Barack Obama sat in his "church" for twenty years. Obama wrote in his own biography that he took tapes of Pastor Wright's sermons to Harvard and listened to them over and over again to inspire and teach him the proper path. This pastor according to Obama brought him to Christianity, which I must assume is the Pastor's Christianity, otherwise it does not make sense. An uncle, or even a brother (like Jimmy Carter's problem), can be avoided and their sins should not be fostered on the rest of the family. That is absolutely not the case here. If Obama or the media continue to make that claim, they know that they are lying. A family members is given to you without your choice. One also does not claim unequivocally that this family member was the center of you spiritual core; because if he/she was than you can and should be held responsible for their low morals.
To understand how Senator Barack Obama does not get it, one only has to look at his comments today, Friday. The only response he had was to repudiate the Pastor's comments about America getting what it deserved on 9/11. Obama stated that he had never heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright give such sermons in all his twenty years as a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of God. Of all the hate, racism, and ignorance the Jeremiah Wright spewed, this was the only item Obama repudiated. It was preached six days after 9/11. Where was Obama for the last seven years? These are the only kind of sermons Wright gives. They are readily available for purchase and it is what is presented on the Church's web site. Obama had to know and if he did not than how competent is he to be Senator or President? Obama and his advisers still think of this as media control; not one of basic morality.
Obama has proved clearly to be ignorant, a liar, stupid or a plain opportunist; or possibly all four. He has had to know about these views for twenty years and so must have his wife. Remember this pastor married them and baptized their daughters.
If he knew, then just like the New York Governor he only apologized when he got caught. Unlike the Governor, Obama is not doing anything for the integrity of the Office of a United States Senator or for the office of the President. Worse of all he is tarnishing the name of the Democratic Party by endorsing the rise of a Black KKK within the party represented by Barack Obama.
It is clear that just like the New York Governor, Obama has been a good lier and scam artist to have first fooled the people of Illinois and now to have fooled the Democratic Party and the the citizens of the United States.
For the good of the Country and the Democratic Party all American citizens should call for his resignation from the Senate and withdrawal from the race.
What is sad is that more leaders in this great Country are not calling for his removal. Geraldine Ferarro's point is well taken. If Obama was a white candidate or senator he would have been bounced out of the Senate and out of the Presidential primaries in a second, without a second thought. His only saving grace is the over abundance of liberal guilt and liberal self-hatred. May we be saved from ourselves.