Americans Ignored Obama's Ties to Antisemites When young Barack Obama was looking for his path in life, Pastor Jeremiah Wright played a major role in helping him get past the doper lifestyle.
As the Guardian put it in 2008, "Wright officiated at Obama's wedding and baptised his daughters, and was the Illinois senator's spiritual guide for decades." Obama even used a Wright phrase from a sermon, "The audacity of hope," in his address to the DNC in 2004 and as the title of one of his books.
Obama seemed to be pointing the way toward a sane world in which America finally retired race as a leading issue in our country.
As the title of a 2015 piece in the Atlantic put it, "Jeremiah Wright Is Still Angry at Barack Obama." Obama showed far more loyalty to his own aspirations than to the man who mentored him and helped him forward.
From Wright's embrace of hatred as a motive force, Obama learned both a positive and a negative lesson.
Hate Won Out During Obama's Administration When Obama spoke to the nation in 2009 at his inauguration, he told Americans what he knew they wanted to hear.
Obama took the lead in treating Israel's prime minister with undisguised contempt, letting him into the White House only through the service entrance, like an English lord putting a tradesman in his place.
As his last act as president, Obama directed that the U.S. allow the UN Security Council to pass a resolution proclaiming that Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, was an Islamic holy site to which Israel had no claim.
Obama's more disciplined lesson of concealing hatred has not rubbed off.
Obama's masterful ability to conceal hate is a rare talent.
Without the Obama magic, hate stands exposed as just that - hate.
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