Does the Rev. Jeremiah Wright fear Barack Obama’s election because it would be good?

Is Mike Huckabee right about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?

Could it be that, at least subconsciously, Wright doesn’t want Barack Obama to be president because Obama’s election itself would expose Wright for the paranoid gasbag he is?

“His [Obama’s] campaign is not being derailed by his race, it’s being derailed by a person who doesn’t want him to prove that we have made great advances in this country,” Huckabee told reporters yesterday.

Wright has claimed AIDS was created by the U.S. government to kill “people of color” and that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were spurred by the United State's “terrorism” against minorities at home and abroad.

“Jeremiah Wright needs for Obama to lose so he can justify his anger, his hostile bitterness against the United States of America,” Huckabee said.

Comfort in fiction? I’m not sure why Huckabee, a Republican, is making these observations, but he has a point. Many Americans of many colors have become so comfortable with counterproductive conspiracy theories that they fear any taste of reality, even if, or especially if, the truth is sweet.

In the real world where lives and liberty are at stake, it’s time to free folks from fiction.

Frank Warner

Comments

[Ann]

Huckabee's is a reasonable theory, but another plausible one is that Wright has lived so long in the virulently anti-American echo chamber of the Left that he really believes most of the country agrees with him, and it's only the "right-wing dominated media" abetting their "neo-con masters" that is "lynching" him.

[Frank Warner]

He really believes that the people who pay his bills want him to talk the way he talks.