Obama's Elegant Farce

Victor Davis Hansen sums up Obama's "historic race speech" today pretty well: an "elegant farce." You see, we all are racist in some ways and when we study the context of Jeremiah Wright's background and upbringing, we will understand that we are just ignorant of other people's resentful thoughts.

Oh, and Reagan and conservative commentators, according to Obama, are the main culprits of promoting some racism and ignoring other racism.

And finally, if we just forget about Wright's comments and put it behind us, then Obama can be our hope and salvation. But his judgement for being great friends with an anti-American, hate-mongoring, anti-Semitic racist should not be questioned. Also, Obama admits that he was in attendance for several of Wright's inflammatory sermons, but says that everyone has disagreements about certain views of their pastors.

*Update*
James Taranto at Opinion Journal didn't care for the speech either and thought Obama stuck a particularly low blow by bringing up his racist "white grandmother."