Having The Wright Alibi

Jim Lynch March 17th, 2008 4:05 pm

The whole blogosphere is abuzz with talk about Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright, Bill Kristol’s column, and the dispute over Obama’s attendance.

But has anyone else noticed the irony of his “alibi”? He was speaking to La Raza.

So let me get this straight. He couldn’t be listening to his racist pastor because he was speaking to a racist group. Isn’t that like claiming you couldn’t have robbed the bank because you were busy sticking up the liquor store at the time?

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6 Responses to “Having The Wright Alibi”

  1. Liberty Pundit says:
    Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    links from Technoratithe Obamessiah. When it comes to Republican religion, yeah, they’ll talk about that all day long. But a Democrat’s religion? Shh, don’t tell anyone. One more thing to note, and that’s Obama’s alibi for not being present at a certain sermon.Jim noticed it, I didn’t, and that’s the fact that he was at a La Raza rally or something. So instead of being present for an anti-American, racism-filled rant, he was present for a different kind of anti-American, racism-filled rant.

  2. aa says:
    Monday March 17th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    He was in Chicago in the morning.
    Can he attend the session at 7:30, fly a private jet to Miami, and have speech at 13:30 ???

  3. steveegg says:
    Monday March 17th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    aaon 17 Mar 2008 at 5:01 pm
    He was in Chicago in the morning.
    Can he attend the session at 7:30, fly a private jet to Miami, and have speech at 13:30 ???

    Short answer, it’s possible. Time for some math, with the caveat that the math neither proves nor disproves where in Chicago he was (the WaPo confirms that he was in both Chicago and Miami that day for campaign purposes, but we only have a time frame for the Miami appearance):
    - It’s a tick over 1,200 miles as the crow flies between Chicago and Miami, so figure about 2 1/2 hours from Chicago to Miami by private jet (jets don’t quite fly a straight line).
    - Throw in 1 hour of ground travel from the south side of Chicago to Midway airport, and from the Miami airport to the La Raza conference, and that’s 3 1/2 hours. More time would be needed if he were to have flown out of, say, Palwaukee (in the northwest suburbs).
    - In order to make it to the conference by 1:30 pm (Eastern)/12:30 pm (Central), he would have had to leave Chicago by about 9 in the morning. It’s doable.
    It’s just as doable for Obama to make it back to Chicago in time for the 6 pm (Central) service. The next speaker at La Raza was scheduled to start at 3:30 pm (Eastern)/2:30 pm (Central), which, assuming Obama left at that time, would have left 3 1/2 hours for the return trip.
    Since the author of the original piece back in August 2007 noted there was a Secret Service detail, I guess an entrepeneuring blogger/journalist could make a FOIA request to see when his detail was in Chicago, and possibly where in Chicago that detail was.

  4. Don Surber » Blog Archive » Monday scoreboard says:
    Monday March 17th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

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    Monday March 17th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

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  6. Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » » Was He In The Pews On July 22nd? Like That Matters. says:
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  7. The Baltimore Reporter says:
    Monday March 17th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

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