Showing posts with label Jeremiah Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremiah Wright. Show all posts
Monday, May 5, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians
Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
March 26, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.
"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."
Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...
"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."
Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright's column, "The Message," in which he covered a range of subjects, including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in his April 2007 commentary "Facing the Rising Sun."
"In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks 'white is right' and with young people who do not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny, we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about 'bling bling' than about freeing our minds," Wright wrote.
In a nationally broadcast speech on March 18, Obama distanced himself from Wright by saying he "condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy." But Obama also said, "I could no more disown him than I could disown the black community."
According to his federal income tax return for 2006, Obama gave the Trinity United church that year $22,500 in contributions.
The Clinton campaign has not commented on the controversy, but in an interview Tuesday with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said actions speak louder than words.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.
"You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (a radio talk show host who was fired for making racially insensitive remarks about black female basketball players at Rutgers University), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that," Clinton said.
"I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving," she added.
Trumpet Newsmagazine started publication in the 1980s in Chicago and distribution expanded in March 2006 to several other cities, with broader circulation through subscriptions. On the magazine's masthead, Wright is named as the magazine's CEO and Wright's daughter, Jeri Wright, is the publisher.
Requests for comments from Jeri Wright, the magazine's marketing staff, and the Obama campaign were not answered by press time.
The last Trumpet to be published was the November/December edition, a double issue that featured a remembrance of "Pan-Africanist" Hilliard and a profile of Louis Farrakhan, who was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement "Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter" award at the magazine's 25th anniversary gala late last year.
Farrakhan has called Judaism a "gutter religion" and said Jews are "bloodsuckers," as reported in The New York Times.
Trumpet Newsmagazine also included myriad articles and regular features geared toward the black community, ranging from health, parenting, music and the arts, to profiles of successful members of the community and tips on everything from dating to spiritual well-being.
Many political observers have said that Obama's speech last week limited the damage of the ongoing Wright controversy, but others say the issue is continuing to hamper his campaign.
"I don't think it's going to go away," Ralph Reed, a long-time conservative activist and political strategist who now runs Century Strategies based in Duluth, Ga., told Cybercast News Service.
"Because while Obama's speech was thoughtful and eloquent, it didn't address the central issue, and that's why he would have someone as such a close spiritual advisor with such extreme views," Reed added.
"Let me be clear," Reed added. "I don't think any candidate should have to answer for the theological views of their pastor, church or denomination. But (Wright's) were not theological views, but political statements."
"I think it's more likely to be a serious issue in the general election, more than in the primaries," Reed said.
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
March 26, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.
"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."
Wright continued, "From the circumstances surrounding Jesus' birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus' death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. ...
"He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others. The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God."
Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright's column, "The Message," in which he covered a range of subjects, including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in his April 2007 commentary "Facing the Rising Sun."
"In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks 'white is right' and with young people who do not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny, we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about 'bling bling' than about freeing our minds," Wright wrote.
In a nationally broadcast speech on March 18, Obama distanced himself from Wright by saying he "condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy." But Obama also said, "I could no more disown him than I could disown the black community."
According to his federal income tax return for 2006, Obama gave the Trinity United church that year $22,500 in contributions.
The Clinton campaign has not commented on the controversy, but in an interview Tuesday with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said actions speak louder than words.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.
"You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (a radio talk show host who was fired for making racially insensitive remarks about black female basketball players at Rutgers University), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that," Clinton said.
"I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving," she added.
Trumpet Newsmagazine started publication in the 1980s in Chicago and distribution expanded in March 2006 to several other cities, with broader circulation through subscriptions. On the magazine's masthead, Wright is named as the magazine's CEO and Wright's daughter, Jeri Wright, is the publisher.
Requests for comments from Jeri Wright, the magazine's marketing staff, and the Obama campaign were not answered by press time.
The last Trumpet to be published was the November/December edition, a double issue that featured a remembrance of "Pan-Africanist" Hilliard and a profile of Louis Farrakhan, who was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement "Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter" award at the magazine's 25th anniversary gala late last year.
Farrakhan has called Judaism a "gutter religion" and said Jews are "bloodsuckers," as reported in The New York Times.
Trumpet Newsmagazine also included myriad articles and regular features geared toward the black community, ranging from health, parenting, music and the arts, to profiles of successful members of the community and tips on everything from dating to spiritual well-being.
Many political observers have said that Obama's speech last week limited the damage of the ongoing Wright controversy, but others say the issue is continuing to hamper his campaign.
"I don't think it's going to go away," Ralph Reed, a long-time conservative activist and political strategist who now runs Century Strategies based in Duluth, Ga., told Cybercast News Service.
"Because while Obama's speech was thoughtful and eloquent, it didn't address the central issue, and that's why he would have someone as such a close spiritual advisor with such extreme views," Reed added.
"Let me be clear," Reed added. "I don't think any candidate should have to answer for the theological views of their pastor, church or denomination. But (Wright's) were not theological views, but political statements."
"I think it's more likely to be a serious issue in the general election, more than in the primaries," Reed said.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Obama on His Christianity & His Pastor
Well today Obama is going to try to lie his way out of this one. He gives a speech on "race" today. Let's see what his team of speech writers can come up with.
He will have to address the issue of his pastor. He can't write off someone whose church you've attended for over two decades - who married you and your wife and baptized your children - as a “crazy old uncle.” Not when he’s cursing our country and accusing us of terrorism. Wright built the Trinity United Church of Christ. When he was hired there in 1971 it was a small church. Now he has built it into a huge congregation of racists. It’s his church, and Obama’s attendance of it is a tacit endorsement of Wright’s message of hatred and racial division.
There’s just no way around that.
He will have to address the issue of his pastor. He can't write off someone whose church you've attended for over two decades - who married you and your wife and baptized your children - as a “crazy old uncle.” Not when he’s cursing our country and accusing us of terrorism. Wright built the Trinity United Church of Christ. When he was hired there in 1971 it was a small church. Now he has built it into a huge congregation of racists. It’s his church, and Obama’s attendance of it is a tacit endorsement of Wright’s message of hatred and racial division.
There’s just no way around that.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Obama's Pastor's Comments
If you sit and listen to Obama's pastor talk, you have to question why Obama would sit and listen to this racist maniac scream his vile words.
Then think of his wife saying "For the first time in my life I am proud to be an American", it really makes you want to sit back and wonder how the hell could this man be convincing people to vote for him. What sane person would even consider voting for a man who has sat and listened to this man for 20 yrs.
Take a look at some of his pastor's vile statements and see if you still believe Obama's new lies that he is claiming he hadn't heard the pastor talk like this before.
Statements Obama's pastor has made:
* He told the followers that the US Government created AIDS as a genocide to kill Black people.
" Why do people hate on Barack? Barack doesn't fit the mold. He's not White, he's not rich & he's not privileged"
(maybe no one told him he is 1/2 white, his wife earns almost 3/4 of a million per year, and being he attended the most exclusive private school for 8 years in Hawaii which was paid for by his white grandparents, and he attended two Ivy League Colleges. I would say that is privileged)
* " Hillary ain't never been called a Nigger"
* " The Government gives Blacks drugs, build bigger prisons and then passes the 3 strikes law and wants us to say God Bless America, No No No No God Damn America"
(Now who in their right mind would stand up and say something like this to their followers? And Obama listens to this? No wonder he has surrounded himself with people who think the government OWES them)
"They will not only attack you if you point out what's going on in white America in the US of KKKA"
(And Obama brought his kids to listen to this? This is why generation after generation of kids continue to have this attitude. They are STILL being taught that white people are horrible and that the white Government owes them)
He also doesn't like Blacks who aren't like him. How does he feel about Condi Rice or Colin Powell?
" They live below the sea level of Clarence Colon and Condemnesia"
(Nice! He says things like this because they consider themselves Americans and aren't always proclaiming their Blackness.)
What did he say after Sept. 11th? Well he believes that we were responsible for it.
* "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki & we nuked thousands in New York & we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism of the Palestinians & South Africans & and we are indignant? Because the stuff we have done overseas is not brought back into our own front yards. Americans the chickens are coming home to roost."
*We've be given excuses for why his wife has made her anti American comments.
*We've been given excuses for why he still is "friendly" with someone who bombed the Pentagon.
*We've been given excuses about his relationship with Ferrakhan
*We've been given excuses why he has been photograped in Muslim outfits. Which they were talking about one picture, but they never talked about the picture of his own Muslim Brother holding a picture of Obama and other family members in muslim wear.
*We've had this man shoved down our throats by CNN & MSNBC and by most of the media.
*And now we hear Obama claiming he didn't know about any of these comments. I think it is very clean that Obama is NOT the person that so many think he is.
And Obama recently was quoted saying " I don't think my Church is particularly controversial".
Then think of his wife saying "For the first time in my life I am proud to be an American", it really makes you want to sit back and wonder how the hell could this man be convincing people to vote for him. What sane person would even consider voting for a man who has sat and listened to this man for 20 yrs.
Take a look at some of his pastor's vile statements and see if you still believe Obama's new lies that he is claiming he hadn't heard the pastor talk like this before.
Statements Obama's pastor has made:
* He told the followers that the US Government created AIDS as a genocide to kill Black people.
" Why do people hate on Barack? Barack doesn't fit the mold. He's not White, he's not rich & he's not privileged"
(maybe no one told him he is 1/2 white, his wife earns almost 3/4 of a million per year, and being he attended the most exclusive private school for 8 years in Hawaii which was paid for by his white grandparents, and he attended two Ivy League Colleges. I would say that is privileged)
* " Hillary ain't never been called a Nigger"
* " The Government gives Blacks drugs, build bigger prisons and then passes the 3 strikes law and wants us to say God Bless America, No No No No God Damn America"
(Now who in their right mind would stand up and say something like this to their followers? And Obama listens to this? No wonder he has surrounded himself with people who think the government OWES them)
"They will not only attack you if you point out what's going on in white America in the US of KKKA"
(And Obama brought his kids to listen to this? This is why generation after generation of kids continue to have this attitude. They are STILL being taught that white people are horrible and that the white Government owes them)
He also doesn't like Blacks who aren't like him. How does he feel about Condi Rice or Colin Powell?
" They live below the sea level of Clarence Colon and Condemnesia"
(Nice! He says things like this because they consider themselves Americans and aren't always proclaiming their Blackness.)
What did he say after Sept. 11th? Well he believes that we were responsible for it.
* "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki & we nuked thousands in New York & we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism of the Palestinians & South Africans & and we are indignant? Because the stuff we have done overseas is not brought back into our own front yards. Americans the chickens are coming home to roost."
*We've be given excuses for why his wife has made her anti American comments.
*We've been given excuses for why he still is "friendly" with someone who bombed the Pentagon.
*We've been given excuses about his relationship with Ferrakhan
*We've been given excuses why he has been photograped in Muslim outfits. Which they were talking about one picture, but they never talked about the picture of his own Muslim Brother holding a picture of Obama and other family members in muslim wear.
*We've had this man shoved down our throats by CNN & MSNBC and by most of the media.
*And now we hear Obama claiming he didn't know about any of these comments. I think it is very clean that Obama is NOT the person that so many think he is.
And Obama recently was quoted saying " I don't think my Church is particularly controversial".
Obama's racist Pastor Jeremiah Wright
Incase you haven't had enough of this vile man's nonsense. Here's another video.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Obama's Pastor Says "God Damn America"
Obama has come out now and is claiming that he hadn't heard his pastor say things like this before and if he had then he would have denounced it. He is making sure that everyone knows that the pastor has retired. What a coincidence!
CNN was on damage control now trying to get voters to believe that this was an isolated speech and that it was one of this last speeches. Well unless this man changes his African dress multiple times during a speech, then it appears that it is on many occasions, not just one isolated case.
Obama is clearly lying. This pastor has not suddenly changed. His racist ideas and anti American and vile comments obviously have been spewing from his mouth his entire life. So you have to wonder what sort of man would sit and listen to this type of rant for over 20 yrs?
Obama had him marry him. He has him baptize his children, he has traveled with him, he used Wright's speech "Audacity of Hope" to write his book. So I'm thinking that Obama was extremely close with him.
Now that the video's have been released and the public is responding negatively to the pastor's views, suddenly Obama "wasn't aware of the pastor saying these things".
Surely no sane person would believe that!
CNN was on damage control now trying to get voters to believe that this was an isolated speech and that it was one of this last speeches. Well unless this man changes his African dress multiple times during a speech, then it appears that it is on many occasions, not just one isolated case.
Obama is clearly lying. This pastor has not suddenly changed. His racist ideas and anti American and vile comments obviously have been spewing from his mouth his entire life. So you have to wonder what sort of man would sit and listen to this type of rant for over 20 yrs?
Obama had him marry him. He has him baptize his children, he has traveled with him, he used Wright's speech "Audacity of Hope" to write his book. So I'm thinking that Obama was extremely close with him.
Now that the video's have been released and the public is responding negatively to the pastor's views, suddenly Obama "wasn't aware of the pastor saying these things".
Surely no sane person would believe that!
Friday, March 14, 2008
Ridin' Dirty: Obama's Pastor Attacks Hillary & Bill Clinton
Obama wants to brush this off as no big deal and saying he doesn't agree with some of the messages that he says.
Well OK, nice try Obama! Could you imagine listening to this man for 20 years? How racist is this man?
Well OK, nice try Obama! Could you imagine listening to this man for 20 years? How racist is this man?
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Obama's Pastor Says " God Damn America"
In Dec. 2007 Obama had Wright on his African committee Now suddenly Wright has retired. I'm willing to bet that if Obama wins the election, Wright will come out of retirement and be given a cabinet position.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
By: Ronald Kessler
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly, forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10: We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and — and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He rarely mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels proud of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said she feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America mentality also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach to national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close association with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters decide whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future.
By: Ronald Kessler
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly, forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10: We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and — and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He rarely mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels proud of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said she feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America mentality also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach to national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close association with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters decide whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future.
Friday, March 7, 2008
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