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South Bend, Ind., Apr 14, 2009 / 06:36 pm (CNA).- Fr. John Jenkins, the President of the University of Notre Dame, has written a letter to the school's board of trustees, defending the university’s invitation of President Obama to the school’s May commencement ceremony. Fr. Jenkins argues in his letter that while many have criticized the school’s move, canon lawyers and the USCCB document, “Catholics in Political Life,” both support his action. In the letter, posted in full on LifeSiteNews, Fr. Jenkins recalls the June 2004 USCCB statement on Catholics in political life and cites “two key sentences” that “have...

Like many traditional Americans I have been torn between my love of country and respect for the office of President – and my fear and loathing of the man now holding that position and of his policies. I have written several posts that essentially said that we should try to defeat those policies we abhor (destruction of capitalism, nationalized healthcare, imposition of socialism, class warfare, equalization of outcomes, discarding our defenses in a dangerous world), but support Obama’s attempts to strengthen our essential financial services industry. Obama’s so-called recovery programs and his takeover of General Motors and the firing of...

Wright's role among topics of 'Phenomenon' It was at the end of May last year, about one week before Barack Obama had sealed the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, that Daphene McFerren sent a letter to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. McFerren, the director of the University of Memphis' Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, was already planning a conference for April of 2009 that would examine the impact of Obama's historic candidacy. She explained her ambitions to Wright and invited him to come and speak. Less than a week later, Wright accepted, agreeing to the speaking fee of $4,000 that McFerren...

I've been pondering President Obama's idea to split the Taliban and get some of those maniacal fanatics on our side for a change. It's a magnificent idea. It's not, mind you, a good idea. But it's magnificent--grand, sumptuous, rich, splendid--a great, big, thought-filled ideal of an idea, the kind you'd expect from deep-thinking, idealistic Barack Obama. Boy, is this a thinking man's administration. They are thinking so hard over at the White House, having such bright, shining, effulgent, coruscating thoughts, that if you're a thoughtful person like me (and I'm sure you are), you can't help being carried away with...

I’m a Christian who recently happened to be in Chicago on a Sunday. Obviously, my choice to visit Trinity United Church of Christ was not random. The church had gained special significance since one of its congregants, Barack Obama, became president of the freest, most powerful nation in the world. Knowing that Pastor Emeritus Jeremiah Wright had retired, I decided to try the church for my Sunday worship, and at the same time get an unblemished picture of the 20-year spiritual home of my country’s president. I did. And I was deeply troubled.

What would you get if you crossed Sammy Davis Jr. with Adolf Hitler? Obama's friends at the Nation of Islam offer a clue: (VIDEO AT LINK) Someone from this intellectual milieu is technically commander in chief of our military, has access to the nuclear codes, and is currently in the process of deliberately destroying the US economy.

Here is a video report on Rev. Jeremiah Wright's visit to Selma, Alabama to speak in observance of the 44th Anniversary of the Civil Rights March there. The report gives you the flavor of the visit, although Wright's lawyers would not allow video of his actual address. But in the article below, it says Wright said during his speech that "Barack's Name Ain't Jesus." Well, it's good there are some people beginning to recognize that. For once, I can agree with Jeremiah Wright! . . . .

SELMA, Ala. -- President Barack Obama's longtime minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave an assessment Thursday of his former congregant's short time in the White House: Obama is just like any other president. Speaking in a brief interview with The Associated Press before giving a speech at a civil rights landmark, Wright smiled at the mention of the name of the nation's first black president. "He's like any other president," Wright said. "He's a politician and he's got to do what politicians do."

Selma, Ala. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's longtime minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, gave an assessment Thursday of his former congregant's short time in the White House: Obama is just like any other president. Speaking in a brief interview with The Associated Press before giving a speech at a civil rights landmark, Wright smiled at the mention of the name of the nation's first black president. "He's like any other president," Wright said. "He's a politician and he's got to do what politicians do." Wright's remarks were similar to those he made after his fiery preaching became a campaign issue...

Back in May, when the furor over Jeremiah Wright threatened to derail the Obama campaign, the candidate mournfully explained his decision to leave the controversial Trinity United Church of Christ. "We don't want to have to answer for everything that's stated in a church," Obama said. "On the other hand, we don't want to have a church subjected to the scrutiny that a presidential campaign legitimately undergoes." After Obama parted from Wright, the preacher and Trinity United became the campaign issue that dared not speak its name.

Of course, Eric Holder is correct. When it comes to race we Americans are, for the most part, a nation of cowards. This cowardice was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today. As they are in so many other areas of life, chief among our American cowards are the representatives of the national political media. During the presidential campaign, there was a maniacal effort on the part of the national media to find whites who would not vote for Barack Obama, never mind the reasoning for choosing so. Whites who were not for Mr. Obama...

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that despite advances, the United States remains “a nation of cowards” on issues involving race. “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department. “Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African-American, for the first time,...

White House: First Couple Still Looking for ChurchBy The Associated Press Thu, Feb. 05 2009 05:30 PM EST WASHINGTON – The White House says Michelle and Barack Obama have visited several churches and will see a few more, but haven't decided on a place to worship. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the first couple visited a couple of churches around the time of his inauguration. Gibbs said they would like to visit some more and "figure out a congregation in the area that they can worship at." Gibbs said the president likely misses not having a regular place...

(link to Poll PDF and a Wright video compilation in the article) According to a recent poll (view PDF of poll here), Rush Limbaugh is one of America’s the most unpopular political figures. Calm down, relax, take a deep breath. It’s all nonsense. The poll, conducted by the research firm Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner, says Rush’s public-approval rating is just 21 percent among likely voters. That’s seven points lower than Reverend Jeremiah Wright and eight points lower than domestic terrorist and Obama pal Bill Ayers. Here’s why it’s bogus. Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner is a Democratic research firm run by Stan Greenberg. You remember Stan Greenberg....

Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, said Sunday that the lesson in Obama's rise to the White House is that black people shouldn't limit themselves — or allow others to. Wright had been Obama's longtime pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago before Obama quit the church and ended the relationship with Wright during the presidential campaign. Obama acted after the uproar over some of Wright's videotaped sermons, in which he blamed the U.S. for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, among other things. Two days before Obama takes the oath of office, becoming the nation's...

-snip- Wright delivered his sermon Sunday during church services at Howard University in Washington. -snip-

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, says the lesson in Obama's rise to the White House is that black people shouldn't limit themselves -- or allow others to. Wright delivered his sermon Sunday during church services at Howard University in Washington.

In my exclusive interview with Barack Obama airing tomorrow on This Week, the president-elect told me that fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises. "Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don’t work, and making things that we have more efficient. But I’m not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped,"...

The Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations: 1. "I can see Russia from my house!" — Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13. 2. "All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1.

Rahm the Enforcer 12/28/08 In Washington, where big personalities create even bigger legends, Democrat Rahm Emanuel has achieved mythic status. He throws cells phones. He once sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him. At a dinner to celebrate Bill Clinton’s 1992 election, Emanuel repeatedly stabbed the table with a steak knife, shouting the names of his political enemies. Journalists have trouble quoting him, because his routine utterances are replete with profanity.“Rahm is a little intense,” Barack Obama once said.As even Emanuel concedes, “I wake up some mornings hating me, too.”Emanuel’s political intensity has a darker side. His...

Piggybacking off of yesterday’s post about the hypocrisy from the Left on Barack Obama’s ministerial affiliations with Rick Warren and Jeremiah Wright, this AOL Hot Seat Poll asks the question directly. It also gives respondents an opportunity to say that both or neither bother them.

President-elect Barack Obama and corrupt Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich were active and strong supporters of each other’ campaigns. Yet, Mr. Obama says he did not communicate with him about the open U.S. Senate seat. Ya. And he did not know how rabid and hateful the Rev. Wright was although they were as close as father and son for 20 years. And the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers hosted his early announcement for public office. Yet Mr. Obama said they barely talked to each other. And then there is convicted Chicago felon, Tony Rezko, also under investigation in the Blagojevich scandal. He...

All in all, I like Politico's list of the top ten media blunders of 2008, by staff writer Michael Calderone, appearing on the website this evening. How can you not like a list that includes, among other faux pas: * MSNBC's use of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as election night and convention co-anchors; * The New York Times's suggestive but unsubstantiated story about John McCain and lobbyist Vikki Iseman; and * The MSM's lack of curiosity despite the National Enquirer's solid reporting on the John Edwards affair? But no story about a list would be complete without some beefing...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a voice crying in the wilderness that the mainstream media and middle class America weren't quite ready for and megachurch pastor Rick Warren is an ignorant evangelical rube who isn't totally without hope, given his awareness of AIDS and other favored liberal causes. That's essentially what Eleanor Clift preached to her choir in her December 19 "Capitol Letter" column, "Choosing a Church: Obama's next big decision -- and its implications." Wrote Sister Eleanor (emphasis mine): Black religious leaders did not stand up for Wright even as they understood and sympathized with the prophetic theology he was...

Surely no one would claim that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is closer to the centerpoint of American politics than Pastor Rick Warren, right? Wrong. Here's Chris Matthews on this evening's Hardball. CHRIS MATTHEWS: It seems like Barack Obama, as much as seems to inspire people, including me, has a problem with pastors. I don't know what it is. You get him hooked up with a pastor, whether it's Jeremiah Wright, or it's this guy Rick Warren. One's on the left, one's on the far right. Both are causing him trouble. View video here. So Wright's merely "left," while Warren's "far-right." Do...

As people headed inside St. Paul AME Church in East Macon to hear controversial the Rev. Jeremiah Wright deliver a revival sermon today, a band of nearly 20 people, led by a local radio talk show host, protested the visit. Wright silently entered the sanctuary during a choir anthem along with other ministers. He knelt at the altar to pray while the choir finished singing. Outside of the church, protestors shouted, “Not G.D. America, God Bless America” and “Jeremiah Wright is wrong.” They tried to warn people going to hear the sermon that Wright preaches hate, not love. Wright, speaking...

John McCain's top pollster, Bill McInturff, said this evening that attacking Barack Obama over his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright would not have helped McCain's campaign and could have destroyed his presidency, had he been elected. Some Republicans were angry during the campaign that McCain had -- reportedly for reasons of principle, and out of concern that he'd be viewed as racist -- refused to air ads with Wright's inflammatory sermons, and believed they were fair game and a silver bullet against Obama. An outside group did air one such ad in the closing days of the race. "I said...

See the ad here. It's almost as if McCain didn't want to win. Well, at least he's gone.

President-elect Barack Obama's former preacher Jeremiah Wright is Back or at least was back for a day. He gave his fiery sermons at his old pulpit yesterday, and while there bashed every media vehicle and personality he could think of. Obama's former mentor even bashed Elizebeth Hasselback, branded her as a dizzy blond. Which were pretty strong words for the preacher who during his sermon called December 7th the anniversary of the dropping of the A-Bomb instead of what it was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Read more below:

For the first time since his retirement last spring, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. returned to the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ this morning with two goals: glorifying God and vilifying the media. In honor of Trinity's 47th anniversary, Wright preached Sunday worship services in place of Rev. Otis Moss III, who was attending his father's farewell from the pulpit of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland. Citing the revelation to Mary by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, Wright said Mary's disbelief was similar to the doubts...

There are a number of reasons why I don't believe Barack Obama will use the boil-the-frog-slowly approach when it comes to moving his Marxist agenda forward in the midst of this economic meltdown. First, he will have the Pelosi-Reid gang pushing him to take action. Second, he will have millions of welfare addicts — pitchforks in hand — looking to him to deliver on his promises. (Perhaps you've seen the video of the gal who said she's excited now that Obama has been elected, because she will no longer have to worry about paying her mortgage or filling her gas...

The several dozen Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts in 1621 would later fold their Plymouth Colony of religious Separatists into the nearby Massachusetts Bay Colony of Puritans...

Jeremiah Wright is the the 'Reverend' best known for making headlines as president elect Barack Obama's controversial former pastor. Well, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is making headlines again yet again. It would seem that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a hypocrite. A Texas woman has come forward claiming to have had an illicit affair with the cleryman.

Just call him Grandpa Wackadoodle. Rev. Jeremiah Wright—a former pastor to Barack Obama who drew controversy to the president-elect's campaign when short clips of his sermons circulated this year—said in a radio interview Monday that he and his family found escape from the death threats and "salivated" media hordes by keeping a sense of humor. That meant Wright laughed when his granddaughter brought him a New York Times column that labeled him a "wackadoodle." He and his wife joked about the nickname. But while the former pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ said he knew that Obama would...

Barack Obama has pledged to restore America's ailing economy and its "moral stature in the world". He made the comments during his first major televised interview since being voted America's 44th president earlier this month. The President-elect told CBS programme 60 Minutes he would deliver a clear break in foreign policy from the Bush administration. Mr Obama confirmed reports he will pull troops out of Iraq and limit the offshoots of the "war on terror", including bringing an end to the notorious Guantanamo Bay. He said the moves were an effort to "regain America's moral stature in the world". But...

So reports Matt Lewis, per Steele’s conference call this afternoon with bloggers. And that’s not the money part: Steele also warned that we shouldn’t “soft-pedal” our attacks on Barack Obama, “just because the President of the United States happens to be a Black man.” This, of course, presents the argument that Steele — an African-American — could be a more effective critic of Obama than could his white Republican colleagues. He added that “the Obama campaign played the race card beautifully.” David Harsanyi says he was more explicit than that: The most interesting aspect of the call focused on the...

So reports Matt Lewis, per Steele’s conference call this afternoon with bloggers. And that’s not the money part:

Video - William Ayers, family friend, on Good Morning America 11-14-08 ~~~ Obama associate and family friend Bill Ayers is still unapologetic for his domestic acts of terrorism. ABC reported: Breaking his silence, Ayers told Chris Cuomo on "Good Morning America" today that the GOP attack was a "dishonest narrative...to demonize me." He added, "I don't buy the idea that guilt by association should have any part of our politics," he said. Ayers scoffed at the Republican effort to make his ties to Obama appear suspicious. "This idea that we need to know more, like there's some dark, hidden secret,...

(CNSNews.com) – President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week. This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments. The comments from Obama about his church attendance appeared in the transcript of an interview posted Tuesday on the religious news Web...

(CNSNews.com) – President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 – while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat – that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week. This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced. Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright’s comments. The comments from Obama about his church attendance appeared in the transcript of an interview posted Tuesday on the religious news Web...

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, two men whose reputations had dogged the Obama campaign this year, met for the first time this weekend at a "State of the Black Union" event at Northwestern University , where Wright was the keynote speaker, the Daily Northwestern reports. The event was hosted by the black student group For Members Only, which invited Wright to speak after Northwestern rescinded an honorary doctorate the university planned to give the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor. The group also invited Ayers—the Weather Underground founder—to attend because it was "only fitting," considering the pair's treatment...

For months, two figures dogged Barack Obama's presidential campaign: the candidate's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. and his Hyde Park neighbor, 1960s radical William Ayers. Three days after Obama gave his victory speech in Grant Park, the two appeared together in a venue other than a negative campaign ad. Wright delivered the keynote address at For Members Only's "State of the Black Union" event Friday night. Ayers was a VIP guest of FMO, joining 900 people inside a packed Cahn Auditorium. Ayers, who now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said he met Wright for the...

It seems America owes an apology to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the one-time spiritual leader of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and Barack Obama's former pastor. He says those now-infamous, anti-American statements he made from the pulpit were taken out of context. "The world doesn't know about my 41 years of ministry, or my writing of books, because it was all taken down to a 10-second sound bite that the media chose to show about a sermon that was delivered seven years ago," the Rev. Wright said Thursday night at a gathering in Milford. "The media didn't care...

Rev. G-D AmeriKKKa Wright was given a standing ovation. Terrorist Bill Ayers came out to hear him speak. Black students and faculty gave Rev. Jeremiah Wright a standing ovation at the the Cahn Auditorium podium on Friday to deliver his keynote address. North By Northwestern and The Politico reported: Rev. Jeremiah Wright had offered the audience nothing more than a slight slouch and the occasional grin, but his very presence was enough to garner him two long, roaring standing ovations by the time he walked up to the Cahn Auditorium podium on Friday to deliver his keynote address. “FMO unashamedly...

Chicago—As his transition continues in full swing, Senator Barack Obama, D-IL, has announced that Reverend Jeremiah Wright will deliver his swearing in invocation on January 20, 2009, to help “begin the healing process of the racial divide in America.” The announcement comes after the election of the first black President of the United States, and according to newly appointed Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, is “an indication of just how President-elect Obama plans to rule America.”

In case you care… "For nine months, I kept quiet," Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said today at Mosque Maryam in Chicago, "because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man" -- President-elect Obama -- "at our Saviours' Day convention and the way they were misused. I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others." "I feel freer today to say the things that are in my heart," said the controversial religious leader....

His name was invoked at church services nationwide on Sunday, but President-elect Obama didn't attend any of them. He went to the gym instead. Obama doesn't have a church in Chicago since he severed ties in April with his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. And his decision on which church to attend when he moves to Washington will undoubtedly be closely watched. When he left Trinity United Church of Christ in May, Obama said his family would look for a new congregation. Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Sunday that the president-elect hadn't yet picked a church. He knows...

Pray that President Obama achieves greatness in office. Our overriding concern must always be the country we love, not the success of a party or an ideology. Don't assume that Obama is always wrong. Judge all of his positions on the merits; don't conclude that a position is wrong just because he takes it. Be patient in your opposition. Don't mimic the left (this is always good advice) and conclude that because the country isn't getting mad about policies that bother you, Obama is therefore a "Teflon president." In fact, you should stop reading the first 10 pundits who call...

At Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side, where President-elect Barack Obama embraced Christianity, the congregation rejoiced today and shouted, "Yes, We did!" Hundreds of worshipers packed into the sanctuary for a joyous service that celebrated the church's role in the spiritual awakening of a future president. Trinity's pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, said history would note that Trinity was the holy place where "God stirred a young man's soul and put him on the path to the presidency." "You have much to be proud of this morning," Moss said. "We rejoice today." In his memoirs and campaign...

Last month, McCain staffer Michael Goldfarb made an appearance on CNN in which he accused Barack Obama of having "a long track record being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American rhetoric." But, under repeated questioning, Goldfarb refused to "name names," because John McCain had forbidden bringing up Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The effect of the interview was to make Goldfarb look ridiculous as he repeated, "I think we all know who we're talking about." Now, in a Weekly Standard article by Stephen Hayes, we learn that when Goldfarb returned to the McCain campaign headquarters, his colleagues gave him a standing ovation.