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Posted on 03/16/2008 9:18:28 AM PDT by John Semmens
Democratic presidential contender Senator Barack Obama’s campaign was dealt a setback when examination of the sermons of the pastor of the church he has been attending for the last 20 years revealed the man to be a raving lunatic.
Samples of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s sermons quoted him urging Blacks to sing “God Damn America,” calling the United States a terrorist nation that brought the 9/11 attacks on itself and alleging that the government was trying to destroy Blacks by giving them drugs and AIDS. Videos of Wright’s rantings have been popping up all over the web.
Obama has tried to deflect criticism by characterizing Wright as akin to a “crazy old uncle who you love despite his imperfections.”
The senator’s insistence that he was unaware of Wright’s bizarre views until just recently has been scoffed at by a spokeswoman for Senator Hillary’s campaign. “He says he’s a regular church-goer,” said Naomi Harridan, co-chair of Clinton’s Pennsylvania campaign. “He’s been listening to this crap for 20 years. He can’t not have known.”
Obama challenged Harridan’s contention by asserting that “like many of my fellow parishioners and, I dare say, many church-goers across America, I’ve slept through the vast majority of the sermons.”
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I thought you posted satire?
Apparently you did not closely read the original article. It IS all tongue in cheek.
somebody help me here...
Some things transcend parody. Obama preacher isn’t that far from many mainline Protestant leaders.
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I recognized only the last line as being tongue in cheek: the “comment by Obama” where he says that like many church-goers in America, he slept through the sermons.
Look at You Tube. It is FAR from satire.
There is a more troubling aspect to the Rev. Wright comments.
People are acting as though his sermons are unique.
They aren’t. Every Sunday in hundreds of black churches across America similar pap is being spewed.
I work with a black man that is well educated, well spoken, well respected and is looked upon as an important member of the organization.
Upon some political discussions that I’ve had with him, I can tell you that he believes Rev. Wright’s type of conspiracies.
O.J. Simpson, 9-11, HIV, Crack, all the rest.
“Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.”
Obama’s supporters want us to ignore this story… just push it under the rug. While they’ll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, they’re trying to convince us that Obama’s 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.
“When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obama’s deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.”
“Wright says that blacks can’t be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.”
Reference ping for my lib-tard, co-working, uber-idiots!
Thanks.
Make sure they have some Aspirin around incase of heart attacks, strokes or sudden reality implosions.
Watch it, John. God is stealing your material.
It’s funny you mention that. The “Medicine Cabinet Guy” came around yesterday and I requested pure aspirin be put in the cabinets just for that purpose! LOL
This guy’s satire cuts very close to the bone of truth.
That is exactly what makes it so clever, funny and sad at the same time....
Carry a few of the smaller dose asprin in a little baggie incase the problem hits away from home.
Strokes are about the only bad gene I have, and it comes from both sides of the family.
My family doc had/has a similiar family history. When I developed HBP about 10 years ago, he put me on the same regimen he had used and still uses.
1 Vasotec and low dose aspirin in the morning and repeat the dose in the evening.
He recommended all of his patients with HBP and a familial history of strokes with the HBP to carry around an asprin tablet or a few extras tablets in case of the signs of a stroke or MI to take immediately. We have these packs in our vehicles at home, and I carry one in my fishing vest.
He, also, recommends carrying an antihistamine tab or capsule incase of a bee sting or allegric reaction to food.
I used the antihistamine one time when a bee flew in my truck window and stung me on my lip. I had started to swell up and the antihistamine stopped that in minutes. 30 minutes later I was able to start driving again.
I have probably saved two lives with the antihistamine tabs. One was a young teenage girl who was stund on the lip by a bee after church. I gave her mother the antihistamine to give to her as she was getting swollen lips and breathing hard. Then her parents drove her to the er, and the doc saved that I may have saved her life.
The second one was a young friend of our sons. After eating some of our DIL’s pesto, he asked if it had pine nuts in it. Of course it did, and he was allergic to Pine Nuts. As my wife an RN was monitoring I ran to my truck and got the antihistamine. In 15 minutes, his swollen lips had stopped swelling and he could breath. He refused to let us call an ambulance.
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