Posted on 03/19/2008 5:50:21 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
Get your barf bags ready, boys and girls. Barack Obama could have stayed home and forgotten about his speech yesterday, because America's liberals had all weekend to come up with excuses for hate speech, and they came up with some doozies. A few random thoughts, and then I'll get to the freakiest excuse of them all.
Expect to hear Pat Robertson's name kicked around a lot over the next few days as Obama's defenders try to draw equivalency between his comments about 9/11 and Wright's decades of hate speech.
On Glenn Beck's show last night we were treated to NPR/Esquire contributor John Ridley spouting the false claim that Ronald Reagan had called AIDS a judgment on gays for their behavior. Never mind that Reagan never said any such thing; did Reagan make a habit of making comments like that in front of hundreds or thousands of people every week for decades? Is every person who ever said that theologically-wrong-but-not-necessarily-hateful thing suddenly as bad as a professional race-baiter?
But folks, here's the king of all the freaky Obama excuses:
DR. GAIL ANDERSON HOLNESS, GREATER WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: He [Wright] is not preaching hate theology. And that should be a clear statement. It's not hate theology. It is a liberation theology. When Jesus was around, they didn't respect Jesus. They were angry with him. When he spoke the beatitudes on the mountain. They were angry with Martin Luther King when he was around, and they didn't respect him. And now he's a great hero. . .
(Hat tip to The American Thinker)
I'm not even going to bother dealing with the idea that Jeremiah Wright and the Savior of the World are bearing the same message. I'm surprised Anderson didn't burst into flame right after saying it. I won't even bother with the idea that anything Jesus preached was "liberation theology," a term for Marxist doctrine disguised as Christian preaching. Again, that is just too sickening to contemplate, and I can only ask that God forgive Anderson and her fellow travelers, for they know not what they do.
No, I want to take issue with the idea that Wright is similar to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the "I Have A Dream" speech, Dr. King recited the words of a patriotic song...
"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my father's died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!"
Can you imagine Jeremiah Wright calling our nation a "sweet land of liberty?"
After discussing segregation, King said "But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation." Jeremiah Wright says the bank is bankrupt, that we live in the USKKK of A, and Michelle Obama chimes in to back him up.
Was Jeremiah Wright listening when Dr. King said this passage? I can't imagine it coming from Wright's mouth:
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
I could go on, but you get the point. Reading King's speech after days of having Wright's venom ringing in my ears is like reading the the Gettysburg Address after reading he Communist Manifesto. There truly is no shame in the ranks of liberalism anymore.
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Obama is the gift of hypocrisy from the democrats that keeps on giving. All of their past rhetoric is coalescing on them now with a vengeance. Of course, we knew that they would spin, lie, and obfuscate. Good try guys, but your past rhetoric brands you for all to see.
I almost forgot. Sean Hannity has come up with a lot more kooks in the Obama file. Good job to Sean.
LOL. No kidding.
It is what it is and no amount of analysis will change the moonbats and swooning women about it. They'll vote for him come hell or high water. Sad.
Yeah, I heard the clip Hannity played where the Obama supporter was using the term “house n*****.” You know, the class of people this guy surrounds himself with makes Bill Clinton look like King George V.
Good insight. Obama's supporters are now divided into three groups: Those who will learn to love Big Brother again and those who won't.
The third group? The ones who heard Wright and said, "What's wrong with him saying that?"
You are added, my FRiend. Good insight as usual.
I think YouTube is going to keep Obama from the White House if not the nomination.
And the “N” word is so offensive to blacks. I’m shocked I tell you, shocked!
Like Ron Paul, there comes a point where you have to ask why so many complet wackos think this guy is their shining hope.
he he. Just got a gander at this post, which I read after the other one you did. I never did do things in a normal way.
I can’t believe people are likening Wright’s words with our Lord’s. Oy, I’d love to hear the conversation between Jesus and the people who are saying this when they get to finally meet Him for real.
I imagine if the Jesus Seminar had to vote on the words that are likely Jesus’ words, they’d probably vote more on what Wright’s said than Jesus himself.
Mrs. D -
Just a thought - you know how so many of our Presidents had Bill Graham as their advisor? Imagine if Obama gets in and he’s going to have this guy as his advisor? OY. Talk about crazy. But then again, this guy, Wright, fits right in with Ahmadinajab and the other Holocaust deniers and racists.
I think he's a man with a lot of internal contradictions, and he needs time (and no big job on his hands, like Senator, or President of the United States) to sort it all out.
Fool-like as I am, I'm praying for him.
"But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."--Matthew 5:44-45, NIV
Great minds think alike. :) Last week I remarked to my wife that perhaps "Change We Can Believe In" means we sure can believe that instead of Billy or Franklin Graham (or even a lib like Tony Campolo) there will be a raving bigot making house calls to the Oval Office. BTW, according to Wikipedia, Graham has been visiting Presidents since Truman, and had a friednship and/or counseling relationship with every one of them from Eisenhower on.
I promise you're going to see more from me on this issue...(hee-hee!)
As for the Jesus Seminar, you are dead on. They would probably use their bead voting system to construct a whole noew gospel, the book of Obama. And they're not the only ones...take a look at this.
That was very disturbing. There is no doubt in my mind that so many people in this world are lost and in need of Jesus Christ, but, as the Bible says, they are “tossed and turned by every wind of doctrine” and, I might add, tossed and turned by a lot of plain old malarkey.
As one of my pastor friends once said to me, there is nothing new in this world (well, someone else once said those words before my friend - ha ha)and that all of these new belief systems, whether it’s Oprah’s promulgation of “the secret” or her latest craze about a new earth, this stuff is all OLD; it’s the gnostics, manichaeism (please forgive any spelling goofs), mithraisim, zoroastroism, and etc. Satan can’t create ANYTHING so he just repackages his old lies for new generations....
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