Posted on 03/14/2008 7:27:52 AM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
I thought it might be interesting to see how people other than political junkies like me are reacting to the bombshell news about the statements of Barack Obama's longtime pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Many in the media are trying to gloss it over, or suggest it is on a par with radical statements by supporters who have endorsed Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Of course, they know that is a totally false comparison. The big deal in this story is that BARACK OBAMA HAS LISTENED TO THIS KIND OF ANTI-AMERICAN AND RACIAL HATRED FOR 20 YEARS AND WAS NOT BOTHERED ENOUGH BY IT TO LEAVE THE CHURCH! Pardon my shouting, but the Mainstream Media's deliberate attempts to protect Obama are breathtaking.
Back to the purpose of this post - comments from real people! Here is a sampling from ABC News blog Political Punch, hardly frequented by radical Republicans, and I think you see many voters are "getting" the real problem for Obama in this story, even though the MSM is working hard to protect him on it. You can go over there to read many more comments:
Posted by: Jing | Mar 14, 2008 4:19:47 AM
I don't know what Obama can do now. How can he denounce and reject the support of his own pastor for 20 years? It's not like it was a little one-time slip.
It's up to the people and the media to hold him accountable for his long, intimate association with this hate-monger and this church which honored Farrakhan with a lifetime achievement award.
Posted by: Judith | Mar 14, 2008 4:09:05 AM
Its over for Obama because there is nothing he could now say except "Words".
Too bad the media didn't pick this up sooner.
Posted by: so saddened | Mar 14, 2008 2:56:04 AM
if hillary attended a similar church she'd have been forced out immediately. but obamaites just keep excusing, excusing, excusing. he may even get the nomination, because of all the excusing and the media coverup of the truth about him. but the repubs will not be so kind as to hide this sort of thing. and they won't let him get away with that just a crazy old uncle b.s. they will rightly point out that he CHOSE this church/pastor, stayed there 20 years, had this guy marry him and baptize his kids, contributed 2000 per month, etc. just another of the many reasons obama is not only wrong for the country but unelectable.
Posted by: Concerned Christian | Mar 14, 2008 3:08:04 AM
girlinvt, you are so right about leaving a church that spews hatred. but obama didn't. and not only does that reflect his agreement with the pastor's views, despite his denials, but it also says something about what he's teaching his children. imagine how children's views of the world must be affected by spending their childhood hearing that sort of hate speech in what's supposed to be a place of God?
Posted by: suzelee | Mar 14, 2008 12:57:45 AM
Why didn't the media report on this before so many people voted for Obama? Nobody would go to this church (which should NOT be tax exempt) for 20 years unless they liked the message. He should change his slogan from "yes we can" to oh no you didint!
LOL! I forgot about that!
It was discussed during the 2000 election cycle and Jim Robinson said the same thing to me, then Maureen Dowd published the article that stated the accusation is a matter of congressional record. Ask him if he remembers the incident.
It is obvious from his association with this pastor and this church, hussein obama and his beotch wife are angry black people. They act like welfare deependants from the hood. He has no business being potus with this on his resume....
I am really not surprised that Liebermann would be apalled by Jeramiah Wright. Joe Liebermann may be liberal, but he is a decent man. He is a patriot and is respectful of others.
Lieberman is usually pretty calm and quite frankly monotone. He was fired up.
You have the scenario down to a T.Hillary will come out of all this looking like the”sensible Democrat”and the masses will flock to her,keeping their liberalism intact by voting for a woman but at the same time rejecting”Black radicalism”
The mass media keeps Hillary pumped with their adoration in the Fall while “exposing”all sorts of Mc Cain “scandals”
On Jan 20,2009,Hillary takes off the moderate mask and the big doses of socialism are administered.
Senator Gives Big Boost to Byrd; Obamas Appeal Helps Raise $634,000
You’re absolutely right, I hadn’t thought about it knocking Spitzer off the media radar.
Hillary was probably very reluctant to play this card because it goes against everything that she and her feminazis have been preaching for the past twenty years. They have been exploiting the negative feelings of the Black voters for since the beginning of the feminist movement, when they decided to form a coalition of minority groups to take down the white male dominated social structure. Jeremiah Wright and Obama now threaten that coalition. The feminsts are now faced with the prospect of displacing the White Male, with a Black Male, something that they never thought could happen -— that error in judgement was a direct result of the soft racism of low expectations.
It is no coincidence that this guy recently retired.
I would be out the door if anyone in the pulpit said anything like this.
The members of the church must agree with this or this guy would have been forced out long ago.This is not a church,IMO.Shameful!
My theory is that Bill Clinton is funneling some Whitewater money to Obama’s Pastor, in order to do a little White-bashing.
You are right.I don’t care who feels this way but if you are going to be the President of the U.S., the basic requirement should be that you love this country and think that it is good and want what is best for it.
The non-wearing of the flag pin is a clue that this guy is “bigger” than the U.S.Had he worn the pin, the people in this church would be appalled.Same with the hand on the heart during the pledge.I get it, does everyone else?
And this is why he won’t wear the flag pin or cover his heart during the pledge.He does not believe, as you and I do, that this is a great country.And he should not lead this great country!
Where did you hear that?
Wow! Those people wouldn’t care what he did or what he said about anything!!! They scare me as much as Obama!
Neil Cavuto is going to do a show tonight on the money that was given to the church Obama went to. I heard that Obama had given thousands of dollars to trinity church. After hearing that man preach I detest using the words trinity and church!
Of course. But does anyone believe Obama’s church will EVER get the attention that Romney’s did?
I thought she went to that same church?
Last year, when I thought that this forum was getting off track and eating their own. I posted a thread on Obama, his background and religious affilitations and training. I spent a lot of time on it. They moved it to chat. That will tell you how much attention it will get now.
I was corrected by another poster, who, upon further research, turned out to be right. IOW...my recollection was wrong.
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