Obama's pastor disaster

The Orange County Register ^ | March 15, 2008 | Mark Steyn

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright thinks that, given their treatment by white America, black Americans have no reason to sing "God Bless America." "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America," he told his congregation. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human."

I'm not a believer in guilt by association, or the campaign vaudeville of rival politicians insisting this or that candidate dissociate himself from remarks by some fellow he had a 30-second grip'n'greet with a decade ago. But Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama's life. He married the Obamas and baptized their children. Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator's latest book, "The Audacity Of Hope," and assumed the title was an ingeniously parodic distillation of the great sonorous banality of an entire genre of blandly uplifting political writing discovered circa page 127 that in fact the phrase comes from one of the Rev. Wright's sermons. Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years – in other words, pretty much the senator's entire adult life. Did Obama consider "God Damn America" as a title for his book but it didn't focus-group so well?

Ah, well, no, the senator told ABC News. The Rev. Wright is like "an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ouch!

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America," he told his congregation.

He's right about only one thing. The three-strike law is terrible. We need to replace it... with a ONE-strike law. Then I'll sing GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Send People Like Michael Jackson (Sex Offenders) To Lifetime Halfway Houses In Alaska

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/may/article120.html

[I see my hands]

"would he have just sat there with an inscrutable look on his face as those around him nodded"

Nodded? More like ecstatic jubilation.

[Wil H]

Send People Like Michael Jackson (Sex Offenders) To Lifetime Halfway Houses In Alaska

We can't do that. You know we have to protect the Caribou..

[CedarDave]

God has blessed America, and blessed the Obamas in America, and even blessed the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose bashing of his own country would be far less lucrative anywhere else on the planet. The "racist" here is not Geraldine Ferraro but the Rev. Wright, whose appeals to racial bitterness are supposed to be everything President Obama will transcend. Right now, it sounds more like the same-old same-old.

"Ouch!" indeed!

[skr]

Obama is willing to pass Mr. Wright’s hate legacy to future generations by his bringing his own children to that church.

[Political Junkie Too]

...she's having difficulty finding money for their daughters' piano lessons and summer camp. Between them, Mr. and Mrs. Obama earn $480,000 a year (not including book royalties from "The Audacity Of Hype," but they're whining about how tough they have it to couples who earn 48 grand – or less. Yes, we can. But not on a lousy half-million bucks a year.

Maybe they could qualify for SCHIP like the Frost family in Baltimore that owns three cars and a commercial building?

-PJ

[prophetic]

For Obama/Osama to be in a church for all his adult life (20 years) and to claim to have NOT heard this crap, is a much bigger load of crap than Rev. Wright's rantings.

Obama thinks that he can simply claim ignorance and simply do a "I repudiate him" with a wave of his hand and it'll go away.

Remember that Rev. Wright is more than a passing acquaintance but his SPIRITUAL MENTOR and PASTOR for 20 years and also used his materials for his books.

Note also how Obama does not wear an American lapel pin nor places his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance. Obama's radical hate-america colors are rising to the surface and if he get the White House you can be sure that it'll be the HQ of something like the Black Panthers.

[joydoc]

Why make the people in Alaska suffer?

The sheriff in Arizona has the best idea so far.
Wear pink jump suits and treat them all as law breakers, NO exceptions.

[joydoc]

Why make the people in Alaska suffer?

The sheriff in Arizona has the best idea so far.
Wear pink jump suits and treat them all as law breakers, NO exceptions.

[matthew fuller]

I find it so totally ironic that it takes a Canadian to be able to so precisely illustrate US politics.

[matthew fuller]

Maybe I should have mentioned that I was talking about Mark Steyn.

[Names Ash Housewares]

“The Rev. Wright is like “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.”

Stupid defense on Obama’s part.

You cannot choose your uncle.

Obama CHOSE to attend that hate filled church for decades.

He could have walked away at anytime, yet....

[endthematrix]

"an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with."

See how easy it is to dismiss ANYTHING. And we thought Congress has amnesia when under oath, this turkey can just point to old uncle to deflect responsibility.

[Berlin_Freeper]

- Ah, well, no, the senator told ABC News. The Rev. Wright is like “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.”

His old uncle must be on the white side of the family.

[joydoc]

Glad to read you again HOORAH

[AmericaUnited]

Obama is just looking more and more like some little boy who always comes up with the excuse that the dog ate his homework whenever he gets caught in anything.

[Caipirabob]

I wonder how much the good "reverend" is worth, btw? How much does he get paid to foster hatred and filled those mush-filled skulls with anti-white racism?

[SupplySider]

For Obama/Osama to be in a church for all his adult life (20 years) and to claim to have NOT heard this crap, is a much bigger load of crap than Rev. Wright's rantings.

Based on this association and his wife's comments, I think it's a pretty safe bet that Obama is a stealth "revolutionary". He seems to have bought into the still fashionable Marxist model, as it applies to race and probably also to economics, sex roles, and most everything else.

In short, he's Jesse Jackson, but with enough sense to know that he must conceal many of his views from the ignorant masses, at least until he gains power.