Obama Admits Learning of Some Rev. Wright Comments in Feb. 2007

April 18, 2008 | Allan J. Favish

[vietvet67]

Would like to see more on why Wright left Islam but I suspect, as is usually the case, that it was for the $$$.

Race baiting pays good. (Jackson/Sharpton)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

"...speak to a broader context."
Can someone tell me what this means ?

[tsmith130]

That must be dat dere ‘context’ everyone refers to. I think ‘broader context’ has somethin’ to do with women.

[aimhigh]

My liberal brother said we can't judge him by association. So I said, "If I attended an Arian Nation church for 20 years, and took my kids there, you wouldn't hold that against me?"
Silence.

[Malesherbes]

“speak to a broader context.” You’re right, it’s empty. BO’s style is to mix empty, but profound sounding, rhetoric with a little jive talk - all delivered in a rolling cadence. Like his father, he is a gifted con man.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I thought I was listening to recycled Jon F’n Cary.

[Always Right]

Outstanding work on HIV? What did the Rev. Wright do, petition the US government to stop spreading it to black folks?

[Grampa Dave]

The Wright is Wrong Gate will continue inspite of the left wing mediots attempt to play it down.

"With each new utterance on the topic of Reverend Wright, Barack Obama seems to confirm his own moral obliviousness. Worse yet, he seems to have disdain for those who are troubled by his own unwillingness, even now, to break with Wright."

On his new campaign plane, Obama said he has spoken with Wright in recent days and disputed any suggestion that he or his campaign have asked him to stay out of the limelight.

"I have talked to him," he said. "I haven't asked him to do anything."

Walter Williams: "For the nation and for black people, the first black president should be the caliber of a Jackie Robinson and Barack Obama is not. Barack Obama has charisma and charm but in terms of character, values and understanding, he is no Jackie Robinson. By now, many Americans have heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Obama's minister and spiritual counselor. There's no way that Obama could have been a 20-year member of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church and not been aware of his statements."

Thomas Sowell: "It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it."

Hussein Obama’s racist pseudo minister has turned the Dems' run for President into party's train wreck!

Devastatingly, Shelby Steele writes: “Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own (white) mother."

Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons? (Plenty)

“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.”

Here is the link to the Star Spangled Banner video with obama standing there without his hand over his heart...

Notice her ear ring!

The picture, which appeared on a U.S. Web site, showed the Illinois senator donning a Muslim elder's headdress and robes during a 2006 trip to Wajir in northeastern Kenya. Ahmed Sheikh Bahalow, a retired teacher and elder from ethnically (read Muslim) Somali Wajir, said his community was offended by the insinuation Obama had done anything wrong on his visit. "The Somali community and in particular those living in Kenya have never been that interested in America politics," Bahalow told Reuters in the central town of Isiolo. "But we are following it keenly now because we have been provoked." Wajir residents planned to demonstrate in the town after Friday prayers to show their support for Obama, he said. Those aren't Episcopalians praying on Friday.

"Hussein Obama’s big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"

[TomGuy]

"...speak to a broader context."
Can someone tell me what this means ?

It is political doublespeak. It isn't supposed to have meaning; it is just spouting allot of words that sound intelligent and impressive.

Many politicians use that tactic. Kerry (2004) is expert at it. If one listens and dissects any of these politicians' speeches, they will discover the speeches are actually empty of any real substance. Obama uses this tactic extensively and effectively.

Listen to O's presidential run announcement, and then try to find any actual content. It has little-to-none. Dissect nearly any of O's political speeches or debate responses, and you will find they are long on the number of words they contain, but lacking of actual content.

But he sounds impressive. And that is his intent. It is nothing more than style over substance.

[Drawsing]

The word needs to get out about the content of Obama’s recent book, “Dreams From My Father.” The book reveals Obama as angry, paranoid and race-obsessed. Reverend Wright and Obama are brothers in mind and spirit. Read Ann Coulter’s recent column on this subject.

[griswold3]

The ‘Imadinnerjar’ cartoon!! LOL

how are we supposed to expect BHO to negotiate with Iran when HE AGREES WITH THEM!!

[boomop1]

He must have read it in the Newspapers.

[Blue Turtle]

I don’t like the term “controversial statement”....it implies that some people may not agree with it, but it has merit. Reverend Wright did NOT make controversial statements, Reverend Wright made anti-american, racist statements. Does Obama agree with those statements? It would appear so, with his 20 year association.

[normy]

Would like to see more on why Wright left Islam but I suspect, as is usually the case, that it was for the $$$

Racist black Muslims are still shunned by American society and even liberals but "Christian" black racist get political clout.

[Alia]

From Rolling Stone article:

Obama wasn't born into Wright's world. His parents were atheists, an African bureaucrat and a white grad student, Jerry Falwell's nightmare vision of secular liberals come to life. Obama could have picked any church — the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and "felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams."

My.

[Kenny Bunk]

But he sounds impressive. And that is his intent. It is nothing more than style over substance.

Which is eggzackly why I gave Barack Hussein a more American moniker:

Algonquin J. Obama

If you need help with that reference, ask your father.

[griswold3]

http://caracaschronicles.blogspot.com/2008/04/six-degrees-of-hugo-chvez.html

Barack Obama ... sat on the board of the non-profit Woods Fund of Chicago with ‘60s radical and University of Illinois professor Bill Ayers, a friend of the Bolivarian Revolution and father of...

Chesa Boudin, a Rhodes scholar, one of the founders of chavista think-tank and PSF echo chamber Centro Internacional Miranda, who has an office in Miraflores Palace and is a key advisor of...

Hugo Chávez, autocrat extraordinaire.

[griswold3]

Calypso Louie had that sector sewn up. Wright would have had to compete with him.

[griswold3]

Viva Mission Sucre!
Viva Presidente Chavez!
Viva La Revolucion Bolivariana!
Hasta La Victoria Siempre!

Bill Ayers
http://billayers.blogspot.com/2006/11/world-education-forum.html