You mean like this guy?
Posted on 04/18/2008 5:58:10 AM PDT by AJFavish
Here is what Obama definetly knew about Rev. Wright in February of 2007 because it was published in Rolling Stone:
[begin excerpt] The Trinity United Church of Christ, the church that Barack Obama attends in Chicago, is at once vast and unprepossessing, a big structure a couple of blocks from the projects, in the long open sore of a ghetto on the city's far South Side. The church is a leftover vision from the Sixties of what a black nationalist future might look like. There's the testifying fervor of the black church, the Afrocentric Bible readings, even the odd dashiki. And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. "Fact number one: We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he intones. "Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!" There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. "We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!" The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: "And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!"
This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr. Wright is not an incidental figure in Obama's life, or his politics. The senator "affirmed" his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a "sounding board" to "make sure I'm not losing myself in the hype and hoopla." Both the title of Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright's sermons. "If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from," says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, "just look at Jeremiah Wright."
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."
[end excerpt]
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13390609/campaign_08_the_radical_roots_of_barack_obama/1
At the April 16, 2008 debate Obama admitted he was aware of the Rolling Stone article when it was published in February 2007:
[begin excerpt]
GIBSON: Senator Obama, since you last debated, you made a significant speech in this building on the subject of race and your former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. And you said subsequent to giving that speech that you never heard him say from the pulpit the kinds of things that so have offended people.
But more than a year ago, you rescinded the invitation to him to attend the event when you announced your candidacy. He was to give the invocation. And according to the reverend, I'm quoting him, you said to him: "You can get kind of rough in sermons. So, what we've decided is that it's best for you not to be out there in public." I'm quoting the reverend.
But what did you know about his statements that caused you to rescind that invitation? And if you knew he got rough in sermons, why did it take you more than a year to publicly disassociate yourself from his remarks?
OBAMA: Well, understand that I hadn't seen the remarks that ended up playing on YouTube repeatedly. This was a set of remarks that had been quoted in Rolling Stone magazine and we looked at them. And I thought that they would be a distraction, since he had just put them forward.
But, Charlie, I've discussed this extensively. Reverend Wright is somebody who made controversial statements, but they were not of the sort that we saw that offended so many Americans. And that's why I specifically said that these comments were objectionable. They're not comments that I believe in. And I disassociated myself with them.
And what I also said was the church and the body of Reverend Wright's work over the course of 30 years were not represented in those snippets that were shown on television and that the church has done outstanding work in ministries, on HIV/AIDS, prison ministries, providing people with the kind of comfort that we expect in our churches.
And so, what I think I tried to do in the speech here at the Constitution Center was speak to a broader context, which is that there is anger in the African-American community that sometimes gets expressed, whether in the barbershop or in the church. That's true not just in the African-American community. That's true in other communities, as well.
But what we have the opportunity to do is to move beyond it. And that's what I think my candidacy represents. And Senator Clinton mentioned earlier, that we have to connect with people. That's exactly what we've done throughout this campaign.
The reason we've attracted new people into the process, the reason we've generated so much excitement, the reason that we have been so successful in so many states across the country, bridging racial lines, bridging some of the old divisions, is because people recognize that, unless we do, then we're not going to be able to deliver on the promises that people hear every 4 years, every 8 years, every 12 years.
And it's my job in this campaign to try to move beyond some of those divisions, because when we are unified there is nothing that we cannot tackle.
[end excerpt]
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4670271&page=1
So in February 2007 Obama learned that Wright said: "We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!" . . . . "And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!"
Obama's reaction is not to leave Wright's church or denounce Wright, but to think that the comments "would be a distraction [from Obama's presidential campaign], since he had just put them forward."
Obama's problem with the comments was not their substance, but that they would distract from his campaign. Also, according to Obama, the comments were a distraction because Wright "had just put them forward". Obama did not say that the comments were a distriaction because of their substance. For Obama, the problem was Wright's timing, not his message.
What was even more amazing was last night and this focus group they had on Fox.
It was all dems and most put their hand up stating that they don't care about his connections, to wright or a terrorist, or racism.
I nearly jumped out of my chair, They don't care who is in charge of this country, they don't care he is friendly with a terrorist and they don't care about honour, trust and love to this country.
Shocking absolutely shocking
Grampa as usual you hit the nail on the head pal
"A seperationist is more likely to have a realistic impression of the plight of the Black lower class because of the likelihood that a seperationist is more closely associated with the Black lower class than are the integrationist (sic). By actually working with the Black lower class or with their communities as a result of their ideologies, a seperationist (sic) may better understand the desparation (sic) of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant of their plight."
This gem from a $300,000/year Vice President of Community and External Relations for the University of Chicago hospitals.
Oh, my. Sounds like Princeton might be using a quota system, no?
I’d give her a 95 on an IQ test.
And yet, they vote. If this clown gets elected, WE get the government THEY deserve.
Wish I could have seen the body language to go with it. I could just see her head going from side to side as she talked about what "Me and Barack" would do.
That’s right after “speak truth to power”.
She sports a bow tie on weekends.
Taking his kids there is the biggest refutation of “you can’t judge him by association” that there is.
Also, if people simply watched the videos, and see the backslapping approval of the other folks there, and the response of the crowd -
there’s no way that Barry & Mich couldn’t have been aware of the prevailing tenor of the church’s message.
The dhims are all trained to think as groups, especially victim groups.
Barry represents a victim group - what he believes as an individual is irrelevant - nay, it doesn’t even “grock” with them.
You mean like this guy?
Hussein Obamasnob’s negotation would be letting his Islamofacist cousins do whatever they want to us and the rest of the world.
The left wing inner circles when exposed, often reveal some very dangerous anti Amrican a$$holes.
The MSM used to be able to hide these associations. Now we find out who the crazies are, and the whole world can know if they are interested.
Re the Rip Van Winkle cartoon.
Hussein Obamasnob is lying and would have us believe he went to Wright’s Church for twenty years and never heard Wright’s racist and anti American rants posing as sermons.
Sorry Obamasnob, that ain’t working with fly over country and those of us with a brain outside of fly over country.
Thanks.
All of us through out America need to play smacka a mole with Obamasnob and keep hitting his lies as he tries to spin his way from the ugly truth about him.
“This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from”
Hey, Rolling Stone gets it! And so do most of the radical leftists in this country and abroad. Which is why they support Obama. It’s the U.S. public that doesn’t get it.
Yeah, Michelle fits right in the the Black Nationalist crowd of the late 1960’s - the people who rejected integration for the notion of black exceptionalism.
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