Posted on 04/30/2008 2:50:50 AM PDT by Stoat
April 30, 2008 --
ALBANY - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright would be happy to see Barack Obama's presidential campaign derailed because the pastor is fuming that his former congregant has "betrayed" their 20-year relationship,
The Post has learned. "After 20 years of loving Barack like he was a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn't know about Jeremiah's views during those years, that he wasn't familiar with what Jeremiah had said, that he may have missed church on this day or that and didn't hear what Jeremiah said, this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal," said the source, who has deep roots in Wright's Chicago community and is familiar with his thinking on the matter.
"Jeremiah is trying to defend his congregation and the work of his ministry by saying what he is saying now," the source added.
"Jeremiah doesn't care if he derails Obama's candidacy or not . . . He knows what he's doing. Obviously, he's not a dumb man. He knows he's not helping."
The source spoke yesterday about Wright's motivation for thrusting himself back into the news, the day after the pastor appeared at the National Press Club on Monday and embarrassed Obama by accusing the United States of terrorism.
Wright has said the reason he has begun granting interviews and making public appearances now is that he wants to defend black churches.
But the source said the preacher's motivation is much more personal.
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Good, let him keep whining. At the top of his stupid voice.
Posted this elsewhere, fits here too:
There is no record anywhere to be found that Obama was ever baptized into the Christian faith. His children were baptized by Wright, and Wright married him, but Obama himself was not baptized into a Christian Church. All Christians are baptized. Why hasn’t Obama been, I ask you? Because to do so would be against the Muslim religion, in fact some Muslims would have him killed if he switched to Christianity which is a no no. I posted this comment below on another thread:
Something smells rotten in the Hood. Here’s my take on it. I think Obama and Wright are as thick as thieves, I think they are in total cahoots. I think everything that has happened in the past week has been planned and masterminded between Obama and Wright and perhaps one or two other key players on Obama’s campaign staff. I think everything has been coordinated.
Preacher Wright comes out and does his round of inflammatory speeches at the NAACP, and the Nat’l Press Club, and in his Bill Moyers interview. Funny that these three are all clustered within days of each other, all at once. As Obama blew his first chance at refuting Wright for his behavior for the last 20 years, both of them thinking the whole issue would die down, Obama needed a second bite of the apple. A second chance to condemn the Reverend Wright. Hence the setup. Wright does his radical religious/political rap thing three times, and Obama then says he’s finally had enough and condemns and refutes and sort of disowns (however if you listen to Obama’s words, he really doesn’t) Preacher Wright.
Now it looks as if the two of them are at great odds and no longer like each other, right? Wrong, in the sense that this was the desired end result, to make it look like they are now at odds. Mission accomplished. Obama is now off the hook. Obama even makes sure he has an out in the very careful, slow speaking manner with which he refuted his mentor. He says Wright may do more of the same kind of speech, but he, Obama, won’t be responsible for it as he can’t do anything to stop Wright, and has now disowned Wright anyhow. Isn’t this Machiavellian? Isn’t this fun?
Now for the proof of my thinking. Preacher Wright and Obama have known each other for 20 years, both in and out of the church pew. Obama went on Louis Farrakhan’s million man march. Obama named his book after a phrase used by Rev. Wright, “The Audacity of Hope”. They are very close. Obama knows exactly where Wright is coming from, both theologically and politically. And (here’s the kicker) vice versa. Wright knows everything about Obama too. He knows how Obama really thinks politically, after all Preacher Wright groomed him for the last 20 years, or perhaps indoctrinated would be a better word. Wright knows what Obama has said to him over the years, has done for and with him over the last 20 years, and has the goods on Obama big time. Wright could blast Obama into space and out of the presidential race on a politically dirty rocket in a nanosecond. Wright probably knows more about Obama’s inner workings, shady deals back in Chicago, connections to Obama’s political benefactor Tony Rezko now up on influence peddling and other charges back in Chicago, and may have been in on some of those deals himself. Wright could take Obama down faster than greased lightening if he wanted to. But he won’t. Because they are working in tandem. They are still joined at the hip, and what we are seeing this past week is all a charade, a Potemkin village, smokey (until that became un-PC) backroom dealings to get Obama out of hot water in the political short and long run for his relationship with Wright.
Mark my words here; my political antennae are waving in the breeze. And to top it off (I believe this is coming out of Obama’s camp too), the blogs are buzzing around that somehow Preacher Wright and Hillary Clinton are working behind the scenes to undermine Obama, and that Hillary’s camp was somehow involved in setting up financially some of what Wright was up to this past week. I think a whisper campaign of “it’s all Hillary’s fault that this is happening” has been let loose on the internet to shift the blame for Wright’s actions of late on her. How convenient. Obama isn’t behind this, why it’s Hillary. And the MSM are swallowing it whole. The MSM in general hate Hillary and will blame anything and everything on her. They will believe anything about her. Never mind, as I stated before, that Wright/Obama have a 20 year relationship, and that Wright could bring Obama down so fast his head would spin with what Wright knows about Obama and how he really thinks. Its Hillary and her henchmen to blame.
Obama and Wright must be laughing up their sleeves at how a naive and lazy press that is on Obama’s side anyhow in this race, will swallow this. Tell me, does anyone really think that Wright and Hillary got together to “get Obama”? Do you not think that Wright wants Obama in the White House where Wright can have all sorts of influence on his protege? That Wright wants to be kingpin at the National Prayer Breakfasts? That he wants all that access to grants or funding for his church causes? That he wants to push his own peculiar brand of church politics? His Black Liberation Theology? You better believe he wants Obama in as President. They both just have to get over this little speed bump of whether Obama secretly thinks just like Wright does, and is really a divider disguising himself as a uniter, fooling us all. Preacher Wright knows exactly where Obama is coming from. If he blows the whistle on Obama publicly on what he knows, then I am wrong. If Wright doesn’t, well, then draw your own conclusions. I’ve drawn mine.
Most of the time, the sounds that Leftists make cause me to cringe and tune to a different station. In this case, it's more like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are racing toward each other at high speed on the road, and you know that they are going to crash in a tremendous ball of flame. There's nothing that can stop the cataclysm, and you just sit back and watch, transfixed.
I’ve posted elsewhere that I felt this was all orchestrated.
LMAO :-)
It seems that they are taking turns driving the bus over each other :-)
“I’ve posted elsewhere that I felt this was all orchestrated.”
Good for you. It was and is.
Obama joined Wright's church to get a politcal power base and tried to push him behind the scenes when he advanced to the next step. He had to step that process up when the Wright sound bytes started being broadcast. Wright got mad and got even.
From the article:
"A lot of people in the church believe they were there for this man when no one else was, and a lot of people don't believe it any more when Obama claims he loves the man who did so much for him," the source added.
It never works out when a group of hysterical, apoplectic, America-hating racists try to get along with a politically-green Marxist with delusions of bringing The Socialist Miracle to America. It's a match that's doomed from the start.
"snicker"
If this is an elaborate song and dance to help out Obama, as some seem to think, then it seems like a very stupid one. I'm inclined to take this article at it's face value.
In relation, has anyone heard anything in regards to this little nugget at The Corner? Very interesting too, if true.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/top_obama_adviser_suggested_ou.php
The amount of coverage Rev. Wright got over the weekend and Monday morning was unusual to say the least. CNN continuously ran his NAACP speech all night, maybe 3 or 4 times in a row on Sunday night. It's all just a little too convenient for Obama.
I can’t wait until Reverend Wright comes out and says, “Barack praised me after I gave the speech on ‘God Damn America.’ He came up to me afterwards and thanked me personally.”
What Obama doesn’t understand is that Reverend Wright holds any chance he may have of ever being president in his hands.
Obama is a novice politician. Sure, he can deliver a rehearsed speech well, but that isn’t the stuff of real politics. Politics is about remembering who your friends are, and where the bodies are buried. Obama never learned that lesson in politics, unlike the Clintons. Obama has played the dozens with a man who can destroy him. He’s given Reverend Wright every reason to now.
Da Rev-rind Jeremiah Wright... useful idiot for Operation Chaos..
Just keep talking rev-rind.
I agree it is too conspiratorial, but at the same time Wright is on record knowing that Obama would need to distance himself from him and the church to be able to advance politically. He was well aware that something like “The Speech” had to happen and that Obama had to appear mainstream to advance his campaign. Why would Wright be so upset when it actually happened?
I think it is more likely that this blew up in the Obama camp’s face in the past week. I think the Moyers interview and subsequent appearances really were meant to moderate peoples’ views of the pastor to put the issue to rest. I think both the Rev, Obama and some top Obama campaign chiefs are so distanced from real world American thinking that they do not recognize that some things both men say are absolutely appalling to us typical Americans.
I beleive they come from a small subset of the population and believe the hype around their fawning leftist base. When he says things like he did in San Fran, or at rallys talking about ‘taking profits’ from private corporations, those things seem perfectly logical in their ignorant minds.
When the Rev goes out on tv and talks about the acts of America as terrorist acts equivalent to jihadist attacks on us, it reflects the thinking of their leftist friends and political supporters. I think despite the intention to present him as a reasonable moderate politician, they cannot conceal the radical elements that surrounds the campaign and inner circle because they do not realize that many of those ideas are not common.
Let's go back in time to the days of yesteryear, to an Air Force hanger where we hear ..
"Well, I haven't left yet."
Obama’s polls are tanking. If this latest Wright appearance was to help Obama it was a disaster.
If the Obama campaign set up a PR firm for Wright when the sound bytes blew up, I bet their advice was for him to go on a lot of cruises.
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