What led Obama to Wright's church

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[Sub-Driver]

What led Obama to Wright's church How a man of ambition found connections at Chicago's Trinity

By Christi Parsons and Manya A. Brachear

Tribune reporters

3:31 AM CDT, May 3, 2008 Click here to find out more!

The day Barack Obama first showed up in the office of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., more than 20 years ago, the pastor warned him that getting involved with Trinity United Church of Christ might not be "a feather in your cap."

Obama was a community organizer trying to build support for his group on the South Side of Chicago, and a friendly minister at another church had suggested he'd have more luck with black clergy if he joined a congregation himself.

"Some of my fellow clergy don't appreciate what we're about," Wright told him that day, as Obama would later recount it. "They feel like we're too radical. Others, we ain't radical enough."

Obama ended up joining, a story he tells in his memoirs, and later was influenced enough by Wright to derive the title of a subsequent book, "The Audacity of Hope," from one of the pastor's sermons.

But despite the warning, the association did not seem to be a terribly risky one for Obama, given the arc of the career he was beginning to craft even then.

He was building his résumé as a street-savvy community organizer while also applying for admission to law school. Within the walls of Trinity he found a connection to the African-American community he'd lacked as a child raised by his white mother and grandparents, an important cultural marker for a biracial candidate who later would try to appeal to black and white voters alike.

[hosepipe]

[ What led Obama to Wright's church ]

Marxist, victimology.. The need for other peoples money and to blame personal faults on other people.. AND to hang with others with the same NEEDS...

[ducdriver]

What exactly do you suppose a “community organizer” is?

[Luke21]

What a load of crap.

[Chickensoup]

What exactly do you suppose a “community organizer” is?

It is a Marxist sucking at the government teat.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

"Some of my fellow clergy don't appreciate what we're about," Wright told him that day, as Obama would later recount it. "They feel like we're too radical. Others, we ain't radical enough."

Let me rephrase and quantify that statement so Obama can't get away with the vague liberal construct of "some" and "others:"

"99.99% of my fellow clergy don't appreciate what we're about," Wright told him that day, as Obama would later recount it. "They feel like we're too radical. For 00.01%, we ain't radical enough."

[jonrick46]

I thought it was Obama’s co-worker Mike Kruglik who steered Obama to Jerimiah Wright’s church. No mention of Marxist Commi Kruglik here.

[Nathan Zachary]

"But despite the warning, the association did not seem to be a terribly risky one for Obama"...

Oh, so in other words, he KNEW right from the start what racist Wright and his racist church was all about, and he didn't consider it was a 'risk' to his political career, which at that point didn't even exist. In fact, it was on the same course where Obama himself was heading, building a political career using racism, white hatred to fuel his rise to political power.

How nice of him to admit it.

[shineon]

The smell of fresh donuts.

[Revolting cat!]

"'Coz that's where the money is!"

[HereInTheHeartland]

“What exactly do you suppose a “community organizer” is?”

It sounds like plumbing terminology. Maybe the “community organizer” is where all the sewage from a certain neighborhood flows to!

[RGSpincich]

What exactly do you suppose a “community organizer” is?

CinQue of the Symbionese Liberation Army "organized" truckloads of food for the poor while he had Patty Hearst tied up in a clost.

[libstripper]

Read the article carefully. You'll discover that Wright's church was, for the entire term of Obama's membership, into "black liberation theology," a code term for turning a church into a radical, Marxist anti-white, anti-American organization, Indeed, the main thing that differentiates Wright's church from the other United Churches of Christ is its emphasis on blackness; anti-American Marxism disguised as Christianity characterizes the UCC church entity. Add to that the fact that Wright is a hugely entertaining, articulate speaker, and you come up with service after service where congregants would be coming to be both entertained and informed, the high point of the week for many of them. Hence, Obama had to be irresistibly attracted to the church, had to know and support its anti-white, anti-capitalist, and anti-American message, and must still secretly agree with all of them now as, indeed, IMHO, he remains a secret Muslim.

[Nevadan]

re: What exactly do you suppose a “community organizer” is?

What I have been wondering is how a “community organizer” gets paid. Who pays them for all their “organizing”? I have never seen a wanted ad for such a job title.

[DugwayDuke]

I would suspect they are paid with grants from charitable organizations or the government. Soros probably has a couple hundred working for him.

[knarf]

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

I will make a typical white statement here ...

Obama is the typical black male .. ruled and directed by women all his life.

[Nevadan]

You are probably right. I would like to find out who was supporting him and what their agenda was.

[Louis Foxwell]

That 1 100th of 1% are interested in human sacrifice on their altars. Even Wright has not been able to figure out how to get to the left of that group.
So now we know that Obama considered Trinity the most extreme church in Chicago from his initial contact.

[gscc]

My wife grew up in the UCC Church and we know it intimately. It is a cult - a blend of secular humanism, liberal politics and Christianity. It does not teach or believe in the Scriptures and is definitely not Christian.