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BARACK'S REV. 'STOLE A WIFE'
New York Post ^ | 05/04/2008 | SUSANNAH CAHALAN and VERONICA HINKE in Chicago and BRAD HAMILTON in New York

Posted on 05/04/2008 6:13:07 AM PDT by safetysign

May 4, 2008 -- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner - after the man sought Wright's help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends.

Delmer Reed, 59, confided to pals that he believed the minister moved in on his wife while Wright was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 1980s, The Post has learned.

"That's exactly how he said it," Reed's divorce lawyer, Roosevelt Thomas, told The Post.

"It looks like Delmer might have been right," he said, because after Delmer and Ramah Reed were divorced, she got remarried - to Wright. "Either that or this was the biggest coincidence in the world."

Asked about the relationship between Wright and his ex-wife, Reed told The Post, "Oh, the things I could tell you."

Initially, he didn't believe the rumors.

"People were telling me that my extremely attractive wife was seen with the pastor," Reed said. "But I didn't believe it. I thought, 'So what?' "

Was he wrong in the end?

"Well, yeah," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: counseling; delmerreed; obama; ramahreed; wright
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To: safetysign

wELL, WELL, WELL, OLE PREACH DID SOME ‘TIPPING’ AROUND, HUH?


41 posted on 05/04/2008 7:38:51 AM PDT by gulfcoast6
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To: safetysign

What a low life skank.


42 posted on 05/04/2008 7:39:43 AM PDT by RU88 (The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
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To: safetysign

At this point, I don’t care about the Reverend..it’s all just gossip and character assassination by the press. I don’t like when they do it to us, and I don’t like when they do it to the other side. We know what Wright is...the rest is all details..and we do not need to know the details of a private citizen’s life. That’s how I feel. It demeans us as a society.


43 posted on 05/04/2008 7:44:21 AM PDT by Hildy (It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that determine who we truly are. - J.K. Rowling)
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To: tsmith130
Just in time for more news about the Disaster Pastor.

44 posted on 05/04/2008 7:47:49 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Typical white person, bitter, religious, gun owner, who will "Just say No to BO (or HRC).")
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To: safetysign

I am sure this whole thing does not sound so bad if it is “put in context.”


45 posted on 05/04/2008 7:52:17 AM PDT by blau993 (Fight Gerbil Swarming)
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To: safetysign

This is not an attack on just one immoral adulterer who abused his fiduciary duty and role as counselor, it’s an attack on the entire world of immoral adulterers who abuse their fiduciary duty and role of counselor.


46 posted on 05/04/2008 7:57:07 AM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
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To: safetysign

Wright is “ridin’ dirty”!


47 posted on 05/04/2008 8:15:24 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: safetysign
Activist Derrick Mosley, a self-styled minister who has clashed with Wright, said there's an "unwritten rule" that pastors don't counsel married couples separately - as Wright did with Ramah Reed, he said. In 2003, Mosley said, "I called him on the carpet about the indecorous manner in which he'd obtained his wife." In response, said Mosley, "he ranted and raved from the pulpit. He got up and announced, 'If Derrick Mosley is in the building, I want you all to arrest him.' "

Striking similarities are beginning to emerge.


48 posted on 05/04/2008 8:21:45 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: AmericanMade1776
Is that an actual photo of Obama smoking?? If so is there any background about the photo?

I don't if it's real or photoshopped...I found it on Google Image a while back. But it sure looks real, doesn't it?

49 posted on 05/04/2008 8:23:56 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: safetysign

Looks like Wright’s “liberation theology” includes ‘liberating’ the wives of his parishoners.


50 posted on 05/04/2008 8:24:35 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: safetysign

a pillar of virtue , that Rev., eh?

that turned into a pile of crap..


51 posted on 05/04/2008 8:49:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... Home at last, Thank God almighty I am home at last!)
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To: AmericanMade1776; SonOfDarkSkies

“Is that an actual photo of Obama smoking??”

Obama gave up smoking before the current campaign started

From the article linked below:
“Obama, who gave up smoking before running for president, has talked
about the nation’s obesity epidemic on the campaign trail.”

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_560943.html


52 posted on 05/04/2008 8:56:37 AM PDT by VOA
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To: tips up

Oh Noes....

53 posted on 05/04/2008 8:58:30 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Yeah, I smoked it, but I never inhaled...)
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To: safetysign
This sort of thing happens more often than most people realize. The average preacher has little if any training in marital counseling but commonly assumes his sincere desire to "help" or "minister," especially to attractive young female parishioners, is enough. Self-deception blinds these fools to their true intentions.
54 posted on 05/04/2008 9:13:51 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: safetysign

Not the first time I’ve heard of a situation like this. Pretty low and weaselly to take advantage of someone under the guise of giving them marriage counseling.


55 posted on 05/04/2008 11:34:07 AM PDT by Mila
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To: Morgana

YUM!!!!


57 posted on 05/04/2008 12:14:16 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: safetysign

And why would anybody in the right mind would go to a “Reverend” to save his or her marriage?

Religious preachers are not professional psychologists.


58 posted on 05/04/2008 12:24:53 PM PDT by sagar
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To: SonOfDarkSkies; VOA; poindexter

I knew that Obama quit cold turkey his addiction of smoking cigarettes right before the election. Quite a catch to have a picture of him with the cigarette in his mouth..funny


59 posted on 05/04/2008 3:35:37 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: safetysign

Looks like Rev. Wright was “ridin’ dirty.” ;)


60 posted on 05/04/2008 3:42:06 PM PDT by anymouse
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