Barack Obama's Pastor Wright Has Affair (This is in today's New York Post

The First Post ^ | 9/9/08 | Staff

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Jeremiah Wright, the firebrand pastor and former intimate of Barack Obama - the pair fell out when footage of Wright emerged damning America - is in the news again. On the front page of today's New York Post, he is accused of having an affair with one Elizabeth Payne, (pictured), a 37-year-old church worker, who has told this was the reason for the eventual breakdown of her marriage.

Payne claims she and Wright, who christened Obama's children and presided over his marriage to Michelle, began their relationship while he was an executive assistant at a Dallas church headed by one of Wright's proteges. When their relationship became known, her husband decided to terminate their marriage.

Payne, who refuses to reveal when the adulterous affair started or how she met Wright, says: "It's all true. I was involved with Rev."

However, Payne's husband, Fred Payne ... says he learned of the affair in late February when he discovered emails between his wife and Wright. "There must have been about 80 of them, back and forth," he said. "Wright said things like he was ggouing to leave his wife for Elizabeth."

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

This isn't the woman (Elizabeth Payne) or the man (Rev. Wright) that Barack Obama knew...

Barack Obama couldn't figure out what kind of man Rev. Wright was - after 20 years?

Barack Obama must be clueless?

Or, Barack Obama has really good judgment?

[mewzilla]

Forget the affair. I still wanna know what the deal is with Rev. Wright’s McMansion, multiple Mercedes, and ten million dollar line of credit.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What say you to this?

[Mamzelle]

Riding dirty?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

You can walk and chew bubble-gum, too, as can anyone else.

IOW, you (and others in America) can talk about the affair, the McMansion, multiple mercedes, etc.

[scottinoc]

Can’t wait for this dirtbag’s book to come out. I believe it’s still scheduled for release in October. Much hand-wringing on the horizon for the dems.

[edpc]

Just sex. No big deal. Just ask Jesse, Clinton, Edwards, etc....

[Joyell]

I say he’s a nut.

[tx_eggman]

Seems to me that Wright follows the same code of ethics as Jesse Jackson, Slick Willie and John Edwards ...

Hey fellas, that appendage has a hole in it so your brain can get enough air.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

The September 9, 2008 New York Post column is entitled “O Pastor In Sex Scandal.”

[brownsfan]

It looks to me like the Rev hooked up with a white woman?

I wonder how that fits in Black Liberation Theology?

[eureka!]

I wonder if someone with tell Bill Clinton about this ‘ridin dirty’, after being accused of the same by Wright...

[RichInOC]

Jerry’s cock is coming home to roost, no?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

“I say he’s a nut.”

How come Barack Obama couldn’t figure that out after 20 years?

[econjack]

"People wouldn’t be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man."

She's 27 years younger than her husband and chooses to have an affair with her pastor? Wright, who doesn't seem to like "whitey" much goes along with the idea. I can understand Wright's motivations, if for no other reason than striking out against whitey, but what's her reason? Power? Or just a yen for older men. Weird.

[Arec Barrwin]

Did you read the last sentence of this article?

“After discovering the relationship, Payne, who had married Elizabeth in October 2006, asked for a divorce. ‘I was downright mad about this bulls-—,’ said Payne. ‘People wouldn’t be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man.’”

Wow.

[MarkeyD]

I think this story is BS.

However, Payne's husband, Fred Payne, 64, who works "in the oil and gas business" and who belongs to a hunting club and makes his own bullets, is more open.

"People wouldn’t be happy to know that my wife was sleeping with a black man."

Just trying to make what sounds like a would be conservative into a racist.

[umgud]

What's wrong with this picture?

[mewzilla]

Arguably the affair could be construed as something that only Wright, Wright's family, the woman, and Wright's church could/should give a hang about.

But an institution that I'm assuming is tax-exempt messing around with its books, possibly breaking one or more laws, now that's something that should justifiably bug everyone.

[Tenacious 1]

Note:

This just happened in the past two years, if the article is true. It references the start of the now finished marriage as 2006. This is not old news, as I first suspected.