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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Wright does not deserve to be called a reverend, or to be a pastor anymore. I shudder to think about all the people he has led astray. He is definitley a wolf in sheepskins.


38 posted on 09/09/2008 8:02:09 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Did Obama possess the good judgment to not be led astray by Wright or even take him as his pastor, mentor, spiritual advisor etc, in the first place?

Or could it be that Wright’s congregants (including Barack Obama) knew that Wright was a nutcase, a jerk and a racist - but just didn’t care?

Could it be? Just wondering...


50 posted on 09/09/2008 8:10:41 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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According to two sources, Winfrey was never comfortable with the tone of Wright’s more incendiary sermons, which she knew had the power to damage her standing as America’s favorite daytime talk-show host. “Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost,” said one longtime friend, who requested anonymity when discussing Winfrey’s personal sentiments. “She’s always been aware that her audience is very mainstream, and doing anything to offend them just wouldn’t be smart. She’s been around black churches all her life, so Reverend Wright’s anger-filled message didn’t surprise her. But it just wasn’t what she was looking for in a church.” Oprah’s decision to distance herself came as a surprise to Wright, who told Christianity Today in 2002 that when he would “run into her socially … she would say, ‘Here’s my pastor!’ “

http://www.newsweek.com/id/135392


54 posted on 09/09/2008 8:18:22 AM PDT by maggief (Difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ... lipstick!)
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