We don't need this person as President -- let alone in the Senate.
Posted on 03/07/2008 7:02:16 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
Thursday, March 6, 2008 3:54 PM
www.newsmax.com
By: Ronald Kessler
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly, forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10: We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and — and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He rarely mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels proud of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said she feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America mentality also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach to national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close association with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters decide whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future.
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com.
“Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don’t agree with.” “
I bet there were folks who said that about Adolph Hitler.
Sometimes? That is terribly vague of Obama.
That could mean a million things.
Could mean they disagree on coffee or tea, milk or soda.
I would like to hear specifically, what Obama doesn't agree with.
Onkel Adi?
Sounds like FDR talking about his buddy Uncle Joe Stalin.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, is a RACIST & KOOK!
Could you listen to such sermons for twenty years and not be deeply affected by it? Heads up, America.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC04Aa01.html
She is rabid against whites...these two are the Messiahs of the Black Power movement -
I wonder if she initially introduced “O” to the Weathermen? She also hates the establishment, corporate America etc...
While everyone is focused on “The Fence”, this group is a breathe away from the Oval Office/
I am gonna start a solidarity with the Jewish people similar to what Denmark did when it save each and every member of its Jewish population from the Nazi scourge. I am first going to go out and get a star of David necklace and start to wear it it just like all the citizens of Denmark wore the yellow star. Then the anti Zionists will know they have more than just the actual Jews to contend with—they have the friends of Isreal to contend with too and we are smarter than they are.
We invaded Grenada after the Communist Maurice Bishop was deposed-and killed-through an internal coup.
And we did it because Cuba was erecting defense installations on the island and American medical students were being held hostage.
Where did this putz get his divinity degree?
McSeminary?
Shush now for a bit, til brother Obie gets the nod & nomination!
That's exactly how we should see her.
What does that mean.?
Gosh he has my vote.
**Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10: We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and — and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”**
Never heard of a minister talking like this. Have you?
We don't need this person as President -- let alone in the Senate.
“Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.”
This guy is a lunatic who seems to subscribe to every hate-American, blame-America line of nonsense ever made up by a failing nation or failing individual.
That Obama even tolerated this nut, let alone considered him an adviser, should disqualify Obama in the eyes of all half thinking voters. Obama chose to keep company with and attend the church pastored by Wright, apparently for years.
I believe COMPLICENT is more descriptive word...
The racist minister spoke directly to Obama's heart....
This was in 2006 and he totally dismisses Condi Rice?????
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