Posted on 03/14/2008 9:54:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CHICAGO, March 5 The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obamas presidential announcement.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.
But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack, Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. One of his members had talked him into uninviting me, Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obamas campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obamas decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaigns apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wrights teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said the campaign disinvited Mr. Wright because it did not want the church to face negative attention. Mr. Wright did however, attend the announcement and prayed with Mr. Obama beforehand.
Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church, but because of the type of attention it was receiving on blogs and conservative talk shows, he decided to avoid having statements and beliefs being used out of context and forcing the entire church to defend itself, Mr. Burton said.
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Obama’s pastor is a pastor from HELL! Never in my life, have I heard a pastor profane the name of God in a sermon.
This shows that Obama makes very bad decisions. He is in need of much help.
Can someone say two faced?
Same as when he was first confronted on this issue - he said: "He's no longer my pastor." - well, in that he had just retired, not because Obama had, after 20 years of listening to these diatribes, left the church.
Obama speaks with a slick tongue.
He 'dis-invites' the rev. to speak publicly, but has him back stage to pray with him -
That speaks volumes - Wright is indeed his mentor - and they have a agenda...and it ain't a good one for this country
Sassy is on to something when she compared the the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the Pastor Fred Phelps. Both seem to have such hate in them & hate towards this country.
Coulda made him even worse but it’s late, lol.
She has the common sense, sincerity, intelligence, knowledge, and intuitiveness of an Angel - and a future conservative!
Hardly a surprise. But IMO, this has been in the Hitlery arsenal for some time. She springs the trap before Penna, and perhaps hopes to “run th table”, and then to torture the supers through June.
I’m more than convinced that Hillery will be the Democrat nominee.
I certainly hope so. I didn’t even see it until she mentioned it but I agree with her.
What to do? What to do?
What was that the good Rev. was saying about chickens coming home to roost?
Looks like they won't have an egg shortage any time soon.
well , ... Cindy , .. .. I think we should all give this some Moving Inertia , no?
Mah’hah Rushie will be proud , .. *smirk*
btw ,.. isn’t it a Good Thing to point-out a Fraud & Liar {???}
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Notice the DVD videos of Wright
Both hands over the podium -
Moving together
Gang-Banger style
Convict style
Cripes & Bloods style
Wright has a dark background
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Another black Trinity Church “Rev” spewing “the context of the black experience.....” BS
Watching 99% of Wright’s congregation going nuts with him on videos might make most Americans re-evaluate many things
“Tradition” - “Culture”
BS!
David Gergen is on CNN pimping for Obama-Wright now!
Tony Perkins of FRC is giving a (restrained) sane commentary now
Obama was toast
Obama is now burnt toast
Anyone for burnt toast?
How many blacks know that the KKK was an organization of the democrats???
all they have to do is GOOGLE it...and how many realize that MKL Jr. was a - gasp - republican...and it is the Republican blacks that are fulfilling his Dream...
Getting interesting!
[Anyone for burnt toast?]
They all shake their fingers at us. I don’t recall ever doing that when speaking.
It's just that Obama has been the media's guy. Why have they turned on him?
Were he to jump in, then the media and the dems would all turn it back on him and he'd be made the issue instead of "O" = It's good strategy to let these two dimRats duke it out and throw the mud - at each other.
It's the better part of wisdom not to get between two fighting cats - or dogs... Let them beat each other bloody right up to their convention - at which time the real powder will go off. Hopefully, enough sheeple will wake up and think: "If the democrats can't run a campaign better that this, how can they run the country?"
Obama’s pastor is a pastor from HELL! Never in my life, have I heard a pastor profane the name of God in a sermon.
This shows that Obama makes very bad decisions. He is in need of much help.
At least that is the plan....
Wait till the new commercials come out with Obama’s pastor ranting GD America and McCain singing bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb Iran...who to vote for?...lol...
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Gangster-Rap hand gestures
Little things like that mean a lot to the “culture”
Now you see where Michelle “Limo” Obama Junior got her talking points
We need a FReeper who can read those gestures
Tonight Obama is all over cable TV saying “I never heard it or heard about it!”
Anderson Cooper on CNN now going after McCain’s evangelical friends
“Controversy with John McCain”
It won’t work Cooper!
Back to the bath houses Cooper!
Their defense of Wright is making some very crazy
The tapes came from Trinity's own website where they are for sale. Some blogger (it's hard to imagine an MSM reporter making the effort) finally ponied up $50 for the "Best of Pastor Wright" DVD collection. But it would not surprise me to learnthat Clintonistas were involved.
You can go to the website and see that indeed, Farrakhan was honored in a cover story of "The Trumpet," Trinity's house publication in November ("Life Acheivement Award").
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