Posted on 03/21/2008 7:53:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
Listen for a few minutes to Joey Vento, owner of a south Philadelphia institution that serves gut-busting sandwiches through a takeaway hatch, and the scale of Barack Obama's problems become apparent. Obama is having the worst week of his campaign. It is, some believe, a week that threatens his chances of becoming president.
"That minister, that was terrible, all his sayings. He's preaching hatred," Vento said. "The thing I didn't like about Obama; you're telling me for 20 years you been going to that church and you never heard that?"
Vento, 68, was speaking about Obama's former pastor and spiritual adviser, Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons have been aired repeatedly on US television denouncing the US as racist.
The clips have alienated the white voters, such as Vento, that Obama needs in his next contest with Hillary Clinton, to be held in Philadephia and the other towns and cities of Pennsylvania on April 22. But it goes further than that. The danger for Obama is not just that he could lose badly in Pennsylvania but that senior Democrats will wonder whether the loss of white votes could cost him the November general election.
Phil Singer, spokesman for Clinton, told reporters: "It's no secret that the Obama campaign is in political hot water."
Obama attempted to defuse the escalating row with a speech on Tuesday in Philadelphia in which he spoke in detail about his relationship with Wright and race in the US. It was widely acknowledged as one of his best. He wrote it on Monday night after his wife, Michelle, and their children had gone to bed. Although acclaimed by the media and political activists, his speech has failed to win over voters such as Vento.
Obama has since redoubled his efforts. Usually reluctant to offer himself up for interview,
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I read those. Since the dust up, I have heard Obama invoke the doctrine of social justice. Social justice is a term usually used to describe liberal theology in both Catholic and mainline protestant churches. That is smart of Obama because he is trying to give those in the MSM something to grab a hold of in his defense. . The social justice doctrine as I understand it usually comes from the teaching of Jesus, of which in the small sample of preaching that I have heard from Wright, I have not heard him invoke the name of Jesus. The Christianity taught in my experience is grounded in salvation through Christ and Christ as a personal saviour which comes from a reading of the Gospels which does not have to be terribly interpretative or a terribly profound reading. Obama is smart enough to know the MSM are his devoted allies and he is throwing some theology out for their consumption that chances are he h NEVER got in twenty years with Wright.
I disagree, I think that Wright instructed Obama to read Tillich and Niebuhr as a way to rationalize religion. I don’t know anyone who has read either of those theologians on their own, especially a non-Christian.
Second, is this passage from a Frontpage Mag article, which is especially relevant today.
n the book titled When Black Men Stand up for God, a collection of sermons and reflections on the Million Man March, Wright identifies Kwanzaa founder Maulana Karenga as an attendee of the rally.[13] In the end notes that follow a transcript of one of Wright's sermons, Karenga is described as "an internationally acclaimed social activist and scholar in Pan African Studies"; "the founder and creator of Kwanzaa, the well-known African American holiday"; and "the director of Pan African Studies and Visiting Lecturer in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside."[14] Unmentioned is the fact that Karenga is a self-identified "African socialist" whose "Seven Principles of Blackness," which are observed during Kwanzaa, are not only the Marxist precepts of parity and proletariat unity, but are also identical to those of the 1970s domestic terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army. Nor is it noted that in 1971 Karenga was convicted of torturing two women who were members of United Slaves, a black nationalist cult he had established.
There's lots of TWP stuff at CafePress.
I like this:
That is interesting but not surprising. I still think the most interesting story is, how, ABC and Fox got the DVD"s. Fox and ABC knows exactly what Wright has said. But they are television news organization and they do not have the time to bring the words from transcripts to the public. To do this would take an hour of time presented in documentary form. The video requires little other than the video. I have to believe ABC and Fox requested EVERY DVD that was available. They are only available through the church. They only got a small sampling. Wright decided if and WHEN the news organizations got the DVD's. Fox and ABC know there is more hate in those DVD's because they HAVE READ the transcripts. At this point, Fox and ABC do not want to ineffectively and clumsily point to the transcripts when they have hopes for more video.
1. Additional video from the time Obama attended the church.
2. Wright gives a sermon somewhere or he gives an interview.
3. A courageous MSM journalist takes on Oprah by trying to determine why she left the church, and smokes her out to the point where she has to make some kind of comment. Whatever, comment on that Oprah makes would be a bad story for Obama, because it would give Fox News a chance to replay the Wright tapes in another 3 or 4 day news cycle.
40% of all voters are white males.
I think Ramirez is great.
Brilliant.
I like that one too. Thanks.
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