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History provides examples of so many things. We would like to believe that our lives and events are unique and fresh. The truth is much less alluring. In truth there is little that happens which is truly 'new'. If we look hard enough, we can always find that what we see today has happened to someone else in the past. Sometimes we just have to look a little further back than we want to.As George Santayana quipped, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Barack Obama should have considered those words very carefully. April 28,...

DEMOCRATS' HYBRID PICKUP TRUCKSMay 14, 2008 On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent. Talk about dirty tricks! By The New York Times, that is. The Republican thus accused of racism narrowly lost the election the night the Times article appeared, so I guess the Times can proclaim: "Mission Accomplished." The ad in question, on behalf of Republican Greg Davis, pointed out that Barack Obama had endorsed Davis' opponent, Travis Childers -- another in...

Revelations concerning the preaching of Rev. Wright have hit the airways recently; his message exhibits a recurring theme, petitioning God to curse America.  Repeatedly his message condemns the country that shelters him, gave him an education, and provides him an environment to preach his anti-American, pro-Marxist theme of hate, rebellion and racial prejudice all the while providing him a 6 to 7 figure income to promote his bile.           His major thesis is that God has cursed this country and requests God to damn our country.  I would like to share a few thoughts from this humble preacher whose message is...

Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at Barack Obama's Chicago church, subscribes to the ideology of retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and is expected to continue Wright's legacy, according to Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black panther Party... Obama, however said this past weekened he will continue his membership in Trinity. He referred to Moss as "wonderful." "Well, you know, the new pastor - the young pastor, Rev. Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor. And as I said, I still very much value the Trinity community," Obama told the New York...

On Monday April 28th, I was seated directly in front of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club as he recommitted himself to the very bigotry-laced anti-Americanism that his most famous long-time parishioner, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, had contended were feelings the reverend no longer possessed. Exactly one month earlier on ABC Television's “The View,” Mr. Obama argued that he wouldn't have stayed with Trinity United Church of Christ had the reverend “not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people” and was “inappropriate.”

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Right about how U.S. Government Uses Blacks for Medical Experiments, Including AIDSby Mike Adams (see all articles by this author) (NaturalNews) Regarding the current controversy about Rev. Wright and U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama, Rev. Wright is actually quite correct about the U.S. government's exploitation of black Americans for medical experiments (and worse). What Rev. Wright is saying about the way the U.S. government has treated blacks in the last 200 years is remarkably accurate to anyone who has bothered to actually study American history. For starters, I recommend you read A People's History of...

Were the Clintons behind Wright? Clintonista machinations and the intuitive brilliance of my wifeBy Christopher CookWere the Clintons behind Wright's appearance at the National Press Club? That is the supposition, based on developing information, at the New York Daily News, the Anchoress, and Strata-sphere.Here are the key grafs from the Daily News: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted.Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright...

OUT OF 'CONTEXT' OR OUT OF HIS MIND?April 30, 2008 Whew! I'm certainly glad to hear the "snippets" from Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons "in context." In the famous B. Hussein Obama speech that sent a tingle down Chris Matthews' leg, Obama dismissed the clips of Rev. Wright being played on TV as mere "snippets." He claimed the media were highlighting Wright's "most offensive words," complaining that they had been played endlessly, as if repetition were the problem with the statement: "GOD DAMN AMERICA!" It's absolutely unheard of to repeat passages from famous speeches. In fact, I have a dream that...

N.B. bold red-letter emphasis is mine. The original article's emphasis is making the case that Barack Obama is a Muslim. My emphasis is that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ claims to have "many Muslim members." --Dajjal http://www.sonsofapesandpigs.org/2008/02/press-release-america-is-being.html Press Release: America is being fooled by Barak Hussein Obama!! [posted by] ibn Misr on February 15, 2008 We ask for your immediate attention, and viral dissemination of this news. America is being fooled by Barak Hussein Obama!! "YES, MUSLIMS ARE MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH." "WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH WHO ARE MUSLIMS." I am Usama K. Dakdok,...

Scroll down for press conference blogging… What, pray tell, could Barack Obama possibly say now to undo the damage of his two decades of bad judgment about Jeremiah Wright? Will he weigh in on black liberation theology? Wright's phrenological discourse? How about Wright's defense of his comparison between the Roman soldiers who killed Jesus and the US Marine Corps? Inquiring minds want to know. Maybe we'll find out: Obama was asked about Rev. Jeremiah Wright just now by a woman in Winston-Salem who tells the audience to watch his PBS interview, which will quell their concerns. "I'm going to be...

As one who is distressed hearing the Urban Legends pouring from the mouth of a popular minister, I think it is important to document how he cleverly weaves stories which many either want to believe or can be swayed to believe, but are not true. Please post and document the Urban Legends, lies and distortions you find.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted. Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds. A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister). It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of...

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has wriggled out from under sound bites and screen-grab loops to put himself into context in that most American of ways: on television. And he went deep into context — a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics. Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, was cocky, defiant, declamatory, inflammatory and mischievous, but most of all, he was all over the place, performing a television triathlon of interview, lecture and live news conference that pushed Mr. Obama aside and placed himself front and center in the presidential election campaign. His rehabilitation...

The truth Obama doesn't want you to know Posted: April 25, 20081:00 am Eastern © 2008  Ever since the hateful, anti-American tirades of Rev. Jeremiah Wright were first reported on the news, media analysts and political pundits have been waiting for the moment when some political group would use them in a TV ad.Now that moment has arrived, with the unveiling of this television ad by the North Carolina Republican Party.Many on the political left (especially the media) are pronouncing and denouncing the ad. Even Senator John McCain is splashing around this quote:We asked them not to run it. … I...

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has taken Barack Obama's critically acclaimed race speech in Philadelphia, ripped it to bits and tossed it in the air to serve as confetti for his parade through the media... Then cometh the good reverend to step all over the out-of-context defense in a speech at the National Press Club. He defended his "chickens come home to roost" statement about 9/11 in exactly the same terms as in his original sermon: "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you." He stood by his damnation of America and his...

What a difference a few hours make. As we saw in this morning's DUFU EDITION, the KOmmies were cheerleading on Jeremiah Wright, completely oblivious to the harmful effect he would have to Barack Obama. However, after a few hours passed by, the KOmmies began to finally wake up to the fact that Wright is KILLING the Obama campaign as you can see in this THREAD nervously titled, "Wright is a big fat distraction when Obama needs it least." Welcome to the Real World, KOmmies! So let us now watch the KOmmies bite their fingernails over the Wright Stuff in...

The spinners of the Obama campaign and the Illinois senator's Old Media sycophants that have been trying to convince Americans that the remarks of Rev. Jeremiah Wright have been misquoted or taken out of context are probably going to get drunk tonight if they have not already done so. Many of them sat with dropped jaw this morning as they watched Barack Obama's former pastor repeat the outrageous claims made in several sermons over the past few years. Flanked by bodyguards on loan from Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, Rev. Wright played to a packed and stacked audience at the...

I gave him the benefit of the doubt last week when he danced around this question with Moyers. No more. Here’s his clarification, making it very clear that he meant just what his critics thought he meant, that one shouldn’t take the Messiah’s not-so-high dudgeon over his sermons too seriously since he’ll say whatever he needs to say to get elected. Geraghty, among others, thinks he’s sinking Obama’s campaign. My pessimism makes me skeptical, but Ambinder argues that Wright has Team Barry boxed in: The nuttier he sounds, the fewer options they have except to hope that he eventually comes...

Obama's pastor replies to critics Clips of Rev Wright's sermons caused a storm in March Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of the US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has hit back at critics of his fiery sermons. In two speeches, to journalists and African-American activists, Mr Wright said that attacks on him were attacks on the black church. And he said that his six years of service in the military was proof of his patriotism. Senator Obama rejected Mr Wright's language in a speech last month. Publicity campaign Mr Wright remained silent when old sermons containing politically charged remarks...