Posted on 03/15/2008 7:01:05 AM PDT by jdm
As Paul notes below, Barack Obama denies having personally heard the now notorious statements of Jeremiah Wright:
The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.Obama reiterated this assertion in an interview on FOX News with Major Garret yesterday:
None of these statements were ones that I had heard myself personally in the pews. One of them I had heard about after I had started running for president and I put out a statement at that time condemning them.Hiroshima and Nagasaki figure prominently in Wright's condemnation of the United States in his disgusting post 9/11 sermon:
The other statements were ones that I just heard about while we were... when they started being run on FOX and some of the other stations. And so they weren't things that I was familiar with.
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and the black South Africans, and now we are indignant. Because the stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back into our own front yard. America's chickens are coming home to roost.At NRO's Corner, Rich Lowry discovers an admiring allusion to this vein of Wright's rhetoric in Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father about the first sermon Obama heard Wright give:
The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.” He began with a passage from the Book of Samuel—the story of Hannah, who, barren and taunted by her rivals, had wept and shaken in prayer before her God. The story reminded him, he said, of a sermon a fellow pastor had preached at a conference some years before, in which the pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.(Emphasis added by Lowry; the text of Wright's sermon is here.) In other words, as Lowry notes: "Wright when he first got to know him was pretty much the same Wright we're getting to know now (the one that Obama is at pains to say is on the verge of retirement). Wright was striking some of the same notes, saying racially venomous things and attacking the bombing of Hiroshima."
“The painting depicts a harpist,” Reverend Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountain. Until you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate. The reverend spoke of the hardship that the congregation would face tomorrow, the pain of those far from the mountaintop, worrying about paying the light bill…
Depends on what the definition of ‘hear’ is....?
Surely he being such a fine upstanding Christian would not lie. Would he?
Now, all the Clintons have to do is to tie he and his wife to being in attendance at one of his rants.
That would make Hillary the next president.
“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
That statement tends to conflict with Obama’s statement that he did not know Wright’s hateful posture
I gotta admit - for all the nincompoopery on the Hildabeast’s side, they aren’t sunk yet.
“Audacity of Hope” was a 1990 sermon of Jeremiah Wright, according to one of our posts. And Barack Obama said he joined that church in 1991 or 1992, so he must have actually been attending that church prior to 1990, because he wrote the book based on the 1990 sermon. Churches used to make tapes of sermons and sell them as far back as 80’s, so a tape of Audacity of Hope is out there somewhere.
McCain/Jindal will defeat Hillary!
Unfortunately, the population who put Obama into office will keep him there - they have the same hateful beliefs expressed by this minister. What this entire scandal has done is to give insight to the beliefs of millions of black churches and to the hatred they have been preaching for decades. The press will bury it if they can but the cat is out of the bag.
The Audacity of Hate.
It’s all about the camophlauge. When did Wright make that statement and to whom, do you remember?
There is a post on FR that dates Jeremiah Wrights “Audacity of Hope” sermon as 1990, and they posted it from a sermon website.
Very interesting. It’s like all the pieces are coming together. Obama, who was strikingly undefined before, a real mystery man, is now rapidly being defined by his proximity to this Wright character.
It’s happening quickly because Obama has been like a vacuum, and this is the first real thing that’s emerged to fill it.
and they are doing it very quietly.
The silence is deafening.
“The audacity of hype”
Good title
You know...Rev. J is the best thing that has happened to Hillary lately....now she can destroy O'bummer without invoking the Ft Marcy Park option....which would have exposed her to potental charges....
Now O'bummer gets to live....and Hillary gets what she wants....
...everybody wins..except We, the people.
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