Posted on 03/16/2008 11:15:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright thinks that, given their treatment by white America, black Americans have no reason to sing "God Bless America." "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America," he told his congregation. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human."
I'm not a believer in guilt by association, or the campaign vaudeville of rival politicians insisting this or that candidate dissociate himself from remarks by some fellow he had a 30-second grip'n'greet with a decade ago. But Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama's life. He married the Obamas and baptized their children. Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator's latest book, "The Audacity Of Hope," and assumed the title was an ingeniously parodic distillation of the great sonorous banality of an entire genre of blandly uplifting political writing discovered circa page 127 that in fact the phrase comes from one of the Rev. Wright's sermons. Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years – in other words, pretty much the senator's entire adult life. Did Obama consider "God Damn America" as a title for his book but it didn't focus-group so well?
Ah, well, no, the senator told ABC News. The Rev. Wright is like "an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with."
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He's right about only one thing. The three-strike law is terrible. We need to replace it... with a ONE-strike law. Then I'll sing GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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We can't do that. You know we have to protect the Caribou..
"Ouch!" indeed!
Obama is willing to pass Mr. Wright’s hate legacy to future generations by his bringing his own children to that church.
Maybe they could qualify for SCHIP like the Frost family in Baltimore that owns three cars and a commercial building?
-PJ
Obama thinks that he can simply claim ignorance and simply do a "I repudiate him" with a wave of his hand and it'll go away.
Remember that Rev. Wright is more than a passing acquaintance but his SPIRITUAL MENTOR and PASTOR for 20 years and also used his materials for his books.
Note also how Obama does not wear an American lapel pin nor places his hand on his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance. Obama's radical hate-america colors are rising to the surface and if he get the White House you can be sure that it'll be the HQ of something like the Black Panthers.
Why make the people in Alaska suffer?
The sheriff in Arizona has the best idea so far.
Wear pink jump suits and treat them all as law breakers, NO exceptions.
Why make the people in Alaska suffer?
The sheriff in Arizona has the best idea so far.
Wear pink jump suits and treat them all as law breakers, NO exceptions.
I find it so totally ironic that it takes a Canadian to be able to so precisely illustrate US politics.
Maybe I should have mentioned that I was talking about Mark Steyn.
“The Rev. Wright is like “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.”
Stupid defense on Obama’s part.
You cannot choose your uncle.
Obama CHOSE to attend that hate filled church for decades.
He could have walked away at anytime, yet....
See how easy it is to dismiss ANYTHING. And we thought Congress has amnesia when under oath, this turkey can just point to old uncle to deflect responsibility.
- Ah, well, no, the senator told ABC News. The Rev. Wright is like “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.”
His old uncle must be on the white side of the family.
Glad to read you again HOORAH
Obama is just looking more and more like some little boy who always comes up with the excuse that the dog ate his homework whenever he gets caught in anything.
Based on this association and his wife's comments, I think it's a pretty safe bet that Obama is a stealth "revolutionary". He seems to have bought into the still fashionable Marxist model, as it applies to race and probably also to economics, sex roles, and most everything else.
In short, he's Jesse Jackson, but with enough sense to know that he must conceal many of his views from the ignorant masses, at least until he gains power.
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Does anybody know? Obama has been packaged like JFK, when JFK had no senatorial achievements. He was backrolled by his very rich daddy, and ol' Joe pulled all the strings he could to gety his boy elected.
Who's behind Barack, because his rise to power has not been due to any achievement of his own.
“Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.”
Obama’s supporters want us to ignore this story… just push it under the rug. While they’ll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, they’re trying to convince us that Obama’s 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.
“When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obama’s deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.”
“Wright says that blacks can’t be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesn’t salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.”
Maybe to a place on one of the Alutian Islands out in the Bering Sea but not within a thousand miles of our children!
I didn’t write that article.
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