i'm sure HIS god is proud of him...
Posted on 03/27/2008 8:59:23 PM PDT by pissant
This was supposed to be the week that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. returned to the pulpit to preach for the first time since his anti-American sermons generated nationwide outrage and drew condemnation from his longtime parishioner, Barack Obama.
But, citing security concerns, Wright canceled his speaking engagements in Florida and Texas. A spokeswoman at his former church in Chicago said his schedule is pending.
A two-week FOX News investigation, however, has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his time in retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years.
FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.
While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.
“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.
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I wonder if Tony Rezko has anything to do with this?
LOL. I bet it is in the ‘hood too, don’t you?
What about the $10 million line of credit?
Using Obama’s house as collateral?
Looks like America has been pretty good to him.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Evidently hate pays. Hate pays well. Hate pays very very well.
that’s a shack compared to jesse jackson’s crib
America’s been pretty good to him, what with all the racism and all.
Shut up you crackers, dis be nuthin mo than a non-governmental reparation for de Jeremiah-nation, ya dig?
“Go On, Take The Money and Run”
— The Steve Miller Band
One thing you can say for the Devil, he pays well.
“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,”— so I guess he decided to skip middle classism and go directly to richism......
Wright: “God damn America for its racist white heritage and for allowing me to retire in a 1.6 million dollar home!”
i'm sure HIS god is proud of him...
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Being a poverty pimping preacher must pay real nice.
How unoriginal.
I think Michelle Osbama is right. Our kids should go to work for churches, hospitals, and schools..they can get really rich doing that. And it is not like really working.
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
It’s funny...here in “typical white people” world, most pastors and preachers barely get by and live in quite modest homes.
Go figger.
knowing we whiteys they'll all just treat him royally like he never damned America and Americans...
I wonder if any of his friends in the Middle East or African Muslim world....had anything to do with it....
The words ‘Hush money’ and ‘payoff’ come to mind.
“God DAMN America!” /s
Hush money, wisely spent.
maybe Michelle had a high falutin do nothing job, but the rest of we mere hospital employees work our arse’s off....
I would like to know more about that 10 million dollar line of credit...
I have a feeling the IRS is going to want to know more too....HEH HEH HEH HEH
**Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.**
And this apostate supposedly worked with the poor? ,sarcasm off
Cut him some slack. The Rev is just living his anti-American dream.
**One thing you can say for the Devil, he pays well.**
Only in this life of the present.
Not in eternal life.
Think about what a great house he could have if he didn’t live in a racist country.
A gated community, eh? Evidently when he sees a stranger, his inbred reaction tells him to put up a fence. Does this make Pastor Wright a typical white person?
Any chance he might need extra space to house 72 virgins for one of his radical friends ;-)
If OHB becomes President then Wright will be the new America preacher. The man got to have a nice pad.
Visited a local black church a couple yrs ago. Poor area of town. The pastor lives in a mansion and the Sunday we were there, he actually said he had been told by God that someone was going to give him a private jet so that he wouldn’t have to take commercial flights. We got up and left half way through the service.
Later we were told that it is common for the poor black community to want their pastors to be shiny and rich. They don’t see it as hypocritical but actually take pride in their leaders be ostentatious. You da man who represents us.
I read somewhere that Rev. Wright grew up in a very nice middle class section of Philedelphia. His parents were both accomplished and made sure he got educated well. Wright went to one of the best high schools in Philly during the 50's. He's not some guy who had to scrape by like a street urchin. Incredible that this guy could be so thankless for all the blessings of his life....What a buffoon!
The preacher fleecers come in all shades.
He’s just a poor black man.
Absolutely true. Some congregations intentionally feed their fleecer’s habit.
He spoke against bling-bling, which is not in the same style as understated faux-Victorian.
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of America.
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