Jeremiah Wright: ‘We cannot see that what we are doing is the same as al-Qaeda...

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[Free ThinkerNY]

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Jim Geraghty Reporting

BARACK OBAMA

Jeremiah Wright: ‘We cannot see that what we are doing is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag.'

Hugh Hewitt offers new audio of two sermons of Jeremiah Wright, one from September 2001 and one from April 2003.

Permit me to propose a new rule: If your mentor of 20 years has ever declared the United States to be ‘the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!’ you are ineligible for the Presidency.

In the first excerpt, Wright urges his congregations to say with him, "enemies," as he describes Jesus' enemies, "a provisional government with all of the political power and an occupying army."

Wright describes Roman soldiers who mistreated Jesus as "Commandos.. trained in urban command and trained to kill on command... the Third Marine Regiment of Rome," and that Jesus was mistreated "as a prisoner of war."

He describes the Roman presence in Jerusalem as "Operation Israeli Freedom." (So in this America-as-Rome metaphor, is Abu Zarqawi Jesus?)

"It was the Italian Army that led Jesus to Calvary Friday morning."

[Free ThinkerNY]

[Inyo-Mono]

I thought the IRS would go after a church if went political. What is going on here?

[DarthVader]

“In the first excerpt, Wright urges his congregations to say with him, “enemies,” as he describes Jesus’ enemies, “a provisional government with all of the political power and an occupying army.””

Jeremiah Wright = a false minister who preaches another gospel of damable heresies.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Liberal rule #1: What applies to Republicans must not apply to DemonRats.

[GOPJ]

Jeremiah Wright’s David Duke - just a different color.

[appleharvey]

I thought the IRS would go after a church if went political. What is going on here?

What's the matter with you? Don't you realize that Wright is speaking the word of God, and Obama is God's son. Haven't you watched the nightly news?

[samtheman]

America, the modern day Roman soldiers, came to Iraq to crucify Hussein, the modern day Jesus.

But praise be! Hussein has risen again! Hussein walks amongst us!

Hussein will take America to the promised land of total surrender and defeat that all guilt-ridden whities so yearn for!

Praise be to Hussein!

[Squantos]

Yep no less than a rabid dog that needs to be put down........doom on him and his racist handlers !

[Always Right]

Quit taking his actual words and taking them out of context. I am sure when he compared the US to al-Qeada he meant it in a positive way.

[RichInOC]

He’s right. I can’t.

[E. Cartman]

I thought the IRS would go after a church if went political. What is going on here?

No. That only applies to mainstream churches and ones without large African-American congregations. How do you think the Clintons got away with it?

[smoketree]

While the reverend moves into his multi million dollar retirement house with a 10 million dollar line of credit all in the land of the great oppressor and mass murderer.

Is there something wrong here or is it just all us bitter people who see the hypocrisy

[hosepipe]

Whos the "WE".. that he talks of..
You know Jerry Wright looks a lot like Bob Barr..
Could be his brother..

[seoul62]

He is talking about code word: whitey. I am only half white but in looking at him, these thoughts come to my mind: he looks whiter than me and how on earth is he a man of the cloth, with the cursing on the pulpit????? Reverend, with all do respect, inquiring minds want to know./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Earthdweller]

Is Wright purposely trying to derail Obama?

[JRochelle]

This is why I am voting for Obama next month!

Obama will be lucky to win 6 states this November.

Then they will know what bitter is!

[Inyo-Mono]

What's the matter with you? Don't you realize that Wright is speaking the word of God, and Obama is God's son. Haven't you watched the nightly news?

Sorry, I pulled the plug on the TV three years ago. My teenage daughter now has a 4.3 grade average.

[DGHoodini]

Ya gotta be kidding! He really expects people to buy this crap?

This is a clear case of Immoral Equivalance. For The Wrong Reverend Wright, all things are equally evil...except him...and blacks...that believe whatever he tells them...

[Dajjal]

Here's another Amerikkka-hating "friend of Obama."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006110/posts
The Art of Politics ["Obey Obama"]

Shepard Fairey, the artist who designed the official fund-raising set of Obama posters, like this one:

Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his own artwork, such as these.
See Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints

[boycott]

Here’s a link to a video of the entire sermon. Videos 2 & 3 cover most of rev. Wright’s comments that have been discussed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352661,00.html

[Eagles6]

I found wright’s entire sermons much more disturbing than just the frothing at the mouth out takes that we have heard. obama is a far left radical kook and he believes this crap or he wouldn’t have sat there nodding in the pew for 20 yrs.

[rlmorel]

That Obama would say THIS about his association with Bill Ayers tells you all you need to know about him:

"...The notion that ... me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense...."

[the invisib1e hand]

I thought the IRS would go after a church if went political. What is going on here?

Apparently some are more political than others.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[Blind Eye Jones]

Under al Qaeda rule the man would be missing fingers, hands and his head; whereas, under Democratic rule, if he loses anything, he's clearly lost his head for not reasoning this out.

[ishmac]

I found wright’s entire sermons much more disturbing than just the frothing at the mouth out takes that we have heard. obama is a far left radical kook and he believes this crap or he wouldn’t have sat there nodding in the pew for 20 yrs.

Exactly! Hearing the context of the sound bites is even more damning than the sound bites alone.

[expatguy]

Jihad: From Jakarta to the White House

Google it ;-)

[Interesting Times]

Jeremiah Wright: ‘We cannot see that what we are doing is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag.'

Speak for yourself, Jerry...

[ishmac]

Ya gotta be kidding! He really expects people to buy this crap?

This is a clear case of Immoral Equivalance. For The Wrong Reverend Wright, all things are equally evil...except him...and blacks...that believe whatever he tells them...

It is disgraceful. The intellectual level of these talks is beneath contempt. That two Harvard Law grads would chose this congregation before all others speaks volumes about them.

I occasionally heard similar talk at the Seminary I used to attend. The Romans were portrayed as evil political occupiers according to an oppresor/oppressed template. Nothing but warmed-over Marxism. It was usually a scripture scholar who would promote these interpretations.

I once raised the following question: If the Romans were so evil, why does Jesus reserve some of his highest words of praise for the Roman Centurion? The Lord praises the the Centurion with the words, "Such faith have I not found in Israel." But if the Romans are evil occupiers, then the Centurion must be extra-evil because he's an agent of the empire's military arm. Why then would Jesus praise the Centurion? Doesn't this show that Jesus did not use the power/oppression template to judge the people around Him? Didn't Jesus judge people individually, according to their holiness and love of God? Didn't He have a higher measure of value apart from a person's class status?

Of course, I got a lot of hemming and hawing, a lot of song and dance. I got everything but a straight answer.

[GodGunsGuts]

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[Guenevere]

bttt

[Piquaboy]

Have you ever heard of the IRS going after any church?

[SteamShovel]

That two Harvard Law grads would chose this congregation before all others speaks volumes about them.

I agree. It also says something about the state of higher education these days.

[purpleraine]

How such convoluted thinking every gets any prominence is an illustration of actual hatred dominating a person's thought process. The shame of it is: he has an audience. The tragedy is: that one of them wants to run the country.

[purpleraine]

The Romans were portrayed as evil political occupiers............

Well why wouldn't they be to everyone but themselves. I guess someone taking over your country and meaning to rule it forever is not evil in your mind.

[goldstategop]

Jeremiah Wright sees no difference between America and Al Qaeda? In an earlier generation, a lot of liberals saw no difference between America and the Soviet Union. Its called moral equivalence.

"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

[weegee]

Actually they preferred the Soviet model and protested in the US on behalf of Joe Stalin, subverted our institutions on behalf of Communism, and trash talked the West.