BTW from breitbart.com:
Legless lizard, other new species discovered in Brazil
Now, what the hell... 
is Bill Clinton doing in Brazil?
Posted on 04/29/2008 6:06:16 PM PDT by steve-b
...I, too, think Wright is digging center stage. But I also suspect he specifically wants to tank Obama's candidacy. I mean, this is a man who has spent a fair portion of his career spreading the message that blacks cannot get a fair shake in this country; that America was, is, and always will be fundamentally racist; that the U.S. government in particular has it in for blacks. So what happens to all that if suddenly a black man--and not just any black man, but one who has been counseled by Wright and so cannot be dismissed as some pathetic Uncle Tom--is elected president? With Obama in office, it suddenly becomes much harder for Wright to rage against the evil of America in general and the government in particular....
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There are so many worms in this can.
Windbag Wright’s vituperation mimics his good friend Louis Farrakhan, who hates whiteys and Jews.
There are already liberals claiming Obama lost Pennsylvania because of racism. I guess it’s true what they say about those bitter gun-toting fundamentalist crackers.
I think this has been worked out between the Reverend and Obama in advance so that Barry could publically denounce him. It is all too convenient. Remember for the left it is all about gaining power no matter the price, the lies, or the cost.
Gunner
When your ego it over done, this is the result.
Isn’t the Chicago power structure with the Clintons? And Wright’s part of that group?
Oh, puh-leeze!!
Rev. Wright is retired, has his multi-million dollar home on a golf course inside a white gated-community. He no longer has to worry about anyone or anything. He’s got his in spades!
Except - his ministry is a Black Theology Ministry, and that means Marxist through-and-through. He is at heart a communist and letting himself be thrown under the bus for “the cause”. In fact I believe this is all a setup, to take scrutiny off of Obama’s extreme, extremely dangerous liaisons with 60’s left wing radicals, like Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, who can connect him to people like the Ortega brothers and to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, fellow travelers all.
Monkey-wrenching? Isn’t that racist, Michelle? /sarcasm
Interesting comments at liberal thread. Thanks for posting.
“...it is all about power...”
That it is, Gunner. A diversion, a smokescreen, to hide the lies in the last debate about his connections to a 60’s radical terrorist.
Michelle Obama and Bernadette Dorhn both worked at the same Chicago law firm in 1988. That is when Barack Obama and Bill Ayers met.
BTW from breitbart.com:
Legless lizard, other new species discovered in Brazil
Now, what the hell... is Bill Clinton doing in Brazil?
My God, what a self-righteous loser.
Thanks for that info....that was something I didn't know before.
>claiming Obama lost Pennsylvania because of racism.
What do they call those 90%+ of blacks that voted for Obama?
He must be on Hillary’s payroll.
The replies are killing funny. There is a slowly-dawning awareness that a successful Obama campaign threatens the grievance industry of which Wright is an integral part and through which he has made a fortune, as have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. And part (at least) of this hoo-hah is that industry reminding Obama that they’re out there and that they intend to call in their markers should he be elected. What’s funny is that the same guilt-ridden white liberals who defend that industry are also in the position of promoting Obama. They can’t have it both ways and so are attempting to blame the impasse on Republican racism. Sorry - the impasse is written into the game. Classic internal contradiction. You can have progress or you can have endless grievance, but not both. And what is shocking is the number of people who prefer grievance.
Best demonstrated by clicking thru to the article...and reading the comments underneath.
Most of Obama's liberal supporters don't understand what the fuss is all about. They agree with what Wright is saying.
Then, there are those who believe the views of a pastor are immaterial. He is, after all, a man of God -- and that immediately disqualifies him from commenting on politics (or anything else). Instead, "let's talk about the issues."
Rarely has the vacancy of liberal thought been displayed with such clarity.
How in the hell did he get this far????
I think the Demoncrats should nominated Wright as their presidential candidate. He’s a great speaker and represents their true feelings.
Obama Suddenly Objects To Wright Being Called His ‘Spiritual Mentor’
Barack Obama, today:
I know that one thing that [Wright] said was true, was that he wasn’t — you know, he was never my, quote-unquote, “spiritual adviser.”
He was never my “spiritual mentor.” He was — he was my pastor. And so to some extent, how, you know, the — the press characterized in the past that relationship, I think, wasn’t accurate.
If the press mischaracterized that relationship, such as in this Chicago Sun-Times profile of Obama from April 5, 2004, it is mysterious as to how the press got that idea, considering how the article’s portrait of Obama’s faith, and its description of his relationship with Wright, appear to be based on an interview with Obama.
Still, Obama is unapologetic in saying he has a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” As a sign of that relationship, he says, he walked down the aisle of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ in response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s altar call one Sunday morning about 16 years ago.
The politician could have ended his spiritual tale right there, at the point some people might assume his life changed, when he got “saved,” transformed, washed in the blood. But Obama wants to clarify what truly happened.
“It wasn’t an epiphany,” he says of that public profession of faith. “It was much more of a gradual process for me. I know there are some people who fall out. Which is wonderful. God bless them.... I think it was just a moment to certify or publicly affirm a growing faith in me.”
These days, he says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity in the Brainerd neighborhood every week — or at least as many weeks as he is able. His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant.
... Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.
“I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you’ve got to face God,” Pfleger says of Obama. “Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don’t think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is.”
Another person Obama says he seeks out for spiritual counsel is state Sen. James Meeks, who is also the pastor of Chicago’s Salem Baptist Church. The day after Obama won the primary in March, he stopped by Salem for Wednesday-night Bible study.
If the relationship between Wright and Obama has been mischaracterized, it is interesting that this is, to the best of my knowledge, the first time Obama has complained about the way it has been described in the press.
Another reference: Jodi Kantor, in the New York Times, March 6, 2007: “The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama’s presidential announcement.”
UPDATE: The Rolling Stone profile that persuaded Obama to disinvite Wright from that announcement:
This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr. Wright is not an incidental figure in Obama’s life, or his politics. The senator “affirmed” his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a “sounding board” to “make sure I’m not losing myself in the hype and hoopla.” Both the title of Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright’s sermons. “If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from,” says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, “just look at Jeremiah Wright.”
Obama wasn’t born into Wright’s world. His parents were atheists, an African bureaucrat and a white grad student, Jerry Falwell’s nightmare vision of secular liberals come to life. Obama could have picked any church — the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and “felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams.”
Obama has now spent two years in the Senate and written two books about himself, both remarkably frank: There is a desire to own his story, to be both his own Boswell and his own investigative reporter. When you read his autobiography, the surprising thing — for such a measured politician — is the depth of radical feeling that seeps through, the amount of Jeremiah Wright that’s packed in there.
04/29 06:21
I came to the same conclusion myself. Obama tried Plan A, which was to make believe that, although he was a regular churchgoer for over 20 years, he never heard Wright say those nasty things.
When Plan A failed the sniff test, Obama tried Plan B--the speech in Philadelphia, where he tried to have it both ways. He wouldn't disavow Wright, but he didn't agree with some of his more radical statements. Nice try, but it still didn't fly.
Which brings us to Plan C. Have Wright reiterate the same anti-American crap he's been spewing for a quarter of a century, and then pretend that you are hearing it for the first time. This gives you reason to finally jettison this unwelcome cargo, and some measure of plausible deniability that you had never heard this before. It's too clever by half, completely Clintonian, and, by the way, it doesn't look like it's working.
BO may have made a fatal mistake today by “breaking” with Wright. All Wright has to do to reclaim the spotlight is to reveal that BO not only heard all the offensive sermons but in private agreed with their content. Then, hasta la vista, BOby.
Oh, I dunno. I remember the Rodney King/O.J. Simnpson period. Still, when Obama loses, either to Hillary or McCain, you will see bitter for real, at least among blacks.
The liberal mind at "work"...
Spot on!
Wright et al are intentionally torpedoing Obama’s presidency. Their lucrative racist hate-mongering will get a lot harder to maintain if a whole bunch of white people vote for Obama to become President of the whole United States.
Obama’s success, regardless of his personal philosphy, threatens the very foundation of Black Liberation Theology-—i.e., Their Meal Ticket (and what pays the mortgage on those big fancy houses in all-Typical White Person gated golf course communities). His simple existence is a big threat to them, therefore they are finishing him off. He is too white for them now.
If there’s one good thing that comes out of this mess, I wish it would be that Obama ends up taking these racist nuts down for good. For that I and the nation would be grateful.
I also think Hilary is staying in to stick it to all the Senators that bailed on her.
Exactly.
Yes, unfortunately rather than being part of a transition to a post-racial society, Obama and these thugs have set the country back by decades.
He can’t win, but the left has to make his loss appear that it was because the ‘white’ man was racist. This gives Wright, Farrakan, and all his islam bros— some of whom are security to Wright even as we speak—the same old “we are victims.”
Wright would be out of a job, so to speak.
With the Rats, everything that is a negative to their campaign is “immaterial” or “taken out of context.” Just like Flubba’s “private” life.
I agree with you….. If a black president were elected, Sharpton, Jackson, etc. would be out of work. (YES!!)
But why would Wright and Farrakhan promote Obama and then hang him out to dry? And why (to my knowledge) would Sharpton and Jackson remain so silent on their support of Obama?
My personal evaluation of Obama today is… that this is a man who looks like he was just hit by a semi going 90 miles an hour…shoulders slumped and self confidence in the toilet…
Was this the plan from the beginning? Is Obama just a pawn?
So many questions….. So little time…
(Yes, I’m a newbie……be gentle … I’m on your side!)
Obama can never get away from the suspicion that these racists will be influencing or attempting to influence his administration (should he have one). And if they’re attempting to influence his administration and he doesn’t agree with them-—as he now says he doesn’t-—then all that means is strife, strife and more strife for the nation.
Sort of like having Flubba and the ‘Toon Soap Opera back in the White House.
Nothing but trouble, trouble everywhere.
If Wright comes out swinging, then Obama will have no choice but to go to full-scale war against him.
I would appreciate that.
Same here. Very interesting and enlightening.
I agree with and don’t see this as an elaborate set-up. I think Obama seems genuinely dismayed that Wright put him in this position; he seems truly angry that Wright gave him no choice but to disavow that he’s Wright’s “boy” who will come crawling back to him once he gets elected.
The sad part is that Wright has deliberately crushed Obama’s chances (in the general, I’m saying), yet if Obama gets the nomination and loses, these same racist pigs will yell that it was the white man keeping the black man down.
Obama very success among whites is what is threatening Wright et al. It graphically undermines the notion that no black can break out of the plantation by playing by the rules. Obama’s very existence as a politician in a viable position for the nomination refutes the foundation of “Black Liberation Theology.”
Obama is too white for these racists and his success, because it can only come through millions of white folks voting for him, cannot be allowed by them.
Yet they will be the first out of the box claiming Obama’s defeat, either in Denver or in the general election, is proof that America is racist. I guess you can say it IS racist-—because apparently much of the black community is extremely racist.
Both he and his handlers are apparently unfamiliar with Evangelical churches and what their parishioners value and how they value.
It would be easy to script an answer; however, it probably would not be true, so I won't script it.
Their grievances go back a long way. I once saw a history book in the South that claimed blacks thought the Emancipation Proclamation meant they would never have to work again. Perhaps they were told this as propaganda by the North? It seems some of them believe it yet today.
The biggest grievance blacks seem to have is that they are here. Grievance-ridden blacks need their own relocation program - relocate them (at taxpayers’ expense) to the great, peace loving, harmonious continent of Africa.
This take is idiocy. The radical Dems are committing suicide in this election all by themselves because their arrogance made them blind to Obama’s skeletons. They also needed a candidate they could trust to destroy America, Hillary not being so trustworthy. Wright’s histrionics are not part of a conspiracy, they are the result of the engineered fake pride of radical black nationalism, afrocentrism, marxist nomenclatura elitism and desperation as time runs out on keeping the left’s many hidden agendas hidden.
This state of desperation does have a conspiratorial danger, however. It may also trigger the assassination of Obama to create race riots and make effective diplomacy/action against Iran’s nuclear weapon program much more difficult. Many fingers are in the election pie, not all of them working in concert.
BTW- Did anyone see Obama on Fox Sunday night? He fluffed a line and Freudian slipped the “s” word. It was priceless. Is the clip on YouTube yet?
why would Wright and Farrakhan promote Obama and then hang him out to dry?
For the same reason they are now trying to do him in.
To your ‘average’ joe blow on the street, it will look like it was whitey’s fault so Wright & friends win to preach their hate another day.
I mean’t to say for the same reason they promoted him—to cause him to lose later and blame whitey.
I’ve made that point a number of times. It sort of reminds me of “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe” when the priests, gurus and whatnot were all dead-set against the ultimate computer and the idea that it would come up with the answer to “Life, the Universe, Everything”.
Were that to happen, they would be out of a job.
Same thing here. It would be awfully hard for the Sharptoons, Jesse Jackasses and their numerous ilk to keep on dissing whitey and bitch about racism with a black man as President.
CHRESTOMATHY....I had to look it up.
While I disagree with most of the observations and conclusions of those posters, their grammar and literary abilities are refreshing when compared to the postings of the scatological mouth breathers at the Kos or Huff.
Smartest thing I have read all evening.
Wright is a big time supporter of the Clintons from way back. He was called to the WH to support Bill in the Monica disgrace.
He was used by the clintoons at this particular time because hillary must do well on May 6th or it is all over for her.
All I can say in reply is that you are right on the mark.
It is not just sad.... it is heartbreaking....I feel that this bright young man “hitched his horses to the wrong wangon.”
Your replay makes no sense ???????????????
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