Posted on 04/30/2008 5:43:02 AM PDT by SJackson
There were some interesting insights -- as well as some nutball theories -- in Rev. Jeremiah Wright's appearance at the National Press Club on Monday.
There was also a heavy dose of B.S., as when Wright said negative reaction to his most divisive comments was "not an attack on Jeremiah Wright [and has] nothing to do with Sen. Obama. It is an attack on the black church launched by people who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition."
No sir. Not true. You were criticized for what YOU said. Maybe the average white commentator truly doesn't understand the African-American religious tradition, but that doesn't mean the criticisms of your comments weren't utterly valid.
Just when you figure Obama would love to see Wright shopping for motor homes for his retirement, Wright is soaking up the spotlight with more enthusiasm than Spencer Pratt on a red carpet.
Meanwhile, Obama called Wright's most recent appearance a "spectacle," said their relationship had been altered and added, "What Rev. Wright said [Monday] directly contradicts everything I have ever done or said in my life."
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
The Clintons have done a masterful job. Who needs Arkancide when a Judas-style character assassination is so much more elegant?
Something smells rotten in the Hood. Here’s my take on it. I think Obama and Wright are as thick as thieves, I think they are in total cahoots. I think everything that has happened in the past week has been planned and masterminded between Obama and Wright and perhaps one or two other key players on Obama’s campaign staff. I think everything has been coordinated.
Preacher Wright comes out and does his round of inflammatory speeches at the NAACP, and the Nat’l Press Club, and in his Bill Moyers interview. Funny that these three are all clustered within days of each other, all at once. As Obama blew his first chance at refuting Wright for his behavior for the last 20 years, both of them thinking the whole issue would die down, Obama needed a second bite of the apple. A second chance to condemn the Reverend Wright. Hence the setup. Wright does his radical religious/political rap thing three times, and Obama then says he’s finally had enough and condemns and refutes and sort of disowns (however if you listen to Obama’s words, he really doesn’t) Preacher Wright.
Now it looks as if the two of them are at great odds and no longer like each other, right? Wrong, in the sense that this was the desired end result, to make it look like they are now at odds. Mission accomplished. Obama is now off the hook. Obama even makes sure he has an out in the very careful, slow speaking manner with which he refuted his mentor. He says Wright may do more of the same kind of speech, but he, Obama, won’t be responsible for it as he can’t do anything to stop Wright, and has now disowned Wright anyhow. Isn’t this Machiavellian? Isn’t this fun?
Now for the proof of my thinking. Preacher Wright and Obama have known each other for 20 years, both in and out of the church pew. Obama went on Louis Farrakhan’s million man march. Obama named his book after a phrase used by Rev. Wright, “The Audacity of Hope”. They are very close. Obama knows exactly where Wright is coming from, both theologically and politically. And (here’s the kicker) vice versa. Wright knows everything about Obama too. He knows how Obama really thinks politically, after all Preacher Wright groomed him for the last 20 years, or perhaps indoctrinated would be a better word. Wright knows what Obama has said to him over the years, has done for and with him over the last 20 years, and has the goods on Obama big time. Wright could blast Obama into space and out of the presidential race on a politically dirty rocket in a nanosecond. Wright probably knows more about Obama’s inner workings, shady deals back in Chicago, connections to Obama’s political benefactor Tony Rezko now up on influence peddling and other charges back in Chicago, and may have been in on some of those deals himself. Wright could take Obama down faster than greased lightening if he wanted to. But he won’t. Because they are working in tandem. They are still joined at the hip, and what we are seeing this past week is all a charade, a Potemkin village, smokey (until that became un-PC) backroom dealings to get Obama out of hot water in the political short and long run for his relationship with Wright.
Mark my words here; my political antennae are waving in the breeze. And to top it off (I believe this is coming out of Obama’s camp too), the blogs are buzzing around that somehow Preacher Wright and Hillary Clinton are working behind the scenes to undermine Obama, and that Hillary’s camp was somehow involved in setting up financially some of what Wright was up to this past week. I think a whisper campaign of “it’s all Hillary’s fault that this is happening” has been let loose on the internet to shift the blame for Wright’s actions of late on her. How convenient. Obama isn’t behind this, why it’s Hillary. And the MSM are swallowing it whole. The MSM in general hate Hillary and will blame anything and everything on her. They will believe anything about her. Never mind, as I stated before, that Wright/Obama have a 20 year relationship, and that Wright could bring Obama down so fast his head would spin with what Wright knows about Obama and how he really thinks. Its Hillary and her henchmen to blame.
Obama and Wright must be laughing up their sleeves at how a naive and lazy press that is on Obama’s side anyhow in this race, will swallow this. Tell me, does anyone really think that Wright and Hillary got together to “get Obama”? Do you not think that Wright wants Obama in the White House where Wright can have all sorts of influence on his protege? That Wright wants to be kingpin at the National Prayer Breakfasts? That he wants all that access to grants or funding for his church causes? That he wants to push his own peculiar brand of church politics? His Black Liberation Theology? You better believe he wants Obama in as President. They both just have to get over this little speed bump of whether Obama secretly thinks just like Wright does, and is really a divider disguising himself as a uniter, fooling us all. Preacher Wright knows exactly where Obama is coming from. If he blows the whistle on Obama publicly on what he knows, then I am wrong. If Wright doesn’t, well, then draw your own conclusions. I’ve drawn mine.
Setting up the back pedaling...
Any minister who accepts a multi-million dollare house as part of his retirement can be bought. The Clintons have enough Muslim and Chinese cash to lubricate his loquacity. I was struck that Hillary chose to blaim Republicans for the Wright mess.
Have you noticed something missing in this Wright fiasco? When he fulminates that his theology is “Black Theology” and all black churches preach hate this way, there was not a single peep in the media from Black Baptist pastors in the US objecting to his assertion.
Just as we often ask where the moderate Muslims are, who fail to confront the jihadis, we need to ask where the Black ministers are who are not objecting to Wright’s claim that his preaching reflects the Black version of Christianity.
One wonders if they are afraid of offending their members, seeing attendance and contributions decrease, because the Black pastors live very well indeed. Just what is their message to their own congregations? Would the Prince of Peace be welcome in any Black church in America?
Until 20 years ago, Obama was an atheist raised by atheists. He moved to Chicago having no roots in the area. He was told by the Democrat Machine that
1. Atheist don't get elected in ChicagoNow for the proof of my thinking.
2. Rev Wright could provide street cred in the neighborhood
So he joined the Church and became a "Christian". Wright has shown that his "church" is really just a money making scheme based on black politics and pandering to blacks' worst fears.
Obama has squeezed all he can out of the bitter black urban church and now can move up with his elite prep school/ ivy league friends. He can still claim the kind of religion that you get from Harvard that doesn't actually require going to church. Just like he can have the kind of Harvard patriotism that doesn't require respecting the flag.
Rev. Wright has, like many before him, is simply creating his own religion. He borrows heavily from Christian Protestantism, but has added on his own dogma about the Bibles focus on oppression, the evolution of the races, and the role of his own chose people (African Americans). Non-believers are not welcome.
In this case, a vast Wright wing conspiracy.
Yes.
There is no media attention whatever on black preachers who don’t indulge in hate speech like Wright.
And there are a great many rational, truly Christian black ministers who speak on the Gospel and make good sense. They are being ignored by the media.
This is a media crime.
Among many other crimes.
As well as ignoring Thomas Sowell and others.
Would not just one columnist comment on this? Just one?
Keep reading...the noise is coming out of California as you type.
I predict Wright is going down in flames big time. Roasted Chicken! Hah!!
From your lips to God’s ear.
Also notice the expected “any attack on me is racism” first refuge of scoundrels of color.
“Would the Prince of Peace be welcome in any Black church in America?”
Not if He were perceived as “Whitey” or didn’t cater to Black Victimhood Theology.
I have been thinking the same thing. He said he could never disown Wright anymore than he could disown the black community, and what he heard from Wright over the past few days is nothing new than what he has said in church off and on for over 20 years. Something sure doesn’t pass the smell test here.
Note a similar comment from the other Chicago paper. They are desperate to spin this as Wright being "different" from the mainstream black church---after telling us for a month that it was the black church that was different and we had to "understand" it.
They can't have it both ways, and neither can Obama. If we are all alike, then he has to denounce nutty ideas that, unfortunately, a number of inner-city blacks share. Will they abandon him once he isn't "down for the struggle?" If he doesn't denounce these "ridiculous" views specifically, they will keep coming up. He's toast.
The Rev. Wright's comments alarm black ministers in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Times ^ | April 30, 2008 | Teresa Watanabe
“In this case, a vast Wright wing conspiracy.”
Very good.
Obama will then lose some (not much) of his black support if he says why they are nutty, or lose LOTS of his white support if he doesn't. Moreover, he can't appear to have "not heard" the Rev. say these specific things, because Wright is then going to start producing "pwoof" that Obama was there and heard it and congratulated him on the sermon afterward!
No, this isn't a tag team match. Wright is beyond a loose cannon on the decks, and Obama is about to get knocked overboard.
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