Posted on 04/30/2008 7:00:47 AM PDT by TeleStraightShooter
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Now, I’ve already denounced the comments that had appeared in these previous sermons. As I said, I had not heard them before. And I gave him the benefit of the doubt in my speech in Philadelphia, explaining that he has done enormous good in the church. He has built a wonderful congregation. The people of Trinity are wonderful people, and what attracted me has always been their ministries reach beyond the church walls.
But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS, when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st centuries, when he equates the United States wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses.
They offend me. The rightly offend all Americans. And they should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.
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Now, I’ve already denounced the comments that had appeared in these previous sermons. ......
But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions
They offend me. The rightly offend all Americans. And they should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.
I anyone can spot where BHO actually disowned/ disavowed/ denounced the man Rev Wright, please advise.
“Can anyone spot where BHO actually disowned/ disavowed/ denounced the man Rev Wright, and not just the comment, please advise.”
Posted on other threads, fits here too:
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.
Interesting...when he was on THE VIEW...he said that “THEY” took soundbytes of the good Reverend and continuosly played them to make him look bad.
Notice he is now saying, FORMER Pastor
Every day that Rev Wright does not lash back with ample evidence that BHO was quite familiar with these “ridiculous propositions”, then your healthy proposition gains greater probabilty...
flaglady, I think you are spot on! This was exactly the scenario that ran through my mind as well.
Barack Obama is the Senator from Trinity UCC. He cannot divorce himself from his core support so easily.
yeah, BHO announced Rev Wright’s {retroactive?} retirement to the world a few days after ABCNews & FNC started lopping Wright’s hate tapes.
Barack, even if I take you at your word...if you could exhibit such poor judgement over a 20+ year period about someone so close to you...how many more on your campaign staff, or contributors, or associates have you exhibited the same poor judgement regarding?
Ayers? Rezko? Others?
How many more would you exhibit such poor judgement with, if elected, in your cabinet, with foreign leaders, as nominations for judges, etc.?
Sorry Barack, but your whole presidential aspiration package wont hunt.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
My point is that BHO did not disown Rev Wright, just the recent comments.
But, my logic still holds. If he did not know this...if he misjudged the man so much and is himself admitting that now, after hearing these same statements again (which are really no different than what the original furor was all about) that he didn't really know the man, then why should we believe that Barack's judgement is good anywhere else?
Fact is...it isn't.
I’m no Baraq fan, but I think the criticism of his statement yesterday is a bit overblown. How many denunciations of Wright are enough? Besides, Obama has now opened himself up to criticism from African-Americans who favor group-think.
Too little, too late, Barak.
The quantity does not matter as much as the quality.
BHO is not credible when he vainly tries to leave the impression he did not know his Uncle Wright is a raving racist.
BHO is not a TYPICAL African-American. However, this fiasco illustrates only that, whoever a Black candidate is, be he progressive or conservative, THE CANDIDATE WILL ALWAYS BE TAINTED AND MARKED BY THE UNPRODUCTIVE RACIAL INSINUATIONS OF ALL BLACK PEOPLE. SORRY. DROP THE COMPLAINTS AND RACISM, BLACK PEOPLE! THE COUNTRY HAS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH.
Unwittingly, you are living in a country that lets you study in Yale, and Princeton and run for the presidency. You are not being killed, dismembered, or suffering from having your limbs cut off by warring tribes and clans in Africa.
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