Right about Obama--latest Jeremiah Wright episode tells us a lot about his former parishoner.

Last week's highly entertaining episode of the Jeremiah Wright Show didn't tell us anything new about the demagogic reverend. He stands by his sick notion that American foreign policy and jihadist terrorism are equivalent, his defense of Louis Farrakhan, and his wacky conspiracy theory that the AIDS virus was cooked up by the federal government.

But we did gain a new perspective on Wright's former parishioner, Senator Barack Obama. And it's not flattering. It took the Democratic frontrunner 20 years--and 50 days since videos surfaced of Wright's incendiary sermons--to discover that the man who helped him become a Christian, officiated at his marriage, and baptized his two daughters is a conspiracy theory-loving self-publicizer. What does that say about Obama's "judgment," on which he largely bases his claim to the presidency?

Worse, one of the main reasons for Obama's unequivocal split from Wright had nothing to do with the reverend's hateful ideology. You see, Wright had the temerity to suggest that Barack Obama is just another pol. "What I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciations of his remarks were somehow political posturing," Obama said. This only confirms Obama's reputation for being thin-skinned and self-absorbed. Go ahead and count the "I"s and "my"s in this passage from his news conference:

In some ways, what Reverend Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything that I've done during my life. It contradicts how I was raised and the setting in which I was raised. It contradicts my decisions to pursue a career of public service. It contradicts the issues that I've worked on politically. It contradicts what I've said in my books.

There's that Obama audacity again. A few examples from his books--the first two from his autiobiography:

I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.

There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs. It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

And from The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will. ...Malcolm’s discovery toward the end of his life, that some whites might live beside him as brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation.

More here: http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_Obama/ObamaRace.htm

to discover that the man who helped him become a Christian

What Wright preaches is not Christianity. It is a black separatist ideology coupled with religious tenets that use the name of Christ, but claim that he was a black man oppressed by the "white" Romans. It is highly anti-Semitic, which is incompatible with Christianity, Christ having been a practicing Jew. Basically, it is an offshoot of Farakhan's Nation of Islam, which itself is a false afro-centric interpretation of Islam. The only difference is where Islam has Jesus as a great prophet and Muhammad as the main player, Wright focuses on the name of Jesus. Other than the names of him they invoke, they both are identical.

That is not Christianity. And how does he get away with calling it a church? I haven't seen any evidence that they ever do anything that isn't political.

An unpleasant understanding of Wright’s venom against GOD may have been revealed in a closing remark he made that HE
gave him the color of his skin.
Listening to Wright speak, it is obvious he is bitter that he is not a white man, even though he blames white people for every wrongdoing he can think of.

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