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Obama says his pastor 'pained and angered me'
WND ^ | 14 March 08 | None

Posted on 03/14/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot

Obama says his pastor 'pained and angered me' 'Denounces' anti-American, racist rhetoric, insists he never heard such talk in person

Responding to mounting controversy over radical anti-American and racist statements by his pastor, Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement today to the Christian Broadcasting Network saying he strongly condemns and denounces remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. that disparaged the country or degraded people.

Obama referred to the "firestorm over the last few days" from unearthed video segments of Wright's sermons that the senator described as "some inflammatory and appalling remarks he made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents."

The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said he was not in attendance when Wright made any of the statements and never heard such talk in private conversations.

"Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," Obama said. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue."

Late today, Wright stepped down from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee, said the Politico's Ben Smith, citing campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20ytearsofhate; bo; hussein; jeremiahsmessiah; jeremiahwright; nobama; obama; pastor; racism; racist; rightuhhuhright; sisepuede; surehedidbam; uh20yearsofhate; whateveryousay; yeahright
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To: JavaJumpy

This is just getting better and better!


141 posted on 03/14/2008 7:08:16 PM PDT by gop4lyf
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To: combat_boots
Yes, and as a Party the UnAmerican Democrats have worked to sabotage the WOT, leaked intell to the enemy, they work to undermine the President abroad, with men in two war theaters, they work to classify patriotism as unhealthy, they shrink from the Flag, and sue over the Cross, they work to classify honorable men who die in battle as victims, and have repeatedly sided with our foreign enemies, and beg for surrender in Iraq daily, while calling the Islamic Cults "victors" when they blow up women in the market place? They work to weaken us militarily and economically, and the Democrat Party is a home to open Communists and Socialists.

The only time they love us is when we are dying, as on 9/11.

Who in their right mind would be a member of such a political party?

142 posted on 03/14/2008 7:11:07 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: bcsco

Leaving the church would be the logical thing to do, when you’re pained and angered by the sermons.


143 posted on 03/14/2008 7:14:58 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: SkyPilot

Obama must have a tendency to doze off during the sermons...and sleep veeeeeeeeery soundly!


144 posted on 03/14/2008 7:15:07 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: redstateconfidential

“Because even Goebbels and Himmler eventually got to power.
Tell me the difference between Wright and Hitler’s guttural rants?.”

Rev. Wright Macht Frei.


145 posted on 03/14/2008 7:19:12 PM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: SkyPilot

As an American of Sicilian descent, I couldn’t agree more.


146 posted on 03/14/2008 7:19:35 PM PDT by Charles Bronson Forever
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To: gridlock
So you are saying the congregation is just as smart as a pack of unthinking dogs?


147 posted on 03/14/2008 7:20:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SkyPilot

fyi I have heard Obama is coming to Indiana. To Plainfield.
They have a huge Muslim population in Plainfield.


148 posted on 03/14/2008 7:30:02 PM PDT by Misschuck
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To: SkyPilot

Wright is even lighter skinned than Barak. He’s maybe 1/4 black. Is this another case of overcompensation, “proving” his blackness by spewing anti-white hatred? Is this what kept Barak in the pews, also “proving” his blackness?


149 posted on 03/14/2008 7:31:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: SkyPilot

Ive noticed something... when bill clinton lies, he raises his eyebrows. When hillary lies, she raises her voice. When obama lies, he opens his mouth.


150 posted on 03/14/2008 7:35:51 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: SkyPilot
"Now you listen to me. I am going to say this just one more time. I did not have discourse with that man, Rev. Wright." censored censored Obama.
151 posted on 03/14/2008 7:48:36 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Travis McGee

Travis, you hit the bullseye! I’ve said for years that so many black radicals who are light skinned have a psychological need to prove they belong in the black community. Many were possibly teased by darker skinned blacks when they were kids, as not being really black. One way of gaining their acceptance is to act “super-black” in a sense. I have known many light skinned, mixed race blacks who are extreme in their black nationalist views. What better way to prove your blackness than by advocating every radical view in the black nationalist agenda.


152 posted on 03/14/2008 7:50:41 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Truth to a Liberal, is like a crucifix to a vampire))))
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To: SkyPilot; All
I read somewhere else that dated one of the pastor's sermons -- it was the one where he was blaming America for 9/11. The date of the sermon was "the Sunday after 9/11", which would be 9/16/01.

I tried to Google around for any online repositories of Obama's schedule during that time period (he was a state senator), and had no luck. I'm wondering if anyone on FR might have the ability/acumen to figure out how to access any records that might indicate whether Obama was "in town" that weekend.

153 posted on 03/14/2008 7:51:29 PM PDT by Proud2BAmerican
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To: bcsco
So, when’s Barakobama gonna leave Wright’s church? That’s what I’m waiting for.

To me this isn't an issue about when Obama will leave his church. I think it is easy to get caught up in moving from one church to another, as a way of addressing (or rather, not addressing) issues of sin a person has become aware of. Instead of taking a stand, such as going to the Pastor and/or Deacons of the church to challenge them concerning their obligation to ensure that only sound and fit doctrine is preached from the pulpit, it's much easier to just leave....move on to another church until the next time the human sins within are revealed, indicating it's time to move on again.

I don't believe this is how Christ intends the church to be. We are accountable one unto another, from the lowliest to the greatest position. I have never sat in my church listening to a leader go astray without then privately taking my concern to that person. If the situation remains unresolved then it is my spiritual obligation to my beloved church body to bring the issue before the Deacons/Elders of the church. We are supposed to face and denounce wrong doing within the church, not just up and leave to let the sin remain a fester within the body.

Thus the important question to me is what Obama did, or is doing, to address this sin within his church body. There's nothing brave or biblical about simply remaining silent (until now that is) in the face of feeling 'pain and anger' in your soul concerning sin. Taking a stand within the church, to cast out the sin, is the right thing to do, anything less is not only unscriptural but cowardly.

154 posted on 03/14/2008 7:51:36 PM PDT by I.D.E.A
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To: SkyPilot

Uh-huh.


155 posted on 03/14/2008 7:55:13 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (If Fox were part of the VRWC they wouldn’t be shilling for Rudy.)
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To: SkyPilot
So, after 20 years his Paster just changed his strips? Just like that Huh?

Liar...

156 posted on 03/14/2008 7:55:18 PM PDT by MaxMax (I need a life after politics)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And add to Barak’s psychological soup that his white mom is a classic self-hating white, who can only live with non-white men? She’s a loony toons leftist multi-culti radical from the word go.


157 posted on 03/14/2008 8:02:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: SkyPilot

maybe Barak’s heard worse in person?


158 posted on 03/14/2008 8:03:46 PM PDT by votelife (we need 60 conservative senators)
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To: I.D.E.A

Oh, come on. Barak was in that church for 20 years, and he called Wright his mentor and sounding board. He named his book for a Wright sermon that’s full of anti-white hatred. He donated 22k to the church just in 2006. Barak was 100% in agreement with Wright, when establishing “I’m super black” street cred was of value to him in Chicago ward politics. There was never an inch of daylight between these soul mates.

And as far as the church itself, it’s no more “Christian” than the White Aryan Nations “Christian Identity” church in Idaho. It preaches that Jesus was a black oppressed by evil racist whites, and that Christianity is about these oppressed blacks (the true black Chiristians) fighting white oppression.

Like I said, it’s the equally racist version of the White Aryan Nations “Christian Identity” church.


159 posted on 03/14/2008 8:07:07 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: ought-six

exactly right on your post. Barak used Wright to get credit in this hate America community and now that he’s big he wants us to ignore a big power player in his rise...Barak knew!


160 posted on 03/14/2008 8:11:45 PM PDT by votelife (we need 60 conservative senators)
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