http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wrightwingconspiracy/ en-us Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:47:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036270/posts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come out in defense of Barack Obama over his ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying the controversial pastor won’t affect voters’ decisions in November. “Look, I am just glad [Obama] went to church,” Pelosi told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren on Tuesday night. Pelosi, a Catholic, said she doesn’t believe that politicians “should be held accountable for everything that their pastors say in their church. “I have disagreements with some of … my own pastors and churches that I go to and if I had to walk out every time I had an area... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036270/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:47:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035076/posts SAN DIEGO – Introducing Michelle Obama, Angry Black Woman. What an absurd caricature this is turning out to be. Not to mention a confusing one. Growing up on Chicago's South Side, Michelle Obama was probably accused of "acting white" because she excelled academically and went off to the Ivy League. Now – abracadabra – she's a Black Panther. There was even a malicious rumor that she had given a speech in her church in which she had used the word "whitey." Never happened. Shame on those who spread the lie, and shame on those who rushed to swallow it. Still,... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035076/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:47:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028424/posts Well, it looks like the Catholic Church in Chicago has lost whatever balls it found when it temporarily suspended Pfoaming-at-the-mouth preacher of hate Michael Pfleger for his racially poisoned sermon a few weeks ago. Because he’s baaaack. Again. The Chicago Trib reports that Obama’s longtime friend and earmark recipient will return to St. Sabina on June 16 after being placed on leave to “reflect” on his politicking from the pulpit. Question: Which Pfleger will come back and reassume his leadership position in the Catholic Church? The Hillary-mimicking, Vanilla Ice-prancing, Jeremiah Wright-impersonating reverend who has attracted a cult of supporters over... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028424/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 18:50:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027339/posts The Rev. Jeffrey Bryan has posted campaign signs for "Obama in '08" and displayed snapshots of the presumed Democratic presidential nominee visiting his Newark, N.J., church. At times he wears a T-shirt emblazoned with Barack Obama's face. That's as far as Bryan will go — there will be no sermons peppered with "Vote Obama!" "It's a historical time for black people. We cannot ignore what's going on," Bryan said. Yet, he added, "you can't tell people who to vote for." The pulpit plays a powerful role in shaping political views in the black community. During the civil rights era, for... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027339/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025989/posts A dozen or so of the crazy reverend's sermons are archived online here. Hurry and download before they are scrubbed. http://www.streamingfaith.com/directory/broadcaster.aspx?TalentId=1084 Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. Add Speaker to Favorites What's this?Click this link to add this Speaker to your favorites. Go to My Account to view and manage your favorites. Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. pastors Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) and has grown the congregation to over 8,000 members. Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. holds a Doctor of Ministry Degree from United Theological Seminary, a Master’s degree from Howard University, an additional Master’s degree from the... Streaming Faith Ministries http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025989/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025337/posts Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back in the news, denouncing the Founders and Fox News. (Fox is in good company, I guess.) In honor of Wright's retirement, Barack Obama should consider buying him a ticket to some place far away. Wright's return comes on the heels of Obama's self-revelation in San Francisco. This should remind us that Obama's selection of Wright as his spiritual mentor was also an act of self-revelation. Obama grew up in a secular family, and converted to Christianity as an adult, specifically because he was drawn to Reverend Wright and the theology that Wright preached. So it... Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025337/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:04:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024628/posts Rasmussen’s latest polling shows John McCain maintaining voter trust on the key issues of the upcoming presidential campaign despite getting much less earned-media coverage than his likely opponent, Barack Obama. On economics, national security, and especially on Iraq, McCain has kept ahead of Obama: When it comes to the economy, 47% of voters trust John McCain more than Barack Obama. Obama is trusted more by 41%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49% of voters. Obama is preferred by 37%. McCain has an even... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024628/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:58:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016340/posts elf-appointed Elder, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, spoke out in Chicago this week on the Rev. Wright controversy. Desmond Tutu believes that Wright says the things that all black Americans want to say... Really? The Chicago Tribune and LGF Quick Links reported: "You are a crazy country," Tutu, 76, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said in an interview with the Tribune. "You're a country that has I think some of the most generous people I've ever come across in the world." But he chided Americans for getting "very, very upset" with the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama,... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016340/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 15:04:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015239/posts Otis Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at Barack Obama's Chicago church, subscribes to the ideology of retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and is expected to continue Wright's legacy, according to Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black panther Party... Obama, however said this past weekened he will continue his membership in Trinity. He referred to Moss as "wonderful." "Well, you know, the new pastor - the young pastor, Rev. Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor. And as I said, I still very much value the Trinity community," Obama told the New York... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015239/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 14:18:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014717/posts Even before Senator Barack Obama unequivocally denounced Reverend Jeremiah Wright as the loon he is, I was willing to take the senator's word for the fact that his erstwhile pastor's rantings about America, the Middle East, the September 11 attacks, Louis Farrakhan, AIDS and white people do not reflect Obama's own feelings. What pained me then, though, and still does, is the tragic subtext of Pastorgate - that the sort of rank idiocy that was spewed from the pulpit at Chicago's Trinity Church may not be unusual in churches that cater to African Americans. Senator Obama's statement, back when he... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014717/posts#comment Mon, 12 May 2008 12:05:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014326/posts We, the Sixth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, representing more than 80,000 members and clergy in Georgia, express support for our clergy colleague, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., retired pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. Rev. Wright is a renowned religious scholar, nurturing pastor and outstanding preacher. Our friend and fellow minister has been vilified in the national media for practicing the great commission to go ye preach and baptize in my name. We repudiate the irresponsible and shameful behavior of the national media for replaying and sensationalizing Rev. Wright’s words out of context simply... The Dalton Daily Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014326/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 06:48:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012678/posts We are coming up on the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel or, as the Trinity United Church of Christ’s friends in the Sabeel Ecuminical Liberation Theology Center put it, the Nakba or “catastrophe.” Sabeel’s denial of Israel’s right to exist is entirely consistent with a Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin–the official bulletin of the church of which Barack Hussein Obama has been a member for more than 20 years–in which Jeremiah Wright questions Israel’s legitimacy as a nation. Per “Look Again,” Most of our members do not know that my Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago’s... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012678/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 22:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012684/posts "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous." --- "I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was... FoxNews / Hannity's America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012684/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 22:24:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012413/posts Much hay has been made over the purported anti-American and anti-Israeli statements made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the former pastor of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's church. But Judith Strasser thinks the presidential candidate is the victim of a smear-by-association campaign, as is Wright's former congregation at Trinity United Church of Christ in south Chicago. That's why Strasser is heading down to Chicago this Sunday along with other members of Shaarei Shamayim, Madison's Jewish Reconstructionist congregation, to attend 11 a.m. services at Trinity."I conceived of the trip to support a congregation that has been caught in the limelight by events beyond... Madistan.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012413/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 12:37:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012251/posts It’s always fun to switch Democrats with Republicans in the same situation and imagine what the media would be saying, but with the Obama campaign, it’s become more head-popping than a Kafka play. Imagine John McCain was discovered to have been attending the Westboro Baptist Church for 20 years, and responded by giving a speech about how Fred Phelps is a part of the American experience, a man he could no more disown than he could disown the entire white community. Imagine the majority of white Americans sitting quietly by as Phelps is declared one of their most important voices,... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012251/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 00:46:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012186/posts HOW CAN BARACK OBAMA’S pastor of 20 years, a man of golden tongue and lofty ideals, shove his own candidate to the back of the bus? This isn’t a stupid man; this is a man who has the audacity to kill hope. He’s John McCain’s and Hillary Clinton’s dream come true. “G-d Damn America!” he infamously intoned in an old sermon that has been splattered across the airwaves, “Not God bless America. No! G-d Damn America for treating its citizens as less than human!” You could just see the veins popping out on white people’s forehead from sea to shining... Kenya Daily Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012186/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 22:50:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011423/posts Black Liberation Theology... "Black Theology refuses to accept a god who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against the white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of the Black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community..." ...I'm not sure how much of this theology that Obama is aware of and subscribes to, however I severely doubt that he is clean of this theology since he has apparently been going to this church for 20... You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011423/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 14:28:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2011001/posts Doug Giles in Townhall.com makes the point that Rev. Wright has this in common with the all the so-called "Black Leaders:" when he is questioned about his more outrageous statements he doesn't back down.No, Reverend Jeremiah Wright hasn’t hoodwinked me with his fiery flapdoodle from this past week’s press briefing. Yes, I still think the guy is certifiable. Listening to Wright last Monday at the National Press Club was like listening to Charles Manson during one of his parole hearings; the guy’s frickin’ insane! He’s whacked. His worldview is a bit, let’s say . . . skewed. I put what... The Virginian/Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2011001/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 12:57:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010942/posts Michelle Obama lifted the lid on the irritation felt by the leading Democrat candidate for the White House at the way anti-American outbursts by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, have dogged his campaign..... SNIP... Mrs Obama told a rally in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday that only her husband's desire to change US politics had helped him to control his feelings.... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010942/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 05:31:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010663/posts JERUSALEM – More pastor problems for Sen. Barack Obama? The man slated to become chief pastor at the Trinity United Church of Christ has called blacks "lepers" with a "skin disease," claimed U.S. entertainment corporations operate with "disdain" for black people, and in a fiery sermon claimed retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright was "lynched" by the media and compared the embattled pastor to Jesus. Otis Moss III, lauded this week by Obama as a "wonderful young pastor," also recently refused to deny claims by Wright that the U.S. government was involved in distributing illegal drugs to minorities or spreading the... worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010663/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 13:28:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010546/posts May 02, 2008, 0:00 a.m. We're Not in Philly AnymoreJeremiah Wright is now disowned, and Barack Obama is forever discredited. By Charles Krauthammer “I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother.” — Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18Guess it’s time to disown Granny, if Obama’s famous Philadelphia “race” speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonized as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. A New York Times columnist said it “should be required reading in classrooms across... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010546/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 02:28:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2010437/posts On Monday April 28th, I was seated directly in front of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club as he recommitted himself to the very bigotry-laced anti-Americanism that his most famous long-time parishioner, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, had contended were feelings the reverend no longer possessed. Exactly one month earlier on ABC Television's “The View,” Mr. Obama argued that he wouldn't have stayed with Trinity United Church of Christ had the reverend “not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people” and was “inappropriate.” The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2010437/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 21:52:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010416/posts "Here endeth the lesson." Sean Connery's memorable line in the 1987 movie "The Untouchables" followed sage advice to Kevin Costner character Elliot Ness that had nothing to do with politics or image rehabilitation. But, oh how I wish those four words had come to mind for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright last week when he concluded taping his memorable, but now forgotten, interview with PBS journalist Bill Moyers. But then we would have all missed last weekend's attention-grabbing flurry of activities. None of us would know that the good reverend could do a pretty good imitation of a drum major for... SeattlePI.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010416/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 21:02:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010351/posts Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) sharp denunciation of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright this week has superdelegates moving in his direction. While the reverend’s controversial remarks and his widely panned appearance at the National Press Club caused many pundits to wonder if superdelegates would be frozen into indecision, those who moved into Obama’s column this week cited the Illinois senator’s reaction as one of their reasons for backing him. Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Joe Andrew was perhaps the biggest jewel of the week for Obama. Until Thursday, Andrew had supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). He was appointed DNC chairman... TheHill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010351/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 18:47:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010319/posts As an Illinois state Senator, Barack Obama received more than $100,000 from a company owned by an entrepreneur whom Obama helped to obtain a state grant. Robert Blackwell Jr., a contributor to Obama’s campaigns, began paying Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer in early 2001 to provide legal advice to his technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange. At the time, Obama had recently completed his unsuccessful campaign for Congress, and had numerous debts and a law practice he had neglected for a year while campaigning, the Los Angeles Times reported. Obama had been so strapped for cash that his credit card was initially... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010319/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 17:40:40 GMT