Posted on 03/17/2008 1:42:55 PM PDT by freespirited
On June 3, Senator Barack Obama became the first contender for the U.S. presidency to launch a religious outreach website, faith.barackobama.com. On this website, Obama lists the testimonials of three controversial clergymen: Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago; Rev. J. Alfred Smith Sr., senior pastor of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California; and Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic Chicago priest.
On February 10, Rev. Wright was scheduled to give the invocation at the forum of Obama's presidential announcement, but the night before the event Obama rescinded the bid: the Illinois senator knew that his spiritual advisor was so divisive that he would cloud the ceremonies. The black liberation theologian has a record of giving racially inflammatory sermons and has even said that Zionism has an element of "white racism." He also blamed the attacks of 9/11 on American foreign policy.
Rev. Smith was honored by the notoriously violent Black Panther Party of Oakland in 1975, and in 1990 was given a community award by the Nation of Islam, an anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-gay group.
Rev. Pfleger has allowed Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan to preach in his church; he has been arrested for defacing billboards; he has paid prostitutes to worship at his church; and in late May he staged an anti-gun rally in front of a gun store where he exhorted the crowd to hunt down the owner "like a rat" and "snuff" him.
While Obama is not responsible for the records of these three clergymen, he is responsible for giving them the opportunity to prominently display their testimonials on his religious outreach website. If Wright, Smith, and Pfleger are the kinds of clergymen Obama admires, perhaps it's best he shut down his faith outreach website and start all over again. It will take more than "God talk" to get Obama out of this jam.
I suspect that's why Obama liked him.
Until he became an albatross, of course.
check out the ones on this list.
Almost every negative has a positive side.. Soon Obama will find it. It will probably go something like: “Reverend Wright represents the 60s and 70s era African American outrage—outrage that black men dutifully served their countries in WW2 and Korea and came home to racism and segregation.. blah blah blah, progress.. and i believe America is ready to finally put all that behind us, and I represent a new generation.. elect me, and we’ll make that happen.”
hilarious
All 3 of the nominees are a big joke.
“Rev. Pfleger has allowed Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan to preach in his church; he has been arrested for defacing billboards; he has paid prostitutes to worship at his church; and in late May he staged an anti-gun rally in front of a gun store where he exhorted the crowd to hunt down the owner “like a rat” and “snuff” him.”
I want to know what recourse we Catholics have to get rid of priests like this.
And we the people are going to be the butt of the joke!
Rev. Wright has at least one big fan.
Cindy Sheehan.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31824
Chickens Of Our Own Making.
Bitch.
Bingo! All three are unacceptable as President. But we will have to accept the unacceptable.
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