Jeremiah Wright

Posted at 11:52am on Jun. 2, 2008 The Obama Spiritual Advisors: Preachers of Hate

Guess who introduced Harry Bellafonte before Bellantone likened Powell to a slave and blamed the US for 9/11

By Erick

In 2004, Barack Obama gave an interview to Cathleen Falsani with the Chicago Sun-Times about his faith. You can read it here.

Here's part of what the interview captures:

Still, Obama is unapologetic in saying he has a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ." As a sign of that relationship, he says, he walked down the aisle of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's altar call one Sunday morning about 16 years ago. . . .

Friends and advisers, such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Roman Catholic Church in the Auburn- Gresham community on the South Side, who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that compass set, he says.

"I always have felt in him this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you've got to face God," Pfleger says of Obama. "Faith is key to his life, no question about it. It is central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is."

Another person Obama says he seeks out for spiritual counsel is state Sen. James Meeks, who is also the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church. The day after Obama won the primary in March, he stopped by Salem for Wednesday-night Bible study.

Well, we all know about Jeremiah Wright, but what else is there about Pfleger and who is James Meeks?

Read on . . .

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Posted at 8:44am on Apr. 30, 2008 How close are Obama and Wright?

Is he telling the truth?

By Soren Dayton

Barack Obama said yesterday that Jeremiah Wright was just his pastor, not his "spiritual mentor" or his "spiritual counselor". This video suggests that ... Obama may not be telling the truth about this. But what else is new?


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Posted at 7:44am on Apr. 30, 2008 Obama And Wright Throw Each Other Under The Bus

Too little too late

By California Yankee

Now that Obama's campaign is hurting so much that there is talk of Hillary wining both Indiana and North Carolina next week, Obama tries to do what he should have done six weeks ago.

Back then I posted "Wright Is Wrong And So Is Obama:"

Obama's refusal to dissociate himself from this preacher of "profoundly distorted" views is no different than the failure of Muslims to condemn the terrorism used by the Islamic extremists in the war they continue to wage against us.

The "profoundly distorted" views of reverend Wright, like those of the Islamic extremists, will not be overcome until the people of their own community disassociate themselves from the hate mongers.

Obama's speech might have been masterfully delivered by a great orator, but because of Obama's refusal to dissociate himself from the minister of hate, it was a speech that fails to help bridge the Democrat's racial devide.

Yesterday Obama held a press conference and claimed he is now "outraged" by Wright's comments and attempted to dissociate himself from the radical cleric.

Read on.

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Posted at 3:22pm on Apr. 29, 2008 Lefties see problem in Obama presser (UPDATE)

A question of judgement

By Soren Dayton

Todd Beeton at MyDD said it, not me. I'm just quoting:

First is Obama's statement that he guesses he didn't know Wright as well as he thought he did. "The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I had come to know over 20 years." That's a big problem for someone running on judgment.

UPDATE:

Openleft:

It is a jarring juxtaposition to hear a candidate denounce his own pastor while simultaneously talking about the need for mutual understanding and to bridge the divides between people. The whole thing actually feels like a logical fallacy.

What else is out there? Put it in the comments!

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Posted at 10:44pm on Apr. 28, 2008 Everything Is Cleared Up Now!

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Thanks to Jeremiah Wright, we now learn that it's not "Judaism" that is the "gutter religion" but "Zionism." I guess this makes everything that Louis Farrakhan said perfectly acceptable, as far as Wright is concerned.

I think the Obama people officially have a problem. Now would be a really good time for a speech by Obama telling Wright to take a hike. After all, leaders are supposed to stand up to demagogues, aren't they?

Posted at 12:35pm on Apr. 28, 2008 Now the left finds Wright unacceptable?

Or are they just worried that Obama's run is coming to a close?

By Soren Dayton

I am struck by this from Joe Klein:

And furthermore, I've been to dozens and dozens of African-American church services over the years, including the investiture of one of my friends as an AME minister two years ago, and I have very rarely, if ever, heard the kind of rants that are part of Reverend Wright's canon. ... Black liberation theology is not the black church.

Of course, Klein did say:

And worse, Wright's purpose now seems quite clear: to aggrandize himself--the guy is going to be a go-to mainstream media source for racial extremist spew, the next iteration of Al Sharpton--and destroy Barack Obama.

Rememeber, this isn't a conservative. This is Joe Klein from Newsweek. Raising serious questions about Jeremiah Wright is now fully mainstream.

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Posted at 8:12am on Apr. 28, 2008 It's like rain on your wedding day

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

You've got to love irony.  Assuming you know what it is... I know we've got a few friends who like to visit the site these days who get big words like that confused with others... mean turns to median, irony turns to iconic which turns to iconoclastic.  Whoa!  But chin up, at least you're in good company.

Irony, for the definitionally challenged, is "an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected."

Exhibit A:  House Democrats suddenly admitting their massive MBT surcharge should be repealed.

The Detroit News reports this morning on the growing number of Michigan businesses being crushed under massive increases in their tax burden.  The Michigan Chamber of Commerce reports that many small and medium sized businesses are seeing doubling, tripling and even a quadrupling of their previous tax liability.  The Republican controlled Senate last week passed a $240 million tax relief package to ease the burden but the Democrat controlled House of Representatives is yet to take any action.  According to the News:

Read on . . .

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Posted at 2:22pm on Apr. 26, 2008 Obama, Ayers, and Wright

How many friends will it take?

By Soren Dayton

Today, Jim Geraghty over at NRO caught this line from another Jeremiah Wright sermon, "We cannot see that what we are doing is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag." Remember, that this is the guy who has been Obama's friend for over 20 years, married him, baptized his children, and provided spiritual guidance to Obama.

I remember a statement that I noticed earlier from Bill Ayers, who I will now refer to as Barack's bombing blogging buddy, "I’ve never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently." Ayers, of course, gave money to Obama and hosted his first campaign event in 1996.

The Politico's Ben Smith says:

The politics of this depend on whether you think there's room for nuance in a conversation like this -- for seeing Wright as a man of the left, and a sometimes hyperbolic preacher, but not an extremist; or whether any mention of him at all just fuels the impression that Obama comes from too far out a place.

I think it may also depend on how many more of these there are. Like alleged PLO associate Rashid Khalidi who hosted a fundraiser in 2000. Even Talk Lefters are worried about that.

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Posted at 8:46am on Apr. 25, 2008 Funny, I didn't realize there was a Toledo anywhere in China

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

"I can't compete with China. I personally can't compete with Mexico."

That was the word, according to the Associated Press, from Steve Conner, an American Axle employee for the past fourteen years.  And that just about says everything you need to know about Big Labor's talking points and their hold over many rank and file members striking the struggling auto-parts supplier.

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Posted at 10:21am on Apr. 11, 2008 N-A-A-C-P bringing H-A-T-E to M-I-C-H-I-G-A-N

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

"When you take the t-e-x-t out of context, you're left with c-o-n, and we have been conned," Detroit Branch NAACP President Wendell Anthony said as he announced the dinner's keynote speaker Thursday at a news conference.

I haven't talked about Jeremiah Wright here on Right Michigan to this point.  He's one of those characters and one of those stories that's radioactive and distasteful enough that I happily reasoned "it's not happening in Michigan."  He represents a part of America I wish didn't exist.  A part I'd rather not discuss if I don't have to.  I'm all about "picking fights" but there has to be a line somewhere in the sand.  A boundary you won't cross.  Because you know the minute you do things get a heck of a lot uglier and there's no going back.

My younger brother Casey was born bigger than me.  Almost literally.  Two years my junior but everything I'm not physically.  I remember being a six year old at church and walking next to him and hearing "oh, are you guys twins?" every single week.  No exceptions.  By the time he was ten he was bigger, stronger... I was a runt.  But I was still the oldest and that lead to some epic battles in the living room or the backyard.  Some of our fights are still legendary among our friends from the neighborhood.

But there were unspoken rules of engagement.  No hitting in the face and never, EVER, strike below the belt.  We might have been at each other's throats (that was allowed) but at the end of the day we were still brothers and best friends.

Lines you just shouldn't cross, you know?

Jeremiah Wright is the nut-shot of 2008 political discourse.  It's crude, it's distasteful, it's ugly, it's painful and when it's all said and done you've only made things worse.

So it was with considerable (seriously) displeasure that I read the report in this morning's Detroit Free Press.  The Detroit Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has lined up one heck of a big name guest to keynote their fancy annual fundraising dinner on Sunday, April 27.

Barack Obama's pastor and potential hate-monger-in-chief, Jeremiah Wright, will be making his first big public appearance and darn it all if he isn't being welcomed with open arms in the most troubled and racially divided city in the United States of America.  Get ready, Motor City, you haven't seen hate like this in a long, long time.  

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Posted at 10:21pm on Mar. 20, 2008 A Pretty Speech. That's It, Really. Just A Pretty Speech.

By Martin A. Knight

I can accept a lot of things that are being said about Barry Henry O'Bama's latest big speech.

I can easily see and accept that it was beautifully written and excellently delivered as only a great public speaker like Barry can deliver a speech. I can certainly applaud the stagecraft behind the entire production (and painfully notice how little of it we have in the GOP). And I really do appreciate the O'Bama campaign's long standing recognition of the fact that forthrightly addressing threats as they come up is the best way to get past them - something George Allen and his advisers did not figure out until it was way too late.

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Posted at 5:52pm on Mar. 20, 2008 Words Do Matter

Why Won't Obama Dissociate Himself From Wright?

By California Yankee

Obama recently took exception to Hillary's criticism, by borrowing passages from Governor Patrick to make the point that words do matter. Yes, words do matter, words like those used in the following video:


The fact that words do matter, makes Obama's refusal to dissociate himself from Wright all the more disappointing. Obama's failure to criticize the divisive and incendiary preachings of his minister of hate for the 17-odd years Wright has been Obama's spiritual adviser calls Obama's judgment into question. That Obama only criticized Wright's "profoundly distorted" extremism because it was politically expedient, is all the more damning.

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Posted at 2:49pm on Mar. 18, 2008 Wright Is Wrong And So Is Obama

"Profoundly Distorted" Views

By California Yankee

Obama gave a speech today, touted as an effort to bridge the Democrats' widening racial divide, and an obvious attempt to control the damage resulting from the hate-filled speech of Obama's long time spiritual adviser, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Racial_devide
Gallup finds race is the issue that divides the Democratic electorate more than any other:

In an aggregate of 6,721 interviews Gallup has conducted between March 1 and March 16, 80% of black Democrats support Obama while only 15% support Hillary Clinton. Non-Hispanic whites split 53% for Clinton and 38% for Obama, while white Hispanics are even stronger for Clinton, 59% to 37%.

In his speech, Obama says Reverend Wright’s comments aren’t simply controversial, Wright's preachings are a "profoundly distorted view of this country — a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam."

The following video is a sampling of the "profoundly distorted" preachings of Obama's minister of hate:


Wright's "profoundly distorted" views are reminiscent of the maniacal rants spouted by radical Islam clerics, and just as wrong.

Read on, there's more.

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Posted at 10:00pm on Mar. 17, 2008 "GOD DAMN AMERICA!!" (and other stories straight from the Bible)

It's not the action that sinks you...it's the lying about it

By Jeff Emanuel

If there's one lesson that has been abundantly clear from the fall of public figures over the last few years -- Bill Clinton, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro, Eliot Spitzer, Mike Vick, Alberto Gonzales, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera -- it is that the bad deed is not what does in the person who commits it; rather, it is the persistent lying about it that does.

Barack Obama's continued pathetic attempts to spin (read: lie about) the situation regarding his involvement with Jeremiah Wright's black-separatist megachurch shows that he, like all of those listed above and so many more, is afflicted with the same elitist mindset that drove the others to maintain that they were innocent of those things which they were rightly accused of.

"Those other guys got caught, but they'll never catch me"--or some variant thereof -- seems to drive these elitist jackasses to deny, deny, deny in the face of all evidence and logic. Somehow, they will be the ones who don't get caught, despite the fact that history shows they will, sooner or later, have to pay the piper in some form or another.

In this case, Barack Obama is spinning like a top trying to marginalize his association with the pastor of his church. The fact that this pastor, Jeremiah Wright, was chosen by Barack and Michelle to officiate their wedding and to baptize one of their children, and served as the inspiration for the title of Obama's autobiography is making that feat a little bit tougher than Barack "The H is for Hope, not Hussein!" Obama might wish. But don't worry -- Obama is convinced enough of your stupidity and of his superiority that he'll keep spinning and lying until he has talked himself into a corner from which there is no escape.

Read on.

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Posted at 10:15am on Mar. 17, 2008 The Audacity of Barack Obama

By Erick

I cannot put it better than Juan Williams put it on Fox News yesterday, but I will reiterate it -- the more we learn about Barack Obama, the more we learn he is an inauthentic, disingenuous politician who does not offer hope and change, but more of the same.

In his past, Barack Obama used his connections to Jeremiah Williams and his church to solidify himself in the black community. Al Sharpton has questioned the genuineness of Obama's commitment to the black community, but Obama has been able to hide behind his mentor, Jeremiah Wright, whose commitment is not questioned.

For twenty years Obama has attended a church whose preacher has focused on the topic of black nationalism. Jesus was persecuted by the white man, Rev. Wright claims, just as the white man even no persecutes the black man. Obama has relied on those ties to help him overcome questions of authenticity and commitment to his community.

Unfortunately for Obama, his ties to his church are no longer convenient. He has tried to disown the rhetoric of his church without disowning his pastor. The church itself and the United Church of Christ (not to be confused with the Church of Christ, an actual Christian denomination) have struck back against what they label a 'character assassination.'

And now comes this news that Obama was in the attendance one Sunday morning when Rev. Wright

tore into America, referring to the "United States of White America" and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened.

Obama stayed silent. In fact, Barack Obama, as recently as this weekend, claimed he was shocked by Rev. Wright's objectionable statements. Facts are problematic for Senator Obama these days.

For now though, let's ignore the fact that Obama was in attendance during at least one of these hate filled, anti-American sermons and never objected. Let's instead consider this.

Obama has been a congregant at this church for 20 years. In every church I have ever attended, in small groups of friends from church, the topic of the church inevitably come up. Statements of the preacher inevitably come up. Sermons come up. Church activism and evangelism comes up.

It defies credibility for Obama to claim no knowledge of his own preacher's statements from his own church's pulpit over a span of twenty years. Either Obama goes to church for show and has no relations within the church, in which case he is a fraud, or he does have relations in the church and does pay attention, in which case he's just a liar.

Either way, the change he's offering no longer looks like it amounts to much.

UPDATE by Leon: Here is a smattering of Jeremiah Wright's sermons - if you wall want to spend some time with YouTube this afternoon, you will get the clear picture that there is no way whatsoever that Barack Obama did not know the sorts of things his pastor apparently says on a regular basis. Be warned, some of this material might not be stuff you want to listen to if you're at work:


I especially like the part about the government "inventing" HIV as a means of eradicating black people. Yeesh.

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