He's the new Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson/Louis Farrakhan/race monger. He's found a national stage. And he's taking the spotlight, convinced his song and dance routine won't hurt his "spiritual" (trans: political) protege.— Wright: U.S. Government Lied about Pearl Harbor, AIDS
— Wright: U.S. Is a Terrorist Nation
— Wright: U.S. the Same as Al-Qaida
Hah! This guy is saying if his boy is elected President, you'll be hearing from him. You voting for Barack Urkle Obama? How're you liking him now? Just listen to his pastor spew racist venom. Oh, yeah. Some friend... he's killing Obama-rama's chances. Too bad. So sad. America's chickens... comin' home... to roost.
From CyberNewsService:
All of the presidential hopefuls have talked about "change" in their campaigns, none more than Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who offers voters "Change You Can Believe In." In speech after speech in this campaign season, Obama has cast himself as the one who can bring "real change" to Washington.
On Monday, Sen. Barack Obama's long-time pastor Jeremiah Wright also talked about change -- "real change" -- specifically, "God's desire for a radical change in the social order that has gone sour."
The Rev. Wright, who presided at the marriage of Obama and his wife, baptized Obama's children, and preached to him for many years, was explaining the black religious tradition to an audience at the National Press Club in Washington.
God wants the kind of "positive, meaningful, and permanent change" that amounts to transformation, Wright insisted on Monday.
In his speech, Wright said God doesn't want some people seeing themselves as superior to other people, nor does he want "the powerless masses...to stay locked into sick systems" that treat some as being more equal than others.[...]Wright also said that if Obama is elected president, "I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people."
Wright announce his retirement as pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago earlier this year, after his controversial comments -- some delivered years ago from the pulpit -- invited questions about Obama's own beliefs.
Since then, Sen. Obama has been forced repeatedly to distance himself from what some see as Wright's racist and unpatriotic views.
Wright is now back in the limelight, defending the kind of preaching that has landed Obama and himself in the headlines. He insists a hostile media has taken his comments out of context for political reasons, to make Obama look bad.
"This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright -- it's an attack on the black church," Wright said at the National Press Club on Monday.
Michelle Malkin has more vids of Jeremiah in all his oratorical glory. If you can stand it...
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A view from within the United Church of Christ:
http://WWW.UCCTRUTHS.COM
Wright lights the fuse
Monday, April 28, 2008
Trinity United Church of Christ's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, gave an indignant speech this morning before the National Press Club and African-American church leaders. The speech and Wright's response to questions afterwards will undoubtedly reignite the controversy around his sermons.
In his speech, Wright disowned the controversy by claiming that the media reporting and the public response was not about him, it was about the black church as a whole. Wright also mentioned the call to have a national conversation on race which was first raised by presidential candidate Barack Obama and formalized by the United Church of Christ's national office.
Throughout the question and answer period of his speech, Wright continually deflected questions about his sermons often answering a question with another question. When asked about his "God damn America" sermon, he asked "Did you hear the sermon?" When asked about his allegation that the U.S. governemnt created the AIDS virus to commit genocide on African-Americans, Wright asked if the questioner had read Horowitz's book and then claimed that he believed the government was capable of it. When asked about his controversial sermon that appeared to blame the U.S. for 9/11, Wright claimed to be quoting an ambassador although Wright clearly subscribed to the belief in the sermon.
On any level, the speech was a trainwreck. Wright didn't accept responsibility for his sermons or take ownership of his own words. By deflecting the controversy as commentary against the black church, Wright has also ignited a completely manufactured racial conflict and has unfairly cast a negative view of the black church and the United Church of Christ. Wright has effectively sabatoged the black church, the United Church of Christ and Obama's candidacy to protect his own ego.
While I personally agree with the spirit of Obama's call for a national conversation on race, it can not and should not be orchestrated as a defense of Wright's sermons. The controversy is not about race, it is about Jeremiah Wright. If we are going to have a real national conversation on race, it should be done in the spirit Obama's unifying optimism that we can overcome our shameful history.
"While I personally agree with the spirit of Obama's call for a national conversation on race, it can not and should not be orchestrated as a defense of Wright's sermons."
Agreed David.
It is my hope that all this controversy finally opens the door to frank dialogue about race-relations. Dialogue where everyone finally realizes personal responsibility, not government handouts, are the answer to most problems we face today.
Will it happen?
It already has, to a degree.
Will those that need to understand the lesson comprehend it?
That depends a great deal on personal responsibility.
I'm hopeful, but I'm not bettin' the egg money.
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