More Wright Stuff

One more to list a million dollar house in a gated community with a golf course. So much for “rich white America”, a country that suffers blacks and make their life unbearable.
30 years of slamming lavish living from the pulpit to your black community and then in the end, the pastor has some how managed to end up living a life that he told his congreation they should disregard, because as black white America will never allow them to live this way.

So is this the comfort zone that Michelle refers?

The man just like Obama is a total hypocrite they all love to play the victim race card.
Obama’s wife does it quiet well at every chance she gets, to her blacks are always a victim, America is a evil place, yet due to these evil white people she and her husband went to the best universities in the USA.
Her husband is a senator and she has a cushy 300,000 plus job on a hospital board, they live in a million dollar mansion with a maid and a gardener.
The evil america has them living in such deplorable conditions I can see why they are belly aching so much and at every turn looking to find some way of making their life in this country better.

One thing with Hillary she made her gaff with the Bosnia flight but she came out faced the public and said she was wrong to do so. The media has not let her off the hook for that but she did admit it was her mistake.
Here we have Obama with this Wright issue which to me is a whole lot bigger than saying what Hillary did, and yet Obama has not once come out to the public and admitted he was wrong to associate with this kind of rhetoric, instead he is trying hard to find all sorts of excuses to justify this type of hateful, racist language.
Obama has refused to condemn Wright, he has refused to disassociate his self from this and he wants to be president of this nation, Obama has to be kidding or he must really feel patriotic Americans are a bunch of idiots.

I am sure what the charge is. Did the retired Rev Wright utter those words? And if not, does a mere reprinting of that article indict Obama. What really is the concern here? Was the Church taking the same position depicted in the article. If Rev Wright made those comments, Obama needs to disassociate himself completely from the man and if Obama’s Church supports the articles position then Obama needs to leave the Church.

guilt by assciation! I would never have a mentor with these ideals and not be aware of them. It doesn’t matter how much good he has done in his church and community, he is racist. WORDS! ask Mark Furman how one word changed his reputation regardless of the good he had done in his community. Obama. you should shame your way from this race.

If your going to dig up dirt on peoples spiritual practices why don’t you look into Hillary’s group.’The Fellowship’ or the ‘Family’. There is a new book out about it that explores it’s focus on elite power ‘cells’ that include Indonesian and South American dictators who have killed 100,000′s and right wing politicians in the U.S.. In all fairness you should be examining all the politicians this way if you are going to do this to Obama.

How much evidence do we have to have for Obama to renounce Rev Wright the man! Here his church is allowing a know terriorist to be published in the church newsletter. Come on it is simply unbeleiveable that he did not know about these things. We have his church envolved with the likes of Kadafi,Farrakahan,now Hamas, tommorrow it will be the Iranians. Now we see where Mr. Obama gets the feeling that we should talk with all these terrorist without precondition, he learned it in church!

It’s really getting disgusting watching how a lot of the media, and even a lot of Americans, are gradually turning the Wright remarks into a “no big deal” type of thing. Have we become so politically correct in this country that we are afraid to say something is just plain wrong when it is! Sen. Obama can keep spinning this anyway he wants, but the simple fact remains….he sat in his church for 20 years, listened to sermons with degrading and hateful remarks about our country and pretty much anyone who isn’t black, and then has the gall to expect us to think there is nothing wrong with that! For those who keep saying he isn’t responsible for what comes out of someone else’s mouth, that is true, but not the point. HE STAYED and listened to the pastor’s beliefs for 20 years, which says to me he agreed with most of what he heard. If I don’t like something, I might give it another try, but I don’t go back for 20 years in the hopes it gets better. This shows a serious lack of judgment no matter how you slice it, and a lack of courage in deciding between his relationship with his pastor, or his candidacy. He can’t have it both ways.

Americans make me sick…
Do you know that Wright and Jesse Jackson and Farrakkan are the same men that NEGOTIATED..ARRANGED and RESCUED the captured US Soldiers from IRAN in the 80′s. They risked their lives more then once for this country and this is how you repay them. No wonder African Americans are angry at their country. NO RESPECT..NO DIGNITY..NONE.. just judgement. These men were good enough to do the right thing and rescue fellow Americans, but not good enough to sit at the table…
SHAME ON YOU AMERICA..SHAME ON YOU.

How can the Democratic party nominate a man who has associated himself with such people and radical views and will not or can not condemn the man! Well by the time the republicians are through with him we will have no one else to blame but ourselves!

The Media created a Monster, & they will deserve what they get, if Obama or McCain become President.

What’s Obama’s chances in FL now? “0″!

Obama also said he’s spoken to Wright since the controversy erupted. “I talked to him after this episode; he had come back from a cruise. I think he’s saddened by what’s happened, and I told him I feel badly that he has been characterized just in this one way, and people haven’t seen this broader aspect of him.”
DOES OBAMA SOUND LIKE A GUY WHO IS SHOCKED THAT WRIGHT SAID THINGS HE “CLAIMS” HE DID NOT HEAR????

We don’t want Benedict Arnold-Wright and his nephew in the WhiteHouse.

I suggest we start a 527 and blitz Pennsylvania with Wright’s sermons and Obama’s excuses. Any suggestions?

NOT many Obama defenders out tonight. Kind of hard to defend him, WRIGHT!

I’m not impressed. It’s an extension of what we heard before. And the Mousa Abu Marzook article is… a reprint from a LA Times op-ed. The “ethnic bomb” charge is too bizarre for words, and pretty sick, but what for pete’s sake has Barack Obama to do with that? Are all the 8000 Americans who are member of this church supporting these views, so carefully selected to build a “church bomb” LOL to put under Obama’s chair?
If he knew about all this, he no doubt would have changed churches last year or earlier to be sure this wouldn’t be used against him.
Some people muct have worked hard to find these quotes, but they aren’t Obama quotes, are they? Very far from that.
And I think Jewish votes will have at look at this, no doubt, but it still is not Obama, wheres Hillary famous passionate embrace of Mrs. Arafat when the PLO was still a terrorist organization was very much Hillary Clinton herself. And that’s the difference.

I think Anderson Cooper has a crush on Obama the way he gushes over him. Please CNN just endorse him already. I can’t even stomach to watch that station anymore.

Drip-Drip-Drip Obama needs to call his plumbers at CNN and MSNBC.
SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO HILLARY! WE MUST SUPPORT OUR CANDIDATE! Even if it’s only ten dollars.

Even if these comments are taken out of context, there seems to be a disturbing pattern of statements coming from Rev. Wright. I think this demonstrates questionable judgment on Obama’s to continue being associated with him for the better part of 20 years. Or he is really bad at paying attention to detail.
Sorry folks, but this issue is not going away no matter how many “great” speeches he gives the American people.

to all obama supporters the reason we are disgusted is thease sermons or thease writings could have almost ben taken verbatum from any number of black panther ,weather underground statements from the 60′s and 70′s ,both of thease groups advocated the overtrhrow of the us government.DO YOU REALLY BELEIVE that he isnt fully immersed in this way of thinking seeing as wright was his mentor and advisor,we cannot take this chance there are too many unknown factors about him.

Obama accused Ferraro of “slice and dice politics” and said “when we divide ourselves in that way we can’t solve problems”. How could anyone not consider 20 years of Rev. Wright’s sermons divisive? Obama wouldn’t give straight answers to the controversy — instead deciding a speech would be a more effective response. And it was a great speech about a topic he admitted opened up a very important dialogue. But now Obama dismisses the same dialogue as distractive to the real issues. Obama is used to shining the light in people’s eyes with his oratory, blinding them. But this time, it didn’t work, and the dialogue continues. His actions are finally being judged side-by-side with his words. And there’s a glaring imbalance.

No one could seriously believe that if any other candidate had links to 20 years of this stuff the press would not attack.
It’s a tragedy all around. The press’s infatuation meant they did not find out facts early on.
Just hope Clinton does stay in the competition so that as tragic features of Obama’s choices come clear, there is a democrat to elect.

OK, Fonzie jumped the shark, and it was the end. For Obama, it has to be this Yosemite Sam moment, where Obama must say things like “Listen you varmints, just a gawldarnged moment. Jes’ cause it was in writin’ doesn’t mean I red it”.
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Trivia Question:
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What presidential candidate kept Reverend Wright on his campaign nine months after anti-Semitic remarks were published by the Trinity United Church of Christ, of which Wright was the pastor?
Clue:

Why does the media take this long to expose Mr. Obama’s associations? So that the republicans can once again take the White House.
Is Mr. Obama going to come up with another speech to divert the attention to the “racists who run this nation”? He will probably get another A+ from the “highly educated” elites. This will only show how “hoodwinked” these egotists can get.
It is not only the 20 year-association; it is also the writings by Mr. Obama about this pastor and the church in his book; it is also his desire to become “black” for the past 20 years. (It is also the alleged (needs to be verified) mention of how “he will side with the Muslims if things get ugly” in one of his books – IS THIS WHY HE OPPOSED THE IRAQ WAR AT A POINT WHEN EVERYBODY WAS CONVINCED BY BUSH/CHENEY TEAM THAT THERE WERE WMDs IN IRAQ? )
All of these are contradicting his grandiose stand of transcending race.
One wonders what agenda Mr. Obama has for the nation “hitherto ruled by white supremacists”?

Jake – thanks for being a real journalist and continuing to cover this story. Obama’s candidacy must be evaluated with full knowledge of the electoral liability posed by his association with Rev. Wright. Much of the mainstream media is pretending this is not a critical story. It is.

Americans continue their infatuation and trance with anything Obama. His major spiritual influence for twenty years is a minister who believes that whites, jews and Italians are responsible for all the wrongs in the middle east and America. As the old saying goes ‘love is blind.”

It is amazing to me how someone will cast a stone of judgement or smear on someone over sound bites or cherry picked clips without even bothering to read or view the entire thing or find out about the entire body of work or context.

Mr. Obama can secure the party nomination if he continues to capture 85-90% of the AA vote. It seems likely he will maintain that margin as long as he does not abandoned Mr. Wright. While this strategy may secure the party’s nomination, it will be a problem in the general election. The overall effect is harmful to the party, but as a device for securing the party’s nomination, it is flawlessly logical.

Today, Senator Obama gives an economy speech followed by a fundraiser at – you guessed it – one of the top 10 issuers of subprime loans in America, Credit Suisse. In fact, Senator Obama has taken more money from the top 10 issuers of subprime loans than BOTH Senator Clinton and Senator McCain [cq.com].
- Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans. [cq.com]
- Obama received $266,907 from Lehman. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $5395 from GMAC. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $11,250 from Countrywide. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $9052 from Washington Mutual. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $161,850 from Citigroup. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $4600 from CBASS. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $170,050 from Morgan Stanley. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $1150 from Centex. [Cq.com]
- Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. [Cq.com]

The only ones defending Obama are the ones that believe as Obama and Wright do. They are the blacks that hate us too. The rest of you are right about Wright. No way could Obama ever fool me. My problem is I live in Florida and our vote will not count. My husband and I feel so upset about that. I’m like someone else on here said, I felt a lot better off and I could afford more in the Clinton Presidency than I had in years. We all held our heads up high for our country. We were respected all over the world. To me the Clinton’s were colorful. I hope they return to the white house. Obama should return to Indonesia or Saudi Arabia wherever Farrakhan needs him. I pray he’ll take Michelle with him. She’s a piece of work to. The media is electing our President this time. I’m so disgusted about it too. Actually last time when Bush got in we were railroaded then too!!! We could have avoided the mess this country if he had won. I only pray that enough American’s wake up to Obama before it’s too late. I believe that the Rezko trial will deliver even more news about Obama that will be damaging. There has been a lot already. The trial resumes on Mar.31 and I am watching the Chicago Post. Gavel to Gavel has information each day about the testimony. There are a lot of websites that are informative on many other issues about Obama as well. I too am so sick of his name. Sometimes I just can’t understand what there agenda really is. I wonder if they just want to get Hillary out of the race and then unload on Obama with everything. Seems like the media will do anything to keep Hillary from getting elected. They make a big deal out of Bosnia when Rev Wright and Obama could put this coountry right in the hands of Islam.

I’m not particularly amused by some of hightlighted and 35698745 times repeated Wright quotes, but did you guys who cry out about ” 20 years in this church” actually watch some of Wright’s complete sermons that are to be found on the Internet as well?
I did, because I wanted to get to the truth of this man instead of repeating some dumb slander based on a handful of quotes.
So I saw a lot of Wright, and I’m not even a churchgoer, but know I FULLY understand why that church community is wild about this preacher. He is incredibly clever, yes he is, and very witty, he’s a superb interpreter of the holy text, always focused on what its stories tell us about US and OUR society, and he’s tough, very demanding, provocative. Pretty much as JC himself was – a rebel.
Obama strongly condemned everything that he, just as I and just as you, repudiates in the inflammatory clips. But I could give you pretty stark JC quotes as well, not to mention Augustine or Luther and yes, Martin Luther King as well. It always has been one the functions of religious leaders to provoke thought, criticism and introspection by saying provocative things, by challenging common ideas and society’s values. And I’m sure you know that.

And now here’s Dodd:
“Sen. Chris Dodd said Thursday a protracted Democratic presidential race would be “devastating” to the party, and argued an agreement should be worked out after the upcoming contests in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina.
Dodd, a former presidential candidate and current backer of Barack Obama’s White House bid, told the National Journal he thinks it’s a forgone conclusion Obama will be the Democratic presidential nominee, and said he thinks it’s about time party leaders bring the race to a conclusion.”
Can you believe how out of touch with the citizenry these politicians can be??

Barack Obama seems drawn to the “Madrasa” teaching style. We don’t need this in a president.
God bless America! Elect Hillary

How can a US presidential candidate stand for these vile and uncouth sermons from a radical cleric!!
No thanks Obama! America deserves better.
God bless America! Elect Hillary

Rev. Wright is not and cannot be consider a wise man with a caring heart. There is no hate in a wise man.

Let me condense Obama’s interview on “The View”:
Obama: “I see no evil, I hear no evil”.
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If all this stuff would have come out before Iowa, Obama would have been the first Dem to drop out of the race.
If Hillary was so darned evil, why didn’t she bring up all of this Wright and Meeks stuff back them, in Iowa?
Obama is talking about “Tonya Harding” tactics, that sure would have taken his knees out, wouldn’t it have?

Pastor Wright WAS a political adviser for some time for the Obama campaign. This exhibits some questionable judgment on Obama’s part since there seems to be a disturbing pattern of incendiary comments from Rev. Wright.
His words may not be Obama’s, but Obama chose to be with a person who obviously has been a political liability and he still has failed to admit he made a mistake. Own up to it and reconcile this discrepancy–many of us might actually be able to get past this. But in the absence of holding himself personally accountable for his decisions, not many folks (non-Obama supporters) are going to be swayed to believe Obama is a viable candidate for POTUS.
Don’t make this about race–I’m sick of the race issue being shoved down my throat. This is above all a judgment issue and taking ownership for your decisions. The ball is in Obama’s court.

Obamadefector,
you already stated in these blogs that you would NEVER vote for Obama way before the Wright story even broke. Don’t be so dramatic about a political choice you made months ago. Nobody is interested. Vote McCain and bear the responsability for even more senseless American deaths in Iraq if you want to. A fine patriot you are.

Is this supposed to distract us from the fact that Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar?

There is one thing more important than candidates, parties, jobs, churches etc.
IT IS THE NATION!!
A true nationalist would never accept a candidate whose mentor damns our nation, insults virtually every community in America except black people, supports foreign governments/people over Americans.
God bless America!! Elect Hillary

To Ra: How can anyone say that the 20 years Obama sat in that church had to do with anything spiritual? Sounds to me like it was political and racist remarks for the soul.
What really amazes me are the Obama supporters, who evidently, don’t care enough about this Country to see anything wrong. Even after Obama has changed his story, has admitted being there at times when the Rev. ranted and at times he says he wasn’t. He has said that it was only a few times he ranted and then he says he was there several times when he carried on. He says all black churches have ministers who say the same things, then he says it is the Rev. Wright who is stuck in the ’60s. All this makes me see that Obama is a phony. The Rev. was a very close friend, advisor (until the news came out) and led Obama to become a Christian. What part of that sounds odd? There is no way I can see anyone being moved by such hate as being so impressed he became a Christian. I always thought being a Christian meant you were suppose to love everyone and be loyal to your Country.

“Hillary is a pathological liar.” Selective reasoning much? Did you miss the part where Obama lied repeatedly about knowing anything about Wrights’ comments? And that was after he lied about: Exelon, lobbyists, NAFTA, gun control, Rezko, being a “law professor,” and on and on.
People in glass houses…

Is he STILL coming up with excuses and rationalizations??? How stupid does he think people are? I can’t keep up with his daily justifications. I’ve never heard him take responsibility for anything–like Bush. There simply is no justification for Wright’s comments–period. Obama himself said that exact thing about Imus. Now, it’s all about “context.” Unless it’s Hillary, and then is unforgivable. You can all protest and he can explain ’til the cows come home. He has lost cross-over voters and they’re not coming back. Talk about a credibility problem…

I guess his supporters are not church going people I can’t believe this lets get real I would say we are in deep trouble if this does not bother us as Americans. Obama is part of a movement alright one that every body should be worried about. This is crazy are you going to tell me that a Harvard grad does not know what his pastor and the members of the church he attends believe he just goes there why?

Westcoastmessenger, thank you for your kind words.

Jay , I just saw the 1.6 million dollar home on FOX. It’s really sad when you have to go to FOX news for the facts, I never thought I see the day.

I agree Christine. Right now Fox and ABC are much more fair in reporting , but forget about CNN, & MSNBC, they are bought and paid for by Obama.

Obama’s pastor will live in a million dollar home given byhis church for his retirement. where are the sermons about Black in poverty, Black has no opportunity.. and some bitterness of yesteryears. On the other hand, Obama has been blin and deaf when he goes to his church. If we are going to believe him, we are imagining an Obama stiff and callous sitting in the pews.. walking like zombie when he goes across the bulletin board and becomes illiterate, not able to read of the newsletter. How many times he is going to insult the Americans… this pattern of making lies are so blatant now in the face of the Americans. For some decency, Obama should be accountable for all his acts and words and voters should speak their mind in the polls. It is already sickening to hear Obama’s voice or make a speech again because somewhere and between the lines we are being duped and he continued doing it. Why can’t he say that he made a mistake of choosing his pastor.. now that is the end of the story.. so he can fix his credibility problem. The problem is he is bound and hostage to his own race that sacrificed his reputation for the sake of standing behind his pastor and his church( to be accepted by pro Black community) because his being bi racial is a hindrance to being called the first Black president when he is not pure Black. Somehow, he must choose and stand what he really believes. The irony is he is campaigning to bring people together and then he can not bring himself together. Let us just pray for him.. so light will shine on his mind and free himself from the bondage.

Obama on the “view” What a joke. The only reason Pastor Wright retired is because Obama asked him to step down for the good of his campaign. These two are close as relatives and talk every day.
Obama can lie and say what he would have done, but it’s just like his vote on the Iraq war, He didn’t have one. It’s so easy to sit there and throw out hypotheticals, after all, isn’t that what his entire campaign is based on?

Countallthevotes, that’s to good to be true. Next thing you know we will find out he has a girlfriend.
P.S. I love you name, I am from Florida.

From Trinity United Church of Christ’s 10-point Vision:
10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.
I don’t think a 1.6 million dollar home paid for by the church’s members is striving toward economic parity (unless they ALL get one, I suppose).

On “Race for the White House with David Gregory” (MSNBC), a finally witness some folks in the MSM being realistic about this race:
RACHEL MADDOW: “The real realistic way to put this is that neither candidate can win with the remaining state-based contest. Neither candidate can win without the superdelegates. The question for Democrats is not whether or not they want the superdelegates to decide this, the superdelegates are going to decide this, gross as that may seem to a lot of Democratic voters. And so therefore we should stop worrying about the ethics of that.”
JOE SCARBOROUGH: “Let me tell you what we love to do. We in the media love to tell everybody which we have been telling everybody for months that the numbers don‘t add up for Hillary Clinton…Well, guess what, the numbers don‘t add up for Barack Obama but we don‘t tell that side of the story, do we?…The superdelegates are the rules of the Democratic Party…And they can go any way they want.”

Sorry I posted two very similar posts, I did not see my first post where I expected and wrote something very similar. Also, I am not the smartest person, and though I do have a college degree I would never insult anyone who did not. Anyway, I want to know when it became okay to be racist one way or the other. Usually people get up in arms. Obama people attack hard when any statement can be construed as having some hidden meaning–but we are supposed to ignore the fact that
Barack’s mentor is really racist??? Come on you cannot have it both ways. People have always rationalized things that are wrong…and it still is not right.

Ok. My post was just taken off. So not quite as effectively I’ll sum it up. It’s kinda late for articles like this. The clock is ticking. Kennedy, Kerry, Daschal(spelled wrong), especially Pelosi, decided this was over long ago. There was never any intention to count Florida or Michigan. They and the media knew about Obama’s associates before the primaries. The voters did not. Obama is what he is. His voting record is terrible. Feel like the media should have printed this in detail-all the way back to Illinois.The DNC Have been gettin their ducks in a row for all the delegates and superdelegates. They want her out NOW. They don’t care at all if the people don’t get to vote. THEY DO NOT CARE.

More damage control from the Obama camp? And they want to chastise Clinton for answering a Rev. Wright related question a week after his race speech. Look who’s dragging this on…not the Clinton campaign, not the MSM, but Mr. Obama himself. What kind of courage and leadership is that response? His judgment on this whole Wright thing gets exponentially worse every time he brings up the subject.
DAMAGE CONTROL CENTRAL!

He would still be attending sermons and Wright would still be the pastor, if his feet weren’t held to the fire. What a coward. He should give a speech on what knows best….cowardice

He seems to speak in hypotheticals a lot. He opposed the war even though he did not have the responsibility to vote for it. He would have left the church had Rev. Wright stayed. When is he going to have a consistent position on this issue or is he dragging it out on purpose?

These elections have become a circus. I gotta blame all candidates for it, including the party itself. If they don’t get their act together, the Democratic party can for sure see a lot of people getting tired of them and switching. Obama needs to quit, he’s not presidential material .How could you defend Wright? Have you not listened to the voters and what they think of all of this? It looks to me like you are ignoring them and disregarding their opinions.

Hey at least he’s an equal opportunity racist.

Exactly; Trinity Church and Reverend Wright-the Obama comfort zone. YIKES!

would’ve, Could’ve but didn’t Obama, you are a work of art.

Wright’s not a racist, just his sermons are.

He didn’t leave that church because when oprah did wright preached against.

I always donate 20 grand to churches that I don’t agree with.

Once again the ugly head of double standards raises its head! How many of you on this board who have racist family members, neighbors and friends are willing to distance yourself from them? Are you guilty by association?
I once had a coworker who was man enough to admit tht he had a racist grandmother who was a card carrying member of the Klux Klux Klan. However, it was pretty obvious to me that his grandmother had little infuence on him and his views about the races. That’s how we were able to become good friends, and have a good working relationship. I think it is a good thing to have open discussions about race in this country and to have civil discussions at that – however, he who is without sin should go ahead and cast the first stone! I challenge you to examine Senator Obama’s record, his policies, and his character. Also, Rev. Wright is not in this presidential race. I find it odd that the media has lately spent more time on Rev. Wright’s messages than Senator Obama’s.
For you overzealous patriots, how dare you villify a man who has served in not 1 but 2 branches of the armed services in this country. (Rev. Wright).
I support Senator Obama for the presidency, and if some of you can get past your hangups, you may probably do the same. He is a unifier and brilliant mind – just the kind of change that’s needed for this country in the 21st century. Surey, no other candidate in the race today can do that.
One more thing – be mindful of where you get your information from. Is it from the new faces of affirmative action (Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh)? Neither finished college or studied journalism. Sean has a high school diploma, and Rush flunked out in his first year in college. Their bios attest to that. What skills do they have? Can they really do anything else but sling mud, and spin and twist truths? Their jobs depend on “divisive tactics” so no one will notice their lack of preparedness for journalistic commentary. Think about it.

Since he’s advocating violent overthrow of the government, why has Wright not been deported?

Dear Obama True Believers, your candidate is toast. And all the deflection to Hillary or equivocation of institutionalized racism is getting you no new votes. I believe I have the ‘garlic noses’ constituency backing me up on that one today.
Speaking of institutionalized racism, what about minority scholarships I and every other white person in America are ineligble for, or minority job fairs sponsored by major corporations I am shut out of because of the color of my skin? Is THAT what MLK had in mind in “I Have A Dream”?
If you want to take it to the next level, how was what happened at Duke LAST YEAR any different from what happened at Scottsboro 80 years ago?
Young men accused of raping a woman of a different race, a racial lynch mob screaming for blood before the press ink is even dry, and a corrupt prosecutor who just might have sent them all to prison for the rest of their lives.
Yet outside of Nifong, all the racebaiters and hatemongers who stoked the flames to the sky, like Sharpton, Jackson and the 88 Duke professors who signed a Proclamation of Gulit before the jury was even picked, got to walk away scott-free in serach of fresh white game. THAT’S JUSTICE???
Lastly, I grew up poor, like millions of other whites, in a mean mixed-raced urban housing project. I could tell you horror stories of the black racism I’ve encountered, including a near-stabbing because of my skin color ONLY! I’ve grown up in as close to the ‘black experience’ as any white boy ever could.
There’s plenty of grievances to go around if you want to go down that road. I choose not to. I observe, remember and move on with my life, chalking it up the fact that a large contingent of the population will always despise me for my skin color no matter what. Like Wright, for example.
Obama has refused to remove the Wright albatross from around his neck, and that is what will sink him in the general election with whites, Jews, veterans, the families of 9/11 victims and now Italians. And all the flowery speeches in the world will not make us forget that he continues to call this racist anti-American head case his spiritual mentor. Personally, I don’t see the spirituality in him.
Obama’s Titanic of a campaign has run full speed into the Wright iceberg, and he refuses to pull back even as he is sinking. Saying that he would have disowned him when he still refuses to to this day is disingenuous at best.
Maybe it’s time for him to go back to Chicago. He will be more than welcome to attend all the hate speech sermons he likes. But not as President. My biggest question at this point is, why does the black community in America continue to honor blatant in-your-face racists like ‘Tawana Brawley’ Sharpton, ‘Hymietown’ Jackson and ‘US of KKK-A’ Wright with the position and title of Reverend? I see nothing holy in ANY of them!

Sally – I hope you never feel the pain of being cheated on by another and then blamed by others for an action beyond your control. In any case, he may be a cheater but he was one of the greatest Presidents in history and stands heads above anyone like Wright. I dont judge Hillary for Bill’s actions. I do judge her for her own as a US Senator… not as a wife. I dont judge Obama as a US Senator because of Wright, but I do judge Obama because of his own actions to continue to be a member of, give money to, and defend a church and its pastors (Wright is still a pastor with TUCC.) as they teach and promote black separatism and support ethnic cleansing and terrorism. These issues alone are inappropriate for any US Senator to support both with his own money and his failure to file charges of sedition.

Sally, that was tasteless and ruthless. I’d expect that from a Republican, not a fellow Democrat. Bill cheating on Hillary didn’t hurt anyone except Hillary.Wright is teaching African Americans and others to hate their country.

Al Gore doesn’t even like POLITICS!
He said his passion is the environment and that is why he is not RUNNING or did not run this year!
I rather have a President who had an affair(clinton or jfk) than a morally perfect president who has failed our nation(bush)!

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda
Obama is getting creamed by the Rev. Wright revelations, even though Democratic primary voters aren’t paying attention. It will be quite different in the general, as most of us who deal in the world of political reality know. Obviously, Obama watched what Clinton did a couple of days ago. So he’s decided to play a very simple game. It’s called Follow the Leader. Oh, and for you Obama fans, your guy isn’t the one leading. Because after sitting in the pews of Trinity for 20 years, admitting he’d heard some of Wright’s screeds, after he said he didn’t, Barack Obama still couldn’t figure out the right thing to do until Clinton demonstrated it for him a couple of days ago.
So if you’re one of those people buying his latest “Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church,” well, then I’ve got a country you can buy cheap. It’s on sale for suckers.

“I am not interested in having, in wallowing in a, lengthy conversation about race. What I was trying to do in the speech was point out that we often use racial divisions, or politicians also often use racial divisions, as a way of ignoring the common problems like terrorism, or the foreclosure crisis. And so, my argument is not that we should focus obsessively on race. My argument is, we should acknowledge the dangers of racial division. Precisely in order to pivot and focus on those problems that we all have as common Americans.”- Barack Obama
Obama doesn’t want to have a “race” discourse!

why didn’t you mention all of Sen Obama’s comments – that if he had heard and read all of these and Wright had not been retiring he WOULD HAVE left the Church. He has clearly and repeatedly denounced those types of comments, and they are not reflective of his opinions and beliefs. end of story. let’s move on to the real issues.

“I am not interested in having, in wallowing in a, lengthy conversation about race….”
-Barack Obama,
ABC World News
Clinton supports that is our vindication. His “greatest speech ever, let’s start a discourse on race” was just to save himself.

The person out of their comfort zone appeared to be Whoopie Goldberg. Why?
When Clinton made a mistake, she owned up to it. When Barack makes a mistake, he gives a speech about being misunderstood. Now that is ‘victim mentality’ in a knutshell.
Dean and Pelosi can burn down every house from Pennsylvania Avenue to the Yellow Brick Road. Obama cannot win the general election.

How was Hillary and/or Bill supposed to know this guy agrees with ANTI-ISRAEL ORGANIZATIONS and WROTE HATEFUL THINGS TOWARD ITALIANS?
OBAMA should have cut ties with him five years before deciding to run for President!
But he stayed because he didn’t want to get verbally attacked like Oprah did.

Tell obama to stop copying hillary clinton’s economic plans then we will have something to compare and/or decide when he is going start withdrawing from Iraq. Ever since the Samantha Power gaff he doesn’t have a date anymore.

How many white posters want to be held accountable for every racist thing one of THEIR friends have said? Obama is far more qualified to be president than McCain: an ignorant man who can’t tell Sunni from Shiite muslims, and who by his own admission knows nothing about the economy. Don’t destroy this country with four more years of Republican lunacy in the White House!!

There is only one way I will vote for Obama….
IF HE SUPPORTS A REVOTE IN FLORIDA/MICHIGAN.
and of course HOWARD DEAN WOULDN’T CARE WHAT A PASTOR SAYS BECAUSE HE’S AN EXTREME LIBERAL.

Kravitz,
The media has given Obama a free ride.

A hypothetical and very meaningful question is:
Had Obama not ran for president, would he denounce Wright (somewhat like now)?

Obama was understandably outraged by Don Imus’s disgusting comments last year. I can’t believe that he didn’t once consider how hypocritical his disdain was when he continued to embrace his own racist pastor. There’s something missing in his character because I don’t see how he continues to make distinctions.

Mahesh,
Great post. Thank you, brother.

Why did Barack Obama choose a spiritual advisor/mentor who agrees with the world view and teaching of James Cone and Black Liberation Theology?
Why didn’t Barack Obama choose a spiritual advisor/mentor who agrees with the world view and teaching of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.? Rev. King warned against “drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

OBAMA WON!!!!!!