Obama’s Church Blames Media

I LOVE America! How can we Elect a President who Attends a church For 20years and says he never heard such HATE! Mr. Obama we are A Nation of very Smart People… Transparency I think Not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Save us from this Man Dear Lord!

chickens come home to roost…
I don’t think you are real.

Church or Pastor, it is important to judge the man Barak Obama and his values. Between remaining candidates who is preaching hope, togetherness, and unity it is only Obama who is going beyond party line, racial line and gender line to say let us get together and build a stronger America. Let us stop politicizing everything and recognize that Barak stands for America and he is the one who can unite (and not divide) the democratic party and the country.

Where are the Kennedys now? Remember the “next JFK”? You don’t see them doing the talk show circuit and defending him.

A man is known by his enemies and his friends. I am known to have friends who also love the United States. I am known to have enemies who hate the United States. It can easily be extrapolated that I must love my country. If however I associate with those who hate the United States, it could easily be assumed that I have no love for it either.
I would not consider Obama to be a friend.

Ted,
Wishful thinking like Cunningham, where is he now?
Fear mongering did not work in 28+ states and it will not work for rest of the country!
America is Ready for Change!
America is Ready for Barak!
Why 72 hours let it go all the way to Nov, still you cannot change people’s mind with fear tactices! WE WANT CHANGE!!
OBAMA08!! YES WE CAN!!

I do not care if people fight over race, but I find it very offensive to say “God XXXX America”, this goes beyond race. This is a question of patriotism.
Obama, I am ashamed you attend such a church where a pastor has said such words.

Here we are again at election time having to choose from the crew on a ship of fools. At the end of eight years of monkey man, the great American two party system presents absolutely nothing.

Melanie Morgan, Sean Hannity and others have been on this story for over a year, at least! Thank God the MSM is finally reporting on it.
And as others have opined, how can Obama tell us he has such great judgment if he’d associate with a guy like this for 20 years!
The pastor and his church have every right to say anything. But how can Obama, who wants to preside over the entire country, be indoctrinated by such an ethnocentric bigot and still think he can be an effective leader of ALL Americans? He’s been taught for years to look out for blacks, and blacks alone.

Does the UCC embrace Farrakhan too? How long have his chickens been roosting???
I bet for quite some time now.

obama is done. Its very saddening to see all the hopes i had on him and for our country crumble like this. I really dont think he can recover from the wright controversy. I think only way things can work now is obama being Hillarys VP. It will be hell of a long time before I get enthusiasm in politics again.

So, Rev. Wright says this is just a media smear campaign and he really isn’t a “preacher of hate”. I guess the media just photographed a person who LOOKED like Rev. Wright saying “God Damn America.”
Those WERE Rev. Wright’s words and if Obama defends Rev. Wright he is defending Wright’s words.
All of this and Hillary’s problems are music to the ears of the McCain campaign. McCain has practically won the November election right now.

Well said. Amen! Amen!! The right wing is again try to divide and conquer like they did with the election of Bush. We have 47 millions without healthcare, while sending $12B a month to Iraq for Cheney and Bush’s cronies to line up their pockets. We have economy that is down, housing down, everything down, and if that is not a curse for aggression by the right-wing while loosing sight of domestic issues, tell me what it is? Where is the right when McCain gets the endorsement of the radical and false TV envangelicals?

Rev Wrights sermons have been on the net and available since he made that sermon.
I seen it months ago.
I could only use what mr obama has said and done himself.
he was the one that started running around telling everyone america needed united.
He is the one who kept saying in every speech Black/white Rich/poor, making the divide.
He is the one who started anything about race. he is the one who used race,
he is the one who said racist, first.
I think his plan was to divide and conquer.
He did that kind of thing with his whole campaign.
First he told you over and over, this is the problem, until you believed.
Then he told you over and over that together “We Can” until you believed.
Then he told you over and over “I can” until you believed.
using High pressure motivational speeches, Slogans, media. until you believed. all he said. throwing religion in and grabbing your hearts and minds. Heck, you did not even care about all the lies he was through out at you.
He didn’t know them, then it was exposed he did, So then he said he knew them. He knew some, now he says he didn’t know they were like that.
Goodness the wool was pulled down over tight.
Looks back, the biggest part of our economy did not collapse until he ran around screaming the sky is falling over and over again. Tying it up with pointing fingers, Naming names to blame it on. Until you believed, then every aspect of the economy started to prepare. Then the nose dive. Hook Line and sinker.
Poor Poor Mr Obama, he now says he has been taken wrong, he has been abused by the media, misunderstood, he didn’t know anything. Bingo….. Going for Sympathy votes now.
He will keep doing everything he can to take the eyes of the media and the public off himself. He will point more fingers, Blame more people.
Mr obama you got yourself into this, by your words, your actions your deeds and above all By your lies.

for those who quote the newsmax ariticle…as proof that Obama knew because he knew there was heated rhetoric in the sermons…
heated rhetoric is to those speeches as some of Fox News is to Rev Phelps.
They are different but you would want to distance yourself from either….and if someone was just about loud angry African ethnocentrism (and I am sure many would be offended by just that just as I am offended by Fox News)… that is one thing… it is another to …ugh…do what that “crazy angry sexist out of it self righteous and hypocritical” person was doing in those clips.
How many of you know what your minister does for half of every week for the past 20 years… he knew he was angry but this doesn’t congeal with Obama’s actions nuances or words.

You can see how bad this is by the fact that no high level Democratic Leader has come forward to defend Obama. They are too afraid to step into the “stuff” created by Obama.

The media did portray Trinity United Church of Christ unfairly by only showing a 30 second window of Pastor Wright’s sermon. He’s been a pastor for 36 years and is one of the most notable pastors in the country. We did not get a fair image of who he really is – a theological scholar and former US Marine who has devoted his entire life to serve others in need. If the media prides themselves on objective news, then they should document a full picture of Dr. Wright and his time at the church.

Finally, a piece on this story that restores a little perspective!!!

Well said. Amen! Amen!! The right wing is again try to divide and conquer like they did with the election of Bush. We have 47 millions without healthcare, while sending $12B a month to Iraq for Cheney and Bush’s cronies to line up their pockets. We have economy that is down, housing down, everything down, and if that is not a curse for aggression by the right-wing while loosing sight of domestic issues, tell me what it is? Where is the right when McCain gets the endorsement of the radical and false TV envangelicals?

as disgusted as I am by the reverends words…
I am more disgusted by some of the posts on here… Some of the posts make the reverend look better… If the Reverend “needs to be sent to Afghanistan” as one of you put… some of you need to drive him there…lol
The rest of us will fight for the America we want…without the slander and the racism and with people who listen to each other instead of ripping for the jugular with your words…and in so doing forgetting you can’t just feel your words…you need to know they are true.

Daryl asked:
“Where are the Kennedys now? Remember the “next JFK”? You don’t see them doing the talk show circuit and defending him”
Best question of all! I live in Mass; we stayed with Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly, despite the very strong endorsements of the Kennedys and Kerry. Make no mistake about it. They, especially Ted Kennedy, hurt HIllary Clinton in many primaries. As Mike Dukakis stated in one interview after the Kennedy endorsement of Obama, “It is one thing to get an endorsement, it is quite another thing to have the endorser deliver his political machine and money to the candidate.
Me thinks Mike Dukakis knows what he is talking about.

I’m about as liberal as they get. The OBAMA we’ve believed we’ve been getting did not seem negative to me, just inexperienced. However, I will say that my father was a World War II hero, that gave blood on the battlefield so we would be a Democracy of inclusion, not a Democracy divided by hatered. He would be rolling over in his grave right now if he thought that the OBAMA that now appears to be emerging is seriously being thought of as a candidate for the President of the United States of America. My father was a Democrat his whole life, pulled the lever right down the line. In good conscience, I don’t think I will be able to do the same if Obama is said nominee.

Go Obama!! The fact that so many people are energized over these statements demonstrate the divisions and discrimination in this country are real. You are the ONLY candidate that can bridge the gap from the hurts of the past and the possibilities of the future! You spoke out on this real issue beautifully yesterday. You rock, Obama!!

I thought that a preacher or minister in Church should stick to the Word of God. Politics in Church do not mix. He is devisive and arrogant towards non Blacks.

I am a white Irish Catholic by background. I note that McCain took an endorsement from the Reverend Hagee of San Antonio well known for his anti Catholicism. My father had the same remarks made in our state when he ran for congress on the Democratic ticket in 1960 with JFK in Iowa. Things were more interesting in that our candidate for governor was named McManus. I think we now have evidence of two sermons on TV out of thousands given by Reverend Wright. While his tone may have been inflammatory, most of the things he talked about were true. America is no more blessed by God than any nation (or damned by him either) and our so called special relationship with the Divinity smacks of Blasphemy, which I believe was the excuse for the religious establishment having Jeus crucified. I think the criticism of Obama’s minister is just an excuse for rascism by whites who have long followed the hate your neighbor but don’t forget to say grace religion combined with God on our side mentality so well sung about by Bob Dylan in one of his better folk songs. For the record. Obama picked up 9 delegates in Iowa yesterday at County conventions in a largely white state so I don’t think this controversey goes as far as ABC (Always Backing Clinton) thinks it does.

So why was it ok for Obama to blame Ferraro on a 20-sec clip(even shorter than Wright’s clip)? She is a great contributor to American politics for atleast 30 years….Obama please step-down

New Yorker,
and what about the african tribes that sold their rivals tribes into slavery?
or do you know that part of slavery’s history?

BLAMES THE MEDIA? The joke of this is that the media sat on this story for months and it greatly benefited Obama because of it! Had they not, he would have never made it this far! And noone is to blame for this ministers tirades but the minister himself and Obama, who gave the church around $25,000. last year alone….which allows Wright to be able to spew this hatred! And Obama has no business asking Americans to vote for him to run America! What a disgrace!

The revererend’s comments were inapprorpiate–but his sentiment was not.
Look at the reaction and the hate that is in the last 100 comments here. The name-calling, the misrepresentation of positions, the bile. It’s very sad.
Ttaking out his three inflammatory words, what in the details of his comments–the money spent on prisons rather than opportunities, the money spent on war rather than killing, or the problem of American policies in the MidEast that inflame other nations dislike for this country?
The reverend was wrong to say God damns America. He went over the top.
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I certainly hope the posters here aren’t ‘evangelical’–after all, the last several pastor scandals have been evangelical ministers caught with homosexual prostitutes and drugs or in embezzlement scandals. I hope, too, they aren’t Catholic–after all, your SUnday cash baskets have been used to support pedophilia. Do you accept responsibility for their actions like you assign blame to Obama?

Tungsten, again you have it wrong, Obama capitalizes on the divides.

I am sure the super delegates who have supported Obama so far are thinking if they made the right decision…. Let’s hope some to get out.

Tungsten, or put another way, yes there were “divides”, but Obama and Wright merely WIDEN those divides, not bridge them!

What the hell is wrong with this picture? Is this the kind of change we can expect? I don’t think I am interested in this kind. I thought the whole mantra of change was a positive thing. This guy spews hate and anti-American garbage and then the congregation eats it up. Obama didn’t know. Oh you didn’t KNOW?? I think most of the churches in this country are just dens of Satan.
So let’s get this straight…this election we can choose from a nut case schizophrenic woman, a smooth talking con-artist racist crook, or a war hero and former Naval commander with lots of REAL experience…duhhh, do you really have to think about that one?

why didn’t Jeremiah Wright not want to interview with anyone to state his case??
OBAMA HAS GOT/BEEN IN WITH THE WRONG CROWD.
I’M SORRY TO SAY, IF OBAMA IS THE DEM NOMINEE, I WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY OR MCAIN.
OBAMA NEEDS TO GET HIS ACT TOGETHER FOR HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY AND FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

Obama wanted to make like this is an old uncle type person and that he will be retiring soon.
Rev. Wright is only in his 60′s. Obama makes out like that is the excuse for his anger at white people and America.

This is amazing, in the midst of a heated political campaign the American people are being led by the nose. I was brought up a Catholic, a fairly well respected chuch. During my lifetime many priests have been found to have abused young boys and girls. Many in the church were found to have hidden the fact that this abuse was taking place. The Catholic church essentially officially supported the Nazi persecution of Jews. The list goes on and I could say similarly damning things about many other Christian relicions, the Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, etc. Many evangelical preachers have been known to say outragious things regarding sexism, racism, antisemitism, etc.
If we are going to hold every member of every church responsible for the words of their preachers we would never vote for anyone belonging to any church. Is there any viable evidence to show that Obama, Hillary or McCain is guilty of racism, sexism, or any other ism? If we could show the campaigns that we will not be distracted by this sort of BS, maybe they would stop wasting or time with nonsense and start actually discussing the important issues.
What are the candidates going to do about the war in Iraq, the failing economy, the health care crisis, the horrible divisions in America? These are the questions we need answered, but as long as we let ourselves be sidetracked by indirect personal attacks on the candiates character, we will continue to get the same worthless politicians we have had for the past decades.

This is amazing, in the midst of a heated political campaign the American people are being led by the nose. I was brought up a Catholic, a fairly well respected chuch. During my lifetime many priests have been found to have abused young boys and girls. Many in the church were found to have hidden the fact that this abuse was taking place. The Catholic church essentially officially supported the Nazi persecution of Jews. The list goes on and I could say similarly damning things about many other Christian relicions, the Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, etc. Many evangelical preachers have been known to say outragious things regarding sexism, racism, antisemitism, etc.
If we are going to hold every member of every church responsible for the words of their preachers we would never vote for anyone belonging to any church. Is there any viable evidence to show that Obama, Hillary or McCain is guilty of racism, sexism, or any other ism? If we could show the campaigns that we will not be distracted by this sort of BS, maybe they would stop wasting or time with nonsense and start actually discussing the important issues.
What are the candidates going to do about the war in Iraq, the failing economy, the health care crisis, the horrible divisions in America? These are the questions we need answered, but as long as we let ourselves be sidetracked by indirect personal attacks on the candiates character, we will continue to get the same worthless politicians we have had for the past decades.

Ask yourself, Will President Obama continue to go to this church and support it? The answer is YES. He certainly hasn’t made any attempt to leave it. So vote for Clinton or McCain now so we won’t have to watch him lie about not knowing about the atmosphere of his church for the next nine months.

Kate, First, I am not a Catholic and the situation with the pedophile priests was wrong and tragic. I do not know one Catholic who does not dispise this kind of behavior. The church is paying out millions of dollars to persons who were molested by these priests. The Church is not standing behind this as their “doctrine”, they are trying to rid their religion of this sort of thing and they are sick about how it has tarnished the Catholic name.
Rev. Wright’s church has the “audacity” to (just this morning) stand behind everything this man has delivered in his sermons.
This is why you cannot compare the Catholics to the followers of Rev. Wright. (I also know a lot of good, black Catholics by the way.

The guy should not have been so careless with his words and he should have been teaching “bless and curse not” and “Damn not lest you be damned”. He should not have had such an anti-American and anti-Christ teaching. He is a preacher, he should have thought before he opened his mouth. End of story.

You people don’t have a clue. While you are watch the front door. All of your stuff is going out the back. This is what they want. To draw your attention off what matters most. Our jobs, healthcare, gas prices,the federal deficit, the credit crunch and the decreasing value of the dollar. All of these candidates are flawed in some way. One is way past his prime and is moving so far to the right. That he willing to give you a tax dividend and give US companies the option of getting out of the healthcare benefits business. In the mean time you have a little more money in your pocket until the tax man comes and don’t forget your preexisting condition. Good luck finding a company to insure you under the McCain healthcare plan. The other is forever linked to past scandals and unscrupulous acts. And last but certainly not least, the new kid on the block. Yes he is taking a lot of hits right now. Yes he doesn’t have all the baggage of the other two. But if he can survive this storm of hypocrisy he will be a stronger man and president. I am glad this has come up now. I knew it would but just didn’t know when. We as a country have to find a way to get past race. We live next to each other, go to the same schools and shop at the same stores. But so much remains the same. We don’t trust one another. How can our country be a beacon of hope for others, when we have our own skeletons in the closet?

This “controversy” has made it clear that the racial divide in this country is going to take a long time to heal, if it is even possible. It is obvious that there is a lot of anger in the black community, and it is obvious that the white community doesn’t want to hear about it. Part of the problem is the rush to judgment. Rev. Wright unfairly judged white Americans (on some issues, although he had a point on others). And people are rushing to judge his whole career and the entire church and anyone who has ever gone there, based on his most inflammatory rhetoric. Yes, the rhetoric was very bad, but it is obviously not the whole story.
These people are not racist and do not hate America. Everybody who has been to the church will vouch for that. But we are going to hear a lot of inflammatory rhetoric from both sides if we ever truly confront this racial divide. Reconciliation is not possible if everyone gets up-in-arms at every slight, real or perceived.

it is now officially impossible for obama to win in November

This is ALL a distraction. The enemy is busy trying to divide and conquer. Stay focused on the issues that are facing every American and vote for the candidate you feel will work for the best interests of every American. I believe that candidate is Barak Obama!
I’ve visited Trinity UCC church and seen the positive results of the various ministries. What individual can say they agree with everything their pastor preaches? I know I don’t. I listen, study the word of God and discern for myself. Then act as my independent mind leads me. God bless us all.

Please put the hatred away.
Obama offers change and hope to all of us, not just those of us who support him.
He loves us all. He doensn’t attack with negative campaign slogans and commercials.
Obama will end the hate in the world. We can offer the middleeast something which they never had, a hug. We can hug one another. We can all learn to get along and enjoy life.
Let’s put aside the hate and vote for the only man that can unite the world and bring peace.
We all can learn to love a little more. Vote Obama

This is ALL a distraction. The enemy is busy trying to divide and conquer. Stay focused on the issues that are facing every American and vote for the candidate you feel will work for the best interests of every American. I believe that candidate is Barak Obama!
I’ve visited Trinity UCC church and seen the positive results of the various ministries. What individual can say they agree with everything their pastor preaches? I know I don’t. I listen, study the word of God and discern for myself. Then act as my independent mind leads me. God bless us all.

If they are not meant to provoke (be it positive community action or divisive behavior), then why are the tapes of these sermons available for sale?

What you people fail to realize is that Obama has now lost maybe millions of white votes in the General election! Hispanics, Jews, Asians and some Blacks will not vote for him! I am Black and I go to a predominantly black church and my pastor never spoke words like Rev. Wright! He wasn’t getting my vote noway! Democrats you have two sworn losers in the race!

**Don** — If it is not obvious to you, it is obvious to us, that Jesus Christ is not in your heart. Get over yourself.

The issue is that we know little about Obama. What do you really know? We do know that his wife is arrogant and unappreciative of the opportunities given to her in America. We do know that Obama’s wife expressed reservations about supporting the Democratic candidate if it wasn’t her husband. We do know that Obama has revised his earlier memories of the amount of money raised by Rezko on his behalf (a friend and advocate for decades). We do know that something fishy went on with the real estate trasaction involving Rezko and Obama. We do know that Obama’s political camp told the Canadians not to pay attention to the rhetoric about NAFTA. We do know that Obama has used cocaine. We do know that Obama’s spirtual mentor and advisor on his campaign has spouted racist propoganda. We do know that Obama’s relative in Kenya are implicated in violence and murder. We do know that there is a lawsuit alleging that Obama used cocaine and had oral sex while a state representative. The rest of what people THINK they know if full of hype and promises. Sure Obama’s speeches may make people feel good (the prozac effect) but it is what he really is that counts….and I don’t like that picture. I’m with many of those posting here – I’ll vote for McCain before I will give a vote to Obama who I think is more dangerous than George Bush.

This is a Godless country, He should damn it for the rampant homosexuality, drug use, and other generally immoral behavior that takes place daily. Damn the US until it turns back to Him.
Posted by: Blue | Mar 16, 2008 6:44:33 PM
You’re scary.
What God are you referring to? Yours, mine, or one of the other millions people in America pray to?
Tell you what, let’s make a compromise..God can damn your tiny section of the country, and leave mine just as it is, mm’kay?

Everything is in context. Most who preach from the pulpit have not been the spiritual advisor to a presidential candidate. There is a difference. When you run for president every aspect of your life becomes the business of America. It goes with the territory and ambition. Anyone who does not like it or cannot deal with it always has the option of ending their candidacy.

There are no laurels that can be pinned on the lapel of Jeremiah Wright that will overcome those hateful and hurtful rants.
It is inexplicable but I am hearing reports on t.v. that other black ministers are coming out in defense of Wright. It is inconceivable that another minister would offer a defense of those awful diatribes.
We might be in more trouble than we know.

Why does Obama call himself a black man? His mother was white?

yesterday, i watched the relay of Pastor Wright’s sermon on some of the news network. I was really horrified but today I watched a better cap of the relay on Fox and towards the end he was preaching about love, forgiveness and not hate. So why were we initially shown excerpts of that sermon but not the whole? But even then I do not agree to the manner in which he talked about those things and feel he should never have mentioned Hilary’s name. He still talked about those blacks saying barack was not black enough. Some Whites say he is black and some blacks say he is not black enough. I think we have seen enough of this hate messages. We need some positive reasonings.

This is the kind of crap that has run this once stellar country, into a country that owes other countries trillions of dollars, a country that is hated abroad, a country that is the target of terrorism because of their foreign policies, a country that is producing less and less at home every year, a country that has been intentionally divided by the likes of Karl Rove, a country scandalized by Bill Clinton, a country that gives tax breaks to the rich and then starts wars and place the cost on the middle class.
They want you to be side track on issues like Pastor Wright while they pick pocket us and send our children off to die in a ill conceived, ill planned war (remember Rumsfeld).
Don’t fall for it America
Posted by: Roderick – Texas | Mar 16, 2008 6:58:10 PM
Roderick, it is OBAMA who CHOSE to ASSOCIATE WITH A DIVISIVE FIGURE, who ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH LOUIS FARRAKHAN, who uses code words like “bamboozled”, who allows his supporters, like Sen Bill Perkins issue racist statements basically calling Bill Clinton a slave owner, by referring to Harlem as Bill Clinton’s plantation..
http://newbrooklynnetwork.typepad.com/brooklyn_ron/2008/02/bill-perkins-sa.html
OBAMA DID IT ALL ON HIS OWN
He aligns himself with racially divisive people, his wife wrote a thesis on the “racial divide” and was disappointed her peers didn’t self-segregate, he issues a whisper campaign of racist accusations towards hillary and bill, after years of african-americans fawning all over the Clinton’s because of the work they’ve done.
Let me clue you in:
Obama=No Credibility
Zero

After debating about my position, now I really now have a clear indication of where I,am going. Not for Obama.
Many reason but I,ll list two
One
I emailed Nancy Pelosi and asked her not to be so vocal, and obovious surport for Obama but wait and keep a low profile and let the American people decide how the Super delegates were to vote.
The response I received was since I was not in her congressional district she would not answer my question.
Whats up with that?
Two
The Rev Wright issue. Obama has not explained himself to the American people, other than the deer in headlight speaches he made late Friday night on cable networks, not ABC NBC CBS.

blady, you raised a very good question:
Why does Obama call himself a black man? His mother was white?
I have another question:
Why Obama’s pastor is so aggressive in the campaign? Should pastors keep neutral in pilitics?
That spawns another question:
Why and how did Obama get many votes? Is that because he dares to use all kinds of means in order to win? He even used his pastor before, isn’t it true?

Roderick in Texas its too late! We fell for it 3 days ago! I wasn’t going to vote for Obama or Hillary! He might survive the Democratic primaries but he will lose badly in the General election! I sure hope you’re not one of those young new voters for Obama! Your hopes and dreams about Obama08 is going down the drain!

You guys really invalidate yourselves when you quote Huffington Post. She’s completely destroyed her reputation by being slanted beyond belief towards Obama to the point of gross lies and slander about Clinton. But, then, she was a Republican wasn’t she. Considering how they plan moves ahead on the chess board, makes you wonder, huh?

Not all black churches are this offensive.

It’s unfortunate that Obama’s campaign set the tone so there could not be an open discussion (or even a mention) of race and gender issues without someone being called a racist. The country badly needs this discussion. I guess Obama did not need it because he was hearing a one-sided view of it at his church. Hillary’s followers cannot say anything without being accused of racisim. Who is going to start a civil discussion?

where is the video of obama sitting in the church pew nodding his head in agreement for 20 years?
agreeing that natalee holloway (rest her soul) brought it on herself.
that shame on america! and all the soldiers fighting for our peace of mind at night are doing it bcuz of the white people.
that obama was a poor black man? who didn’t like to look at his white mama (read his book) and has relatives overseas accused of murder?
that obama just vetoed his own bill?
truth is, we never knew obama.
shame on the media for keeping all of this from us for their benefit. that’s where the real shame lies.

quote by David
“Many comments on this thread have a common tone, that of profound hate. It seems as though perhaps those of you with all that pent-up hate were waiting for such an opportunity to put your hate on full display. I certainly congratulate you all on your liberation.”
It is not pent-up hate, but extreme BETRAYAL. The American People truly transcended race in this election cycle and voted for the person. Now we learn that we have been hoodwinked.

“So now anyone who criticizes this pastor will be called a racist.”
Get over yourselves. The word racist does NOT appear anywhere in that article. You know, if your skin is so thin that you will describe any resistance to you trashing black people or their organisations as being racist you probably ARE a racist. Ferraro SPECIFICALLY mentions race, and then you say BARACK’S team is bringing race in.
You people are opportunists who thought you’d find a stick to beat a dog you never liked in the first place, so quit this pretending to be oh so shocked. The problem is your stick was guilt by association, which you don’t want to apply to either your sitting president or your hoped-for future one. If you’re gonna use guilt by association on the Clintons, oh boy!
And the racism DRIPS from many of these posts. The man is not even completely black and you are freaking out.
You think people don’t see your game. They do.
There are too few democrats posting here and too many vile racist Republicans. You think you can disguise it, but you can’t.

Janet P you are right. And that is the answer to all on this blog who ask why we have such a tone of hate going one. We did vote for the person we thought Obama was, but now we’ve learned the truth. We transcended the racial divide, but have now learned that he’s been listening to the battle cry for 20 years, and now has a new generation in his children doing the same.

Robert, do you really think the majority of christians liked and revered Jerry Falwell?
We thought he was a real detriment to good christians who wanted to show people God’s love. He was never someone I listened to or admired. He was an extremist that some on the right liked.
There are too many extemist left and extremist right these days that like to lump together everyone they don’t like. This Pastor Wright is also an extremist, that concerns me that Obama would listen to an extremist for 20 years. Extremists on the left and right are not the kind of people I listen to or admire – EVER!
Many christians were VERY embarrassed of the likes of Jerry Falwell.

This conversation indicting Sen. Obama for the words of his pastor is the highest form of sophistry and syllogism. If no one can force Rev Wright to say those things, then no one can force Sen Obama to believe them. The resistance to review Rev Wright’s statements in context of his entire sermon, world events, and the perspective of marginialization is proof that many want to support and extend the US history of artificial privileges and arbitrary barriers. Sen. Obama has repudiated the remarks and the person. The penchant for quick slogans to address needs is what allowed GWB to ruin the country. The two remaining Democratic candidates are selling visions, one is a dream and the other is a nightmare. Decide wisely based on what their plans mean for you no on caricatures, stereotypes, and fear. Reacting to an issues has allowed too many voters to juxtapose thier interest against thier values. The US requires a “win.” The vestiges of colonialism, imperialism and the peculiar malevolence of disparate treatement have inhibited us for too long.

Obama dropped 8 points from Friday to Saturday on a Rasmussen poll.

Change We Can Believe In
“NO”Bama ’08

“”"golfgirlusa re: Barbara Jordan”"”
You will be pleased to know I sometimes go out to the cemetery to put yellow roses on her grave.
She is missed as a voice of reason, integrity, and intelligence. A true daughter of The Lone Star.

Sounded like Louis Farrakhan talk to me. HIV a plot by whites to decimate the black population? Levies deliberately blown up after Hurricane Katrina to flood black neighborhoods? There is no excuse for this hate retoric. Same for the white extremists.

While the church can go after the media for the questions about Wright one thing that they may not realize is that the media often makes their investigations more forceful and act in a much more aggresive way when they get attacked. The first thing that they probably are already working on is trying to find evidence that Obama WAS there for any of Wright’s sermons that are the subject of the discussions and that he denied being there for.

You people are one marble short with all these theories … I am not sure whether to laugh or be nervous be nervous for you… or realize that most of you are hired spinners.
Take it down a notch. You sound no better than the Pastor in those videos.
No wonder they got you all using the fear card last time. Anyone who buys into one of these crazy paranoid delusions is just going to vote like it’s 2004… voting out of fear drives an electorate to elect a group like…the one that got us into this mess.

Media areheating this issue more higher, than it is necessary.
Much more.
It is awful to see those comments on TV again and again.
No NECESSITY.
let’s be back to work

I agree with alot of what you said Roderick except for your first line of we were attacked because of our foriegn policy.
I disagree. What religion were those who attacked us? Islam. Islamic extremists followers of Osama Bin Laden.
The Islamic extremists want us dead because they believe ‘we are the great satan’. Period. They want the whole world ruled under Sharia Law. They want to either convert the whole world to Islam or make slaves of all of us or us to die by the sword. Nothing else. It is too easy to blame America first for alot of people.
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/

Obama sold out to pressure. He sold out to the nuclear industry with his watered down legislation and now he sold out his church. After listening to this man for 20 years you know he believed what he was saying but he sold out to the pressure. If he was president what else would he sell out to?

If there is nothing wrong with what Wright said, why has Obama rejected his message?

Obama being blamed for Wright’s comments is like McCain being blamed for Timothy McVei’s Oklahoma bombing. You could say Obama went to the same church in which Wright preached and McCain went to the same army in which Timothy served. Arguments can get pretty ridiculous when just because you have heard someone speak you automatically are a changed person. So people grow up and realize that the media is thriving on this race frenzy. Racist and bigoted comments have no place in the US society where we put our best foot forward or loose the ability to compete in a global market. It is okay if senior citizens from NY like Geraldine Ferraro and Nobel laureates like James Watson make some ridiculous racially offensive comments but when younger people fail to realize that no one no matter from what race can do so much harm to the USA and its reputation as has been done by the current President. Does that mean no other person of the same race will not do any better. Not at all. It means race has nothing to do with performance and listening to the fiery sermons has nothing to do with ones ability to achieve. A real American abides by the constitution and not race.

First. I am an Obama supporter. I also realize that most churches have members of primarily one race. But this church’s web site makes clear it is not an inclusive church. In fact, it verges very much on being a black Separatist church. But then I think all churches are bogus.

Blame the media for what was said? Did you look at the congregation during that hate speech? What does the media have to do with publishing what was going on?

I think the Trinity United Church of Christ was trying to say, “God damn the media.”

Obama’s whole campaign is based on judgment and transcending race. now we see that he has done neither. Instead of transcending race he and his family indoctrinated themselves with racial hate every Sunday for 20 years. He is a hypocrite with pretty words.

the new pastor defends the old pastor. the new pastor also clapped and danced around as the old pastor said the hateful things.
obama says there’s no need to leave the church, because there’s a new pastor.
puleeeeeze!!!

There use to be a light around Obama- now when I see him the light is out. He is in a lose-lose situation. Neither he knew Wright was a racist- and lied, or by some miracle he didn’t know- making him one of the worst judges of charactor who ever lived who now thinks he is qualified to be the president of the USA. If the latter happens we are all going to pay the price for his lie or ignorance.

The Reverend Wright is a “blessing to the wider mission of the UCC”? I’m a member of the UCC and I am sickened to hear such racist crap being spouted by someone who identifies himself with my Church.

Attention buletin last minute
To all those who are experiencing the “prejudice shame syndrome” this is another perspective:
I you have genuine concern about Pastor Wright words listen carefully:
The only way to prevent from Reverend Wright’words to become a prophecy it is by voting for Senator Obama.

It is easy to tell when Obama is lying – his lips are moving. This guy has no resume, no backbone, no character (obvious by his chosen circle of friends)and obviously lacks intelligence. He can hardly speak when not reading from a script and is often dumbfounded by even simply questions. He has no ability to think on his feet.

I am truly deflated today. I can’t reconcile that Barack did not hear any of these hate-filled sermons over a 20-year period. It just doesn’t compute or make sense. And, I was so psyched and inspired. What a fool I am – what a fool we have been. Barack has let us down, but so has the press — it should have been on this stuff months ago instead of the unprofessional love-fest that was going on

The Reverend Wright is a “blessing to the wider mission of the UCC”? I’m a member of the UCC and I am sickened to hear such racist crap being spouted by someone who identifies himself with my Church.
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There are conservative UCC congregations, aren’t there? :-).
I’ll bet your church is real mixed racially. . .or would that sicken you too?

If you can find that McCain was a member of Falwell or Robertson’s church for 20 years, let him marry him, baptize his children and give about $25,00 a year and call him his mentor and help write his book and let him help on the campaign……let me know.
Otherwise your comparisons aren’t worth crap.

The best lie Reverend Wright is pushing is that even Pearl Harbor is a lie!
Please God, let Obama win the primary because this will be a slam dunk for McCain!

Apparently even Oprah use to attend this church but it got to be too much for her. Either that or she knew this would not sit well with her mostly white audience of stay at home moms.
If Oprah had the sense to leave, why didn’t Obama?
OBAMA IS A LIAR. Get use to it.

I hope all of you remember that Barack Obama and his wife and children are decent human beings who have never harmed anyone, who go to church (whether you like their church or not), who get up and eat breakfast and go to bed every night like most of us do. It’s sickening to see so many “Christian” people rabidly attacking a man THEY DO NOT KNOW based on the TWO sermons of a man THEY DO NOT KNOW. The man preached for 36 years, and they have two sermons, one of which came on the tail of 9/11 when I imagine a lot of us were thinking or even saying hateful things about our fellow human beings, and you judge his entire BEING by that? I daresay that if any one of you were judged by some of your less proud moments, surely you’d be condemned to prison or hell. At the very least, don’t claim to be true Christians if you’re going to spout this kind of venom. You should be ashamed.

I seriously question Obama for marrying that hate filled women Michelle. All the signs were there from day one. Did he read her theisus?

What is so vile about a black minister expressing outrage at how this country has treated blacks? It’s not like this is all this minister talks about or does. Here he devotes himself to caring for others who have little voice, power, or resources (see church response in news for list of accomplishments), and yet we can’t tolerate a little anger. Patriotism should be about pride in our striving for a democratic society – not in deluding ourselves that we’ve already achieved it for everyone. How sad is it that Barack has to distance himself from black anger to show he’s American enough to be president.

You people all prove the point that was preached about you.
I think a people and a nation gets the country and leaders it deserves. America deserved GW Bush and everything that happened under him just like Iraq and Sudan.
At this point I am almost gleeful to see America and all of you get what you so very much deserve. If it means that me and mine must go too, than I will go wearing a smile.
I once had a friend from Tuskeegee Ala. The kind of sweet, soft spoken dare not offend with a challenging word little black girls that all you vehemently upset white folks would find quite tolerable. She came home one day when the Bakke decision came down regarding Reverse Discrimination so livid that she literally shook violently with rage. I, the brazen black girl from Brooklyn that made the white folks uncomfortable when I walked in the room, asked her what was the matter. She told me about the decision. I wondered what about that decision surprised or upset her as I would expect no more from the US Supreme Court of the day. She said,
Well my granddaddy was a specimen in teh Tuskeegee Institute Syphlis experiments, yet if we speak of racial discrimination to white people they insist it does not exist anymore and absolutely cannot see it; but now that it is supposedly “reversed” discrimination, they have no problem seeing discrimination at all.
Ha….but dare we even dream those chickens could come home to roost.
Good night

20082009,
I don’t have any problems. And, 40-50 years is not long ago. I am old enough to have a second generation of living grandparents involved in slavery.
And how are you doing?

This is definitely not unity.
Obama you have already failed.

Trent Lott was forced to resign simply for calling Strom Thurmond a “good” man. Does anyone really believe that if Ckinton attended a church that only once or twice preached white supremacy we could hear ourselves over the howls of protest? Liberal America, get a grip for heaven’s sake. This is Obama’s pastor of 20 years!!!!!

Blacks are not the only people who commit crimes. Many white men are in our prisons for incest and rape. That is just as wrong, maybe worse. You carry those things with you forever. Many blacks commit crimes because of their home lives. Let us not forget to be parents and teach our children right from wrong. Not Black from White.

FISHING FOR TRUTH says:
“Well we finally got the truth! Newsmax.com just posted the fact that Sen.Obama was at Trinity on July 22nd, while the church spewed HATRED. In fact, he was their with one of Newsmax, reporters. Sen. Obama must have forgotten. I don’t blame him I don’t remember what I wore last week to church. Let’s see how he gets himself out of this one.”
TRY AGAIN –
Obama was not in Church July 22nd
Check factcheck
DO YOU PEOPLE JUST SAY ANYTHING??

Megan: Read you own post again – you are accusing people of attacking Obama,”A MAN THEY DO NOT KNOW”!! You see, that’s just the problem, we don’t know him! We know the words that come out of his mouth, but it’s only in the last few weeks, thanks to Fox and ABC, we have begun to see the man behind the beautiful speeches. And you know what? Some of us just don’t like what we’re seeing.

Senior citizens vote in droves and none of them will vote for Obama after this. They are a very very patriotic generation.
The worst thing Obama did the other night was say he never attended a sermon where this stuff was preached.
That is easily proven, and now he’s toast.

I respect obama even more now. It is difficult to be the product of a generation that feel oppressed and bitter and still have that intellect, integrity and honesty to move on from that and look at the world in his own eyes.
The reality is that there are enough Black preachers and Blacks who have pent up feelings and express that in such bitter rhetoric.
The difference is that Obama has moved beyond that and his words and deeds in his 18 years of public life is testament to that.

For all of you who say Rev Wright has the right to say what he wants….that is not the point.
For all of you who say that racism was terrible and whites just don’t understand….that is not the point.
For all of you who say what Rev Wright said was “the truth”….that is not the point.
The FACT is, 90% of Americans DO NOT FEEL THIS WAY….and they DO NOT want to wait until Obama is in the White House to find out if he does.
Period. End of story. Obama better quit worrying about being president, and better focus on just getting reelected senator in a few years.

It’s amazing to me how many of you say that Obama is indeed a racist and his mother is WHITE. Not to mention that most of you are spewing hate yourselves by suggesting that Obama go back to Africa. And to say that if someone doesn’t like some of the things of this country in turn makes you unpatriotic is insane. I don’t believe that anyone can honestly say that America has and can do no wrong. (i.e. slavery,lenching, the treatment of Native Americans and people of color in general, views towards education for our children (or the lack thereof), healthcare, war in Iraq, etc.)
There’s nothing wrong with churches who consist of one particular race. A great number of churches consist of people who reside in the surrounding areas. Therefore if there’s Latino, White, Black, or Asian individuals living in the area of a church then that for the most part will be the make-up.
Also we are all aware that the rich of America runs America. Money TALKS!That’s why most voters have a problem with Bush’s ideology towards taxes, and why we Americans say that the rich keep getting richer. And since Whites make up 80% of America’s population the likelihood that the rich would consist of Whites is highly likely. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or mathematician to figure this out. So let’s not blow this out of proportion as if we as a nation have not been stating this.
So let’s be a wise people. People of true discernment, and not let the media or the perjudice and racist views of others deter us from supporting our candidate of choice. Whether Obama or Hillary.
I personally will be voting for Obama!

5 days after 9/11, while most normal Americans were still grief stricken and mourning, Rev. Wright was spewing some of the most hateful rhetoric ever.
He couldn’t even wait a few Sundays! He had to start with the Hate America/Blame America crap on the FIRST SUNDAY after 9/11.
That speaks VOLUMES!

No Brian,
Just stop taking advantages of the privileges it bestowed on white people.
That’s all.
I am sure you can look around in your circle, especially your job, and see more qualified black people than their white counterparts who are in management/supervisory positions.
You see it. Come on.
If you don’t want to own up to slavery, than don’t own up to the rewards.

Obama is addicted to hate. He married the hate filled Michelle and he joined a hate filled church. Those poor Obama children. I feel sorry for them.

Obama’s mother was white, his grandparents who raised him and gave him an education were white.( Of Irish Decent)
As he says he has bits of America all in him.
I think he is brilliant and used the opportunity to deal with Wright which was always a contentious issue, and Resco with openness.
And in case you haven’t noticed, and why would you with the Media not informing you, he picked up 10 more delegates from Iowa and it looks like Edwards delegates are breaking for him.
Putting that in context he got more delegates this weekend than Hillary’s win in Ohio, that huge.
Ladies and gentleman your looking at one of the best political minds of the 21st century,

Spycat – “We” are not sorry for slavery. I had nothing to do with it. Neither did any of my ancestors. The same applies to tens of millions of White Americans. That is precisely why the concept of “white privilege” had to be invented. That way, no white is free of the “original sin” of “white privilege.” Clever, huh?
Funny how nobody ever seems to accuse Africans of “black privilege.” After all, it was their ancestors who sold their own people into slavery in the first place. The slave trade relied on African tribal wars to provide slaves in the first place. You won’t hear Jeremiah Wright talking about that ugly little fact though.
The white man ended the practice of slavery. In parts of Africa, it still continues today.

There is not much differnce in voting for Hillary or Obama, there both progressive socialists. Hillary does have more experience, while Obama is hoping for more.
McCain 08 – Stop any form of socialism !

Marilyn, it is YOU who need to get to know Obama. Websites do not tell us of someone’s character. People’s actions tell us. Choosing to sit and listen to this hatemonger for 20 years is an ACTION.
Wake up.

I am a Democrat – Due to all this BS posting etc. I Will be voting for McCain. Stop this crap or many more will cross over.

Why would anyone be proud of this country after what Bush has done in Iraq? Decent people are deeply, deeply ashamed of what the Republicans have done in our name. Only fools and fascists are proud of the US right now – and they are precisely the people who need to be reigned in for the good of the nation.

I think the complain is at least partially valid that the media reduces Mr. Wright’s service to a 30-second sound bit, neglecting his 30-year history.

This is not a time to gamble. We know less about Obama and whatever we have come to know lately are not at all good. So vote using your brain, do not gamble. You will decide the futuere of this country.

Hi,
can someone please explain if Wright is truly Obama’s “spiritual adviser”?
Otherwise this doesn’t matter.

Obama has been a member of this racist church for 20 years! Need I say more?

The fact that Trinity Church and Obama defend this so-called minister is very troubling. Wright’s words stand on their own. This is hate rhetoric pure and simple, the kind used by Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and other true enemies of freedom. For Wright to hide behind Christianity is an abomination. For Obama to defend Wright is pure hypocrisy. For the Trinity Church to promote such rhetoric is unacceptable. This rhetoric did not work in the 1960′s ( as Obama referenced), it only led to the burning of the inner cities. This church should be shut down and Obama should withdraw.

pepsiloverforever – who sold the slaves to the Americans? It was usually the Dutch and the Portuguese, and, to a lesser extent, the British, the Spanish and the French. Later, Americans would travel to the West Coast of Africa and buy them direct. But if you go to Goree Island or Banjul Gambia, you’ll see that most of the big slave forts were built by the Portugeuse.

Its ok for Obama to use cocaine in the past, its ok for him to be a plagiarist, It is ok to a have a racist as his spiritual advisor,take his kids to this church, lie that he never heard him give hate speech, its ok that he took $250,000 from Rezko, now say he had a significant relationship with him in the California debate he said he didnt have a significant relationship with him, its ok that he will be the least qualified person to be President in the history of the Country at these trying times. Its ok that he is friends with the weather underground terroist – NO THANK YOU – Great Example For Our Children!

I noticed that most blacks prefer to live on the past in the minds of salvery, but see the native Americans were slaughtered and they can’t even all speak up for there rights, people need to be thinkful there all alive here, and stop hatred

pepsiloverforever – Nice try, but Europeans created the market for slaves and the plantation system. Europeans built the ships and the slave forts and the entire slave economy from the Southern States to the Caribbean to Brazil. If individual Africans and Native Americans participated in the slave trade it was strictly on the periphery and does NOT exonerate the collective guilt of the Europeans and their descendants in the new world.

pespiloverforever: “True American and please tell us who sold the slaves to the american, …, ” Wow, you are true anti-racism crusador! Don’t you feel outraged that slavary is actually illegal? Yes, you should ask your president to re-act slavary. Go for it! You probably will get a lot of support on this forum. Look, there are so many anti-racism crusadors who are ready to attack, physically attack those churchs. Well, not that this is any news.

True American – so what exactly is your solution?

Article:
Obama’s Minister Committed “Treason”, but When My Father Said the Same Thing, He Was a Republican “Hero”

To: considering things
How can we ever discern a wolf in sheep’s clothing when outward appearance looks like a sheep?
To me, the ministries developed by Rev Wright to help the community are good things (taken by themselves). However, because these are done through Rev Wright’s ministries, I am focused not on just those good works but the heart message from the pulpit.
Here are Obama’s actions.
- Attending this particular church for 20 years when there are many other churches in Chicago that are not polarizing, but unifying.
- Obama chose to maintain a very close relationship with Rev Wright.

Big Jim – my solution? People should grow the hell up, learn some history about this country and stop whining about a non-issue. Problem solved.

In his Friday night cable mea culpas on the incendiary comments made by his spiritual adviser Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., repeatedly said, “I wasn’t in church during the time that these statement were made. I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally. Either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew, he always preached the social gospel. … If I had heard them repeated, I would have quit. … If I thought that was the repeated tenor of the church, then I wouldn’t feel comfortable there.”
Obama told CNN that he “didn’t know about all these statements. I knew about one or two of these statements that had been made. One or two statements would not lead me to distance myself from either my church or my pastor. … If I had thought that was the tenor or tone on an ongoing basis, then yes, I don’t think it would have been reflective of my values.”
But according to a New York Times story from a year ago, the Obama campaign dis-invited Wright from delivering a public invocation at Obama’s candidacy announcement.
“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Wright told the Times. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me.”
In a phone call with Wright, Obama cited a Rolling Stone story, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama,” (the name of which has curiously been changed on the RS website) and told him, according to Wright, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
That story included the following passage: “The Trinity United Church of Christ, the church that Barack Obama attends in Chicago, is at once vast and unprepossessing, a big structure a couple of blocks from the projects, in the long open sore of a ghetto on the city’s far South Side. The church is a leftover vision from the Sixties of what a black nationalist future might look like. There’s the testifying fervor of the black church, the Afrocentric Bible readings, even the odd dashiki. And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite 10 essential facts about the United States. ‘Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,’ he intones. ‘Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!’ There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. ‘We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. … We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. … We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. … We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!” The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: ‘And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS S***!’”
This was more than a year ago.
So … what did Obama know then and what did he just all of a sudden learn?

I don’t care what else the Pastor had done. When he jumps up and down and screams God Damn America the Sunday ater 911 and his congregation is all jumping up and down and agreeing with him he has said all I ever want to hear from that man. give him a bar of soap and have his wash that filthy mouth of his out. Also give one to his friend Barak Obama who looks into the cameras and tells the citizens of this country that he didn’t know that his minister, uncle, spiritual advisor, pastor, felt like that. And he thinks he has the judgement to become President. I don’t think so.

Steven – you mean like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart? Oh wait… they weren’t black… maybe it’s ALL pastors that need to be investigated? LOL

True American – No, I mean about the slavery issue. Regardless of history, do you love your country? Do you find good in it? Would you rather live anywhere else? I just can’t relate to people who seem to spend every waking breath slamming the U.S. What a miserable existence!

My African American mother always said, “You can tell when you are doing great things, that is when the devil gets busy.”
Obama has brought America to its feet. The dialogue on the Blogosphere is more fiery than any of Rev Wrights comments. He is right. This country was a mess, is a mess and will continue to be dysfunctional mess until it starts to deal with its inconvenient truths: slavery, hate, and fear of a non-white president.

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After hearing Rev. Wright’s racial hate speech, it is downright comical that Barack dared to criticize Geraldine Ferraro.
What a sham this man is.

Big Jim – first of all, I think the “slavery issue” was settled once and for in 1865 by President Lincoln. But to answer the rest of your question, of course I love my country – it’s absurd and childish to think otherwise. But when did loving your country preclude all criticism of it? I love my son, too, but I know that when he does wrong it’s my job to criticize him and teach him to do the right thing. Why is that so hard for people to understand?

It’s unfortunate that Obama’s campaign set the tone so there could not be an open discussion (or even a mention) of race and gender issues without someone being called a racist. The country badly needs this discussion. I guess Obama did not need it because he was hearing a one-sided view of it at his church. Hillary’s followers cannot say anything without being accused of racisim. Who is going to start a civil discussion? I cannot vote for Mr. Obama because he was brave enough to openly discuss race issues.

entitled “Common at Trinity On New Year’s 2008″

David — Excellent Post.
I agree with you 100%.
Participating in this discussion is a waste of my time.
OBAMA ’08

sermon includes “we are voting for our man Barack Obama”

If Obama becomes President we may as well kiss each other goodbye. I think Oprah does alot of good for people that need it, but she is wrong about Obama. I think there are some people who think when she says something it must be true and we should all listen. I can agree with her about alot of things, but not this time. I wonder if Oprah is really who we think she is. Wake up people, Obama is not who you think he is. He is not going to do anything but hurt our country.

Rosie O’Donnell isn’t going around saying “We need hope”….
Obama is.
And just an FYI, most people think Rosie is a nutjob.

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Rev. Jerimiah Wright is a ridiculous clown that is in no way funny. He is a stupid little man that will forever despise what he has become: low-life scum no better than the American traitor Min. Louis Farrakhan. May they both rot in Hell.

Are we really going judge people by their pastors now? If so, should all Catholics be judged based on the actions and words of the pope? I don’t think so.
I don’t care what anyone says. Obama has my vote till the end.

How come none of you Obama-haters are taking McCain to task for his connections to televangelist John Hagee, whose a known anti-Catholic bigot? I’m a Catholic and will never vote for McCain because of his connections to this hatemonger!

WE can say anytging we can; but hate is not the answer for hate. We people have to make right decision right now right here. WE All people who SUPPORTED, DONATED AND VOLUNTERED FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA NEED TO DO SAME THING TO HILLARY CLINTON SO WE HAVE BETTER CHOICE. AT LEAST WE DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS RACIST SHITH.
PEOPLE I CAN TELL YOU ONE THING THAT HILLARY REALLY WANT TO DO GOOD THING FOR THIS NATION. SHE WILL BE BETTER PRESIDENT THAN BILL CLINTON. AMERICA WILL BE PROUD OF WITH THIS INTELLIGENT AND SMART WOMAN’S ADMINSTRATION.
PLEASE VOTE, DONATE, VOLUNTEER TO HILLARY CLINTON THAT IS ONLY WAY WE CAN CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND WILL BE THE BEST ANSWER FROM PEOPLE TO WHO HATES AMERICA AND AMERICAN VALUES AND STILL WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THIS GREAT NATION.
SAY NO TO OBAMA AND DONATE, VOLUNTEER, VOTE FOR HILLARY…THAT IS THE BEST ANSWER FOR RACIST BHO.

Where have they been hiding Michelle Obama. It would be interesting to hear her comments on sister Wright.

Obama was raised in a WHITE home with his mother and grandparents.
How in the world can any of you think he is a racist?
Is his pastor a little crazy? Probably.
…but there isn’t a racist bone in that man’s body. It’s clear from reading most of your comments that MANY OF YOU ARE.
Our economy is sunk, gas prices out of control, foreclosures abound, and THIS is what you discuss on the blogs?
What Idiots.

Was McCain a member of Hagee’s church for 20 years? NO
Has McCain called Hagee HIS spiritual mentor? No
Did McCain appoint Hagee to his campaign? NO
Did McCain give $24,000 to Hagee last year? NO
Did Hagee marry McCain & Cindy? NO
Did Hagee baptize his children? NO
There is no comparison. So stop embarrassing yourself.

I hate to say it, but, I told you so!

Since a lot of Obama’s supporters are educated, black, and/or young, it’s obvious that most of the commenters spewing hate on this topic were never Obama supporters in the first place. All of the above-listed groups know better than to draw the conclusions you are drawing about Obama from the information available on Wright.
We admire Obama for what OBAMA says and does. Seeing that Obama was able to take some good messages from Wright, while leaving behind Wright’s anger and hatred, makes me admire Obama even more.

To: Erin McSweeney
Comparing apples and oranges.
John Hagee is not McCain’s spiritual and moral mentor. Never was, never will be.
Rev Wright is/was Obama’s for over 20 years.

Happy Mommy claims “…but there isn’t a racist bone in that man’s (Obama’s) body.”"
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Sorry, Mommy. A close, 20+ year relationships with one of the most hateful, vile racists to ever come down the garbage chute would indicate otherwise.
There is simply no way Obama would hang with this guy for more than two decades if he didn’t agree with his highly divisive and racist point of view.

Silly Brian – sob sisters have been predicting the downfall and dissolution of the US since 1791. Stop whining and living in fear and get over yourself, son. This is a great country and it’s only going to get better. All your predictions are silly and immature.

Big Jim – not sure what your rant was supposed to signify there, friend. But what matters in the real world is not Lincoln’s private views, but his public actions and the passage of the 13th amendment abolishing slavery. But let me ask you my original question again – are we so beyond reason that it’s now considered unacceptable to criticize the country when things are clearly wrong? Does criticism really mean that we don’t love America?

What took our media this long to expose this man- I am a passionate Democrat- voted for Hillary in the primary and would have voted for Obama in the general until this surfaced- this confirmed what I sensed in his wife’s incendiary remarks- Obama discounted the Clinton years and Michelle discounted our entire nationhood- to say she was finally proud to be an american now.My hunch is now proven- i CANNOT vote to give the keys of the WH and the the Nuclear Box to Obama and his cohorts. I am a Democrat and hate Bush- but I love my country first- and am American FIRST.

Inside Edition said Rev. Wright was out of the country till after the primaries.
How convenient! I wonder how much the Obama team paid him to leave?

What goes around will come around to the Democratic Party in November!
DNC tried to win this election for Obama and set up Hillary in FL and MI!
Majority of the Democrats calculated by black votes to win in November!
NO you won’t because the whites are running away from this camp!
I guess, we the Republicans even with John McCain have a huge possibility to win in November!
Nancy Pelosi, Howard dean please my dear, give the nomination to Obama! We love you first time!

Bible is words of LOVE AND FORGIVENESS!
Shame on YOU!! Mr. Wright..

do you really believe that Obama is such an idoit that in 20 years he never had a clue to what his mentor, pastor, and life coach was peaching? Do you really believe this? Obama himself said words are important, they bring hope, fear, and they can hurt. Obama is 20 years late on denouncing his pastor (crazy uncle).

When I am not at church, I don’t hear about the week’s sermon. Rememeber that Obama has been campaigning for how long now? When do you think the last time he was even at church was? And I have to say…I don’t agree with some of the things my pastor preaches about. I think Obama handled the whole thing very well and I agree that Rev. Wright lived through a different time than him and experienced different things than him. Wright was a Marine and is one of the most highly acclaimed black preachers in the US and was awarded three Presidential Commendations from President Johnson. I do not agree with his statements but I think if these were how all of his sermons were, he would not have gotten all of this recognition and would not be one of the most sought after preachers in the US.
OBAMA IN 08

The worst part of all of this is Barack Obama had the nerve to criticize Clinton & Ferraro for being divisive!
Pot meet Kettle, Mr. Obama/Rev Wright!

Now we find out Rezko is more of an issue than Barack admitted.
Now we find out that Barack requested earmarks for the place his wife worked, right after she got a huge raise.
All of you who think Obama is “different” are getting a rude awakening.

The only difference between Obama and your average lying corrupt politician is he speaks (lies) a little better.
Other than that, he’s just the same.

Kerri Ann – I agree! 8 years and look at the mess! Like I said, 4 years to fix everything from the last 8 years and 4 years to actually start fresh and get something done…
OBAMA IN 08

“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m proud of my country”
Michelle Obama
Looks like Michelle was in the church audience (& listening intently) for 20 years!

Yeah, Barb – because racism is all black peoples’ fault. Tell me another one. LOL

Well, I am a white American and I DID vote for him and WILL vote for him again. He must have very short sermons if 20 years worth of anti-American sermons can be put into one 30-second clip. That sure makes for a short day at church!
OBAMA IN 08

i don’t see that it’s a matter of caricature to play a video clip from somebody’s greatest hits dvd. if anybody’s the caricature, it’s wright. he looks and sounds just like a saturday night live skit or a south park cartoon. i’m still waiting to see how average americans react to this.

“Ministerial tutelage for social justice?” Sounds like a political organization and NOT a church. The IRS must REMOVE the tax-exempt status of Trinity United Church. This would allow them to continue their fight for legislative change without being in violation of the US tax code. Using the pulpit to endorse a candidate is illegal. Rev. Wright’s comparison of Obama to Jesus is downright over-the-top. Praise Jesus in Church, not political candidates.

Can anyone imagine a First Lady who has never been proud of her country?
I can’t. And no one else will want to either.

This story will go on and get bigger!
i feel it! The sad part is Hill will win and we will get stock with her!
McCain must pick Mit Romney as VP so we can beat Hill the witch!

I’ve known about Rev. Wright since before Obama comes along. This is a huge eye opener for most Americans. First, it’s an eye opener that so many African Americans support this racist doctorine. Second, it’s an eye opener that such a high ranking Democrat would indoctorinate himself and his family in this racist mentality.

i think if Clinton manages to make it as the democratic nominee we will have another republican in office. i think the republicans hate the clintons so much they will come out in groves to vote for mccain just so that the clintons are not in office again. how is she going to debate with mccain about the war in iraq when she voted for it? i think the republicans would love for hillary to make it – they know they could probably beat her.
i voted for and liked bill clinton as president (the economy was great then!) but i don’t like hillary. i think she is power and money hungry and i don’t think she will win if she is the nominee, which is scary because we need a democrat in office!

And what about the lifetime achievement award the church’s publication (headed by Wright’s daughters) gave to Farrakhan. Several times, Obama has said that it was given to Farrakhan “to honor his work with ex-offenders”. What a crock. The publication lauded Farrakhan as the “true epitome of greatness”.Again, Barack is feeding us a line.

Quote: “I’m sure Obama was in at church the sunday after 9/11 where many people were. And that’s where Rev Wright spewed one of his most hateful sermons EVER.”
That’s nonsense. What he said about 9/11 being in part due to out own actions is nothing different than what Ron Paul said the entire campaign in the Republican debates. Many Americans, especially Democrats, agree with that. Enough already with the false apoplexy and “righteous indignation.” That’s no better than Jeremiah Wright.

Valerie: There is a lot we don’t know about Obama that has not come out yet. But what has come out is bad enough. Yes, his mother died of cancer at age 53 and I believe his father is dead. His mother was married three times and his father had two other wives in Kenya. Obama has half brothers and sisters in Kenya that he probably doesn’t want to know. But they are there. He also has a half sister in Hawaii. I read his BIO in the New York Times and that was some biography.

To compare Jeremiah Wright and Obama’s relationship and that of other pastor who have just endorsed a candidate is like comparing someone that likes murder mystery’s to a murderer. Obama obviously knew what this man was about. 20+ years in a church and you didn’t know he said things like this??? Thats just insulting to me and everyone that hears it. He is either a liar or the luckiest man on the planet. Oh or he wore earplugs when he entered the church. Obama needs to step out of this race. He has put all Democrats in danger of losing the chance at the White House. If you are believe in Democratic issues you should be asking him to step down too. I’m sorry that he went to that church and ruined a promising career but we as democrats need to move on and he needs to move out of the way because this is bigger than his ambitions. Just because he claimed the change message first doesn’t mean thats what is in this mans heart. You go only base that on what his actions are. Between Rezko and Wright, there isn’t much that represents hope and change between those two men. Get out Obama.

Obama’s church BLAMES media? Obama’s church IS media. Videotaped sermons for sale with nasty language all ready to “share” with the rest of the world. This, too, is part of the script. Remember first that Gerry Ferraro is no racist. Never has been, never will be. She is a political pro (like Ted Kennedy) who sees Sen. Obama, for what he is. A very lucky young man with a spectacular way with words who has been “packaged” for this “moment,”starting with his being fed others legislation for his own as an Illinois Senator, his speech at the 2004 convention, and his support from Ted Kennedy. By his own admission, this “lucky winner” of the DNC first black man as president lottery, has been running for president as soon as he entered the U.S. Senate, running so hard that he can’t even hold a subcommittee hearing. And he’s lucky to be black because it gives him plenty of built in teflon … the media is reluctant to dig and vet this candidate for fear of being called “racist.” He has carried entire states with a solid black vote, taken “proportionally allocated delegates” with a solid black vote, and will have yet another “moment” at the DNC Convention in Denver, which is conveniently being run by a black evangelical preacher. Hollywood could not have done better. Scripted to perfection. If he hits a few snags, he gives explanations (in this case Wright/Rezko) on a Friday evening low news cycle and then gets up on Saturday to invoke RFK and cry out for unity. While you conveniently file Wright/Rezko away, you hear the sweet talkin’ guy and your mind wanders. Hoodwinked. Bamboozled. Since our guy repeatedly, conveniently, missed all these nasty sermons, maybe he was given a “heads up” that the sermon was gong to heat up and that he should be a no show. That explanation is as good as any other. Quick, time to invoke RFK again. He’s been dead these 40 years and you can trash him too.

Just imagine if he were white and attended a church that spoke that type of hatred against black people? There can’t be two standards in this country. I’m done with Obama. I’ll admit I was brain washed for awhile for the mass media.

Every once in awhile the mainstream media realizes it’s NOT the PR machine for the democrat (mainly Obama) party and it shows some bad things for democrat candidates. But trust me, they have to be dragged to do it, kicking and screaming. So if you’re going to sit there and say the media is pro Republican, that’s just like sitting up and announcing “Hey, I’m an idiot.”

Jen, Obama WAS NOT a U.S.SENATOR in 2001.
Geeeze, get informed.

It is hard to believe that some could be so naive to believe Obama could sit in the pews of a preacher who is obviously anti-american and a racist and never hear anything controversial. His denial that he never heard anything offensive over the last 20 years is about as political as it gets. The reverend has no doubt done great and wonderful things but lest we forget that even a racist can do good things for those they agree with.

Can you imagine if this was a white church (McCain or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s) saying these things?
I regret voting for Obama. Wish I had known this earlier. Why was the Media sitting on this. Can the American voter sue the media for not informing us earlier about this? Just a thought.

You go to a bookstore and choose an interesting-looking book. You read one page and it reads like the “sound-bites” of Wright’s sermons. Does that give you any idea of what the book is about? Do you buy the book?
No Thanks!
No one has to listen to all of Wright’s sermons (or even a couple of them) to know what he is about.

I was a Obama supporter. Now I rather stay home than vote. I have lost trust in this political system and the media that hid this from us. Shame on you CNN and MSNBC.

Jen, that means he WASN’T in Washington DC. He was in Illinois and was IN CHURCH on 9/11 listening to the hate.
Get it???
lol. No wonder Obama gets people to drink the kool aid so easily.

Jen, you already made the mistake of saying Obama was in Washington DC doing work for the COUNTRY.
And now I’m suppose to think you know what you’re talking about? LOL.
Oh by the way, the sermon Audacity of Hope that Obama got his book title from, a sermon that he DID hear, was also full of hate.
You Obama lovers are really going to be humiliated in the next few weeks.

Funny how Obama supporters are so eager to sweep this one under the rug. People should be outraged and insulted at how Obama thinks that we’ll buy his explanation of not being there when the Minister gave those divisive speeches. People who voted for him are having buyer’s remorse right about now.

My question is why haven’t we seen the clips of Reverend Wright’s Audacity to Hope speech that inspired Obama’s book?
I think ABC has presented the Reverend in an completely inflammatory way. It just shows how little the MSM understands the Black community in this country. That first report by Brian Ross was so much from a “white never been to a Black Church perspective”it’s laughable.
Jerry Falwell said it was our fault for 9/11 as well because of the abortionists, gays and the ACLU and George Bush didn’t distance himself from him or PAt Robertson for the 2004. Ted Haggard was Bush’s spiritual adviser.

What is so sad about the truth. The truth is better than lies. Obama should have had the sense to renounce that church and find one that don’t have a racist pastor. In the church I attend, we have white, black and spanish. Our pastor never preaches about race. He preaches the gospel and that’s what Wright should be doing. That is not a christian church and never will be. Get a grip and get real. If you can’t fact the truth then join his church.

So religion was a big deal with Romney and Huckabee, but suddenly we’re supposed to ignore it when it comes to Obama? Get real. Obama has been a member of this church for 20 years. When you’re running for President, you really shouldn’t be associating at all with someone who says “god d*mn america” and that the gov’t invented the HIV virus to kill blacks, let alone going to a church where this is preached to thousands. If my pastor said anything like that I would get up in the middle of the sermon and walk out and never return, and as a member of congress and presidential candidate, you would hope that Obama would too, but apparently that’s not the case.

Can you imagine the kind of anti American judges and anti American staff and anti American cabinet members Obama would appoint? Al Qaeda would be dancing in the streets if this guy had won. And he might have if not for Rev. Wright. I think God was directing Sean Hannity to find these sermons and expose these evil, evil men.

Victoria, the one who preaches “unity” apparently doesn’t believe in it himself.
So tell Obama to practice what he preaches and start in his own backyard.

hell i’m 22 years old.+++++++++++++++++++why am I not surprised, they always know every thing at that age, I mean they have so much life experience or think they do any way,and then they starting spewing off about how many books they have read , how much education they have, wow wow, living real life is not about books,not about college it is about living, I don’t think they should let people vote until they have been around long enough to know what living and struggling is all about til they can see smoke rings in the dark, and knows what that means,

“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m proud of my country.”
Michelle Obama
Three weeks ago we were told she didn’t mean it like it sounded. Three weeks ago we didn’t know the church she went to for 20 years. Now we know exactly what she meant.
It’s fine for Michelle to loathe her country. But it’s not fine for someone like that to represent this country in the White House.
Say no to hate. Say no to Barack Obama AND his wife.

Another point I would like to make; everyone kept saying that Obama has good judgement, so he chose to belong to this kind of church at the start of his career, and like America, who supposedly wasn’t ready for a black man would be ready now including the man belonging to a church that apparently hates “Rich White People”. Rich white people who will never know pain like that congregation knows pain; all because of their ancestors. Don’t talk to Germans if you’re Jewish, Oh well those of Japanese ancestry I guess you probably never want to speak to white Americans. But if you need a good deal on a home, give Rezco a call. He’s in deep legal trouble right now, but I am sure he can work something out, trust me I know. Vote for me….

What has Obama done to you 25% haters during the Bush adminstration that have you so upset? The war? Trillion in debt? Loss in jobs and income? 45 millions American unisured? Come and get over till small talk and get real. Obama 08!

Why is this not a surprise?
And the “say NO to attacks” is priceless.
How can this be character assasination when the sermons are being sold by the congregation? Certainly, there must have been a review committee that found these to be representative of Rev. Wright’s Sunday sermons.
And the uproar is about the attacks that Rev.Wright lodged against our country, the “man” and inaccurate comments suggesting that AIDS was intentionally started by the U.S. Government to wipe out huge numbers of African Americans.
Are you also angry at Barack Obama for denouncing and rejecting the statements too?
Time to stop circling the wagons and look around. The technique of sermonizing does nothing to transcend race. Time for EVERYONE to get with the program, not just some.

Katrina proved it////and what did that prove that some people don’t have enough good sense to leave when they live 5 feet below sea level in a bowl and a kat 5 hurricane is headed toward them,excuse me, I am so sick of the Katrina thing, most people don’t have a clue what went on there, all they have is the pictures,well they started warning 5 days before that hurricane ever hit, to get out, that is was coming,they provided buses, they didn’t want to ride the buses cause they didn’t have a/c, so take in consideration that they offered a rides and gave them 5 days to leave,those people stayed knowing full well that they lived below sea level and surrounded by a old worn out levy, and a kat 5 hurricane was headed at them, when they started bringing those people out of there and bringing them to other city i had the good pleasure of helping feed some of them,they complained about the food, crapped in the floors wouldn’t clean it up, threw trash every where, and wouldn’t clean up,and they were not all black, but most was looking for a free ride, and do you know most of them did with the money they got” so I am sorry no pity here, they were rude, disrespectful but they were not all black there were quite a few whites in there too,

Senator Obama lacks political experience which is showing in this campaign. He eliminated his opponents in his Illinois State Senate election by challenging their nomination papers. When Senator Obama ran for U.S. Senator his competition self-destructed. He has shown himself to lack political judgment in regards to Rev. Wright. Senator Obama never should have appointed Rev. Wright to a position on his spiritual advisory team when he knew full well that Rev. Wright’s statements would be used against him. Instead Senator Obama minimized Rev. Wright’s statements as “being provocative” and “cherry picking”. He further minimized with his own statements that Rev. Wright is like an uncle you disagree with and that Rev. Wright is retiring. Senator Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright goes way beyond just his church attendance. Rev. Wright has been his spiritual adviser/mentor and Senator Obama has had many conversations with him over 20 years. While Rev. White may use a more flamboyant style in church to express his views, in private they are still his views. How can Senator Obama not have internalized many of Rev. Wright’s views?

Oppong; NO! Just kidding. It depends on how he is. Providing the record is one we approve of, is he a smooth talking, lying jerk? If not, that would be a plus. Obama is a minus in that department.

If we are going to hold every member of every church responsible for the words of their preachers ————-ONE LAST TIME GET THIS WE DO NOT HOLD HIM RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HIS PASTOR HAS SAID, WE HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR BELIEVING LIKE HIS PASTOR FOR LYING, AND SUPPORTING THIS KIND OF HATE. FOR HIS POOR JUDGMENT, HIS LACK OF CHARACTER,HIS MISUSE OF OUR TRUST, AND FOR AGREEING THAT THE WHITES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE EVILS OF THE WORLD, AND THAT GOD SHOULD DAMN AMERICAN,HE CAN SAY ANY THING HE WANTS BUT WE HAVE ENOUGH SENSE TO KNOW THAT HE KNEW WELL WHAT THAT PREACHER WAS LIKE, 20 YRS GIVE ME A BREAK,

I’m a black female Captain in the Army. I have served for over 20 years and I love my country…I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world.
Obama and his links to Rev. Wright/Rezco is a discrace to blacks….and blacks need to own up to it and STOP making excuses for Obama & Wright.
Before this story broke, I spoke to my 14 & 12 year old daughters about hanging around those who have a bad reputation or do bad things, because others will believe that they are the same way….Obama should have had the smarts to also know this by now!
Wright should NEVER use the pulpit to voice political rhetoric…regardless if they are true or not. The pulpit is ONLY for God’s word.
I distastefully saw people…mostly young….crying, worshipping, and idolizing Obama…calling him the Messiah. In my gut I saw trouble coming because of this.
The ONLY Messiah is Jesus Christ. When Obama didn’t ask these young people to tone it down, and when he himself rellished in the spotlight from it….he lost my vote. NO ONE puts them self on a pedestal acting as if they are Jesus Christ…ONLY Jesus Christ can do that. At that point, Obama reminded me of Jim Jones.
However, I also blame white college kids who are Obama’s core supporters. They also spew hate all over the Internet in defense of Obama 24/7. They blindfully supported Obama WITHOUT researching his platform….then alot of other whites followed suit.
bottom line….Obama needs to resign from this race and the people of Illinois can deal with him and his Senate seat.
Every candidate/man of God….including Obama and Wright, need to be held to the same standard…regardless of the color of their skin.
If Obama was a white canidate….lets say Hillary Clinton and Wright was a white preacher….they would be fried by the media & black politicians….and rightfully so.
I have been saying to family & friends for a year that Obama wasn’t ready YET to be President…maybe in 8 years or a a Governorship FIRST. Remember that you never want to set a person up for failure. As a Captain in the Army, my superiors would never put me in a position that I wasn’t trained/ready for. The same should go for the Presidency.
The experience for Obama is just NOT there yet. However, Obama’s chances of holding a political office in the future is gone…probably forever.

Prop,
YOU NAILED IT!!!!! This is what needs to be said on national TV. Again, it’s not about race at all, but not that’s all it’s been about and it makes my stomach turn. Great points you made. You said it very elequantly and very maturely.
By the way, thank you for serving and protecting us. God speed!

Give me a TOTAL break! Unreal – truly! If Clinton’s pastor has spewed filth the way Wright does – all heck would break loose. Who are they kidding? Did you see those congregation members patting his back while he was giving those horrid sermons? Some of the balck community act like society owes them everything! IF Obama is elected president, they will no longer be able to complain or blame anyone else but themselves. Obama made something of himsef and he came from a single family home. He didn’t have a lot of money. Yet, he got out there and instead of complaining and whining about the country owing him something because of slavery, he achieved things on his own. Regardless, I’m voting for McCain if Obama gets the nomination. NO freaking way will I vote for Obama. I will NOT do it!

Why is it wrong for others to point out how OBAMA’S CHOICE OF A HOUSE OF WORSHIP is a bit unerving/disturbing. Then you hear all these stories about his campaign being aggressive especially with the race card. Yuk! Who wants to support that behavior? Pushy and manipulative, from the guy no less.

When Barack and Michelle Obama were first on 60 Minutes last year in their first interview I had no preconceived notions about Michelle. But when the interviewer asked Michelle if she was worried about Obama’s safety if he became president she said something like “Well, as a black man he is in danger just going to the gas station.”
Huh? Do you know a lot of black men killed randomly at gas stations? Oh wait, yes I do…by other BLACK men.
Back then something stuck with me that this woman was a blame white America type and I hoped I was wrong.
Since then several events have shown me my gut instinct was dead right.
Good bye Michelle Obama. You will NEVER get the honor and privilege of living in the sacred White House. That honor will go to someone who loves their country.

Under the Independence Constitution of Kenya, Obama became a Kenyan citizen on December 12, 1963. http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=731
He has never renounced his Kenyan citizenship. On his senate web site, Obama tap dances around his own dual nationality when discussing his father. Obama obviously knows, because his father told him, that he also held/holds Kenyan nationality.
Once again, we find Barry O concealing fascinating information about his identity. There is nothing unusual about dual nationality. Indeed, ancient Roman Law doctrines of jus sanguini and jus soli come into play, because both Kenya and the U. S. recognize dual nationality. Once again, the issue is not “legality.” The issue is the cover-up; Obama’s concealment of his own identity. From us, and most of all from himself.
Obama was also registered in both of the Jakarta schools he attended as a citizen of Indonesia. He has not renounced citizenship of Indonesia, either.
WOW a TRINATIONAL US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

Compton I guess you haven’t heard the tapes of the sermons where Rev Wright mocks and makes fun of and demonizes blacks who don’t also hate their country. He’s vicious when talking about Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice.
So looks like even blacks find other blacks NOT BLACK ENOUGH.
Tell black liberals that they don’t OWN their “blackness.”
Hypocrite.

“The US Government Needs to investigate
TUCC, UCC.”
The IRS is already investigating the TUCC for it’s political activism and political speeches by Obama in the church, which would disquality the TUCC’s tax exempt status.

Why did OBama vote THREE TIMES to allow the medical neglect until death of newborns who survived late term abortions, despite amendments protecting Roe V. Wade? Was is medical liability motivations? Was it to prevent a baby from being called a human baby even though there it lay crying and breathing?
This is UGLINESS that he has not explained!

Hopeful ’08
All the legislation I need to know about is Obama voting to allow doctors to not intervene in saving the life of a baby born after a failed abortion attempt.
Yes, Mr. Wonderful, Barack Obama even went one step further than the liberal pro abortion group NARAL.
He thinks a baby should just lie there and be allowed to die.
And Rev Wright wants to G D America because WE kill innocent people?
What a bunch of crock.

I love America also, However these attacks on Obama shows how quick many Americans are trying to crucify Obama for the words of his pastor. I want all of you that feel that Obama is anti-white or somehow unamerican, to show me evidence either in words or deeds of Obama’s guilt. Otherwise you should disavow every frriend, acquaintance or relatives that holds a different view than the mainstream. Or are you just being Hypocritical and spewing untruths for political gain, or are you all just being devisive to keep the people from concentrating on the real issue’s facing this land. I bet most of the negative bloggers haven’t set foot in a church in quite a spell, ” Thou shall not bear false witness” Amen!!

Why not, just for giggles and to make the rest of us feel more at ease, why not let’s see if Obama would renounce his Kenyan and Indonesian citizenships since, afterall, he’s supposedly trying to make Americans believe he’s loyal to the USA?

The timing is playing out well for the republicans. It’s too late for Hillary . . . . she’s done. She can’t make up so much ground this late in the game. Now the democrats are stuck with Obama, who will be easily exposed. This issue with his “reverend/mentor” is going to cause irreparable damage with the white vote. How could the democrats manage to find a way screw this election up. It was theirs for the taking. They could have won this one with a chimpanzee.

Where have all the fake democrats gone?
Showed themselves as Republicans every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

I’m voting for Obama…not his minister.

WHY DID HILLARY CLINTON VOTE AGAINST THE UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT 2004,(Vote to pass a bill that would make it a criminal offense if a fetus is injured or killed while carrying out a violent crime on a pregnant woman)???

It must be killing the mainstream media for their guy to be so exposed as a hypocrite. I know they’re dying to change the subject and pretend this stuff doesn’t matter.
But since they made such a huge deal of Mitt Romney being a Mormon, it’s going to be a tough sell.

Good night. I’m not responding to a group of right-wing republicans…who enjoy sending our young men and women to die in a senseless war.

trinityusa, Who is paying you? is it the republicans or the clinton campaign? you tried and i give you 3% mark in trying to fell Obama,If 3% mark is all you can get in all your efforts so far in numerous attempts in obnoxiously trying to paint obama black,then i think you have a whole of your lifetime to keep on trying,but for me,i think the money paid to you is just a waste cos you seem unable to tarnish Obama’s image,and also unable to convert any of his supporters, by not getting the facts and also proving it,mind you this is a formidable movement of which the timing is perfectly right,what you are trying to do is like trying to hold back a heavy rainfall that is already falling,you see what i mean?

Explain how abandoning Iraq to regional warring and holocaust is better than transitioning it to a stable democracy? Explain how a cutoff of oil shipments from the anarchy would improve the US economy? Explain how Obama’s “Surrender Then Return” plan will not just cost tens of thousands of more lives and untold dollars? And compare the cost of this war to Obama’s $860Billion corrupt UN program (over which teh US has no say)?
McCain will get the job done so we can come home, the100 years smear is totally taken out of context. Better to do the job right, then quit, empower/enrich al Qaeda, then return.

“Clarence Thomas? You mean the Rush Limbaugh who wishes Condi Rice would …”
Yeah, well Jo, as you people like to keep saying. “Actions speak louder ….”
I’ll believe that of Mr Vicodin when it actually happens.
Oh, and on that “actions speak louder”:
“The following ministries have been developed under Dr. Wright’s ministerial tutelage for social justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry, scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships for women and men attending seminary.”

Everything that is going in the democratic race is the media’s fault. If they simply reported the news instead of influencing the base, much of this mess would of never occurred. After all of this the public needs to take a hard look at the media’s roll in trying to sway public opinion. They have been fiddling with the republican side for years and now the democrats have a nice dose of what they have had to put up with for a long time.

please clarify the 3x vote no with regards to issue R vs W to allow medical neglect, I have check his voting record on votesmart.org, I don’t see anything to backup what u are stating. On abortion issues he vote NV which means: not voting, excused, absent or present. He did not vote. However he did vote yes to UNINTENDED PREGNANCY AMENDMENT (Vote to adopt an amendment to the Senate’s 2006 Fiscal Year Budget that allocates $100 million for the prevention of unintended pregnancies)

The Fallen: The True Cost Of War
March 16, 2008
By JENNIFER PIRONE
The true cost of war is tallied in lives. Since the United States-led invasion of Iraq five years ago, more than 100,000 Iraqis and 3,987 Americans have died, according to the Department of Defense.
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There, you happy now?

ClarenceB,
You want me to list all the charities and great things that Don Imus has done for poor kids and black kids? Would that change your mind about his racism? lol.
Yeah, didn’t think so.
Again, you guys are so transparent it’s laughable.

Actions speak louder than words.
Obama’s words: “I’m for hope & change”
Obama’s actions: Sit in a pew listening to hateful speech for 20 years.
Yep, actions speak louder than words.

So, if Wright is not aracist – why is Obama totally throwing them under the bus, removing him from his campaign, and disassociating himself so much? He even removed him from his website. He has not quit the church yet though. It’s all politics. He has no intention of ever giving up Wright and his beliefs. Do not be fooled! He is so transparent it’s not even funny.

Louisa May In a real war, like say the Civil War at Gettysburg, 58,000 Americans died in 3 days. Iraq is lethal, but it’s not like a real war.

“Obama’s actions: Sit in a pew listening to hateful speech for 20 years.”
No JO.
“Sit in a pew where someone has managed to discover A FEW SECONDS of hateful speech in over 20 years”.
That’s closer to the truth, but I guess you can’t handle the truth. As dear Jack once said.

How dare you complain about the media being unfair to your church! Look at what the media did to Mitt Romney and the Mormon church. Mitt Romney was unfairly attacked as well. Huckasleaze and his religious lemmings from the South were particularly unkind towards the Mormon church and the media constantly fanned their bigotry until Romney ended his campaign. ‘Tis very unfortunate that we lost a good presidential candidate.

In a country torn apart by war with a failing economy, a leader with the same great speaking style as Obama united half the country behind him. He had the ability to mesmerize his audience with whatever he was talking about. That leader said “He who owns the youth, owns the future”. The country was Germany – the leader was Hitler… Let us not make the mistake many germans made in their desparation for a better future and elect an unvetted candidate… This election is about more than Obama’s ability to mesmerize and energize voters. Clinton has a strong following that is energized behind her too. The difference is she has substance to go with it. She has a history that is sound. She is not a mystery to the voters. She doesnt ask us to trust her – she asks us to hold her accountable for what she has done and what she will do if she is elected President. Let the vetting and the nomination process continue. The world is watching – let’s make educated decisions based on a combination of voting records, campaign promises, judgement, credibility, patriotism, experience, qualifications, and electability. We cant afford to do any less – it is our responsibility to our country, our world, and our future.

“McCain will win this election hands down. I dont want him to because I love Hillary, but Hillary supporters will NEVER ever ever vote or support Obama ever!!!! They rather switch parties and vote for McCain and that’s exactly what is going to happen come November. You all haven’t seen crap yet. See what Obama and his camp has created..division and especially among the democratic party. McCain is in the Middle East meeting foreign leaders right now. He is already putting on the BIG shoes while Hillary and Obama fight and waste time on race issues. Hillary is tired and her camp just wants to move on but the Obama camp wants to keep picking and picking at things and the Wright thing was what they got in return and now are scrambling to blow it off like it’s nothing. If they can’t handle the heat and it’s only warm, wait till they run against McCain its really going to get hot. With what McCain already has and with Hillary supporters, he wins hands down. Ha, ha, ha…so go ahead and vote for Obama if you want him to be torn to pieces by McCain”
SO true. I coulnt agree w/ u more

Wright’s sermons were recently. One of the most vile was this past Christmas. Can you imagine? A reverend being hateful 5 days after 9/11 AND on Christmas.
What a guy! What a reverend! What a role model.

Thanks captbilly …. you seem to be one of the few people here with a bit of sense…
Jo… Whats the difference between 100,000 or 50,000 ?? Were talking about human life here….dont you think one is two many?

Nerd, well first it was 100,000 then a few minutes later it had climbed to “hundreds of thousands.”
I don’t know why you people are so uninformed but the myth of the numbers has been debunked several months ago, yet still you insist on higher numbers.
What’s the deal? Do you WANT it to be more deaths? You seem to eager to promote the higher number.
And there’s a huge difference between 50,000 and 100,000. And if you don’t know that, I can’t help you.
Again, why the exaggeration? Are you wanting it to be so?

Pro ERA, Halliburton needs to go it’s been overcharging, and pay back, and I don’t think Obama would’ve been collecting too many conservative’s guns anyway. I think there would be a run on ammo if he got elected.
And Feinstein needs to go to jail for profiting off of gravely wounded vets (MILCON).

macjive, I guess you don’t get Fox News. They ordered hours and hours of the sermons and have been playing the most clips of anybody. They also play the most vile. That’s why we love Fox News, you get the WHOLE story.
We’re smart. We’re informed. And we’re not going to elect an America hating guy to the White House, much as you guys would like us to. Worry about your own country, we’ll worry about ours.

Hey Adams, unless that “lunch” lasted 20 years and they called him their mentors and spiritual guides, allowed him to marry them and baptize their children, then there’s really no comparison there.
But thanks for playing the game, unfortunately you lose again.

Well, Nerd, my point is I like truth and accuracy and clearly it doesn’t matter to you guys.
That’s my point. Try to find yours.

Michael Lee -
“You can’t handle the truth!”

CC you are misinformed about the report regarding his appearance at the Latin event in Miami. Based on the time (and he was late), it is absolutely possible he attended church in Chicago the flew to Miami for that event. He does not fly commercial… there was time to spare flying private. No worries, as the press stated these things can be checked. If the information is made public with confirmed evidence, I dont really think it will change the perceptions voters already have.

chris, you wish
Against dinosaur McCain, he’s a shoo-in

shoofly……mccain won’t beat him…..swift boat vets 2 will……mr. obama, should you win the nomination, your new name will be john kerry

McCain’s been neck and neck,now he’s ahead and after Wright’s sermons are shown ad nauseum, and given McCain’s not even been in the spotlight, and given the Democrats were supposed to have a double digit lead all along, well, it’s looking like McCain all the way. McCain’s a centrist, he’s reached across the aisle again and again, he’s a budget balancer, and he is VETTED, and his history is NOT raising taxes. He’ll start a top-down gutting of waste, including 84 billion in medicaid alone, allowing thousands per family for medical insurance tax credits plus incentives which will LOWER the cost of health care, we will have the best health care in the world which is affordable and that we can FREELY CHOOSE. Hillarycare, while well-intentioned, cannot work.

mccain’s an ignorant coward who couldn’t even stand up for himself when dubya questioned his patriotism in 2000……despite this, swift boat vets part 2 will destroy the obama campaign in the fall…..unless Senator Clinton is the nominee, and after 14 years of personal and political attacks from the anti-American faction, she is still standing very strong…..

Even if Obama decides not to campaign anymore,he surely will clinch the nomination anyway,through to the presidency,too late losers !! Church or no church.Scared rightist,this is beyond your monouvering,John McCain is no match,he is already a loser and you know that.

Sorry Jo, your gotcha is lousy.
Condi is only an issue for me because she is a Bush loyalist.
I thought you all loved the fear card?
Loving your country is more than just following your leaders, and sporting a flag pin. Its your right and duty to question everything your elected officials do and will do in the future. Descent is part of being American.
Have more fun but I am off to sleep…

Senator Clinton has been working for women’s and childrens rights for decades, helped to create an international organization for women and their respective political processes, is familiar with international protocols and leaders around the world whose support and cooperation will be ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to ending terrorism and she has her husband to help in areas, especially the economy, to help make America’s future a greater one……for our children, for our troops and for our Nation, we need Senator Hillary Clinton as our next President and Commander-in-Chief….especially right now

McCain’s entire history is one of gutting waste and not raising taxes.
Compare that to Obama’s 52% income tax, 28%capital gains tax and 50% increase in estate taxes. Not to mention .7% of the GNP every single year for the corrupt UN over which the US has no say, over $860Billion. OUCH, tanked economy GUARANTEED. $17 for a carton of eggs!

..no I don’t believe racism is genetic…;
but it is passed from generation to generation; By the time a child is 2 they have an acute awareness of their world…;
Mr. Obama’s step father, was deeply involved in Islamic fundamentalism…
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth Bohr

LOL
Mr Obama has spent 80% of his campaigan
Blaming, pointing fingers and whinning.
He will spend the rest of his campaigan
Trying to dig up dirt on people, blame them for stuff, to try to make himself look better, as he has done up to date.
We are tired of your blame game, divide and conquer, tired of you playing your race card. Sick of you lying about your friends.
I think Mr Obama needs to Grow UP, get down to Making it known what his platform is, What is going to do with it, Where and how he is going to get the funding to do it. Give us the specfics On why you should be president.
Is there anything about Barrick Obama that is worth making him president.
Time to be honest.

WOW!! Reading this stuff…It amazes me that people are so cruel and can turn on you in a new york minute. As I recall in the not so distant past, we had laws in this country that didn’t allow some people to read or wright, eat or stay at hotels, and because of Rev. Wright giving a sermon that I have herd even Jesse Jackson give and remember when the Clintons where in office Jesse Jackson lived at the White House he was there so often. Lets get a grip and stick with the issues. One more thing…Didn’t George Bush Speak at a school that didn’t allow blacks (still!!!) three times…Listen vote for the one you think is best we all don’t have degree’s in political science but we do have the sense god gave us, so stop letting people till you who to vote for.

30 sec.sound bite? But isn’t Obama’s popularity based on sound bites?

People can whine about FOX News airing the clips of Wright and say it was not fair, but the point is that they were only showing people the facts. If not during the primary then during the general election. Just think, if FOX put forth the Wright clips during the primary, what might they be holding back of Obama for the general election? They whittled away some of his numbers this time, how many will they get the next time?

LOL I remeber a few months back there were just as many people screaming Obama’s not black enough….now it seems like hes too black for you

This “defense” released by Obama’s church, and the forced attempt to morally equate Wright’s and Ferraro’s comments on race, isn’t really convincing to anyone. And the mainstream media is woefully falling down on their responsibility, trying to diminish the importance of a story that goes to the heart of whether Obama possesses the judgment to lead the nation, all of America, not just black America.
We can all choose to agree or disagree on Rev. Wright’s particular take on the history of race in America or even 9/11, however distasteful that may be. We can all accept that AA churches are different in atmosphere, in ways that may be uncomfortable for those not familiar with it. This is all beside the point, however.
Most voters expressing deep qualms about Obama’s candidacy because they need to know more about what make this man tick. Obama supporters put forth the Ivy-League education, the community organizing CV, etc. as relevant information for us to base our assessment of this man’s ideas and character.
Now, however, we must reconcile such facts with Obama’s longstanding, intimate relationship with a man who, by all accounts, espouses an ideology of racial politics, with ties to characters like Farrakhan, that clearly lie outside the system of political and social values that most voters wish to promote.
And, no, Mr. Obama, your cirucumlocution and evasion and dissembling “I wasn’t there for those particular sermons”) doesn’t suffice. We the voting public have a right to ask who you are, your intellectual base, your political philosophy, beyond the campaign press releases and the ghostwritten, self-promotional memoirs.

How is your job, bad? How is the dollar sign, ugly? You want Mccain? Give me a break!!!!

Change We CAN Believe In
“NO”Bama ’08

I’m a black female Captain in the Army. I have served for over 20 years and I love my country…I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world.
Obama and his links to Rev. Wright/Rezco is a discrace to blacks….and blacks need to own up to it and STOP making excuses for Obama & Wright.
Before this story broke, I spoke to my 14 & 12 year old daughters about hanging around those who have a bad reputation or do bad things, because others will believe that they are the same way….Obama should have had the smarts to also know this by now!
Wright should NEVER use the pulpit to voice political rhetoric…regardless if they are true or not. The pulpit is ONLY for God’s word.
I distastefully saw people…mostly young….crying, worshipping, and idolizing Obama…calling him the Messiah. In my gut I saw trouble coming because of this.
The ONLY Messiah is Jesus Christ. When Obama didn’t ask these young people to tone it down, and when he himself rellished in the spotlight from it….he lost my vote. NO ONE puts them self on a pedestal acting as if they are Jesus Christ…ONLY Jesus Christ can do that. At that point, Obama reminded me of Jim Jones.
However, I also blame white college kids who are Obama’s core supporters. They also spew hate all over the Internet in defense of Obama 24/7. They blindfully supported Obama WITHOUT researching his platform….then alot of other whites followed suit.
bottom line….Obama needs to resign from this race and the people of Illinois can deal with him and his Senate seat.
Every candidate/man of God….including Obama and Wright, need to be held to the same standard…regardless of the color of their skin.
If Obama was a white canidate….lets say Hillary Clinton and Wright was a white preacher….they would be fried by the media & black politicians….and rightfully so.
I have been saying to family & friends for a year that Obama wasn’t ready YET to be President…maybe in 8 years or a Governorship FIRST. Remember that you never want to set a person up for failure. As a Captain in the Army, my superiors would never put me in a position that I wasn’t trained/ready for. The same should go for the Presidency.
The experience for Obama is just NOT there yet. Obama’s chances of holding a political office in the future is probably gone forever.

Where is Reverend Wright? Why is Rev. Al Sharpton making the news rounds in Wright’s defense? Wright can’t speak for himself or Obama’s campaign has put Wright into hiding to protect their candidate? This is not transparency or honesty. This is a “new” kind of politics that is based on what appears to be hatred, diviseness and double talk on positions. Will Al Sharpton be a member of Obama’s cabinet if he is elected President? There are many questions that Obama needs to answer, and saying that Hillary is secretive and needs to release her tax forms does not answer the questions that Obama needs to answer.

Obama is such a two-faced, lying phony.
Of course, he’s going to “distance” himself from his pastor. What does that mean? It means that until the election is over, he won’t associate with him—at publicly. Of course Obama has also “distanced” himself from Rezko—his criminal friend who is currently indicted and who has suspiciously contributed way over $100,000 to Obama. I wonder why. Could it be he’ll want “favors” if Obama is elected? And then there is Obama’s relationship with the big energy corporation who is dumping tons of money into Obama’s campaign. All this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Just wait — the good stuff will be out this summer. Obama is Client #10!

How come we didn’t hear about this before? What would happen if there is enough evidence that Obama did attend one of Wright’s incendiary sermons?
The only way out for Obama at this point is by creating a party meltdown. This news survived the weekend, and people will be talking about this everywhere starting today. I think we are witnessing the full decay of Obama’s bid for the presidency.

this election is over mccain wins b/c hillary and bill cannot realize that the election is over so they destroy the entire party. she has lost between 15-35% of the black vote and do you think these attacks on the black church is going to help her campaign considering all the racial stuff that has gone on in this election. the press has linked these stories to her campaign ( Maggie Williams – use the black campaign manager to attack the black church) and the republican machine. ABC has been trying to get this story to stick for weeks – George Stephanopoulos former Clinton press secretary has kept this story in the news. Thanks , george s., hill and bill for giving the election to McCain who is not a “crazy” republican. he is okay for the next four years.

The first thing one learns in Introductory Psychology is the concept of “projection”.
Projection is in a nutshell: Blaming (and on this board screaming)about shortcomings you see in others that are really in you.
In other words the most vehement here screaming about hate and racism from Wright are themselves.. well.. haters and racists.

ABC has been trying to get this story to stick for weeks – George Stephanopoulos former Clinton press secretary has kept this story in the news. the press has linked these stories to hillary’s campaign ( Maggie Williams – use the black campaign manager to attack the black church) along with the republican machine. this election is over mccain wins b/c hillary and bill cannot realize that the election is over so they destroy the entire party. she has lost between 15-35% of the black vote and do you think these attacks on the black church is going to help her campaign considering all the racial stuff that has gone on in this election. Thanks george s., hill and bill for giving the election to McCain who is not a “crazy” republican. he is okay for the next four years.

Juan Williams clearly has not visited many black churches where the minister preaches a type of ‘fire and brimstone’. Those of us who have grown-up in this environment understand ministers such as Rev. Wright and separate his fiery words from his deeds. He does not suggest any form of racial hatred or racial intolerance.
Those statements that have been played over and over again by GMA should be accompanied by an evaluation of his works in the community and around the world. Rev Wright is someone I have always believed in and fully support.
We are still members of Trinity and are in know way embarrass about his comments. We understand his humanity beyond his ministry and accept him for his weaknesses and his greater good.

A radical black church blaming the white media for it’s problems….. anyone surprised?

Here, here, Hawk! The cheap pyschoanalyzing which inevitably leads to the same single conclusion, that Obama’s critics are all racists, is so lame and offensive. What, are these guys going to be making excuses for Obama if he continuously screws up as president? (Not that that’ll happen thanks to his “crazy ole uncle.”)

It’s 3am the phone rings…..”Rev Wright, this is Barrack. The republicans are attacking me about being racist, what should I do?

Real men of God do not preach hatred. This is not a man of God. The fact that Obama has been going to this church for 20 years speaks volumes about his judgemnt and core beliefs. Also Michelle Obamas rants about it being “OUR TIME NOW” are resonating loudly and clearly. Your time now ? I doubt it!! We don’t need or want the Obamas or their hate-filled, radical “”"preacher”"” in the White House.

Obama still belongs to this church people, a church that has just compared the downfall of their pastor to the assassination of Martin Luther King!
Obama has belonged to a nutjob church for 20 years. What will he do next.. denounce the church? Obama has extremely poor judgment and cannot be trusted as President.

It’s odd for a church that claims they practise and preach peace and love when speaking about hate, etc. If they do not want to start racial spats, why bother to preach it? Continuing stirring the pot will not make things better.

Does Obama’s lack of knowledge with regard to his Pastors preachings for 20 years indicate Obama is easily fooled?
Is Obama easily fooled by people like Tony Rezko?
Aside from the many glossy puff pieces that have peppered the airwaves over the last year – the media has not really reported on who this person is.
Who is this man? Has he been influenced by this pastor? Has his wife been influenced? What does Obama really believe? Are his true beliefs hidden because he is a good politician?

Regardless of any comments above…did Rev. Wright speak the truth about who the most murderous people are (this point is NOT arguable)??? I believe Senator Obama needs to distance himself from the hate of the past and those that still feel bitter resentment like Rev. Wright. However, what I heard from Jeremiah Wright was mostly (and arguably) the truth from someone not running for a political office who has likely suffered enourmous traumatizing treatment from satirical oppressors for the majority of his life, including when he himself served this Country in the US Marine Corps. Many individuals above sound like those same evil, cynical individuals that call a specific man rasict who has likely had a foot on his neck since birth. Too bad those same individuals cannot picture how it would feel to have lived his life…Moreover, they wouldn’t want to try to understand that type of resentment, but would rather call HIM racist!!!

Now I think I see why Sen Obama HAD to run for President now..so urgently NOW. He knew Sen Clinton would be his last standing opponent..a woman, whom many dislike. He knew that he could probably get the Black vote behind him. He knew he could get Oprah to help with the female vote. The unknown was whether he could get enough votes overall with his charisma and speeches.He also knew that the Dems would be a shoo in in the Fall after 8 years of Bush. He hoped his church and associations would stay hidden, at least until after the Primary. He didn’t count on the tenacity of Sen Clinton and her loyal core of supporters. He didn’t count on being caught in his own web of complications. If Sen Obama is the Democratic nominee in the Fall,Sen John McCain will be the new President come Jan 2009.

No-BAMA~~!!

Blaming the media…that is such an Obamian thing to do. Love and kiss the media when its good and kick and scream at the media when its not so good. This is the Obama motto….take all positions on all things but never allow one audience to see you speak to another audience….what people don’t know, won’t influence them. My two cents…this is not an attack on Obama. The attack is the hatred preached in that church for 20+ years while good black, white, asian, latino and others dedicated good energy and time to unite people and spread the message of tolerance and peace. The attack was in that church for 20 years….what the media is doing is shinning a light onto an infection that has spread way too far. A dangerous infection of division that Obama allowed to spread for 20+ years. And now he preacheds unity? where was his unity preaching in the 20 years? why didn’t he stand up just once…just once in front of that church and spoke out? I do not buy the whole claim that he is unaware of the hatred speech….I do not buy it at all.

One who has first hand Compassion of the pain is the only one that can bring unity….You all seem to forget that Barack is NOT the ancestor of Slaves like most African Americans are…His father is from Kenya and his mother is Anglo….I think its So funny how the right can rant and rave about gays who have no affect on their lives but then get all freaked out when they see the anger in the African American community against those who dehumanized and enslaved them….
I bet you are the same folks who think that its OK to fly a traitorous Confederate Battle Flag and know deep in your heart of hearts that the South would have outlawed slavery as soon as it won the war of Northern Agression….You are all an embarrassment to this country…How can you love America when you support an insurgency against our unity and have such hatred for the people who built this country with their blood?

You cannot blame Obama for his pastor anti-american comments but yet you hear that
Obama himself will not salute our flag, will not be sworn in by our Bible but by the Koran which
is a Muslim bible. and aren’t the Muslims the people who hate America. And isn’t this what
Rev Wright is preaching..”God Damn America.” The terrorist have always said that they
would eventually get to us from within, what better way than to have one of their own as
The President of the United States of America..

The counter responses from the Obama campaign is incredibly condescending…it shows me how they truelly do not value the voters intelligence and sense of logic. To say that HIllary and Mccain both have bizarr characters endorsing them…yet conviently leave out the big difference that either Mccain or Hillary have had 20+ years closed ties to these bizarr characters nor have they called these people their sprititual mentor and advisor. Another counter response from the Obama campaing has been to point out that these things are typical of african american churches and white folks just do not understand is again….a horrific lie. I’ve been to black churches and trust me…I have never heard D___america!, I have never heard white men are evil!, I have never heard rejoycing in mass over the death of 3000 americans on 9/11 and I have never heard that aides was created by whites to kill blacks. Please…Obama is now willing to paint a wide stroke of hate onto all black churches to save his own campaign…this is incredible, outrageous and I pray and hope people see the chaos that will played out if this man becomes president.

Obama was raised by and from his American white mother but was not spared from racism. He joined a church whose pastor has racial views which are now in controversey. Despite the aforementioned experiences his campaign has still sought to be inclusive of all Americans. How many of us having being exposede to these forces would do the same?

I was totally shocked and blown away by what Obama’s church is preaching. To watch those videos taken inside and of their sermons, to see the church members clapping and cheering, well … it’s just shocking – totally shocking!

A ‘church’ that promotes hate and racism. A member of that congregation running America? Lets move ahead not backwards!

Wright is no King! He is the anti-King.

Barack Obama is going to change Washington and bring us all together! Oh really????
All the pieces are falling into place…
Barack Obama is the number one liberal in the Senate, decided to run for President after only 18 months in Senate, financially backed by George Soros and Moveon.org – the Hate America First crowd, Obama doesn’t always feel the need to to put his hand over his chest at the anthem or the pledge, doesn’t feel need to wear flag pin (ok but why question someone patriotism who WANTS to wear one?), pledges to eliminate us arsenal of nuclear weapons with includes balistic missles we have to protect our country from outside and now inside, an anti-white hating preacher has been his “mentor”, has married him, baptised his children and has been his pastor for nearly twenty years and never new Reverand Wright preached such vial against whites and jews??? Come on!
Michelle Obama – first time proud of America, Barack only candidate who understands the American people, anti-white thesis at Princeton, complains paying school loans, her arrogance that she understands the middle class as she lives in a 1.65 million dollar mansion that includes a sweetheart deal from a Chicagon felon with Syrian ties!! Come on!
The media hasn’t reported because they also are anti-America and are socialists. Can you imagine if any Republican candidate had Reverand Wright as their mentor!! Oh wait how about the media’s fasination with Mitt Romney being Mormon.
Don’t be fooled voters!!!!

Response to Spock: I agree with you. Martin Luther King would be rolling over in his grave if he knew his good name was being used for such spewing of hate!

As an African American, living in the skin that I’m in for 43 years, I can tell you that such talk happens in black churches across America. It’s basis is from a history and culture that is uniques to that community of people. Did Rev. Wright speak anything that was not true as it pertains to America in that… you reap what you sow! Which tends to happen to us all. To say that such talk doesn’t happen in black churches across America is totally untrue because pastors speak on issues of the time and how those issues fit and connect with the community in a scriptural text. I do agree that Rev. Wright was a bit radical and could have found a more eloquent way to convey his thoughts and not say what what was said in such an offensive and mean spirited way. We all, both black and whites, need to stop turning a blind eye to the racism that exist in this country. To some degree, we all have our prejudices against other cultures and races but it is most prevalent amongst and between the African Americans and Caucasians. The media just fuels it by distorting the stories, showing the portion that could be made controversial, so the two races can stay at odds with one another. In 2008, I still live in a country where blacks are discriminated against in subliminal ways. At the forefront we have such things as the disparity in sentencing… 50 grams of crack (black) vs. 500 grams of cocaine (white)which is the main ingredient to making crack, a 100 to 1 disparity; Sub-prime lending; non-hire for jobs due to past felony charges and the list goes on and on. Regardless rather whites want to acknowledge it, it is a reality and it is the way of this world. The American way is to “divide and conquer”. It is at the advantage of whites to keep the strife between blacks and whites. Its a booming business and it keeps profit high. Why would anyone watch a series of video taped sermons to pick out 1 from the sunday after 9/11, over five years ago. It was aired to do exactly what it’s doing… divide. But I have some news for you… The earth is the Lords and they that dwell therein. If it’s in God’s plan… not Rev. Wright, John Hagee, President Bush, Hillary Clinton or anybody else… for Barack Obama to be President… guess what… no demon in hell will be able to stop it. Whatever the outcome, it will happen because it was predestined to happen.

If Barack Obama wasn’t running for president, NOBODY would have cared what his preacher said. It is just fascinating to me what people pick and choose to discuss. Most importantly, no one believed that he would even be in the race and now that he is and handily, at that, the desparate political machine and racist america that cannot conceive the notion of a black president is in panic, chaos and mayhem mode. It is all utter and complete nonsense. Those who support Obama will, regardless of what is printed or said about him in the media. And, those who all of a sudden decided that “I changed my mind about Obama after hearing….” were never committed to support him in the first place. And, for those who say Obama has no credibility. Get real. So, the alternative does? If so, we ARE in trouble.

Barack Obama, Change You Can Trust
Change You Can Trust Is Exploding In Barack Obama’s Campaign.
Change You Can Trust Has Forced The Republican Fox TV Station, (First
Cousins Of Bush) To Try And Put Barack Obama’s Campaign To Shame.
The Republican Fox TV Station, (First Cousins Of Bush) Is Spinning
Highlighted Attacks On Barack Obama Because They Are Aware
That All Bush’s Wrongs Will Be Reversed Also Exposed To Right, Once
Barack Obama Is The 2008 President Of This United States Of America.
Barack Obama, Change You Can Trust.
The Republican Fox TV Station, (First Cousins Of Bush) Are Also Attempting
With This Strategic Spin To Cast Shadows On The Fact That With All The Now
Seated And Indicted White House Administration’s Corruption President Bush
Has Boastfully And Finally Endorsed John McCain; The Main Presidential Candidate
Who Can Only Offer This Country Much More Of A Compromised, Recessionized,
Tore-up Same.
Barack Obama, Change You Can Trust.
Incidentally, Though Some Churches Speak From The Pulpit Politically During These
Times, These Churches Don’t Speak, Voice Or Vote For The People. Some Churches
Ain’t Really Spoke For The People Since Faith Base Contributions And Public Political
Attention Got Bush Elected, Corruptly Twice. The Faith Base Stuff Has Strategically
As Planned Clouded Some Church Pulpits Hearts, Judgment And Predestined
Purposes. Now That Some Churches Has Gotten Paid And Rich They Wanna
Holla, “Where Is The Separation Between Church And State?” Ain’t None,
As My Book Millennium Christian Experience Reads,
“This Is One Nation Under God.”
P.S. Pastor Wright, I really feel said what was in his heart at that time and I also feel that’s his own business and personal opinion which can’t be taken away from his by critizing him nor imposed upon anyone else simply because they are a black American Christian tryna make a change that we all can trust.

I can believe CNN has also joined this pastors massages when the UK politicians are discussing issues the US is descussing pastor of Obama I was not suprised abuotthe FOX news channel for them whatever Bush does is the best .Also the very thing thatthe pastor preached what is been done to Obama can we discuss policies

Obama and his racist, anti-American preacher are no good for the U. S.

theres hate…and now there is arrogant hate….and now support of that hate….find your way and be judged….
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“….Kennedy got through his guilty by association and so will Obama…”
Kennedy did have the pope or a catholic priest on his campaign staff. Rev Wright was part of Obama’s campaign until he resigned 2 days ago!

Barak is no JFK, MLK or anyone like that.
Words do matter and Rev Wrigt says it all.
Actions speak louder than words.
The act of Barak sitting and listening to Wright words for 20 years speak louder than any of Baraks boring speechs.
Baraks actions of 20 years speak directly to his judgement – he has poor judgement or is so unaware of what is going on around him that Rezko and Wright must have snowed him into thinking they were good people.
Barak – not ready for prime time president.
Michelle – not proud of America and yet she would be first lady? of a country she does not like?
Republicans – havinga field day with this one. Thanks Barak, there goes the election.

Our forefathers believed in the quote “seperation of church &state”, not as a mena to keep the governmnet free from belief systems. All people have some belief system, even aetheists believe in nothing. the reasoning was that kings, governors, lords etc etc had polluted the church and used it as a political gain far too often in Europe. we are now faced wit hthe sad reality that the same thing has taken place in many churches in America. Too often people rally their church numbers together to support a politician. Jesus said “..my Fathers house shall be a house of prayer!” as he ran out those who were only at the temple for money. We in america have gone far astray from a personal relationship with God as out father. It is a sad tragedy that this pastor would succumb to politics and neglect the more importatn issue, and that is the Kingdom of Heaven. When Israel sought a king, God gave them a king and a warning in the book of Samuel. A king is a person who can only be a person. Church is for God. a house of prayer, a place were we can personally know God as Father. It is sad to see a pastor forget that.

I am really amazed by all of the outrageaously ignorant people who live in this country. Most white people really do not understand what it is like to be black in america. Many prominent black americans who think they have crossed over into white acceptance are quickly reminded by white people that they are not one of them. Case in point, Tiger Woods wins his first Masters in Golf and they make racist comments about not having “chicken and collard greens” for the meal. Or Oprah Winfrey being denied entry in an upscale retail establishment because she’s black, and being told they are “closed”, only to later apoligize to her when they realized who they had just denied. Or Danny Glover having a hard time catching a taxi in Manhattan. Or the many investigative reports done by 20/20 that exposes redlining in the housing market, or disparate treatment between whites and blacks in hiring, retail establishments, etc. I have been followed while shopping in so-called, upscale establishments. I was a sophomore in college and when I wanted to switch my major from biology, yes, thats right, biology, to an economics major, the faculty advisor told me during our consultation that “most people like you do better with business majors”. I was stunned to say the least. I insisted i wanted to be an economics major and after he, a white man, saw that I was not changing my mind, he relented. This happened at a private catholic college that I got accepted into based on my SAT’s and my transcript. No affirmative action. I was a very smart advanced kid. I was accepted on my merits. So for all you white people out there who want to believe that america is so color blind, get real, we are not there yet. And for all those people out there who still think that black people should “get over” slavery, i would like those same people to tell the jews to “get over” the holocaust. We accept the jews views and outrage about the holocaust but if a black person speaks out against slavery, they are somehow a “radical” or a “black nationalist”, well too bad, if the jews want us to “never forget” the holocaust, then i as a black female want america, to “never forget” slavery and the aftermath. Many people forget that after the holocaust, the jews left germany and europe. The established the state of Israel. Well, us black americans still lived here in america with our former enslavers. We still had to face over a century of disenfranchisement. And unfortunately, we still face it today. So if you do not support Obama, fine. But talk about the issues, not his pastor, or other non-important issues. I voted for Barack Obama because I would like to see him become president, not because he’s black. And when Bill Clinton was running for president, I voted for him. I didn’t know anything about him other than what the media put out there, but I wanted my vote to be for “change” and so I took a leap of faith and voted for Bill Clinton. Now because people are voting for Obama, it is a big deal. If Hillary is qualified to be president, than Barack Obama is certainly qualified, lest not forget who has been in office these last 8 years, Bush. Now if Bush can run the country, than I am more than satisfied that Obama could run the country. Find another topic to discuss. Get a life and stop worrying about candidates personal lives. When I needed a lung specialist last december, I could have cared less if he cheated on his wife, or if he had a so-called radical preacher, i wanted him to fix my lungs. I wanted a specialist who was the best at his craft. That is the point of electing a president. Not who he sleeps with or who pastors his church. If these are the issues that keep you up at night then you have a very petty dissatisfied life.

I recommend the “Reverend” and I use the term loosely, Wright go and talk to Dr. Tony Evans or any of the other true Evangelical Black Christian Leaders about where he stands and see if they don’t refer to Matthew 18 for him. If you really want to know about black evangelical christians read Dr. Evans book, “Let’s Get to Know Each Other: What White Christians Should Know about Black Christians” He is no better than the snake oil preachers who preach a prosperity gospel in contradiction to the Bible.

I LOVE America, and I love Dr. Wright and I support Obama. I am a Christian and I am African American and I understand the disappointment Dr. Wright feels, in his many years of pastoring a people who are in many ways are forgotten about. He states the obvious, God is no-more on America’s side as He is on an Islamic countries. America, was founded on a superiority lie carried over from Europe. And we are still facing this complex. Not to say, some African Americans are not racist, but what I am saying, if God is to bless America, he has to apologize to many in this world for the dogmatism of arrogant America. So, I support Obama and I support Dr. Wrights, statement, “God damn America” for it’s insistance on saying it is right and everyone else is wrong. The only person right is Jesus and we certainly don’t see Him in the current administrations life, although they say they are Christians. Maybe Obama, can bring Jesus back to America!

Since my original posting was removed for some reason, I will say it again. The only reason we’re hearing about this is because Hillary and her campaign have dug it up and given it to the media. It’s just another part of her racial propaganda campaign against Obama. This woman will do anything to become president. Including taking money from criminals and lobbyists, staying with her cheating, lying husband to further her political ambitions, using race baiting and racial propaganda because she’s behind in the primaries and tearing the democratic party apart in the process.
All because she can’t stand to lose. Well, I’ve got news for Hillary. If she somehow cheats Obama out of the nomination, McCain will bury her in so much dirt from hers and Bill’s past that she’ll be gasping for air before the general election is halfway over. You will lose, Hillary!
You should concede the nomination to Obama now and stop your slime bucket excuse for a campaign and let us unite the Democratic party and get on with what really needs to be done: Electing Obama as our next President! Go Obama! Yes we can!
And by the way, not that it should matter, but I’m a 56 year old, blue collar white male. And I think Obama is exactly the man we need in the White House!

With all due respect to my fellow Americans, I think you are alittle confused about Dr. Wright’s so-called rhetoric for the following reasons.
First, we must understand that Dr Wright was talking to a specific body of people, which, at the time stated, were his parishioners. He was not speaking to a general body of people comprising multicultural experiences; he was not gloating about America’s hardships following 911; he was not “stumping” for political office, nor, a professed revolutionary advocating anarchy. Instead, like so many other African American ministers giving voice to the voiceless in the mainstream media, he was speaking to what most of us have always known and say to each other on many occasions of wrong doing from the sublime to the ridiculous: “What goes around comes around.” And this, I believe, is what the people were “jumping for joy about” as so many of you have sadly misunderstood. It was the empathy, not a hatred for America or white folks, flowing between a group of people who has suffered greatly amid the hypocrisy engendered by the founding fathers of this country. And, who, in many ways, are still feeling disenfranchised, remember Katrina?
Kindly remember that America also belongs to us, the African American, and we have the same right to criticize her when she is wrong and praise her when she is right, as do other Americans of international dissent. We also have the right to reclaim our history, also ignored in mainstream society, and be proud of our African heritage without being misjudged as hating America and white folks in particular. When I wear African attire or listen to African music, I am truly happy and enjoying the moment, thus hardly consumed with hatred for anyone. Must of us will fight for our homeland when attacked and have proved it by dying in its past wars; sadly, only to come home and face bigotry and hatefulness yet again. Still, historically, we African-Americans have continued to love American and hope for the best.
Suffice it to say only a fool would wish harm to his or her country, a place called home. Think about it.
Next, in my opinion, Rev. Wright, being a minister of God, was also speaking about the natural law of Cause and Effect (aka, Karma) which engenders all of creation. Most of us don’t give thought to such subliminal laws supporting our existence here on Earth, still they exist and we live on. Thus, it is encumbered upon all ministers of the gospel to teach this, and give examples from time to time no matter how uncomfortable it may be. For it is only by learning from our mistakes that we grow to appreciate this universal law and seek to follow it in all aspects of our lives. This, I believe, is what is truly behind the old adage: Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Of course, I do understand the fear behind all of this, a fear born out of ignorance of God’s laws. If we truly understood His law, which only engenders love and prosperity, we would not fear the so-called wrath of God or His laws. My friends, God does not punish us, we do that to our selves thru ignorance of His laws of creation. God loves us and wants us to be happy and free. A short expedient to knowing this is to practice forgiveness whenever we feel fear or hatred in our hearts. For it is through forgiveness that we obtain real vision and finally understand what has been troubling us in all respects. And so we learn to lean not upon your own understandings but first seek the truth thru prayer and our willingness to forgive. Peace to all.

I cannot believe the american people, black or white could vote for Obama. The american people are not stupid. Obama can say that he doesn’t agree with what his pastor says but, if he is being truthful about being a devout christian and has been a member of this church for 20 years there is NO WAY he does not believe in the white racism that this church clearly represents. You do NOT go to a church and be a supporter for 20 years and say you don’t agree with it’s beliefs. I am really tired of hearing how it is okay for blacks to say these things in public becuse they are so oppressed…PLEASE!! We have National Negro College fund…but no White National College Fund, No Miss WHITE AMerica, and so on… If a white minister preached the same sermon and just changed the races it would become a national event and there would be yet another black holiday! Our country definately is ready for a change but NOT the kind of change Obama represents!!!

Trinity UCC’s chickens…are coming home…to roost!

Read on singleblackfemale has a lot of powerful words to say. She is insightful and speaks what most people know to be true and need to say and hear. It is not who Mr. Obama sleeps with or who pastors him. It is what does he stand for. He speaks of change and change is what we need. We need someone who will stand up for the rights of the American people who will not seek lobbyist to supplier our needs who can make a change in our our healthcare and who can reform our tax system. Who gives a damn who preaches him. Preaches are men before they are men of God. They are human just like you and I and they make mistakes like you and I. Not that I am condoning what he has said but not everything that is told to humankind is believed and if you are that nieve to believe that Mr. Obama believes every word that comes out of Dr. Wright’s mouth, then you all deserve another 4 years with a republican who will kill your children at war and another democrate who will believes that this was all a dream for Mr. Obama in the first place. Don’t get me wrong I think Hiliary too is a good candidate but give Barak a chance he can and will make a change.

Christianity by definition is the desire and personal covenant to be a student, follower, and example (by choice of action) proponent of Jesus Christ’s teachings. These include the 10 commandments; one of which states:” Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” This man is certainly human. Repentance is available to each who sin. Rev. Wrights’ remarks are anything but Christian, and illuminate a sad moment in his personal walk with God and the Savior Jesus Christ.
For Obama to state after 20 years membership in this pastors’ church that he does not condone or agree with his pastor’s views is like Hillary stating that she didn’t condone and had no knowledge of her husband Bill’s infidelity.

“The ministries developed under Dr. Wright’s ministerial tutelage for social justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry, scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships for women and men attending seminary.”
Similar to Hamas, the virtuous Reverend Wright’s ministries and social causes are portrayed as human-loving groups whose goal is to help the meek, downtrodden and oppressed. In reality, it appears Wright and Hamas social programs have multiple agenda’s. Reality is what it is, but you draw your own conclusions.

We need to compare what Sen. Obama has said in the past with what he said today. There are several points that do not match. Obama’s statement today did not satisfactorily address his relationship to Wright. Whatever his grandmother might have said, I doubt it could rise to the level of “God damn America” or “We asked for 9/11″ as shouted from the pulpit by Rev. Wright. Nor can Grand-Ma’s racist statements to a few people compare to the hundreds, possibly thousands of people over the years in Wright’s congregation who were subjected to his racist/hateful sermons. In the background of those recordings were the loud “amens” of his congregation; apparently in support of Wright’s ideology. While a member of that congregation Obama must have stood-up and cheered “Amen!” along with the rest of the congregation every week. It is a statistical marvel that over 20 years Obama has managed to never be present when any hateful/racist statements were made by Wright. Would Wright, with his strong unabashed “public” statements, not mention nor discuss any of them with Obama at the “personal” level, one-on-one? Obama likened Wright to be as close as a “family member.” He can’t have it both ways: Either he was “close” and so, had to have known of Wright’s ideology, or their friendship was so “distant” that he could not have recognized Wright’s ideology? It’s difficult to fathom how he could have made Wright the “religious compass” of his campaign without knowing of Wright’s statements. Most people change churches when the Pastor preaches the opposite of what they believe. Obama had to at some level agreed with the Pastor’s vile ideology, AND accepted it–otherwise, such a hateful/racist person as Wright would have repulsed any true “non-racist” person. We need a more complete understanding of Obama’s “real” core beliefs before we make him our President.

DON’T RUSH TO JUDGMENT!
As difficult as it may seem for some white and black Americans alike to digest the comments of Rev. Jeremiah Wright; We should consider the fact that he not only comes from a different generation than many of us but also from the civil rights and black nationalism eras.
His view of the U.S. Government possibly being responsible for the aids virus however, is not uncommon among non-mainstream progressive thinkers and is one of the several theories presented by some Professors, Scientist and at least one Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Edward Hooper, a former BBC correspondent, has advanced the so-called “contaminated polio vaccine” theory for the origins of HIV and AIDS, In his exhaustively researched book, The River.
In an interview by Time magazine with Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmental activist Wangari Maathai, it was alleged that Maathai had said that “AIDS is a biological weapon manufactured by the developing world to wipe out the black race”.
Jakob Segal, a biology professor at Humboldt University, proposes that HIV was engineered at a U.S. military laboratory at Fort Detrick, by splicing together two other viruses, Visna and HTLV-1. According to his theory, the new virus, created between 1977 and 1978, was tested on prison inmates who had volunteered for the experiment in exchange for early release. He further suggests that it was through these prisoners that the virus was spread to the population at large.
Dr. Alan Cantwell, author of AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic and Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot, says that HIV is a genetically modified organism developed by U.S. Government scientists, and that it was introduced into the population through Hepatitis B experiments performed on gay and bisexual men between 1978-1981 in major U.S. cities. Cantwell claims that these experiments were directed by Dr. Wolf Szmuness, and that there was an ongoing government cover-up of the origins of the AIDS epidemic. Similar theories have been advanced by Dr. Robert B. Strecker, Matilde Krim and by Milton William Cooper, author of Behold A Pale Horse.
Harvard-degreed independent investigator, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola. Nature, Accident or Intentional? and Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare, has advanced the theory that the AIDS virus was engineered by such U.S. Government defense contractors as Litton Bionetics for the purposes of bio-warfare and “population control.”
There are several theories as to the man-made origin of the aids virus including the ‘Hunter’ Theory, the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) theory, the Contaminated Needle Theory, the Colonialism Theory and the Conspiracy Theory. Dr. Wright just happens to buy into the Conspiracy Theory and thinks that the U.S. Government may be up to their old tricks like when they used black men as human laboratory animals during “The Tuskegee (syphilis) Experiment.
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”
The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist.
—President Clinton’s apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997.
Again I say don’t be so quick to judgment, least we judge ourselves.

Wright and his replacement call themselves PROPHETS. They are not prophets in the mold of the ones in the Bible. The real prophets in the Bible ( Jonah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Amos, Hosea) railed against sin and idolatry of those in their audience. They didn’t preach about someone else’s sin and try to make their audience feel better about themselves. An evidence that someone is a false teacher is when they call good evil and evil good. It’s sad that the Holy Trinity Church of Christ feels such anger and resentment that they have fallen for entertainment instead of Christ.

People should pay attention to what Farrakhan said when he offered his thoughts regarding Obama, “Barack Obama has been very careful not to position himself as Reverend Jesse Jackson or Reverend Al Sharpton as a promoter of “The Black Cause.” *He has been groomed, wisely so, to be seen more as a unifier, rather than one who speaks only for the hurt of Black people.”
Think about it “groomed wisely”

So now Wright’s, Oprah’s and Obama’s true colors are finally coming to light. Regarding Wright … what a hypocrite … what a deceitful manipulative womanizer … what a cheat … what a disgusting example of repeated exploitation of the vulnerable. Regarding Obama … who not only chose this man as his mentor, advisor, pastor and friend … FOR TWENTY YEARS … what a gross lack of judgement, or is this a case of hypocrisy and just looking the other way? Keep America strong and safe, elect McCain/Palin in November … No Wright, no Farrakahn, no Ayers, no Rezko, no mean Michelle, NOBAMA