OK, Barack Obama came out and denounced the retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright this past weekend, and he went all over TV saying, well, we aren't that close, I missed church a lot, and if I knew all he was saying, then, I wouldn't have had this man in my campaign and would have distanced myself sooner. OK, well, Barry, you have some explaining to do. To wit:
Obama easily shares the story of how Jeremiah Wright took him on a spiritual journey where he came to know Jesus Christ.
Obama has described himself as a close disciple and personal friend of Jeremiah Wright.
Wright conducted the marriage ceremony when Barack married his wife Michelle.
Jeremiah Wright personally baptised the Obama daughters.
Obama had Jeremiah Wright bless his Chicago home.
"Audacity of Hope" is based on a Jeremiah Wright sermon, takes its title from it.
Are we to believe that someone who said all these things is "not that close" to the Reverend? Are we to believe that the first black editor of Harvard Law Review is so naive and shallow? Are we to believe Barry Obama is that clueless? I mean in several stories Barry has said Wright is the one who converted him to Christianity, etc. Sounds like a deep relationship. Barry's campaign people and the "church" spokesmen claim that the media is doing character assassination in taking a minute and a half sound bite reel to classify the "good reverend's" 3 decades of "service." Well, come on now. Are we so stupid as to think with these numerous references that Obama never heard this rhetoric below, or that what we are seeing is anything more than the tip of the iceberg of Rev. Wright's bigotry? To wit:
Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.
· Wright on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months."
· Wright on Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
And if Barry Obama "didn't know" about this, then why did his staffers nix the good reverend speaking at the event where Barry Obama announced his candidacy? If the campaign and Barry didn't know about any of these statements, then why is his campaign saying now:
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright was an early concern, Obama aide admits
After he moved to Chicago in the mid-1980s to work as a community organizer, Barack Obama forged close ties with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- joining the pastor’s Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and using the topic of a Wright sermon, "the audacity of hope," as the title of his most recent best-selling book.
But more than a year ago -- long before some of Wright’s more incendiary sermons became hot-button videos on YouTube, forcing Obama to publicly renounce his pastor last week -- the Obama campaign had a sense that Wright's sharp tongue might spell trouble for the Illinois senator. (For a sermon sample, click on the Read more line below.)
That was the word anyway Sunday from Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, who acknowledged during a conference call with reporters that Wright was disinvited ...
from Obama's official candidacy announcement on Feb. 10, 2007, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.
Wright had been expected to lead an invocation of some kind, but never appeared.
“There was no doubt that there was controversy surrounding him,” Axelrod said Sunday. “And we didn’t want to expose him … [or] make him the target and a distraction on a day when Sen. Obama was going to announce his candidacy.”
So if the savvy Obama campaign knew Wright was a problem a year ago, why did the Illinois senator, a parish member for two decades, wait until last week to disassociate and denounce the minister's inflammatory statements?
The topic is clearly uncomfortable for Obama and his aides, personally and politically
Ok, so on the one hand, we have this man who claims to want to "rise above" politics and race. We have this man who claims he wants to bring people together for change. But yet, the preacher who turned him to Christianity, who inspired his book title, who baptized his children and married he and his wife, spouts separatist doctrine reminiscent of Nazi Germany, and we are expected to believe Obama knew nothing? Come on now. Wait, I get it. Maybe he attended church like his Senate Record. Maybe he just showed up and voted present and left. That would be typical Obama. However, the possibilities we are left with are disturbing.
Either Obama is truly that clueless, and that means he shouldn't be qualified to drive, much less be President. Or, Barack Hussein really believes that stuff, and is just as racist as Wright, which means he should not lead so diverse a nation as ours. Or, he really isn't that sincere in his faith and maybe he isn't as Christian as we thought and has no core values other than congregating with people for political and cultural gain? In either of these cases, Mr. Obama does not make presidential muster.
OK, now, before you libs out there come back with, "Oh yeah, well Rev. Hagge endorsed McCain and he is anti-catholic, or John McCain said some radical pastor in Columbus Ohio is his friend and advises him from time to time, why doesn't he denounce them, why is there a double standard?" Let me say, there is no double standard.
Getting endorsed by someone is not the same as attending their church, getting married by them, getting your kids baptized by them. Being an advisor is not the same as being your counselor who led you to Christianity, who blessed your home. The levels of relationship are the difference.
So, is this great "uniter" really the audacity of hype? I think more people are asking the question: who is the real Obama? Barry? Barack? Barack Hussein?
And what about dealing with terror? Well, check this out. Rev. Wright, the man who is key in Obama's spiritual life, went with fellow racist leader Louis Farrakhan and visited terrorist sympathizer Col. Kaddafi:
“When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.” Mr. Wright added that his trip implied no endorsement of either Louis Farrakhan’s views or Qaddafi’s.
Really, Rev.? Let's look at your thoughts on "blackness" and the United States of KKK America and Calypso Louie's. I don't see all that much difference.
Barack Obama: follower of racist priest, political player who pimps his church attendance to seem more down with the struggle, or clueless buffoon? Either way, not fit for the office of President.
