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In a post almost six months ago, I wrote that, after the fiasco involving Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Barack Obama proved only that he has a lot of nerve expecting the voting public to believe that he was unaware that his pastor of more then 20 years held such radical views. Today, new evidence surfaced to prove exactly how much nerve the Democratic Party presidential nominee from Illinois really had.
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In the form of the video at right, the evidence shows Obama being interviewed about his book, Dreams From My Father, on the set of what appears to be a public access cable television program (probably in Chicago, though such details are not apparent). Most damning in this interview is the praise he pays to his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago:
“Reverend Wright, my pastor who I speak about in a chapter of the book, represents the best of what the black church has to offer.”
A transcript of the interview, during which Obama rambles on and on without many clear stops, appears below:
Obama: “At times of economic scarcity, generally, the politicians in this country right now want to look for scapegoats, want to organize around race as opposed to around principle and around values, and I think that’s a mistake, and I think that can be countered, but it’s going to require the kind of grassroots mobilization and the kinds of work at a local level that I think I talk about a lot in those chapters on Chicago.”
Interviewer: “Wonderful man, Reverend Wright…”
Obama: “Right. He is my pastor, and he is a wonderful man. And I think that’s an example of…He’s a pastor of a large congregation in Chicago and, one of the interesting things that I discovered on my journey to discover what my identity is and who my father is, is also discovering sort of my own faith which is not necessarily a traditional faith — I don’t come out of an institutionalized religious setting, but what becomes important to me as I work with churches on the south side of Chicago in low-income neighborhoods is to realize that all of the stories and songs of the church, the hope that is embodied in the church, in the sense of liberation that is embodied in the historically African-American church is really something that moved me deeply and I think is probably the main pillar around which a lot of inner city communities are going to be built. Reverend Wright, my pastor who I speak about in a chapter of the book, represents the best of what the black church has to offer.”
Hat tip: StopTheACLU
8 responses so far ↓
1 ComOB // Oct 28, 2008 at 6:44 pm
The prime mistake that Obama/Biden and the rest of the DeathStarCrats have made is this:
• America did not become the greatest nation in the world by accident. To assume that we are a nation of useful idiots, in itself exposes their stupidity.
2 hotoffthepress2 // Oct 28, 2008 at 6:48 pm
ComOB — The Dems would say you’re being divisive with your comments. I would not.
3 Skunkfeathers // Oct 29, 2008 at 1:36 am
ComOB is just saying it the way it is. As I said in another comment, a lot of duped voters are going to be suffering ‘voter remorse’ when they realize what they have wrought on November 4. I figure that ‘remorse’ to begin kicking in hard within 6 months of inauguration, with tax increases, 401k revamps, a retreat from Iraq, and a run on “progressive” remakes of American life, pouring out of Democrat-controlled Congress and gleefully signed by Obama, “for our own good”. And look for a return of The Fairness Doctrine — a Democrat pet project — to silence conservative talk radio.
“Useful idiots”, indeed. Lenin would be absolutely giddy about moderate Republican and independent voters’ shortsightedness.
Unless — as in ‘00 and ‘04 — the media-massaged polls prove to be wrong yet again. That’ll make for another matter (their implied threats of violence if Obama loses), but one ditch jump at a time.
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5 Right Truth // Oct 29, 2008 at 4:21 pm
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6 Min. Vazquez // Oct 29, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Hello there,
What may be shocking to those who are not familiar with the black church is that Dr. Wright is not viewed as a radical preacher among black clergy. He’s not even CLOSE TO BEING in the group of the black radical preachers.
Dr. Wright is widely and highly respected by black clergy in every black denominations and black clergy who are in white denominations.
Criticism of government is commonplace in sermons in the black church.
Criticism of politicians is commonplace in sermons in the black church.
Criticism of racism is commonplace in sermons in the black church.
Launching THOSE criticisms does not brand a black preacher a “radical” among the black church community.
As for Obama’s association with his pastor, I am a minister and I can ASSURE you that people come to church for many reasons. Agreeing with what I preach is NOT high on the list for most people. Many black people show up in church because THAT is where they interact with other blacks after spending an entire week at their offices being “the minority”.
It did not seem odd to me that after twenty years, Obama could not even explain black liberation theology. This proves that he never really internalized that doctrine! If he had, he would have been able to speak on it from an informed perspective.
It is not shocking to me that people who have been on the membership roster for twenty and thirty years in the black church would not closely identify with the doctrine - those are the ones who joined church for other reasons.
7 Dean // Oct 29, 2008 at 11:04 pm
If my pastor stated from the pulpit something I believed to be wrong, I think I’d be obligated to check it out and find out who’s right or wrong, and then make one of three choices:
1. If he’s right/I’m wrong, I should change my beliefs.
2. If I’m right/he’s wrong (and if he’s unwilling to change), I should get out from under his teaching and preaching.
3. Ignore it and run for President.
I wonder which choice Obama made? Probably not #2.
8 Jeremy Jackson // Nov 2, 2008 at 12:11 am
Obama’s innocence is hardly believable. Listen to the words of Obama in 2007 (hear them yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpzHQ_PC1uI).
“I’ve got to give a special shoutout to
• my pastor
• the guy who puts up with me
• counsels me
• listens to my wife complain about me.
• He’s a friend, and
• A great leader (not just in Chicago but all across the country).”
But who is Jeremiah Wright?
• Pastor of Trinty United Church of Christ, the church that gave a lifetime membership to the racist, anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who has said that “Hitler was a great man” and ”White people are potential humans; they haven’t evolved yet.
• A man who encourages blacks not to say “God bless America” but rather “God damn America.”
• A man who INSPIRED Barack Obama TO TEARS (according to Obama’s own book) with an epiphany at the first sermon of Wright that Obama heard. In this sermon Obama spoke that Wright spoke of “white folks’ greed runs a world in need.” Clearly Obama (despite his disingenuous disclaimer) was fully aware of Wright’s anti-white rants from the FIRST SERMON HE HEARD.
Can America really afford a President, who is so enthralled with a man who “counsels” him, is a personal “friend” and a “great leader.” Yet he was fully aware of the fact that the man he praised so was actually a vehement racist.
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