“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.

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.

Americans are reporting receiving calls from HAMAS phone bank in Gaza, asking for donations for Barack Obama. From Marianne of Heaven Awaits: I was contacted by muslims supporting Obama, and asked for a $200 donation. The phone was listed as……

“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.