Obama
is a Muslim. The racist blacks
that are pushing to get obama elected has tried to deceive the american people.
1. Was Barack Obama a Muslim?
The issue of Barack Obama’s possible Muslim past has re-emerged with conflicting
reports about the presidential candidate’s childhood in Islamic Indonesia.
The controversy was initially touched off in early 2007 when several media outlets
reported that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Islamic school, when he lived in
Indonesia.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs quickly countered with a statement: “Senator Obama
has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.”
The reports about the radical madrasa turned out to be false. But in March 2007, Gibbs
amended his previous statement, telling the Los Angeles Times: “Obama has never been
a practicing Muslim,” the key word being “practicing.”
Obama, his Kansas-born mother and Muslim stepfather moved to Jakarta, Indonesia’s
capital, in 1967, and Obama lived there from ages 6 to 10.
The Times sent a reporter to Jakarta to investigate Obama’s childhood years there,
and published an article on March 16 that included these details:
- A close boyhood friend of Obama, Zulfin Adi, said Barack “was a Muslim. He went to
the mosque.”
- Obama’s first-grade teacher at a Catholic school, Israella Dharmawan, said:
“Barry (Barack’s nickname) was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his
father was Muslim.”
- In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered
as a Muslim. At the school, Muslim students attended weekly religion lessons about Islam.
- In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the
Koran and describes the public school as “a Muslim school.”
More recently, Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes wrote on FrontPageMag.com that
his research led him to conclude that “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing
Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of
his Indonesian stepfather.”
But on Jan. 2, the liberal organization Media Matters for America (MMfA) took issue
with Pipes’ report, criticized him for relying too heavily on the Times article,
which it claimed was “disputed,” in an effort to “revive Obama-Muslim
falsehood.”
Media Matters cited a March 25 article by Kim Baker in the Chicago Tribune that
challenged several assertions in the Times story. Barker wrote that boyhood friend Adi
“was not certain” about his statements regarding Obama’s childhood and that
he “only knew Obama for a few months.”
The Media Matters Web posting stated: “Additionally, the Tribune reported that
‘interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show
that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia.’”
Media Matters also said that “Pipes did not note that Obama’s Indonesian
stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, has been described in the Tribune as ‘much more of a free
spirit than a devout Muslim.’”
Pipes fired back with a FrontPageMag.com article on Jan. 7, titled “Confirmed:
Barack Obama Practiced Islam.”
Pipes asked if any of the information from the Chicago Tribune article refutes “my
analysis, as MMfA contends. It raises questions about two details in the Los Angeles Times
account — the accuracy of the Catholic school’s registration form and the
reliability of Zulfin Adi as a source on Obama. But on the larger issue of Obama’s
religious practices during his Jakarta years, it confirms the Times account.”
Pipes concludes: “Therefore, what MMfA calls the ‘Obama-Muslim’
falsehood’ is in fact confirmed by both articles as truthful and accurate.”
And he adds: “All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what
Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who
must be executed. Were he elected president of the Untied States, this status, clearly,
would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.”
If there is anything more disturbing than watching the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s
paranoid denunciations of whites and America, it’s seeing the reactions of many
well-educated blacks who agree with him or find ways to justify his hate-filled comments.
“I am so proud of Reverand Wright, who speaks with unreserved passion, who accepts
no quarter and gives no quarter,” said former civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot of
Barack Obama’s speech addressing his longtime minister’s claims that America
started the AIDS virus, trains professional killers, imports drugs, and has created a
racist society to keep blacks down.
Culture of Conspiracy
While some of Wright’s language is “offensive,” the “reality out of
which he speaks is that black people have suffered in America and continue to suffer
because of the unfairness of the system,” said professor Cheryl Sanders of the Howard
University School of Divinity. The black church “has always had prophetic
preachers,” she said. “Prophetic voice goes all the way back to the days of
slavery, when people were protesting being in bondage. And so protest is just kind of a
part of how we do ministry.”
While saying he does not believe that the government created the AIDS virus to kill
blacks, as Wright has said, professor R. L’Heureux Lewis of the City College of New
York gave credence to the conspiracy theory by saying that he does “respect the right
of some people to question the unfettered arrival of AIDS and HIV to the community and the
ravishing effects it’s had.”
Responding to my Newsmax stories about Obama and Wright going back to Jan. 7, many
blacks said whites could not understand what it means to be black.
“It is not a secret that black people were slaves and that we are still victims
and suffering from slavery, a black woman from Inglewood, Calif., wrote. “The pastor
is just expressing a reality that we black people are going through.”
In his speech on race, Obama implicitly condoned this backward-looking perspective.
“For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of
humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of
those years,” Obama said. "While the anger is not always productive," Obama
continued, "[it is] real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it
without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that
exists between the races.”
Yet while Wright, 66, no doubt had brushes with discrimination growing up in
Philadelphia, it was nothing compared with what Condoleezza Rice faced — or, for that
matter, what six million Jews who were slaughtered by Adolf Hitler faced.
In contrast to Wright, who attended an integrated school, Rice grew up in segregated
Birmingham, Ala. Denise McNair, one of Rice’s friends and classmates, was one of the
four girls who was killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Rice's Unbridled Courage
Rice had to sit at the back of buses. When more whites got on, the driver would move a
“Colored” sign farther back in the bus, making less room for blacks. Rice could
not eat at the same restaurants as whites unless the restaurant had a separate room with a
separate entrance for blacks.
She was not allowed to use the same drinking fountains or public restrooms as whites.
But Condi Rice, a descendant of slaves and white slave owners, had something else going
for her: Her middle-class black neighborhood had developed a culture separate from the
rest of the city, one that shut out the racism all around and taught children they had to
be “twice as good” to pull even with whites.
Instead of teaching Rice to carry a chip on her shoulder, as she has told me,
Rice’s parents amplified those positive values, giving her a strong sense of
self-worth.
Rice’s father, the Rev. John W. Rice Jr., instilled in his daughter the faith that
she brought with her into the White House and the State Department.
While Rice is comfortable with her own heritage and often speaks before black groups,
she does not dwell on the racism she experienced growing up. Above all, Rice is proud of
America and the opportunities that everyone now has. Witness the fact that she is
secretary of state.
What a contrast to the poisonous atmosphere at the church that Obama has chosen to
attend for more than two decades and the demagoguery of the man he calls his friend,
sounding board, and mentor.
Encouraging Failure
As my friend Fox News contributor Juan Williams told me after publication of his book
“Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are
Undermining Black America,” many black leaders orchestrate support for themselves by
promoting victimhood, creating a black “culture of failure.”
That self-defeating attitude tells blacks, “You can’t help yourself; you
can’t help your family; and therefore, all you can do is wait for the government to
do something for you,” Williams says. “I think it is a message of weakness and
ineffectual thinking that is absolutely crippling the poor and especially minorities in
the United States.”
Sounding a similar theme in his book “Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black
America,” black author John McWhorter calls the culture of victimhood
“therapeutic alienation,” a form of self-medication that is “disconnected
from current reality” and continues to hold blacks back.
To be sure, most largely black churches preach an uplifting message.
“As a pastor of a bi-racial church, I cannot accept that Wright’s way is the
right way to do ‘black church,’ the Rev. Wally Shifflett, a minister from
Charlotte, N.C., wrote to me. “Sen. Obama has been wrongly accused of being a Muslim
— and why should that matter? We can hardly disqualify a candidate, offhandedly,
because of his or her religion. But the senator’s continued participation in a church
stoked with such anti-American rhetoric should no more be acceptable than if he openly
supported one of the Islamic-extremist’s madrasses that teach their young to hate
Americans. Is there any difference?”
The answer, of course, is no.
Both Islamic extremism and the black cult of victimhood generate support by conjuring
up largely imaginary grievances and exploiting them.
The Rev. Otis Moss III, who recently took over from Wright at Trinity United Church of
Christ, continued that theme on Sunday. Referring to the media’s belated exposure of
Wright’s hate sermons. Moss said the church had been the victim of a
“lynching.”
In contrast to the message of Obama’s church and its award to Louis Farrakhan for
lifetime achievement, as one of its core values, Shifflett’s church adheres to
inclusiveness: “Convinced that all people ever to be born have one common ancestor;
and that God’s love for all people caused him to send the one Savior into the world
to seek and save all people; we believe that he has reconciled all people to himself, and
to one another.”
If Barack Obama were the unifier he claims to be, that is the kind of church he would
attend and support with $22,500 in donations over a two-year period.
Instead of saying he understands where Wright and his “God damn America” are
coming from and refusing to sever ties with him, if he really wanted to help blacks and
further racial progress, he would denounce Wright’s message of hatred and the culture
of victimhood that continues to undermine black society.
And if Obama were a leader who genuinely had the interests of all the country’s
citizens at heart, he would be citing Condoleezza Rice as an example of what blacks can
achieve in America.
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
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6, 2008 3:54 PM
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In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister,
friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional
killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man
as president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ
in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in
Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few
magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An
audio recording of the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1:
We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and
well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black
man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and
no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her
body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1
killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a
Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not
dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the
exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against
Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported
apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism
shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it
as being anti-semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation
experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing
about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black
and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities
back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those
nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live
in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of
control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than
in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care
what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly,
forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of
living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10:
We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church
and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and
— and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being
like “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He
rarely mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in
his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy
of apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan
because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has
said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast
majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably
sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two
decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and
consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before
announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so
close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels
proud of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said
she feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America
mentality also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach
to national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close
association with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters
decide whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future. |
Obama Attended Hate America Sermon
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Obama claims he was completely unaware that the Reverend Wright’s trademark preaching
style at the Trinity United Church of Christ targeted “white” America. |
Clarification: The Obama campaign has told members of the press that Senator
Obama was not in church on the day cited, July 22, because he had a speech he gave in
Miami at 1:30 PM. Our writer, Jim Davis, says he attended several services at Senator
Obama's church during the month of July, including July 22. The church holds services
three times every Sunday at 7:30 and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central time (with weekly
praise/prayers starting 15 minutes previous to those times). While both the early morning
and evening service allowed Sen. Obama to attend the service and still give a speech in
Miami, Mr. Davis stands by his story that during one of the services he attended during
the month of July, Senator Obama was present and sat through the sermon given by Rev.
Wright as described in the story. Mr. Davis said Secret Service were also present in the
church during Senator Obama's attendance. Mr. Davis' story was first published on Newsmax
on August 9, 2007. Shortly before publication, Mr. Davis contacted the press office of
Sen. Obama several times for comment about the Senator's attendance and Rev. Wright's
comments during his sermon. The Senator's office declined to comment.
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Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah
A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the
minister blamed the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for
the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks.
Senator Obama has sought to separate himself from his pastor’s incendiary remarks,
issuing a statement Friday rejecting them as “inflammatory and appalling” but
failing to renounce Wright himself for his venomous and paranoid denunciations of America.
In his press release, Obama claimed, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that
are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while
I sat in the pews of Trinity [United Church of Christ] or heard him utter in private
conversation.”
Appearing on cable news shows this past weekend, Obama claimed when he saw recent
videos that have Wright making such comments as “God damn America,” he was
“shocked.” Obama implied that the reverend had not used such derogatory language
in any of the church services Obama attended over the past two decades.
If Obama’s claims are true that he was completely unaware that Wright’s
trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ has targeted
“white” America and Israel, he would have been one of the few people in Chicago
to be so uninformed. Wright’s reputation for spewing hate is well known.
In fact, Obama was present in the South Side Chicago church on July 22 last year when
Jim Davis, a freelance correspondent for Newsmax, attended services along with Obama.
[See: ”Obama’s
Church: Cauldron of Division.”]
In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the “United States
of White America” and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing
Wright’s attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis
said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement.
Addressing the Iraq war, Wright thundered, “Young African-American men” were
“dying for nothing.” The “illegal war,” he shouted, was “based on
Bush’s lies” and is being “fought for oil money.”
Obama’s most famous celebrity backer, Oprah Winfrey began attending Wright’s
church in 1984. Last year, Newsmax magazine
reported that Winfrey abruptly stopped attending years ago, and suggested that she did
so to distance herself from Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric. She soon found herself a
target of Wright, who excoriated her for having broken with “traditional faith.”
The Reverend Wright’s anti-white theology that Senator Obama expressed surprise
over is evident on the church’s website. The site says the congregation subscribes to
what it calls the Black Value System, which is described as a disavowal of “our
racist competitive society” and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” That is
defined as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than
“killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,”
just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to
fill the jails and prisons.”
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright
wrote in the church-affiliated magazine Trumpet four years after the attacks. “White
America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away,
faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on
its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
The Relationship Unravels
Senator Obama now is attempting to minimize his long and close relationship with the
controversial minister.
On Friday, John McCain’s campaign distributed a Wall Street Journal op-ed
“Obama and the Minister” written under my byline based on my reporting for
Newsmax going back to early January of this year.
The op-ed included details of a sermon Wright gave at Howard University blaming America
for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, shamelessly
supporting Israel, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as
president. [See: “Obama’s
Minister’s Hatred of America.”]
Obama’s campaign quickly responded to the Wall Street Journal op-ed, posting a
statement on the Huffington Post. In his statement, Obama acknowledged that some of
Wright’s statements have been “inflammatory and appalling.”
Saying he strongly condemns Wright’s comments, Obama continued, “I
categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide
us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in
our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I
reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.” [emphasis
added]
Again, Obama moved to narrowly distance himself from specific comments Wright had made,
while still praising his minister in recent interviews for leading him to Jesus and
preaching a “social gospel.”
Obama went on to claim that he first learned about Wright’s controversial
statements when he began his presidential campaign. But this assertion conflicts with the
fact that just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally on Feb. 10,
2007, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation.
At the time, Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984
I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in
hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'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.'” Still, Obama and his family prayed privately with Wright just before the
presidential announcement.
Apparently Obama never foresaw Wright’s sermons making national television or
becoming a sensation on YouTube. But lending graphic detail to the saga, ABC News and
other networks began running a 2003 sermon in which Wright said, “The government
gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us
to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in
the Bible, for killing innocent people ... God damn America for treating our citizens as
less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is
supreme.” [Click Here to see
video]
Obama has described Wright as a sounding board and mentor. Wright is one of the first
people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Obama consulted Wright
before deciding to run for president. The title of Obama’s bestseller “The
Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Obama’s “Yes We
Can!” slogan is one of Wright’s exhortations.
Apologists for Wright have said that what he says is normal in black churches, and many
blacks claim such preaching cannot be understood by whites.
“If you’re black, it’s hard to say what you truly think and not upset
white people,” the New York Times quoted James Cone as saying. Cone is a professor at
Union Theological Seminary and the father of what is known as black liberation theology.
But Juan Williams, a Fox News commentator and author of “Enough: The Phony
Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black
America,” tells Newsmax that Wright’s sermons reflect “the victim mindset
that is so self-defeating in the black community and one that is played on by weak black
leadership that chooses to have black people identified as victims rather than inspiring
them as people who have overcome. In posing as victims, they say the most prejudiced and
vicious things, not only about whites but about America. They call it theology. In fact,
it’s nothing but bigotry.”
In failing to condemn Wright himself and claiming that he was unaware of the
preacher’s hate-filled speech, Obama is continuing a longstanding pattern.
Obama often refers to Wright as being "like an old uncle, who sometimes says
things I don't agree with." Wright is not Obama’s “uncle” — a
person born into a blood relationship — but a man he has cultivated for decades as a
close friend, mentor and adviser.
After Newsmax broke the story on Jan. 14 that Wright’s church gave an award to
Louis Farrakhan in December for lifetime achievement, Obama again sought to denounce his
minister’s action without criticizing Wright himself.
Like Wright, Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews
(calling Judaism a “gutter religion”), whites, and America. He has called whites
“blue-eyed devils” and the “anti-Christ.” He has described Jews as
“bloodsuckers” who control the government, the media, and some black
organizations.
After the Newsmax story, Obama issued a statement purportedly addressing the issue.
"I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the
anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan," Obama said.
Again, Obama was careful not to condemn Farrakhan himself or Wright who had spoken
adoringly of Farrakhan and put their church behind the award to the controversial Nation
of Islam leader.
“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, black America listens,” Trumpet quoted
Wright as saying. “His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of
this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and
honest.”
Obama adroitly said, “I assume that Trumpet magazine made its own decision to
honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a
decision with which I agree.”
In fact, Trumpet is published by Wright’s church using the church’s offices.
Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
Having gotten away with sidestepping Wright’s adoring comments about Farrakhan,
Obama told Jewish leaders flatly in Cleveland on Jan. 24 that the award was because of
Farrakhan’s work with ex-offenders. To date, no news outlet has pointed out that
Obama’s claim is false.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in
his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy
of apartheid. As with his claim that the award to Farrakhan was made because of his work
with ex-offenders, Obama made that up. Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not
been qualified in any way.
On Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes on Friday, Obama said he would have quit the
church if he had “repeatedly” been present when Wright made inflammatory
statements. He was not asked why he did not quit the church when it gave an award to
Farrakhan.
Having considered Wright a friend and mentor for two decades, Obama now often mentions
that his pastor recently retired. Wright suggested to the New York Times last year that he
and Obama might have to do something of a distancing act in the run up to the election.
"If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from
me," Wright was quoted by The New York Times. "I said it to Barack personally,
and he said, ‘Yeah, that might have to happen.'" |
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend,
and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers,
importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as
president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in
Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington
on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news
outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of
the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1: We’ve
got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism
is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever
be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman
can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1
killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a
Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not
dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the
exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against
Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported
apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism
shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it
as being anti-Semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation
experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing
about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black
and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities
back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those
nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live
in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of
control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than
in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care
what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly,
forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of
living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10:
We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church
and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and
— and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like
“an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He rarely
mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his
anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy of
apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan
because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has
said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast
majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably
sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two
decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and
consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before
announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so
close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels proud
of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said she
feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America mentality
also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach to
national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close association
with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters decide
whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future.
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Fwd: OBAMA's CHURCH
PLEASE NOTE: THIS GUY IS SUPPORTED BY OPRAH AND WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES?
OBAMA's CHURCH-------(A MUST READ FOR ALL VOTERS)
Obama mentioned his church during his appearance with Oprah. It's the Trinity
Church of Christ.
(Don't be fooled by the name) I found
this interesting.
Obama's church:
Please read and go to this church's website and read what is written there.
It is very alarming. Barack Obama is a member of this church and is
Running for President of the U.S. If you look at the first page of their
Website, you will learn that this congregation has a non-negotiable
Commitment to Africa. No where is AMERICA even mentioned. Notice too, what
Color you will need to be if you should want to join Obama's church...
B-L-A-C-K!!! Doesn't look like his choice of religion has improved much over
his (former?) Muslim upbringing. Are you aware that Obama's middle name is
Mohammed? Strip away his nice looks, the big smile and smooth talk and what
do you get? Certainly a racist, as plainly defined by the stated position of
his
Church! And possibly a covert worshiper of the Muslim faith, even today. This
guy desires to rule over America while his loyalty is totally vested in a Black
Africa! I cannot believe this has not been all over the TV
And newspapers. This is why it is so important to pass this message
Along to all of our family & friends. To think that Obama has even
The slightest chance in the run for the presidency, is really
Scary.
A Christian church does not exclude anyone, to be a member of this church you have to
be Black. The agenda of this church and the members, are to continue to split this nation
because they hate whites. We did not put the blacks in slavery, yet they continue to try
to get a free ride and split this nation. Obama talks about change, the change is is
talking about is turning this nation into an African nation. If he is elected the black
racist will be appointed to every department of government, they will open this nation to
let the blacks from Africa flood this nation so the whites will become a minority. The
fact that blacks that are suppose to be men of God pushing an agenda that will destroy a
country that God blessed. None of the blacks have been in slavery and no one owes them
anything.
Obama is a black racist and Muslim with the same view point as the pasture of this
church.
The Clintons made this possible for the destruction of America. You may say this could
never happen. If Obama is elected or if Clinton wins and makes him her VP, it will happen
because they both push a hidden agenda.
The democrats have Edwards, who is the only person that might make a good president.
This is the agenda of Obama Church. No whites allowed! The news media need to report
the facts and the truth before this nation is turned in to another Cape Town South Africa.
The tribe of Ham was the blacks, they were cursed by their father and reading this you
can see why!
We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our
roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We
are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother
continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the
days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who
gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a
congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black
worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.
The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to
a 10-point Vision:
- A congregation committed to ADORATION.
- A congregation preaching SALVATION.
- A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
- A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
- A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
- A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
- A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN
DIASPORA.
- A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
- A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
- A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.
The media needs to expose anyone with an agenda like Obama. If he is elected you will
get what you deserve. If Obama is elected the racist blacks will tell him what to do.
Obama pledge is to the Muslim faith, when he was sworn in he would not put his hand on the
Bible and take the oath of office, why, because he was a Muslim. If Obama was an American
as well as the blacks in his church they would be concerned about all Americans regardless
of color and race. Like the mayor of New Orleans, when the sun sets this will be a black
city, with Obama it will be a black nation.
The main agenda of the Blacks are to stop the war on drugs, on record at the democratic
debate at the black college. They want black to be able to sell drugs to your children and
never go to prison.
I am not a racist, I made the mistake of believing and voting for Jesse Jackson, thank
God he lost. I am a veteran who fought to keep this nation free and to watch it in danger
from the deception of blacks who hate Whites. You may say this is nor true, if he is
elected it will be to late to do something about it.
The media has a responsibility to the America people and to America to expose people
like Obama and Bill Clinton who is responsible for the deception of the blacks that
have put America in danger.
The Republicans have one man that stands for the truth and for this nation. I am a
Democrat who can not believe that our party has been taken over by the far left.
Please investigate and expose Obama and his hidden agenda. He is for change, not the
change he wants you to believe.
Obama! Bad News! it seems that all we get from members of congress is lies and
deception, Obama is no exception.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama preaches on the campaign trail that America needs a
new consensus based on faith and bipartisanship, yet he continues to attend a
controversial Chicago church whose pastor routinely refers to "white arrogance"
and "the United States of White America."
In fact, Obama was in attendance at the church when these statements were made on July
22.
Obama has spoken and written of his special relationship with that pastor, the Rev.
Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
The connection between the two goes back to Obama's days as a young community organizer
in Chicago's South Side when he first met the charismatic Wright. Obama credited Wright
with converting him, then a religious skeptic, to Christianity. [Editor's Note: Can
Oprah Winfrey make Barack Obama president? Click
Here.]
"It was ... at Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago that I
met Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who took me on another journey and introduced me to a man
named Jesus Christ. It was the best education I ever had," Obama described his
spiritual pilgrimage to a group of church ministers this past June.
Since the 1980s, Obama has not only remained a regular attendee at Wright's services in
his inner city mega church, Trinity United Church of Christ, along with its other 8,500
members, he's been a close disciple and personal friend of Wright.
Wright conducted Obama's marriage to his wife Michelle, baptized his two daughters, and
blessed Obama's Chicago home. Obama's best-selling book, "The Audacity of Hope,"
takes its title from one of Wright's sermons.
Because of this close relationship, questions have been raised as to the influence the
divisive pastor will have on the consensus-building potential president.
Obama and Wright appear, at first blush, an unlikely pair. Wright is Chicago's version
of the Rev. Al Sharpton.
It was no surprise that Sharpton recently announced that with Wright's backing, he was
setting up a chapter of his New York-based National Action Network in Chicagoland. The
chapter will be headed by Wright's daughter, Jeri Wright.
Minister of Controversy
Obama was not the only national African-American figure to cozy up to Wright. TV host
Oprah Winfrey once described herself as a congregant, but in recent years has
disassociated herself from the controversial minister.
The Obama deception!
1. Was Barack Obama a Muslim?
The issue of Barack Obama’s possible Muslim past has re-emerged with conflicting
reports about the presidential candidate’s childhood in Islamic Indonesia.
The controversy was initially touched off in early 2007 when several media outlets
reported that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Islamic school, when he lived in
Indonesia.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs quickly countered with a statement: “Senator Obama
has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.”
The reports about the radical madrasa turned out to be false. But in March 2007, Gibbs
amended his previous statement, telling the Los Angeles Times: “Obama has never been
a practicing Muslim,” the key word being “practicing.”
Obama, his Kansas-born mother and Muslim stepfather moved to Jakarta, Indonesia’s
capital, in 1967, and Obama lived there from ages 6 to 10.
The Times sent a reporter to Jakarta to investigate Obama’s childhood years there,
and published an article on March 16 that included these details:
- A close boyhood friend of Obama, Zulfin Adi, said Barack “was a Muslim. He went to
the mosque.”
- Obama’s first-grade teacher at a Catholic school, Israella Dharmawan, said:
“Barry (Barack’s nickname) was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his
father was Muslim.”
- In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered
as a Muslim. At the school, Muslim students attended weekly religion lessons about Islam.
- In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the
Koran and describes the public school as “a Muslim school.”
More recently, Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes wrote on FrontPageMag.com that
his research led him to conclude that “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing
Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of
his Indonesian stepfather.”
But on Jan. 2, the liberal organization Media Matters for America (MMfA) took issue
with Pipes’ report, criticized him for relying too heavily on the Times article,
which it claimed was “disputed,” in an effort to “revive Obama-Muslim
falsehood.”
Media Matters cited a March 25 article by Kim Baker in the Chicago Tribune that
challenged several assertions in the Times story. Barker wrote that boyhood friend Adi
“was not certain” about his statements regarding Obama’s childhood and that
he “only knew Obama for a few months.”
The Media Matters Web posting stated: “Additionally, the Tribune reported that
‘interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show
that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia.’”
Media Matters also said that “Pipes did not note that Obama’s Indonesian
stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, has been described in the Tribune as ‘much more of a free
spirit than a devout Muslim.’”
Pipes fired back with a FrontPageMag.com article on Jan. 7, titled “Confirmed:
Barack Obama Practiced Islam.”
Pipes asked if any of the information from the Chicago Tribune article refutes “my
analysis, as MMfA contends. It raises questions about two details in the Los Angeles Times
account — the accuracy of the Catholic school’s registration form and the
reliability of Zulfin Adi as a source on Obama. But on the larger issue of Obama’s
religious practices during his Jakarta years, it confirms the Times account.”
Pipes concludes: “Therefore, what MMfA calls the ‘Obama-Muslim’
falsehood’ is in fact confirmed by both articles as truthful and accurate.”
And he adds: “All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what
Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who
must be executed. Were he elected president of the Untied States, this status, clearly,
would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.”
Obama lied to get votes!
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama participate
in a debate at Cleveland State University in Cleveland on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008. (AP /
Carolyn Kaster)
 Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty speaks with Canada AM on
Wednesday, Feb . 27, 2008.
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Obama staffer gave warning of NAFTA rhetoric
Updated Wed. Feb. 27 2008 11:45 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Barack Obama has ratcheted up his attacks on NAFTA, but a senior member of his campaign
team told a Canadian official not to take his criticisms seriously, CTV News has learned.
Both Obama and Hillary Clinton have been critical of the long-standing North American
Free Trade Agreement over the course of the Democratic primaries, saying that the deal has
cost U.S. workers' jobs.
Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama's campaign telephoned Michael
Wilson, Canada's ambassador to the United States, and warned him that Obama would speak
out against NAFTA, according to Canadian sources.
The staff member reassured Wilson that the criticisms would only be campaign rhetoric,
and should not be taken at face value.
But Tuesday night in Ohio, where NAFTA is blamed for massive job losses, Obama said he
would tell Canada and Mexico "that we will opt out unless we renegotiate the core
labour and environmental standards."
Late Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign said the staff member's warning
to Wilson sounded implausible, but did not deny that contact had been made.
"Senator Obama does not make promises he doesn't intend to keep," the
spokesperson said.
Low-level sources also suggested the Clinton campaign may have given a similar warning
to Ottawa, but a Clinton spokesperson flatly denied the claim.
During Tuesday's debate, she said that as president she would opt out of NAFTA
"unless we renegotiate it."
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Wednesday that the candidates' criticisms
of NAFTA were misguided.
"(They) should recognize that NAFTA benefits the U.S. tremendously," he said.
"Those who speak of it as helpful to (just the) Canadian or Mexican economies are
missing the point."
Liberal MP and finance critic John McCallum told Canada AM that the U.S. pulling out of
NAFTA "would be a disaster for Canada."
But he added, "I hope and I believe that it's politics, because they're in a
high-stakes contest. I believe after this nominee is decided, this issue will go
away."
John Fortier, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute, said that in an
effort to gain votes in the anti-NAFTA state of Ohio, each candidate might find themselves
"locked-in" to their pledge to renegotiate NAFTA.
"Last night, both candidates really locked themselves in to at least doing some
serious renegotiation," Fortier told Canada AM. "But how serious they are and
what the changes (will be) . . . that's another question.
"But I don't know how Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton can get out of last night's
very clear pledge that they are going to use the opt-out (clause) as a threat to do some
serious renegotiation."
Crucial primaries in Ohio and Texas are just one week away.
During Tuesday night's debate, each candidate was quite specific about using the
six-month opt-out clause in NAFTA, to pressure Canada and Mexico into renegotiating the
deal.
The March 4 primaries are seen as vital for each candidate, but particularly Clinton.
It's expected that without a decisive win in both Texas and Ohio, she has no chance of
winning the Democratic nomination.
Clinton once had a large lead in each state, but recent polls are showing the
candidates as close to even, with Obama surging ahead.
Early polls show that there is a strong possibility of a Democrat in the White House in
January 2009.
Obama, in particular, is surging in popularity throughout the U.S. and some polls give
the Illinois senator an almost double-digit lead if he were to run head-to-head against
the expected Republican candidate, John McCain.
Obama has a bill in the Senate that
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Why is the media refusing to report the truth about the people running for
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Obama Minister's Hatred of America
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Thursday, March
6, 2008 3:54 PM
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In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister,
friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional
killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man
as president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ
in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in
Washington on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few
magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An
audio recording of the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1:
We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and
well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black
man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and
no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her
body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1
killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a
Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not
dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the
exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against
Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported
apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism
shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it
as being anti-semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation
experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing
about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black
and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities
back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those
nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live
in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of
control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than
in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care
what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly,
forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of
living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10:
We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church
and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and
— and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being
like “an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He
rarely mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in
his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy
of apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan
because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has
said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast
majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably
sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two
decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and
consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before
announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so
close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels
proud of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said
she feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America
mentality also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach
to national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close
association with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters
decide whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future. |
Obama Attended Hate America Sermon
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Obama claims he was completely unaware that the Reverend Wright’s trademark preaching
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Clarification: The Obama campaign has told members of the press that Senator
Obama was not in church on the day cited, July 22, because he had a speech he gave in
Miami at 1:30 PM. Our writer, Jim Davis, says he attended several services at Senator
Obama's church during the month of July, including July 22. The church holds services
three times every Sunday at 7:30 and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central time (with weekly
praise/prayers starting 15 minutes previous to those times). While both the early morning
and evening service allowed Sen. Obama to attend the service and still give a speech in
Miami, Mr. Davis stands by his story that during one of the services he attended during
the month of July, Senator Obama was present and sat through the sermon given by Rev.
Wright as described in the story. Mr. Davis said Secret Service were also present in the
church during Senator Obama's attendance. Mr. Davis' story was first published on Newsmax
on August 9, 2007. Shortly before publication, Mr. Davis contacted the press office of
Sen. Obama several times for comment about the Senator's attendance and Rev. Wright's
comments during his sermon. The Senator's office declined to comment.
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Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah
A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the
minister blamed the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for
the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks.
Senator Obama has sought to separate himself from his pastor’s incendiary remarks,
issuing a statement Friday rejecting them as “inflammatory and appalling” but
failing to renounce Wright himself for his venomous and paranoid denunciations of America.
In his press release, Obama claimed, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that
are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while
I sat in the pews of Trinity [United Church of Christ] or heard him utter in private
conversation.”
Appearing on cable news shows this past weekend, Obama claimed when he saw recent
videos that have Wright making such comments as “God damn America,” he was
“shocked.” Obama implied that the reverend had not used such derogatory language
in any of the church services Obama attended over the past two decades.
If Obama’s claims are true that he was completely unaware that Wright’s
trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ has targeted
“white” America and Israel, he would have been one of the few people in Chicago
to be so uninformed. Wright’s reputation for spewing hate is well known.
In fact, Obama was present in the South Side Chicago church on July 22 last year when
Jim Davis, a freelance correspondent for Newsmax, attended services along with Obama.
[See: ”Obama’s
Church: Cauldron of Division.”]
In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the “United States
of White America” and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing
Wright’s attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis
said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement.
Addressing the Iraq war, Wright thundered, “Young African-American men” were
“dying for nothing.” The “illegal war,” he shouted, was “based on
Bush’s lies” and is being “fought for oil money.”
Obama’s most famous celebrity backer, Oprah Winfrey began attending Wright’s
church in 1984. Last year, Newsmax magazine
reported that Winfrey abruptly stopped attending years ago, and suggested that she did
so to distance herself from Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric. She soon found herself a
target of Wright, who excoriated her for having broken with “traditional faith.”
The Reverend Wright’s anti-white theology that Senator Obama expressed surprise
over is evident on the church’s website. The site says the congregation subscribes to
what it calls the Black Value System, which is described as a disavowal of “our
racist competitive society” and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” That is
defined as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than
“killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,”
just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to
fill the jails and prisons.”
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright
wrote in the church-affiliated magazine Trumpet four years after the attacks. “White
America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away,
faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on
its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
The Relationship Unravels
Senator Obama now is attempting to minimize his long and close relationship with the
controversial minister.
On Friday, John McCain’s campaign distributed a Wall Street Journal op-ed
“Obama and the Minister” written under my byline based on my reporting for
Newsmax going back to early January of this year.
The op-ed included details of a sermon Wright gave at Howard University blaming America
for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, shamelessly
supporting Israel, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as
president. [See: “Obama’s
Minister’s Hatred of America.”]
Obama’s campaign quickly responded to the Wall Street Journal op-ed, posting a
statement on the Huffington Post. In his statement, Obama acknowledged that some of
Wright’s statements have been “inflammatory and appalling.”
Saying he strongly condemns Wright’s comments, Obama continued, “I
categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide
us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in
our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I
reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.” [emphasis
added]
Again, Obama moved to narrowly distance himself from specific comments Wright had made,
while still praising his minister in recent interviews for leading him to Jesus and
preaching a “social gospel.”
Obama went on to claim that he first learned about Wright’s controversial
statements when he began his presidential campaign. But this assertion conflicts with the
fact that just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally on Feb. 10,
2007, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation.
At the time, Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984
I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in
hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'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.'” Still, Obama and his family prayed privately with Wright just before the
presidential announcement.
Apparently Obama never foresaw Wright’s sermons making national television or
becoming a sensation on YouTube. But lending graphic detail to the saga, ABC News and
other networks began running a 2003 sermon in which Wright said, “The government
gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us
to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in
the Bible, for killing innocent people ... God damn America for treating our citizens as
less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is
supreme.” [Click Here to see
video]
Obama has described Wright as a sounding board and mentor. Wright is one of the first
people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Obama consulted Wright
before deciding to run for president. The title of Obama’s bestseller “The
Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Obama’s “Yes We
Can!” slogan is one of Wright’s exhortations.
Apologists for Wright have said that what he says is normal in black churches, and many
blacks claim such preaching cannot be understood by whites.
“If you’re black, it’s hard to say what you truly think and not upset
white people,” the New York Times quoted James Cone as saying. Cone is a professor at
Union Theological Seminary and the father of what is known as black liberation theology.
But Juan Williams, a Fox News commentator and author of “Enough: The Phony
Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black
America,” tells Newsmax that Wright’s sermons reflect “the victim mindset
that is so self-defeating in the black community and one that is played on by weak black
leadership that chooses to have black people identified as victims rather than inspiring
them as people who have overcome. In posing as victims, they say the most prejudiced and
vicious things, not only about whites but about America. They call it theology. In fact,
it’s nothing but bigotry.”
In failing to condemn Wright himself and claiming that he was unaware of the
preacher’s hate-filled speech, Obama is continuing a longstanding pattern.
Obama often refers to Wright as being "like an old uncle, who sometimes says
things I don't agree with." Wright is not Obama’s “uncle” — a
person born into a blood relationship — but a man he has cultivated for decades as a
close friend, mentor and adviser.
After Newsmax broke the story on Jan. 14 that Wright’s church gave an award to
Louis Farrakhan in December for lifetime achievement, Obama again sought to denounce his
minister’s action without criticizing Wright himself.
Like Wright, Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews
(calling Judaism a “gutter religion”), whites, and America. He has called whites
“blue-eyed devils” and the “anti-Christ.” He has described Jews as
“bloodsuckers” who control the government, the media, and some black
organizations.
After the Newsmax story, Obama issued a statement purportedly addressing the issue.
"I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the
anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan," Obama said.
Again, Obama was careful not to condemn Farrakhan himself or Wright who had spoken
adoringly of Farrakhan and put their church behind the award to the controversial Nation
of Islam leader.
“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, black America listens,” Trumpet quoted
Wright as saying. “His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of
this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and
honest.”
Obama adroitly said, “I assume that Trumpet magazine made its own decision to
honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a
decision with which I agree.”
In fact, Trumpet is published by Wright’s church using the church’s offices.
Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
Having gotten away with sidestepping Wright’s adoring comments about Farrakhan,
Obama told Jewish leaders flatly in Cleveland on Jan. 24 that the award was because of
Farrakhan’s work with ex-offenders. To date, no news outlet has pointed out that
Obama’s claim is false.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in
his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy
of apartheid. As with his claim that the award to Farrakhan was made because of his work
with ex-offenders, Obama made that up. Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not
been qualified in any way.
On Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes on Friday, Obama said he would have quit the
church if he had “repeatedly” been present when Wright made inflammatory
statements. He was not asked why he did not quit the church when it gave an award to
Farrakhan.
Having considered Wright a friend and mentor for two decades, Obama now often mentions
that his pastor recently retired. Wright suggested to the New York Times last year that he
and Obama might have to do something of a distancing act in the run up to the election.
"If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from
me," Wright was quoted by The New York Times. "I said it to Barack personally,
and he said, ‘Yeah, that might have to happen.'" |
breaking news
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend,
and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers,
importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as
president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in
Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington
on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news
outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of
the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1: We’ve
got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism
is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever
be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman
can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1
killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a
Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not
dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the
exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against
Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported
apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism
shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it
as being anti-Semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation
experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing
about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black
and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities
back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those
nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live
in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of
control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than
in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care
what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly,
forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of
living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10:
We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church
and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and
— and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like
“an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He rarely
mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his
anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy of
apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan
because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has
said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast
majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably
sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two
decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and
consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before
announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult to imagine that Obama could be so
close to Wright without agreeing with at least some of his views.
In light of Wright’s perspective, Michelle Obama’s comment that she feels proud
of America for the first time makes perfect sense. (In a second iteration, she said she
feels “really proud” for the first time.) Wright’s blame-America mentality
also fits in neatly with many on the left who support Obama’s weak approach to
national security and dealing with foreign dictators.
To date, the Obama-loving media have largely ignored the senator’s close association
with Wright. The question is whether the blackout will be lifted before voters decide
whether they want to entrust Obama with America’s future.
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Obama Attended Hate America Sermon
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Obama claims he was completely unaware that the Reverend Wright’s trademark preaching
style at the Trinity United Church of Christ targeted “white” America. |
Clarification: The Obama campaign has told members of the press that Senator
Obama was not in church on the day cited, July 22, because he had a speech he gave in
Miami at 1:30 PM. Our writer, Jim Davis, says he attended several services at Senator
Obama's church during the month of July, including July 22. The church holds services
three times every Sunday at 7:30 and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Central time (with weekly
praise/prayers starting 15 minutes previous to those times). While both the early morning
and evening service allowed Sen. Obama to attend the service and still give a speech in
Miami, Mr. Davis stands by his story that during one of the services he attended during
the month of July, Senator Obama was present and sat through the sermon given by Rev.
Wright as described in the story. Mr. Davis said Secret Service were also present in the
church during Senator Obama's attendance. Mr. Davis' story was first published on Newsmax
on August 9, 2007. Shortly before publication, Mr. Davis contacted the press office of
Sen. Obama several times for comment about the Senator's attendance and Rev. Wright's
comments during his sermon. The Senator's office declined to comment.
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Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah
A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the
minister blamed the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for
the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks.
Senator Obama has sought to separate himself from his pastor’s incendiary remarks,
issuing a statement Friday rejecting them as “inflammatory and appalling” but
failing to renounce Wright himself for his venomous and paranoid denunciations of America.
In his press release, Obama claimed, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that
are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while
I sat in the pews of Trinity [United Church of Christ] or heard him utter in private
conversation.”
Appearing on cable news shows this past weekend, Obama claimed when he saw recent
videos that have Wright making such comments as “God damn America,” he was
“shocked.” Obama implied that the reverend had not used such derogatory language
in any of the church services Obama attended over the past two decades.
If Obama’s claims are true that he was completely unaware that Wright’s
trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ has targeted
“white” America and Israel, he would have been one of the few people in Chicago
to be so uninformed. Wright’s reputation for spewing hate is well known.
In fact, Obama was present in the South Side Chicago church on July 22 last year when
Jim Davis, a freelance correspondent for Newsmax, attended services along with Obama.
[See: ”Obama’s
Church: Cauldron of Division.”]
In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the “United States
of White America” and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing
Wright’s attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis
said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement.
Addressing the Iraq war, Wright thundered, “Young African-American men” were
“dying for nothing.” The “illegal war,” he shouted, was “based on
Bush’s lies” and is being “fought for oil money.”
Obama’s most famous celebrity backer, Oprah Winfrey began attending Wright’s
church in 1984. Last year, Newsmax magazine
reported that Winfrey abruptly stopped attending years ago, and suggested that she did
so to distance herself from Wright’s inflammatory rhetoric. She soon found herself a
target of Wright, who excoriated her for having broken with “traditional faith.”
The Reverend Wright’s anti-white theology that Senator Obama expressed surprise
over is evident on the church’s website. The site says the congregation subscribes to
what it calls the Black Value System, which is described as a disavowal of “our
racist competitive society” and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” That is
defined as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than
“killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,”
just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to
fill the jails and prisons.”
“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright
wrote in the church-affiliated magazine Trumpet four years after the attacks. “White
America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away,
faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on
its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”
The Relationship Unravels
Senator Obama now is attempting to minimize his long and close relationship with the
controversial minister.
On Friday, John McCain’s campaign distributed a Wall Street Journal op-ed
“Obama and the Minister” written under my byline based on my reporting for
Newsmax going back to early January of this year.
The op-ed included details of a sermon Wright gave at Howard University blaming America
for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, shamelessly
supporting Israel, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as
president. [See: “Obama’s
Minister’s Hatred of America.”]
Obama’s campaign quickly responded to the Wall Street Journal op-ed, posting a
statement on the Huffington Post. In his statement, Obama acknowledged that some of
Wright’s statements have been “inflammatory and appalling.”
Saying he strongly condemns Wright’s comments, Obama continued, “I
categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide
us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in
our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I
reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.” [emphasis
added]
Again, Obama moved to narrowly distance himself from specific comments Wright had made,
while still praising his minister in recent interviews for leading him to Jesus and
preaching a “social gospel.”
Obama went on to claim that he first learned about Wright’s controversial
statements when he began his presidential campaign. But this assertion conflicts with the
fact that just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally on Feb. 10,
2007, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation.
At the time, Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984
I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in
hell.”
According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'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.'” Still, Obama and his family prayed privately with Wright just before the
presidential announcement.
Apparently Obama never foresaw Wright’s sermons making national television or
becoming a sensation on YouTube. But lending graphic detail to the saga, ABC News and
other networks began running a 2003 sermon in which Wright said, “The government
gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us
to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in
the Bible, for killing innocent people ... God damn America for treating our citizens as
less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is
supreme.” [Click Here to see
video]
Obama has described Wright as a sounding board and mentor. Wright is one of the first
people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Obama consulted Wright
before deciding to run for president. The title of Obama’s bestseller “The
Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Obama’s “Yes We
Can!” slogan is one of Wright’s exhortations.
Apologists for Wright have said that what he says is normal in black churches, and many
blacks claim such preaching cannot be understood by whites.
“If you’re black, it’s hard to say what you truly think and not upset
white people,” the New York Times quoted James Cone as saying. Cone is a professor at
Union Theological Seminary and the father of what is known as black liberation theology.
But Juan Williams, a Fox News commentator and author of “Enough: The Phony
Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black
America,” tells Newsmax that Wright’s sermons reflect “the victim mindset
that is so self-defeating in the black community and one that is played on by weak black
leadership that chooses to have black people identified as victims rather than inspiring
them as people who have overcome. In posing as victims, they say the most prejudiced and
vicious things, not only about whites but about America. They call it theology. In fact,
it’s nothing but bigotry.”
In failing to condemn Wright himself and claiming that he was unaware of the
preacher’s hate-filled speech, Obama is continuing a longstanding pattern.
Obama often refers to Wright as being "like an old uncle, who sometimes says
things I don't agree with." Wright is not Obama’s “uncle” — a
person born into a blood relationship — but a man he has cultivated for decades as a
close friend, mentor and adviser.
After Newsmax broke the story on Jan. 14 that Wright’s church gave an award to
Louis Farrakhan in December for lifetime achievement, Obama again sought to denounce his
minister’s action without criticizing Wright himself.
Like Wright, Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews
(calling Judaism a “gutter religion”), whites, and America. He has called whites
“blue-eyed devils” and the “anti-Christ.” He has described Jews as
“bloodsuckers” who control the government, the media, and some black
organizations.
After the Newsmax story, Obama issued a statement purportedly addressing the issue.
"I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the
anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan," Obama said.
Again, Obama was careful not to condemn Farrakhan himself or Wright who had spoken
adoringly of Farrakhan and put their church behind the award to the controversial Nation
of Islam leader.
“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, black America listens,” Trumpet quoted
Wright as saying. “His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of
this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and
honest.”
Obama adroitly said, “I assume that Trumpet magazine made its own decision to
honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a
decision with which I agree.”
In fact, Trumpet is published by Wright’s church using the church’s offices.
Wright’s daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
Having gotten away with sidestepping Wright’s adoring comments about Farrakhan,
Obama told Jewish leaders flatly in Cleveland on Jan. 24 that the award was because of
Farrakhan’s work with ex-offenders. To date, no news outlet has pointed out that
Obama’s claim is false.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in
his anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy
of apartheid. As with his claim that the award to Farrakhan was made because of his work
with ex-offenders, Obama made that up. Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not
been qualified in any way.
On Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes on Friday, Obama said he would have quit the
church if he had “repeatedly” been present when Wright made inflammatory
statements. He was not asked why he did not quit the church when it gave an award to
Farrakhan.
Having considered Wright a friend and mentor for two decades, Obama now often mentions
that his pastor recently retired. Wright suggested to the New York Times last year that he
and Obama might have to do something of a distancing act in the run up to the election.
"If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from
me," Wright was quoted by The New York Times. "I said it to Barack personally,
and he said, ‘Yeah, that might have to happen.'" |
breaking news
Obama Minister's Hatred of America
In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend,
and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers,
importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as
president.
The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in
Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington
on Jan. 15, 2006. While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news
outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright’s diatribe. An audio recording of
the sermon appears on YouTube.
Raising his voice in rage, Wright began his sermon by saying, “Fact No. 1: We’ve
got more black men in prison than there are in college. Racism is alive and well. Racism
is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever
be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman
can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”
Omitting fact No. 2, Wright thundered on: “Fact No. 3: America is still the No. 1
killer in the world. We invaded Grenada for no other reason than to get Maurice Bishop [a
Grenada revolutionary who seized power in 1979], invaded Panama because Noriega would not
dance to our tune any more. We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the
exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers. We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and
Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against
Castro and Qaddafi.”
Wright continued: “Fact No. 4: We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported
apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black
inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. Fact No. 5: We supported Zionism
shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it
as being anti-Semitic.”
His voice rising, Wright was on a roll: “Fact No. 6: We conducted radiation
experiments on our own people. They’re just finding out about that. We care nothing
about human life if the ends justifies the means. Fact No. 7: We do not care if poor black
and brown children cannot read and kill each other senselessly. We abandoned the cities
back in the '60s when the riots started and it really doesn’t matter what those
nations do to each other; we gave up on them and public education of poor people who live
in the projects . . .”
Wright went on: “Fact No. 8: We started the AIDS virus, and now that it is out of
control, we still put more money in the military than in medicine; more money in hate than
in humanitarian concerns. Everybody does not have access to healthcare, I don’t care
what the rich white boys in the Senate say. Listen up: If you are poor, black and elderly,
forget it.”
Concluding, Wright said: “Fact No. 9: We are only able to maintain our level of
living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. And fact No. 10:
We are selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant and betray our church
and do not try to make the kingdom that Jesus talked about a reality. And — and
— and in light of these 10 facts, God has got to be sick of this s***.”
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Obama described Wright as being like
“an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with.” He rarely
mentions the items of disagreement.
Obama went on to explain away Wright’s anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his
anger over the Jewish state’s support for South Africa under its previous policy of
apartheid. As with a previous claim that his church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan
because of his work with ex-offenders, Obama made that up out of thin air.
Wright’s statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way.
As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has
said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”
Hearing Wright’s venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast
majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably
sat through hundreds of similar sermons.
Indeed, Obama has described Wright as his “sounding board” during the two
decades he has known him. Obama has said he found religion through Wright in the 1980s and
consulted him before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Wright before
announcing his candidacy last year.
Aside from showing poor judgment, it’s difficult
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