"The Senator And The Disastrous Jerry Wright"
It seems almost as though the CLINTONS created the Rev. Wright to
deep-
six the campaign and the nomination of Barack Obama! Certainly,
it's
something the CLINTONS would do if they thought they could get away
with it.
But no matter.
Embelli****ng and expanding his already HATE-FILLED Farrakhan-As-Saint
and Whitey-Gave-Us-AIDS stances, Jeremiah has tarred Obama with the
paintbrush of doubt that millions of whites might not have harbored
about the ability of blacks to be president.
But those doubts are rapidly dissolving into outright prejudice and
abandonment, because many undecided caucasians now view Wright's
fiery
talk as what they'll continue to hear and have to tolerate with Obama
in the White House.
Obama should never have let this controversy get so out-of-control.
He should have given Wright an unnegotiable vote of divorce months
ago. Too late now.
Now Wright will be able to brag to his duped wor****ppers and
pari****oners that, "I singlehandedly directed and dictated the course
of U.S. history!"
The unmitigated gulf of distrust between blacks and whites in this
nation will be widened.
And because most voters can't differentiate between demagoguery and
leader****p, they'll abandon Barack for Hillary "Bush-With-A-****"
Clinton!
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"The Audacity of Rev. Wright"
"A tale of a candidate, a pastor and some repugnant remarks"
Editorial
Tuesday, April 29, 2008; A16
THE REV. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose incendiary and controversial
sound bites have knocked the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack
Obama (D-Ill.) off balance, strutted to the microphone of the
National
Press Club and made an audacious claim: "This is not an attack on
Jeremiah Wright. It is an attack on the black church." No. The harsh
spotlight under which the Chicago pastor finds himself is exactly
where it belongs.
As pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 36 years
(he recently retired), the Rev. Wright has a record of good works.
From services for the homeless and the elderly to the poor and those
in prison, his church has practiced the most giving and generous
teachings of Christianity. But with the good came charged rhetoric
that has come back to haunt him and Mr. Obama. Most famously, in a
2003 sermon, the Rev. Wright said, "The government gives them the
drugs, builds bigger prisons, p***** a three-strike law and then
wants
us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God bless America.
God
damn America, that's in the Bible, for killing innocent people."
Yesterday, the Rev. Wright was unrepentant. He refused to disavow his
oft-repeated belief in the sinister myth that the AIDS epidemic is a
genocidal government plot to exterminate African Americans. He stood
by his blame-America-for-Sept. 11 stance, saying, "You cannot do
terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back to you."
None of this is helpful to Mr. Obama, who could face more calls not
only to denounce such inflammatory comments but also to renounce his
longtime pastor. We will not join in that chorus. In his address on
race in Philadelphia last month after video of the Rev. Wright's
fiery
sermons burst onto the national scene, Mr. Obama condemned, "in
unequivocal terms, the statements of Rev. Wright that have caused
such
controversy." The candidate credibly explained how he could
understand
his minister's anger without sharing or approving of it. Having had a
closer look at the Rev. Wright, voters will have to decide for
themselves how much weight to give Mr. Obama's long association with
the pastor. But it is the Rev. Wright, not Mr. Obama, who yesterday
chose to further discredit himself.
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802174.html
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802102.html
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