Wright and Wrong

From Robbie Cooper at UrbanGrounds:

Barack Obama Shucks and Jives His Way Through Racism Speech

... If Barack Obama wanted to preach the story of unity and racial harmony,

perhaps he should have started with his own Reverend (Wright) and his own wife...

From Barack’s own mouth today: “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes.”

Contrast that with his words from just a few days ago when he lied to the American public, “I have never heard Rev. Wright preach hatred of America.”

So what else is wrong?

How about this Hypocrisy ...

Obama 1st WH Contender to Call for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur

"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus, but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude." Barack Hussein Obama to ABC News

It is my humble opinion that someone saying 'nappy headed ho' isn't quite in the same league as someone who spews the hate-filled, racially divisive invective as Reverend Wright has done:

“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.” (2003)
“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.”
“The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

So Mr Imus apologized and got fired anyway. No apology from Rev Wright.

Oh, and someone should clue the Senator regarding the Cuban flag featuring Che Guevara flag hanging in his Houston campaign office...A lot of patriotic Americans may find that disturbingly wrong. I certainly do.

And this ...POTUS is the Wrong job for a man who cannot be bothered to put his hand over his heart for America.

The Audacity of Hate

Senator Barack Hussein Obama has tried to distance himself from his "Mentor", but only since the furor that erupted last week.


The Autonomist   tells it:

Now that his racist, America-hating pastor Jeremiah Wright is finally in the spotlight, Barack Obama is making the media rounds denouncing Wright's controversial statements. However, there's strong evidence that Obama isn't being exactly truthful in his denunciations.

Presidential candidate Barack Hussein 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.

. . . Wright's strong sentiments were echoed in the Sunday morning service attended by NewsMax

Wright laced into America's establishment, blaming the "white arrogance" of America's Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the "United States of White America."

Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made. [Emphasis added]

The sermon also addressed the Iraq war, a frequent area of Wright's fulminations. "Young African-American men," Wright thundered, were "dying for nothing." The "illegal war," he shouted, was "based on Bush's lies" and is being "fought for oil money."

In a sermon filled with profanity, Wright also blamed the war on "Bush administration bulls--t."

Those are the types of statements that have led to MSNBC's Tucker Carlson describing Wright as "a full-blown hater."

Barack Hussein Obama has attended Wright's sermons for over twenty years.

By his own admission, Obama consults with Wright before making any "bold political decisions."

Obama calls Wright his "spiritual advisor."

He calls Wright one of his prime mentors.

Obama got the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope," from a Wright sermon of the same name.

He says that Wright was extremely important in shaping his life and his views.

Obama and his wife were married by Rev. Wright.

Reverend Wright baptized Obama's daughters.

Barack Hussein Obama donated over $20,000 to Wright's church in 2006.

He continues attending services in Wright's church. In light of these realities, if you believe that Barack Obama doesn't largely agree with Reverend Wright's world view, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.

From Wright's sermons at the pulpit:

"We've got a paranoid group of patriots in power."

"Fighting for peace is like raping for virginity."

"We are doing the same thing that Al-Qaeda did with a different flag."

"Black men turning on black men- That is fighting the wrong enemy."

"If they can't find the weapons of mass destruction then they are going to do just like the LAPD and plant them some weapons of mass destruction."

"The stuff we have done overseas has now been brought back home to our own front yard."

"The government lied about the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color."

An Afterthought:

The incredibly vituperative, hate-mongering, race-dividing rhetoric aside, isn't there something in the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state?

These religious types who preach politics from the pulpit cross that line and the churches who permit it should no longer be allowed a tax-exempt status.