ABC News has dug up more video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Most Controversial Sermons, including one from 2003 in which Wright says this about the plight of blacks in the United States:
“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.”
ABC elicted this somewhat curious response from the Obama spokesman Bill Burton:
[T]here are things he says with which Sen. Obama deeply disagrees. But now that he is retired, that doesn’t detract from Sen. Obama’s affection for Rev. Wright or his appreciation for the good works he has done.
That doesn’t attract from Obama’s affection for the man described as his spirititual advisor now that Wright’s retired? Come again? Sure, the Obama camp has to remind the news media that Wright recently stepped down after a long career, hoping it will mitigate the fallout from his remarks. But Burton makes it sound like Obama’s affection for Wright is predicated on his retirement, and that if he was still delivering such incendiary sermons, Obama might have to disown him, or at least distance himself from Wright.
This strikes God-o-Meter as a canard. Obama was a public figure, either in the Illinois legislature or the U.S. Senate, for years as Wright delivered his controversial sermons. He had years to lose his affection for Wright but never did. For Obama to imply that he would do so now if Wright was still in the pulpit is disingenuous.
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posted March 14, 2008 at 8:20 am
It is about time someone (Media) shows America what Obama is like. You can dig in Hillary’s closet & expose everything about her for years, & even attack her daughter. The Media is protecting Obama & I can’t understand that. Are you afraid to go after his history because he is black? Rev Jeremiah Wrights preaching is Anti White & Anti America. This is the person that Obama followed for the past 20 years. Also, his wife belongs to this same church. His children listen to this same crap. This is not American & we do not need a President that is connected to Rev Jeremiah Wright & his Man of the Year.
Go Hillary
posted March 14, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Divisive nonsense.
Who do I want answering the Red Phone at 3AM? Someone who won’t use it as a political ploy to discredit her betters.
posted March 15, 2008 at 10:07 am
This is crazy. Wake up America – Obama has been taught by this so called religious man! Using God’s name in vain… Please America we have to stop this Obama machine before ws all have regrets!
posted March 15, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I’m so sick of all the pussy footing around Obama. We should not be so afraid of being politically incorrect or of being called racist, we should be afraid of what will happen if he becomes President.
posted March 16, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Sounds like all the crazies who bought into the Bush machines scare tactics over the past 8 years are swallowing these unsubstantiated accusations against Obama hook, line & sinker! Use the brain God gave you and quit jumping to unverifiable conclusions. What a horribly un-Christian way to behave!
My family still adheres to the Catholic faith and they often times disagree with some of the idiotic remarks their priest makes. Would it be appropriate for anyone to judge them according to singled out statements made by their priest? This whole discussion is foolish! There may be plenty of reasons not to support Obama, but referencing his relationship with Rev. Wright is a pretty idiotic excuse.
posted March 18, 2008 at 4:37 pm
While I don’t agree with rev. Wright’s delivery, the essence of what he says is still a fact. I have been fighting the disparagement of the minorities for years. I followed Martin Luther King in my youth. WE ARE NOT A NATION OF EQUALITY OF MAN. Now that we have a chance to elect a bi-racial man as the leader of the land, maybe we can stop referring to each other as White or Black or Hispanic. I am a citizen of the US of A and I want to be proud of it. I am old, white, and mainstream Christian, I what Obama because I believe in what he can dream, I have dreamed of it as well.