Friday, March 14, 2008
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Obama Issues the "Wright" Denial
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
10:27 PM
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Here's Barack's statement trying to distance himself from the inflammatory remarks of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. It's somewhat odd that he'd choose late afternoon on a Friday for such a statement -- at least if he wants it to be widely disseminated . . .
Barack insists that Wright has never been "my political advisor; he's been my pastor." Fair enough. But is it possible to embrace someone as your pastor if they're loudly and aggressively voicing political sentiments that are truly repugnant to you -- even if the objectionable remarks haven't been made in your presence? (As an orthodox Episcopalian, trust me -- this problem can make an "embraceable" priest hard to find in a Church that's quickly drifting hard-leftward).
Somehow, I suspect that Barack Obama would have more trouble making the "political advisor/pastor distinction" with a clergyman who made ugly, anti-minority remarks (rightly so), or, say, one who loudly and repeatedly condemned abortion as the murder of innocents. If he'd shun them, and yet has to some degree tolerated Wright, doesn't that raise a troubling question about just how strongly he actually objects to the pastor's comments?
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You just make it to easy, comparing Parsley to Wright.
Parsley is vehemently anti- abortion, homosexuality. Wright hates "honkies" (his words not mine), his mentors were communists, he hates America hate hate hate hate hate.
Parsley hasn't represented to hate anyone, where is the comparison? |
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Obama is either lying or he is lying!
Either he is lying about be a church going man so he can get votes or he is lying about not hearing 20 years of his,"Mentor and Spiritual Advisor" spewing racially based hate.
If he just missed the 20 years of hate spewing forth from his, "Spititual Advisor" then he is to naive to be president.
Obviously his wife didn't miss it, since this is the first time in her life that she is proud to be an American.
How did he mentor him by the way? This reverend is all about hate and black separatist views.
I guess he missed the part about Screwy Louis getting his,"Lifetime Achievement Award" from the good reverend also.
What a crock. This guy and his family have been drinking the reverends koolaid for 20 years. |
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I find Obama's denials unbelievable. Wright's rants constitute more than just a few minutes of bad words dissected from among thousands of hours of peace loving sermons of racial harmony.
Wright parades around as a Christian. He clothed himself in religious garb to conceal his hateful invective from national scrutiny. A white clergyman who spewed invective like that would not be a Christian, either. Now, we know Wright's stripe - Wrong.
Obama needs to explain his ***positions*** on black liberation theory, black separatism, and slavery reparations, themes that Wright has espoused for decades.
Merely denouncing Wright's statements, without even identifying which statements are being denounced, is disingenuous, to say the least.
Obama also ought to explain his position on themes that Farrakhan has espoused for years, too - black separatism, and slavery reparations.
Farrakhan parades around as a Muslim leader, the "soul" of Nation of Islam. Perhaps that's why people mistakenly believe Obama is a Muslim. Farrakhan and Wright are birds of a feather.
Obama was cozy with both until it was too politically costly to remain so. So, his so-called denunciations are meaningless until Obama speaks out clearly on *his positions.*
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But more important: WHEN IS MCCAIN GOING TO DENOUNCE CATHOLIC-HATING HAGEE??
And Parsley, for that matter?
This is all just so typical GOP subterfuge, isn't it, when all is said and done? You can't win an honest election, so you pull in the Rovian stink bombs and win by distraction. Sadly, so many Americans are just that stupid as to think it's all about religious zealotry.
BTW, how DOES a wingnut claim Obama is a secret muslim, while he attended the church of the empassioned Christian pastor? |
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Christian
is a Christian. It is up to God to judge these hatemongers, but we do need to evaluate the implications of 20 years of indoctrination, and how these indoctination would affect the desition of our President if he was ti win the Campaign.
Again, as stated by so many, a politician associated with a white supremacist group, or befrinded an Al'Qaeda member, would have his campaign cut short. Our society upholds a double standard.
The media needs to do their job one way or another. Start making the right questions. Somehow I don't see them doing that. |
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How can you equate a Harvard professor's class to a 20 year relationship with a "mentor" and "spiritual advisor"?
There is a truth to "you are defined by the company you keep". If I associated with the Klan for 20 years wouldn't you think that says something about who I am? |
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This kinda of attack is nothing more than "guilt by association" and tabloid trash.
Which makes Town Hall and your Carol no better than the National Enquirer.
And if a Harvard professor he attended a class with preached something controversial, you going to pin that on him too?
America doesn't care. The only thing this kind of story does is remind those who don't vote why they don't vote. Those who "play politics" are dispicable.
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It's unfortunate that Pastor Wright had his own opinion and because a person goes to his Church, they are guilty as well. Pastor Wright came across in a harsh tone to me as well, but has anyone checked to see if any of his words were accurate.
I don't think there is a Church or anywhere else where someone won't say something offensive. My Pastor did it all the time, but I personally focused on those positive things he said and discarded those things that didn't make sense to me based on my relationship with God. Since there is no perfect person and no perfect Church, it doesn't matter where Obama would go even if he left this Church. There are going to be problems and things are going to be said regardless. I would hate that every time someone I was close to someone and they said something wrong, then I'm automatically guilty as well. It appears to me that Obama took those positive things he did hear and based his life of those things. I've never heard him say any of those remarks that Pastor Wright has said. The media has gone from putting Obama on a pedistal and seem to enjoy working on pulling him off. It's a shame. These events would make anyone not want to seek the Presidency or any other office. |
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church and subject his children to these kinds of venomous hate-filled rants is certainly not fit to be a parent, much less the POTUS.
I heard two ladies trying to defend Wright on O'Reilly last night saying that its Wright's right to say what he wants to say. I wondered if these two ladies would defend a KKK grand wizard's right to say what he wants to say? Would they defend Hilter's right to preach hate? The hypocrisy is palpable.
While it may well be Mr. Wright's right to say whatever he wants to say (I'm a strong believer in the 1st amendment) it does not mean that the voters are obliged to ignore these statements and ignore the fact that Mr. Obama's head has been filled with these ideas for the last 20 years.
It's funny how people on the left are always lecturing the rest of us about tolerance and compassion and yet you always seem to find the most intolerant and hateful people on the left. |
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Mr. Obama...I question your judgment for the last 20 years....why you
would continue to sit in a church for 20 years and listen to this
hate-filled man. Can you honestly tell me that there was not one
time in 20 years did you feel the urge to stand up and tell this man
to shut up? You say all this pastor ever did was talk to you about
Christ. I think you are being disingenuous and I will not sit here
and have you play me like a fool.
I now question why I ever thought you would make a good president.
My friends tried to convince me that I was wrong about you and I
resisted up until now. But my eyes are opened and I for one have
decided to change my vote.
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I cannot imagine for a minute how Obama and his wife could sit
through a sermon like this and not get up in disgust and walk out.
Nor can I imagine for a minute that any of these clips of sermons
delivered by Jeremiah Wright were isolated.
A man of character would have stood up and denounced this man
Jeremiah Wright for being a bigot, a racist and wholly unAmerican.
Because Obama continued to support Wright's church with his tithes
and offerings for 20 years tells me a lot about his character and the
character of his wife.
I am sickened to hear speech like this, and coming from a pastor who
is purported to be a man of God.
Jeremiah Wright: If this country you live in is so bad, then why
don't you simply leave? You could encourage your congregation to
leave as well. Go and find another country that will welcome your
message of hate with open arms.
Mr. Obama: Since you obviously have bought into this type of hate
speech for 20 years, you show me your character. Based on these
messages from the pulpit, I can only imagine what kind of changes you
have planned for America should you ever be elected President. Either
you agree with your pastor's messages or you don't. If you don't
agree with him then why did you stay in his church for 20 years? And,
if you do agree with his messages delivered over the past 20 years
then you are a double-minded man. I personally want no part of you or
your proposed changes for America. Maybe you should take your family
and leave the USA, too, since it is so bad here. But I suspect you
will not leave, Mr. Obama, because you have done very well here for
yourself, haven't you?
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Now i know I can trust Obama's judgement because he picked Wright for a spiritual advisor/mentor. Whaaat? Any man who associates with this lunatic is not worthy of the powers bestowed upon POTUS. Obama can't be viewed as a respectable candidate or to put it in oprah's words "bring backs statemanship in the whitehouse" if he is being mentored and advised by this lunatic. |
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Rev. Otis "Moses was a thug" Moss III is still on Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee. He is Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr's hand-picked successor.
From the Chicago Tribune: "Moss is fantastic," (Trinity member Ruth Leake) said. "Rev. Wright is turning it over to someone that is in the same mold that he was when he came. So I think it's going to be beautiful."
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society's. Who does this guy like besides himself. Who does he lift up with his attacks. I am definately not going to try to defend him in any way but it seems this man has issues in more areas than the church he pastors. |
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And Mr. Wright is an equal opportunity critic, often delivering scorching lectures about black society, telling audiences to improve their education and work ethic.
“I can remember Jeremiah saying in probably half his sermons: Everyone who’s your color ain’t your kind,” Richard Sewell, a church member, said in an interview last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/us/politics/15wright.html ?hp
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