SubscribeObama Knew What Pastor Wright Was Saying
A flashback from the March 5, 2007 (last year) edition of the New York Times:
Disinvitation by Obama Is Criticized
CHICAGO, March 5 — The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama’s presidential announcement.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.
But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama’s decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign’s apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright’s teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said the campaign disinvited Mr. Wright because it did not want the church to face negative attention. Mr. Wright did however, attend the announcement and prayed with Mr. Obama beforehand.
“Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church, but because of the type of attention it was receiving on blogs and conservative talk shows, he decided to avoid having statements and beliefs being used out of context and forcing the entire church to defend itself,” Mr. Burton said.
Instead, Mr. Obama asked Mr. Wright’s successor as pastor at Trinity, the Rev. Otis Moss III, to speak. Mr. Moss declined.
In recent weeks, word of Mr. Obama’s treatment of Mr. Wright has reached black leaders like the Rev. Al Sharpton and given them pause.
“I have not discussed this with Senator Obama in detail, but I can see why callers of mine and other clergymen would be concerned, because the issue is standing by your own pastor,” Mr. Sharpton said…
In Monday’s interview, Mr. Wright expressed disappointment but no surprise that Mr. Obama might try to play down their connection.
“When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.” Mr. Wright added that his trip implied no endorsement of either Louis Farrakhan’s views or Qaddafi’s.
Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
According to the pastor, Mr. 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.”
So much for Mr. Obama not knowing anything about Mr. Wright’s outrageous remarks.
By the way, as we noted at the time the aforementioned Rolling Stone article was a complete steal lift from our January 25, 2007 article about this worthy:
The Radical Roots of Barack Obama
BEN WALLACE-WELLS
Feb 07, 2007
… The Trinity United Church of Christ, the church that Barack Obama attends in Chicago, is at once vast and unprepossessing, a big structure a couple of blocks from the projects, in the long open sore of a ghetto on the city’s far South Side. The church is a leftover vision from the Sixties of what a black nationalist future might look like. There’s the testifying fervor of the black church, the Afrocentric Bible readings, even the odd dashiki. And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he intones. “Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!” There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!” The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: “And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!”
This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr. Wright is not an incidental figure in Obama’s life, or his politics. The senator “affirmed” his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a “sounding board” to “make sure I’m not losing myself in the hype and hoopla.” Both the title of Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright’s sermons. “If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from,” says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, “just look at Jeremiah Wright.” …
So, once again, S&L has helped shaped history.
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March 14th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
“One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.
So it is really a cult as we all thought.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
……..”I did not hear racist, anti-semitic comments from that man, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr……..,” (wags bony finger menacingly) Does this sound vaguely familiar?
“Gawd” isn’t nearly as “sick of this shit” as I am. When is the DNC going to cashier these clowns and put in the second-string? Or is this the best they have?
March 14th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Obama can try to distance himself from this, but he can’t. The bottom line is that 90% of Americans, when hearing their pastor preaching such hate, would get up, walk out and never return.
My own priest was involved in a drunk driving accident that hurt a number of people. Immediately, the members of my parish demanded his removal. And his prosecution. His actions, like Wright’s vitriol, was unacceptable. And within a week, he was gone.
If Obama did not agree with Wright, why did he take Wright’s recorded sermons to Harvard with him? If he did not agree with Wright, why did he perhaps endure one sermon full of hatred for the white race of America, to walk out and never return? What was it about Wright’s sermons that held such appeal for Obama? And an even more distrubing question is why did Obama subject his children to such hatred? And why, WHY, would you donate $22,500.00 to Wright’s chuch in 2006?
Now I am hearing the talking heads say “well, you just don’t understand the black church.” What is there to understand about hatred? If my priest gave an award to David Duke, I would be in the bishop’s office the next day.
March 14th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Silda:Eliot::Barack:Jeremiah
Get the picture?
March 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Where has Michelle Obama been the last few days? Seems that she was just spreading the good preachers message. Hussien may have finally got the message.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Peruse, Does that mean “laugh at the racist bigot idiot”?
March 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
As he’ll do in Iraq, Barack cuts and runs.
From CNN:
Hmmm, those sermons were delivered how long ago?
Someone at ABC News is going to have to go down because of this.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I really am amazed that this site has been on this stuff for more than a year and it is only now hitting the mainstream. Even Mark Levin remarked today on how much of this stuff S&L has unearthed. Kudos, SG.
The thing that really gets me as I listen to the various “Reverend” Wright apologists ranting on and on about how his remarks have been “cherry picked” and “taken out of context” is - in what possible context would these kind of remarks NOT be racist and treasonable? He preaches hatred and envy - and worse than that for his idiotic “flock” - he preaches “rebel against the system” kind of nonsense. “Don’t enter the business world” kind of stuff. This is their SPIRITUAL LEADER. These people are looking to him for guidance and he’s telling them to hate and mistrust their country and to stay outside of the only path that will lead to their economic betterment. He’s doing them a world of good.
And for Obama to say that he’s never heard this kind of talk from Wright is nothing but a flat out lie.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Obama knew and I can prove it. Watch this 12 second clip and tell me who you see at the end of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMWfQl_Qeg
TIP: Pause the player when Pastor Wright says the word “Dirty”….10 seconds in.
This clip is from a short snippet of a longer video of a “sermon” about Bill and Hillary.
Now we know Barak Obama was and is being”mentored” by a radical racist but he’s also an “Outright Liar”.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Here’s the argument I used to get a concession from an Obama supporter who claimed that Obama hadn’t necessarily been caught in a lie:
For 20 years, Obama listened to his Pastor’s sermons and talked with him in private consultations. Do you really believe that Obama just happened to realize what his Pastor was saying (when Obama wasn’t around, of course) shortly before announcing his bid for President?
March 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Pardon my ignorance, but why is it bad to condemn Apartheid? I’ve seen this get bolded in a lot of articles, and I can’t figure out why condemning Apartheid is a bad thing. Or are the articles spinning what Pastor Wright was actually doing with regard to Apartheid?
March 15th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The clip I posted earlier appears to have been an edit by FoxNews. I appologize for misleading anyone.
Thanks for the head up SG!
March 16th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
^ Noyz, it doesn’t matter. Not if the IRS is investigating Obama’s chosen church for “engaging in political activities.”
March 16th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
“I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies,” Obama wrote
Says the man who also said he would bomb our ally Pakistan.
What a moron.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:00 am
Thanks for being so forgiving Dave2882, but I feel it does matter. I just wouldn’t want my posts to reflect badly on the website. We conservatives pride ourselves on being truthful and honest in our logical thinking and beliefs and I never want anything I say or do to reflect badly on the movement.
Not that the libs won’t call us liars anyway, but that only reflects what they would do in such situations.