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Home Front: Politix
Rev. Wright "The Mouth" strikes again
2008-09-01
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's fiery ex-pastor, re-emerged yesterday with a crude reference about race and sex in the White House. "This ordinary boy [Obama] just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania legally," Wright said, referring to Michelle Obama, in a sermon at the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston.

Wright also accused Obama of posturing in his criticism of Wright's sermons, saying, "If Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.
It was unclear whether Wright was making a reference to prostitution, to old miscegenation laws, or to the history of illicit interracial sex under slavery.
Nor does it particularly matter ...
Wright's remarks yesterday were full of praise for Obama - although several times, he referred to Obama as a "boy" who later developed into an extraordinary person, through God's work and, presumably, Wright's guidance.

"The lord turned the ordinary into the extraordinary. Y'all just saw it this past week. It was on national television," Wright said to applause. "An ordinary black boy raised in a single-parent home . . . walked into my office 20 years ago to talk about his dream for a community that concentrated on things that we could achieve in common."

As Obama's longtime minister, Wright married Barack and Michelle, and the couple worshiped at Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago until Wright's controversial sermons became public knowledge during the campaign. Wright gave an over-the-top press conference that ultimately prompted Obama to leave the church this spring, after Wright blamed the United States for concocting the HIV virus and railed against US imperialism.

Wright also accused Obama of posturing in his criticism of Wright's sermons, saying, "If Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected. Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls."

Obama said afterward that he was "outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw."

In recent weeks, Obama has worshipped at various churches in towns on his campaign schedule, as he did at a Lutheran church in Lima, Ohio, yesterday.

In sermons that caused the initial uproar when they emerged on video, Wright blamed the United States for the 9/11 attacks and boomed, "God damn America."
Wright is the gift that keeps giving.
Posted by:lotp

#11  There are plenty of blacks who see Christianity and Christ as colour blind -- quite a number of whom post here at Rantburg, to our benefit. This Black Liberation Theology crap belongs to a vocal and idiotic minority.

Candidate Obama, however, had bought into the message long before he found his mentor, the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, a theme he expands on in both his autobiographies.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-09-01 23:23  

#10  A phrase I heard , Just hit home.

"The Christianity of white people and black people is entirely different".

Reading this makes me Question, just how different can you be and still be called A "Christian"?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-09-01 17:10  

#9   he referred to Obama as a "boy" who later developed into an extraordinary person, through God's work and, presumably, Wright's guidance.
According to Wright, OHB was a boy when he first arrived because he was only half black.Through the application of BLT under Wright's guidance, he has exorcised his white demons from his soul and has become a born again black man.
This , according to Cone (Wright's mebtor)will give him a new black perspective.
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
Posted by: tipper   2008-09-01 14:38  

#8  Wright isn't the cause, he's the sympton. Obama wouldn't attend the man's church for TWENTY YEARS unless he fully understood and agreed with everything he's saying. The sooner the rest of America can realize this, the better.
Posted by: gromky   2008-09-01 12:49  

#7  "An ordinary black boy raised in a single-parent home . . . walked into my office 20 years ago to talk about his dream for a community that concentrated on things that we could achieve in common."

You know that brings up a serious question,
Did Obama ever realise his "Dream"?
If not, in 20 years what the hell does he think he'll accomplish in 4?

This phrase needs to be trumpeted on the Repub Media, LOUDLY, it proves he's just a failure with empty promises.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-09-01 12:34  

#6  Wright is one of the many millstones dragging Obama down.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-01 12:23  

#5  "I still say Wright looks more Armenian than he does black.

Damned Armenians."

Hey now, I'm Armenian, and that's not very...

...you can't just lump...

Oh hell. If I had a defense, I'd use it :(
Posted by: Hyper   2008-09-01 11:40  

#4  Keep 'em coming, Rev. Lest we forget YOU.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-09-01 10:08  

#3  I still say Wright looks more Armenian than he does black.

Damned Armenians.
Posted by: Fred   2008-09-01 09:13  

#2  Yes, absolutely amazing. And Thee One has done all of this inspite of the.... RACIAL DIVIDE.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-09-01 08:56  

#1  Did he mention that that single parent was white? Or that the Grand parent that actually raised him was also white? No? Didin't think so.
Posted by: AlanC   2008-09-01 08:44  

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