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PROVIDING SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
The Audacity of Obama’s Hate-crazed Preacher
Right now, Hillary Clinton must be wondering how many more
lucky breaks she can get to keep her hanging on in this
presidential race that she’s obviously been losing to Barack
Obama. Once thought a shoo-in for the Democratic
nomination and eventual coronation as commandress-in-chief,
she’s had to suffer the disappointment and indignity of a little-
known senator who, thanks to his race (according to Hillary
supporter Geraldine Ferraro), came out of nowhere to become
the fairy tale frontrunner.
And then, just in the nick of time perhaps, almost like manna
from heaven, along came the revelations of, and about, the
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20
years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on the south side of
Chicago.
By now, everyone who doesn’t live in a cave has heard a
sampling of some of Rev. Wright’s Sunday morning fireworks
and it’s none too pretty. Not that it isn’t anything we haven’t
heard before from many of our depraved enemies around the
world and from our own homegrown far-left malcontents. But
who thought this kind of stuff was being preached in American
churches that call themselves Christian? Imagine someone
shouting the following at the top of his lungs in a house of
worship:
“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.”
Whew! That’s the kind of language and message that would
normally make your average parishioner -- not to mention your
average messianic presidential candidate who has promised to
unify all Americans -- cringe, but at the Trinity United Church
of Christ it frequently has members of the flock dancing in the
aisles, bobbing their heads in agreement and shouting amen to
the rafters.
And it’s not like anybody was ashamed of it or trying to keep
the lid on it. This all came out because, lo and behold, the
mainstream media finally decided to take a look at some of
Rev. Wright’s sermons which are actually available for sale by
the church. I’ve heard of church bake sales, but church hate
sales?
If nothing else, this prized collection of Rev. Wright’s greatest
hits sounds like the perfect gift for that finicky, churchgoing
and America-hating family member who is always so gosh darn
hard to shop for. Here’s another sample of the spiritual riches
to be mined from its contents:
“Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who
lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The
Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means
they were European, which means they were white--and the
Romans ran everything in Jesus’ country. It just came to me . .
. why so many folk are hatin’ on Barack Obama. He doesn’t fit
the model!”
Well, sure, it all makes sense now. Thanks for clearing that up
for us, Reverend.
By the way, did you know that Jesus was black? Gee, that’s
funny. I thought Jesus was a Jew, which means a person of
Hebrew descent, which means a person who falls under the
broad classification of the Caucasoid race, which means not a
sub-Saharan Negroid, which definitely means not black. But
it’s all right there in the good reverend’s sermon, so apparently
we’ve all been misled for a couple of millennia.
Other spiritual morsels imparted by Rev. Wright include
referring to America as the US of KKK A, claiming that the U.S.
created the AIDS virus to kill blacks and saying that the U.S.
has supported state-sponsored terrorism against the
Palestinians and black South Africans. I could go on, but you
get the idea.
So, the implications for the Obama candidacy are rather
obvious. As the old maxim goes, if you lie down with dogs
you’re bound to come up with fleas. The question for Obama,
then, is, how much of the hate speech of his “spiritual
inspiration,” “mentor,” and “moral compass” does he agree
with while incongruously running for office of unifier-in-chief?
In a post on the left-wing website, Huffington Post --
appropriately enough and which, by the way, is absolutely
crawling with people who would agree with every foul thing
Rev. Wright has said about America -- Obama assured everyone
that in all his 20 years of church membership, he has never
been in the pews at any of those particular times when such
“inflammatory and appalling remarks” were made about “our
great country.”
Even if you could believe that an amazing string of
coincidences could occur throughout the course of 20 years
such that Obama’s patriotic ears were never once exposed to
Wright’s hateful preaching, can you also believe he was utterly
clueless as to what his pastor was all about? That strains
credulity beyond all reason. The guy married him, baptized his
children and inspired the title of his book “The Audacity Of
Hope.”
And what about Mrs. Obama? Did she miss all those hate-filled
sermons as well? I have my doubts because they sure would go
a long way towards explaining that lousy attitude of hers that
kept her from being proud of her country right up until the
time her husband became the Democratic frontrunner.
Obama has said that Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says
things I don’t always agree with.” It’s the old “crazy uncle”
excuse, but the problem with that is, while you can’t pick your
relatives, you do pick your pastor. And if I had an uncle who,
in my presence, said the things Rev. Wright has said about
America, one of us would be leaving the premises.
What voters have to ask themselves is, do they want a couple
occupying the White House, either one of whom see everything
through a prism of racial victimhood and contempt for
America’s past imperfections? No doubt, there is a not
insignificant number of voters who have absolutely no problem
with that. We can only hope it isn’t the majority because that
would signal a decline in the American spirit too awful to
contemplate.
Right now, Hillary Clinton must be wondering how many more
lucky breaks she can get to keep her hanging on in this
presidential race that she’s obviously been losing to Barack
Obama. Once thought a shoo-in for the Democratic
nomination and eventual coronation as commandress-in-chief,
she’s had to suffer the disappointment and indignity of a little-
known senator who, thanks to his race (according to Hillary
supporter Geraldine Ferraro), came out of nowhere to become
the fairy tale frontrunner.
And then, just in the nick of time perhaps, almost like manna
from heaven, along came the revelations of, and about, the
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20
years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on the south side of
Chicago.
By now, everyone who doesn’t live in a cave has heard a
sampling of some of Rev. Wright’s Sunday morning fireworks
and it’s none too pretty. Not that it isn’t anything we haven’t
heard before from many of our depraved enemies around the
world and from our own homegrown far-left malcontents. But
who thought this kind of stuff was being preached in American
churches that call themselves Christian? Imagine someone
shouting the following at the top of his lungs in a house of
worship:
“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.”
Whew! That’s the kind of language and message that would
normally make your average parishioner -- not to mention your
average messianic presidential candidate who has promised to
unify all Americans -- cringe, but at the Trinity United Church
of Christ it frequently has members of the flock dancing in the
aisles, bobbing their heads in agreement and shouting amen to
the rafters.
And it’s not like anybody was ashamed of it or trying to keep
the lid on it. This all came out because, lo and behold, the
mainstream media finally decided to take a look at some of
Rev. Wright’s sermons which are actually available for sale by
the church. I’ve heard of church bake sales, but church hate
sales?
If nothing else, this prized collection of Rev. Wright’s greatest
hits sounds like the perfect gift for that finicky, churchgoing
and America-hating family member who is always so gosh darn
hard to shop for. Here’s another sample of the spiritual riches
to be mined from its contents:
“Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country and who
lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The
Romans were rich. The Romans were Italians, which means
they were European, which means they were white--and the
Romans ran everything in Jesus’ country. It just came to me . .
. why so many folk are hatin’ on Barack Obama. He doesn’t fit
the model!”
Well, sure, it all makes sense now. Thanks for clearing that up
for us, Reverend.
By the way, did you know that Jesus was black? Gee, that’s
funny. I thought Jesus was a Jew, which means a person of
Hebrew descent, which means a person who falls under the
broad classification of the Caucasoid race, which means not a
sub-Saharan Negroid, which definitely means not black. But
it’s all right there in the good reverend’s sermon, so apparently
we’ve all been misled for a couple of millennia.
Other spiritual morsels imparted by Rev. Wright include
referring to America as the US of KKK A, claiming that the U.S.
created the AIDS virus to kill blacks and saying that the U.S.
has supported state-sponsored terrorism against the
Palestinians and black South Africans. I could go on, but you
get the idea.
So, the implications for the Obama candidacy are rather
obvious. As the old maxim goes, if you lie down with dogs
you’re bound to come up with fleas. The question for Obama,
then, is, how much of the hate speech of his “spiritual
inspiration,” “mentor,” and “moral compass” does he agree
with while incongruously running for office of unifier-in-chief?
In a post on the left-wing website, Huffington Post --
appropriately enough and which, by the way, is absolutely
crawling with people who would agree with every foul thing
Rev. Wright has said about America -- Obama assured everyone
that in all his 20 years of church membership, he has never
been in the pews at any of those particular times when such
“inflammatory and appalling remarks” were made about “our
great country.”
Even if you could believe that an amazing string of
coincidences could occur throughout the course of 20 years
such that Obama’s patriotic ears were never once exposed to
Wright’s hateful preaching, can you also believe he was utterly
clueless as to what his pastor was all about? That strains
credulity beyond all reason. The guy married him, baptized his
children and inspired the title of his book “The Audacity Of
Hope.”
And what about Mrs. Obama? Did she miss all those hate-filled
sermons as well? I have my doubts because they sure would go
a long way towards explaining that lousy attitude of hers that
kept her from being proud of her country right up until the
time her husband became the Democratic frontrunner.
Obama has said that Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says
things I don’t always agree with.” It’s the old “crazy uncle”
excuse, but the problem with that is, while you can’t pick your
relatives, you do pick your pastor. And if I had an uncle who,
in my presence, said the things Rev. Wright has said about
America, one of us would be leaving the premises.
What voters have to ask themselves is, do they want a couple
occupying the White House, either one of whom see everything
through a prism of racial victimhood and contempt for
America’s past imperfections? No doubt, there is a not
insignificant number of voters who have absolutely no problem
with that. We can only hope it isn’t the majority because that
would signal a decline in the American spirit too awful to
contemplate.