Obama's Money Talks, Rhetoric Walks Financing Jeremiah Wright

$22,500, that's a lot of chickens coming home to roost. Obama's distancing himself from specific remarks vs  the man sure doesn't seem like a denunciation to me. 20 years. Obama was inspired by this man for 20 years.  20 years. Obama dedicated the inspiration for  his book to this man. Hell, the title of his bookm came from one of Wtight's sermons.  Obama Prayed With Wright Before Announcing: Is "Proud" Of Pastor

Obama's Gave $22,500 to Racist Church in 2006  Gateway Pundit

Here is Victor Davis Hanson on the pastor's angry rhetoric.

Barack Obama provides an account of his meeting Rev. Wright in Dreams from my Father , as well as this brief bio on p. 282: jat tip lovely Larwyn

He had grown up in Philadelphia, the son of a Baptist minister.  he had resisted his father's vocation at first, joining the Marines out of college, dabbling with liquor, Islam, and black nationalism in the sixties.  But the call of his faith had apparently remained, a steady tug on his heart, and eventually he'd entered Howard, then the University of Chicago, where he spent six years studying for a Ph.D. in the history of religion.  He learned Hebrew and Greek, read the literature of Tillich and Niebuhr and the black liberation theologians.  Th anger and humor of the streets, the book learning and occasional twenty-five cent word, all this he had brought with him to Trinity almost two decades ago.  And although it was only later that I would learn much of his biography, it became clear in that very first meeting that, despite the reverand's frequent disclaimers, it was this capacious talent of his --this ability to hold together, if not reconcile, the conflicting strains of black experience-- upon which Trinity's success had ultimately been built.

Obama writes that the Reverand Wright warned him that association with him "isn't necessarily a feather in your cap," because "'[s]ome of my fellow clergy don't appreciatewhat we're about.  they feel like we're too radical.  Others, we ain't radical enough.  Too emotional. Not emotional enough.  Our emphasis on African history, on scholarship--"
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A pastor's influence on a member of a congregation can be large or small, but Wright's impact on Obama has clearly been significant, and the pastor's ideas ought to be the subject of an extended public conversation with the candidate.

As I pointed out to Michael Gerson on today's program, when a candidate is discovered to belong to a club or organization that discriminates against women or minorities, he has to leave the club or the campaign.  He doesn't get to say that he disagrees with this policy or that rule and stay in the membership.  Senator Obama's church leadership has expressed very controversial positions, and he stayed a member through all those sermons on politics.  Isn't that like remaining a member of a whites-only golf club?

This is not, by the way, at all inconsistent with my strongly held  and often expressed that a candidate's religious views ought not to be subject of political debate, like Romney's Mormon beliefs.  I have no idea what Pastor Wright's theology is, but his politics are very radical, and they are legitimately an issue for the Obama campaign.

Wright's sermons are full of political positions that, if held by Senator Obama, will have an impact on the policies that President Obama.

BTW, I think it's curious, peculiar,  that Obama an ex-Muslim, chose a church headed by a radicalwho is flanked by Nation of Islam thugs. Jim over at Gateway wrote, "there are mosques that preach Radical Islam. There are churches that preach Radical Christianity. Unfortunately, the leading Democratic nominee for president attends such a church".

There is something rotten in Denmark and it aint the motoons.

UPDATE: Excellent Lopez, NRO:Wright and Wrong, Obama’s angry pastor.

Don't miss Kessler in The Wall Street Journal: Obama and the Minister

More Atlas coverage on Obama here.

UPDATE: Why does this get treated differently?

Comments

[Josef K]

YOU GO NO SURRENDER GELLER!!! HEROES LIKE YOU WILL ENSURE... THE REPUBLIC WILL SURVIVE!!!

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[Mack the Nice]

Nothing strikes me funnier than to see a bunch of rich white people k*k*n a brick over being called "rich white people." That is soooooooooooooooo funny! I mean, that they should think their bricks don't stink?

But when some of those rich white people turn out to be Jews! Jews without a clue? Gott der lieber. It's got to be enough to make a poor Jew bend over and cut loose a ton of dr*k*n bricks, only to wonder when it happened that Jews all went crazy; got so stuck-up, bourgeois, thin-skinned, rich and narcissistic that you can't tell Jew from redneck Mississippi cracker around here?

The Kinky Friedman cigar ash should be upon all your heads! How dare you forget a day when every Jew worth a brick was buried with a Black man in the red mud of an earthen dam in Philadelphia, Mississippi?

How dare you?

[RISE_UP]

I don't know where people get it that the South hates jews. I am from the South and in my circle of friends,my family,that is just ridiculous.But folks..let me drop something on you...people like Wright...could not be pleased anyway. And people like Wright is the reason for the formation of the KKK. Believe me I am WRIGHT!! Evil has to have an antidote.If it don't,it walks...look at what is happening in Israel. The KKK back when it was first formed was because of people like Wright,and those that support him.ie;Obama and his wife. She has already let that slip and now she is being silent but it is too late. What she has felt and said from her college days until now is all in the feelings and belief of the church they have belonged to for so many years. That church is the closest thing Obama could find to Islam. For it is like Islam. And now needs an antidote. An islamic can hide his feelings and lie about his faith and renounce what he has followed in order to get into a high place and that is what Obama is doing. And the press is paving his way.And how naive and stupid and how much they rely on the guilt of the whites to allow them to keep on and on. How stupid not to believe that while they are preaching this hate, they are stoking the fires of something that most decent people would never want the ugly heads to rise again.NAZI
and KKK. Believe me..this church,Farrakhan and all the haters of America are not forming in such numbers just to sing "GOD DAMM AMERICAN " They want much more.

[Doda McCheesle]

Mack the Nice...

uhhh.... what?

"How dare you forget a day when every Jew worth a brick was buried with a Black man in the red mud of an earthen dam in Philadelphia, Mississippi?"

Ahhh... how dare so many "non-white" people FORGET that Jews DIED fighting for THEIR civil rights...

[pythagoras]

I can't wait to see 'Minister' Jeremiah (Mr. "Wrong") Wright exposed as being in actuality a Muslim imam, his 'church' exposed as a mosque, his hate speeches exposed as jihadist diatribe, his 'mission' exposed as da'wa,
and his congregation exposed as Islamic terrorists posing as a Christian organization. And the source of his 'religion' being Islam straight out of the Middle East's mosques.

The day is coming when our "minister" Jeremiah's walls come crashing down arouind him, I can sense it.

This is going to be good. I want a front row seat when it all starts going down!

[Yidwithlid]

No one has asked Obama the one question that would clear it all up. " You keep saying that you disagree with the inciteful things Wright has said. If you disagreed with them why did you go to his church and listen to them for 20 Years? Aren't there other churches in Chicago?

[duncan]

Mack the nice
You want to know about Jews without a clue? How about Joe Lieberman sucking up to Christians for Israel and the Rev Hagee. The Rev wants to instigate armegeddon in the Middle East as an intro to the 2nd coming of Christ. And when that happens all you Jews will be forced to convert. But not to Catholicism. No not the Great Whore Cathilic Church. Not that evil cult. No, you will have to convert to whatever the hell church it is that Hagee leads.
Start practicing for your baptism and good luck with that.

[oppressedbyislam]

Commenter pythagoras has a point, since the language of liberation theology, focusing on liberation from "oppression" is also the language of Shiite Islam (Iran, groups like Hizbullah, etc), which explains some of the warm fuzzies for Ahmadinejad within the Islamo-Latin Socialist alliance countries (Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Ortega's Nicaragua). (Ortega describes Obama as "revolutionary")