Obama's Pastor Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"

Houston, we have a problem.

Is this another story the media herd will pretend not to see. Every indication of what lurks in the heart and soul of Obama is  dangerous. This Pastor is a mentor, a guru (he seems to need a lot of those) to Obama. This man is a hater of everything we hold dear. Obama does not repudiate this man, does not repudiate Farrakhan.
America is like the 18 year old virgin who has fallen for the boulevardier. The outcome won't be pretty. America, snap out of it.

Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama's Campaign Aides Say Is 'Inflammatory Rhetoric'

By BRIAN ROSS and REHAB EL-BURI

Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America." The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism."

In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." He said Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.

Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope."

An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "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."

The African American has the highest standard of living in America than anywhere else in the world. But why split hairs?

In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda's attacks because of its own terrorism.

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost," he told his congregation.

Sen. Obama told the New York Times he was not at the church on the day of Rev. Wright's 9/11 sermon. "The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification," Obama said in a recent interview. "It sounds like he was trying to be provocative," Obama told the paper.

Rev. Wright, who announced his retirement last month, has built a large and loyal following at his church with his mesmerizing sermons, mixing traditional spiritual content and his views on contemporary issues.

"I wouldn't call it radical. I call it being black in America," said one congregation member outside the church last Sunday.

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Sen. Obama declined to comment on Rev. Wright's denunciations of the United States, but a campaign religious adviser, Shaun Casey, appearing on "Good Morning America" Thursday, said Obama "had repudiated" those comments.

UPDATE 11:39 am: from Ed Lasky: : Fox News has just posted a substantial story on Pastor Wright along with some video of Wright in action.

The worst case scenario is that Obama secretly supports these remarks and feels it will fuel the racial divide in this country. What if Obama thinks African Americans will like this message and  drive further votes to his candidacy. If that's the case he will distance himself from the  remarks in  a typical smarmy way but he will not renounce  Wright.

Lasky opines:

Fox News-ask liberals how they can support someoone whose closeness to his man makes one wonder how he can just overlook this bigotry. Given things Obama himself has said, given things Michelle has said, given that their bonds are way beyond a mere assocation but are so close that it calls into question Obama's judgment and true values. My closest friends-people I would describe as my sounding boards, mentor, etc over the years-are people who are not racist, who are not anti-Israel, and who share my values and prinicples.

This is not easily dismissed as "guilt by association". I have researched thsi term wich came into use during the Mccarthy era to refer to peripheral relationships. This does not fit that category.

And Politico opines:

Sure does feel like we're plunging into the abyss tonight.

Fox just posted a big Jeremiah Wright story, and the video is pretty gripping, and deeply racially confrontational. He begins by describing the Romans, who crucified Jesus, as Italians, and thus white, and more or less goes from there.

“Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people,” Wright says.

"Hillary ain't never been called a nigger," he says at the climax.

UPDATE: Obama's race baiting pastor may put church in hot water - it ought to be Obama's candidacy in hot water as well

Comments

[neverforget]

Most dangerous person to run for president in my 63 years of life. And including his wife, it goes off the charts.

[Doda McCheesle]

So... not having been to this church, what exactly does this preacher preach in his regular sermons that inspire his flock to create, improve, build, and better themselves?

Having only attended services in various Orthodox and Conservative synagogues around the country over the last 30 years, all I ever get to hear Rabbis preaching is how I must personally reflect and take upon myself to follow Gods laws and teachings to make the world a better place for all of humanity...

[RobCon]

Yes, but is he a Mormon? That's all the lap dogs in the media care about.

[RobCon]

This guy is so hateful he is difficult to listen to.

[pythagoras]

Senator Obama is almost certainly a practicing Muslim posing as a Christian. He can likely be stopped in time by being legitimately prosecuted for having committed election fraud (which he actually committed when he told the voting constituency that he was a Christian to help get their votes-- and, of course, everybody believed him).

How many voters will forgive him after they find out he's a deceitful Muslim shyster?

Obama probably can and should be prosecuted for election fraud. Is there anyone out there listneing to me?

[neverforget]

The leftists want to elect a Muslim. They identify with the aggressor; always have, always will.

[Lex]

I don't agree with much of what Wright says, certainly not his remarks against this country. I do fail to see how so many Jews, many with their ancestry in WWII era Europe who were designated as "non-people" see these comments regarding the history of blacks here in the U.S. as uncalled for. Or his comments that Hillary just can never know what its truly like to be a minority to be scrutinized and condemned.

No, I cannot condone his whole chickens coming home to roost message nor his support of Mr. Mothership, and don't know how Obama can escape this connection, but I hope he can. Meanwhile, I'll continue to be amused by the amount of fear being posted and commented on over Obama. It's quite amusing.