"PASTOR" WRIGHT AT PRESS CLUB BURIES OBAMA, KEEPS DIGGING

Jennifer Rubin tells us What We Learned At The National Press Club. BTW, he received a 40 second standing ovation when he took the podium. Think the press is out of touch with the American people?

The pastor man is a hater and a divider so how are we supposed to buy that Obama is a lover and a uniter when he sat in that pew for half his life. He sent his children to school  in the church of hate - anybody have access to the curriculum. I would love to see what they were taught.

WRIGHT TO OBAMA: "COMING AFTER YOU"

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that he will try to change national policy by “coming after” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president.

The pastor also insisted Obama “didn’t denounce” him and “didn’t distance himself” from Wright’s controversial remarks, but “did what politicians do.”

Wright implied Obama still agrees with him by saying: “He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was [portrayed as] anti-American.”

Wright, who was Obama’s pastor for 20 years and performed his wedding, made the explosive comment during a chaotic question-and-answer session at the National Press Club in Washington, following the pastor’s remarks about the black church in America.

“I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected, November the 5th I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people,’ Wright said.

He also stood by the foul, racist Farrakhan here. Wright said Farrakhan "was one of the most important voices of the twentieth and twenty first century":

Wright was also asked about his relationship with Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan, whom Wright described as merely haven once said that Zionism -- not Judaism -- was a poisonous weed. (Farrakhan has far more than that one comment in his collection of anti-Semitic statements.

Farrakhan, Wright said, is "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century," noting the Million Man March. "When Louis Farrakhan speaks, it's like when E.F. Hutton speaks...Black America listens."

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy," Wright said, since Farrakhan had not enslaved Africans and brought them in chains to the U.S.

Wright's security was provided by bodyguards from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam

In the clip below, Wright addresses questions about his patriotism, his thoughts on Louis Farrakhan, and his relationship with Obama.

On whether he should apologize for shouting in a sermon "God damn America" for its treatment of minorities: "God doesn't bless everything. God condemns some things. And dem, D-E-M, is where we get the word damn. God damns some practices and there's no excuse for the things that the government, not the American people, have done.

He speaks for G-d. Now that's rich.

Dan M reports the ass-hat was in Detroit last night.  This article also has links to his entire speech.  "Why this guy warrants a moment of airtime is beyond me.  of course our gangsta mayor was up first on the docket but that's for another day".

Watch the Full Speech:
The Rev. Wright: Part 1 
The Rev. Wright: Part 2 
The Rev. Wright: Part 3 
The Rev. Wright: Part 4 

UPDATE: THIS AINT HELL covered the action outside the Press Club. Check out his pics and reportage here.

UPDATE: Dana Milbank:

Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered - and added lighter fuel.

Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks ("God damn America") and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.

His claim that the September 11 attacks mean "America's chickens are coming home to roost"? (More here)

Wright defended it: "Jesus said, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic divisive principles."

His views on Farrakhan and Israel? "Louis said 20 years ago that Zionism, not Judaism, was a gutter religion. He was talking about the same thing United Nations resolutions say, the same thing now that President Carter's being vilified for and Bishop Tutu's being vilified for. And everybody wants to paint me as if I'm anti-Semitic because of what Louis Farrakhan said 20 years ago. He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century; that's what I think about him. . . . Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

He denounced those who "can worship God on Sunday morning, wearing a black clergy robe, and kill others on Sunday evening, wearing a white Klan robe." He praised the communist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. He renewed his belief that the government created AIDS as a means of genocide against people of color ("I believe our government is capable of doing anything").

And he vigorously renewed demands for an apology for slavery: "Britain has apologized to Africans. But this country's leaders have refused to apologize. So until that apology comes, I'm not going to keep stepping on your foot and asking you, does this hurt, do you forgive me for stepping on your foot, if I'm still stepping on your foot. Understand that? Capisce?"

Comments

[neverforget]

If Obama is elected, then it will only get worse.

[Barbara]

This man is a hater, an anti-semite, and an "ex muslim"?

Obama thinks this man is the "cats pajamas"?
This is a hate monger using the Bible to incite hatred .

If he doesn't like America or it's policies..
hey scum bag..move to the Sudan.
Watch some Arab Muslims take your old tired ass to the slave trading block.

This is sad that he would be invited to the National Press Club in the first place.
This gives him a forum ...and credibility.
Bill Moyers should be ashamed of himself.
The King of "Demorats"

[lilredbird]

Obama cannot get by with lame excuses for not denouncing this incendiary racist. Yet he cannot denounce him or he will lose a big chunk of his "base". Who would have thought the Obamassiah's "spiritual guide" would end up fragging his bid for the presidency? Obviously Obama didn't or he'd have distanced himself from Wright -- and from Ayers and Cone and Farrakham and the rest -- long ago. I only hope the voters are paying attention.

[RISE_UP]

I believe Rev.Wright is a vindictive mental case and maybe the reason Obama has not totally disavowed him, is because the Rev.knows something about Obama other than Obama being like minded with the Rev.
The mere appearance of those bull necked nation of islam body guards ought to send a special message to voters.

[john jay]

friends:

as a matter of fact, i do not recall that anyone ever put the reverend wright in chains, nor that anyone put him into slavery, or that anyone made him what he is except his parents and himself.

oddly enough, the only people that i know of in the world who practice slavery on an organized and institutionalized basis, are black african muslims, and muslims.

oddly enough, as a historical fact, the same people who put other africans into the slave markets and traffic in the first place. the european and american slavers picked up the slaves they purchased from the slave traders at sea ports where markets functioned: they could not have gone into the interior of africa for their trade if they wanted to.

so, the good rev. ought to keep in mind that the organizers of the slave trades were blacks and muslims operating in the interior of africa, and who marched their wares to coastal markets to transact business with the euro's and yank's.

that, in stark contrast to the rev's oratory, is historical fact.

and, it is stark fact that the only people i know of who practice institutional slavery at this date, are the same people.

the good reverend is an oppurtunistic politician of victomhood, nothing more, nothing less, and a cynical shit head. that is my view, anyway. you are free to accept or reject it.

john jay
milton freewater, oregon

[allat]

Wright has gone off the deep end. He's really burying Obama. Obama is really not leader material - because no matter what he likes or not, there are a multitude of Peoples here. Believe it or not, there are Latinos with white skins, there are even Blacks with light skins, there are American Indians with light skins. With white skin, I'd never vote for him, I'd be scared he and Obama and Wright and Farakhan would have a free hand to come and abuse me, even kill me. This whole thing is just dividing the country all over again.

"Farakhan is one the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century..." Where only into the 8th yr. of the 21st c. - what nerve he has.

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

Farakhan is not my enemy either - that's his problem.

As I said, Wright has gone craaazzy - his still in slavery days. And he's includes "he didn't make me this color." Wright is now including God in his raving. Does he hate God too?

The last time I checked, old stories from the family, I don't recall hearing that my great grands had slaves? Did you, people?
Nor did I? Rather we were just poor, "campesinos" planting yucca and maiz.

I haven't heard much about the KKK being active in the last few years.

But oe last thing, is it my imagination, but I heard that the Grand Dragon of the KKK came out backing Obama. THe guy said he'd rather have Obama than Hillary, and called her a "bitch." So now, we have the KKK backing Hussein. Why is the "pstor" complaining about them? Doesn't he know?

[RISE_UP]

I can tell you the KKK is not endorsing Obama.A real KKK could never party with a black person no more than a true nazi could with a jew. Having said that, I believe Wright who spews crap that has nothing to do with the bible or jesus,is up to his neck in Islamics and perhaps that church is a front and Obama is up to his neck with the same belief. However it may be, Obama's fate is sealed thank God. He will NEVER be president.

http://www.kkk.bz/

[lilredbird]

There are rumors of bisexuality in addition to the drug use. If true it's possible that Wright has got this hanging over Obama's head.

[Neo]

I’d say it’s safe to say that Wright is a bona fide racist, but that would miss the real point. Don’t send your time thinking racist, when you should be thinking huckster.

You have to realize that pastors of black churches often think of their congregants in a niggardly or “less than” terms, its part of the huckster role that demands “no noise” or “paper-only” in the basket. Meanwhile in order to maintain the “cash cow,” they preach a doctrine that keeps blacks from moving to a better place, with ideas like the anti-middleclassness, until he eventually retires to a 10,000 sq ft mansion in a gated community of more than 90% white neighbors. His form of racism is a tool of a black pastor to keep blacks down using whites to triangulate while he plays a Moses who has no intention of getting them to the promise land.

When you finally realize that Obama’s 20 year apprentice in hucksterism at Trinity Church was to gain “street cred” and train his skills at manipulating, starting with the black community, it becomes clear why he spend 20 years there becoming a modern day carpetbagger. The only real major difference between Wright and Obama is that Wright thinks within the confines of a pastor, while Obama is trying to expand to a whole country.

But the current discussion seems to poise Rev. Wright for a eventual "Sister Soulja" moment for Obama, when the entire huckster discussion is lost with the fallen racist.