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posted at 3:19 pm on March 15, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A triple play; take your pick. Olbermann isn’t the obsequious troll he might have been but he’s content to let Obama recite his talking points. Garrett’s too interested in playing cross-examiner and reestablishing the extent of Obama’s involvement with Wright, which is already a matter of public record, but he does badger him into saying he’d have quit the church if he had known what was being said from the pulpit (which, of course, he did). That admission may prove useful later on. Cooper doesn’t get quite that far — Obama tells him he “probably” would have said something to Wright — but he does ask two other pertinent questions, which are duly ducked: How can it be that in 20 years of attendance, His Holiness never got wind of Wright’s “nuance” on race? And why does he keep referring to him as an eccentric old uncle when we don’t get to pick our family members but we do get to pick our pastors? It’s like defending your membership in a whites-only country club by saying, “You know how grandpas can be.”

If you only have time to watch one, watch Cooper, as the second half contains the germ of the defense you’ll be hearing from Obama going forward: The black community is “in transition” from the highly racialist old guard embodied by Wright to the healing, post-racial new guard of which the Messiah is the physical incarnation. The baton is being passed. From the creepy caterpillar that is Rev. Jeremiah emerges the beautiful Obaman butterfly. Your exit question, via the Autonomist and Ace: What was butterfly doing, then, nodding along to one of Wright’s sermons about the “United States of White America”? And if you don’t believe the nodding part, why didn’t he at least quit the church after hearing it, like he told Major Garrett he’d do?

Click the image to watch. Or here’s the transcript if you’d rather skim.

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Obama can always try the Homer Simpson defense.

flipflop on March 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM

You just knew it would be a matter of time. This is from Ace:

Obama “Nodded In Agreement” At A Wright Anti-American Sermon

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM

why didn’t he at least quit the church after hearing it, like he told Major Garrett he’d do?

That is my question. After all this, the bulletins, Farrakhan, etc., etc., etc. If Obama doesn’t believe what this church has endorsed for 20+ years, why is he still a member of this church?

The only conclusion we can come to, is he agrees with what the church preaches.

bnelson44 on March 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM

Obama makes a nice statue, but with….feet of clay

Janos Hunyadi on March 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM

The only conclusion we can come to, is he agrees with what the church preaches.

bnelson44 on March 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM

Or there is a political angle in this.

bnelson44 on March 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM

Obama loves his country the same way a wife beater loves his woman.

Chakra Hammer on March 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM

I watched Obama’s denials on 360, what is most scary to me is he appears to be able to lie like a psycopath

windansea on March 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM

That admission may prove useful later on

I think that was his intent. Get a flat denial on the record. Obama now has zero wiggle room.

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM

Obama – Change we can Waffle on

Squid Shark on March 15, 2008 at 3:34 PM

He sure is getting a lot of flak for this, as he should. However, if Obama really was in attendance as your link said AP, then it will probably get even worse. It really depends how many times the media can nail Obama as in attendance when Rev. Dr. Wright said something inflammatory.

Honestly, even if my pastor said one or two bad things, I don’t think I would quit my church immediately. I would probably rather talk to him about it, get clarification, and tell him I disagreed. Especially if he was my pastor for 20 years. If I was in Obama’s position, I would quit now and show the American people I don’t want to support a church that preaches these things.

mcrabben7 on March 15, 2008 at 3:39 PM

Yeah, we know he’s about to retire.

But he’s obviously been spewing this filth for years.
You wife channels through your preacher.

Kini on March 15, 2008 at 3:39 PM

HE IS WHO WE THOUGHT HE WAS!!!

benrand on March 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM

Dreams of My Father (aka Chicago’s Rev.Wright) from Obama

or

Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Infidel Defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood.

You, my children, are the water that will wash away all that has gone before. In your hand, you hold my light, the gleam in the eye of Set. This flame will burn away the darkness, burn you the way to paradise!

My child, you have come to me my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me? My son.

Robert E. Howard, story
John Milius, screenplay

maverick muse on March 15, 2008 at 3:44 PM

He was stammering again today at a town meeting in Indiana when he brought the subject up. He knows how deep the wound is and he can’t even hide it in front of his Obamabots.

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 3:45 PM

Wright laced into America’s establishment, blaming the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the “United States of White America.” Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml?s=lh

I thought he wasn’t there when this racist shit was spewed?

ArmyAunt on March 15, 2008 at 3:45 PM

If I was in Obama’s position, I would quit now and show the American people I don’t want to support a church that preaches these things.

mcrabben7 on March 15, 2008 at 3:39 PM

He can’t. He needs the black vote, especially since this is going to severely alienate the white vote, particularly Jewish voters (think Pennsylvania), from him.

bert169 on March 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM

God help us if BO gets in the White House. Rev. Wright will try to persuade BO to paint it black and start calling it the Black House.

txsurveyor on March 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM

Obama’s denials don’t pass the smell test. His obvious deception probably won’t hurt him with the lefties who worship him, but a lot of Obama-leaning independents are going to be taking a much more skeptical look at him now.

The man who claimed he could “heal” this nation’s racial divide now looks to be more a part of the problem than a part of the solution.

AZCoyote on March 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM

Lewis Farrakhan preached for 30 years also

Kini on March 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM

Obama “Nodded In Agreement” At A Wright Anti-American Sermon

Already linked, right in this very post.

Allahpundit on March 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM

Sorry if this comment but….

Hmmm…

Clinton spent this morning visiting with the most benign pastor in all of America.

terryannonline on March 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM

Obama knew full well what this guy was about. He is focusing on saying that he never heard the statements, but he doesn’t deny knowing that Wright had these beliefs, which he would have to know if he had any real political discussions with him.

We don’t really know how frequently Wright spewed this garbage, but if you are a politician, why on earth would you want to be associated with this individual if you “vehemently” disagreed with some of his basic views on America?

And, Obama seems to not have had a strong counter for this…could he be surprised about how big this story has become? If he is, then maybe he didn’t really think that Wright’s views were all that extreme to begin with.

WisCon on March 15, 2008 at 3:50 PM

Anyone who can produce a butterfly which is radically different from its caterpillar, convince us.

Therein lies the stupid countermeasure to this pickle. It’s sweet ‘n sour bitter. But the kiddies at the DailyPos will savour it. And so does Mr. Andrew Sullivan.

Entelechy on March 15, 2008 at 3:50 PM

I really didn’t think this would matter to dems, I mean, they keep reelecting that overt racist and KKKlansman Robert Byrd, but after seeing the recent poll numbers, maybe I was wrong about dems, maybe they’d rather have the COVERT racist, Hillary … “YOU knows wut I means”.

Tony737 on March 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM

This story isn’t going away until he repudiates the church, and not just the “Rev” Wright, then stops attending as a member. I don’t think he understands the deep hole he’s in. It’s obvious Oprahbama agrees with what this church teaches, no matter who’s behind the pulpit, but he doesn’t realize most of America doesn’t believe this far Left loon dogma of hating America. Democrat party primary/caucus voters are not the meat and potatoes of America.

SouthernGent on March 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM

Sorry if this comment but….

Hmmm…

Clinton spent this morning visiting with the most benign pastor in all of America.

terryannonline on March 15, 2008 at 3:49 PM

Oh that’s too funny! I wonder how long that meeting has been set up.

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM

I wonder how long that meeting has been set up.

Me too!

terryannonline on March 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM

Obama’s got a tell.

At 5:14 in the video, he states that Wright’s comments had started surfacing once Bam started running for president.

At 5:17, he states that he’s had conversations with Wright regarding these.

As he’s saying that, he touches his chin and his blinks quite a bit.

I’m no Fox body language expert, but I’d wager that he’s fibbing.

yo on March 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM

Obama might want to change his slogan

William Amos on March 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM

Why did the church sell the DVDs? Have they become so desensitized to Wright and his message that they did not realize how most Americans were going to react to them?

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM

One way to look at it is, would Ward Churchill EVER repudiate his beliefs?

Why would Barry? He believes that crap.

How could we possibly elect someone to the Presidency who hates the country he would run?

Is that crazy or what?

benrand on March 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM

The idea that Obama was oblivious to Wright’s lunacy doesn’t even begin to pass the smell test. If my priest went off on a spittle-laden tirade, saying “God damn America!,” blaming any possible misfortune on other races, peddling insane conspiracy theories about AIDS, etc…even if I weren’t in attendance, I’d hear about it from other stunned parishoners. The buzz would be deafening…….

OTOH, if I didn’t hear about it, it would be because there’s no buzz as this is standard fare at my church. Either way, there would be absolutely no way to avoid hearing about my priest’s unhinged behavior.

Obama is lying is ass off. Period.

Jeffersonian on March 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM

Notice Obama’s compassionate head tilt in all three stills.

Niko on March 15, 2008 at 4:02 PM

HE IS WHO WE THOUGHT HE WAS!!!

benrand on March 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM

I was thinking about this, too. Gut instincts are usually correct. I still see that picture of him standing there with his hands folded in front of him. I think a LOT of people will as well. I also expect many more chain emails in my inbox about all this in the coming weeks.

SouthernGent on March 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM

Garrett’s too interested in playing cross-examiner“…. “….but he does badger him into saying he’d have quit the church if he had known what was being said from the pulpit (which, of course, he did). That admission may (WILL) prove useful later on.

Why the tone, AP?
You don’t approve of this tactic of prying an answer out of the stonewalling and backtracking B. Hussein?

shooter on March 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM

Okay, Micheal Moore said the same thing about 9/11, ie. that we deserved it, and got seated next to Jimmah Carter at the 2004 Convention. Did John Kerry or Jimmah “endorse” what Moore said?

Rev. Wright has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years. Richard Cohen wrote about him and BO two months ago, why is this a BIG story NOW?

I guess Hillary doesn’t want to resort to those FBI files until the Convention?

Angry Dumbo on March 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM

If I was in Obama’s position, I would quit now and show the American people I don’t want to support a church that preaches these things.

mcrabben7 on March 15, 2008 at 3:39 PM

Then it looks entirely political and even less sincere. If he leaves now he loses many of his glassy eyed worshipers. He’s caught between closing the barn door after the horse is out or trying to tough it out with an obvious toe dance to retain the independents. As long as the Wright videos keep surfacing, it stays alive, and you just know Obama is sweating bullets at night hoping no one catches him jumping and shouting in glee at at some of the more egregious Wrightisms. Get that man some Gaviscon.

a capella on March 15, 2008 at 4:07 PM

If Wright’s inflammatory sermons were on DVD’s for sale at the church, it seems to me that there was an attempt to spread the reverend’s social gospel throughout the community. In other words, his rants against America are official church doctrine, not offhanded remarks, and must have been known by everyone attending and then some. How Obama can claim he didn’t know Wright’s stand on white America is inexplicable. In my view, Obama’s a liar.

NNtrancer on March 15, 2008 at 4:09 PM

SouthernGent on March 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM

Have you seen this?

It all adds up. The pin. The folding hands. His wife’s comments. The early reports of his church. It all pointed in this direction. That’s what makes the videos so powerful. It affirms what skeptics suspected.

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 4:09 PM

A couple things.

First, the notion that this is the tone from many black churches? I find that hard to believe. If it’s true this country is in worse shape than I thought.

Along those lines, if this is the tenor of his preaching on a regular basis, then Obama’s denials are not nearly strong enough. It’s not enough to make excuses, “well, he’s from the 60’s and racial strife so he sees it differently.” I’m sorry. This country HAS changed and this kind of preaching and teaching TO THE NEXT GENERATIONS is poison and must be repudiated in the strongest terms. If Obama sticks to the “uncle” story and we find out that this is indeed the regular preaching style of this pastor (Michelle Obama’s comments seem to confirm it is) then Obama is toast in the General, IF he makes it that far.

Ordinary1 on March 15, 2008 at 4:10 PM

He “probably” would have left the church had he heard this stuff?

There are 50 weeks in a year x 20 years = 1000 opportunities to hear this stuff. But he missed the all the big ones? He listened to tapes, but NONE were ANYTHING like this?

For any of this to be credible, one would have to assume that many black folks don’t think this way. I can speak from first hand experience that many do. Fortunately my father is not running President, so I won’t have to vote against him.

Taken with the comments of his wife – I don’t believe Obama. Did he happen to miss ALL of the big sermons? Maybe. But I assume he eats and sleeps with his wife. So of course all of this is just one big surprise.

Agrippa2k on March 15, 2008 at 4:12 PM

why is this a BIG story NOW?

Angry Dumbo on March 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM

Because there is video now. People can see it with their own eyes. It’s undeniable. If Hillary had this it would have been out months ago rather than her lame attempts to paint his as a Muslim drug dealer who wanted to be President since Kindergarten.

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 4:12 PM

I wish the leaders of my church were given the benefit of the doubt the way it is B.O. gives it to his pastor.

Mormon Doc on March 15, 2008 at 4:12 PM

When someone begins a phrase “I must confess” and then goes on to say something that strains credulity I think it confirms what you thought.

Mormon Doc on March 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM

paint his as a Muslim drug dealer who wanted to be President since Kindergarten

You got this wrong. Hillary’s camp didn’t imply that he’s a Muslum drug dealer, but a gay terrorist.

Niko on March 15, 2008 at 4:18 PM

Barack Oboma, ‘Yo Major Garrett what you talkin ’bout whitey?’

Chakra Hammer on March 15, 2008 at 4:19 PM

Have you seen this?

It all adds up. The pin. The folding hands. His wife’s comments. The early reports of his church. It all pointed in this direction. That’s what makes the videos so powerful. It affirms what skeptics suspected.

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 4:09 PM

No, I hadn’t seen it, but that’s the kind of stuff I expect to spread around like wildfire.

SouthernGent on March 15, 2008 at 4:20 PM

TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 4:09 PM

Great link. It actually connects the dots, so to speak. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…there’s a darn good probability it’s a duck.

txsurveyor on March 15, 2008 at 4:22 PM

If Wright’s inflammatory sermons were on DVD’s for sale at the church, it seems to me that there was an attempt to spread the reverend’s social gospel throughout the community. In other words, his rants against America are official church doctrine, not offhanded remarks, and must have been known by everyone attending and then some.

If you watch the video clips, it’s obvious that these were not offhand remarks. Wright is reading his notes as he fulminates, indicating that he actually put a degree of forethought into the rants. He had time to contemplate his insanity, and he plowed right ahead.

Jeffersonian on March 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM

This story isn’t going away until he repudiates the church, and not just the “Rev” Wright, then stops attending as a member. I don’t think he understands the deep hole he’s in.
SouthernGent on March 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM

Frankly, I don’t think B Huessin O understands much of anything. He doesn’t make any sense when he speaks, he is repetitive, and dull. Try fisking a speech of his. Guaranteed to make you sleep.

CrimsonFisted on March 15, 2008 at 4:26 PM

William Amos on March 15, 2008 at 4:23 PM

Mitchell’s heavily in the Obama camp. She’s a hack.

It’ll be fun to watch her wilt as the press for her beloved BamBam gets increasingly negative.

yo on March 15, 2008 at 4:36 PM

Shall we trust? Or verify?

Seems likely that nearly ALL of Wright’s “sermons” are on tape or video. An intrepid investigator should be able to determine Obama’s whereabouts on most of the 1000 occasions.

Obama has been a “community organizer” and “politician” for part of the the 20 years. During that time a lot of his movements would be partially documented.

Agrippa2k on March 15, 2008 at 4:39 PM

Notice Obama’s compassionate head tilt in all three stills.

Niko on March 15, 2008 at 4:02 PM

Yeah! What was up w/ that? I couldn’t believe how far over his head was. I was so uncomfortable I had to lean over to watch him. I’m guessing O’Reilly will have his body language gal on to expain it. Maybe it was sublimital – he was trying to lean to the right (but on my TV he was leaning as far left as one could w/out falling over).

Over30 on March 15, 2008 at 4:40 PM

One might ask why Obama took days to make these “confessions” and “condemnations”? Why?

Because he “asked” for permition from his “pastor” to renounce him publicly.

“Listen homeboy, I’m gonna say some harsh stuff. I don’t want it to be a surprise, and I don’t want any ‘uncle-tom’ stuff. Okay.” Response: “Do what you gotta do – play the game.”

Agrippa2k on March 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM

Obama’s got a tell.

I’ll have to watch again, the guy out slicks Willie

windansea on March 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM

Just for the sake of argument let’s say Obama really didn’t know that this pastor was spewing this crap. It was done openly and not in secret. DVDs with all the vitriol included were for sale to the public at large. What does that say about Senator Obama’s powers of perception. What is he, brain dead. Think anyone could make a political point out of that. He’s painting himself into a corner.

Oldnuke on March 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM

no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body…

So “Reverend” Wright, no black woman would ever be considered for a high post such as . . . U.S. Secretary of State (Condi Rice)? . . . or a U.S. Senator (Carol Mosely Braun)? or the Chief Justice of a state Supreme Court (Peggy Quince)?

And here I thought these black women worked hard to earn their positions. I never imagined they just slept their way to the top! /sarc

AZCoyote on March 15, 2008 at 4:54 PM

What is he, brain dead. Think anyone could make a political point out of that. He’s painting himself into a corner.

Oldnuke on March 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM

Remember, Wright is the ugly, old caterpillar, Obama is the butterfly. Butterflies aren’t supposed to think or have perceptions. They just are,..well,..beautiful. And unifying.

a capella on March 15, 2008 at 4:57 PM

What Obama fails to acknowledge is that America is largely already “there” into a new post-racial society. It’s people like him and Wright (and Jackson, and Sharpton) who keep beating the same dead horse to use white guilt and black rage to gain money and power. We’ve already made the “transition” he promises us; they haven’t.

PattyJ on March 15, 2008 at 4:59 PM

The single parent that “Wright refers to that raised Obama is WHITE. He forgot to mention that in his serman. Why does Obama not defend his white momma? He consistantly says he is african-American and forgets his other ancesty. Wright also said Obama wasn’t white. Go figure. They are both racist.

livermush on March 15, 2008 at 4:59 PM

a capella on March 15, 2008 at 4:57 PM

Large predatory blue jays with shrill cries have been know to eat butterflies and spit their wings out. Then cackle delightedly.

Oldnuke on March 15, 2008 at 5:00 PM

It’s been reported that ABC and FNC got these clips for recordings they ordered – “The Best of Pastor Wright”.

It is hard to believe that Obama would not have such a collection. In fact it would probably be a guarantee that he would have received the collection as a gift at some point. Like when he gave the church $20,000!!!

Agrippa2k on March 15, 2008 at 5:05 PM

General Election… McCain-Obama
National………… McCain +0.3 Tie

Veddy interwesting!!

ArmyAunt on March 15, 2008 at 5:07 PM

Someone needs to request an interview with mrs. barry. She is openly an angry person, not nearly as smooth as he is, and my guess unlikely or unwilling to throw the rev under the bus. They are stashing her away right now because they know this. Someone needs to make that obvious to the American people.

peacenprosperity on March 15, 2008 at 5:08 PM

“White, wealthy and privelidged.” the rev says. I would argue that the phrase describes him and barry.

peacenprosperity on March 15, 2008 at 5:09 PM

I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Obama shows who he really is after he loses the nomination or the general election. His angry wife hates America and he goes to the church of God Damn America where he married her. I would expect the mask to at least slip a bit so we can hear about what a racist, evil, murdering pile of garbage the US is directly from the man himself.

Django on March 15, 2008 at 5:11 PM

I bet Obama wished he wore the flag pin…

F15Mech on March 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM

peacenprosperity on March 15, 2008 at 5:08 PM

Notice that no one’s heard from her in a couple of weeks?

Doubtful it’s a coincidence.

I can only imagine the devastation being wrought within her close proximity. I wouldn’t imagine Michelle takes too well to this type of adversity.

yo on March 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM

Geez, I start pulling back from attending churches when Benny Hinn literature starts showing up in the foyer magazine rack.

How hard is it to do the same when Wright’s crap is being thrown around? Or had the divinity of hope not alighted itself upon the Obamessiah yet?

aikidoka on March 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM

Yeah. Stick a fork in him. He’s done.

txsurveyor on March 15, 2008 at 5:21 PM

If Glowbama will lie about this what else will he find it necessary to lie about? Of course in a lawyer/politician kind of way…

d1carter on March 15, 2008 at 5:22 PM

livermush on March 15, 2008 at 4:59 PM

I don’t believe Obama was raised in a single parent setting. His father abandoned him and his mother when he was 2 His mother remarried a man named Soetoro when he was 6. They lived in Indonesia until he was about 10. He has a half sister from that union, Maya. He moved back to Hawaii when he was 10 and was raised by his maternal grandparents. Wright’s assertion about his single parent background and his black experience is specious at best.

Oldnuke on March 15, 2008 at 5:23 PM

Finally a church the liberals could get excited about.

Maybe whitey better start going to these churches and find out what is going on right under their noses. If this is how it is going to be I say we get our 10 acres and a mule back!

trs on March 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM

The black community is “in transition” from the highly racialist old guard embodied by Wright to the healing, post-racial new guard of which the Messiah is the physical incarnation.

Except Wright isn’t black. Barack is half-African, but not really Black, in the American sense. Between the two of them, there’s a lot of rich, white DNA.

fourstringfuror on March 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM

DAVID GERGEN:
And it’s not a lack of patriotism. It is a different form of patriotism. Actually, Reverend Wright may love this country more than any of us but feel we’ve fallen short of what we preach and believe.

No doubt David Gergen also believes that global warming causes global cooling.

Why did the church sell the DVDs? Have they become so desensitized to Wright and his message that they did not realize how most Americans were going to react to them?
TheBigOldDog on March 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM

Bret Baier interviewed a Reverend (I’m drawing a blank on his name) from the TUCofC yesterday who was supposed to be doing damage control for Obama. Baier asked him about the chickens coming home to roost statement Wright made after 9/11.

The Rev hemmed and hawed until finally Bret said (I paraphrase), ‘you really believe this stuff, don’t you?’.

Why the tone, AP?
You don’t approve of this tactic of prying an answer out of the stonewalling and backtracking B. Hussein?
shooter on March 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM

I cracked up when I saw that segment because the questions were fired at Obama as if he was on the witness stand, so I understand what AP means there. In fact, it made me wonder if Garrett had not been a prosecuting attorney at one time.

Buy Danish on March 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM

txsurveyor on March 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM

Thanks for the inspiration. I’ll only have to change a few words:
(with apologies to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards)
________________________________________________

I see a White House and I want it painted black
No Whities anymore I want the world to be black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes;
They will all be in hijab as my darkness grows
I see a line of cars and they’re all burned to black
With my power and my hate, America turns black.
I’ll make white people turn their heads and quickly run away
Every new black baby; reparations every day
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my White House and it has been painted black
I’ll never fade away; You’ll have to face the fact:
If you elect me, I’ll turn your your whole world black!

No more will your green eyes look happy,
I’ll turn your life to rue.
You did not foresee this happening to you?
If I look hard enough into the setting sun
My hate will laugh with me before the morning comes

I see a White world and I want it painted black
No bright colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
They will all be in hijab when my power Grows.
Hmm, hmm, hmm,…
I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

LegendHasIt on March 15, 2008 at 5:36 PM

I bet Obama wished he wore the flag pin…
F15Mech on March 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM

And put his hand over his heart when the Anthem played.

Oldnuke on March 15, 2008 at 5:36 PM

HE IS WHO WE THOUGHT HE WAS!!!
benrand on March 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM

THE real MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.

jimmer on March 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM

Twenty years ago the “old uncle” was only 47 and was spewing the same venom for ‘nephew’ Barrack to hear. Does senility start early in the preaching profession?

Annar on March 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM

From what I saw of the Indiana rally today on Fox with his messiahship, the crowd was still with him…makes you search out the aspirin bottle and shake your head. I didn’t see anyone looking like they would question him about Wright or his feelings about his racist church either. I find it hard to believe that anyone would attend a church where anything political was being discussed under the guise of a sermon, nor need the pastor to guide them in voting. If they can’t stick to scripture I don’t need to go.

24K lady on March 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM

It’s funny how elections can turn on the head of a pin. These are Obama’s racist, hate mongering chickens coming home to roost. All of us get to cluck along.

Mojave Mark on March 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM

LegendHasIt on March 15, 2008 at 5:36 PM

Great re-work on the lyrics.

txsurveyor on March 15, 2008 at 5:43 PM

From what I saw of the Indiana rally today on Fox with his messiahship, the crowd was still with him…makes you search out the aspirin bottle and shake your head. I didn’t see anyone looking like they would question him about Wright or his feelings about his racist church either. I find it hard to believe that anyone would attend a church where anything political was being discussed under the guise of a sermon, nor need the pastor to guide them in voting. If they can’t stick to scripture I don’t need to go.

24K lady on March 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM

This does not surprise me in any way. I expect it. O’Bama will not be harmed by this because his followers don’t care about anything but getting him elected. Simple. As. That.

tickleddragon on March 15, 2008 at 5:53 PM

On the God Bless American questions at the end of the Cooper interview, Obama certainly side-stepped the question by commenting about singing it instead of answering the question. His non-answer is a very strong rejection of the patriotic song and shows his continuing lack of support for the US flag and that for which it stands. Maybe he would like another flag to fly with or without the US flag.

Sunshein on March 15, 2008 at 6:02 PM

The libs are self-destructing at an incredible rate. Too bad we are stuck with McClame, this could have been a great year for us.

echosyst on March 15, 2008 at 6:04 PM

This would be a good time to dump his “christian” church and proclaim his new found Muslimhood. At least in Islam it’s expected and accepted from Muslims that they hate America.

BL@KBIRD on March 15, 2008 at 6:08 PM

Find a way to Obama under oath (ala Clinton) then let the fun begin!

odrady on March 15, 2008 at 6:26 PM

BO got the idea of his 04 dem convention speech from Wright? He gets his “just words” speech from Patrick? Who else is he going to admit copying?

Hasn’t he been touted as fresh and original? I guess not.

swami on March 15, 2008 at 6:28 PM

Folks, those sermons are openly on public sale because THAT IS the (fire)brand of Christianity that Obama’s Trinity Church passionately espouses through the spittle-spewing racist rhetoric of his ersatz dotty old uncle, the Right Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

It’s called “Liberation Theology”, given an American Black twist by the likes of Wright (who, believe it or not, is highly regarded within the mainstream Christian theological studies community as one of its foremost proponents) as it mutated from its genesis amongst the left-wing radical Catholic priests in Latin America who agitated for an emphasis of social consciousness and service (specifically with regard to the great masses of impoverished, oppressed and largely-native communicants in that region) over the religious doctrine and ritualistic dogma practiced by the ruling mestizo-azie (Spanish mixed-bloods) class’ Church.

This is NOT an underground movement of sub rosa radical/racist theology, my friends; this IS what this Church preaches, is known for, and what its adherents go there for!

This is a fervently espoused and openly-declared doctrinal mongrel of Christianity that IS MEANT to be spread throughout the African-American community. Hence the meant-for-proliferation sale of Wright’s sermons and writings and liberation theology literature. (Very much in the same vein anti-American Jihadi literature and CD-ed radical Imam-ist sermons are openly distributed and/or sold in the Saudi-funded Wahhabi mosques spreading throughout America.) Allegedly to spur African Americans to a proud mind-set of SELF-HELP versus, y’know, trustin’ and leanin’ on THE (WHITE) MAN (who are embodied in the likes of Billary).

Given that Obama’s self-admitted life-long internal imperative was a quest for the cohering of his black identity, stoked along consistently Socialist lines, starting with his stereotypically self-hating progressive cultural anthropologist white mother (who in a spat with her Indonesian husband Soetero about attending a cocktail party comprised mostly of overseas white American corporate employees, screeched, “They are NOT my people!”), through his young boyhood/adulthood mentoring by an avowed Communist philosophical partisan (now THAT’s another vein of research that should be brought to light), and his close admiration/association with the likes of the radical ‘Sixties bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn (unrepentant to this day, and in fact, in Ayers’ case, only regretting that they had not bombed more) and the Rev. Farrakhan, one should not be simply be skeptical of the verity of Obama’s non-awareness of the churchly bile ….. one should be wondering, without fear of seeming paranoid, whether we have another Henry Wallace stepping up, but this time to the brass ring position.

Mojamaiko on March 15, 2008 at 6:32 PM

HELP

Does anyone here have any idea how these vids went from Trinty church to the media or blog that first aired them??

Who actually bought the vids, viewed them, edited them, and passed them to the public?

allrsn on March 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM

Mojamaiko on March 15, 2008 at 6:32 PM

Well said.

He continually exposed his children to filth. He didn’t protect them from the issues that created his own psychological problems. The abused kid went on to abused his own.

This sick individual, Obama, is the culminating product of the liberal white ethic and the mainstream AA experience. That poisonous ideology has led to his public destruction.

This is a seminal moment in our history as the civil rights era and the black race-baiting victimization/entitlement movement reveals its product, this self-loathing victim and charlatan.

The first black President will only come from the Republican party. The AA political affiliation with liberalism has peaked. If that isn’t now as clear as the nose on your face, then the personal and national tragedy of Barrack Obama was a waste.

JiangxiDad on March 15, 2008 at 6:45 PM

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mjkazee on March 15, 2008 at 6:46 PM

The media may try to save him but a well funded 527 will destroy BO in the general with this stuff- it’s so over the line.
Believe it also that the phone lines are melting in DC superdelegate homes this weekend.

jjshaka on March 15, 2008 at 6:52 PM

A man is known by the company he keeps.

We all now know Obama.

Bicyea on March 15, 2008 at 6:54 PM

“We don’t agree on everything. I’ve never had a thorough conversation with him about all aspects of politics.”

This guy out-Clintons the Clintons. He must have learned at the feet of Slick Willy himself.

Just dig into those two sentences. ‘We don’t agree on everythin’ is basically the setup for the one that follows. Read it one time and it sounds like he’s saying he never talked politics with the guy.

But no. Read it again. What he’s never had a “a” “thorough conversation” about “all aspects” of politics.

Which means of course that he could have had several thorough conversations about individual aspects, or maybe “all aspects” includes Chicago sales taxes and they never quite got around to that.

Read that sentence a few times and it’s obvious he’s not only had political conversations with the guy, but that he’s parsing his words in the old, familiar Clinton way.

Met the new boss…

Typhoon on March 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM

allrsn on March 15, 2008 at 6:37 PM

If you read the Anderson Cooper transcript, it was either Sean Hannity or ABC news.

I just went to the Trinity United C of C website, went to the AKIBA store, did a search of Wright+sermons and found this for sale, which could be the mother lode that Obama had no idea about:

The Classics: Unforgettable Sermons By Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
13 Memorable sermons by Dr. Wright, includes his 4-part series “When a Black Man Meets Jesus!” Available in CD only!

Buy Danish on March 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM

This Obama/Wright incident is good for the country. White Americans had to renounce their racism in the sixties and the seventies, but the Black Americans were never forced to renounce theirs. It’s time that the Black political leadership was forced to make the statements that Obama is being forced to make over this incident.

I do resent the raw Stalinist media witch trials that so often characterize our national dialog about race. On the other hand, I am glad that they forced white people to give up on racism in the seventies and I do hope blacks can be forced give up racism now. Let there be no more Public Enemy and no new Al Shaprton! Sometimes a little Stalinism is healthy–even if resented.

thuja on March 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM

Allahpundit,

And if you don’t believe the nodding part, why didn’t he at least quit the church after hearing it, like he told Major Garrett he’d do?

I heard this live today and something caught my ear. I wish could review a clip.

Quoting from memory, only:

Garrett: “If you heard Rev. Wright. say these things, would you quit.”

Bbama: “Yes. If I heard him say that repeatedly, I would quit.”

Parsing, are we?

dinasour on March 15, 2008 at 7:36 PM

Here is what I want to know:
Given that Obama likes to point out that Wright is retired from his pulpit, what exactly is his successor preaching? Or more tellingly, what was he preaching before this whole thing blew up?
Given Wright’s very disturbing popularity in his church (and the power which comes from leading such an organization for decades), it would seem highly unlikely that his successor is in particular disagreement with Wright. And I don’t have to remind anyone here that Obama is still a member of that church, regardless of who is the pastor.

Lancer on March 15, 2008 at 7:41 PM

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