I support Barack because of his incarnated faith – his faith made alive in the flesh. He reaches across all faith communities and even to those who have no faith at all. He is building a community where everyone has worth.

…unless you’re white.

I’m hoping that the blogs and talk radio don’t let this story die, and that someone can dig into Obama’s past and find out whether he has endorsed such positions as a candidate, IL State Senator, or “community activist”.

Obama is downright scary if he’s been listening to Wright’s rabble-rousing for 20 years. A black boy, abandoned by his father to his white mother and a stepfather in Indonesia, then Hawaii, then the streets of Chicago, who “dreams of his father” who has eight children by four different women. Sounds like one of those hippies of the 60’s and 70’s trying to “find himself”. Let him keep searching, but the White House is not the place to do it–the rest of the country can ill afford a Barack Wright Obama social experiment!

Obama himself talked about Wright as a proponent of black “liberation theology”, which is Marxism disguised as religion, and has been condemned as such (as practiced in Latin America) by the late Pope John Paul II, who experienced first-hand the bitter fruits of Marxism.

All I have to add is a bit of scripture: “Have I now become your enemy by telling the TRUTH?” – Galatians 4:16…

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, IL
Senator Obama’s pastor
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Many of the resources that go to support programs such as for those living with HIV/AIDS are now being spent to fund the war.

That’s a lie. Bush has done more to help those living with HIV/AIDS than any other President. Bob Geldoff made a point of saying how the media was negligent in not giving Bush credit where credit is due.

I support Barack because of his incarnated faith – his faith made alive in the flesh.

If that’s not a “messiah” quote, I don’t know what one is!

Senator Obama epitomizes the politics of inclusion…

Who said that?

U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison
Muslim, Minnesota

Isn’t it interesting how a Muslim says such nice things about Obama?

Isn’t it interesting how both Obama and Wright have quoted Malcom X?

I wish you could run an actual poll with this question here. I’m afraid though it could be used to further argue that too many people in this country don’t have access to adequate healthcare.

freevillage on March 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM

Can you people please give us your plan to pay off the $45 trillion shortfall you made just trying to cover old people before we give you any more of our money?

Please?

Via the Obama campaign website: The before Testimonial page; the after Testimonial page. Hmm, I wonder why they changed it … (h/t: Hot Air.)……

And so those whose purpose it is to lay claim to victimization fulfill their lower calling:The church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) fought back Sunday against mounting criticism of its pastor, accusing the media of character assassination and …

Exit question ….. was he simply hoping (as Yglesias notes) to exploit the affiliation to establish his black “authenticity” among a constituency who might otherwise challenge it?

Certianly plausible. But how realistic is it to warm the pew for 20 years? Pandering politicians are a given, but pandering for a couple of decades? A stretch.

I envision Michelle Obama sticking pins in the blue-eyed devil doll at the Rezko-purchased Obama house.

SouthernGent on March 16, 2008 at 5:34 PM

Gent, Better we stick a fork in the Obama’s. They’re done. Done in by their own hypocrisy. I’d be surprised if he’s electable as dog catcher. A side-by-side tape of his “change the tone and end the dividedness” next to Wright’s hatemongering rhetoric and “GD America” will haunt him for the remainder of his political life.

Most Obama voters don’t really care.

At best these people only make up half the Democratic party. The important thing is that reasoning independents, swing voters, and Clinton Democrats will be repulsed by Wright, and be less likely to vote for the Messiah come the fall.

“I wish you could run an actual poll with this question here. I’m afraid though it could be used to further argue that too many people in this country don’t have access to adequate healthcare. – freevillage on March 16, 2008 at 2:22 PM”

If you need “healthcare”, all you need to do is walk into an Emergency Room anywhere in the United States. No questions asked. Just ask 20 million illegal aliens……

What you need to ask is what they are really trying to take over, “Health Insurance”…..

Now, since your new to the United States, I will give you a break.

Starting with Social Security, name one, just one, Federal Government Bureaucracy of the United States, or any other country, that isn’t filled with waste, fraud, and abuse?

Just one….. and while I wait, I will use my FREEDOM while I still have it, to use the free market to provide for myself and my family, because it is MY responsibilty!

Or was he simply hoping (as Yglesias notes) to exploit the affiliation to establish his black “authenticity” among a constituency who might otherwise challenge it? Whatever the answer is, it’s a bad one!

It’s a good question, but it turns on the premise that there was only one way to establish it. Or should I say establish it with the people who most mattered to him. Now, I don’t know what ways did exist but there was this advice by Wright according to this story from January 2007:

In his 1993 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama recounts in vivid detail his first meeting with Wright in 1985. The pastor warned the community activist that getting involved with Trinity might turn off other black clergy because of the church?s radical reputation.

Now that is not to say that these other black clergy might consider Obama authentically black otherwise. Maybe they wouldn’t. Maybe they would. Maybe it would never occur to them to think of him one way or the other as authentic because they would accept him as he was. I don’t know, ’cause I’m not black and don’t know how tangled this issue really was at the time. It does seem to me, however, that radical blacks might not consider Obama authentically black, if he weren’t radical also, so was his decision because he was looking to be accepted as not black, but a certain kind of black? Maybe one who didn’t want to appear too much like he believed in black prosperity theology while he and his wife did a pretty darn good job of applying those tenets?

BTW, I’m on page four of a Google Blogs search up to the time before Obama nixed Wright’s participation in his Feb 10 2007 Candidacy Announcement and I haven’t found anything I would consider as being enough of a “rough” views/speech revelation for Obama to bounce him from the event. I certainly haven’t seen anything close to what is being reported now. If Obama’s explanation was that what conservative blogs and radio talk shows were talking about initiated his concern, Obama was a wimp for doing it, considering he didn’t know anything about Wright’s really inflammatory rhetoric.

On the question “Is America ready for a Black President?” I think we need to first ask if Black America is ready for a Black President.
It seems that no one in politics can go five minutes without sticking a foot in the mouth, or without so…

Obama’s a politically dead man walking. We don’t like racists of any color in this country.

Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global.

except for whitey

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9062.html

Could someone PLEASE tell me how this Obama/Wright relationship is any different.

Oh, I forgot, these are dimocrats. My bad.

Nobody seems to have asked Obambi a key question:

Have you purchased any of Revrum Wright’s Hating Whitey Video Collection? If so that’s a pretty clear indicator he’s endorsed the content in other ways than active membership and contributions for over twenty years.
viking01 on March 16, 2008 at 3:46 PM

I haven’t heard anyone ask that but it was a topic of discussion on one of the HotAir threads. I think the way it was phrased was that for that 20 grand donation he should have gotten a complimentary signed copy.