After doing a bit more searching, I came across this video:
“Hillary Ain’t Never Been Called A N****r”
This was a sermon given by the good Reverend and it is incredibily racist, and also pretty shocking. He compares Obama to Jesus (as both being poor black men), he compares the Romans to Hillary Clinton and Giuliani, he talks about the “rich white people” as if they’re the devil. Why is this okay? Why is it okay to hate white people in this country? No matter what you want to say, it’s still racist. Why is it that we have the spiritual advisor to someone who may become President spouting it left and right, with almost no news of it? Why doesn’t Obama condemn what he says? And before Obama can give the standard “Well, they’re not parts of my official campaign” speech… Reverend Jeremiah Wright is part of it, via Politico:
Wright is a member of Obama’s African American Religious Leadership Committee — the sort of largely honorary, advisory body that in recent days has recently been used mostly to throw people off who say controversial things.
Anywho, here are some good quotes (and good info) for you. First, from A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith:
While Mr. Obama stated his opposition to the Iraq war in conventional terms, Mr. Wright issued a “War on Iraq I.Q. Test,” with questions like, “Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?”
Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job.
“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
From Obama’s Pastor Speaks Out:
Forgive me for having a momentary lapse. I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party’s national “blog.” The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame. I do not know why I thought The New York Times had actually repented and was going to exhibit a different kind of behavior.
From Barack Obama seeks to re-gain momentum (Obama’s response to his plan to cut NASA funding):
“I grew up with Star Trek. I believe in the final frontier,” he explained. “I understand the inspirational role our space programme plays. But Nasa has lost focus. It is no longer a source of inspiration. What we have to do is rediscover that excitement.”
Or how about this from Michelle Obama’s hospital: On senator’s wish-list:
Among the pork-barrel spending requests Barack Obama has made since arriving in the U.S. Senate is $1 million for the hospital where his wife worked at the time and $8 million for weapons technology made by a big defense contractor with close ties to a major fundraiser.
It looks like this all might start to get some press as new articles on the subject that are just now popping up. I’m not posting all of this to say Obama is a bad guy, but all we keep being told is that he’s in it for “Change”, it’s not going to be “Politics as usual”… yet that’s exactly what all of this looks like to me. Burying it doesn’t make it go away, you know.
