Posts with the tag 'Jeremiah Wright'
Then you know the Democrat has told a pretty brazen lie:
Is Obama smearing Rush?
News item: Barack Obama campaign starts new Web site to fight smears from political opponents at www.fightthesmears.com.
The first smear mentioned:
“LIE: Rush Limbaugh says a tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word ‘whitey’ from the pulpit of Trinity United.”
Well. No. This is what Limbaugh said:
“The rumor is — and we don’t like dealing with rumors here — but the rumor is that Michelle Obama from the pulpit of this church used the term ‘whitey.’ Some are saying be very careful with this because she might have said ‘why’d he,’ why did he, the contraction ‘why’d he’ instead of ‘whitey.’ ”
He added: “I can’t find anybody who’s seen it.”
So while Limbaugh was happy to wallow in the rumor, he was careful not to claim the tape exists.
More on this when someone gets around to creating www.clarifyfightthesmears.com.
I have to figure that Team Obama is going to be pretty ticked off at this - for 20 years now the left’s primary means of slamming Rush has been to misquote and/or take him out of context. Usually, whenever someone on the left makes an accusation like this against Rush, the MSM gleefully joins in…but someone at the Sun-Times (no doubt now at risk of being transferred to the obituaries page) caught the lie (well, “catch” is too strong a word when you’re speaking of figuring out that a Democrat has lied…usually it involves no more effort than noticing that their lips are moving) and then actually did the right thing and pointed it out.
I get lots of rumors in my in-box, too - probably not as many as Rush as I’m just a little blogger, but in the attempt to smear an opponent, no stone - or little blog - is left unturned in the attempt to get the smear out there. So, someone started this rumor of Michelle Obama and “whitey” - is it true? Who the heck knows? But given that the Obama’s sat for 20 years in the pews of a racist, anti-American church, protestations from the Obama’s about accusations of “whitey” ring rather hollow…the Obama’s should have thought about this thing oh, the second or third time Wright went off on a racist rant…little late to clean that muck off themselves in time for November, 2008.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, liberal lies, Michelle Obama
June 16th, 2008
Interesting 2004 interview - do read the whole thing, but this is striking:
GG:
Do you believe in sin?
OBAMA:
Yes.
GG:
What is sin?
OBAMA:
Being out of alignment with my values.
Errrr…no. The definition of sin:
Sin is an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience; it is failure in genuine love for God and neighbor caused by a perverse attachment to certain goods. It wounds the nature of man and injures human solidarity. It has been defined as “an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law.”
Being in alignment with your values can be as much a sin as being out of alignment with them - because values created by a human being are, well, worthless…any one of us can think up anything we can to justify whatever it is we wish to do…but in the adherence to God’s values - to truth, that is - we do the right thing, always…and any time we stray from God’s values, we sin.
This does explain a lot - especially how Obama, after accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord, could attend for 20 years a racist, anti-American church and think, apparantly, nothing of it…Obama was adhering to Obama’s values. Time for a bit of a radical change Senator - time to kneel down and ask God to guide you. It’ll work a lot better - and you’ll never been entangled in a place like Trinity again.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, sin, Trinity United
June 3rd, 2008
Victor Davis Hanson suggests that this whole issue might well cost Obama the election, and gives three reasons why:
First, he can never quite come clean about his past. Obama seems to claim that the problem with Rev. Moss and Trinity is the sudden attention given these men of faith and the difficult spotlight put upon them as a result of the Obama campaign.
But such public attention is NOT a problem for Trinity and Co.—only a problem for Obama. When the crowd rises to its feet to shout approval of a racist like Wright or Pfleger it is not because of sudden public attention, but because they wish to hear such racist scape-goating that apparently serves as some sort of collective catharsis…
…Two, Obama situates these scandalous incidents in terms of himself. So Wright is wrong for showing “disrespect” for Obama. Pfleger erred by “disappointing” Obama. But these reprehensible figures are not wayward disciples whose straying hurts the messiah, but rather hard-core calculating politicians who know precisely the cost-benefit ratios of their own rhetoric…
…Third, can’t Obama’s advisers warn him that he is falling into a disturbing pattern? When a dubious figure of his past courts controversy, he should not, in anger and in hyper-sensitivity, counter with blanket praise (cf. his kind words about Wright and Trinity) and then slowly qualify that until he reaches the ‘disowning’ phase. By now all of America knows the truth: Wright, Trinity, Moss, Pfleger, et al have never changed one iota. They are intellectually honest and candid in their extremist views; the only one who changed is Obama. So the question always arises-WHY?
One thing we have to be clear on here is that for all of Obama’s claims that Trinity is somehow mainstream in the Christianity practised by African Americans, the fact of the matter is that most African American Christians are, well, Christian - as an example, black minister T. D. Jakes notes a very traditional, evangelical set of beliefs for his ministry. As a Catholic, I could argue some of the theology, but I would - also - not feel unwelcome at Jakes’ church, nor would I feel even in the slightest that the church was other than Christian, and filled with my brothers and sisters in Christ. There is nothing there about “black values” or other racist claptrap we saw over at Trinity. The point here is that Obama didn’t have to join such a church as Trinity - he didn’t have to sit there for 20 years while the minister spewed racist, anti-American hate - he didn’t have his marriage performed and his children baptised by a hate-mongering con artist.
But he did - and he did it entirely by choice and because he thought it was a good thing. It is only as Trinity became a threat to his Presidential prospects that he started to modify his views on it - and then only haltingly and only taking the final step when forced to it by a racist “sermon” against Hillary Clinton, directly. Being there for 20 years means that either Obama is, himself, a racist or that he was just being politically expedient. Given that Obama’s mother is white, I discount racism as a motivator - so it falls to expediency. Given the nature of Chicago Democratic politics (corrupt and very leftist), Obama probably figured that his best way in was to latch on to the most leftwing expression of black politics in the city. And it worked splendidly - State Senator, United States Senator, millionaire author; everything went just fine until Obama had to step out of Chicago Democratic politics and present himself to the American people. At that moment, Obama discovered that the rabble-rousing racism of Trinity didn’t play well outside the hothouse of Chicago leftism. Obama was in a position akin to Wallace giving his “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever” speech at the NAACP. Obama wants change - and the first thing he had to change was his dirty, Chircago laundry.
Obama still has the upper hand in Campaign ‘08 - he is still the favorite to be the next President of the United States of America, but Trinity is like an acid eating away at his public persona, day by day. Unless and until Obama can fully explain to the American people why he latched on to racism and figured it was good for 20 years, that acid will eventually destroy him - the only question is whether this destruction will be prior to or after the election.
Tags: Barak Obama, Jeremiah Wright, liberal lies, liberal racism, Pfleger, Trinity United
June 2nd, 2008
From the New York Times corrections page:
An article on May 4 about black liberation theology and the debate surrounding the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr, Senator Barack Obama’s former minister, erroneously confirmed a statement by Mr. Wright that the United States has used biological weapons against other countries. There is no evidence that the United States ever did so.
First off - for the NY Times to even think that the US would have done such a thing reveals a strong bias against the United States. Secondly - for the NY Times to merely state there is no evidence, with the implication that there might be a credible accusation we did, reveals a vile hatred of all things American. In other words, just another day in the liberal media…
HAT TIP: NRO’s The Corner
Tags: Jeremiah Wright, liberal lies, media bias
June 2nd, 2008
The news story:
Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have resigned their membership at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, FOX News has confirmed, after controversies stemming from the congregation created a persistent distraction for Obama’s campaign.
The criticism started with the sermons of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., but Obama’s pastor problems were compounded this week by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, whose videotaped guest sermon at the church Sunday showed him taunting Hillary Clinton and saying she felt she was “entitled” to the presidency because she’s white.
Obama said he was deeply disappointed by the remarks and Pfleger apologized, but Clinton’s campaign still demanded Obama specifically reject the latest remarks.
By resigning his membership, Obama is taking the most definitive stand to date against the church.
All he needs to do now is to specifically condemn the actual teaching, by name, of Trinity United - once he does that, then the matter is closed. I doubt that he will, though; too much of his leftwing base is 100% in agreement with the preaching of Trinity United. Right now, he’s just in major damage control - we’ll have to see if he’s (a) learned how wrong he was to be a member for 20 years and (b) is willing to make amends for being a member of such a group.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger, racism, Trinity United
May 31st, 2008
As I’m sure everyone is aware:
…After being introduced by Obama’s church’s new pastor — Rev. Otis Moss — Rev. Pfleger talks about the importance of taking on “white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head.”
“Rev. Moss, when Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on,” Pfleger says from the pulpit. “I really believe that she just always thought, ‘This is mine! I’m Bill’s wife, I’m white, and this is mine! I just gotta get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama,’ and she said, ‘Oh, damn! Where did you come from? I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’
Pfleger then mocks her crying, much to delight of the crowd, many of whom stand up and applaud.
“She wasn’t the only one crying, there was a whole lot of white people crying!” Pfleger says to laughter.
Here’s the description of St Sabina:
Faith Community of Saint Sabina
St. Sabina is a Word-based, Bible teaching African-American Catholic Church that believes in the power of praise and worship.
We are a spiritual hospital where all are welcome and invited to “taste and see the goodness of the Lord.”
Our purpose is to nurture and develop spiritually mature Christians who are not confined by the walls of the sanctuary, but can penetrate the world in order to present God’s way of living as a divine option.
A friend of mine attended Mass - as it were - at a “faith community” here in Las Vegas, and her first question upon entering was “where’s Jesus?”…no crucifix in evidence, which is akin to not having home plate at a ball park. In contrast, my parish mission statement has much to say about being Catholic, Our Lord and other things more traditionally associated with, you know, church (I had placed the mission statement of my parish on this thread - but I am worried that someone will use it to find out which church I attend, and I don’t want my fellow parishoners bothered on my account; sad that I had to be concerned that much with safety).
While Rev. Pfleger has apologised, I find it shocking that a priest of the Church could make so cruel, hateful and grossly inaccurate a statement. What Pfleger said wasn’t even remotely Christian - and I urge his Bishop, Francis Cardinal George, to take firm action to ensure that such statements are never made again.
UPDATE: Monsignor Jim Lisante volunteers to replace Wright as Obama’s pastor…if Obama refuses, perhaps Lisante can take over day to day operations at St. Sabina?
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger
May 30th, 2008
Michael Barone has crunched the numbers, and come up with this conclusion:
It’s a little dangerous in interpreting polls to assume that voters’ thinking proceeds along logical lines. People who aren’t professionally involved in politics, whose knowledge comes from bits and snippets of news, can hold beliefs that are contradictory or in tension with each other. They don’t feel obliged to resolve contradictions. But even granting that, it seems to me that about half of West Virginia and Kentucky Democratic primary voters were saying that Obama lied about not knowing what Wright has been preaching and that he agrees with him a lot more than he has let on.
Now West Virginia and Kentucky are not typical primary states. They, together with Arkansas, where Hillary Clinton was First Lady for 12 years, were Obama’s weakest states in this year’s primaries. And some percentage of registered Democrats in these states have been voting Republican in recent presidential elections. Nevertheless, the negative verdict these voters render on Obama’s honesty and his relationship with Wright is likely to be typical of some significant quantum of potential Democratic voters this year. And not just in states like West Virginia and Kentucky, which he will certainly lose, but in marginal states which he must carry in order to be elected.
I find confirmation from this in a recent focus group conducted for the Annenberg Public Policy Center by pollster Peter Hart (for whom I worked for seven years) of non-primary voters in Charlottesville, Va. As Hart and Alex Horowitz note in their analysis of reactions to Obama, “When asked to recount any two memories of the total presidential campaign so far, seven of the 12 participants cite Rev. Wright by name. So far, clips of Rev. Wright clearly are the one ‘key defining moment’ of this campaign.”
Most reporters are liberals, whose circles of friends and acquaintances have included people with views not dissimilar to those of Wright or William Ayers, the unrepentant Weather Underground bomber with whom Obama served on a nonprofit board and at whose house his state Senate candidacy was launched. Such reporters don’t find these views utterly repugnant or particularly noteworthy. But most American voters do. And they wonder whether a candidate who associates with such people agrees with them — or disbelieve him when he says he doesn’t.
Though most in the press won’t admit it, that’s a problem — for the Obama candidacy and for the whole Democratic party once it nominates him.
I think Obama’s people - as well as other leading Democrats - understand this far better than the MSM or Obama’s supporters do; thus the recent talking point that the Wright issue is pretty much out of bounds, plus absurd attempts to make the Hagee issue equivalent to the Wright issue (this AP story from today is typical of the “Hagee is the same as Wright” meme). As for the dishonesty people see in Obama - that is clear; it was an absurd lie on the part of Obama to state that he was unaware of Wright’s extremist views…everyone knows it is a lie, he knew it was a lie as he uttered it…and yet he said it, and now a large portion of the people have put down Obama as a liar. Hard to get out from under that.
Fundamentally, Democrats are forced into dishonesty because they know their policies are rejected by the broad majority of the American people - they can’t run explicitly on American weakness and kowtowing to the UN…so they talk about the need for diplomacy, as if we hadn’t been using diplomacy with great success these past 7 years (the growing alliance with India, the agreement to build SDI in Europe, the voluntary termination of Libya’s nuclear program, eg). They can’t run explicitly on high taxes…so they talk about “middle class tax cuts” and making the rich pay more. They can’t run explicitly on federally funded abortion on demand…so they talk about securing the right for women to “choose” regardless of ability to pay. On and on it goes - never saying what they really want to do…and this has bred the culture of dishonesty which convinced Obama, seemingly, that a rather stupid and bald-faced lie about Wright would go down smoothly. Well, it hasn’t - and it may cost Obama the election.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, liberal lies
May 25th, 2008
Last week, America’s Election HQ blog reported on whining Democrats who think that John McCain “got a pass” over his so-called association with Pastor John Hagee. In the weeks that followed the widespread release of Obama’s pastors anti-American/racist/anti-Semitic sermons, liberal pundits and bloggers kept referring to Hagee as “McCain’s pastor” — an obvious “misery loves company” strategy that was as ridiculous as Wright’s rhetoric.
It doesn’t take a genius to understand the differences between Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain (as well as McCain’s subsequent repudiation of Hagee’s anti-Catholic views) and Barack Obama’s 20-year relationship with Jeremiah Wright, who not only officiated Obama’s marraige, but baptized his kids. And of course, Obama’s book title, The Audacity of Hope, comes from one of Wright’s sermons.
There have been a number of polls done assessing the impact of the Jeremiah Wright story on Obama’s presidential bid. While some suggest most voters say he handled it well, others showed Obama significantly damaged by it. All the while Obama supporters have been trying to argue that Wright isn’t a legitimate issue.
The thing is, Wright is a legitimate issue. Even if you choose to believe Obama’s claim that in the 20 years he was attending Wright’s church services that he never once heard anything like what we saw clips of on television or heard on the radio, no reasonable person could believe that Obama wasn’t aware of Wright’s anti-American, racist, and anti-Semitic views. Yet, he still went to the church and gave it thousands of dollars in contributions. That tells you a lot of about Barack’s character and true values… and none of what it says is good.
Still, Democrats know this is an issue that won’t go away. If Wright wasn’t a liability for Obama’s candidacy, you wouldn’t be hearing John Hagee’s name being brought up as a common rebuttal. If Obamaniacs think that Hagee is a liability for McCain, then they know with absolute certainty that Wright is a huge liability for Obama. And if Democrats think bringing up Hagee will neutralize the Wright impact on Obama’s candidacy then they are wrong. The Hagee story came and went because there was “no there there” as far McCain’s candidacy is concerned. As long as Democrats try to regurgitate that non-story then it only reminds people of Obama’s longtime connection to and acceptance of Jeremiah Wright.
Some may argue that last night’s primary results show that Barack Obama has effectively moved beyond Jeremiah Wright. Perhaps as far as the Democratic Primary is concerned, maybe he has. Afterall, Democrats probably agree with Jeremiah Wright on many levels… But in the general election? No question… big negative for Obama… no matter how much our friends on the left want to pretend it’s not.
But hey, let them pretend.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright
May 8th, 2008
Of course, I knew that, and anyone not infatuated with Obama’s candidacy know that, but now Jeremiah Wright is confirming what we already knew… much to the dismay of Obamaniacs.
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.”
Well, first, let me just say that the media didn’t say what Wright said, they just played vide of what said, and his words spoke for themselves.
But anyway, Wright still told two undeniable truths. First, that Obama did not truly denounce Wright, and second that Obama only attempted to distance himself from Wright for political cover, not because of a genuine rejection of Wright’s words.
Thank you.
UPDATE: Wright’s recent public spectacle has Obama running for political cover.
UPDATE: Bulldog Pundit makes an interesting observation regarding Obama’s newfound “outrage” over Wright’s recent comments.
What did Wright really say this weekend that was any more offensive than what Obama previously dismissed as “soundbites”. I listened to this guy’s speeches to the NAACP and his comments at the National Press Club yesterday and I didn’t hear anything worse than he had said previously. I did learn however, that this guy’s kookiness is not limited to “sound bites”. The full version is just as loopy, and there’s absolutely no chance in hell that Obama wasn’t aware of it having gone to his church for 20 years (although he was mysteriously absent from church when all the “sound bite” moments occurred).
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright
April 29th, 2008
Ben Smith over at Politico has the details, notes this flyer put out in Philadelphia (PDF) has Obama mentioning that it was after Wright’s sermon that he converted to Christianity. Let us quote a bit:
…one Sunday I put on one of the few clean jackets I had and went over to the Trinity United Church of Christ on 95th Street on the South Side of Chicago. And I heard Reverand Jeremiah A. Wright deliver a sermon called “The Audacity of Hope.” And during the course of that sermon, he introduced me to someone named Jesus Christ. I learned that my sins could be redeemed. I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him…
Side note: “one of the few clean jackets I had”? Does Obama keep a supply of dirty jackets around along with a selection of clean? Anyways…
Admirable words, and words that any one of ten million Evangelicals could repeat - those very same Evangelicals that Obama, and the rest of the left, denigrate in various ways…such as Obama’s recent remarks that such people are “bitter” and “cling to God” due to ill-feeling. The really sad thing is that this flyer is clearly designed for the urban black Christian demographic - there is no problem with courting such a vote, but you won’t see Obama wanting this to get on national television where his “practical atheist” upper class white supporters might see it (what is a “practical atheist”? Somone who, regardless of claimed faith, lives life as if God doesn’t exist).
Its a terrible thing, the way our liberals have to be - to pretend to be all things to all people; to hide their real beliefs, to try and convince everyone that they are with them 100%…but to be so would mean they can’t be 100% with the other group, so neither group must find out just what the liberal is saying to the other. Why don’t they try honesty? Because they don’t want to be stuck with 25% of the vote…
Tags: Barack Obama, Bittergate, Crackerquiddick, Jeremiah Wright
April 25th, 2008
An excellent description of Obama’s credentials, from Powerline:
There has been a lot of discussion about what Barack Obama knew about Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American, racist beliefs, and when he knew it. It turns out, though, that there is no mystery at all: Obama’s own autobiography, Dreams of My Father, answers the question. In Dreams of My Father, Obama describes the very first time he attended Trinity and heard Wright preach. What was Wright’s theme? A racist attack on white people. I heard this on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show today:
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.
Obama describes himself being moved to tears by this sophomoric analysis of the world’s problems. By his own account, Obama wasn’t repelled by Wright’s racism, it was the very quality that drew Obama to Wright’s church!
It strikes me that Barack Obama is uniquely unfit to be President, or, for that matter, to serve in the Senate.
PAUL adds: It’s pretty clear that no form of Christianity other than black liberation theology had any chance of attracting Obama. Wright’s sophomoric ranting was a perfect fit for Obama. It made him feel authentically black (see Shelby Steele on this subject), it fit the anti-American narrative Obama had picked up in the Ivy League, and it was the best church around for advancing Obama’s career in Chicago politics. People have had religious experiences on considerably less than that.
I have to agree with that - Senator Barack Obama has proven himself to be unfit for the office of President of the United States. He belongs to a racist, anti-American church; will not disavow said church or its pastor; he subscribes to a belief system entirely at odds with the facts of history and basic Christian theology. Never in American history has a man so manifestly unworthy of the honor come this close to the White House. Our task as patriots over the next 7 months is to do everything we can to ensure that someone other than Obama is sworn in on January 20th, 2009.
There is one very useful thing, however, about the Obama campaign - it has brought this species of thought (at once tiresome and hateful) to the forefront of our political debate, and if we can crush it at the ballot box, it will cast such a light of negativity about it that no future national leader will dare embrace it, and we might even see the Democratic party start to disentangle itself from such paranoid, lunatic thinking. For far too long we have patiently suffered ourselves to be called racists, and the great achievments of our nation to be slandered by mountebanks on the make - let us hope that Obama and his “reverend” are the last we see of such things in our national politics.
UPDATE: Also discussed over at Battle Born Politics.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright
March 29th, 2008
In this case, Obama’s conversion to being black, as noted by Thomas Sowell:
Barack Obama’s own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. In college, “I chose my friends carefully,” he said in his first book, “Dreams From My Father.”
These friends included “Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets” — in Obama’s own words — as well as the “more politically active black students.” He later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator.
Obama didn’t just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college — members of the left, anti-American counter-culture.
In Shelby Steele’s brilliantly insightful book about Barack Obama — “A Bound Man” — it is painfully clear that Obama was one of those people seeking a racial identity that he had never really experienced in growing up in a white world. He was trying to become a convert to blackness, as it were — and, like many converts, he went overboard.
Sowell goes on to note something that I’ve suspected - that Obama has never really tried to reach out to the center and right. He’s a coalition of the left and the far left. It seems that Obama wanted to belong - and given that he grew up in a upper middle class liberal millieu, it was a natural that “authenticty” for a person of color must be something politically radical and very rejectionist of the American ideal. Obama got what he wanted, and has gloried in it - but now he’s trying to move into the general American electorate while retaining his street cred, as it were. Can’t be done, Senator - boring and annoying as it may be, the majority of Americans don’t buy what Wright is selling - you have to ditch him completely, or ultimately fail completely.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright
March 25th, 2008
With apologies to Foreigner:
Hey, honkey, if youre feelin down
You know I know whats good for you all day
Are you worried that your friends are too white
Will it ruin your reputation votin’ against me
cause you’re a typical white boy
Yeah a typical white boy
A typical white boy
Dont drive no tricked out car
Dont like no gangsta rappin’ star
You want to be authentic like me
You dont give a damn what the Rev say about you
Well, you’re a typical white boy
typical white boy, typical white boy
A typical white boy
You’ve been a racist since I dont know when
You’re a racist now and I know somehow you’ll be a racist again
I’m your perfect black man, but then
You don’t really care who I am
cause you’re a typical white boy
Yeah a typical white boy
A typical white boy
C’mon, c’mon boy
typical white boy
Tags: Barack Obama, humor, Jeremiah Wright
March 23rd, 2008
Wow, when I heard this clip on the radio today, I was shocked. Absolutely shocked:
On Philadelphia radio station WIP 610, Obama explained why he cited his white grandmother’s fear of black men in a speech Tuesday. He wasn’t saying that she holds racial animosity, but that “she is a typical white person,” Obama said, adding: “If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there’s a reaction that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way.”
A “typical white person?”
Obamaniacs can try to claim that Jeremiah Wright’s sermons are irrelevant, but this comment, Obama’s own words, cannot be written off. Obama essentially implied that white people are racists. As a white person, Obama must have meant me as well when he suggested that white people are immediately afraid when they see a black person walking down the street. All I can say is “wow.” What an incredibly bad thing for Obama to say.
Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, race card, reverse racism, typical white person
March 21st, 2008
The Church that Barack Obama has attended for the past twenty years has endorsed and published an article that calls for the destruction of Israel, that according to World Net Daily.
JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama’s Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group’s official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.
The Hamas piece was published on the “Pastor’s Page” of the Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter reserved for Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose anti-American, anti-Israel remarks landed Obama in hot water, prompting the presidential candidate to deliver a major race speech earlier this week.
Hamas, responsible for scores of shootings, suicide bombings and rocket launchings against civilian population centers, is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
The revelation follows a recent WND article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed “concern” about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
So, not only has Barack’s pastor damned America; he saw it fit to endorse an organization whose main purpose is to oversee the destruction of Israel.
The Rev. Wright saga continues.
(click on thumbnail below to view document)
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Victor Davis Hanson notes that Obama can’t really have a conversation on race for fear of alienating the black and upper class white voters who form the bedrock of his constituency.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hamas, Israel, Jeremiah Wright
March 20th, 2008
The more we learn, the less we like:
Barack Obama had been a presidential candidate for more than a year before he outright repudiated his long-time pastor for racially charged, anti-U.S. sermons. But when talk show host Don Imus was in hot water 11 months ago for racially insensitive comments, Obama was the first candidate to call for his firing.
When asked about the different responses to his pastor and to Imus, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor questioned the premise of the comparison and defended Obama’s response in each case.
“He spoke out both times, so it’s entirely consistent,” he told FOXNews.com Tuesday.
Obama’s people must think we’re all idiots - or, knowing that for now only the lefties matter (ie, for the nomination) they realise that idiocy will go over well with their core supporters, and they figure the rest of us will forget this stuff by September. “Spoke out both times” doesn’t cut it, Vietor…he called for Imus to be fired for a poorly crafted joke…Wright goes on endless, racist, anti-American rants and Obama de-facto says he’s just a bit out there from time to time…
hyp·o·crite - noun - 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
Or, failing that, just a picture of Obama will do…
Tags: Barack Obama, Don Imus, Jeremiah Wright
March 19th, 2008
Interesting bit from Politico:
In the past, Obama has made racial issues, and his own precedent-shattering status, a minor note in his message. But Obama said Monday he recognizes that there is no way he is going to become the Democratic nominee without a forthright statement about the role of race in American life.
“I think it would have been naive for me to think I could run and end up with quasi-front-runner status in a presidential election as potentially the first African-American president, that issues [of] race wouldn’t come up, any more than Sen. Clinton could expect that gender issues might not come up,” Obama told interviewer Gwen Ifill on PBS’s “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.”
Well, Senator, it wouldn’t have come up had you not, for 20 years, blithely attended the sermons of a foaming-at-the-mouth race-baiter. This is being hoist upon your own petard - you, and the rest of the Democratic leadership, have played this nonsensical, hateful and dishonest race game for the past 30 years, and now you’re caught up in it. Here you are, Senator, with an even money shot (at this point) of becoming the next President of the United States, and yet you still don’t seem to understand that a preacher who claims that America is a racist nation which keeps the black man down is someone who is entirely divorced from reality - or is a nasty bigot using hate to keep a captive audience ponying up.
Have you no sense, Senator? Or, lacking that, at least a sense of shame? For crying out loud, look at yourself! You are the mixed-race son of a foreigner and this nation held nothing back from you. There was no door which failed to open, no opportunity which failed to present itself to you - you are vastly wealthier than the wildest dreams of your cousins in Africa, as well as your cousins in Kansas. You have the brass ring at your finger tips…and yet you listened to bilge about how America is a racist nation, and you made no objection - you never said, “how dare you, sir, slander this nation which has afforded me so much.”
No one expected you to say of your nation that it is the perfect monster that ne’er lived, but the very facts of your own life give lie to the notion that America is a racist nation, or that a black man is to be held down on account of his skin color, or that only black men who truckle to white America are permitted to get ahead. How could you, sir, take so much and then sit there while someone spit on your mother country?
UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: So what did you think of Obama’s big speech today? I’ve heard clips, and read the speech in its entirety, and was unsatisfied. I found it interesting that while he previously denied being present during Wright’s anti-American sermons, today he admitted he had. He said we should look beyond race, but spent the majority of the speech playing up racial divides, and he still couldn’t bring himself to truly separate himself from Wright’s rhetoric. In attempting to distance himself from Wright’s rhetoric, Obama said that Wright’s word were “divisive at a time when we need unity.” Well, I found that Obama’s speech proved that Obama is not the person to bring about unity. In fact, Obama seemed to argue that Wright’s comments were somewhat justifiable when he said “The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through – a part of our union that we have yet to perfect.” No sale. This was a speech so clearly designed to save his candidacy from fallout, but did next to nothing to address the real issue, and won’t help him.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Linda Chavez correctly points out that afrocentrism is central to Obama’s problem.
Tags: anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, race baiting, racism
March 18th, 2008
In what is probably — in the long run — a bad move, Barack Obama is on the verge of giving a speech on race, with the apparent intention of limiting the fallout from the widespread exposure of the anti-Semitic, anti-white, and anti-American rhetoric of Obama’s longtime pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
In announcing the morning address, to be delivered in Philadelphia, Obama would not say specifically what he will discuss, but suggested he wants to cool down the atmosphere after incendiary remarks by his pastor, retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., blanketed the airwaves over the past week.
“I am going to be talking about, not just about Reverend Wright but just the larger issue of race in thi
