DETROIT, April 28, 2008
Obama's Ex-Pastor: I'm Not A Politician
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Tells NAACP Audience He's Not Divisive, He's "Descriptive"
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As the primary race intensifies, Barack Obama's pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright is set to speak with journalist Bill Moyers to confront accusations about his controversial ministry. Jim Axelrod reports.
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. speaks at the Detroit NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner Sunday, April 27, 2008. (AP)
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"I describe the conditions in this country," Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the former pastor of Barack Obama, said during the NAACP's 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner.
"I'm not here for political reasons. I'm not a politician. I know that fact will surprise many of you because many in the corporate-owned media made it seem like I am running for the Oval Office," Wright said. "I am not running for the Oval Office. I've been running for Jesus a long, long time and I'm not tired yet."
Receiving a lengthy and loud standing ovation, Wright followed in the footsteps of Obama, President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton in his speech at the event, a $150-a-plate fundraiser billed as the largest sit-down dinner in America.
Obama, who is vying with Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, distanced himself from Wright after publicity over the minister's sharp criticism of America's racial history and government policies.
The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, stirred the crowd with an animated introduction to Wright. He let the audience know, among other things, that Wright speaks five languages and is an Egyptologist, writer, author, family man and "innovator and sustainer of the word of God."
"No this ain't about Barack Obama. This ain't about Hillary Rodham Clinton. This ain't about John McCain. It's bigger than all of them," Anthony said.
"This is about the African-American church. This is about our people. This is about our right to speak truth to power."
Anthony said at a press conference before the dinner that he was excited to invite the "hottest brother in America right now - outside of Barack Obama."
Wright, who is retiring as pastor of the 8,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, followed the dinner's theme of "A Change is Gonna Come."
He drew numerous contrasts between racial and ethnic groups in language, music and other aspects of American culture. He danced, beat-boxed and even sang an aria from the podium in the massive exhibition hall that served as an impromptu pulpit to make his points.
"In the past, we were taught to see others who are different as somehow being deficient," Wright said.
But he also responded to Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who called Wright "divisive" during an April 18 forum attended by the leaders of Detroit and Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties.
"I am not one of the most divisive" black spiritual leaders, he said. "Tell him the word is `descriptive."'
Wright also called out Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle, who told The Associated Press last week that Wright's presence in Detroit would be "polarizing."
"I'm not here to address an analyst's opinion or a county executive's point of view. I'm here to address your 2008 theme," Wright said, without calling Patterson or Riddle by name.
"I believe that a change is going to come because many of us are committed to changing how we see other people who are different."
Wright became an issue in the presidential race in March after the circulation of videos of old sermons in which he accused the U.S. government of racism and accused it of flooding black neighborhoods with drugs.
In a sermon days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Wright said "America's chickens are coming home to roost" after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan and "supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans."
The videos, circulated widely on television and the Internet, knocked Obama's presidential campaign off-stride. The Illinois Democrat distanced himself from the comments of Wright, whom he has known for 20 years.
In an interview aired Friday on PBS, Wright said publicizing portions of old sermons was unfair and "made me the target of hatred."
Gwendolyn Powell, 62, a retired Detroit teacher, said she is a lifetime member of the NAACP and a supporter of Wright and his teachings. She endorsed his message of tolerance but said the criticism he has faced was regrettable.
"It's the American way, if you want," she said. "There's a need to make him deficient rather than different."
Sunday's event drew local and national clergy members and dignitaries, including Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and several members of the state's congressional delegation. Hollywood actors attending the dinner - Vivica A. Fox, Anthony Anderson, Hill Harper and Morris Chestnut - were loudly applauded when they were introduced.
Anthony said the local NAACP reached out to Wright to allow him a fair hearing acknowledging his 40-plus years in the ministry.
"I'm a clergyman. I'm a pastor," Anthony said. "It's about speaking truth to power. We must not allow anyone to dictate what can come from the pulpit of the African-American church - any church."
Wright was scheduled to speak Monday at the National Press Club in Washington.
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See all 235 CommentsNow he''s implying that Condi Rice is sleeping with Bush.
We got this rascal dead right !
Why waste time counting Limbaugh''s anti-black remarks when you can try and imagine anti-white remarks from this fellow?
Blacks are more creative. Whites learn from objects. Certain churches are upbeat! I don''t think that upbeat churches equate with the first two. Likewise, using five notes on the piano--the black keys--or using only the white keys isn''t bad. But by using all the keys, one is able to make more, and different types, of music.
Finally, if a white person EVER gave a speech that contended that blacks and whites are genetically predisposed to use opposite sides of the brain, that person would forever be called a racist. Similarly, if a white person ever stated that blacks are "just different", that person would be a societal pariah. And for what it''s worth, accents such as those heard in Boston are not the same as BAD GRAMMER!
He is a man of good intentions.. I think that he is full of himself. He is very bright.. Dynamic at one time...
I just wish Obama could somehow leave him behind.. Obama is not rev Wright. Really he is not..
In fact I don''t think that Obama was ever that close to the guy.. i know 20 years Baptised.. etc..
Obama is the opposite of this guy.. It is too bad that Obama has this anchor.. I just hope he can cut it loose for Obama''s sake.. Obama is a great guy..
Wright is Wright.. I''m ok with him because he is what he is.. It is sad to say, but most pastors and priest that I have met are the same as Wright.. Somehow they start to think that they are above what is decent...
He is old and retiring.. Thank God.
I bet Obama wishes that the had never seen the guy..
Wright does make a good point.. He is not a politician... That is soooo obvious...
Let him be..
I simply ask you all to let Obama be Obama judge him on that.. Obama deserves that..
rev. Wright, You have a great pension waiting.
from reading your post, I can see why an old black man would hate your sorry a$$...
You and Wright are similar, with Wright a better man.
Essentially, you are as a$$hole.
Here is your change Whitey...
While visiting that mercurial miscreant Libyan strongman Col. Muammar Qaddafi, Minister
Farrakhan and Rev. Wright, struck a deal which secured millions of dollars from Libya to lobby
for the secession of part of the United States. The goal is the formation of a
separate black nation on the North American Continent replete with a 500,000 man
army and nuclear weapons.
"Minister" Farrakhan endorsed the policies of the Sudan which enslaves black
Christian men, women and children.
In remarks to the Iranian parliament Farrakhan called for the destruction of
that "great satan" meaning the United States.
In Iraq, Farrakhan accused the United States of genocide and "war crimes" and
again prayed for our total destruction.
Their Canidate is Obama ...
Michelle has a big chip on her shoulder.
Barack grew up with contempt for white people.
Bittergate.
It doesn''t take Sherlock Holmes to see this pattern
that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right
of Israel to exist and compared the terror group%u2019s official charter - which
calls for the murder of Jews - to America%u2019s Declaration of Independence.
The Hamas piece was published on the %u201CPastor%u2019s Page%u201D of the Trinity United
Church of Christ newsletter reserved for Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
The revelation follows a recent WND article quoting Israeli security officials
who expressed %u201Cconcern%u201D about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has
advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the
terrorist group.
In his July 22, 2007, church bulletin, Wright reprinted an article by Mousa
Abu Marzook, identified in the newsletter as a %u201Cdeputy of the political bureau
of Hamas.%u201D
According to senior Israeli security officials, Marzook, who resides in Syria
alongside Hamas chieftain Khaled Meshaal, is considered the %u201Cbrains%u201D behind
Hamas, designing much of the terror group%u2019s policies and ideology. Israel
possesses what it says is a large volume of specific evidence that Marzook has
been directly involved in calling for or planning scores of Hamas terrorist
offensives, including deadly suicide bombings. He was also accused of attempting
to set up a Hamas network in the U.S.
Michelle has a big chip on her shoulder.
Barack grew up with contempt for white people.
Bittergate.
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Posted by ksh1022 at 01:28 AM
He couldn''t possibly be worse than the one you got.
Sundays%u2026%u2026%u2026.these are the writings of Marxist, James H. Cones - you can look it up - Jeremiah
Wright preaches from these writings%u2026%u2026
%u201CBlack theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the
goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people,
then he is a murderer and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is
to kill gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will
accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white
enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power which is the
power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at
their disposal. Unless God is participating in his holy activity, we must reject
his love.%u201D
PEOPLE.
OBAMA WHOSE REAL NAME IS BARRY SOETORO, WAS PUT UP BY FARRAHKAN AND IS BACKED BY
THE MUSLIM NATION WITH MONEY FROM LIBYA.
EXCERPT FROM THE %u201CJUST SOUND BITES%u201D REV.WRIGHT AND FARRAHKAN TRIP TO LIBYA..
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, was seeking the United
States
Government%u2019s permission to accept $1 billion from Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of
Libya. The gift, Mr. Farrakhan said, would be used to mobilize American black
voters and bolster their economic strength. (elect Obama ?)
Their AGENDA: (excerpt)
%u201CWhile visiting that mercurial miscreant Libyan strongman Col. Muammar Qaddafi,
Farrakhan struck a deal which secured millions of dollars from Libya to lobby
for the secession of part of the United States. The goal is the formation of a
separate black nation on the North American Continent replete with a 500,000 man
army and nuclear weapons. %u201C
Racism is a problem for all people everywhere, but white Americans particularly like to see themselves as world saviors and so have a hard time seeing their weaknesses.
What the f**k is your point?
If you don''t want to vote for Obama don''t vote for the guy..
To post sh** like this over and over and retu*dlican.
BS.
By our I assume that you mean the US.. So you represent the views of the entire US, right?
Rush Limbaugh called for roits in Denver and bloodshed tonight.. Your main man!!! He might be fired.
Not that is anti-American.. I am a citizens as well and I will say that.
Last time I checked, LF and Rev, Wright was not running for president..
Why don''t you keep the debate to relevant issues.. I can tell you why.. You will get you a$$ handed to you with the real issues.
"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you''ll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
OBAMA is standing in front of the camera himself for 52 seconds explaining how he will disarm the USA.
What we are talking about here IS NOT about politics and the differing
views concerning issues.....this is about the potential literal destruction of
this country by our enemies and our inability to defend ourselves against those
attacks.
This is a very short (52 seconds) video by Barak Obama in his own words
about how he plans to destroy our defense capabilities if elected.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs
What are you smoking?
Are you Hal Turner?
I wish you would quit supporting Jihad. You little terrorist, you.
Even though I am white I still have freedom of speech and I won''t be bullied by YOU !
OBAMA is standing in front of the camera himself for 52 seconds explaining how he will disarm the USA.
What we are talking about here IS NOT about politics and the differing
views concerning issues.....this is about the potential literal destruction of
this country by our enemies and our inability to defend ourselves against those
attacks.
This is a very short (52 seconds) video by Barak Obama in his own words
about how he plans to destroy our defense capabilities if elected. (See
comments below regarding video if you can''t or do not wish to watch the video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs
You''re a spammer. Free speech is something you hate, remember?
stated that America was a nation founded on "crime and hatred". Moreover, she
stated that whites in America were "ineradicably racist". The 1985 thesis,
titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" was written under her
maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to "Whites at Princeton , it often
seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first..." However, it was
reported by a fellow black classmate, "If those "Whites at Princeton " really
saw Michelle as one who always would "be Black first," it seems that she gave
them that impression".
Most alarming is Michele Obama''s use of the terms "separationist" and
"integrationist" when describing the views of black people.
Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a "separationist" view of race.
You hate anyone who isn''t white. Remember?
When I first saw the recently released Indonesian translation of Barack Obama''s
book "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream", over
here in Southeast Asia I was completely taken aback not only by the violent
imagery in new title of the book, "Menerjang Harapan: Dari Jakarta Menuju Gedung
Putih", but by the fact that it was not really a translation at all, but rather
a completely different title than the original book. For the native Indonesian
speaker, this figurative language creates a mental image whereas the translation
of the book''s title can actually come to mean "Jihad: From Jakarta To The
Whitehouse". Why would the publishers drastically change the title of the book
for the Indonesian translation and make use of such figurative language? Your
guess is as good as mine, but it would seem that Barack Obama is quite
interested with promoting himself in Southeast Asia as a crusader for the cause
of Indonesia''s Muslims.
Last time you were an idiot and said Obama was Arab. I guess you don''t remember all the crapp you spam.
Your freedom of speech is nothing more than slander and bad taste.. People like you create the Farrakans..
You even pi$$ me off.. You dumba$$ war , like most of your others is a failure.. So is your dubya screwed up presidency..
A diaster.. So you want to hide behind a old Black reverend.
Grow some balls..
Don;t be a complete idiot. The US spends more each year on weapons and military than all other nations combined. We have a 9 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT. The dollar is plummeting. We are WASTING hundreds of BILLIONS on weapons we simply do not need. Read your Eisenhower warnings on the military industrial complex.
Get over your pathetic fears and hatred, or whatever else is causing you to throw whats left of your rational thinking overboard.
Idiot people. The Neocons are running this nation into the ground, wasting BILLIONS on mercenary contractors, needless cold-war style weapons, sacrificing 4,000 troops maiming thousands more needlessly for their War based on LIES...
GET A CLUE.
priorities straight and his moral compass
%u201CWhat I value most about Pastor Wright is his day-to-day political
advice,%u201D
Obama said. %u201CHe%u2019s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am
speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I%u2019m not
losing
myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that%u2019s involved in national
politics.%u201D
time, he received his Allah-inspired name. He must become an apostate to Islam
for him to truly not be Muslim -- and publicly announce this apostasy. This is
what he MUST do....but he will never do this. This Muslim can claim to be of ANY
religion, but as long as he does not become an apostate, he REMAINS Muslim!!!!
don''t have any idea what being a muslim is. In the muslim world, anyone born to
a muslim father is automatically a muslim. Sure Obama attends some so-called
christian church, but as revealed recently, the church has very little to do
with christianity, and it is preocuppied with hating America. The sermons in
there don''t sound much different than those in mosques where some of the most
radical islamists clerics preach. With these facts in mind, I am still not
certain that Hussein Obama is not a muslim. And just because he says he isnt''t,
that doesn''t make it true. He will say anything to take the nomination away from
Hillary. Since when did we start believing politicians?
Hamas...} This comes to show you why people still believe Obama is a muslim and
that his so-called church has nothing to do with christianity. The following
facts cannot be denied: #1 he was born to a muslim father which automatically
makes him a muslim. #2 he was raised by his muslim step-father. #3 he attended
mosques and madrasas from his childhood. #4 he is a member of a church that
sympathizes with Hamas and hates America. #5 he is endorsed by Farrakhan and the
nation of islam.
No, you are right nanging, Obama is a closet homosexual and Muslim. He probably is going to put you in jail if he become president. Yeah, be scared.
%u201CHis repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words,
his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order,
martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.%u201D
And it was equally candid about his youthful struggles: pot, booze and %u201Cmaybe a
little blow,%u201D he wrote, could %u201Cpush questions of who I was out of my mind,%u201D
flatten %u201Cout the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory.%u201D Most
memorably, the book gave the reader a heartfelt sense of what it was like to
grow up in the 1960%u2019s and 70%u2019s, straddling America%u2019s color lines: the sense of
knowing two worlds and belonging to neither, the sense of having to forge an
identity of his own.
www.exposeobama.com
www.exposeobama.com
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Posted by nanging3 at 02:04 AM
You are just weird, out and out weird.
for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones
who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people
have been displaced by election violence(over 350,000) and I don%u2019t know the last
count of the dead.Obama under %u201Cfriends of Obama%u201D gave almost a million dollars
to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who
is a socialist trained in east germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down
for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this
country! December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged
election. Obama and Raila speak daily.As we watch Obama rise in the US we are
sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic,cyring rigged election
if he doesn%u2019t win and possibly cause a race war in America.
What we would like you to know is what the american press has been keeping a
dirty little secret. Obama IS a muslim and he IS a racist and this is a
fullfilllment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the only
true muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this july! He is
not an american as we know it.
Now we find out in his book that he grew up with contempt for white people.
He attended a racially inclusive church.
He married a woman who thinks america is a mean country and that she''s never been proud of it.
His first fundraiser was at a sixty''s anti-government terrorist house.
We heard his San Francisco closed door bitter ocmments implying rural americans are racist.
Sorry Barack. I''m not Sherlock Holmes but it looks like YOU are the racist and if you aren''t,,,,you missed a good chance to be.
are promoting him. It is world wide jihad.All our friends in Europe are very
disturbed by the mulsim infiltration into their countries. By the way. His true
name is Barak Hussein Muhammed Obama. Won%u2019t that sound sweet to our enemies as
they swear him in on the Koran!
God Bless you.
Pray for us here in Kenya. We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the
same kind of assult that every nation, including America, is fighting. Takeover
from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be
the first targets. Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds
of churches were burned down, some with people in them, burned alive.
Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated
the church and confused believers into thinking that they can compromise and
survive. It won%u2019t be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in February
documenting in a more cohesive manner what I%u2019ve tried to say in a few paragraphs.
Are you nanging''s best friend? Do you two live together? Will you become the first redneck Muslims under Obama?
The LORD JESUS will rescue you. He will come down and in fiery cloud lift you up to the heavens above. And smite all the heathens and supporters of Obama.
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