Reverend Wright Will Be a Problem for Obama

I don't get it

I'm certain that any other candidate, to include McCain, would have been told that he is not suitable to hold the highest office in our country. They try to spin it by stating that McCain was endorsed by Hagee. McCain does not have a 20-year relationship with Hagee! He does not consider Hagee as his "old Uncle".

How convenient to try and paint brush Wright's anti-American rantings as ONLY an issue about race in America.

Rev. Wright's Christianity

. Where does Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ fit into the Protestant scheme of things: Pentecostal, Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, other? My mother was an evangelical missionary in Kalgan, North China. She said Christians do not swear or take the name of the Lord in vain; do not hate people, only some of their actions; and certainly Christian ministers do not shout God damn America from the pulpit. Maybe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s version is “other.”

Right On!

Nice PLE of VA. Very smart post. I applaud you!!!

To a Typical White Person from VA: Coming from racist Virginia I don't expect anything but what you said from you. But I am a "typical black person" who lives in Philadelphia. There are parts of my city where I would not go, alone, or with a friend, day or night. So hush that mess. Does lynching ring any bells with you?

As for grandma, she is a racist. If she was so insensitive as to go around using the "n" word in the presence of her half-black grandchild, she doesn't deserve any sympathy. That's just stupid. But Obama is convinced she is not a racist. Now that's love. Love is blind. Gos bless his soul.

What Rev. Wright Means

What people don't realize is that most of the things Rev. Wright says African-Americans agree. The reason alot of us feel that AIDS was invented to kill off the black race is because it started in Africa. The monkeys are said to be the culprits. Now the monkeys have been running through the trees for centuries and out of no where they develop this horrendous disease. It smells fishy. Just because gay Caucasian men were the first to show the disease doesn't negate the fact that it started in our original homeland. Where there are still many millions of us, a large portion who are dying every day. So his words are not unfounded. They are not the words of a crazy man. They are the words of a frustrated black man who loves his country just doesn't like the racism that pervades every corner of it.

Religion smidgen

The irreverant Wright is irrelevant. I've never consider Obama to be a serious candidate for President of the United States. Obama has less experience than George W. Bush, someone who is wholly unqualified to hold the office. And Condoleeza Rice, who is also unqualified to hold her office. I would not hire Obama to run a company much less our country. And to compound his proposal with religion is to add insult to injury. Never mind Wright's brain washing tirades, his boo-hoo-hoo racist victimhooding of his black audience... the last thing our country needs is another evangelical religous wacko in the White House.

Obama is that... he is unqualified, he is most liberal, he rallys 99.999% of the black vote... dispite appearances, zero diversity is not a good thing, folks... and he is dripping wet in his religious salvation from a broken home, a fatherless childhood, a bi-racial identity complex (sorry whitey!), his specialness in special schools, and his recreational drug use. I can appreciate his need for Jesus Christ after all of that, but that is his problem, his baggage, not the country's. It's bad enough that a majority of Americans believe some god pulled their universe out of a hat in seven days... we do not need another saved soul wreaking their born-again I-can-do-no-harm havoc in government... George W. Bush was enough hope-and-prayer leadership for one century. Let Obama age a bit more in the real world and let go of your utopian dream that Obama is IT... there is no it, it is all in your head! And when there is an it, you should run from it, not worship it.

Hillary will not stand down. She can not and will not. So expect this contest to end only after the last super delegate is counted.

Sounds like Farrakhan ??

Pastor J. Wright's speeches sound a LOT like Nation of Islam L. Farrakhan.....both hate America and whites.

Obama shows POOR JUDGMENT in the people he associates with.

A president must show GOOD judgment, as Obama himself says.

Black Ministers vs White Ministers

It seems to me that I have heard a lot of the white, evangelical ministers say that God was punishing America's permissiveness by sending HIV/AIDS, punishing American for our sins by allowing 9/11. How is God punishing us any different than saying God damns us. Why are they allowed to preach hatred, racism, & sexism and receive support and yet Mr. Obama only listens to it and is damned. I love my country but like Mrs. Obama I am not always proud of it. BTW-I'm a white born again Christian

obama and the pastor

the media has been so easy on obama. why have they not asked him why he did not leave? The Klu Klux Klan also has done a lot of good works as did Hiltler. How does having done good works negate hate speech. It was hate not anger. We are white but have attended black churches on a regular basis and have never heard anything like this. We would have left. Staying as Obama has done gives legitimacy to the hate. This is fair game for the Clinton campaign but the media has been so bais against her on the racial issue that it will be very hard for them to raise it without being called negative or racist. Defintely a double standard

a commentor above wrote:

"What else can Barack do besides what he has already done....this is ridiculous and another lynching of a black man's character. To reduce Barrack's character based on those few snippits constantly played by the media is just ridiculous and I hope fellow americans can see right through this media entermainment"

The first thing he can do is to explicitly deny the lies Revf Wright tells about the US, not in general as "controversial statments, but expliciutly. He should have done long ago. Rev Wrights statements are not merely controversial. They are wicked lies, and intended to be deeply harmful to the US.

Wright has claimed the "US created AIDS" and he claimed the US did so in order to commit genocide. This is not religious or moral teaching, it is a claim about facts and history, and it is both wicked and ignorant.

HIV has been present in humans since about 1950 (this is known from preserved tissue samples from patients whose disease could not be explained at the time). At that time no one on earth knew how to manipulate viral genes. That was even before the structure of DNA itself was even known (Watson Crick 1953). Neither the CIA nor the KGB nor any other government agency does basic science research, and when AIDS first appeared "creating" it was beyond human knowledge. In fact HIV is believed to have mutated from the chimp virus SIV, and probably passed over to humans in central Africa:

"The transfer between chimps and humans probably happened before 1930," said Bibollet-Ruche from the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/06/13/monkeys.aid/

BHO has a duty to the country he wants to lead. The president is the first defender of the United States. Today the enemies of the US, Osama bin Laden and the Iranian mullahs spread lies similar to those repeated by Wright. The first duty of a president is to defend the US from such lies.

Why has Mr Obama never explicitly said anything about this wicked lie? He still has not explicitly denied it, nor has he attempted to teach his own congregation how deeply false it is.

A person who is content to tolerate such lies and who declines to point out how wrong they are, is not capable of leading the nation which he declines to defend.