Eventually, the statements made by Barack Obamsa's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., made it into the mainstream. Wright has supported the anti-Semitic extremist Louis Farrakhan. He also supported America's enemies in their attack on his own country:
Wright made his comments on September 16, only 5 days after the deadly strikes in New York and Washington. He said, in part, "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye....We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
As Politico writes, this is really old news, but not widely reported until now.
Wright has been the minister to Obama for more than 20 years and gave him the title of his second best-seller, “The Audacity of Hope.” Wright married Obama and his wife, Michelle, and baptized their two daughters.
Wright is pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, which on its website calls itself “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian,” and lists “a non-negotiable commitment to Africa” as part of its “10-point Vision.”
The minister’s controversial history has been written about countless times throughout the campaign. Wright has ties to the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the black supremacist leader of the Nation of Islam — a fact that has been noted in more than 100 news stories just in the past few months, according to the Nexis database of news coverage.
Opponents of Obama have constantly pushed reporters to write about the minister, which these critics considered a ticking time bomb for his campaign.
On Feb. 20, after a fiery guest sermon by Wright in Little Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ran an article that said: “On Tuesday, Wright criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq and likened the insurgents to the Israelites under Babylonian rule.”
“I would — do not repudiate the man,” Obama told Olbermann. “[T]his is somebody who I have known for 17 years. He helped bring me to Jesus and helped bring me to church. … But I have to say that the comments that have been played are ones that are contrary to what I believe, what I think of this country, the love that I have for this country and, you know, are ones that anger and distress me.”
For a private person, it is not difficult to accept that one accepts even outrageous political statements from a person who has had an enormous personal impact on his own life.
However, Barack Oabam is not, and was not, just a private person.
To accept Obama's recent denunciation of pastor Wright's outrageous statements, we unfortunately have to believe that during the traumatic aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, he was totally unaware of what his close spiritual leader said and thought.
The alternative, much more likely but not exactly flattering for Obana, is that he knew about these statements but kept silent, or even actually personally sympathised with them. Obama distancing himself from Pastor Wright only happened, conveniently, after the story started to get widespread attention.
If Barack Obama was a less unknown quantity, this may not have been more than a tactical blunder. However, it raises the serious possibility that despite his clear statements to the contrary, Obama genuinely sympathises with the anti-Semitic, blame-America-first leftist elites. At this stage, we just cannot know what is inside his mind.
I absolutely believe that America is more than ready for a black, or for that matter a women president. I do not, however, think America will accept a European-style socialist for the presidency.
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