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Home Front: Politix
Obama pastor recalls his 'crucifixion' in Dallas sermon
2008-04-28
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the embattled pastor of presidential candidate Barack Obama, gave a 45-minute sermon on Sunday that included a reference to his "public crucifixion" for past comments from the pulpit.
"Yeah. It wuz a crucifixion, only with no nails. And there wasn't a cross. And I wuz wearing a dashiki. And Pontius Pilate wudn't there..."
Wright received a standing ovation from the 4,000 worshippers at Friendship-West Baptist Church, the Dallas Morning News reported.
"Yay! Hurray! [Clap!] [Clap!] [Clap!]"
During the first of two Sunday sermons he was expected to deliver, Wright wove a Gospel message with commentary about social justice. He told the congregation to lean on God and stand up for themselves.
"And God damn America!"
Security was tight, and no media cameras were allowed inside the church, the newspaper reported.
"Brother Muggsy, bar the door! Noboady leaves this room!"
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.
On non-existent evidence...
In a sermon days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Wright said, "America's chickens are coming home to roost" after it dropped atomic bombs on Japan and "supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans."
Tell 'em the part about "God damn America!"
The videos, circulated widely on television and the Internet, knocked Obama's campaign off-stride. The Illinois Democrat distanced himself from the comments of Wright, whom he has known for 20 years.
"Huh huh! Just my batty old uncle up there in the pulpit. Pay no attention to me. I'm safely not race-driven."
Wright, who is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said the videos were old snippets that were taken out of context.
How do you take "God damn America" out of context? It carries its own context, doesn't it?
In an interview aired Friday on PBS, Wright said publicizing portions of old sermons was unfair and "made me the target of hatred." He said he had received death threats.
"Didja keep any of them? Like, for evidence?"
"No, no! Too hateful! You wouldn't wanna see 'em!"
Wright was scheduled to speak Monday at the National Press Club in Washington. He was invited to Friendship-West to honor the Rev. Freddie Haynes, the church's senior pastor. "We're going to hear the whole sermon," Haynes had promised his congregation. "Not just the clips in order to feed a right-wing agenda."
Posted by:Fred

#27  #26 I don't care if he's a little green man from Mars, Obama is still a dishonest leftist

A bit of redundancy there, OS, but I couldn't agree more with what you're saying. I have a friend here in town that thinks BO needs to be elected to office in Reno, NV, and serve there for ten or twelve years, so he can grow up. We won't repeat what he says about Hillary or John McCain. He (and I, as well) would vote for Bill Cosby over either of the three currently running. BTW, John is a retired Black Air Force officer, and about ten times as intelligent of either of the Obamas, or even both of them combined. I listen when he talks. I keep trying to get him to come to Rantburg, but he never seems to have the time.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-04-28 21:39  

#26  I don't care if he's a little green man from Mars, Obama is stil la dishonest leftist, and has had long affirmed relationsthips and mentorships from racists liek Rev Wright, and domestic terrorists, and hard core socialists. In addition to that, he is duplicitous and an elitist as shown by his "guns and religion" remarks.

All of the above are sufficeint to disqualify him for any thinking person - and thats without addressing his further fatal flaws such as a mediocre legislative record and lack of substance on substantive matters, and complete stupidity when it comes to Iraq.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-04-28 16:08  

#25  Reverend Wright definitely needs a nationwide TV show of his own. At least until November.
Posted by: ed   2008-04-28 15:46  

#24  Excalibur #6, don't be presumptuous, I could be white, married to a black woman. I could be mixed, and could find a center ground of understanding. However I can admit and reveal to you that I am Independent, and could likely have this same exchange with you on a different person running, after November 7th! I prefer to 'look down' on the big picture, than up from the foxhole. 'Certain whites' are upset because Obama is always getting the lion's share of the black votes; blacks are excited over the choices whites are making for him! These historic considerations will not be ignored by progressives, both black and white. Certain whites will be upset if 90% of the black vote go to Hillary this fall if Obama drops out for party unity reasons. Certain whites will be upset should 90% of the black vote push the lever for McCain this fall, over the negative, nasty, tactics deployed by the Clinton campaign to push him(Obama) aside, [sweet revenge]! So as you can see, whites will lead blacks to the cliff, but only blacks can decide to jump off!
Posted by: smn   2008-04-28 14:34  

#23  I heard the entire sermon and was appalled - not only at the standard leftist assertions but at the wild flights of "logic" and wildly contradictory proclamations. Not to mention the attitude wherein he seems to think he's some sort of OT prophet.

Frankly, the rest of the media is perfectly happy with the snippets, Imagine the damage they played or made available the entire sermons...

Agreed: the "context" is worse than the snippets. In a Q&A session after his Press Club rant when people questioned his AIDS and 9/11 claims he answered with: "Have you read X?" or "Have you read Y?" Hell, I've read several books (painfully well documented and footnoted) that claim ETs started all the world's early civilizations. According to Rev. Wright's logic that makes them true.
Posted by: xbalanke   2008-04-28 14:19  

#22  I think the AIDS epidemic got it's start from people having sex with space aliens.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2008-04-28 13:57  

#21  TW, I hope you meant Purdue U in West Lafayette. Perdue, I believe, was the Georgia govenor.

I'm quite certain you're right, Woozle Elmeter. Thanks for the correction! :-)
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-04-28 13:27  

#20  I watched some of Wrights speech this morning at the National Press Club. This guy is nuts. Every time he opens his mouth, he sounds crazier than the last time. He has been on TV 3 times since Friday. Each time he drives more and more people (white, hispanic and asian people anyway) away from Obama. It certainly is time for an honest discussion of race in America and part of that honesty is for mainstream America to stand up and reject this guy for the race hustler that he is.
Posted by: remoteman   2008-04-28 13:18  

#19  Nah, sounds like she was trained by Frank "the chicken man" Perdue.
Posted by: AlanC   2008-04-28 13:02  

#18  mojo! >:)
Posted by: RD   2008-04-28 13:01  

#17  TW, I hope you meant Purdue U in West Lafayette. Perdue, I believe, was the Georgia govenor.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700   2008-04-28 12:54  

#16  "In a little hill-top village
The gambled for my clothes..."
Posted by: mojo   2008-04-28 12:14  

#15  Prolly 'cuz you were serving him tea and cookies, TW!
Posted by: Bobby   2008-04-28 11:42  

#14  Oh, and Fred, you haven't insulted me, yet. I feel unloved. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-04-28 11:20  

#13  I once reported to a young, black, female engineer (Perdue-trained, no less) from Atlanta who'd grown up in the crowd that surrounded the Martin Luther King, Jr. family. The things she believed -- a chemical engineer doing research! -- government-created AIDS, all good things invented in Africa and all bad invented by Whites, Jews controlling the media and the world of finance even as she only used Jewish doctors... and she was the Platonic Ideal of a spoiled brat with a belief in her level of competence completely uncoupled from reality.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-04-28 11:11  

#12  Race baiters use race baiting as a way to establish their importance. Hitler was a master of this stuff. He would emotionally spell out a problem, then toss blame at whomever he wanted to harm. This is why we don't appreciate race baiting. The focus of the resulting hate is us, we of white skin even if we didn't have anything to do with the problem.
It's a simple process to lead people to do whatever trouble you want to cause. Nothing constructive ever results from emotional blaming speeches, only destruction. I don't find any Christian message in Reverend Wright's speeches, just finger pointing.
Posted by: wxjames   2008-04-28 11:06  

#11  Rev Wright delivered a speech this am at the NCAAP that was overtly racist and clearly suffused with junk science - a lot of right brained, left brained stuff with graniots (spelling apprx) mentioned.

Is this guy being paid by Hillary?
Posted by: mhw   2008-04-28 10:20  

#10  "Now wondering if 90% of black people - the 90% voting for bHo - agree the CIA created AIDS"

I imagine most no more agree with that than I agree that Hillary encountered dangerous sniper fire in Bosnia, or than most of y'all who are going to vote GOP agree with McCain on election financing reform.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2008-04-28 10:01  

#9  I think the $10m house and the credit card with a $2m limit carry their own context, too.

As long as you just _barely fail_ to get your agenda implemented, there's a LOT of capitalist moolah to be made in being a communist rabble-rouser?
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2008-04-28 09:49  

#8  Maybe Wright is grooming for Al Sharpton's job now that Al is busy inciting riots and trying to get himself imprisoned.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-04-28 09:38  

#7  I think the $10m house and the credit card with a $2m limit carry their own context, too.
Posted by: Fred   2008-04-28 09:30  

#6  smn sounds like a "typical black person".

Thanks for B. Hussein Obama for opening up our free and frank discussion.

Now wondering if 90% of black people - the 90% voting for bHo - agree the CIA created AIDS.
Posted by: Excalibur   2008-04-28 09:22  

#5  Wright, who is leaving Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said the videos were old snippets that were taken out of context.

FOX has one of the sermons up - in three parts.

Hewitt has played the entire audio of one

Frankly, the rest of the media is perfectly happy with the snippets, Imagine the damage they played or made available the entire sermons...
Posted by: Pappy   2008-04-28 09:09  

#4  Not too sure what you mean by "quest to find ever more tantalizing Racist Right Whitey exerts, from down in the black bible belt." I'm feeling kinda stoopid this morning.

Apparently I've hit approximately the right nerve, though, which implies I'm doing what I originally set out to do. If there's some race, religion, group, or planet I haven't offended at least once on this site, please let me know. I'll get right on it.

Thhhhhpppppp!
Posted by: Fred   2008-04-28 08:46  

#3  I think smn has been appointed by the Obama campaign to keep us Rantburgers honest.

I never post anything bad about Hillary, smn, it's against Rantburg (unwritten)law. Not.

I believe we do, smn, try to supplement the standard media news, with other sources (Australian, Palestinian, Pakistani, Pravda, etc) and a certain amount of irreverent commentary, such as the above.

Did Obama take his daughters to hear the Rev. Wright? Is that the face of "change"?
Posted by: Bobby   2008-04-28 06:32  

#2  Most happiness Fred, in your quest to find ever more tantalizing Racist Right Whitey exerts, from down in the black bible belt!!!

Rolf!! GOD did make some mistakes...

smn yawalls Projectin'..

like my 'Lozesa'na grand mammy said, "yawalls pointin dat back at your'ownself with 4 fingers smn."
Posted by: RD   2008-04-28 02:44  

#1  Now that thats out of your system Fred, tell us about the play by play of Hillary's Pastor...........................................Oh, not worth mentioning, he's not black...okay what about McCain's Pastors speech that Sunday?.
...............................not black either??? Most happiness Fred, in your quest to find ever more tantalizing Racist Right Whitey exerts, from down in the black bible belt!!!
Posted by: smn   2008-04-28 02:24  

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