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Home Front: Politix
Rev-enge is sweet for the "betrayed" pastor
2008-04-30
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright would be happy to see Barack Obama's presidential campaign derailed because the pastor is fuming that his former congregant has "betrayed" their 20-year relationship,

The Post has learned. "After 20 years of loving Barack like he was a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn't know about Jeremiah's views during those years, that he wasn't familiar with what Jeremiah had said, that he may have missed church on this day or that and didn't hear what Jeremiah said, this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal," said the source, who has deep roots in Wright's Chicago community and is familiar with his thinking on the matter.

"Jeremiah is trying to defend his congregation and the work of his ministry by saying what he is saying now," the source added. "Jeremiah doesn't care if he derails Obama's candidacy or not . . . He knows what he's doing. Obviously, he's not a dumb man. He knows he's not helping."
Posted by:tipper

#6  Look here, Mike. Short story: organizer of Wright's speech to the National Press Club is a big-time Clinton supporter. Seems a dubious link to me, but there you are.
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2008-04-30 19:49  

#5  A picture of Wright and Clintoon at a WH function... possibly celebrating "First Black President" day.
Posted by: Capsu78   2008-04-30 18:34  

#4  I've seen people in comments boxes alluding to some sort of connection between Wright and the Clintons--as in, Wright is a supporter or a campaign contributor or some such. (He doesn't come up as a donor on an opensecrets.org search.)

Anyone seen anything more substantial?
Posted by: Mike   2008-04-30 17:52  

#3  That's it. It's over for BHO. The house of cards is finally collapsing. It took a little longer than I thought. But I can hear Hillary's cackle off in the distance now.

How quickly political fortunes can change.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-04-30 16:19  

#2  "He knows he's not helping"

Oh, he's helping all right - just not Obamalamadingdong.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-04-30 14:35  

#1  The source added, "After 20 years of loving Barack like he is one of their own, after he was embraced by this congregation as a brother in Christ, after his pastor was a father figure to him and gave him credibility in a city he had not grown up in and in a black community that was suspect of someone from Hawaii and Harvard, he thanks him by not allowing him to speak publicly at his announcement last year?

"A lot of people in the church believe they were there for this man when no one else was, and a lot of people don't believe it any more when Obama claims he loves the man who did so much for him," the source added.

This snippet from the 2nd pg is a reasonable rationalization for what might have happened to cause the "crazy uncle" to come down from the attic. The good Rev.might not have been all OK with being sent to pasture in his "whitey gated community" nor satisfied with access to a $10M line of credit on a debt most likely to be forgiven in the future.
It would be equally delicious if the Wright figured out that a book deal about throwing the ingrate Obama under the bus provided a very lucrative pulpit to preach to a much much larger audience.


Posted by: Capsu78   2008-04-30 13:18  

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