I love Reverend Wright.
This post at Hot Air busts Obama’s hump. On “The View” episode taped today, Obama said of Rev. Wright:
“I think people overstate this idea of mentor or spiritual adviser. He was my pastor.”
But at the beginning of his campaign:
Obama says that rather than advising him on strategy, Wright helps keep his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.
“What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama said. “He’s 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’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.” …
Though Wright and Obama do not often talk one-on-one often, the senator does check with his pastor before making any bold political moves.
I think this calls for an LOL.
Anyway, so I clicked on the article that last bit was from, and found this quote from Wright’s final sermon, which I hadn’t heard before:
“How many children of biracial parents can make it in a world controlled by racist ideology? Children born to parents who are of two different races do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of making it in America, especially if the momma was white and the daddy was black. A child born to that union is an unfortunate statistic in a racially polarized society.”
Fuckin’ liar.
Off the top of my head, I can think of several snowballs in hell right now, all of whom I’m pretty sure have “made it in America”, and this is just in the entertainment/sports area:
Tiger Woods
Halle Berry
Derek Jeter
Mariah Carey
Tina Turner
Alicia Keys
Bob Marley
Jimi Hendrix
Jennifer Beals
Lenny Kravitz
Plus, guess who? Malcolm X himself.
Two seconds on Google produced this list and it’s literally just the tip of the iceberg (these are just the famous ones).
Granted, he did follow that bit up with this:
“But, if you use your mind, instead of a lost statistic in a hate-filled universe, you just may end up a law student at Harvard University. In fact, if you use your mind, you might end up as the editor of the Harvard Law Review. If you use your mind, instead of [being] a statistic destined for the poor house, you just may end up a statesman destined for the … Yes, we can!” Wright said, using the popular Obama slogan to bring the crowd to its feet in cheers.
The Hate-Filled Universe. That’d make a great name for a blog.
The right Rev. Wright is certainly living in a hate filled universe… of his own design. Obama is a fool for hitching his wagon to this charlatan. I think you can stick a fork in both of them.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pmOK, they’re both idiots. And they annoy me. But watching Barbara tell Obama he was sexy on the view today? Made me throw up in my mouth.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:52 pmPeople overstate? No Senator, you overstate.
If the man isn’t your mentor or spiritual advisor, then you shouldn’t have described him as such.
Setting aside the fact that there is really little distinction between the two, since when is having your moral compass calibrated by a militant racist a good thing?
If George Bush said his moral compass was being calibrated by David Duke, liberals would rightly call him a racist.
Oh. My. God.
Is he kidding? Seriously, is he fucking kidding?
Biracial children have no chance of succeeding in America, meanwhile biracial child Barack Hussein Obama, multimillionaire and lawyer, runs for President of the United States?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pmDoes he even listen to himself when he speaks? What a steaming pile of racist crap. I really feel badly for all of the impressionable children who have had to listen to him over the years. I wonder what their outlook on life is like.
Whose sermons would you rather have kids listen to in church, Reverend Wright or Bill Cosby?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:11 pmSadly, it’s not just Rev. Wright saying this crap, judging by all the interviews after this all came to light, there are alot of black churches preaching this garbage.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pmYou could have Ted Bundy or Charles Manson on the View and these loons would fawn over them. Why people watch this crap is beyond me. If freud had to put Wright on his couch he would probably kill himselve. But then again i’m just being a TYPICAL WHITE PERSON>
March 28th, 2008 at 1:34 pmI have been reading Frederick Douglass and B.T. Washington ever since Wright came to light:
I don’t care so much about the racism, I do care about Wright’s hateful, ignorant viewpoint of my country and Obama’s tacit support of it.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:44 pmReverend Wright has paler skin than my California cousin’s summer tan, and she’s a blonde.
Just saying. Why is he talking about bi-racial kids when he is not all that “African” looking himself?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:51 pmI refuse to comment on this, on the grounds it will get be accused of being a member of the Aryan Nations.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:02 pmI heard on our local National Palestinian Radio affiliate that dates are starting to be defined (in KY) for the cut-off of when you can register as a Democrat, and still be turned away from the party’s primary. Why do I care ? ‘Cause it’s beginning to look alot like ABBO.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:15 pmWhat a knucklehead.
He needs to stop digging. And he needs to shut his wife up.
Now, that has been obvious to me for a couple months. I cannot believe that he hasn’t received that advice from his able campaign staff. That being the case I can only conclude that he has refused to take good advice from his staff on how to handle this problem and maneuver himself into position to clinch the nomination and begin running his general election campaign.
And that leads me to believe that Michelle Obama’s and Jeremiah (was a bullfrog) Wright’s rants (which Obama never heard a word of) actually reflect Obama’s views of the world. And that makes him profoundly unsuited to be President of the United States on its face.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:17 pmDoes anyone else believe that perhaps the “honorable” Rev Wright (and Sharpton and Jackson and MObama) and other people like him like to claim “racism” for everything merely because they want to keep racism alive so they can continually play the victims?
March 28th, 2008 at 2:56 pmI listened on the radio to a speech given by Michelle Obama at a college one year ago. She berated the students for living in separate dorms, sitting with their own kind when they study, not embracing diversity, and feeling comfortable in their ignorance. Then she went back to her all black church.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:57 pmJust because I feel like pouring salt into the huge, sucking chest wound that is the Obama/Wright controversy, I offer this recent quote from the Obamessiah (via Ace of Spades):
Really? Now it occurs to you to leave the church? You spend 20 FUCKING YEARS in that church listening to Wright’s racist sermons and now you feel like leaving?
March 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pmAnd… the Rev. Wright - whose church is against “middle classness”- has retired to a home worth in excess of 1M.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm# Anne Says:
And… the Rev. Wright - whose church is against “middle classness”- has retired to a home worth in excess of 1M.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Nothing wrong with that. Rich aint middle class, so there is no hypocrisy there.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pmYou’re right of course - see I was thinking the “spirit” of the “law” rather than the letter of:)
March 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pmThe messiah has a white momma and Black Daddy and judging by his income statments seems to be doing pretty, pretty good.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:11 pmThere are two biracial kids whom I predict will not do well in the future: the children of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. They will be part of an “unfortunate statistic” not because of their parentage but because their father is a raging wife-beating narcissist who murdered their mother.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:56 pmHe also grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood in Philadelphia. No child of the ghetto he.
March 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pmWhat is with these “black” guys who are actually paler than me? They are so self-loathing sometimes…maybe there’s something to that. I guess psychologically speaking Wright had a hard time proving his “blackness” and earning street cred because he’s so pale. They say the same about Obama - anyway if this is a factor, then the problem is with the stress other blacks put on these pale guys to prove their blackness - (the stress is not coming from the whites) - the feelings of “inferior blackness” would then subconsciously turn into a hatred of the white side of one’s heritage, I suppose, (nearly all of it imagined, too)… hence the self-loathing.
It’s all a bunch of crap, but if you grow up believing in crap, you find out later in life that you’ve wallowed in it for so long that you’ve become a bit dirty…
Is anybody else really tired of these folks from mixed heritage who claim only their “ethnic” genes and completely disavow their “white” genes? Especially aggravating when they’re raised by the white side of the fam who actually exercised some degree of compassion and responsibility after the ethnic father splits. Sorry, it’s just a little bit common in today’s culture, so if that offends some people, TFB…
Reverend Wright - yeah, there’s a lotta milk in that chocolate.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:20 pmThe real tragedy is that there are probably millions of white people who agree with every word he said. Our leftist-dominated educational system keeps churning them out. And we’re all forced to pay for it.
All those themes–the rich exploit the poor, whites exploit blacks, America is racist and imperialist, we use more than our “share” of resources, America is the source of most of the evil in the world–all of this is pretty standard-issue Communist propaganda which has been around for decades. But it’s scary indeed to see how deeply it has become ingrained in the thinking of many Americans of all colors.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:24 pmI’d crack a joke here, but it would be considered too off-color.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:39 pmTiger Woods
Halle Berry
Derek Jeter
Mariah Carey
Tina Turner
Alicia Keys
Bob Marley
Jimi Hendrix
Jennifer Beals
Lenny Kravitz
Uh…this is easy for them to overlook, Rachel. They’re all entertainers and athletes. A hard-core leftivist would say ” that’s soooooo stereotyped !“
March 31st, 2008 at 7:03 am