Believing Obama is a Worst Case Scenario

He distanced himself from Jeremiah Wright only temporarily during the campaign. Wright said so. But make no mistake Obama and Wright are very tight and Wright will continue being his pastor once into the WH. The “Audacity of Hope” was a title of Wright’s sermon that insipired Obama to write (later) his book.

Here are selected paragraphs from 2 articles on Obama & Jeremiah Wright :

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CHICAGO — Members of Trinity United Church of Christ squeezed into a downtown hotel ballroom in early March to celebrate the long service of their pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. One congregant stood out amid the flowers and finery: Senator Barack Obama…

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Few of those at Mr. Wright’s tribute in March knew of the pressures that Mr. Obama’s presidential run was placing on the relationship between the pastor and his star congregant. Mr. Wright’s assertions of widespread white racism and his scorching remarks about American government have drawn criticism, and prompted the senator to cancel his delivery of the invocation when he formally announced his candidacy in February.

Mr. Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate who says he was only shielding his pastor from the spotlight, said he respected Mr. Wright’s work for the poor and his fight against injustice. But “we don’t agree on everything,” Mr. Obama said. “I’ve never had a thorough conversation with him about all aspects of politics.”

It is hard to imagine, though, how Mr. Obama can truly distance himself from Mr. Wright. The Christianity that Mr. Obama adopted at Trinity has infused not only his life, but also his campaign.

He began his presidential announcement with the phrase “Giving all praise and honor to God,” a salutation common in the black church. He titled his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” after one of Mr. Wright’s sermons, and often talks about biblical underdogs, the mutual interests of religious and secular America, and the centrality of faith in public life.

The day after the party for Mr. Wright, Mr. Obama stood in an A.M.E. church pulpit in Selma, Ala., and cast his candidacy in nothing short of biblical terms, implicitly comparing himself to Joshua, known for his relative inexperience, steadfast faith and completion of Moses’ mission of delivering his people to the Promised Land.

It was a 1988 sermon called “The Audacity to Hope” that turned Mr. Obama, in his late 20s, from spiritual outsider to enthusiastic churchgoer. Mr. Wright in the sermon jumped from 19th-century art to his own youthful brushes with crime and Islam to illustrate faith’s power to inspire underdogs. Mr. Obama was seeing the same thing in public housing projects where poor residents sustained themselves through sheer belief.
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In the 16 years since Mr. Obama returned to Chicago from Harvard, Mr. Wright has presided over his wedding ceremony, baptized his two daughters and dedicated his house, while Mr. Obama has often spoken at Trinity’s panels and debates.

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He has said that he relies on Mr. Wright to ensure “that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible.” He tends to turn to his minister at moments of frustration, Mr. Wright said, such as when Mr. Obama felt a Congressional Black Caucus meeting was heavier on entertainment than substance.
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On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns.”

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At the same time, Mr. Obama’s ties to Trinity have become more complicated than those simply of proud congregation and favorite son. [....]

….. Mr. Wright’s political statements may be more controversial than his theological ones. He has said that Zionism has an element of “white racism.”

Such statements involve “a certain deeply embedded anti-Americanism,” said Michael Cromartie, vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative group that studies religious issues and public policy. “A lot of people are going to say to Mr. Obama, are these your views?”

Mr. Obama says they are not.

“The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification,” he said in a recent interview. He was not at Trinity the day Mr. Wright delivered his remarks shortly after the attacks, Mr. Obama said, but “it sounds like he was trying to be provocative.”

Despite the canceled invocation, Mr. Wright prayed with the Obama family just before his presidential announcement. Asked later about the incident, the Obama campaign said in a statement, “Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church.”

In March, Mr. Wright said in an interview that his family and some close associates were angry about the canceled address, for which they blamed Obama campaign advisers but that the situation was “not irreparable,” adding, “Several things need to happen to fix it.”

Asked if he and Mr. Wright had patched up their differences, Mr. Obama said: “Those are conversations between me and my pastor.”

Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama’s audition for the ultimate establishment job.

“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”

Full article at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html?n=Top/News/Poltics/Series/The%20Long%20Run

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The Trinity United Church of Christ, the church that Barack Obama attends in Chicago [......]

The senator “affirmed” his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a “sounding board” to “make sure I’m not losing myself in the hype and hoopla.” Both the title of Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright’s sermons. “If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from,” says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, “just look at Jeremiah Wright.
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Obama could have picked any church — the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. [......]
Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright.

From:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13390609/campaign_08_the_radical_roots_of_barack_obama/6

I want someone I can trust to do the right thing. Good luck with that, eh?

Authenticty

So far, we have learned that Obama has stolen:

Deval Patrick’s campaign theme.
Deval Patrick’s speeches.
The title of his book from his pastor.
Part’s of a screen play from Spike Lee’s movie.
Almost all of his legislative work while an
Illinois Senator.

I gaurendamtee you that if you look at his written work while at college that he plagiarized most of it. This guy hasn’t come up with an original idea in his entire life.

Racism

I’m going to come right out and say it without pulling any punches. When Obama uses the words “hoodwinked” and “bamboozled” before mostly Black audiences, what he is saying to them is “Don’t trust Whitey”. Make no mistake about it, he knows exactly what he is doing using these words in the manner he is using them. It is so obvious that it pleases him immensely that it is all an inside joke. He connects with the members of the audience who break out laughing and begins to laugh himself. If he doesn’t know what he is doing, then why all of the laughter between him and his audience when he mentions these words.

Thank you for posting Obama’s pastor’s anti-white rhetoric. I didn’t know these disturbing facts before, even though I did hear some people say that Obama’s Church was either a Black supremest, or racist Church before. Reverend Wright is just as bad as, if not even worse than Falwell and Robertson, who blamed 911 on America’s “sinners”. At least there wasn’t any racism in their hairbrained comments.