Mr. Obama, We Have a Question

Why won’t you release your schedule that notes the dates when you attended church and heard the sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright?

We want the facts, sir. Just the facts. You deny being present at any of the controversial sermons given by Rev. Wright. For example, you say you were not at the July 22 service. But what about all the rest of the sermons you heard as a 20-year congregant? You can deny that you ever heard Rev. Wright’s incendiary, racist sermons, from now until the end of time, but you need to provide proof, sir. Especially since you were a regular congregant, you gave large annual donations ($22,500 in 2006), he married you and Michelle, he baptized both of your daughters, he blessed your home, and you frequently refer to him as your “spiritual mentor” and more.

     Dear Readers: It’s reminiscent of Obama’s failure to provide policy analyst Steve Clemons with a list of the countries in Europe he falsely claims he has visited. Clemons asked because he, and others like Salon’s Joe Conason, are shocked that Obama has failed to convene a single meaningful hearing as chair of the European Affairs subcommittee for the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Policy committee or to have visited European countries. Obama’s excuse is that he’s been too busy campaigning. But he did claim to have visited Europe. However, he won’t supply his passport list, as Joe Conason points out in “Obama’s European problem“:

If Obama wants to show where he has been, he merely has to release his passport records. Then everyone would know that his boast about traveling extensively in Europe is true — even if this year he didn’t have time to convene a hearing on the momentous issues affecting our relations with that continent and the world.

Then there are his records for his years in the Illinois state senate. He doesn’t have them. Doesn’t know where they are. Countless reporters — from the Sun-Times’s Lynn Sweet to the Associated Press — have lobbied Sen. Obama to supply those records, but he claims to have no records.

UPDATE: I never thought I’d say this, but Sean Hannity makes sense here. And so does panelist Tony Blankley (formerly editor of the Washington Times). That’s because Hannity is relying on factually verifiable statements — statements that Barack Obama is unable to refute. And Blankley’s observations are spot on:

And here’s CNN’s Lou Dobbs on Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright. It is NOT that we need either of these videos as proof — it is to provide evidence that the American people are seeing this video over and over and over again, and are appalled by Obama’s association with Rev. Wright, and will not buy his attempts to “minimize” his 20-year relationship with Wright.

Quibbling about sources like Newsmax, etc. does not cut it. The American people will hear the WORDS of Rev. Wright and be deeply shocked and troubled. They will no longer be able to support a candidate who endorsed, financed, and attended the services of such an angry, racist preacher.