Rev. Jeremiah Wright on PR Tour to Fight “Public Crucifixion” [MSNBC Update]
By SusanUnPC on April 27, 2008 at 11:26 PM in Barack Obama, Rev. James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Rev. Otis Moss
Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke of his “public crucifixion” to a packed and supportive church in Dallas Sunday morning, and then spoke before the NAACP Detroit chapter Sunday night. Monday morning, Rev. Wright will speak and take reporters’ questions at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. — to be aired live on C-Span at 9:00 a.m. EST.
“Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP, said at a news conference before the dinner that he was excited to invite the ‘hottest brother in America right now‘.”
Time’s Mark Halperin notes that Rev. Wright cut to the “controversy early in speech: “I’m not here for political reasons. I’m not a politician. Many of corporate owned media have made it seem that I’m running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus for a long, long time.” PART ONE of his speech (PARTS TWO, THREE and FOUR are below the fold — CNN chose to run the full speech to counter charges that the media have played his speeches out of context):
Wright received a standing ovation from the crowd of 12,000 people at the Detroit NAACP event. UPDATE: Below is Andrea Mitchell’s MSNBC report on Obama’s statements today re Rev. Wright and GOP presumptive nominee John McCain’s response, as well as parts two, three and four of Rev. Wright’s speech:
PART TWO of Rev. Wright’s NAACP speech:
PART THREE of Rev. Wright’s speech:
PART FOUR of Rev. Wright’s speech, with closing remarks by the CNN anchor:
Thanks to HipHopMusc.com for providing all four segments of Rev. Wright’s speech, and to Toddy4 for providing me with the link.
This is the MSNBC video of Andrea Mitchell commenting on the political impact:
From the MSNBC story:
“I’m not here for political reasons,” Wright said. “I’m not a politician. I know that fact will surprise many of you because many in the corporate-owned media made it seem like I am running for the Oval Office. I am not running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus a long, long time, and I’m not tired yet.”
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Wright received a long, loud standing ovation.
He 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.
In a sermon days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Wright said that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” after it dropped atomic bombs on Japan and that the United States “supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans.”
The ‘hottest brother in America’
The videos, circulated widely on television and the Internet, knocked Obama’s presidential campaign off stride. The Illinois senator distanced himself from the comments of Wright, whom he has known for 20 years.The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit NAACP, said at a news conference before the dinner that he was excited to invite the “hottest brother in America right now.” …
From the Detroit Free Press’s story, “Wright tells NAACP audience: ‘A change is going to come’“:
His first order of business was to sing the praises of the NAACP for its civil rights work over nearly a century. Much of that work, he said, was done in cooperation with the nation’s black churches — so much so that they were “seemingly joined at the hip” in their battles against racial injustice, he said.
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Wright moved quickly to address the controversy surrounding him.
Some say that “just my appearance in Detroit will be polarizing,” he said. “I’m not here for political reasons. I’m not a politician. Many of corporate owned media have made it seem that I’m running for the Oval Office. I’ve been running for Jesus for a long, long time.
“I’m sorry your local political analysts are saying that I’m polarizing and my sermons are divisive. I’m not here to address an analyst’s opinion. I stand here as one representative of African-American church tradition, believing that a change is going to come.”
Wright, who is retiring as pastor of the 6,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, followed the dinner’s theme of “A Change is Gonna Come,” giving a humorous mini-lecture about the difference in style and linguistics between African Americans and whites.
“A change is coming because we no longer see others as being deficient,” he said.
The crowd cheered when he acted out the differences between white marching bands and black ones.
“One is not abnormal and one normal — it’s just different,” he said, explaining the difference between black and white church traditions.
“I come from a tradition, where we give God the glory, and we give the devil the blues,” he said.
Amid the humor, however, he took a moment to respond to Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who called Wright “divisive” during an April 18 forum attended by the leaders of Detroit and Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties. He referred to Patterson only by his title, not by name.
“I am not one of the most divisive,” Wright said. “Tell him the word is descriptive.”
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Anyone who stands in a church pulpit and simulates the sex act while mocking a U.S. President is a person I do not want to be standing near during a lightning storm.
Amen, so speak.
Good Post. I thought it strange that it is described that in the second sermon at the Dallas Church he spoke out against the abuse of women and had women stream forward for a blessing if they had been victims of abuse…..What a total and cynical CAD this man is….Descriptive my ass…His theology and his sermons are divisive and steeped in the traditions of BLACK SEPARATSIM. He claims not to be a politician but his pulpit is used for nothing else.Preachers who are political can have positive effects like MLK. or they can have negative effects like Wright and Farrakhan. I personally like the separation of church and state and believe that the TAX EXEMPT STATUS should be eliminated and the churches sanctioned if the pulpit becomes political…NO MATTER THE DENOMINATION.
You’re absolutely right about one of the MAJOR tenets of our democracy: Separation of Church and State. Tax-exempt status should be stripped from churches who abuse it.
And Christian pastors should respect that tenet, esp. since Jesus said to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God, etc… But, looks like Wright cut to the chase and rendered himself to BE Caesar.
Maybe he thought he could fool the IRS …
He did that again tonight, talking about the first black woman to sleep “legally” in the White House…. whatever the heck that means. Ugh.
It’s coarse and vulgar. And he clearly is preoccupied with sex.
How come my childhood Presbyterian minister never talked like that?!
Because there are those who consider all Things Sacred when they dedicate thier Life to Gods Service..
Then there are those who Sacreligious because they are “DOUBLE MINDED”….
Every time this man opens his mouth he takes the name of the Lord Thy God in vain.
I was taught that the first place the devil looks is in church to do his evil.
I have never seen such hatred and evil spawned during a campaign to lead this country.
If Obama gets in we better pray very hard for this country. We will need all the prayer we can get.
Yes, his words are coarse and vulgar. So, tell me, does he pray to Jesus with that mouth?!!
Cindy…..Wright prays to a Jesus of his own invention….Wrights’ Jesus is black, militant, and was oppressed and murdered by CRACKERS who were ITALIANS and JEWS. Liberation Theology promotes the idea that the individual congregation can invent the theology and it subverts the doctrinal authority of any denomination. This is why Wright preaches in a non-denominational church….Not even the Baptists would have him…..He’s as much out there as those deluded fundamentalist Mormons who have been soundly rebuked by their own church because they refuse to recognize denominational authority……His is a fringe Black Separatist Church like Farrakhans which has also been rebuked by mainstream Islamic scholars for it’s racial suprematism and distortions of the Koran…..
Workingclass, you define his beliefs excellently.
He is joyfully keeping his own people down and oppressed faster and better than any white supremacist could ever dream of. That’s the most heinous part of it all.
Well thanks….Philosophy and theology are old addictions of mine and I can only blame that incredible former Jesuit professor from college….
Wright managed to find himself a whole new bunch to insult and that would be the Irish. His supporters are all ready saying that what he meant to do was take a swing at Bill O’Reilly.
Wright said O’sumpin, O’Shaughnassy, O’Reilly I can’t remember exactly because to tell you the truth I dislike the man so much it’s hard for me to listen to what he has to say. Once someone God Damns America and humps the pulpit to insult Bill Clinton I have a hard time paying attention to anything else they say.
Now he’s brought together the O’Reillys, the O’Haras, the O’Briens, the O’Mallys, the Kellys, the Cavanaughs, oh hell you get the idea. Uniting the I(talians) and the I(rish) against any one candidate is boneheaded beyond belief.
But Reverend Wright, Bless his heart just keeps those hits a-comin.
I think any group other than AA knows he is pretty much down on them … he just can’t help making fun of them. I shake my head wondering how the hell Barack found any of this even somewhat “religious.” These “routines” are not new. I am pretty sure that Michelle loved it some, though. She is one of the most bitter people I have ever seen for her age and privilege.
Ehemmmm……The Good Pastor Wright has managed to unite many races/ethnic groups under his hate umbrella because anyone who is not AA like himself is a designated CRACKER.
Hispanics, Jews, Gays, Women, Italians, Orientals, Europeans,…..The list just keeps growin….
Who knew we CRACKERS had such variety…..Hmmmmmmm….
And what about Barack’s white mother? Nothing is ever said in the black community that Barack isn’t the first African American candidate … he’s the Benneton candidate.
I find it IRONIC that the first AA POTUS candidate was actually a woman at I think the end of the 19th c. Cannot remember her name but I would say that she had more courage in her pinky than a man like Wright or BABY-O could ever summon up in a dream….
Shirley Chisholm. I totally forgot!
Yeah …. before that wonderful campaign slogan of “bros b4 whos”
……OH THE IRONY…..
I try to point this out at every turn but the AA community selectively ignores it.
Mass psychosis. Whatever they put in the water, I must have an immunity to it.
Mimi…( sigh ) the intelligentsia is often the first to be ignored or silenced….When I say intelligentsia I do not mean many of our current beknighted liberal pundits.
Do I really have to listen to the whole thing?? Can sombody direct me to where in these videos he said this???
I had to stop listening after he went off on the learning styles. ( guess my Irish/Scottish/German/Jewish/Catholic parents forgot to tell me something- I actually know about 6,000 pieces of music, by heart and still to this day can sing a piece of music accurately after hearing it once! I do not read music at all!)
Ehemmmm…….Melissa how are your dancin skills…chuckle…
I don’t hate Wright. I think it is unfortunate that because of Obama he is being dragged into the national spotlight. I don’t agree with his sermons and I think there is something very wrong with some black churches and black organizations who believe that spewing hatred from the pulpit is okay. I don’t blame Wright to want to somehow set the record straight. I think anyone in his position would want to do the same. I blame Obama more than anyone else in this story. He used Wright just as he has used so many other people who have helped him become a national politician.
That said, I think it is unfortunate that the NAACP invited Wright to speak. As I said above, I do not hate Wright. He is a troubled man who needs help and I hope he has learned a few lessons from all of this. But by inviting him, the NAACP has just given the message that what Wright says about America, 9/11, Israel, Natalee Holloway, and the Clintons is acceptable. It is not. I need to watch his speech but unless he was there to apologize for his words, I don’t think he should have been there. Wright needs to apologize to the American people, to the Holloway family, and to the Clintons. The only way Wright can truly redeem himself is to publicly acknowledge the error of his ways.
Well put!
There’s you next video.
It’s the spewing of this day in and day out and the loving preservation of it on tape that gets to me. Every now and again, I don’t doubt that your average black person has to blow off steam. I’ve gotten pissed enough at men (especially during this election) that I can totally understand a black person wanting to go, “Look, just FUCK WHITE PEOPLE OKAY?!” every now and then.
But you know what? You blow off the steam, and then you get around to trying to make your anger constructive. You do NOT sit people down week in and week out and rant at them, where little kids can hear you. That starts to sound like an indoctrination cell. And it doesn’t do anybody any good — what can an intelligent, gifted, ambitious little black kid who sits in those pews day in day out think but, “Why even bother?” Is that what you want your kids to have as a takeaway from what should be a supportive atmosphere?
There’s also the fact that it ends up as a self-fulfilling thing. So Michelle Obama said that America was mean and nasty — funny how all the meanest and nastiest people seem to be on that side of the fence, isn’t it? People live up — or down — to your expectations a lot. Call them vicious and that’s exactly what they’ll be.
So very well put. Your analogy to the way women feel is excellent!
One of the things women have to be careful is letting ongoing misogyny make them irrevocably bitter. Sure, there are a lot of men who make you want to holler about their attitudes, but you move on and seek out those who are not this way, you don’t wallow in it.
I’ve done this racially as well. Imus’s remarks, not getting a promotion I should have, at some point you have to get pro-active and constructive about what you cannot control. All people like Rev Wright do is feed into blacks sense of victimization. They stoke their anger, resentment and bitterness which keeps them in business and their coffers full. Living well is the best revenge. Building strong AA communities through the unified efforts of blacks should be the goal.
And I still say, how is anyone going to legislate or force individuals to change what’s in their heart? Ain’t gonna happen! Why? It simply can’t be done. The transformation of one’s consciousness is an individual thing.
The only reason Wright is doing this PR tour is for Obama. Period. He is not doing it to clear his name. He doesn’t need to improve his own standing, he’s “retired” and settling into that 1.9 million dollar mansion behind those gates, next to the golf course. The PR firm that Axelrod retained (Pro Bono) is doing this to clean up Wright for Obama’s benefit. Nothing more.
I don’t “hate” Wright. I despise any person that uses religion to become filthy rich, while people he supposedly speaks for are freezing to death, shooting each other, and starving. I have no use for religious charlatans…
See, there’s the thing. The hypocrisy has an odor that should offend the nostrils of anyone who comes into contact with it. The overwhelming mantra of Obama, Wright and (listening to Mimi), African Americans who are successful and put as much distance between themselves and the community to which they appeal and upon which they rely for support is “I’ve got mine.”
Did anyone else feel like Andrea Mitchell looked like she was at a funeral?
If Wright is indeed doing this for Obama and not just to massage his own ego I believe it is a monumental error.
He may prop up some support in the AA community but he will send most others running for the exit.
He can make nice all he wants to now but so long as the clips of him humping the pulpit and saying God Damn America exist, anything else is just lipstick. And will do Obama no good except for rabid Obama supporters that are unable to see anything wrong in their candidate. EVER! Eveb sitting in this man’s church and listening to him spew his venom for 20 years.
How much do you improve on 90 percent?
That isn’t the consituency that Barack needs to make inroads with.
Listening to OdonnaObama on George’s show, he made a 7 percent pick up of white voters in Pennsylvania … for all that money he spent …
And they increased the expectations on George’s show as well, calling Indiana “home court” advantage.
Matthew Dowd has a lot more in common with Maureen than one might imagine. I was screaming at my computer rewatching the program when he said that Barack needs to get back to “hope and change” and away from the negatives … I was thinking that hope and change get him away from things like policy and programs where he really really SUCKS and Hillary excells …
I heard that too, and it’s hardly the first time a pundit has suggested Obama “go back to Hope and Change because that was working for him,” as if Obama hasn’t been negative the entire primary season.
Meanwhile Hillary is constantly snarked at for being a serious campaigner addressing the actual issues. She needs to be “warmer” and “more fun.”
How about this- Obama actually addresses some specifics for a change. Any chance of that at all?
Hmmmm……Maybe the underlying HOPE & CHANGE message is…..Can we do somthing about all these CRACKERS…..They seem to pop up everywhere….
If crackers keep “popping” up does that make us Poptart crackers? At my age the idea of being a Poptart is kinda fun. And that would be an Irish/French Canadian/Oglala Sioux/Dane Poptart if you don’t mind.
Has Reverend Wright, bless his heart, insulted the Danes, the French Canadians or the Oglala Sioux yet? If not I’m sure he’ll get around to it sooner or later cause this man seems incapable of keeping his yap shut. And no matter how hard Obamans spin, this is not good news for the Obama campaign.
Mimicking JFK’s accent might not have been the brightest move either IMHO.
In pastor Wrights’ world if you aint African American you are lumped in with the OPPRESSOR…..
You are part of the Imperialist Cracker Nation…..
I’m a part of the Imperialist Cracker Nation? Are those the Elves that live in a really big tree? Cause to tell you the truth I don’t think I’m up to climbing trees anymore. Even to be an Imperial Cracker. And can I still belong if I haven’t ever oppressed anyone and have no desire to do it now?
Hmmmmm…….I don’t know….I think I might have to check on height requirements…..I might be left out in the cold….A wandering refugee….LOL
“The only reason Wright is doing this PR tour is for Obama.”
That’s news to Obama. I seriously doubt this is anything he wanted to happen right now.
The NAACP has been in decline for a while both politically and finacially.
This was merely a way to expediantly kill the proverbial 2 birds with a single stone.
Wrights’ message of racial supremacy appeals to the oppressed in the ghetto….It’s Black Separatism…..It is FACISM.
Wright is a black David Duke and the NAACP had no business giving this SOB a national pulpit to spew his hate and race theories.
Crackpot race theories the GOP blogs are allover too.
If the Democrats had any brains they’d stop patronizing the NAACP because its clear those people aren’t much different than Wright.
The NAACP has a noble history….I think they have badly mis-calculated here….( sigh )
the damage had been done, we will never forget. You said you’re a pastor but you talk and act like a politician. you’re like obama, i don’t know you. keep changing your color, like obama. i can see so much of obama from you.
His comments were full of “cheerful” pseudoscience that may have sounded engaging upon first blush, but emphasized his very generalized perception of divisiveness between his simplistic notion of two races, European and African, leaving out large swathes of America.
Oh, that left brain, right brain crap. Preachers and science do NOT mix and should be kept FAR AWAY from one another.
Left brain learning is analytical which is book, reading, writing. The hands on and tactile learning is a right brained approach.
Different people learn differently. That is why some people prefer the read the manual before they hook up the new stereo. But some people will just dive into it. It’s the same way as left handed and right handed. It has nothing to do with race.
Wright was using another brush stroke to paint race in a certain way which is totally inaccurate.
Boy am I confused! I write and eat left handed, but hate math. I can sing any piece of music accurately after hearing it once, but can not read music other than using those squiggly dots to tell me up note or down. I love to read books and have amazing recall- (very handy for tests in my younger years) I am good at jigsaw puzzles and word search.
I do know when I hear bullshit- and Obama and Wright are full of tons of it!
Why has the NAACP associated itself with this man? He’s an absolute disgrace.
It’s called ticket sales. Fund raising 1.01.
Correct Bee….The NAACP has been in decline and long comes the cash cow travelling epic Barry and gyratin Uncle Jerry…..
Chastisin those evil crackers can generate new members and dues…..
Because they are like minded.
Larry can you get a video of the Reverend Anthony’s introduction of Wright?
You know, I don’t know whether to laugh or be furious that this guy keeps telling us this is Our Fault for taking his garbage-mouth remarks “out of context” It’s as if these statements would sound any less offensive if we listened to his entire raving speech.
The local public radio station in Dllas has recordings of his Dallas sermon.
90.1 KERA is the station and they were playing some of it on NPR this morning….That’s going to piss off the local pastor as he admonished the congregation to not talk to the press….Hmmm…Those pesky tiny japenese recording devices….
Good for them! Depending on the local reporter — there will be little and no spin!
The local Pastor described Uncle Jerry being LYNCHED by the press and the cogregation hooped and hollered…..
Very LOADED language anywhere in the US….especially down south…
Oh, but DON’T YOU use that word “boy,” or “monkey,” now! You just watch yourself, ya’ hear?
It’s all our fault. We and the media took “Bill did us (gyrating hips) like he did Monica Lewinsky” totally out of context!
Oh and we can add the Irish to the Garlic Noses on his list.
Well all I will say Wright has this crackers’ IRISH up….I find Wright and his theology deplorable…..Pure FACISM WRAPPED UP IN THE BABY JESUS….
“Pure FACISM WRAPPED UP IN THE BABY JESUS….”
My question is, what don’t you describe as “fascism”? When you have a bad day, is it a fascist day? When you get stuck in traffic, is it fascist traffic? When you eat a disappointing meal, was it a fascist meal?
You’re here so what’s your beef? Do you think that she needs to explain yourself to you?
Look, we all know that it is a tough day to be an Obama supporter. But please don’t take your anger out on the people here. If you can control yourself and stay on point, great. If you can debate the things said here in a cogent, logicaal fashion, great. But otherwise, take your petulence and leave until you are in a better frame of mind. We put up with enough trollshit here, see?
“I disagree with what you have to say but will fight to the death to protect your right to say it.” Unless and until you advocate violence. And then, you’re out of here, get it?
“Unless and until you advocate violence. And then, you’re out of here, get it?”
I don’t recall ever advocating violence. Setting up another straw man to throw rocks at?
No. One of your fellow trolls was here last week saying that violence against women is a non-issue. That is not an accepted point of view here. That is what I was referring to. What is it with you? How can someone who is so sensitive to facism be so fascinated with “straw?”
Get a life.
Please…..Any doctrine political or theological which promotes racial superiority and demonizes any ethnic/religous or socio/economic group cloaked in MORAL SUPERIORITY is FASCISM….
Crack a HISTORY BOOK…..You embarrass yourself…..Jeff
“Please…..Any doctrine political or theological which promotes racial superiority and demonizes any ethnic/religous or socio/economic group cloaked in MORAL SUPERIORITY is FASCISM….
Crack a HISTORY BOOK…..You embarrass yourself…..Jeff”
Fascism:
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fascism
Crack a dictionary…
Jeff…FASCISM. n. 1. A totalitarian governmental system led by a dictator and emphasizing agressive nationalism, militarism, and often RACISM. 2. The philosophy, principals or methods of FASCISM. Random House Dictionary.
Wrights’ philosophy hits about 3 out of 3…..It is what it is. And if you support it you are a supporter of FASCISM….Nuff said….
Wright and his race theories comes close to the Nazis and their race theories.
The fact that Obamabots don’t find any of it repulsive and condemn shows what a bunch of moral retards they are.
“Public crucifixion?” So what, he’s JESUS now? Get the hell over yourself, pal.
Well reverend Anthony introduced him that way. Yup. And also like the biblical Jeremiah.
Where I come from a common phrase for those steeped in self pity that might be appropriate….CLIMB DOWN OFF THE CROSS…WE NEED THE WOOD !
Yup, poor Reverend Wright was crucified by people repeating the words,or playing them, of what he said on tapes that his church sold. I am incapable of following that kind of illogical logic.
It’s like an aquaintance of mine who excuses everything her dunderheaded grandson does. It is never, ever his fault and nothing will convince her otherwise. No point arguing with people like that.
Anymore that there is any point in arguing with, or talking to an Obama supporter. Unless you like beating your head against a brick wall and then have at it. I have better things to do with my time. There’s garbage to take out, paint to watch dry and a Dr. Phil show to not ever watch. Busy, busy.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/27/202034/397/901/504550
lol.
Eeeuuu uppity, you sent me to the icky orange place where the brain dead dwell. I’ll be back after I give my mind a bath.
So it is OK for Wright to claim he is being crucified (clearly a Biblical analogue) but when Carville calls Richardson Judas (another Biblical analogue) that’s a bad thing? Oh I forgot that double standards are OK for some people.
Well…..Ol’ Jimmy is a cracker you see….
Oh come on ….
Clinton rules …
Obama rules ….
Understood. I was just feeding the trolls.
Wright is probably most upset that the people he is insulting and condescending to actually got to hear what he was saying and then we had the gall to dare to be offended by his words.
they hoopin and hollerin in the audience after wright’s speech. this guy does not care for anybody but himself.
Why not? They were whooping and hollering when he said “God Damn America” too. They were whooping and hollering when he was humping the pulpit in a disgusting display of his rabid Clinton hate.
I haven’t gone to church in years and then only when there’s a family wedding or Baptism. But secular humanist that I am, I find such behavior, in a church, repulsive beyond my ability to articulate it. This is a man of hate, not a man of God. And Obama sat in his church for 20 years.
Rev Wrong just wanted to send a “screw you” messgae to white america. No apology, nothing.
Yeah well screw him too. Barack Obama will NEVER be president.
The GOP must be congratulating themselves for being handed a free cornucopia of quotes from Wright to be used in a slew of ads attacking Democratic candidates who endorsed Obama. Let the blood fest begin!
in my view, the dems who endorsed obama deserve it.
i hope they all lose their jobs. (of course, i would greatly prefer that they lose them to other dems). maybe if they all lose their jobs, they and other dems will learn an important lesson - you can’t just take out your clinton hatred or whatever on the rest of us. or we will tell you goodbye. then noone will care who you endorse.
Judas goes first. Kennedy & Kerry next.
and please let them take Clare ‘my kids made me do it and warrantless surveillance is really ok’ McCaskill with them
I hope that they understand what happens when you let “hope” and “change” trump vetting.
Oh my. I’m sure all is not well in Barry world tonight with this stuff hittin’ the airwaves. Mornin’ Joe will have a field day along with Pat Buchanan with Mika tut, tutting on the side!
After 7 1/2 years of being a second class citizen in bush’s America (not rich), I don’t want any more of that. I think that if Obama gets elected, I will have 4 more years of that status (not AA). And Wright is the reason why. (”USKKK of A” was a slip of the tongue?) Regardless of what Obama says, does anybody really believe that (”Uncle”)Wright isn’t his spiritual adviser?
I would be pleased to find that I am mistaken about this. But not enough to risk it happening.
Too bad BO did not introduce Wright to the audience. That would have completed the package of the divisive race baiting politicians. Reverend Wright is out touch with Americans if he believes his message will go beyond the AA audience.
Is this supposed to be the damage control mission by Obama camp? And this is after Axelrod had his marketing company worked with Wright to revive his image?
I just want to make sure because this mission failed miserably.
Maybe they bought him a new tie.
Anyone who thinks they could “control” Reverend Wright” had to be insane.
Obama on Fox News Sunday about Reverend Wright:
unless Obama has said he is no longer a member of the same church (Trinity Church of Christ), Reverend Wright said during the Detroit NAACP speech that he is still the pastor of the church until the end of May, 2008.
The One could have left that church years ago. His choice and our choice to never to let him forget.
Retiring was in name only and for Obamas benifit.
That last part of Obama’s quote to Chris Wallace is the most significant:
OBAMA: . . . . . The fact that he (Wright) is my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue. So I understand that.
Obama’s campaign now has no foundation on which to complain about any use of Wright and Obama in commercials and stump speeches.
Hillary was waiting for some significant change in the campaign and Sunday (Obama’s permission, and Wright’s NAACP appearance) may have been that change.
Is it possible that remark is also bait? Then idiot’s surrogates can whine (cry wolf at this point really) more racism?
Probably just something stupid Obama said. I think I give him more credit than he is due sometimes. Just look what a disaster his candidacy has become. He and Axelrod are clearly out of their hopey-changy let ‘em drink koolaid league.
I agree that Obama has been given too much credit. I think most of that is what many want to read into him rather than who he is.
I give him credit for being smart and articulate.
But his political inexperience is showing itself more and more. I am of the belief that had voters known then what they know now he would not have won Iowa or any subsequent primaries.
When it comes to the claims of victimization there is a law of dimishing returns, even within the Democratic Party.
What bothered me the most was when Wright was MOCKING JFK and LBJ in front of the NAACP and they were all laughing.
Yeah. Do you think that will bother Unca Ted any? After all he seems to cling to those civil rights and voting rights history thingies pretty tight ….
I think it is a campaign that was initially glued together with Elmers and like so many classroom projects it is coming apart at all the seams. David Axelrod was just on MSNBC sounding desperate.
Yippee!
This is because Time is not Barack Obama’s friend. They hoped to sew this up much faster and now all that “glue” is drying out.
“I think it is a campaign that was initially glued together with Elmers and like so many classroom projects it is coming apart at all the seams.”
Yes, unlike the stunning competence of the Clinton operation. Oh, wait…
Surely you will admit that Time has not turned out to be Obama’s friend. It’s kind of like when you date someone. The first six months you think you have a real prize here. Then, slowly, the real person emerges and then you realize the person is a real piece of work.
Anyone can pretend for awhile.
“It’s kind of like when you date someone. The first six months you think you have a real prize here. Then, slowly, the real person emerges and then you realize the person is a real piece of work.
Anyone can pretend for awhile.”
I’m sorry if you’ve been unlucky in love. Have you tried E-Harmony?
Ehemmm…..Jeff…Futue te ipsum et caballum tuum……and ride it all the way back to GAZA….
Shapin up to be an excellent week For Sen. Clinton…..
Hope and change don’t pay the rent.
Jobs, health care costs, rising gas prices … It’ the ECONOMY, stupid and he doesn’t offer anything!
And he’s afraid to debate her … I love Paul Krugman’s comment:
On Friday in Indiana, Obama talked tough in response to a question: “I get pretty fed up with people questioning my patriotism.” And, he continued, “I am happy to have that debate with them any place, anytime.” He’s happy to have fantasy debates with unnamed people who are allegedly challenging his patriotism. But he’s not willing to have a real debate with the real person he’s competing against for the nomination.
“And he’s afraid to debate her … I love Paul Krugman’s comment:”
That was Bill Kristol, not Paul Krugman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/opinion/28kristol.html?ref=opinion
It depends on how someone defines smart. If a criteria of intelligence is your ability to discern who your mentors and affiliations should be, then Obama is clearly a moron.
I only find him articulate at a cocktail party of pseudo intellectuals kind of way. I think maybe you could say he is (barf) charming. But I am not saying that. His charm is paper thin and I see right through it and I don’t like what I see at all.
Agree his charm is especially thin when accompanied by those of his wife Meeeechelle and her ever present emasculating ball snips…..
He’s the kind of guy who only gets the Jeopardy answers sitting in his living room.
And Hillary is rough around the edges, battle scarred toting around tons of (good experience) baggage and REAL. Someone I can trust. Not some PR campaign darling of the koolaid drinking masses. Someone I do not trust.
Iv’e alwys had a fondness for that weeble quality ofthe fightin Clintons….Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down…..
They are UNFLAPPABLE…..A classic Truman trait…..
Yes they are the classic roll up your sleeves and get the job done types. And they actually really give a shit about us. Obama only cares about Obama. That’s the vibe he gives off to me. He is a Veruca Salt (”I want it now!”) type of person in my opinion.
That’s because despite their new wealth the Clinton’s will always be working class of the best sort.
Each has worked their way up and are good sudents of history.
The longer Hillary Clinton stays in the race the more
FDRish and Truman like he sounds…..
Hate to say it but the best thing( aside from Eleanor ) that ever happened to FDR was the polio…..Disability like Poverty is a great leveller and humanizer….And America benefitted….
And Chelsea is a super star as far as I am concerned.
Look at all of the advantages she has had and she is a down to earth and bright, articulate young woman with as much of the smart and sensible composure as her mother.
Chelsea could have a political career if she wanted. I do hop Bush’s dopey daughters are not reading this.
“Each has worked their way up”
Yes, I’d love to work my way up making speeches for $100 million.
Jeff I detect a tone of envy in your comment…..
Bill Clinton is a rhodes scholar and the most successful Democratic president since FDR…..
The Truth just makes you bite your pillow all the harder….You are laughable….
“Jeff I detect a tone of envy in your comment…..”
You bet I’m envious. I’d love to make $100 million
peddling influence“making speeches”.Well, old man Bush makes that much as does Barbara “This is working very well for them” Bush.
Save your faux horror, please.
“Well, old man Bush makes that much as does Barbara “This is working very well for them” Bush.”
And your point is…what? That the standard for ex-Democratic presidents should be Daddy Bush and the Carlysle Group?
Jeff-
How much has Obama made talking about his two books? Don’t tell me that IF he becomes President that he won’t do everything in his power to make as much money as he can after he leaves office.
Gee … mitten derinnen Bill Clinton is an ex-Democratic President? You’d never know that his mantle was something that a Democrat might want to wrap about themselves, would you, so as much as Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics … better known as if you have the dime, I have the time ….
“You’d never know that his mantle was something that a Democrat might want to wrap about themselves, would you, so as much as Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics …”
That’s a pretty convoluted sentence, but my guess is you are accusing Obama of wrapping himself in supply-side economic theory? Let’s see your proof.
Ay!
I’m afraid Wright is highly misunderstood.
It’s SHOWBIDNEZ!
We are desensitized aren’t we? See that? We become so engrossed in the finest details of the wrapping the package comes in that we don’t even notice the box is empty.
It is going to take a while for us to come down from this information cloud. Everyone is breathing the thin air and losing their sense of logic.
Obama — the 21st Century H.R. Puff & Stuff.
Love what you said! We might need a simplification for the Obamabots though. Koolaid induced fog prevents clear vision.
MAKE UP!!!!!!
Simply put, Wright is an ignorant racist bigot who supports Barry Obama
and Barry Obama is …well…
the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree even the Uncle’s tree.
Barry Obama would have been in his 20’s when he encountered Reverend Wright. He took his tapes with him to Harvard. Any attempt to erase those years doesn’t work and most Americans aren’t idiots. For those who go to church every Sunday, the significance of that relationship is substantial. For those who would rather read the newspaper with an extra cup of coffee, they are wondering, “what were you thinking, man?”
Andrea Mitchell looked like she wanted to cry.
Agree with you on that one Bee….This candidate would have had a thorough indoctrination and had found his cultural identity by establishing Uncle Jeremiah as his Daddy figure….
Obamessiah has a serious conflict with his INNER CRACKER…
Ah, the victim card. Truly the last resort of the pathetic loser.
If you’ve read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, you know that Hitler felt mightily persecuted and put-upon in his final hours in the Bunker under Berlin. He ranted about being betrayed by his friends. I don’t know if he used the word “crucified,” but I’m sure that’s how he pictured himself.
The victim card will help Wright become more of a martyr in his own flock, but he had them anyway. Maybe it will increase AA turnout for Obama, but I like to give the AA’s more credit than that. It will cement white blue-collar voters against Obama though. And that’s really fatal.
I can’t take a guy in a million-dollar house handed to him by his church being bitter because his own words, uttered publicly and for profit, are being used to question him.
The nation owes Wright a vote of thanks however for his role in bringing down Obama, intentional or not.
Most of America will not forget the deep profound connection between Obama and his pastor and spiritual mentor. Slapping the “former pastor” label does very little to help except give the Obamambots more koolaid. One would have to be hallucinating to think this will blow over and the Republicans will pretend it did not exist. And we see the Republicans are already using the “former pastor” in campaigns. This issue surely does exist now and will continue to. I recall hearing Chris Matthews as saying last week this is Obama’s Iraq. So even he is hedging and sees the writing on the walls.
Special hello to the Obamambots who are reading our remarks but won’t respond due to marching orders. It will just go away because hopey-changy overcomes all! Well, no. NQ is the koolaid antidote so please start drinking NQ before it is too late.
The fact the Obama campaign keeps rolling out spin attempts (”the speech,” this present one, etc.) means the issue deeply concerns them. They are showing you hopey-changy folks their weakness. Pretending it will go away because your ideology feels superior won’t change reality.
If you as an Obamambot are beginning to have second doubts about your choice I think you will find many on NQ forgiving and they will welcome you to come to their side. Think about it.
Does anyone else think it is disgusting that the NAACP in Detroit gives this man a standing ovation and yet the man he [Wright] has taken under his wing for the past 20 years has seen fit to disenfranchise the people of Michigan; a sizable majority of whom are AA?
Here is a man who rails against his “public crucifixion” and yet he will soon be living in a gated community in a 10,000 square foot “McMansion” built in the “typical WASP” English Tudor style; with a golf course no less!!
After the economic difficulties many in the AA community are suffering and the spike in violence in Chicago, you would think that Rev. Wright would be forgoing the trappings of Earthly wealth or pitying himself and his current “plight” and getting down to helping those in the AA community whose situations are far more dire than his own! Yet, like the selfish, egotistical fuck that he is; it is all about him. You know for men like Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, and Dr. Martin Luther King, the “prize” was not for themselves, but for all people of color who had been marginalized, kicked around, knocked down so that they might be afforded the opportunities of this society laid out so long ago in our nations legal documents but then only afforded to a select few. To think that people are coming to this snake oil salesman’s defense makes me sick to my stomach!
A foolish consistency is for the middle class white person against whom he rails.
Lets not start on what those millions can do for the people who live within spitting distance of the church … so much for prison ministries and women with HIV/AIDS …
I find it interesting that his multi million dollar hut is smack down in the middle of a gated CRACKER COMMUNTY…..How is Uncle Jeremiah goin to Gate off those RICH CRACKERS in his own new neighborhood ?
……OH THE IRONY…….
Maybe its his new ministry.
After all, BO baby is raisin’ money from the rich whites in SFO so who is he to question the logic.
CNN is carrying Rev Wright “live” right now. One can only imagine how thrilled he is with himself today … after a standing O from the folk at the NAACP … slightly different crowd at the National Press Club? Just askin’ …
If he’s so mainstream for black churchs, one has to ask why Oprah hasn’t invited him to her show … it’s not like as a former member of his church, she doesn’t know how the number there …
LOL….Imagine the look on the face of the Great O as she scans her predominantly female CRACKER audience as Uncle Jerry spews his Facsist biblicalganda….
The National Press Club is going to be on a “What did you mean?” train today. This is the spot where Wright may just not be able to restrain himself from insulting everyone some more. He’s on that high from yesterday. America is sick of listening to him, maybe that’s the goal. Kind of like the dripping water torture or something. Imagine his arrogance if Baby Plastic Jesus were president. Good God we would have to hear his garbage mouth every day.
Ehemmmm…….Does’nt Helen Thomas make it her yearly mission to attend….
If you could sit through it, it would be a classic of “where were you when?” I am sure that 3/4 of the media will feel sorry for Barack …
Too bad that Scarborough isn’t on in the evening. He would have some fun with it without the faux shock and outrage of say, Mr. They’re Sending Our Jobs WHERE? Dobbs …
You all don’t get it. Wright, Brazile, Wilder and by extension Obama as he tacitly says nothing, will rile up the poor black underclass to riot and reek havoc in their own neighborhoods, W will call out the National Guard, Kanye West will again repeat that George Bush hates black people and the agents provacateurs will be safely tucked away in their surban white communities far away from the maddening crowd. And the MSM will have an ongoing story of the ‘horror.’
I despise these people, more than you ever know.
Mimi I understand your alarm…..I have hope that many responsible and concerned AA leaders will come forth and stop this before it is too late…..I despise anyone who manipulates us all in this fashion.
WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER….
Well apparently the women don’t matter because of their “kibbles and bits”.
So, let me get this straight. The way to achieve the unity that Obama wants is to trot out stereotypes of black and white people and proclaim our differences instead of the things we have in common? It’s a trite but true saying. With friends like Jeremiah Wright, Obama doesn’t need enemies.
Someone get the word out to Obama’s events coordinator. I think they need more white people again.
And NO Asian girls tryin’ to pass for white people just cause since they were born here and all they THINK they are white! Nerve of them!
But, GOD forbid either McCain or Hillary say one word about him ….
It is indeed disgusting that people feel bullied from sharing their thoughts by the thought police Nazis.
Yeah well his Brain Dominance decree was so off-base from the science of Brain Dominance, that it’s ludicrous. I spent more than a little time on Brain Dominance, it was a big thing in Corporate America, used to put together teams for special projects. Everybody has the same four quadrants and the assumption that all AA’s are upper right quadrant only is an insult to them. He is telling people that three important reasoning quadrants are irrelevant in African Americans. Ridiculous. To believe that horse crap is to believe that no African American can ever be technically inclined for starters (dominant upper left). Or that they have no sense of duty (lower left). Gee whiz, what an insult. There are also many people who are Whole Brained, balanced closely in three or all four quandrants. Put ten people in a room and test their brain dominance and there is NO way you can telll who was an African American. Just plain silly. This guy is full of crap.
LOL….Agree this Wright would be laughed out of most academic forums.
I would love to see him in a theology forum with the current Pope who is notable theological scholar……That would be juicy……
Andrea Mitchell has told me three times in the past two minutes that the Rev. Wright is “very hurt and angry” at the comments he’s heard about his speeches.
Can we all get together and send him a gift basket? I feel so badly for him.
She’s also told me that the Rev. Wright is publishing a book in a few months. Before the election? Oh boy, another big present for Barack.
Is that Jonathan Yardley from The Washington Post (in the tank for Obama) expressing sorrow that “this man’s life’s work has been boiled down to a few inflammatory soundbites?” Oh bite me.
Once Baby O told him that even bad publicity is better than no one talking about you …
Hey … think of how many of the media got on line and bought the tape? Axlerod has them convinced that google searches are good … you know that you can spin anything … the pile of shit and pony story is just the most flagrant … he loves to hear himself. I bet he’s just pissed that they didn’t get better bits and more of the smiling and adorable Wright …. you know, Wright the Marine?
Well apparently Barack Obama is going to win a presidential election with roughly 13% of the electorate, plus college kids. Yup, he’s another McGovern all right. But the time November rolled around, McGovern got an embarrassing 38% of the votes and he didn’t even have a Reverend Wright or swift boats.
She’s just doing her job, trying to polish another Obama turd.
David Axelrod spinning like a top- “he’s the former pastor of Barack Obama’s church” (not “Barack Obama’s former pastor.)
Axelrod sounds shaky and afraid, he’s stumbling all over the place and handing me the funniest whopper of the day- “the Rev. Wright’s words are his own words, not Barack Obama’s, Senator Obama should not be held accountable for words that are not his own.”
What a great message from the campaign manager who handed Obama a speech he wrote for Deval Patrick and said “go ahead, use this.”
Just words? Just words?
And Wright is NOT the former pastor—yet.
He retires in May.
Then someone should pull him off his fairwell tour. He’s a liability of the fifth magnitude. Gee, just yesterday Barack said he understood the questions. Now the campaign says, uh-uh? Words, just words?
Axelrod is also totally pissed that Wright has been “given this enormous platform”- he’s said this five times in the past four minutes. “Hours and Hours on cable…you guys are giving him this platform…”
“He’s his former pastor…and it should be clear from the past few days that…the relationship ISNT very close (not “wasn’t,” but “isnt.”)
Oh grow a pair, you asshole. Your candidate chose to associate himself with this dickweed. He used him to crash Chicago politics.
This fucking tool on Scarborough (Mikah?) - “I thought (Obama’s) speech on race was beautiful….”
Finally, Axelrod says “the people Barack is talking to want to hear about the REAL issues, not stuff like this..”
The real issues? Like Hope and Change and Changey Hope and Hopey Change? When has Obama EVER talked about “real issues?”
Made. Bed. LIE.
You know why Wright keep on going with his message? He got a standing ovation. Loud and long applause. While we are offended by his speech, those people enjoyed it. There is something wrong with the picture here.
We are not achieving unity across race with the path that Wright & Obama are taking. They achieve the unity among AA against White. We are back to square one on racial unity. Welcome back to the sixty.
R68 with automatic weapons. Wright on!
The callers into C-Span’s Washington Journal this morning regarding Wright’s appearance at Press Club were…interesting.
Thought this a while back…I feel like Obama instead of quelling racial tension is inflaming it.
That is by design and it is despicable. Obama will never become president and I hope he loses his Senate seat.
Probably not likely.
The numbers in his area would seem to indicate that he can be returned. I don’t think that’s what Michelle has in mind, however. Michelle is not for losers.
UGH! Rev Wright can go hump a lectern, just get him off the stage. He’s so crude. He’s an ugly little man with a gargantuan ego. And he’s Obama’s spiritual adviser. What little racist nuggets has he been whispering in Barry’s ear for all those years, I wonder.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall of the meeting where it was decided to have Wright go on a victory tour to rehabilitate him. It’s like watching an explosion in slow motion. Andrea Mitchell’s face said it all:
He’s all yours, Barry!
Andrea Mitchell- “Lets be careful not to take Rev Wright out of Context…but it IS in the context of Black Liberation Theology…”
Um, thanks Andrea. I have another idea:
We’ll listen to the speech. And then we’ll decide for OURSELVES what WE think of it. We aren’t fucking little children who need stuff translated (spun) for us.
And I don’t give a fat rat’s ass that you consider him intelligent and well-spoken. I don’t give a fat rat’s ass what your opinion of him is, period. Who the fuck are you to tell me how to take the Rev. Wright?
Black Liberation Theology was also started in 1968. Recreate68 has more meaning than we know, all the way around.
Crackpots.
Shit sugarcoating: “Black Liberation Theology.” Pathetic.
John, come on!
She lives with Alan Greenspan for Christ’s sake and thinks that HE speaks English ….
She’s so accustomed to explaining what people can’t understand its like she thinks everyone else has autism.
Do I actual hear “Amens” during Wright’s speech? Isn’t this a gathering of journalists?
Are there any fucking professional journalists anymore?
I think that anyone can buy a ticket … don’t let the name of the organization fool you.
This is very true. I attended their annual dinners here as well and not all attendees are members. It’s generally a mixed crowd. Press attends. Politicians and school board members attend. Organizations attend. I am sure the press was among the few hundred he referenced in his speech.
Wow, he’s so effective. I feel so guilty about all the slaves that I have owned over the years. I am going to go release all of them right now.
Me too. My grandparents came from Europe with theirs I guess.
Damn…..My po oppressed Irish ancestors had their slaves confiscated by the british before they got on the boat…..
My Irish great-grandfather was sick so he wasn’t even allowed off the boat. He ended up in Canada. A generation later my Irish/Canadian grandfather was allowed in. No slaves in any of that history although my other grandfather, the French/Canadian/Oglala Sioux member of the family used to say that some Sioux tribes did keep slaves. Not sure where to go with that one. Should I feel 1/4 of the white guilt because of what my Native American ancestors did? I am getting very confused.
As Ol’ Bill would say…..I feel your pain….
Some of my ancestors ( don’t know the ratio ) on the maternal side were Hillbillies ( Hatfields to be exact ) and what we in the south describe as DIRT PO….meaning that they were so poor they could not afford wood for the floors of their shacks…..
I think that Crackers everywhere are gettin tired of the same old lament…..When exacly do we get to move on…..
Have’nt we all been trying to do that for the last 35-40 years……
My grandmother had to be left behind for over a year till it was her “turn” to come here. My grandfather said they all thought the roads were paved with gold here. When he got here he found out that:
1. The roads were not paved with gold.
2. The roads were not paved at all
3. He was expected to pave them.
And my other grandfather worked on building dams. He said when they poured all that concrete, if a dago fell in the concrete they just left him there, but the horses were rescued whenever possible. Horses were valuable. One thing he didn’t do was suppress African Americans. He was too busy being suppressed himself.
There is truth to America’s treatment of people of color and of women as well. But yelling all over National TV about it and scaring the SHIT out of everybody with your threatening tone and vitriol is NOT a great way to do anything but remove what progress has been made and shove us all back to the sixties. These nutcases all want blood in the streets again. That will go a long way for them won’t it? They are ruining what little progress has been made for both women and African Americans and they should all be indicted for this sin. Somebody should stuff rags in Wright and Farrakhan’s mouths for starters. They help nobody but themselves. They are both taking advantage of the poor and oppressed and the only thing they achieve for them is more poverty and oppression, while they have million dollar homes. They are no better than those pigs Oral Roberts or Benny Hinn. Wright is taking advantage of the gravy train at the expense of the very people he says he is “defending”.
Well said…..Uppity I salute you….
I see that we sat and listened to the same kind of stories when we were little girls uppity.
My grandpa Milligan used to tell about passing through a small town in North or South Dakota and seeing a help wanted sign in the window of a general store. Down at the bottom were the words “no ni**ers or Irish need apply.
He always told us that oppression of one of us was oppression of all of us. I loved him and now 50 years later I still miss him.
I think what happens in psyche of the American heartland (those people Obama alienated so well at his SF fund raising event) is that people will end up with one truth in their minds. And that truth is not Wright being his “former pastor.” Some lawyers think they can gloss over anything but that is Obama’s politically fatal hubris. He thinks he can charm and spin his way out of anything. Wrong. Maybe if Obama did not attend an Ivy League law school he would not be so arrogant.
That truth I mention is in the photo of two men joined at the hip on a deep profound level not his “former pastor.” One cannot escape this truth. The picture speaks a million words. Those smiles are as real as they come. During the moment that picture was taken Obama shows us his true self.
Sadly, he seems to neglect any sympathy for the single mother left without any financial support when the one night stand turns into 18 years …
I am not equating it to “slavery,” but no one seems to have much to say to the sperm donor …
Groan. This guy is trying to make himself the leader of Black America.
An open, honest dialogue on race which begins with “God damn America.” Great.
Hmmmm…..Meeks, Sharpton and Wright and the travelin Epic revival show.
Is it just me or does Andrea Mitchell look like Gollum from Lord of the Rings with a wig on?
I don’t know about that but Bush has surely turned into Gollum albeit in his earlier transformational years.
You know I saw mayor of Detroit Kwame Fitzpatrick giving a big old hug to Rev. Wright. I wonder if later the good Rev did pelvic thrusts from the pulpit and talked about mayor Fitzpatrick “riding dirty.” After all, the mayor has been caught having an affair with a woman on his staff and he is now facing perjury charges since he lied about it to investigators. Two police officers lost their jobs due to him firing them for investigating the charges. He has already had to payout millions to them for wrongful termination.
Not on topic:
Reverend Wright has ruined the song “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog” FOREVER for me …
In my mind it now starts with “Jeremiah’s full of bullshit ….” Anyone want to sing along? ‘)
Just watched the National Press Club. My God what a disaster. Can anyone say Reverse Racism. I’m very happy to see other African Americans coming forward and saying NOPE, not speaking for us. Sad day for African Americans today having this hateful bullshitting conartist having this much press time as a spokesperson for anything or anyone!
Wright is a living fossil and any black person I know personally would tell you his philosophy does not represent them at all.
I’ll be very honest with you and tell you that being a military family living off post near Fort Rucker AL is an almost Jekyl and Hyde experience at times. If you are born and raised here you self segregate, and that portion of living here was painful to witness at first. Then there is the other part of my life which is very much a chosen part of my life being a military spouse. Skin color means nearly nothing and becomes more and more meaningless with each passing year as our military families become more and more diverse and ethnically blended. Your gender or ethnicity has no bearing anymore on what your rank may be or what you can achieve or who you are in the United States military. I’m exposed to a lifestyle and way of approaching life and life problems where ethnicity issues have been nullified, we all agreed to that when we become United States military or marry into it if we intend to have a happy existence. I’m very happy that AA sectors out there that I’m daily exposed to do not identify with Wright.
Thank you for your heartfelt words. The final step towards full equality in the military is replacing “Don’t ask don’t tell.” Hillary opposes this policy which is no surprise to me as she cares equally about all people. This is what I want in a leader.
Barack believe in “don’t ask, don’t tell,” as well.
Don’t ask him any questions.
Don’t tell him red states don’t count.
Some changes begin incrementally…..It is the path of the centrist…..
Ever notice how homosexuality went socially mainstream after that policy was implemented….Although it was woefully inadequate it was IHMO a good strategy legislatively….Opened up the whole can of worms to constitutional challenge. This is a common legislative strategy to begin the surge of change….
All I want is for Wright to keep talking and for him to keep posing for pictures like these:
No drama between Wright and Kwame
Can’t wait for today’s round of Jeremiah.
The good old Rev is at it again this morning he was just on C-Span, hope some one has the clip of the question time it will be a interesting one to watch.
If OBIwan wasn’t TOAST before?? He sure is NOW!!!
Pass the jelly?
LOL!
You want to laugh your ass off some more?
Rev. THAT WAS PRICELESS…..Damn those CRACKERS are funny when their danders up…..That woman sounds just like Julie…
And that video is listed over at realclearpolitics.com at least for two days that I know of as “THE CHANGE OBAMA BRINGS.”
And check this out as a preview of what McCain will do.
LOLOL
You MUST have read me the other night saying I had this vision of Hillary as Mary Poppins!!!
Serving up her particular version of a Spoonful of Sugar as medicine against all things hurtful and wrong (wright).
Shapin up to be a good week for Sen. Clinton…..No ?
I was channel surfing and for a brief moment I violated my usual I don’t watch MSNBC pledge. Dean was on (barf) Russert and Dean looked cool as a cucumber. I think Dean knows something we don’t and I think it could be something we will celebrate. And Dean absolutely left the door open for Hillary to get the nomination. I did not hear any spin in his words.
Yeah, I heard it too. What a strange day to wake up to after so much bullshit and backstabbing her done by Dean and MSNBC and my God seemingly everybody else…..what the heck is going on anyhow :)?
I don’t know but I suspect an end game and parachute for Obama as not to further inflame racial tensions caused by Obama himself.
Hope they sell it on EBAY…..I fed my piece to my increasingly bitter dog Harry a couple of weeks ago…..
Wright says he is open for the post of VP, now that is rich lol
Ehemmm……Are you shittin me….I don’t get cable….How very working class of me….
Nope, not shitting you and said the same way he says everything else so it should have been joke but was it?
WELL, THAT sure helpe Obama donchatink? BWAHAHAHAHA!
Wright would NOT admit that America did NOT create AIDS
Wright was trying to pass this whole thing off as a slander against the CHURCH not him.
HOW friggen offensive and vain is that???
It’s totally about HIM (and his LAMB)
what a FRAUD
Dean must be fuming. He’s a DOCTOR after all. The aids crap must be making him numb!
Once again Wright stated that Obama did not disown him all he did was go out there and say what he had to say as a politician, I guess Wright must know something we don’t. The Rev said that if Obama had not said what he said, he would never get elected. He had to distance himself from those statements because he’s a politician.
On the Government created AIDS: Have you read “Medical Apartheid”? I read different things.. Cites the Tuskeegee Experiments. “I believe our government is capable of doing anything.”
Wright hits those who “worship Sunday mornings in a black clergy robe, then burn crosses on Sunday evening with a white Klan robe.”
The Christianity of the slave-holder is not the Christianity of the slave
We have never apologized for slavery. We have never apologized for Japan.”
Just a few I do hope the clips come out soon it was a good one.
We have never apologized for Japan? I wonder what that egotistical deluded mind of Wright means by this? Does he mean we should apologize on Japan’s behalf and for what? Or does he want us to apologize to them for the war they started against us? I’ll guess he meant dropping the bomb on them twice. I think Truman did not want to have to apologize to the families of a million dead Americans who would have had to invade Japan to finish them off if Truman did not use the bomb.
Maybe this is where Obama got his skewed sense of a bataan death march ….
Well…..Nothin like that old rant of CRACKER IMPERIALISM….
I get fed up with OPPRESSION lectures I receive from men like Wright.
He should try being a single woman raising children without child support in a system where social services are dominated by AA’s and being a CRACKER looking for services is sweet revenge….
Until this reverse racism is addressed nationally there will be NO PROGRESS
Avenue Q the musical deals with the issue with honesty…..and humor….
I’m just sayin’
The man is a fraud…..Wright grew up upper middle class and he benefitted from Truman intergrating the armed forces…
Fox says Wright claims he has death threats so he is being protected by the Nation of Islam.
Wright also told the press this morning that he is not running for President but he wouldn’t mind running for vice president.
That’s right. Yup.
Oh for sure I heard that twice!!
That made me shudder Uppity!! Can you imagine?
I’m sure I’d be moving to Canada (or further)
This country is crazy enough right now.
No … go some place where the cost of living is cheaper ….
Where shall we flee to Beebop?
How about Jamaica Mon?
This whole mess is gettin SCARY TRIBAL…1930’s and it’s gettin Global…..Purges seem to be a possibility…..
Irie mon
Maybe the Obamabots over at HuffPo will stop signing off with Obama/Rhodes now and start signing off with Obama/Wright.
Well….Fascists do stick together don’t they…..
Shapin up to be a FINE WEEK for Sen. Clinton…..
I hope there have not been any death threats. Its possible but I don’t believe him. And getting protection from the Nation of Islam was a bad thing to say politically for Obama.
Dawnelle is correct in saying Obama is toast.
Yes he’s being protected by the man who said “America! You owe us the whole country!”.
what is he thinking? Has it never occur to him that people will be afraid that Obama will pick him as the running mate?
At this point I wouldn’t put anything past these violent nutcases. I am telling you they want blood in the streets again.
When this empty suit finagles his nomination and gets his ass handed to him in November, they will riot. It’s Obama’s supporters and surrogates who are defeating him. They want to THREATEN America into voting for him. Screw them. The voting booth is private. It ain’t Caucus.
Correct uppity…..Donnidiot said so on yesterdays George…She used that exact phrase….There will be blood in the streets….
Every other “answer” is “is that your question?” or “I didnt’ say that” or “did you hear the whole speech?
Followed by quotations of irrelevant Bible passages.
Followed by lies and half-truths or non-sequitors (sic)- “Barack Obama did not distance himself from me, he distanced himself from me because…
Of course MSNBC and Air Obama Radio will eat this shit up and ask for seconds. I flipped on Lionel just in time to hear him tell me that “of course Wright is a patriot, he was a MARINE…”
So was Joe McCarthy, dumbass.
McVie anyone?
He doesn’t need Tim, He’s got Bill Ayers all ready for more.
Yepper and Bill knows how not to get caught or do any time. And hey, so what if his girlfriend is one of the people who got killed in the blast … he didn’t do enough, right? He kind of makes Cheney look snugly.
How do we know he was a marine? Obama said he was but Obama is a pathological liar. Anyone looked into this?
I am sure that Rove and company has and knows each and every time he took a leak!
“How do we know he was a marine? Obama said he was but Obama is a pathological liar. Anyone looked into this?”
Oh, lord, if I must…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright
You’ll find photos of Wright in his Marine uniform, as well as a photo of him treating President Johnson as a U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman.
yes and Oswald was a Marine as well
Wright is so proud of helping LBJ that he made fun of his accent, nice
To quote Mimi:
Hope. Change. Hate speech. It’s all so refreshing.
About the slave trade….Many Africans (in Africa) were involved in making money off of selling people into slavery. Slavery has been a hideous practice in a multitude of cultures over history as well.
Always abhorrent. Rev. Wright and Obama strike me as two people who would have gladly sold their fellow
Africans for a quick buck. Hell, they are doing it now. You want to know who the real slave owners are now?–It’s the assholes getting rich and powerful by living off the pain and suffering of their people. Isn’t that what slavery is all about?
on a different note, a simply translation of fact for the dim-wit “journalists”: What part of “God damn America” do you not understand?
They do it now …
I was involved in a day long photo shoot Oprah did and one thing that was disturbing to me was that she showed up ( drove up in her SUV Porsche with a driver) and had Nation of Islam bodyguards. They stood outside the doors while the spot was being filmed at this person’s home. They were armed and extremely intimidating and very good bodyguards I might add.
Now I see that Nation of Islam was doing the bodyguarding for Wright at this swirl of media showings. Did you catch that one, Larry?
Does Obama use Nation of Islam bodyguards too?
Aren’t they a different religion from that of Wright? We have had quite an uproar with NOI in the Bay Area recently.
Ehemmmm……Black Separatism is a philosophy that binds many faiths.
You know I saw mayor of Detroit Kwame Fitzpatrick giving a big old hug to Rev. Wright. I wonder if later the good Rev did pelvic thrusts from the pulpit and talked about mayor Fitzpatrick “riding dirty.” After all, the mayor has been caught having an affair with a woman on his staff and he is now facing perjury charges since he lied about it to investigators. Two police officers lost their jobs due to him firing them for investigating the charges. He has already had to payout millions to them for wrongful termination.
bros b4 hos, sista’, bros b4 hos!
Ewww, I’ve been reading the blogs and Obama supporters are actually posting “Rev Wright for president”. They are fawning all over this man as if he were a great savior. They’re talking about how beautiful he is and they sound all starry eyed.
They’re talking about being glued to their TV watching the entire three hour sermon? Was it really 3 hrs and broadcast in it’s entirety??! That just strikes me as bizarre.
the lemmings, ie the media, are going to fall all over themselves about this dufus, rev wright. the average person,voter, looking at this crax will be bored, ticked off and turned off. they don’t want to be lectured by this guy. they worry about their problems and more whining from that quarter is not impressive. they want something positive. mlk certainly was a positive speaker. they don’t want the rev shoved down their throat by the media. all it will do is backfire even more on obama. i read somewhere, joan walsh?, saying how hurt the rev is. well i don’t give a happy daxx about how the rev feels. get counseling for heaven’s sake. i care about how america hurts. get that idiot off tv now.
The media will make things worse by trying to gloss this cluster fuck over. Good.
Parading out Wright again has become an unmitigated disaster for Obama. I think Wright might haven done some damage control to his constituency for himself but that’s about it. To the rest of us he looks even more a dangerous misguided egotistical bozo.
I think one of the Obamabots should have went to Wright last week before he started the PR campaign and said “Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!” They could have prevented Gort (Wright) from destroying Obama any more than he is already been destroyed.
“Parading out Wright again has become an unmitigated disaster for Obama.”
Obviously Obama had nothing to do with “parading out Wright again”.
Is that from my favorite comedy of all time??? Army of Darkness? LOL
Rut Roh it has already started in NC
I just got this in my email (along with a dozen or so other emails from various Hillary groups I belong to and things have definitely flipped!
Here’s the headline from this email…..
Community Conversation Meeting
Cancelled in Boone and Clyde
The Divided We Fail Community Conversation meetings scheduled for April 28 in Boone and April 29 in Clyde have been canceled.
Rut Roh!
I think canceled is ONE L but I won’t hold that against them!
They were probably in a hurry typing this one out!! lol
Dawnelle I am totally confused, what are those events and why is canceling them significant?
Divided we Fail is a group trying to unite us all correct?
BO people were working the crowds before Hillary’s rally here the other day in Asheville. With big signs saying “Hugs for Obama”
There were about a dozen of them all over the place. Some are trying to keep the DEMS together but my point is…. the timing of this is suspect because after watching Wright I would NOT attend that meeting. Maybe it’s just me.
I’m no longer interested in uniting with such ignorance and blatant hate.
Hate begets hate (one way or another)
Osmosis at the very least is to blame.
An example
I spent 2 yrs living in S. Korea while I was in the Army. W/out taking classes I learned to speak enough of the language to get along pretty well.
BECAUSE working with KATUSAS daily for 2 yrs made it an unconscious event!
FYI - KATUSA = Korean Augmentee (to the) USA
I can’t imagine 20 years of Sunday’s (whether he was a loyal attendee or not) and the influence Wright had on Obama.
This Wright is NO kind of REV I would hold up as any example of CHRISTIAN VALUES or TRADITIONS
He can spout passages all friggen day long as excuse. That’s all they are…… excuses to hate. jmo.
Goose step in unison…..And so it begins…
Not around here it’s not being lauded!
Maybe the deep blue elite states but not around here.
Details please. Boone is beautiful BTW.
You’re right about Boone. Actually MOST of Western NC looks just like BOONE.
It’s a peaceful happy place and BO is gonna make it very ANGRY!!
jmo
maybe they canceled the meeting (coincidentally) for other reasons. I’m not too sure. Hillary fans here are RIGHT up on everything current so this to me says problems. Unless most of the BO voters are not paying attention. Very possible.
Seems that Wright threw Obama under the bus this morning. I just caught the tail end of Wright’s statement.
Wright, paraphrased: ‘Obama will say or do whatever he has to say or do as a politician to get elected. He,(Wright), however, says and does the things on the pulpit that he needs to say and do as a Preacher who serves a higher judge.’
In other words, Obama lies in order to get elected, because that’s what politicians do.
Bye Bye Barry.
Yippee!!!
I’ll second that Rev. Wrong!
Love the Update. He’s “coming after Obama” to give the whole country to the Nation of Islam just like Farrakhan demands.
This man will NEVER be president. Wait till the nutjobs demonstrate ala Recreate 68. If ever I am having deja vu, it’s this season. McGovern all over again. 68 gave us Nixon and 72 gave us Nixon again. And 2008 will give us McCain. Only this time, I am going to help. Me and the 30 percent of Hillary supporters who would vote for dracula before they would vote for Obama. Add Florida and Michigan. Then add the Catholics and the Garlic noses and now, the Irish too. Toss in the Jews and the gays and lesbians and Barry Obama is going to get his interesting reward.
Ooops! I forgot the bitter hicks. The list is so long…I forget.
The Bahamas?
Bahamas Beebop? I thought we were going cheap? lol
Paradise Island sounds dreamy though!
No baby girl, for BO and Michelle to live … after he is humiliated … you and me, we’re staying here to fix this great nation of ours!
Ahhhh! Ok I like that better!!
I was listening to former labor secretary Robert Reich discuss the income disparity btween the Rich and the Poor as being the same as the 1920’s preceeding the Great Depression…..If history serves as the best of tutors then this tribalism will continue….It is the way of Facism….To exploit economic and ethnic tensions…The Europeans have been saying we are due for a long time….
Reich states the pattern that results in the current climate.
Anti-immigration
Economic Isolationism
Increased Nationalism
Surge in Social Justice Demands that can take form of populism or marxism
Global drop in trade… It’s a pretty long list….Any of this sound familiar ?
Horde your rice…..No ?