Brian Ross at ABC finally noticed what most of the main stream media had to be ignoring: Barack Obama’s racist pastor. Ross starts the article off with a massive blow:
Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”
Oh, and he said that in church. He often uses obscenities in his sermons. He continued:
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
Ross notes the Rev. Dr. sermon following the attacks on September 11th, The good Rev. Dr. blamed America for the attacks:
“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.
Barack tries to play this guy down as “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.” Let’s not be confused by his minimizing. As the Chicago Tribune noted:
When Obama sought his own church community, he felt increasingly at home at Trinity. Before leaving for Harvard Law School in 1988, he responded to one of Wright’s altar calls and declared a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Later he would base his 2004 keynote speech to the Democratic National Convention on a Wright sermon called “Audacity to Hope,” –also the inspiration for Obama’s second memoir, “The Audacity of Hope.”
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.
Last fall, Obama approached Wright to broach the possibility of running for president. Wright cautioned Obama not to let politics change him, but he also encouraged Obama, win or lose.
Barack wants us to think this is a guy who isn’t that important, but facts are stubborn things. Rev. Dr. Wright is Barack’s spiritual mentor. Barack just doesn’t want you to know about it.
