Obama Gets Bitter Over Wright

Barack Obama finally severed ties with his “spiritual mentor” today, after the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s display yesterday in front of the National Press Club. Obama claims he found Wright’s racial rhetoric “appauling” and “that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate….” For some reason it took the man who would be Messiah 20 years to figure out what it took the rest of us 20 seconds to figure out. Jeremiah Wright is a self-promoting, White-America-hating racist. He goes on to say:

Now, I’ve already denounced the comments that had appeared in these previous sermons. As I said I had not heard them before. And I gave him the benefit of the doubt in my speech in Philadelphia, explaining that he has done enormous good in the church, he’s built a wonderful congregation, the people of Trinity are wonderful people, and what attracted me has always been their ministry’s reach beyond the church walls. But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS; when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century; when he equates the United States’ wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses. They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.

 It is quite clear that Barack Obama has been taste-testing the Kool-Aid that he has been pouring down the throats of the American people for weeks now. By the middle of last March, Wright’s sermons were all over the news. On March 14, Fox News reported on the pastor’s controversial comments:

In a fiery sermon taped and available on DVD, Barack Obama’s longtime pastor and spiritual adviser can be seen and heard saying three times: “God damn America.”
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., in his taped sermons, also questioned America’s role in the spread of the AIDS virus and suggested that the United States bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Obama obviously heard these comments, because he made an attempt at damage control with this initial statement:

“Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy,” he said in the statement. “I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.”

But then Obama decided this wasn’t enough, and felt the need to qualify his pastor’s comments in his speech entitled “A More Perfect Union” that he delivered on March 18.

…Reverend Wright’s comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems — two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change — problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all.
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But the truth is, that isn’t all that I know of the man. The man I met more than 20 years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another, to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a United States Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over 30 years has led a church that serves the community by doing God’s work here on Earth — by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS.
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And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions — the good and the bad — of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.
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I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother…. These people are a part of me. And they are part of America, this country that I love.
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The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through — a part of our union that we have not yet made perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care or education or the need to find good jobs for every American.

So basically, according to Barack Obama, Wright was wrong to say what he did, but he had his reasons that people in White America just can’t understand. Obama then went on to educate us throughout the rest of his speech.

What changed between March 18 and April 29? Why did Barack Obama go from explaining Wright’s rhetoric to cutting him loose? This changed:

MODERATOR: What is your motivation for characterizing Senator Obama’s response to you as, quote, “what a politician had to say”? What do you mean by that?

WRIGHT: What I mean is what several of my white friends and several of my white, Jewish friends have written me and said to me. They’ve said, “You’re a Christian. You understand forgiveness. We both know that, if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.”
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Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever’s doing the polls. Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors. They have a different person to whom they’re accountable.
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As I said, whether he gets elected or not, I’m still going to have to be answerable to God November 5th and January 21st. That’s what I mean. I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do.

Jeremiah Wright gave his true opinion of Barack Obama. He essentially called him a liar who will say whatever he has to in order to get elected. 

Other than this blindsided attack on Obama, Wright sang the same old songs. All the oldies-but-goodies were played, including hits like “God Damn America,” ” US Government AIDS,” and the “USMC Roman Legion.”

Obama returned the favor and fed Wright to the wolves. But burried in his outrage, the presidential candidate gave the real reason for his split with the man he could no sooner disown than his own racist grandmother.

Q: What’s going to happen with the distraction?
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BO: I want to use this press conference to make people absolutely clear that obviously whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed, as a consequence of this. I don’t think that he showed much concern for me. I don’t — more importantly — I don’t think he showed much concern for what we’re trying to do in this campaign and what we’re trying to do for the American people and with the American people And obviously, he’s free to speak out on issues that are of concern to him and he can do it in any ways that he wants. But I feel very strongly that — well, I want to make absolutely clear that I do not subscribe to the views that he expressed….

So White America is just not understanding what motivates Jeremiah Wright to spew hate speech about us, but when he directs some of it towards Barack Obama, suddenly there is a problem and their relationship will never be the same.

Grandma better watch what she says.

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