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Obama's Spiritual Mentor: "Hillary Ain't Never Been Called a N-----"

March 13, 2008 9:39 AM

On Good Morning America this a.m., Brian Ross took a look (watch HERE) at Obama's pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who retired last month.

Wright in one 2003 sermon said of the treatment of African-Americans by the U.S., "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strikes law and then wants us to sing 'God bless America,' No, no, no, not 'God bless America,' God damn America -- that's in the Bible, you're killing innocent people, God damn America for treating us citizens as less than human."

After 9/11, Wright said, "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagaski and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye...America's chickens are coming home to roost."

"I don't think that my church is actually particularly controversial," Obama has said.

In THIS CLIP which ran on Fox News last night, Wright talks about Obama being hated because he "doesn't fit the model -- he ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged."

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, Wright says, fits the mold.

"Hillary never had a cab whiz past her and not pick her up because her skin was the wrong color," Wright says. "Hillary never had to worry about being pulled over in her car as a black man driving in the wrong...I am sick of negroes who just do not get it. Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was. Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a n-----."

When asked about these kinds of comments in the past, Obama spokesman Bill Burton has said that "Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they’re offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church."

Burton told Fox News that “Senator Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Senator Obama deeply disagrees.”

But is it true that Obama doesn't think of Wright in political terms?

Last December, Obama's campaign issued a press release in which Wright was listed as a national leader of the Obama campaign's "African American Religious Leadership Committee."

That's pretty political.

Should Obama denounce Wright's language, his sentiments, and allow him to remain on his campaign committee? What do you think?

- jpt

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Sen. Obama will never be ever to build the trust that was lost because of his involvement with Mr. Wright. I have lost respect for Mr. Obama in every terms because he supported such a dispicable act against this beloved country and mostly to our forefathers
who bravely given their lives for such blessed freedom we all cherish today.
How can I respect such men who preach so much hatred, so much anger, so much unholiness. This is very sad day for AMERICA!

Posted by: James RR, PA (Independent) | Mar 17, 2008 8:34:40 PM

No matter what is said tomorrow in the speech, there are some fundamental judgement and honesty issues that will not disappear. He must rebuild that trust and it won't happen this year. From the beginning he dodged the tough questions. His campaign and the media were too quick to address female concerns as "whining" and race issues as "racial". He wanted to act like an evangelical minister and wow us. I started last fall voting FOR Hillary and by late January I was voting AGAINST Obama. It will take time before Mr. Obama can honestly address the race issue with us and we can believe it. I know several Hillary supporters that would not vote if he were even the VP candidate. I feel he has failed in some core value areas.

Posted by: ccbgt74 | Mar 17, 2008 8:26:40 PM

Yes, isn't "that" remarkable?
Obama & his camp, in a shrewd, underhanded effort, cry "we're concentrating too much on racial division" "in response" to racially divisive rhetoric being spewed from "his" pastor and admitted mentor.

Crying racism over reaction to their racism.

Yet, Mr. Obama today made a comment regarding the hypocrisy of Clinton's war vote, while he himself said, in 04, that he was in agreement with Bush over the war, a question he dodged in the last debate and a question his campaign has to continually dodge.

A holier than thou facade from probably the shrewdest campaign since Bush's.

If Obama wins, and he may very well do that, we are going to go back a good 50 years in racial advancement, not to mention having yet another extremely incompetent regime in the White House.

Posted by: edhillfiker | Mar 17, 2008 7:18:02 PM

Doesn't it seem just a little odd that when Obama gets busted for fratranizing with strange bed fellows that he suddenly has this overwhelming idea to dismiss the naughty behavior & says it shouldn't be a part of the political race. Now why is he making up the idea that we only talk about what he wants us to talk about?? His seedy bed fellows are something everyone should be talking about since he is applying for more than a position at the local car wash. When his wash gets hung out on the line there is a reason we all are interested in wether it is sqweeky clean & ready for the WHITE House. He is not who he says he is. We want to know if these bed fellows are going to follow him to the White House & if so, we are sooo in trouble.

Posted by: seasoned | Mar 17, 2008 6:52:50 PM

Obama is out!

Posted by: PMC | Mar 17, 2008 6:13:24 PM

Didn't Obama give a speech not too long ago where he said, "Words do Matter" ?
I suppose the way he'll backtrack on his " Words do Matter" speech is that he'll say they were really Deval Patrick's words.

Posted by: sue | Mar 17, 2008 5:37:24 PM

if obama wants to loose he should keep the man without dignity on his group where-ever he may hide him.

Posted by: leland | Mar 17, 2008 4:08:21 PM

if obama wants to loose he should keep the man without dignity on his group where-ever he may hide him.

Posted by: leland | Mar 17, 2008 4:08:13 PM

My friends, we have to move beyond this. In our nation, free speech is our constitutional right. The solution is that one must not mix politics with religion. Evangelicals have also made controversial remarks in our history and continue to make divisive remarks. The Presidential candidates need to focus on the issues. How does a remark made by a preacher improve our economy? Is this all the dirt Obama's detractors can find? We must move on.

Posted by: win322 | Mar 17, 2008 4:06:31 PM

Obama is not truthful about any of this! Anyone with eyes and and a brain could see he was telling a BIG FAT LIE in all his media interviews this past weekend! If he is the Democratic choice for the nomination, everyone I know will vote for John McCain! The DNC better wake up before it is too late!

Posted by: Denise | Mar 17, 2008 3:40:40 PM

I am all for a brother of color occupying the White House, it's long past time.
Likewise, I am for a woman occupying the White House since Europe has had female leadership for over 300 years.
However, if we intend to really progress then it's time we see a true leader of color who does not see color, nor does not cry color and especially does not allow his campaign to imply color whenever things aren't going quite
right.
That is the only true way we can, as a people and as a nation, truly progress in unity.

Personally, I'd like to see either McCain or Clinton pick Erik Rush as a running mate because he would be a far more effective,progressive and healing
leader than Obama, who will cause increasing division if he wins.

Something I'd like to see someday;

Erik Rush for president.

Posted by: edhillfiker | Mar 17, 2008 3:37:27 PM

i think he should give his senate and his president run.where is the dfr to let his kids go to that church.shame on him

Posted by: dee | Mar 17, 2008 2:57:23 PM

Obama's actions of 20 years will surface on main stream media eventually. Many Obama supporters might regret their votes and supports when it is too late. Let's find out about Obama before it is not too late!

Posted by: Lisaky | Mar 17, 2008 2:15:13 PM

I am of mixed race AND Jewish.

Odd that i read much regarding Rev. Wright and his beliefs well over a year ago, so how is it Obama was unaware of and had not ever heard these comments?

That is a beyond belief ridiculous assumption and since when did someone's religion really "not" matter?

I would say the religion of Jim Jones and his followers very much mattered,just as the religion of the Branch Davidians mattered.

The old saying that religion and politics are to remain off topic is here rendered dangerously antiquated.

No, one's religious beliefs do indeed matter as does choice of association. This is not some televangelist giving a Republican an endorsement, this was the breeding ground of Obama and his wife.

I am tired of the double standards here.
African Americans defend this racist rhetoric, exclaiming, defending and justifying it because it was a church born of slavery.

That was 142 years ago, yet it was only 52 years ago that the religious and political beliefs of many Germans that lead to a little thing called the Holocaust.

Obama has sat in the pews of this church for over 2o years and never once had the courage to denounce this rhetoric, and it's a bit like his all too convenient absenteeism during many votes over the last three years.

What I see here is a frightening pattern of Obama's lack of moral courage.

Posted by: edhillfiker | Mar 17, 2008 1:33:20 PM

Obama Attended Hate America Sermon
Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:14 PM
By: Ronald Kessler
Contrary to Senator Barack Obamas claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the minister blamed the white arrogance of Americas Caucasian majority for the worlds suffering, especially the oppression of blacks…..Obama claimed, The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity [United Church of Christ] or heard him utter in private conversation. In fact, Obama was present in the South Side Chicago church on July 22 last year when Jim Davis, a freelance correspondent for Newsmax, attended services along with Obama. In his sermon that day, Wright tore into America, referring to the United States of White America and lacing his sermon with expletives as Obama listened. Hearing Wrights attacks on his own country, Obama had the opportunity to walk out, but Davis said the senator sat in his pew and nodded in agreement. Addressing the Iraq war, Wright thundered, Young African-American men were dying for nothing. The illegal war, he shouted, was based on Bushs lies and is being fought for oil money. ..…© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Posted by: Jamie | Mar 17, 2008 1:18:22 PM

This Is the real Obama that has been given the "Rock Star pass" by the media. He is a reverse racist and has hoped that no one would get to the truth before it was too late. If he ever gets elected life as we know it will pass. The hidden agenda is minority driven and you can bet on it!!!! Democrats everywhere better get behind Hillary this man is extremely dangerous to the United States. He has been indoctrinated by people like his minister his whole life and the campaign is just part of the plan. "God help America!!"

Posted by: RT | Mar 17, 2008 12:43:31 PM

ABC has been trying to get the story about Obama in the press for at least 5 weeks. when will ABC have George Stephanopoulos, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News, anchor of ABC's Sunday morning program, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos and former Bill Clinton aide make an announcement regarding his ties to the Clintons when he gives the news. Have you noticed that CBS is the only station that provide the facts and let people decide? Let's get back to the fair and unbiased reporting of Ted. K. and David. Brinkley.

Posted by: creswell | Mar 17, 2008 11:57:10 AM

What are we talking about?..... Yeah It’s about what surrogate says which.
Beyond all the smoke and mirrors of election campaigning, its all about the two persons who are asking for our vote. Whether any one like it are not, we are dealing with two of the best democrats fighting it out. They both are good in their own ways. A very educated, philosophically thinking and good man Barry Obama and a very efficient and intelligent and good woman Hilary Clinton.
He is a professional educator hence sounds convincing with the students and educated people and She is a hard working brilliant professional politician hence resonates well with the common people.
There is lot of truth to the fact that Barry wont be where he is if he is not black and Hillary wont be where if she is not Mrs. Clinton. Hard facts but there is lot of truth to it. But beyond this obvious fact they are the best suited for this job they are fighting for.
But the whole election is about the American people. What they are made of? Beyond all the equality to the women and nonwhites, it is very obvious in many ways that its Male dominated society. Hence I feel many voters would rather vote for a Man than voting for a women even if he is black, brown, yellow or any other color. It’s for the same reason why even if Hillary is elected she wouldn’t be able to do many things as men could do. But it’s only a process. This election process has exposed many of the social stigmas that other members of the society (non-white males) faces in every day life.
This does not mean that every one who voted for Barack didn’t vote for his philosophy, his vision, intelligence or his convictions. Some voted for the phenomenon and some for the color and others for the candidate. Similarly some voted for the women, some voted for the survivor, some for the brilliant politician, rest did vote for their beliefs.
Hence, the election is about THE AMERICAN PEOPLE their beliefs and US and actions. There is more at stake than the color or the gender. It’s about how DEEP or SHALLOW we are. Prove to yourself!!!!!!!!
VOTE for the BEST...


Posted by: movingtarget | Mar 15, 2008 9:07:36 PM

Please fellow democrats in the remaining primary states, understand the gravity of this story. Obama is no longer electable, there is nothing he can say that will be credible. It's just a matter of time before they prove he was indeed there at one of the hundreds of sermons where these statements were made. I beg of you, correct the mistake us earlier democratic voters made based on a lazy media's love affair with this fraud.

Posted by: bill h | Mar 15, 2008 8:44:05 PM

I find his explanation as to why he has not left this church unbelievable . As the wife of a pastor, all I can say is that either Obama was asleep while his pastor preached and judging by his wife's recent comments, she was not, or he is trying to cover up. He is a typical politician.

My children voted for him in the primaries in the states where they live. But they are p.k.s so they now realize he is just another politician. How sad!

Posted by: Cheryl Morris | Mar 15, 2008 2:44:49 PM

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