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Considering this view of America, it's not surprising that in December Mr. Wright's church gave an award to Louis Farrakhan for lifetime achievement. In the church magazine, Trumpet, Mr. Wright spoke glowingly of the Nation of Islam leader. "His depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening," Mr. Wright said of Mr. Farrakhan. "He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest."
After Newsmax broke the story of the award to Farrakhan on Jan. 14, Mr. Obama issued a statement. However, Mr. Obama ignored the main point: that his minister and friend had spoken adoringly of Mr. Farrakhan, and that Mr. Wright's church was behind the award to the Nation of Islam leader.
Instead, Mr. Obama said, "I decry racism and anti-Semitism in every form and strongly condemn the anti-Semitic statements made by Minister Farrakhan. I assume that Trumpet magazine made its own decision to honor Farrakhan based on his efforts to rehabilitate ex-offenders, but it is not a decision with which I agree." Trumpet is owned and produced by Mr. Wright's church out of the church's offices, and Mr. Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.
Meeting with Jewish leaders in Cleveland on Feb. 24, Mr. Obama described Mr. Wright as being like "an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with." He rarely mentions the points of disagreement.
Mr. Obama went on to explain Mr. Wright's anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in his anger over the Jewish state's support for South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. As with his previous claim that his church gave the award to Mr. Farrakhan because of his work with ex-offenders, Mr. Obama appears to have made that up.
Neither the presentation of the award nor the Trumpet article about the award mentions ex-offenders, and Mr. Wright's statements denouncing Israel have not been qualified in any way. Mr. Obama nonetheless told the Jewish leaders that the award to Mr. Farrakhan "showed a lack of sensitivity to the Jewish community." That is an understatement.
As for Mr. Wright's repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks because of what Mr. Wright calls its racist and violent policies, Mr. Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be "provocative."
Hearing Mr. Wright's venomous and paranoid denunciations of this country, the vast majority of Americans would walk out. Instead, Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle have presumably sat through numerous similar sermons by Mr. Wright.
Indeed, Mr. Obama has described Mr. Wright as his "sounding board" during the two decades he has known him. Mr. Obama has said he found religion through the minister in the 1980s. He joined the church in 1991 and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith.
The title of Mr. Obama's bestseller "The Audacity of Hope" comes from one of Wright's sermons. Mr. Wright is one of the first people Mr. Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. Mr. Obama consulted Mr. Wright before deciding to run for president. He prayed privately with Mr. Wright before announcing his candidacy last year.
Mr. Obama obviously would not choose to belong to Mr. Wright's church and seek his advice unless he agreed with at least some of his views. In light of Mr. Wright's perspective, Michelle Obama's comment that she feels proud of America for the first time in her adult life makes perfect sense.
Much as most of us would appreciate the symbolism of a black man ascending to the presidency, what we have in Barack Obama is a politician whose closeness to Mr. Wright underscores his radical record.
The media have largely ignored Mr. Obama's close association with Mr. Wright. This raises legitimate questions about Mr. Obama's fundamental beliefs about his country. Those questions deserve a clearer answer than Mr. Obama has provided so far.
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You have to ask the salient question. Why is Obama so closely aligned with so many people who hate America, unless he feels the same way?
Last night, I caught O'Reilly at the gym and the usual suspects where there to say that these comments were taken out of context.
Someone explain to me exactly what context would make these palatable. To claim that you were never present when these statements were made simply doesn't wash. We're talking your church, 20 years, the man who married you, the man you dedicated your book to, and this is a surprise to you.... Please.
If you are that ignorant, or think that we are, you can't be president. If you're lying abut this, you can't be president. Pick your poison.
One of Obamamania's apologist claimed that this is something preached at many black churches. If that's the case, Obama will be an excellent president for black America. Unfortunately, he's running for president of the entire United States of America.
Once again, the liberal media and blogosphere helped enable this mess. Instead of reporting on this stuff, they hid it. They were too busy putting on their kneepads and wiping the slobber off their faces in worship to the God known as Obamamania. Now they're going to have a candidate mortally wounded with no back up.
Obamamania's not going to be able to just wash this one off.
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Yes. And this whole thing came at the worst possible time for him. Had he knocked Hillary out on Super Tuesday II, the press would have stifled this whole thing so he could beat McCain.
But since Hillary is still in it, there is still a fairly large faction in the media willing to trash him in favor of another democrat.
There are many long weeks before the next primary where this will fester. And this whole episode gives the super-deligates the opening to vote for Hillary in the convention. That's something they wanted but never thought they would get.
If democrats can't run their own nominating process, how would they ever be able to run the country.
They can't even figure out Florida. They want to have a combo mail-in poll for the Florida redo. Here's a link from the UK since the US media refuses to report on bad news for dems...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7299062.stm
If this isn't mismanagement at it's finest. And like you said Gordon, these are the same people who want to seize control of our health care system.
Just take the above article, replace references to "primary" with "health care system" and references to "voter" with "patient", and you will basically get the content of an article that will be written about our health care system 2 years after democrats start running it.
I'm always harping about the psychological projection that most democrats suffer from.
Nobody is doing more to disenfranchise a popular vote than the very democratic party who harps on it all the time.
I don't know how democrats have the balls to pat themselves on the back for socialized medicine. Medicare is already running a 30 trillion dollar unfunded liability. With a track record like that, you'd think they'd hide from americans not propose more of the same.
When private business fails it dies. When a public program fails it grows.
With dems, it's always that they never get the needed funding because of the "republican obstructionists". I swear if we turned the entire private economy over to the dems they'd still blame their failures on the private sector.
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