g*d damn, america, obama lied!

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I don’t know if you have seen all the hoopla this weekend regarding Reverend Wright, and Obama rejecting him, since most media outlets ignored it, or provided minimal coverage. But, it was a doozy.

The sermons of Wright, Obama’s spiritual mentor, the man he credits with the Audacity of Hope, the man who married Obama and Michelle, and the man that baptized their daughters, have finally found their way to the media. (if you read my blog, you will know that i blogged about this before, and was worried that something like this was lurking there, waiting to explode until Obama was the nominee. Luckily this happened now. i do not believe he stands a chance to win the election in November.)

I thought I would take a moment and just comment on a few of Wrights outrageous statements.

1. “Jesus was a black man, killed by white Italians.”

First of all, Jesus was Jewish. I do not think that Jews consider themselves black. Now, I believe that you can envision Jesus in whatever image you relate to. If, for example, Rosie O’Donnell wants to envision Jesus as Nathan Lane in drag, who cares (she doesn’t, I am just saying, who cares). If African Americans want to envision Jesus as a black man, go for it. Personally, I would like to envision God being like Audrey Hepburn in the movie Always. If God does exist, I always thought God would be a woman, since God gave birth to our existence, and God gave women the gift of giving life. But, then I think, no, God must be a man, because we also get cramps. But, I digress. What is not ok with me, is calling Jesus black, only so that you can say he was killed by white Italian men, which is what Wright preaches.

Italian Ponzio Pilato, ordered the execution, at the urging of the Jewish high priest Caiaphus and his council, who brought Jesus before Pilato.

2. “Obama is a black man, grown up in a country owned by rich white men. Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary ain’t ever had to work twice as hard to get anything done.”

No, she has never been called that, as far as I know. But, she has however, by Obama supporters, been called Billary, Shillary, whore, war monger, baby killer, murderer, fat ass, bitch and c*nt, to name a few. Not sure if Wright knows this, but to women, whore, fat ass and c*nt are right up there with nigger.

And for him to say that women have never had to work harder to achieve anything, it shows he does not live in the real world. I am not even going to get into this issue, because we all know it is true. It is his ignorance.

3. “Now, Hillary’s married to Bill. Bill thinks he’s been good to us, no he ain’t. Bill’s been doing to us like he did to Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.” (making sexual gyration moves - ok, gross! in church?) “God wants us to god bless America, no, no, no, God damn America!”

Wright talks about the 3 strikes-you’re out law, and the size of prisons and the number of black men in prison. Does he really think that Bill Clinton’s goal was to just throw black men in jail?

I don’t know if you remember, but I remember in the 90’s men and women in poor neighborhoods, and in black neighborhoods, and in inner-cities were pleading with the government to cleanup the crack problems. People were creating their own vigilant groups, to patrol the neighborhoods, and to drive out the crack problems. We had babies being born addicted to crack, and with AIDS. We had meth labs blowing up in neighborhoods. We had traffic from people coming to buy drugs from the dealers. We had dealers selling crack to kids. Decent neighborhoods were being turned upside down because of crack, and the communities were asking for help.

I believe that President Clinton was trying to do something to provide a safer place for kids to grow up, and remove the drug problems from those neighborhoods. Yes, we have learned over the years, that the ratio of crack offenses to cocaine offenses are disproportionate, and crack tends to be a black problem, and cocaine a white problem. But the problem was not white people building cocaine dens in white neighborhoods. I think the government needs to re-evaluate the laws that were established, but I do not agree that President Clinton created those laws to screw over black people. I believe he was taking action to try and help.

4. On Sunday, September 16, 2001, just FIVE days after 9/11, Wright said this: “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….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 said this to a full congregation, standing on their feet, cheering and clapping and yelling. He said this FIVE days after we were attacked on 9/11. Now, we did bomb to end the second world war, which can be argued, saved lives in the long run. We also bombed them because we were attacked at Pearl Harbor, and brought into that war. And I do believe that we *batted an eye*.

But here is my biggest issue with what he said. This was FIVE days after 9/11. This was the first Sunday after we were attacked. We still had HUNDREDS of people missing, unaccounted for, buried in the rubble of those towers. We were a country in SHOCK, in MOURNING, in DISBELIEF, in TEARS. The fires were still burning at ground zero. Firemen were still buried alive five days after 9/11. Most churches around the country were organizing blood drives, clothes drives, and donation drives. Millions of people flocked to their churches that Sunday seeking solace. Seeking support, and guidance, security.

And what was Wright preaching? That we got what we deserved, and how dare we act indignant? Are you kidding me? Clapping and cheering FIVE days after 9/11, because we got what we deserved?

5. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment - “They injected black men with syphilis.”

Now, while this was a horrible incident, one that President Clinton did apologize to the 8 remaining survivors, the government did not inject black men with syphilis.

“For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”

It was a travesty, but I do not believe that Wright lying to his congregation, and spreading more hate is appropriate for a preacher. I also do not believe that turning your congregation against its country is very unifying.

Other comments by Wright:

“US of KKK A.”

“The government lied about the HIV virus, the government created this, to infect the black man.”

“Black men turning on Black men, that is turning on the wrong enemy.”

Now, there are many more things Wright said that I could discuss, but frankly, I think his words speak for themselves.

But the thing that REALLY gets me, is that Obama sat on every network station Friday night, and LIED to us.

Obama said that he never heard these comments. He said he never heard them sitting in the church, or heard them elsewhere. He said, had he known about these, he would have left the church. He said if he knew about the tenor of those sermons, he would have left. He said this Friday.

Obama then goes on to say that he did know about one statement, and that is why he tried to distance himself when he announced his candidacy. Then on another interview, he said he knew about one or two comments. This is why he un-invited Wright to speak at his announcement of his candidacy. Obama told Wright that he “can be rough sometimes during his sermons, so it is best that he not come”. Wright did, however, meet with Obama privately beforehand, and they prayed together.

Here is an article written last year, by a reporter who was in that church, with Obama, and Obama heard Wright make these types of statements.

And after all that, Obama still appointed Wright to an official post on his campaign!

Obama knew what this man was saying. It is impossible to attend a church for 17 years, and not know what this man was saying. There are numerous articles written about this man over the years. Videos of his sermons have been available online, on his churches web site. Hannity covered this topic a year ago on FOX. Here is an article written in 2004, about Obama and his church, that the theology of Obama’s church is closer to that of Karl Marx, and black nationalism, that to Christianity.

You can watch Obama making statements about his church here, as well as what he knew, and when he knew it. This video is edited for maximum effect, but it does put into perspective the incidents as they occured.

Wright campaigned for Obama in that church. He made these statements about Hillary and Bill during the campaign. And Obama had the gall to act indignant all these months, making charges of racism towards Bill, Hillary and their surrogates and supporters. All the while knowing that Wright was demeaning Hillary and Bill at the pulpit. All the while preaching white hate, separatism, and anti-American sentiment.

All these months, Obama and his supporters were getting their panties in a twist because Bill compared Obama’s victory in SC to Jesse Jackson. They pounced on Hillary for comments made by Ed Rendell. The Obama camp circulated a memo, trying to push the race card on anything they could scrape up, to call the Clintons racist. The Obama camp and the media JUMPED on Clinton for remarks made by Geraldine Ferraro. The Obama camp has attacked her many times.

Keith Olbermann did a *Special Comment* just a day or two before, and ATTACKED Hillary Clinton for the statements made by Geraldine Ferraro. Hillary had already come out a few times and said she did not agree with the comments. What did Olbermann want, a public flogging? Geraldine was not speaking on behalf of the campaign. She was at a paid speaking event of hers. She was answering a question, asked by a reporter from a small newspaper. She was exercising her right to free speech…? She did not say anything that wasn’t truthful. She is a senior member in the democratic party, a DC insider, and I think perhaps she knows better then Keith Olbermann what the heck is going on in DC. And if Olbermann did not have his head so far up Obama’s ass, he would know that also.

The Obama camp did not take Hillary Clinton at her own word, and they punished her and held her accountable for comments made by her surrogates or supporters. They held her ACCOUNTABLE. And the media covered it. The media covered it extensively. Every little race bait that the Obama camp put out, the media covered it.

And ALL this time, Obama was attending the 11am services at his church, listening to this man, Reverend Wright, spew his anti-American, anti-white, separatist, bigoted views. And then, he appeared on TV Friday, and lied, over and over again.

And, please do not comment and say that what Wright said was true. If those comments are ok, with you, whatever. They are not ok with me. And as Obama said Friday, if you believe him, they are not ok with him.

“Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy. 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.

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 or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.

Let me repeat what I’ve said earlier. All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn. They in no way reflect my attitudes and directly contradict my profound love for this country.

With Rev. Wright’s retirement and the ascension of my new pastor, Rev. Otis Moss, III, Michelle and I look forward to continuing a relationship with a church that has done so much good. And while Rev. Wright’s statements have pained and angered me, I believe that Americans will judge me not on the basis of what someone else said, but on the basis of who I am and what I believe in; on my values, judgment and experience to be President of the United States.”

So, according to Obama, he did hear about these comments at the beginning of his campaign. But he still continued as a member of that church, he still prayed with Wright, and he still placed Wright on his campaign. He did not reject Wrights comments until Friday, when the media got a hold of the tapes. He did not reject Wright’s comments until he had to, politically. He does not reject these comments, or he would have done so years ago. Not just when he was forced to politically. And this is not just some crazy bat shit uncle talk, this is a man he chose, a man that inspired him, and man that he asked to perform his wedding ceremony, and baptise his children. A man that is his spiritual mentor.

And all this time, he condemned the words of Clinton surrogates, and blamed the Clintons, allowing the media to portray the Former First Lady, and NY Senator, the Former President, and the first female Former VP candidate, as racists.

“I believe that Americans will judge me not on the basis of what someone else said, but on the basis of who I am and what I believe in; on my values, judgment and experience to be President of the United States.”

Why should we Obama? That is a luxury that you did not afford Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton or Former President Bill Clinton.

I see nothing about your judgment that qualifies you to be President of the United States.

I find nothing about your values that qualifies you to be President of the United States.

I see no experience that qualifies you to be President of the United States.

You lied to the American people, Barack Obama. You lied about knowing what this man was preaching. You lied about when and what you knew. And I, like you now claim, vehemently condemn those words. So, I want to know why you sat there for 17 years, and listened to those words?

(You also lied to us about NAFTA/Canada. You lied to us, repeatedly about Rezko, the latest lie you revealed on Friday, about the amount of money Rezko actually raised for you. But that we can save for another day.)

I would like to know, also, Keith Olbermann, where was your outrage towards Wright and Obama last Friday? All I heard in that *interview* was “would you like a pillow, or perhaps a cup of tea?”

You, Sir, are worse then the Falafel that you so despise. You have become that man, even worse. Your bias for Obama has been so apparent these months, that you made a colossal ass of yourself in your special comment to Hillary, and your interview of Obama Friday. Shame on You, Sir, indeed.

I don’t know what kind of Change Obama is promising to bring to the White House. The only thing I see as a change, if he were to be elected to the highest office in America, is that we would have elected a President who seems to not have pride in his country. And that, my fellow Americans, is not who I want sitting in the Oval Office.

I, without hesitation, do not doubt the patriotism or the pride shared by Hillary Clinton, or John McCain, for their country.

And now, to try to deflect the negative attention that Obama is getting surrounding Wright, and Rezko, and his earmarks, and NAFTA, he has promised to launch a full assault on Hllary Clinton. He has even hinted this weekend that the cause of this racial divisiveness is Hillary’s fault.

Sorry, but I think you made your own mess here, Obama.