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The Gospel According To Wright

By Charles C. Johnson from the December 2011 - January 2012 issue

How much of Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s race-based “theology” does Barack Obama really share?

In 2008 America elected a president whose pastor for 20 years preached anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, advocated bizarre pseudo-scientific racial ideas, opposed interracial marriage, praised communist dictatorships, denounced black “assimilation,” and taught Afrocentric feel-good nonsense to schoolchildren. When Americans discovered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s views during the 2008 campaign, they rightly wondered if Barack Obama, like his pastor, really believed that HIV/AIDS was created by the American government to kill black people. Even to this day, no one knows for sure whether Obama shares the views of Wright, whom the Chicago Sun-Times once described as Obama’s “close confidant.”

Candidate Obama tried to dismiss his support for Wright, telling Charlie Gibson of ABC News, “It’s as if we took the five dumbest things that I ever said or you ever said…in our lives and compressed them, and put them out there, you know, I think that people’s reaction, would be understandably upset.” And rightly so. In sermon after sermon, Wright’s radical black nationalist ideas were clearly and emphatically stated. They were not an aberration, but the focal point of Pastor Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Obama was an active member for 20 years.

Nor has Wright renounced any of his anti-Americanism. In a sermon last September 16 marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11 entitled, “The Day of Jerusalem’s Fall,” Wright seemed to celebrate white America’s comeuppance. “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!” Wright preached. “We 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 into our own front yards.” He closed, invoking Malcolm X’s statement about the assassination of J.F.K, “America’s chickens! Coming home! To roost!” White America, he was saying, had gotten its just deserts.

Candidate Obama tried to distance himself from Wright’s more damning comments. But, crucially, he didn’t disown the pastor himself. In fact, in his rise to political fame, he had made Wright’s sermons his own, drawing on Wright’s “Audacity to Hope” sermon and appropriating its theme for his political coming-out speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. He even borrowed the sermon’s title for his second autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, in a bid to get Wright and other black churches to support his candidacy.

The question is why Barack Obama, raised without any faith at all, chose one of the most incendiary preachers in Black America to preach the word of God to him. Wright became, in Obama’s words, “like family to me. [Wright] strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children.” Obama told a group of ministers in June 2007 that Wright helped “introduce me to my Christian faith.” But what, exactly, is Barack Obama’s faith? Just as important, what is Jeremiah Wright’s?

JEREMIAH WRIGHT WAS BORN on September 22, 1941, in Germantown, a racially mixed, middle-class Philadelphia suburb. His father, Jeremiah Wright, Sr., became the minister of the local Grace Baptist Church in 1938 and served there for 42 years. His mother, Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright, was a schoolteacher who eventually became the first black vice-principal at the Philadelphia High School for Girls, one of the city’s top-performing magnet schools.

Education mattered deeply to the Wrights. They helped their son with his homework while they bettered themselves with part-time courses. They enrolled him at Central High School, an all-male magnet establishment considered among the nation’s best public schools at the time. It was 90 percent white. The class yearbook announced, “Always ready with a kind word, Jerry is one of the most congenial members [of his class].” But Wright himself dismissed that period of congeniality in a later sermon. “I used to let my behavior be determined by the white world’s expectations,” he recalled ruefully.

The young Jeremiah was off to a promising start, but at age 15 was arrested for grand larceny auto theft. His parents sent him to the all-black Virginia Union University. But Wright quit after two years and joined the Marines. Wright later said he hated being educated at “black schools founded by white missionaries.” Still, during his short time at VUU he met fellow students who made a lasting impression: a young PhD student named John Kinney who had studied under both Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Cone, the founder of black liberation theology; and Samuel DeWitt Proctor, a longtime friend and mentor of King.

After quitting the Marines, Wright joined the Navy, where he served for four years. He was stationed mostly in Washington D.C., and was there to help operate on President Lyndon B. Johnson as a cardiopulmonary technician before enrolling in college again at Howard University, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s in English in 1969. At Howard, Wright heard firebrand Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a. Kwame Ture, lecture on black power. He was further influenced by Cheikh Anta Diop’s racialist tomes advancing Afrocentrism, the theory that Africa was the cradle of modern civilization. After that, it was off to the University of Chicago Divinity School for six years. Then Wright, 31, joined Trinity United Church of Christ as pastor on March 1, 1972. In his provocative words, “the fun began.”

Trinity, on its last legs when Wright joined it, was an odd choice. After all, as Bill Moyers of PBS recalls in his new book, Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, Wright “could have had his pick of large, prosperous congregations, but instead chose one with only 87 members in a largely black neighborhood” of Chicago. Wright often compared Chicago to apartheid-era South Africa: “Just as Blacks could not be caught inside the city of Johannesburg after dark…the same held true for Blacks on the Southside of Chicago.” Breaking with his parents’ Baptist denomination, Wright recognized that at Trinity he could have complete authority to implement his vision.

There were, of course, impediments to that goal, not least his white colleagues. Many couldn’t understand his love of black-style worship or emphasis on the role of Africans in biblical history. Wright recalls nearly coming to blows in 1978 with a white associate minister who called his church a “cult” and derided him for having a “big ego.”

TWENTY-TWO BLACK church members who did not like the direction in which Wright was taking Trinity lodged a complaint with the UCC, then left the church. Wright attacked them as Uncle Toms “running to ‘massa’ to tell a white man what they thought was happening to their Negro church.” He had nothing but contempt for these middle-class blacks. They were, he noted, “bourgeois Negroes who wanted to be white.” Wright considered himself a “new Black who is not ashamed of his Blackness.”

Wright had come under the sway of the writings of James Cone, a professor of divinity, father of the black theology movement and author of the seminal Black Theology and Black Power (1969). Cone taught that Christianity needed to be freed from “whiteness.” He and Wright conceived of a Christianity in which black rage and the black power ideology fused with Marxist thought. According to Cone, “black people must find ways of affirming black dignity which do not include relating to whites on white terms.” Integration was impossible because it was brought about by “black naïveté” and “white guilt.” Cone approvingly quoted Malcolm X: “The worst crime the white man has committed has been to teach us to hate ourselves.” Freeing blacks would require getting them to love their inner African and Wright would do just that—Trinity’s longtime parishioners be damned.

Trinity gave Wright a chance to introduce ordinary blacks to these writings. During the initial media dustup over Wright’s views in 2007, the media couldn’t understand Wright’s, or Obama’s, Christianity because they couldn’t understand the underlying phenomenon of black liberation theology.

It didn’t help that the mainstream media had decided to take the issue of Obama’s faith off the table. The New York Times ludicrously editorialized in 2008 that Obama’s “religious connection” with Wright “should be none of the voters’ business.” Unlike George W. Bush, Obama wouldn’t “carry religion into government,” the Times promised. In fact, Obama often invokes religion in areas—health care and economics—where it isn’t normally mentioned. An analysis by Politico found that Obama invoked Jesus far more than George W. Bush did, and cited the Sermon on the Mount to make the case for his economic policies.

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About the Author

Charles C. Johnson is a writer based in Los Angeles and author of a forthcoming biography of Calvin Coolidge.

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Timothy L. Pennell| 12.9.11 @ 7:25AM

'How much of Pastor Jeremiah Wright's Race-Based Theology does Barack Hussein Obama really share?' I don't know. Let's have a look see.

We know that the Former Marxist/Muslim, turned Radical Black Theologian - Wright - preaches HATRED toward Whites, and HATRED toward Jews. And, I think we can all agree that he's been doing it for A LONG TIME. Barack Hussein Obama sat in his Hate Church for 20 Years.

We know that Jeremiah Wright is a CLOSE FRIEND of the White Hating, Jew Hating, America Hating, Nation of Islam Leader - Louis Farrakhan. We know that Jeremiah Wright's Hate Church gave Louis Farrakhan a "Lifetime Achievement Award", evidently for a "Lifetime" of Hating Whites, Jews, and America. One would have to assume that the 'Award' is somewhere on the MOTHER WHEEL, that is Orbiting the Planet, Captained by Generals Buckwheat and Farina, formerly of the Little Rascals. (But, Farrakhan's not Crazy)

We know that Jeremiah Wright is (was) a longtime Friend, and Supporter, of the King of Camel World - Moamar Khadafi. We know that he took his knuckle dragging flock with him, on Field Trips to Khadafi's Magic Kingdom. Life was good.

That takes care of that Dirtbag. What about The Dirtbag in Chief?

Little Barry Karl Marx, sat in that White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating "CHURCH" for 20 Years. He heard all of it. And he wasn't just 'one of the boys'. He wasn't just another Black Racist sc*mbag piece of garbage. No, no. He was #1 SON, to the Hate spewing Reverend.

Reverend Racist was Barry's Mentor. Jeremiah Jew Hater, performed the Wedding of Mr. Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro/Abu Hussain and Miss Never been proud of this Country. He Baptized their kids, in to his Cult of Hate. He was "A member of my Family".

Do I need to go on? Yes? Okay, I'll continue.

Whatever Abu Hussain (As HAMAS likes to call him) missed in 'Church'? (He says he never heard the nice man say bad words) He could purchase at the Gift Shop. There, all of the Reverend favorite Anti-White, Anti-Jew, Anti-American, and Anti-Homosexual RAVINGS, could be yours, if you had the scratch. (Oh, the things he would do to Alan. Problem is, Alan would probably enjoy it.) And we know that Obama was a frequenter to that Store. In fact, Barry's Love and Admiration for this Black, Bigoted, Anti-Semitic, America Hating, PIG, was so great, that he even used the title of one of that Psycho's Sermons, as the title of one of HIS BOOKS, that Bill Ayers wrote for him. "The Audacity Of Hope".

But, what about, Now? What about, Today?

This Black President has his Black Attorney General running a "BLACKS ONLY" Justice Department. You got a Problem that needs solving by the U.S. Justice Department? Your Civil Rights have been Violated? Your Voting Rights have been Trampled Upon? And, you're WHITE?
Go on. Move along. Get out of here. No Justice for you! NEXT!

We have just been told by His Majesty, that White Middle Class Working People, no longer count, to him. He will no longer seek their votes. He will no longer Serve Their Interests. Only Blacks and Browns need apply. Only the Poor and the Drug Addled. Only Illegals and those in Jail for doing things Illegal.

"I am the ONE you've been waiting for. And I will continue to TRANSFORM AMERICA in your image. The White Man, and the Jew, can kiss my Black *ss." (I'm paraphrasing)

I'm sorry. What was the question? Does Black Jesus share any of the beliefs of that Black Racist, America Hating, Anti-Semitic PIECE OF S**T?

That's a tough one. I'm gonna Pass, Alec.
Can I have Bill Ayers for a Thousand, please?

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 7:43AM

"Anti-Semitic PIECE OF S**T?"

The administration is no more antisemitic than anyone else, so any mileage you get out of that will be marginal.

Teaghan| 12.9.11 @ 7:49AM

Really Allan? Where do you get your news?

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 8:31AM

You're not writing that Obama is a crypto-
national socialist, are you? there are some followers of Obama who don't care for Jews, but such is universal.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 8:37AM

... Teaghan:
as long as we're not discussing Stormfront, David Duke, and the others, you don't have a case.

ENOUGH ROPE| 12.9.11 @ 3:22PM

Aw shucks. Rev. Wright and Obama are misunderstood humanitarians--NOT! In 11/12, any Republican is better than Obama. Go Newt.

Dmac| 12.9.11 @ 12:30PM

Thats a very vague statement Mr. Brooks, because some are more anti semitic than others. Based on the facts of how this administration has treated Isreal, and especially how President Obama has treated Netenayu by having him exit a back door at the whitehouse, I'd say they are anti-semitic.

RCV| 12.9.11 @ 12:47PM

Well, the majority of Israelis would disagree with you. A recent poll cited by the Jerusaelm Post shows that the majority of Israelis approve of President Obama and consider him a strong friend of Israel.

As the election approaches, the right wing once again attempts to drag out the bugaboo of Jeremiah Wright (Ayers can't be far behind!). It will prove as effective as it did last time -- NOT.

DRed| 12.9.11 @ 1:30PM

Those Israelis are clearly Israel hating anti-semites. They should let American Republicans tell them what's best for them.

W| 12.9.11 @ 2:07PM

It wasn't used to any extent in 2008 except by Sean Hannity.
McCain forbade his campaign to use the Wright issue, and criticized his supporters for using the full name of Barack "Hussein" Obama.
If a nominee is friends with a terrorrist why is that not relevant? Maybe some don't care, but it is relevant.
Wright's anti semitic and anti american rants are relevant because Obama attended those services for 20 years, and had Wright officiate his marriage and baptize his children.
It may be more effective this time because now we have Obama's record.

RCV| 12.9.11 @ 4:20PM

Oh please, it dominated the news all Spring. Dragging it up yet again will only suggest a lack of focus on real issues. The only people who care are the same people who cared last time.

W| 12.9.11 @ 5:20PM

You are correct it was big news in Spring, but it was not in the fall campaign. McCain refused to make it an issue. If a candidate does not make it an issue, then the voters will not think it important.
Hindsight is aways great, but McCain should have raised it as evidence to question Obama's judgment and maturity to be president.

Brubaker| 12.16.11 @ 4:21PM

In 2008, the so-called main stream media conspired to suppress virtually all negative information about The Great Obama.

In 2012, with more than 3 years of abject failure as his record, both Obama and the MSM will find it extremely difficult to suppress the truth.

Come January 2013, Obama will be joining the ranks of the unemployed -- though the millions he has already accumulated should keep him quite comfortable.

Quiche Lorraine| 12.16.11 @ 7:00PM

You are touting a poll that shows Obama with
a 12% pro-Israel rating, and a 40% pro-Palestinian
rating? You're goofy. That means that 88% of Israelis don't believe Obama is pro-Israel, you get
that, right? That's bad, very bad...not good. Duh

Horace| 12.10.11 @ 12:47AM

I think that most Jews are now thoroughly aware of Obamas predilections for favoring Islamic states over Israel. It is so blatant that it is doubtful that Obama will have anywhere near the sycophantic support of even the liberal Jews that he's had in the past. Obama's choice of left wing cabinet advisers who support Arabs interests over that of the Israel is well known to anyone who actual watches anything other than the main stream media. Obama can hardly control his personal distaste for Israel, as it was outwardly manifested in his petulant treatment of Israel's prime minister while visiting the White House. Whatever he felt personally about the Netanyahu, a mature president, representing his country, rather than his personal views, never acts them out in public. This is the real Obama, and it's consistant with the Obama that spent 20 years with a Jew hating minister as his mentor.

Mittymo| 12.16.11 @ 4:04PM

Too bad CJ didn't write this before the last Presidential election (where was the MSM?). I'd like to think an informed public wouldn't have elected a racist.

robadude32| 12.16.11 @ 7:48PM

Mittymo you know where the MSM is on this - deeply in the tank for Obummer and the rest of the liberals.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 7:41AM

but Italians, that is different; if they had to do what they had to do to climb up the food chain, you tolerated it because they eventually sent their children to good schools and the kids could climb out.
However though you are not racist but you don't like the way blacks look you are reduced to running tokens such as Cain.

And you got what you deserved.

Timothy L. Pennell| 12.9.11 @ 8:35AM

Obviously, Alan is having a reaction to his Gerbil, again.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 8:44AM

Predictable, you don't answer what I write, you bring up a gerbil.
BTW, what of your mushy sentimentality for the Old South? the Old South is gone, Tim, and you will never get it back.

USSAlabama| 12.9.11 @ 9:00AM

You are a stupid moron, Brooks. Why do you bother commenting here?

The Old South is not 'gone'. It's modern and better than ever. But you would have no way to know.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 9:37AM

No! I mean the dignified Old Old South that Tim writes about so often. Modernity and dignity do not mix.

The antebellum South was dignified because it was not modern. There was no TV, there were no XXX websites in the 1840s. Repeat, you cannot have both dignity and modernity, "you CAN have it all" was a commercial from the '70s.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 4:03PM

I'm very sentimental, too. But we have to choose, you can't serve the past and also the future. You can't serve two masters.

You can't live in Robert E. Lee's dignified world and live in the modern world. If only we could 'have it all'. Wouldn't THAT be something.

Anthony| 12.9.11 @ 9:54AM

Naw Tim, Brooksie is in a pissy mood this morning because Purpleguy wouldn't be the bottom this morning. Ain't love wonderful!!
Looks like Brooksie has an Italian thing too. Not quite sure how his irrational segue fits into Obozo and Black Liberation Theology.
Oh well Brooksie, as they say in the hood, "Irish need not apply".

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 10:42AM

I meant that you give a pass to Italians because they raised themselves up by hook or by crook, they could beg stael borrow their way up.
Mob guys for instance rightly sent their kids to good schools.
Blacks you like less than Italians, so 'the black don't get slack'.

W| 12.9.11 @ 4:12PM

You are always entertaining Brooksie. Some people actually take your seriously.

Anthony| 12.9.11 @ 4:26PM

Who takes this moron seriously? They need Obozocare.

W| 12.9.11 @ 5:32PM

Anthony, he always says outrageous comments to gain attention.

Dr. X| 12.9.11 @ 7:42AM

Great article. Unfortunately, it's four years too late. All of this was quite evident at the time of Obama's election and neither the press nor the voting public gave a rip about it; in fact, Wright's anti-Americanism was a great plus for Obama within his Leftist base.

So here we are, four years later, and the most radical, anti-white, quasi-Marxist, anti-Christian 1960s black revolutionary in the history of American politics is probably going to get re-elected. The Republicans provide NO credible opposition. Do you think they'll use Wright's "Hiroshima" rant or his "Hillary ain't evah been caaawl-ed a n*ggah!" sermon in their campaign ads? Ha!

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 7:49AM

Why don't you admit you allow other ethnicities/races to pull every string- but you make an exception for blacks.

USSAlabama| 12.9.11 @ 9:02AM

Brooks, isn't your brilliant astuteness just being wasted here?

Al Adab| 12.9.11 @ 12:51PM

Brooksie is on of those "true believers" that Eric Hoffer warned about. He will never examine his premises so conversation or debate with him is wasted breath. All he does is take up bandwidth.

Timothy L. Pennell| 12.9.11 @ 9:16AM

This why you don't wanna untie Alan, or take the Ball Gag out of his mouth. This is what you're gonna get.
You want exceptions? How about the EXCEPTION that 15% of the Population (Blacks) commit 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES?

Is that Exception enough, for ya?

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 9:39AM

because we look down on blacks, and think:
"you're not as pretty as we are."

They aren't 'tards- they can tell what whites think.

Timothy L. Pennell| 12.9.11 @ 9:49AM

No. They do it, because people like YOU, are always ready to EXCUSE IT. According to the Alan Brooks of the world, we shouldn't expect Blacks to do things right. We can't expect them to follow rules, or Get Married, and actually have a FATHER in the House. Laws are compilacted. School is hard. When they do bad things, we should UNDERSTAND, and show Compassion. After all. They're only Blacks. They're not like us. They're STUPID.

Isn't that right, Alan?

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 10:46AM

Blacks are not 'tards, I wrote: they know you are going to bend the rules to favor whites because you want your people on top of the game.

"Laws are compilacted"

If by compilacted you mean laws are bent to favor whites, then we are in agreement for once.

Meredith Carroll| 12.22.11 @ 10:05PM

I'm sorry, I can't let this go.

You are ranting and raving on this board about racism and how whites look down on blacks, and then you say "They aren't 'tards" as if that is perfectly acceptable. Wow. Just wow. I guess in your eyes everyone ought to be treated equally, unless they happen to be born with mental challenges. Because 'tards can't tell what people think, and aren't hurt by language, the way people look at them, or the way people treat at them.

Your hypocrisy physically repulses me.

USSAlabama| 12.9.11 @ 11:33AM

Tim - He's brilliant. Like Obama.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 11:45AM

That is not your problem, it is who you are going to run next year in blowing it yet again. You think I enjoyed the mess of a decade that ended last year? you think anyone but a Gus Hall would appreciate that you are going to waste another four or eight years?
However go ahead, botch it again- see where it gets you.

Hunter R Hickey| 12.9.11 @ 7:42AM

I wish people would have taken Wright seriously four years ago.

Teaghan| 12.9.11 @ 7:47AM

It's apparent that race baiters like Wright, Sharpton, Jackson do indeed hate their "blackness" and the blacks that have "assimilated" ie., have jobs, are married, raise decent human beings are called Uncle Toms. What does he want them to have as? What is in the ghettos of Chicago? New Orleans? Poor, drug addicted, unmarried with 4 kids all by different baby daddies? Is that the blackness he's after?

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 7:58AM

50 yrs. ago your ilk were saying the South could do what it wanted-Jim Crow, redlining- but then you changed your tune.
Plus, though the charges against Cain were fabricated there is certainly a grain of truth to them; merely because he is supposedly decent doesn't mean he always stuck to his marriage vows or, esp., that he isn't an Uncle Tom.
An Uncle Tom is a token-- and Herman Cain is a token. Or was.

chuck| 12.9.11 @ 8:59AM

Actually, Alan, they were YOUR ilk. Jim Crow was the tool of Democrats, not Republicans.

And "Uncle Tom" is a disgusting,racist term, every bit as bad as "nig@#r". Why is it that the left uses it so freely?

Ryan| 12.9.11 @ 9:19AM

So...what kind of African American can run for President as a Republican? Is there any that won't be defined as "token?"

Anthony| 12.9.11 @ 10:12AM

Now you got it, Ryan!!! With the left and their trolls, like Brooksie, it's heads I win, tails you lose. You Rs are racists, but if you run a black candidate, he/she is an Uncle Tom, or you white conservatives are just using a black to cover up for your inate racism.
This is how the left operates. This is why there is no compromise with these people. They must be defeated.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 10:50AM

No, it isn't racism anymore, Jim Crow is gone. But whether someone is black, Latino, or gay, you want them under your thumb.
For you to win, others must lose.

If 'Uncle Tom' means a token, then Cain was in fact a token.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 10:54AM

"And 'Uncle Tom' is a disgusting,racist term, every bit as bad as 'nig@#r'. Why is it that the left uses it so freely?"

Right, so then we'll write 'token' instead; doesn't change the meaning much, but it will do. The real Uncle Tom in the book was a buttboy for Simon Legree;
Cain was a buttboy for the GOP.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 10:58AM

...you still don't get it?:

Uncle Tom in Stowe's book was manipulated into being a puppet for Legree;

Cain was manipulated into being a puppet for the GOP.

Boar Hunter| 12.9.11 @ 12:42PM

Yeah I know how cleaver of us. After all everyone knows you darkies cant think for yourselves. I mean look at Alan West.

Al Adab| 12.9.11 @ 12:50PM

A puppet/ Like Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams? Please get over your racist views of Conservatism. Remember when the Left attacked Juan Williams for going against the party line? They even said he wasn't really black.

Grzmlyk| 12.9.11 @ 1:17PM

That's right, Alan: If them ol' black boys know what's good for 'em, they'll stay on the Democrat Planation, and, lawzamassy, y'all will take care of 'em from cradle to grave - long as they sho' nuff put that "x" by a Democrat's name every time.

But if one of them has the temerity to think for himself, well, that's why the Democrat party has a plethora burly overseers in Congress, the media and among self-satisfied scum like you, with acid tongues and whips of retribution.

All them blacks got to do when y'all say "jump" is reply, "yessuh, massa, how high?"

Know what Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams are? INGRATES. Right, Alan?

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 3:44PM

Thomas Sowell is a good guy, but he's over the hill, he knows if he runs he ends up where McCain did- nowhere.
Perhaps you are entirely correct Dems have blacks on a plantation; however it's that way because everyone wants to get over, GOP included; but at least with the Dems there are those will give blacks a chance and possibly care.
The GOP is all tough and no love.

When did I ever say the GOP isn't composed of those who are tough as nails, hard as steel, and the meanest motor scooters around- that is how you get to the top.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 3:49PM

"After all everyone knows you darkies cant think for yourselves."

First you write I'm a Jew, now I'm a darky--
what next? you're going to say I'm Sammy Davis junior?

Teaghan| 12.9.11 @ 2:00PM

You just couldn't help yourself, could you Alan. And it's you and your ILK who keep the blacks in "their place" by excusing bad behavior, dumbing down the education system and pushing affirmative action, which is nothing more than the purest form of racism. It's telling them they aren't good enough, smart enough, or in your words, pretty enough. You need to take a long look in the mirror sir. YOU are the racist.

Alan Brooks| 12.9.11 @ 3:54PM

If this keeps up, Teaghan, you'll accuse me of being an accessory in the 1963 church bombing which killed the little black girls.
Should I call Matlock now, or wait until the cops show up at my door?

POST American| 12.9.11 @ 7:54AM

-----WHAT can we say? ---besides remarking
the years ago staleness of the topic.

MEANWHILE, still not a word or a mention
of 33rd degree FREE MAY--SIN Pat Robertson's
greenlighting of the dumping of your spouse with
Alzheimer's.

ASIDE from the fact that this is spitting in the
face of Christ uttered doctine ----this represents
the opening of the door, by the FAKE
'CON-servative' Christian establishment, to
EUGENICS 'X--speediency'.

BTW --we can't recall ROBERTSON or, fellow
MAY--SIN con-man Billy Graham EVER
standing up against things like GMO stealth
EUGENICS ----or weaponization of vaccines
-----or CHEM-trails -----or USURY-Globalism
or FEMA CAMPS ---or ---or ------or

This MUST be called out.

Robertson MUST be thrown out.

------NOTHING COULD BE MORE SERIOUS------

----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012---------------

Wayne| 12.9.11 @ 7:57AM

One thing I agree with Wright on is the segregation in Chicago. I have been all over the US but I have still not seen a city as racially divided as Chicago, especially the south side of Chicago. There are white neighborhoods and their are black neighborhoods and even Chinese neighborhoods, but few integrated ones. The Daley's preferred it that way. Lots of money was made in busting a block at a time.

Maddox| 12.9.11 @ 10:14AM

Ah but people like Obama and Brooksie like it that way. They are willingly used by the machines that label them victims while they corrupt and steel from those who dare to be productive and encourage opportunity for all. It's so much easier that way, tear down everything good and take it for yourself, claiming it was stolen from your worthless self.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 12.9.11 @ 8:17AM

Let's face it. Wright, Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are America's leading edge for the Black Klan.

Anthony| 12.9.11 @ 8:21AM

To say that Obozo was raised without any faith, I suspect, is not accurate. While his mother was a lefty atheist, Obozo was imbued with the tenents and beliefs of Islam as a child and beyond.
Obozo's choice of Wright was a political calculation, as are all of Obozo's decisions. Obozo was looking to run for political office from Chicago and he needed to establish "street creds", hence he picked Wright's Black Liberation Church to demonstrate that he was "black enough".
It was a perfect fit, as Wright's theology dovetailed with Obozo's strong Islamic beliefs. It is not a coincidence that Wright is close to Farrikahn and that these two share many anti Western Culture beliefs.
As far as the whores in the MSM, they did their jobs well, assuring Americans there was nothing here to see about Obozo's ties to this rabid racist and America hater.
And nothing has changed.
As a side note, apparently Eric Holder learned a few things from Rev. Wright's theological perspective on living in white America. Having been caught by Rep. Issa lying about Fast & Furious, Holder told Issa with a straight face that "lying depends upon the state of mind of the person".
Yep, in other words, Obozo, Holder and the rest of Obozo's gang in Washington are saying to America, "Go F yourselves, we can and will do and say whatever the hell we want , and the MSM will back us up 100%"
Had enough yet folks????

Anthony| 12.9.11 @ 8:57AM

.... This now ends this brief diversion to Obozo. And now, we return to our normal schedule of bashing and tearing apart our own.

chuck| 12.9.11 @ 9:01AM

Isn't that the truth! Just watch, the number of comments here will pale in comparison to the number at the Newt vs. Mitt article.

obadiah| 12.9.11 @ 8:30AM

Thank you for a professional article. "Obama's decision to join Trinity was very much one of convenience." "But when Wright became too embarrassing, it was time for Obama to distance himself from him." That tells the story as I see it. Obama has no substantial beliefs, obtained from Jeremiah Wright or anyone else. Vacuity is his strong point.

mickeymat| 12.10.11 @ 6:15AM

While I agree that Obama used Wright's "church" as a way to achieve political success, it is also clear he had a deep abiding belief in many of the basic tenets of Wright's poisonous philosophy. Those of us of a certain age have heard all the Marxist tropes when we were in college in the late '60's and early '70's and they are all very familiar. They are now mainstream beliefs in the media and academia thus the reluctance to cover them or express any outrage over them. Marxism is what the New York Times believes and they, like their imitators in all U S newspapers continue to express these beliefs in their news sections. Believe me, Obama is a fellow traveler. The truth of this is evident with every speech he makes. Just listen.

Michael Tomlinson| 12.9.11 @ 8:36AM

Obama is not a crypto national socialist. He is a fascist and anti-Semite.

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 9:04AM

"Rev." Wright is just another charlatan in a long line of charlatans to hijack Dr. King's work. Lest we forget Jessie Jackson smearing King's still warm blood all over himself for the cameras benefit. And the very next day he snatched Dr. King's movement for the racial Marxists.

"Rev." Wrong is a much a "Christian" as Margie the Charlatan.

Al Adab| 12.9.11 @ 10:23AM

CC/NB:
We can only wish candidate Obama had been subject to the same scrutiny that the GOP contenders have suffered over the last several months. Had that been so, he would not be in the White House rather he would have been run out of town on a rail.

No one adhering to the views and beliefs which Mr. Obama does, should ever occupy the halls of this government. He is foresworn under his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. What did the voters think "fundamentally transform America" meant?

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 10:48AM

It was Jim Jones-esque. That's the only way I can describe it. "Hope" & "change" were warned against by none other than Patrick Henry:

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 12:22PM

""Rev." Wrong is a much a "Christian" as Margie the Charlatan."

Thus sayeth a man who openly rejects Jesus Christ as the Saviour of Mankind.

You are in darkness and reject the Christ~ therefore you reject Christians.

You have no right nor authority to judge Christians, no matter what your ringleader Ken the Reprobate and also hater of Bible believing Christians has to say.

Repent, liar, and believe the Gospel of God, lest you perish.

"I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." Lk. 13:3.

Now: You began this fight, kiddo~ want to keep it up?

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 1:19PM

Bite me, charlatan. If you're such a pious Christian, then you'd shut your fetid mouth about my conversion, & just pray for my enlightenment. But, as with all charlatans, you claim to know the mind of G*d.

My rejection of your faith has absolutely nothing to do with who I reject personally, unlike you. That's up to the person. And as I've said before, you're the only Christian I've ever come across who's been as zealous at consigning people to hell as you are.

Have a drink & a xanax, Margie. And go see a shrink.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 1:34PM

Wrong again, nasty one.

True Christians do what God commands us to do and we preach His Gospel.

What you call fetid is a person doing just that.

And I do not consign anyone to Hell~ if you can read you will have seen that it is HIS WORDS that consign you to Hell.

You can trash me all you want. His Truth is still the same, and unless you REPENT and believe the Gospel, oh filthy man, you will pay the price for Eternity.

"Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son." 1 Jn. 2:22.

Repent, liar!

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 1:47PM

I repent every night. To G*d.

Have a nice day.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 2:00PM

"I am the Way, and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father, but by Me." Jn. 14:6.

NOT MY WORDS~ HIS.

Jesus is LORD.

Repent, liar.

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 2:43PM

Look to your own putrid, hate filled soul, ma'am.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 3:06PM

You lie about me, provoke me to anger by calling me a charlatan, compare to to a Leftist scumbag, among other false accusations and I AM THE ONE FILLED WITH HATRED, PUNK?

When you supposedly "pray" every night for repentance, you must repent for being a liar and slanderer because if you do not then you are proving exactly who the charlatan is, and in fact, you have already done so.

Leftist liars and Reprobate Christians speak the way that you do against Bible believing Christians, and you have joined yourself to them.

I hope you repent because one day you too will fall on your lying face at the appearing of Jesus Christ but then it will be too late for you to repent from your lying, slandering sin.

"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on Him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a first-born.

On that Day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadadrim'mon in the plain of Megid'do.

The land shall mourn, each family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shim'e-ites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves." Zech. 12:10-14.

"So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with Him; but when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

But one of the soldiers pierced His Side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

He who saw it has borne witness--his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth--that you also may believe.

For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of Him shall be broken."

And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him Whom they have pierced." Jn. 19:32-37.

THAT is the Mind of God, and you can continue to trash me all you want, and falsely accuse, insult and demean, but HIS Truth remains, and all of your fighting is really against HIM and NOT ME.

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 3:47PM

But, Margie, you ARE a charlatan. No Christian, EVER, online, or in life, has tried so ferverently to convert me after I first politely decline, & then not so politely decline.

You are a pretenter who thinks she knows the mind of G*d. You're human. And therefore not without your own sin. You ain't perfect. Neither am I for that matter. But your faux piousness is a joke. Your heart is filled with as much hate as Clint's or Jack's. And that makes you a charlatan. You preach Christ's gospel, yet you denegrate any who don't subscribe to your interpretation of it. That's a charlatan in MY book.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 4:11PM

Keep lying ConChef.
You were not and never have been "polite", liar.
For you are more hateful toward me as I have only spoken God's Truth and His love toward you if you repent of your unbelief.
And as to you "politely" declining, you were the one who continuously berated me and the LORD of GLORY with insults and lies and why should I stop speaking the TRUTH to your disgusting attacks and lies?
You hypocrite!
You have no right at all since you are a blatant liar and reject the LORD of GLORY yourself to judge my heart as being filled with hatred, especially when your posts are FILLED with utter hatred towards me!

I pretend nothing and what I post are God's Own Words, you disgusting hypocrite~ and to try and say they are my words or interpretation is just an excuse for you to try and run from the LORD HIMSELF.

"Your book" is not God's Book and your judgment of me is not His, for I am the one who obeys Him and believe in His Son and does His Will by speaking His Words to unrepentant sinners such as yourself.

You accuse me of judging and yet God is the Judge of all of us and His Words say that if you reject His Son you condemn yourself to Hell.

You judge one who already believes in Him as a fraud and yet you are the fraud and the liar and FRAUDULENT judge of His Own!

"We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the Evil one.

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and Eternal life." 1 Jn. 5:19 & 20.

The Scripture tells me who is the TRUE GOD and that is what HIS WORDS say~ you reject Him and therefore you are rejecting God.

The lying Papist Trolls here are your friends too for they reject the LORD of GLORY and believe a false Gospel, and your friends here will be many.

Your insulting and demeaning and lying is par for the course for rebels against God, and it will not deter me from speaking the truth to you, and so as long as you continue your freedom of speech to heap your insults and lies on my person I will respond to you with God's TRUTH.
Got it, punk?

W| 12.9.11 @ 4:19PM

"Your book" is not God's Book "
I thought the Torah was God's Book.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 4:24PM

And you call yourself a Christian and yet are not including the New Testament in God's Book?

No, for you are not a Christian and yet you presume to judge one who is.

Hypocrite!

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 4:26PM

And anyway, papist Troll, he wasn't referring to the Bible when he said "his book"~ he was referring to his own personal book of judgment.

But then, you already knew that, disingenuous lying Troll.

W| 12.9.11 @ 5:14PM

" You preach Christ's gospel, yet you denegrate any who don't subscribe to your interpretation of it. That's a charlatan in MY book."

It appears you two were talking about the Bible.
And you were told he din't want to be converted by you.
And your first response, which is usually more honest in most people, is to attack for not including the New Testament in God's Book
Then you try to be a clever street lawyer by interpreting the words My book.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 5:37PM

Dumbass Troll:

HE said those words, not me.
When he said in his book, he wasn't talking about the Bible.
Get a clue, imbecile.

AND idiot: He told me he didn't want to be converted and then continued lying and insulting and demeaning me, AND openly rejected Jesus along with it.

Which YOU LOVE.

NOW: why is it that you supposedly call yourself Christian, but this matters not to you?

You care NOTHING for the TRUTH, liar.

W| 12.9.11 @ 5:58PM

Margie,
I know everyone here calls you the Village Idiot, a moron, stupid, and idiot, and you are very sensitive about your "intelligence" so I won't descend to your level to comment about your intelligence.
You just got caught and can't handle it.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 6:11PM

"I know everyone here calls you the Village Idiot, a moron, stupid, and idiot.."

Another lie. Everyone?
No, just you and the many the few names you take.
And GOD is sensitive about what you are choosing to do to me here, and your lying pals.

His Words say that He throws liars into Hell.
And I cannot wait for it.

"Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end."
Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood." Rev. 22:12-15.

Keep walking all over Him as you do now both by your blatant lying about me, and your rejection of the Scripture and replacing it with the beliefs of false Religion.

Lotsa luck, Troll.

W| 12.9.11 @ 6:25PM

Mullah,
The only name is W.

My you are sensitive about your intelligence.

As others have also said, you need professional help. Do you see anybody agreeing with you?

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 5:39PM

Oh my you REALLY cannot read, you are so blinded by your own hypocrisy!

When I made that comment about not including the New Testament, I was replying to you, who said: "I thought the Torah was God's Book."

Utter chaos and confusion... I give up.

RCV| 12.9.11 @ 4:26PM

The Torah is not God's Book? Really, Margie. Christ thought it was.

And stop calling people vile names all the time. You continue bringing down the level of discourse on this site with your childish insults.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 4:37PM

Oh and as always we can count on the FRAUD RCV who doesn't believe the Bible contains the inerrant Words of God, who proclaims Homosexuality is NOT SIN, who says the Apostle Paul isn't to be listened to (since his words don't suit him concerning that sin), who is an unrepentant Socialist, Leftist Lawyer and Obama suck up~ here he comes to once again DECEITFULLY try and put words in my mouth.

What you said is NOT what I said, lying hypocrite.
But then, you have no conscience. You had one, but it is seared, and you did it to yourself.

"Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth." 1 Tim. 4:1-3.

Typical Papist, you fit the WORD of GOD'S definition perfectly.

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 1:49PM

Yes, Margie. All of the Stock of Abraham are relegated to hell.

Charlatan.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 1:58PM

Fetid you say, punk?
Comparing me to Rev. Wright?
Hypocrite!

REPENT, liar.

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 2:42PM

Nope. I don't repent in the face of charlatans. I repent to G*d & Him alone.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 3:09PM

You do not repent if you are a perpetual liar, and you are.
And you do not repent unless you are repenting to the LORD Jesus Christ Who died in your place for your sins.

"He who believes in Him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God." Jn. 3:18.

You are condemned already because you reject the Lord of Glory and the Father God is the One Who condemns you, not I.

W| 12.9.11 @ 3:33PM

ConChef

Congratulations. You have been relegated to hell.
Don't feel bad, though, because Mullah Margie has relegated to hell everybody who disagrees with her cult. This includes all the Catholics (over one billion worldwide), Hindus, Budhists, Jews, and all the Protestant denominations. In fact everyboydy will be in "Hell" and only Mullah will be in "Heaven." So you have to ask yourself which is hell and which is heaven.

You are just the latest person to first try to engage her civilly and then be attacked as a "liar, punk," because you do not agree with her. She has not yet called you a papist but she will call you as associate of the papists.

It is best to ignore her. That is why God invented the scroll key. Or was it Algore who invented it? Can't remember.

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 3:48PM

:-)

Ooh-rah!

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 3:56PM

Lying Papist Trol "W":

Hypocrite and liar! He began with insulting me, and lying about me and yet you call that an attempt at civility!

You also reject the Word of God as it is written and as I have posted, and so this is not surprising, for you also despise Christians who speak His Words as well.

What you do not reject are liars like yourself and hypocrites who are so blinded by their own hypocrisy that they think they are actually "repenting to God" every night.

Once again you blatant lying hypocrite these are the WORDS OF GOD, not mine, and they are written for the ones like yourself as a warning:

"He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne to his Son.

And this is the testimony, that God gave us Eternal Life, and this Life is in his Son.

He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.

I write this to you who believe in the Name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have Eternal Life." 1 Jn. 5:10-13.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 6:03PM

Ken is proud of you, Con Chef.
But God isn't.
He throws liars into Hell, and you are one.
I hope you repent, but if you don't, I will rejoice with Christ and the Angels and the other Christians like me who will be judging you.

"Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, matters pertaining to this life!" 1 Cor. 6:3.

Like it or not, CON ARTIST CHEF:

YOU will be found wanting, unless you repent.

chuck| 12.9.11 @ 4:09PM

Margie,

You catch more flies with honey.

Kind words are much more effect than harsh ones. Harsh words serve only to drive people away.

Do you want to drive people away from God, or to him?

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 4:20PM

Kind words, chuckie? Ya mean like how I'm like the Rev. Wright, charlatan, etc? Like that?

Spare me, chuck. And whose side are YOU on? I do not see you taking a side and there is no neutral.

Either you serve the TRUTH or a lie.

Do you believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and that liars go to Hell?

Do you know that Jesus "berated" the Religious hypocrites, calling them hypocrites and liars sons of their father the Devil because they also accused Him of being "self-righteous" for speaking the truth to them?

I suggest you go and read the Gospels for the real Jesus.
The hypocrites and Pharisees of old, the "Religious" ilk~ hated Him for telling them they needed to repent of their sins and believe in Him. They crucified Him for it. And He said Christians would be hated in the same way.
It isn't hate to preach His Gospel, and it isn't hate to call an ace an ace~ a liar a liar, a hypocrite a hypocrite.
It's what Jesus did, and it's what anyone with a backbone that calls themselves Christian does.

Louis Jenkins| 12.9.11 @ 9:12AM

Regardless of whether or not Obama is fully entrenched in Da Rev. Wright's doctrine, he has sat in the pews and listened. Just like Ayers, Obama's Godfather, Wright's message sank into the mysterious brain of Obama. He is a product of Black Theology, and will not rest until the 47% of takers (including whites) has taken everything from the producers. Only one problem, as Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money.

Denver Todd| 12.9.11 @ 9:22AM

It is going to be a sorry event when Wright faces the judgment seat of Christ and will have to defend why he didn't preach the gospel.

henry| 12.9.11 @ 9:38AM

This is a brilliant analysis. Charles Johnson is a talent to watch. A point not often made is that President Obama is the first post-modern president. To understand him you have to understand the whole post modern paradigm, which is quite frightening.
Post modernists are characterised by supreme confidence, a dismissive contempt for standards and moralities they consider archaic, and a total rejection of meta-narratives. If they don’t understand it, it’s not worth understanding. If they don’t know it, it’s not worth knowing.

lucky| 12.16.11 @ 12:12AM

This article included so many errors... and whats worse all of the errors seem to be in there to make Jeremiah Wright and thus his former Parishoner look bad. There are also statements made that are opinions but are presented as if they were facts. Whats worse those Opinions are also easily proved wrong... ..Lets go over a couple of these.
1. Trinity is not the largest black church in America.. It is not even the largest black church in Chicago!
2. Jeremiah wright did not come up with the phrase "unashamedly black and unapologetically christian" His predecessor Reuban Sheares did. And this has nothing with being black first. It has to do with the style of worship and with all of the Islamic teaching that was going in Chicago that "christianity was a white mans religion" the phrase was used to combat this.
3. It is intellectually dishonest to quote Dr. James Cones book without referrencing the believes and attitudes of the predominately white churches around them (i.e. Mormons taught that blacks were cursed and the Southern Baptists were founded to support White superiority and the institution of slavery).. The quotes by Dr. Cone are made in response to these issues.
4. statements such as Jeremiah Wright teaches black superiority are in DIRECT opposition to what he actually preaches. His preaching has always stated that NO race is superior to any other. Those statements by the author or Completely false!
5. The statement that Barack joined the church for opportunity is ridiculous.. Barack joined the church before he graduated from LAW SCHOOL!!.. there would have been no political reason for him to join unless you think that Barack is so intelligent that he foresaw decades in the future that he was gonna run for president hahaha.
These are just a few of the errors I found.. there are many more.. but we will just go with these for now...

The Bishop| 12.9.11 @ 9:51AM

A minor point, but instructive, nonetheless: How many people under the age of 50 (or any age for that matter) are so egocentric as to write TWO autobiographies? I could barely stomach getting through the first. I'll not waste any more precious life reading the second.

Matthew Quigley| 12.9.11 @ 10:13AM

Good article. The one question I have is this:

Where was American Spectator on this in 2007 and 2008, when Hussein could have been stopped? Since he's there now, this information, which is NOT new, isn't worth a bucket of warm hamster vomit.

Three years late and a dollar short.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.9.11 @ 10:48AM

Mathew,
in all fairness, TAS was raising the rafters during those times. Raising hell about this candidate.

So was Rush Limbaugh with a hell of a lot bigger following...
No,
too many people just sat on their fat ass and didn't go to the polls on election day.

If those fat butts stay home next year...lock and load. As Big -E likes to say..."ballots or bullets".

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 12:25PM

"He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit." Prov. 12:17.

NOW: You have made your list here, which I have answered like a fool.
Or did your stinking lawyer put that list together? Sure sounds lawyerly.

AND YET: You STILL have not posted any of these supposed e mails you CLAIMED you have to show that I want to supposedly cheat on my husband.

NOW: For the umpteenth time: POST THEM!

YOU CANNOT, because there aren't any!
Reprobate.

NO LAWYER can snare me because I am honest. I am REAL, and I NEVER did as you accuse.

YOUR JUDGMENT WILL BE SWIFT ON THAT DAY WHEN YOU MEET THE LORD OF GLORY.

David T| 12.9.11 @ 10:50AM

Mr. Q: On the contrary, we need to be reminded of exactly who and what this president really is. Mr. Johnson has done a superb job of that. We have the opportunity to turn this country around next year. My fear is that things will be just good enough in Nov 12 that people will become apathetic about the need for "change." The first time, Obama fooled us. It will redound to our eternal shame if we let that happen again.

Joe R| 12.9.11 @ 11:29AM

TAS and other conservatives were so busy guarding the front door against Hillary Clinton that they allowed Obummer to sneak in through the back door.

Goldwaterite| 12.9.11 @ 3:49PM

To be accurate: "Three years late" &... $5 trillion short--and counting!

LarryK| 12.9.11 @ 10:43AM

According to the "Revharund" Wright, skin color does matter. My dad and MLK taught me and reminded me that skin color does not matter - character does.

Liberals turn the world upside down and tell us we're standing on our heads.

Granny Jan| 12.9.11 @ 10:47AM

Wright had an outreach program to the congegrations many gay members married or not called the downlow club. His gay choir director, Donald Young, mysteriously ended up dead Dec. 2007.
He was a close friend of Barack's. Chicagocide?

1ConservativeUSA| 12.9.11 @ 10:55AM

It is highly astonishing and frustrating that Obama's ties to Wright, among other leftist radicals, were glossed over in the 2008 election.

I don't believe this will be the case in 2012, as the American people have had more than a glimpse of the real Obama. Articles like this one must be continually and broadly published.

America, four more years of Obama, which means four more years of Wright, Alinsky, Ayers, Axelrod, Pelosi, Clinton, et al?

C Smith| 12.9.11 @ 11:09AM

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2008
“Messiah” Obama (Amos 3:2)

“Can two walk together, except they be agreed”?

On February 24, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, before a black audience, formally “anointed” the “Messiah”:

"You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

But who is Louis Farrakhan, the “messenger” heralding America’s “Messiah”? And what latent symbiosis exists between him and person who may become our next president? His words may reveal the answer:

White people are potential humans…. they haven’t evolved yet (Louis Farrakhan, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2000).

You [Jews] are wicked deceivers of the American people. You have sucked their blood (Louis Farrakhan, Savior's Day Speech, Chicago, February 25, 1996).

They call them terrorists [Hezbollah], I call them freedom fighters (Louis Farrakhan, District Council 33 Union Hall, Philadelphia, April 22, 1996).

Qadaffi's a revolutionary, he's my friend, he's my brother. And I would never deny him because you don't like him. You say, you say he's the one who set the bomb off that killed all those people on Pan Am 103 You're a liar (Louis Farrakhan, Savior's Day, Chicago, February 25, 1996).

It is an act of mercy to white people that we end your world (Louis Farrakhan, as cited in Matt Labash, Inside the March, The Weekly Standard, 10/23/1995, Volume 001, Issue 06).

God will destroy America by the hands of the Muslims. — God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims (Louis Farrakhan, as cited in The Anti-Defamation League, Press Release: Nation of Islam, New York, NY, March 5, 1996).

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man (Louis Farrakhan, as cited in CNN Senior Washington Correspondent Charles Bierbauer, Million Man March, October 17, 1995).

Look at it so-called Jew. Look at it, imposter Jew. Somebody must call you what you are. Somebody must look you in your cold lying blue eyes and pull the cover off of you today. I don't give a damn about you and I will give you hell from the cradle to the grave (Louis Farrakhan, Black Holocaust Nationhood Conference (on the eve of the Million Man March), October 15, 1995). Addendum: Obama not only attended the “Million Man March” but reportedly joined Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, and Reverend Jeremiah Wright in organizing the event.

Terrorism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder (Louis Farrakhan, as cited in Mattias Gardell, In the Name of Elijah Muhammad, Duke University Press, December 1996).

In 1964, more moderate fellow Nation of Islam member Malcolm X revealed that their leader Elijah Muhammad had impregnated several of his teenage secretaries. An outraged Farrakhan responded: "Only those who wish to be led to hell, or to their doom, will follow Malcolm. The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil, foolish talk about his benefactor; such a man is worthy of death…." Malcolm's pregnant wife and four daughters witnessed the fulfillment of Farrakhan’s prophecy ten weeks later in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom.

In December 2007, Obama’s church and pastor publicly honored Minister Louis Farrakhan with the Trumpeter award, accompanied with a hagiographic eulogy in the church’s Trumpet periodical. Rev. Jeremiah Wright further alluded to Farrakhan as a man who “truly epitomized greatness.”

More recently, Obama found it politically expedient to disassociate himself from affiliations with Farrakhan, Wright, and other black leaders, but not the obeisance they bestowed regarding his “Messiahship.” However, considering the affinity of these men in recent decades, the question remains:

“Can two walk together, except they be agreed” (Amos 3:2)?

Owen K.| 12.9.11 @ 11:13AM

Wright does not preach or practice God's word. I don't know what one would call it, but it is NOT Christianity. I am still not convinced that Obama isn't a closet Muslim. With his childhood background, which was dysfunctional to say the least, he would have been exposed to Islam and its teachings. Then there is that middle name: Hussein.

bill| 12.9.11 @ 1:54PM

Amen, my good Christian brother.

bill| 12.9.11 @ 11:37AM

Gospel?

Wright is an agent of hate and socialism.

Wright is a devil, and Obama is his surrogate.

Wright is the mastermind, and Obama is the fellowship.

Wright is no Christian, and Obama is a Muslim.

Obama + Wright = HATE

Kingofthenet| 12.9.11 @ 11:45AM

Wright is NO Anti-American or Unpatriotic, he just doesn't fit the Conservative 'Forrest Gump' school of Patriotism. This is a guy who served honorably in the US Army for MANY years. I am not going to begin to defend his more outlandish comments that usually are taken out of context, but understand that when someone deals with inner-city problems on a daily basis it isn't crazy to believe that some of the things are caused by large shadowy forces at work. The guy is a decent man who sometimes lets his passion for the poor and his big mouth say stupid things...

The Knife| 12.9.11 @ 12:47PM

I don't think much of David Duke or Reverend Wright. They are cut from the same cloth. You are cut from that same race obsessed cloth, bigotofthenet. Good luck with that.

Lucky | 12.16.11 @ 12:16AM

David Duke says that whites are superior to Blacks.
Rev. Wright says that all races are equal and that Black should stop acting like they are inferior to Whites and learn about our history... so they are similar.. how?

Joe R| 12.9.11 @ 1:03PM

Junior, why don't you read the frigging article? Reverend Wrong never served in the Army. He served in the Navy and it was only for one stint not many years as you claim in your post.

junkyard infidel| 12.9.11 @ 1:17PM

awww, isn't that sweet ! kingofthenut believes that the rev wright ("god damn america") is decent guy because he served his country and is passionate about the black liberation theology. and all the hate spewed from jerrimyah's mouth is caused by "large shadowy forces at work." ah ha ha ha...now that's rich ! thanks for clearing that up for us. and thanks for another dose of your ignorant, irrelevant nonsense ! keep it coming, it's hi-larious !

bill| 12.9.11 @ 1:53PM

Wright is a LIAR, anti-semitic bigot.

W| 12.9.11 @ 5:02PM

King
What is the defensible context for saying :

1. "Chickens coming home to roost" after 9/11?

2. Not God Bless America, but "God damn America?

Kingofthenet| 12.9.11 @ 5:25PM

1. We treat the world like there is ONE set of rules for them, and another for us. We don't Mind our own business.
2. Wright then commented on God and government:

"And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains, the government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton field, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. 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, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.

Kingofthenet| 12.9.11 @ 5:28PM

"The Day of Jerusalem's Fall"

In a sermon delivered shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001, Wright made comments about an interview of former U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck he saw on Fox News. Wright said:

"I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday. Did anybody else see him or hear him? He was on Fox News. This is a white man, and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out — did you see him, John? — a white man, he pointed out, ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true — America's chickens are coming home to roost."[15]

Wright spoke of the United States taking land from the Indian tribes by what he labeled as terror, bombing Grenada, Panama, Libya, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and argued that the United States supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and South Africa. He said that his parishioners' response should be to examine their relationship with God, not go "from the hatred of armed enemies to the hatred of unarmed innocents." His comment (quoting Malcolm X) that "America's chickens are coming home to roost" was widely interpreted as meaning that America had brought the September 11, 2001 attacks upon itself.[16][17][18] ABC News broadcast clips[19] from the sermon[1][20] in which Wright said:

"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... and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Later, Wright continued :

"Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred. And terrorism begets terrorism. A white ambassador said that y'all, not a black militant. Not a reverend who preaches about racism. An ambassador whose eyes are wide open and who is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice upon which we are now poised. The ambassador said the people that we have wounded don't have the military capability we have. But they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them. And we need to come to grips with that."

William L. Gensert| 12.9.11 @ 12:01PM

John McCain’s biggest mistake in 2008 was not using Barack Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright as a weapon. If I had been him, every sentence out of my mouth would have had a noun, a verb, and “Jeremiah Wright” in it, and sometimes, I probably would have skipped the noun and the verb.

Margie| 12.9.11 @ 12:43PM

The "Rev." Wright also reflects the views of Reprobate "Christians", the ones who lie and bear false witness against other Christians because they themselves have rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ and live a life of SIN themselves.

The blatant hypocrites who live as the World lives, eat and drink with the drunken, and beat their fellow servants. Those who have crucified the Son of God on their own account and hold Him up to contempt.

Those who are liars and slap Jesus in the Face by saying against His Words that Homosexuality is not Sin.
These are those who now preach a different Gospel~ one in which anyone can believe whatever they want and still go to Heaven.

One in which lying and slandering is their means to in order to destroy Christians who stand on the Word of God and reject false Religion because they have joined themselves to the Harlot.

The Liberal so-called Christians like Rev. Wright would welcome these Reprobates into his "Church."

"Everyone transgressing and not abiding
in the doctrine of Christ does not have God.
The one abiding in the doctrine of Christ,
this one has the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you and does not
bear this doctrine, do not receive him into
the house, and do not speak a greeting to
him.
For the one speaking a greeting shares
in his evil works." 2 Jn. 2:9-11.

Franco| 12.9.11 @ 1:01PM

Aside from the Reverend Nutjob J. Crackhead's ignorance of the fact that Africa, like Europe, is a diverse continent and not a country, there is nothing audacious about hope. Any loser can sit on his ass and hope for something to happen.

Action, that takes audacity.

bill| 12.9.11 @ 1:57PM

DEFEAT OBAMA.

INDICT OBAMA AND ALL HIS LIBERALS CHEERLEADERS FROM CHICAGO, AND PUT THEM IN THE JAIL FOR LIFE.

AMERICA WILL BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT THOSE TYRANTS.

BackToBasics| 12.9.11 @ 2:13PM

From the article - "Education mattered deeply to the Wrights...."

Sounds similar to Herman Cain's family. Yet Cain has a much happier outlook on life in spite of the recent thrashing he took from all sides.

Wright's association with Black Muslims has left the expected results of anger and hostility towards mostly Whites and in his case, non-African Jews.

Many Muslims or those who lean that way such as Wright, and no doubt Obam as well, are of the mind that Whites and Jews are in the control game together and must convert or die or be subjugated.

Wright is just more outspoken in his viewpoints in this. Obam must beleive it since he attended his church but he's mostly quiet about it. We do get hints of it though in his speech but more especially in his policies that are designed to bring America down.

I do not think it was just a matter of convenience for Obam or to ensure his black bona fides by attending Wright's church for 20 LONG years, 2 years would have been ebough if that were the case. To say so as some do gives Obam a pass and gives him credit he does not deserve.

Obam doesn't need black bone fides since he's half black and liberal. That's all that was needed to pass muster in the black community besides the help he got from liberal whites to get into the right positions. We can see that in contrast to blacks not backing Herman Cain who is American, almost 100% black but a conservative. No black bona fides there with that conservative side.

I think Obam attended Wright's church for 20 years because he believed in Wright's anti-America, anti-white message.

Tiddly| 12.9.11 @ 2:19PM

'In Wright's church-associated Kwame Nkrumah Academy, the congregation's children learned such canards as the claim that "[h]istorically, Europeans tried to build themselves up by tearing down all that Africans had done."'

Um, what have black Africans done that could be torn down?

"Jesus, Wright taught, was "an African Jew," as were most of the figures of the Bible."

Any more evidence needed that Wright is a premiere goofball?

"The Destruction of Black Civilization. . . argues that African civilization was destroyed by the acquisitiveness--the capitalist nature--of white European civilization."

What African civilization? Black Africans have never been civilized. Look no further than Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans, or Oakland to see the savagery of black Africa. Wright hates himself and all Negroes, but blames his failings on whites.

And where does the "Rev." Wright choose to live? Among his beloved blacks, or in wonderful Africa? Of course not. He lives in the U.S., in a mansion in a gated white neighborhood, paid for by the money he scams from blacks. His con game wouldn't work anywhere else.

How can anyone take this hypocritical clown seriously? He believes in nothing but his own welfare.

bill| 12.9.11 @ 2:49PM

JEREMIAH WRIGHT IS THE CO-AUTHOR OF MEIN-KEMP.

I WOULDN'T SURPRISE IF THAT HAPPENS.

WRIGHT IS THE FATHER OF RACISM AND INTOLERANCE.

HE DENOUNCED ISREAL AND SUPPORTED HAMAS.

WRIGHT IS A CLOWN.

Curtis Rasmussen| 12.9.11 @ 3:19PM

Obama is 50% Black. Yet he attended a church that believed races should not intermarry.

It shows that in Obama's mind political expediency trumps self-preservation. If Jeremiah Wright (D-Asshole) ever got to BHO's father, Obama would not exist.

lucky| 12.16.11 @ 12:21AM

Curtis.. This is one of those times where THINKING FOR YOURSELF .. might be a good idea...
See there are two options that you have... Obama is 50% Black. Yet he attended a church that believed races should not intermarry.... So either Obama hates himself... or..... maybe.. JUST maybe... The author is Wrong on this..
And I assure you having been to this church.. The author is wrong... :) .. as he is about much of what he says in the article... There are plenty interracial couples and the church does NOT preach against interracial marriage! .. guys think for a second please!

Goldwaterite| 12.9.11 @ 3:43PM

Missing from Mr. Johnson's otherwise excellent article is the role of Michelle Obama in the Obamas' long tenure at Trinity UCC. The racial chip on her shoulder is often shielded by Obama's MSM sycophants. Now that her spouse has been anointed Messiah, she is at last "proud of my country." November 6, 2012--Come quickly!

Con Chef (NB) | 12.9.11 @ 3:49PM

On a totally un-related subject:

Before I go for the weekend, fellow Am Specers, I just wanted to leave this message:

GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY!!!

Y'all have a good one!

Alan Brooks | 12.9.11 @ 4:21PM

No one even says anyone has to like blacks or anyone; this is what it is really about, though:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t375947/

Vasu Murti | 12.9.11 @ 4:51PM

Charles C. Johnson writes:

"It didn't help that the mainstream media had decided to take the issue of Obama's faith off the table."

One's religious identity must be completely irrelevant in secular politics!

Pro-life activist Juli Loesch wrote in her essay "Life and Peace" about being discriminated against (by liberals!) because of her religious identity. They wouldn't give her views a fair hearing.

During the colonial period in American history, Pastor John Leland was dismayed to see dissenting preachers in jail for their religious views. Leland’s writings echo some of the comments made by Thomas Jefferson.

Leland, defending freedom of conscience, wrote, "Government should protect every man in thinking, and speaking freely, and that one does not abuse another...all should be equally free, Jews, Turks, pagans and Christians."

On another occasion, Leland wrote in opposition to the idea that holders of public office should have to believe certain things about religion before they could even run. Such "religious tests" were common in many colonies.

Wrote Leland, "If a man merits the confidence of his neighbors...let him worship one God, twenty gods, or no god—be he Jew, Turk, Pagan, or Infidel, he is eligible to any office in the state."

In Massachusetts, Pastor Isaac Backus, a Baptist minister, went so far as to refuse to pay a church tax and was arrested. In 1774 he wrote a document blasting the tax, which read in part:

"Religion is a concern between God and the soul with which no human authority can intermeddle.”

In 1787 when the framers excluded all mention of God from the Constitution, they were widely denounced as immoral and the document was denounced as godless, which is precisely what it is.

Opponents of the Constitution challenged ratifying conventions in nearly every state, calling attention to Article VI, Section 3:

“No religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

An anti-federalist in North Carolina wrote:

“The exclusion of religious tests is by many thought dangerous and impolitic. Pagans, Deists and Mohammedans might obtain office among us.”

Amos Singletary of Massachussetts, one of the most outspoken critics of the Constitution, said that he “hoped to see Christians (in power), yet by the Constitution, a papist or an infidel was as eligible as they.”

Luther Martin, a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 wrote:

“...there were some members so unfashionable as to think that a belief in the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country, it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism.”

Martin’s report shows that a “Christian nation” faction had its say during the convention, and that its views were consciously rejected.

The United States Constitution is a completely secular political document. It begins “We the people,” and contains no mention of “God,” “Jesus,” or “Christianity.”

The only references to religion in the Constitution are exclusionary, such as the “no religious test” clause (Article VI), and “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” (First Amendment)

The presidential oath of office, the only oath detailed in the Constitution, does not contain the phrase “so help me God” or any requirement to swear on a Bible (Article II, Section 1).

The words “under God” did not appear in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, when Congress, under McCarthyism, inserted them.

Similarly, “In God we Trust” was absent from paper currency before 1956, though it did appear on some coins since 1864.

The original U.S. motto, written by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, is “E Pluribus Unum” (“Of Many, One”) celebrating plurality and diversity.

In 1797, America made a treaty with Tripoli, declaring that “the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

This reassurance to Islam was written under Washington’s presidency and approved by the Senate under John Adams.

We are not governed by the Declaration of Independence. Its purpose was to “dissolve the political bonds,” not to set up a religious nation.

The authority of the Declaration was based upon the idea that “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” which is contrary to the biblical concept of rule by divine authority.

The Declaration deals with laws, taxation, representation, war, immigration, etc., and doesn’t discuss religion at all.

The references to “Nature’s God,” “Creator,” and “Divine Providence” in the Declaration do not endorse Christianity. Its author, Thomas Jefferson, was a Deist, opposed to Christianity and the supernatural.

Jefferson, Madison and Paine’s writings indicate that America was never intended to be a Christian theocracy.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God,” wrote Jefferson, “eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

In his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson wrote:

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

Church-state separation not only prevents theocracy by preventing religion from influencing politics... it prevents the government (and non-parishioners in general) from interfering in the affairs of houses of worship.

When Thomas Jefferson (a Deist, and not a Christian!) ran for president, for example, Christians warned that Bibles would be confiscated from people's homes, should he be elected. Clearly, that didn't happen!

In the early part of the 19th century, a general understanding existed that the government should not promote religion, or favor one religion over another.

In 1829, Senator Richard Johnson of Kentucky wrote::

“It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine what religion is true, or what is false.

"Our Government is a civil and not a religious institution. Our Constitution recognizes in every person the right to choose his own religion, and to enjoy it freely, without molestation.

"Whatever may be the religious sentiments of citizens, and however variant, they are alike entitled to protection from the Government, so long as they do not invade the rights of others...

“Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God.

"To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.”

****

Charles C. Johnson writes:

"Unlike George W. Bush, Obama wouldn't 'carry religion into government,' the Times promised. In fact, Obama often invokes religion in areas--health care and economics--where it isn't normally mentioned. An analysis by Politico found that Obama invoked Jesus far more than George W. Bush did, and cited the Sermon on the Mount to make the case for his economic policies."

Bill Clinton visited black churches, and when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, he appeared before religious leaders and admitted, "I have sinned..."

(whereas Bible-believers dismiss their own transgressions by citing "three times..." !)

But Clinton's presidency was essentially secular! John Kerry reluctantly brought up his faith to "prove" his religiosity during the 2004 presidential campaign, or to show the hypocrisy of the George W. Bush administration in this area.

If Barack Obama cited the Sermon on the Mount in support of his economic policies (e.g., health care reform), it might have been because his opponents were already invoking religion and religious sound bites against him!

We've seen this on animal rights. Secular scholar Marjorie Spiegel has compared slavery in past centuries with our treatment of animals today.

In 1987, there were few books on animals and theology: Steven Rosen's Food for the Spirit and Reverend Andrew Linzey's Christianity and the Rights of Animals immediately come to mind.

In a 1989 interview with the now-defunct Animals' Agenda, Reverend Linzey, an Anglican clergyman, said animal rights represents the greatest challenge to Christianity since the abolition of (human) slavery, and provides just as many theological difficulties for the institutional churches.

Since then, numerous books have been written on animals and theology, including: The Souls of Animals; Replenish the Earth; Of God and Pelicans; God's Covenant with Animals; They Shall not Hurt or Destroy; The Lost Religion of Jesus; Good News for All Creation; The Dominion of Love; Good Eating; Of God and Dogs; Every Creature a Word of God, etc.

All of this biblical scholarship by Christian vegetarians and vegans and their friends in other faiths, trying to reconcile biblical tradition with animal rights, would be unnecessary if the other side would treat animal rights as a secular civil rights issue applicable to everyone -- including atheists and agnostics -- as they view their own opposition to abortion.

****

Timothy Pennell comments that Reverend Wright preaches anti-semitic venom and represents a "cult of hate."

On animal issues, we see conservative Christians exclaim "Jew up!", "Jew ever!", "Always Jew!" when dismissing vegetarianism as sectarian (like circumcision), rather than seeing the non-killing of animals as an absolute ethic for all mankind, like the non-killing of the unborn.

(Ironically, many liberals see abortion, or the non-killing of the unborn, as sectarian!)

Christianity teaches intolerance of other religions! It's rare to find Christians with kind words for people of other faiths.

Does Reverend Wright engage in interfaith discussion with people of other faiths?

Now please define a "cult" before castigating Reverend Wright.

Does Reverend Wright spy upon his opponents in the bathroom when they pee and defecate; or in the bedroom when they copulate or masturbate?

Or does he respect their privacy?

From the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Headquarters which led to the Watergate scandal, to Linda Tripp recording Monica Lewinsky without her knowledge or consent, to the warrantless wiretapping under George W. Bush, the Republicans (not the Democrats) are known for violating the privacy and civil liberties of ordinary Americans...

...all the while demanding privacy for themselves as they claim to "cover" or "do unto others..." !

Marc Jeric| 12.9.11 @ 5:02PM

Is there a worse combination in a politician than to be racist-marxist? Like, say, Mulah Obama and Eric Holder?

jbyahudie| 12.9.11 @ 5:48PM

This article would be more complete and impactful if it more directly and explicitly discussed the impact of the liberal (and some “enlightened” conservative) media in suppressing extensive discussion of Obama’s beliefs and his connections to Wright and other radical “thinkers”. This deliberate obfuscation - and outright dissimulation – was crucial in the “cleansing” of Oama’s image and crucial to making his nomination and election possible. The MSM – while claquing for Obama and protecting him politically – also cynically picked on any unsavory associations of his opponent and are doing the same in this election cycle: Woe betide any Republican candidate who has any association – no matter how tangential - with the “Christian Right”.
Short of a major un-hidable scandal, the efforts of the MSM on Obama’s behalf will ensure his re-election. One thing about the media “elite”, they hate to admit they were wrong, no matter how dangerous or damaging the consequences for this country.

wayne| 12.9.11 @ 6:49PM

It's too bad that the author didn't take this article the one step further it really needs to go. Everyone always asks the question "What was Obama's relationship to White" without asking what other influences might there also be around Obama in defining his inner thoughts.

For all the videos of the speeches of Wright that were never removed we all know how much the history of Obama - BOTH OBAMA'S - were very thoroughly scrubbed by the media, colleges, organizations, and other legal and bureaucratic activists. There was a time when their history WAS available - even speeches by Michelle on YouTube on various subjects.

Before they were removed in early 2008, I watched a number of them. One in particular always sticks in my mind because it was the reason I turned from my desire to vote against John McCain (whom I despise) to this new guy Barack.

What the author believes of Wrights attitudes against America and Whites pales against what Michelle thinks. Wright wants black to be separate and not to accept White and American culture in their lives. Michelle talked of ending Middle-class Whiteness. She spoke of using education to end it - to get rid of and rewrite the history. She spoke of using economic tactics to "redistribute" virtually all of the wealth of whites. Most importantly, she spoke of what she called "Demographic Redistribution" - using immigration policies, distribution of health benefits, property rights, and various economic tactics to eliminate the economic, political, and population power of whites in America.

Having read the translations of the speeches of a number of historical figures during certain periods of past history the person whose views most resembled what I heard from her was Joseph Goebbels and everything in her speech spoke to my ears of her calling for a Final Solution to the "problem" of Middle-class whiteness in the world. I believe that Michelle Obama desires nothing less than an ethnic cleansing of white people to achieve the sort of social justice she sees as necessary in the world. I just wish I could find someone who had saved that speech before it was removed.

da monk| 12.9.11 @ 7:40PM

Just what in God's name has Reverend Wright have anything to do with the state of our economy? Our being in Iraq/Afganistan? Our tax system? Our education system? NOTHING!
Charles C Johnson has just created a straw man for all you non thinking, no nothings prejudice individuals will have some additional meat to knaw on as you vent your anger on Rev. right and instead of trying to solve the problems I listed above which all Americans face. Be they Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Oligargists, Fascists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslim, Hindus, Shintos, Rostafarians we ALL face the same problem of maintaing our nation. Stop the damn name calling and get serious.

John II| 12.9.11 @ 11:53PM

My dear Monkie,

Name-calling is very important in human discourse. After all, where would we be if Achilles hadn't called Agamemnon shameless, if Socrates hadn't called his accusers frauds, if Jesus hadn't called the Pharisees hypocrites, if Abe Lincoln hadn't called John C. Cass "Jackass", if Henry Ford hadn't called history bunk, or if Eugene Genovese hadn't called Professor Barack Hussein Obama an ignorant demagogue? Where, I ask?

The ancients understood that the argumentum ad hominem, far from being fallacious, is spot-on. The real fallacy is argumentum ad personam, often misnamed argumentum ad hominem by degenerate self-important ignoramuses.

One must take measure of the man before one can judge his arguments. Anyone who suggests otherwise is a jackass, and a liar, and a boutique anti-American. Get your ass in order, Monkie, before you presume to preach to others.

And now back to "The Maltese Falcon" (1943), in which the smug liberal Humphrey Bogart delivers to a punk (played to perfection by Elisha Cook) the supreme put-down: "The cheaper the hood, the gaudier the patter."

Horace| 12.10.11 @ 1:11AM

That's like saying Germans who cheered Adolph Hitler didn't share his philosophy. Wright is a Marxist and racist. If Obama shares those views, we could hardly trust him with managing a capitalist economy and a system of justice that's based upon blind justice, could we?

Brian| 12.10.11 @ 1:04AM

Remember, Republicans gave us affirmative action and even now ram it down our throats with an iron fist.

Horace| 12.10.11 @ 1:04AM

This information is not too late to influence the next election. The facts about Obama and Wright will be useful tools to explain the post 2008 election behavior of Obama as president. The Marxist nature of the many czars, their efforts to control the media, the New Black Panther dismissal case, the socialist nature of this presidency, Obama's support of the thuggish occupiers, Fast and Furious and many of the other vile acts of this president's administration can be explained using information rooted out by Stanley Kurtz, Michelle Malkin, David Limbaugh and a host of others. We have current acts and deeds of this presidency that baffle Americans and all of them were predictable. A better informed public would never have elected this cursed man had they known his nature in 2008.

Rich Rostrom| 12.10.11 @ 3:06AM

Two factual errors in this article.

1) Tinley Park is a suburb, not a neighborhood. It's well outside the city. It's not "lily-white": 2% black, 2% Asian, 4% Hispanic in 2000.

2) The Chicago Reader is not a "black" newspaper, it's a free weekly for the hip crowd. (It has comprehensive listings of music, film, stage, and art events, a foodie section, and some hard-hitting local affairs coverage.)

hinckley 51| 12.16.11 @ 8:21PM

Who thought for a nanosecond that CC Johnson cared anything about factual accuracy? ?

Hunter R Hickey| 12.10.11 @ 11:12AM

Is it 2007 already?
(because that's when Hannity exposed this scum)

liam | 12.16.11 @ 3:34PM

Wait a second? I thought Obama was a Muslim???

alvin1| 12.16.11 @ 5:52PM

And the purposeed of this article is what?
How has Wright influenced any of the policies that are in place or are being negociated by congress.
You are playing to a crowd that is narrowly focus and you know it.

hinckley 51| 12.16.11 @ 8:23PM

True. And that IS the whole point.

hinckley 51| 12.16.11 @ 7:02PM

Yeah, all of that fear and anxiety about Obama's secret hatered for white people really panned out just like you predicted, huh?

I never knew the American Spectator was an outlet for the Aryan Nation!! This article is so skewed, twisted and biased, it's a single-handed discreditation of this publication to all but it's equally twisted herd of readers.

Awesome! Good to know where the REAL hate resides.

hinckley 51| 12.16.11 @ 7:15PM

This rag is more aptly named "American Spectacle". Better yet, "American Receptacle"!

John Egan| 12.16.11 @ 11:58PM

This has to be the whitest "analysis" I have ever read.

david wander| 12.17.11 @ 12:15AM

Wait: isn't it now almost 2012? This essay was news in 2008. Now it is just a pointless rehash all the racialist cliches of the 2008 campaign. I fell for this and read all three pages, expecting to learn something new. Just the same old screed about Saul Alinsky socialism, Marxism and anti-Semitism. No one believes that shit about Obama, Charles. He may be a mediocre president for many reasons, but not those proclaimed by the paranoid right-wing fringe.

Ken Puck| 12.17.11 @ 6:54AM

Had this all scoped out in June of '08:

http:pithandmarrow.livejournal.com

...as I'm sure the MSM had as well. But through a titanic exercise in lefty groupthink, the details of O's curious past were routinely and meticulously scrubbed clean.

Liam Neberieza| 2.20.12 @ 10:30AM

The words of Rev. Wright are often too over the top for myself, but instead of the arrogant , smug, born into self entitlement, with the belief that we're the perfect people of God's chosen country, and nothing need be challenged, or continually fought for is farther from the the words and warning of our Founding Fathers, than Wright's statement: "That the chicken have come home to roost," which is much closer to the truth than these fake patriots of the present.
Our Founding Fathers were correct in saying we must always be prepared to rebel and fight to guard our freedom. To become too content and assume our inalienable rights, given to us by our creator, will always be there is just what any nationalistic, shifty fascists will use against us to destroy the Bill of Rights. With the revelation of our government's illegal phone tapping, warrants to search our homes without us being there, and many other violations of civil liberties, one would think there's many more important subjects to discuss than the words of an impassioned Reverend.
I have the power not to listen to a Reverend who's more on track with our Founding Fathers, but I'm no longer sure I have the power to exercise my civil liberties when our government is continually trading those rights in the name of false security. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin;" A nation that is willing to do that will likely receive any rights or security." Yes, the chickens have come home to roost, and most are too blissfully ignorant to hear their warnings.

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