Barack Obama’s Favorite Jeremiah Wright Sermon Full Of Invective, Hatred
Stanley Kurtz goes through Barack Obama’s favorite sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright (the “Audacity of Hope” sermon which Obama used as the title for one of his books and is now using as his campaign theme) and finds some pretty ugly stuff in it.
Most striking for me was this apparent comparison of military service to “extermination.”
We have no money to educate our inner-city children who happen to be black and brown, but we do have money to wage war in the Persian Gulf. We do have money to send those same black and brown children to an early and unnecessary grave, wearing the uniforms of a country that will not make funds available for making geniuses, only for making war. This country will exterminate them, but not educate them. And God is silent.
Is it too much to hope that some enterprising reporter would ask Obama if he agrees with this sentiment from Wright? Or is that the sort of question that will get a reporter castigated by his/her pro-Obama colleagues?
And by the way, Wright is oh-so-worried about the amount of money spent on war and claims that because of it we don’t have enough money to educateet “black and brown” inner-city children. Yet the reality is that war/defense spending is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on social entitlements, and spending on inner-city schools is typically among the highest of all types of school spending.
That the union-controlled schools in America’s inner-cities are failing the “brown and black” kids is hardly due to a lack of funding.
