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Monday, April 21, 2008

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.

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Another “Audacity” quote:  “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Have any Dhimmicrats read his books?

patriotic on April 21, 2008 at 10:46 am

Maybe it takes a religious man like myself to catch on, but he says something far more obnoxious than just hatred of the white man and the ruling order; he says that “God is silent.”

Bigotry is bad.  Don’t get me wrong.  With that last statement, however, he veers into blasphemy.  That’s worse.

Bike Bubba on April 21, 2008 at 11:16 am

Somehow this doesn’t surprise me.  I guess I expected this would come out eventually.  I did not hear of that extra quote until today.  thanks patriotic!



A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

dougee on April 21, 2008 at 02:11 pm

Anyone remember back when Pat Buchanan was running for president, and the media was having fits about how far to the right Pat was?

I think I remember somone saying that they had read Buchanan’s book “in the original German” (that’s a Nazi joke for those who don’t get it).

Obama is just as far to the left as Buchanan was to the right, maybe further. This whole thing with Rev. Wright and Ayers kind of demonstrates that.

Let’s see if anyone in the media picks that up.

Wing Chun Geologist on April 21, 2008 at 05:03 pm

I think I remember somone saying that they had read Buchanan’s book “in the original German”

Hmm! Wonder if they read “The Audacity of Dopes” in the original crayon?



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Proof on April 21, 2008 at 05:09 pm

I would ask Obama if Wright was so concerned about helping the inner city poor, why didn’t both of them every year give a much large amount of their own wealth ‘to lead the way for all of us by their example of charitty?’ Why do they ask the government (Taxpayers) to pay for these programs, but are unwilling to sacrifice their own comfort without the government involement? Why didn’t Wright refuse the 10-million dollar mansion and insist the church give it to the inner city poor for educational programs?

God is silent! As I have criticized other religious leaders for acts that seem to portray very little faith in God, like a recent visitor here, I also must say that for a man of God to accuse God of child neglect, of being a silent, absentee father indicates very little knowledge of or true faith in God as the Almighty God.

As Robert108 has pointed out under another thread many weeks ago, God gives us Free Will to choose or reject Him and His Salvation. God uses human beings as His vessels to meet the needs of the poor and downtrodden and He has urged His children to do so. So, if we see these needs not being met, why blame God Who gave us the resources and blessings we enjoy and which we choose to selfishly use for our own comfort.

Lastly, I cannot say Wright feels hate, I don’t know his heart. Using less intemperate phrases and with less volume, he has some good points to make and which should be heard, even outside his congregation. But, his language, tone and volume do seem to betray a deep anger against America and non-blacks that is unseemly for a man of the cloth.


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on April 21, 2008 at 05:52 pm
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