Obama’s Pastor: “God Damn America”
This isn’t good for Obama.
Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, has a long history of what even Obama’s campaign aides concede is “inflammatory rhetoric,” including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”
In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” He said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.
Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
You don’t get to write off someone whose church you’ve attended for over two decades - who married you and your wife and baptized your children - as a “crazy old uncle.” Not when he’s cursing our country and accusing us of terrorism. Rev. Wright founded the Trinity United Church of Christ. It’s his church, and Obama’s attendance of it is a tacit endorsement of Wright’s message of hatred and racial division.
There’s just no way around that.
