Squirbel, I must respectfully point out your comment does not accurately reflect the video of Mr. Obama’s actual statements. Mr. Obama did, in fact, state on several occasions that he “never heard” Rev. Wright make certain offensive statements, now he admits he did indeed “hear” them. You may have seen different statements than I have. I am not the only one who is pointing this out. I’ve done the research, thanks.
An excerpt from a Newsmax reporter who attended a service at which Obama was present:
“Presidential candidate Barack Obama preaches on the campaign trail that
America needs a new consensus based on faith and bipartisanship, yet he
continues to attend a controversial Chicago church whose pastor routinely refers
to “white arrogance” and “the United States of White America.”
In fact, Obama was in attendance at the church when these statements were made on July 22.
. . . Wright’s strong sentiments were echoed in the Sunday morning service attended by NewsMax.
Wright laced into America’s establishment, blaming the “white arrogance” of
America’s Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the
oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country
as the “United States of White America.” Many in the congregation, including
Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made. [Emphasis added]
The sermon also addressed the Iraq war, a frequent area of Wright’s
fulminations. “Young African-American men,” Wright thundered, were “dying
for nothing.” The “illegal war,” he shouted, was “based on Bush’s lies” and is
being “fought for oil money.”
In a sermon filled with profanity, Wright also blamed the war on “Bush
administration bulls—t.” Those are the types of statements that have led to
MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson describing Wright as “a full-blown hater.””
Yet in his recent speech, Mr. Obama said: “I wasn’t in church during the time that these statement were made. I did not hear such incendiary language myself, personally. Either in conversations with him or when I was in the pew, he always preached the social gospel. ... If I had heard them repeated, I would have quit. ... If I thought that was the repeated tenor of the church, then I wouldn’t feel comfortable there.”
So, squirbel, you are mistaken that Mr. Obama’s denial was limited to just those specific remarks, but rather includes “such incendiary language.” Would you not agree that the comments above, and the many more that exist in video provided by the Trinity church, including services at which Mr. Obama was present, constitute “such incendiary language?” Please, you don’t surely think we are that gullible, do you?
Quite honestly, I don’t care if he was present during those specific remarks. Not only was he present during substantially similar remarks, he brought his children along. His children’s ears were filled with this sort of racist hatred. How could his children not come to agree, as undoubtedly perceived Rev. Wright as a figure worth of respect, and their parents sanctioned this hateful, vile and un-Christian rhetoric, now conveniently condemned by Obama, by their very presence? The fact that Obama never left that church, and never condemned those remarks, but rather sanctioned them by his continued presence, tells me that Mr. Obama is either racist, or a quisling that will permit racism to exist unchallenged for his own political gain. And we’re to trust him? He should be confessing his shame. His shame for permitting such sin to exist unchallenged. Quite honestly, this has nothing to do with his running for President. It has more to do with him being someone who holds himself out publicly as a Christian.
Sen. Lott was sanctioned for far less. If McCain attended a church that made similar comments about African-Americans, they’d be calling for his execution. This double standard has to end. Doesn’t anybody realize McCain is becoming the sole choice for a significant number of voters, not because of his position on the issues, but because of the moral repulsiveness of his opposition?
If you spend 20 years in McDonald’s, you might not be a cheeseburger, but you don’t mind spending 20 years around cheeseburgers, and to me that is just as bad. There are hundreds of proud African-American Christian churches in the Chicago area that don’t spew this kind of hateful bile, Obama could have spent half his adult life in one of those churches. You can’t tell me he didn’t know what Rev. Wright was, or that he couldn’t have associated himself with someone else. And he dared to support the Chicago City Council when they tried to throw out of town businesses that over a century earlier had done business with slaveowners? Why don’t we apply that same standard to Mr. Obama, who lent his political, personal and financial support to an organization that permitted such racism to exist? Or are you asserting you don’t find such statements to be racist?
I never said he lied about Mr. Rezko. He is, however, carefully leaving the truth unsaid, and nobody is asking him the hard questions yet.
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