Rev. Jeremiah Wright
President Barack Obama has finally shed one radical association -- disgraced former "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones -- but now another, more familiar one has resurfaced.
Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, wasted little time insinuating himself back into the public eye.
You may remember Rev. Jeremiah Wright as the man whose Chicago church Barack Obama attended for many years, and whose most famous sermon, "The Audacity of Hope," lent its title to one of Obama's bestselling books.
And who will ever forget Rev. Wright's now-infamous sermon on September 16, 2001, just days after the worst terrorist attack in American history:
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands [who died on 9/11] in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have 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 to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
Now Rev. Wright is back in the media spotlight, thanks to a very short video making the rounds, courtesy of the gossip site TMZ.com:
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So what do you think about the health care bill?
REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, PRES. OBAMA'S FORMER PASTOR: I think the racists in the right wing are upset because poor people are about to be helped.
President Obama once tried, belatedly, to distance himself from the polarizing preacher. But clearly Rev. Wright won't be so easily dismissed.
With ideological allies like Van Jones and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the President may well be asking himself, who needs enemies?
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Obama's spiritual adviser, the Rev married he and his wife, baptized his children. Obama has said judge him by those around him. We did and did not like what we saw.
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Oh it's worse, much worse. I hear the "Reverend" Wright was engaged in a pattern of systematic sexual abuse of young boys with whom their parents had entrusted him. Between the Vino and the Aqua, there was the fellatio and the butt-fucking. What's worse, the Bishops who oversaw Wright saw nothing wrong with that and - by virtue of their silence - allowed this sexual abuse to continue.
Did I get that right? I know that fanboys only repeat what their radio heroes talk about, and I guess Hannity and Company don't want to talk about what happens to altar boys, do they?
"the Rev married 'he'"
So who paid for that mansion (in a gated community no less) that the "Rev" resides in? What a douche.
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So religious phonies are bad if they are leftist but if they pass muster with a reactionary Cattlelick pig like Shaidle, they're okay?
You people on the right kill me. You idolize Jerry Falwell and his like, but go nuts when someone from the left like Rev. Wright criticizes the nation for the unspeakable crimes of slavery and racism. I wish we had more Rev. Wrights to balance out the nuts on Fox and other right wing idiots. Keep it Rev. Wright.
Jeremiah wright is just one more black racist, who hates jews and whites. He is also a fake christian, and follows islam.
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