Obama's Pastor After 9/11: 'America's chickens are coming home to roost.'
Samantha Power left the Obama campaign for calling Hillary Clinton a "monster."
Geraldine Ferraro left the Hillary campaign for saying Barack Obama would not be where he is today if he weren't black. (Mickey Kaus accurately notes that it's difficult to embody post-racial hopes when you're white.)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright has no official position with the Obama campaign, and it's almost a shame, because that means he can't resign to distance himself from the candidate.
If you had heard that your pastor had said the following....
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda's attacks because of its own terrorism.
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.
"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," he told his congregation.
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Between Reverend Wright and Antoin "Tony" Rezko, Hillary could end up beating Obama...but she needs the help of the mainstream press to do so and quite honestly, I think the liberal press wants Obama to win and the conservative press wants to wait until Obama is the nominee before they start their attack.
The interview last night with Obama on Hannity and Colmes was absurd. Don't tell me that Barack has never heard Wright espouse those views! He has been going to that church for 20 years. But Charles (however you spell his last name Krauthammer?) hit the nail on the head last night on Brit Hume's nightly news. He said that Obama says he is giving Wright a pass because he is like an eccentric uncle. But Charles reminded the viewers that people cannot PICK their relatives - but you can pick your pastor. So sorry Obama...we are all not as gullible as you may think.
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