Throw preacher from the train
Rush Limbaugh gave extensive coverage to Obama’s recent public divorce from Reverend Jeremiah Wright, having just discovered after 20 years that the reverend has a knack for saying kooky things.
Obama stated flatly that he doesn’t share the views of the man who officiated at his wedding, baptized his two daughters and been his pastor for 20 years. The title of Obama’s second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” came from a Wright sermon.
“What became clear to me is that he was presenting a world view that contradicts who I am and what I stand for,” Obama said. “And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing. Anybody who knows me and anybody who knows what I’m about knows that I am about trying to bridge gaps and I see the commonality in all people.”
Are we to believe that Obama is really that shocked — that those of us who have known of Reverend Wright for only a month or so knew Obama’s reverend was what he was before Obama did? No. Obama is a politician, so he knows he has to throw reverend from the train in order to salvage whatever is left of his messianic image. Given the things said by Michelle Obama on the campaign trail, and the fact that Obama got his book title from one of Reverend Wright’s sermons, the Obamas knew and have always known what their reverend stands for, and Obama would never have attempted to dissociate himself from his pastor had Reverend Wright’s inflammatory statements not become public.
Obama’s church believes in something called the Black Value System, some of which is actually of value, but other parts are racist. That the man who would unite American attends a church that believes this stuff suggests that Obama was really never the man who was going to unite America.
Additional reading:
The Michelle Obama-patented subject-changer
Obama’s “big press conference” on Wright
