Perhaps more troubling than the combination of overwhelming support towards an inexperienced candidate with nothing more than a brilliant speech writer is the people that this candidate backs. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the man who looks ugly in the face of America and is extremist without justification...on most occasions. In 2007, Barack Obama appointed Wright to his African American Religious Leadership Committee. Wright is a man who has made controversy his middle name and the press has become attacked by his former church as engaging in character assassination. Was it character assassination when the Nixon tapes came out a while after they were taped? No, the assassination was just delayed. This is the same deal with Wright, everything that makes him anything but Christian and American, has just come out later when he decided to open his mouth again.
Now let's review his resume: AIDs is a weapon of the federal government to wipe out the blacks, 9/11 was an inside job, Barack's tough moments are because of his race and gender (not his lacking resume...). That's just starting off for beginners.
"God didn't call American to do what she's doing in the world now. God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war... And we are criminals in that war. We have committed more war crimes almost than any other nation in the world and we won't stop because of our pride, our arrogance as a nation"
Somebody give him a history lesson please? Obviously he tuned out throughout high school when he was educated on Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Ho Chi Minh, Joseph Stalin...the list rolls on. BUT, the United States is the champion for war crimes because they liberated a terrorist leader who brutally murdered his own people just as we had done in Germany during World War 2. If war crimes is liberating the oppressors, should the people who released the slaves be considered dangerous? It's those kind of contradictory statements that makes one wonder in regards to the credibility of this man.
"A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years [will]... exploit them, and poor people generally, economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and will have to use its military might to protect [those investments]. All of these problems are tied together"
Didn't the Republican Party house the man who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, we all know Lincoln's intentions are misconceived and overblown already, but consider that point for a second. Regardless of whether Lincoln actually cared about the slaves, he still freed them.
"Here is the true meaning and value of compassion... when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition."
Now let's consider the Reverend's wisdom. Learn from the opposition. Osama Bin Laden sent hijackers to the U.S. to take four planes; two for the World Trade Center, another for the Pentagon, and a fourth that was brought down by courageous passengers before reaching its destination of terror and murder. Saddam Hussein tested biochemical weapons on his own people and attempted to invade the major oil countries in the Middle East in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. So apparently, we will become wise and mature, according to Wright, if we start hijacking planes to kill people and test biochemical weapons on our own people.
"Our government... again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long.
It also takes great arrogance to blame AIDs on the federal government and make a series of absurd statements and accusations as if they're correct.
"God Damn America, God Damn America!"
Ladies and Gentlemen, your favorite for the next president of the United States has been in support of a minister of questionable views who declared views significantly unpatriotic in a rather reckless method, furthermore, condemning the federal government rather than offering any actual points. Part of the issue with this country is the fact that nobody can act, they just swear and curse.
"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late."
Such as Obama giving you the boot, Rev. Wright?
Perhaps the point I am attempting to make here is the fact that Jeremiah Wright is one of questionable views. Of what relevance is this? Well perhaps the Barack Obama connection is exaggerated. But Obama has repeatedly defended the man by defending his church, his christian foundation, his morals, etc. See this quote:
"Witness the fact that Bill Clinton invited him to the White House when he was having his personal crises. This is a pillar of the community and if you go there on Easter on this Easter Sunday and you sat down there in the pew you would think this is just like any other church."
Funny you say that, because a man so bent on color, you would almost think he would denounce the Easter Bunny not because he removes attention from Christianity, but because its white.
If Barack Obama is right. If Wright's followers are right. If Wright's defenders are right. Consider these quotes from the very Holy Bible that Wright claims to follow:
"If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. "
-James 1:26
"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."
-James 3:13-18
“Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”
-Matthew 15:11
"He who conceals his hatred has lying lips,and whoever spreads slander is a fool. "
-Proverbs 10:18
"A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor,but a man of understanding holds his tongue."
-Proverbs 11:12
"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control."
-Proverbs 15:1-2
"A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but in expressing his own heart. "
-Proverbs 18:2
Moral of the story? Be what you claim to be and know what involves that claim to a suitable extent. Obama claims to have been inspired by Wright all these years and one would think after many years a man of God would learn such lessons as the dangers of a tongue. The Bible explores this in various areas, but Wright seemingly neglects.
How is this relevant to my point? Wright has no credibility in his religion and his vanity arguably diminishes Obama's ticket. Obama however, hurt himself with repeated association with the man and still defending the man despite such views that not only violate religious beliefs, but hopefully violate his personal beliefs (one would hope that a presidential candidate would not feel this way, but God only knows...)
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