Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
Trinity United Church of Christ
 and Black Liberation Theology

Barack Obama belongs to a church that is (or was until recently) headed by what appears to be an angry and bitter old man who harbors extremely radical views about America and about race relations in general.  The church could accurately be described as a black separatist organization.  It engages in exactly the sort of racial segregation that the "civil rights movement" has opposed for decades.  Until very recently, Senator Obama was proud to be associated with this church — but then some of Reverend Wright's sermons began to be widely publicized, and suddenly Senator Obama is trying to distance himself from his pastor of 20 years.  It isn't working.

Please note that Barack Obama's web site says that he "is a committed Christian."  Yet, as far as I can determine, the Trinity United Church of Christ is the only church Mr. Obama has ever attended on a regular basis.

One of the main reasons Obama can't make a clean break from Jeremiah Wright is that Wright seems to be enjoying his 15 minutes of fame and doesn't want to give it up.  He won't keep quiet and let Obama win, because Obama's success dilutes Wright's message (to the "Black Church") that the blacks will always be victims of someone else's bigotry.

Why is there a "Black Church" — separate, different and incompatible with mainstream churches — in the first place?  Why is there a "black value system" — separate and apart from the value system in use by everybody else?


Obama's Afrocentric, America-Hating Church:  As readers here know, there has been some recent controversy about Barack Obama's religious background.  Mr. Obama has recently issued statements through his spokesmen in the media (i.e., reporters) which express his shock at being questioned about such things.  Most of his media spokesmen (i.e., reporters) have then gone on to cite his membership in Chicago's Trinity United Church Of Christ parish as proof that he is just a regular run of the mill American Christian.

The Exact Word:  Black-Liberation Theology is a type of Marxist Liberation Theology that promotes an Afrocentric social gospel.  Inspired by Black Muslim nationalism, James Cone combined Marxism with black religion and a black Gospel and created Black-Liberation Theology.  Cone's theology is designed to liberate African-Americans from the economic slavery of the white man's free market system and to build a completely new society. ... Cone's theology is the core doctrine and his books are required reading in the church Obama attended for 20 years.

Obama's Religious Ruse: The Cult of the Marxist Messiah.  Barack Obama has identified himself with Christianity as a cloak for his political agenda.  The founder of community organizing, Saul Alinsky, regarded churches as an ideal vehicle for advancing the Marxist cause.  But to have credibility in organizing churches, young Obama needed to join a church.  So Bill Ayers' recruit was sent to Chicago's Trinity UCC.  There he found in Jeremiah Wright a mentor of kindred spirit, obsessed with race and loathing America.  Its mission statement declares Trinity's purpose is to be "agents of change for God who is not pleased with America's economic mal-distribution."

What We Know About Obama:  [Scroll down]  Similarly, Obama's "association" with Wright was far more than a mere pastor-parishioner — or even mentor-protégé — relationship.  Obama's work with the Gamaliel Foundation required him to "organize" left-leaning churches into a larger political force.  His real interest in Wright, Pfleger, and Meeks was to turn them into the nucleus of a far broader politicized coalition of radical black churches — as shown, for example, by his work with them on the Illinois racial-profiling bill.  Again, we are not dealing with mere "associations," but with intentional political partnerships.

Despite Campaign Claim, Obama Told Paper He Attended Trinity Church 'Every Week'.  President-elect Barack Obama said in 2004 — while he was a state legislator running for a U.S. Senate seat — that he attended services at Trinity United Church of Christ every week.  This is in contrast to what Obama, as a presidential candidate, said this year after controversial anti-American remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright surfaced.  Obama then told news outlets that he did not attend the church frequently and was not aware of Wright's comments.

Racy Content.  The idea that Obama was ever really about transcending race flies completely in the face of his own writings.  The overarching theme of his book "Dreams From My Father" is the story of man who found it impossible to transcend race and instead explicitly chose to have a racial identity when he didn't have to (he describes fellow multiracial students he met in college as sellouts).  He then joined a black church whose theology is shot-through with black nationalism and whose longtime pastor believes that black brains are different from white brains.

Trinity church rejoices:  'Yes, we did!'.  Hundreds of worshipers packed into the sanctuary for a joyous service that celebrated the church's role in the spiritual awakening of a future president.  Trinity's pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, said history would note that Trinity was the holy place where "God stirred a young man's soul and put him on the path to the presidency."

As US churches mark election, Obama skips services.  His name was invoked at church services nationwide on Sunday, but President-elect Obama didn't attend any of them.  He went to the gym instead.  Obama doesn't have a church in Chicago since he severed ties in April with his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Why Islamists Cheer For Obama:  Initially Obama argued that [Jeremiah] Wright's statements were taken out of context and played in a loop for heightened effect.  But when it was discovered that there was more, Obama took a different line.  He claimed that he had personally never heard Wright speak like this and that he knew nothing of his father figure's virulent anti-Americanism.  This is obviously a lie and an egregious one at that.  Whatever can be said about Barack Obama, he is not stupid.  A Harvard-educated lawyer, he has repeatedly shown intelligence and shrewdness during his meteoric rise to national prominence.  It is completely unbelievable he would not know about the belief system of the person who was his confidant for nearly 20 years.

Obama pleads for nanny state.  Dear Mr. Obama:  Sir, you confuse me. … Most Americans believe that our spiritual lives define us.  We also believe that your 20-plus years at the Chicago church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright define you.  If so, that would make you a radical racist — an America-hating, white-hating, Louis Farrakhan-supporting extremist.  Do you really expect us to believe that you sat in the pews for 20 years and did not hear any radical, anti-American drivel come out of the mouth of Rev. Wright?

The odd choices in Barack Obama's career:  Obama apparently had to swear an oath of belief in "black liberation theology" when he joined the [TUCC].  (It is the little touches of that sort that make it a "cult", and not simply a "church".)  Did the thought of his career ever cross his mind?  Didn't he realize that church would inevitably cause him trouble somewhere down the line?

Obama's Leftism:  The first time Obama attended services at Trinity, Wright delivered a sermon (it was titled "the audacity of hope") whose theme was:  "white folks' greed runs a world in need."  Twenty years later, when it was revealed that Wright's church had honored Louis Farrakhan, that Wright had traveled with Farrakhan to visit the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, and that in his sermons Wright had beseeched God to "damn America," charged the U.S. government with inventing the AIDS virus in order to kill black people, and claimed that Israel and South Africa had colluded to invent an "ethnic bomb" to kill blacks and Arabs while leaving whites unharmed — when all this was revealed, Obama, under pressure from the Hillary Clinton campaign, declared himself "shocked" at Wright's vitriol.  But in truth not only was he aware of Wright's views, they were what had drawn him to Trinity church in the first place.

Wright 101.  Obama's tie to [Jeremiah] Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man's choice of his pastor.  The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright's anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.

The Wright Stuff.  [Scroll down] … and so, I asked, if Ayers is a legitimate issue, what about Reverend Wright?  [Sarah Palin] didn't hesitate:  "To tell you the truth, Bill, I don't know why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that — with, I don't know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn't get up and leave — to me, that does say something about character."

Sowing ACORNs to reap the biggest oak tree:  Back in Chicago, Barack Obama was "spiritually mentored" for twenty years by wild man Jeremiah Wright, whose Liberation Theology has been called "Marxism" by none less than Pope Benedict himself -- a man who understands the difference between theology and atheist ideology.  The New Republic describes Barack Obama listening to J-Wright in church, "Obama, sitting in the third row with his wife and two daughters, Malia and Natasha, stands, claps, prays, and sways along with the rest of the congregation.  During the sermon, he watches the preacher carefully and writes notes."  Wonder if the Obama campaign would like to share those sermon notes with the voters?

What Would MLK Do?  I've worshipped in quite a number of predominantly black churches.  I've also visited Obama's church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ.  And I don't believe I've ever been in any Christian church that was as far afield of traditional Christianity as is Trinity United.  I simply cannot, for the life of me, imagine King standing in his pulpit, hollering profanities aimed at the United States of America.

Masters of Disaster:  On March 13, ABC News was the first major media outlet to report on the anti-American rants of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama's Trinty Church in Chicago, igniting a controversy that continued to make headlines for weeks.

Whites Are Anti-Christ — That's Obama's Christianity?  Read the preface to the 1970 Edition of A Black Theology Of Liberation, by James H. Cone, and then tell me the TUCC is a Christian church.

Let scrutiny begin.  The fact is Obama spent more than a third of his adult life as a member of a church where black liberation theology is taught on a regular basis.  Black liberation theology is a mixing of the Christian gospel with Marxism, and the man most responsible for doing this is James H. Cone, a preacher turned professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.  Cone is the mentor of Wright, and he was reported to say following Obama's Philadelphia speech that he found nothing in Obama's books or speeches contradicting black liberation theology.

Black Liberation Theology:  The Enemy Within.  [Scroll down]  The incongruence with mainstream Christianity aside, Black Liberation Theology doesn't even make sense.  Churches and pastors which espouse BLT could not exist without one essential element:  A white oppressor.  The more one studies this heresy, the clearer it becomes that this element is even more important than Christ Himself.  Where then, one may ask, is the salvation of Christ in this theology?

Wright's Theology as Victimology:  "Reducing black identity to "victim" distorts the reality of true progress.  For example, was Obama a victim of widespread racial oppression at the hand of "rich white people" before graduating from Columbia University, Harvard Law School magna cum laude, or after he acquired his estimated net worth of $1.3 million?  How did "rich white people" keep Obama from succeeding?"

Marxist roots of Black Liberation Theology:  Understanding the background of the movement might give better clarity into Wright's recent vitriolic preaching.  A clear definition of black theology was first given formulation in 1969 by the National Committee of Black Church Men in the midst of the civil-rights movement:  Black theology is a theology of black liberation. … Black theology is a theology of 'blackness.'

Racism in the pews:  The hate-filled anti-American sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and other wolves in sheep's clothing have been exposed.  Yet, there still remains an unspoken disease infecting the black church -- the racism in the pews.  So, why do so many black "Christians" follow false, racist preachers?

Pulpit Racism Leads Blacks To Destruction.  Racism in the pulpit has been an ugly reality in the black community for some 40 years.  Yet, it took the mad rantings of Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. to bring it to our national consciousness.  For the sake of the future of our great country, it is time we spoke frankly about this insidious cancer.

The Truth About Black Liberal Theology:  All racist theologies have the same basic core ideas and methodology.  Thus it does not really matter if we are talking about the KKK, the Nation of Islam or Black liberal theology, their focus is always on skin and not sin; race and not grace; gossip and not gospel.  Racism is always focused on the outward instead of the inward because it cannot deal with the root problem of sin.  Hatred and violence feed on bitterness and racist rage.  Class envy does not help anyone in this life or in the next.  Blaming others for one's own sin and guilt will not solve the problem.

Obama's Gospel of Envy:  Anger, or envy, about trust funds seems to be a big thing with the Trinity crowd.  Michelle Obama, for instance, bellyached regularly during her stump speech in the primaries:  "You're looking at a young couple that's just a few years out of debt.  See, because we went to those good schools and we didn't have trust funds.  I'm still waiting for Barack's trust fund.  Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s'posed to be a relative or something.  Give us something here!"

Do the Wright Thing.  As an up-and-coming Chicago lawyer and politician during the 1990s, Barack Obama courted key players in the city's black community — including his longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright — to bolster his aspirations for higher office. … Such ties have now proved to be a drag on Obama's effort to win the Democratic presidential nomination, especially after Wright's fiery, sometimes cartoonish, criticism of American foreign policy and support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, came to light.

The Pastor Casts a Shadow.  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday [4/28/2008] not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him.  Smiling, cracking corny jokes, mugging it up for the big-time news media — this reverend is never going away.  He's found himself a national platform, and he's loving it.  It's a twofer.  Feeling dissed by Senator Obama, Mr. Wright gets revenge on his former follower while bathed in a spotlight brighter than any he could ever have imagined.  He's living a narcissist's dream.  At long last, his 15 minutes have arrived.

Obama:  Too Little, Too Late.  [In] "Dreams from My Father", [Obama] describes in vivid detail his first meeting with [Jeremiah] Wright, whom he quotes as warning him:  "Life's not safe for a black man in this country, Barack.  Never has been.  Probably never will be."  Apparently these words didn't set off warning lights.  To the contrary, the young, Ivy-League educated Obama, who had been raised in Hawaii by his white grandparents and attended prep school there, seemed to be seeking a vicarious sense of victimhood in Wright's church.

Obama:  Religious Hypocrite.  Senator Barack Obama is one of the leading candidates who parades as a compassionate Christian.  He is just the opposite. … The truth is that United Church of Christ member Obama is true to his theologically liberal Protestant denomination but he is abhorrent in the sight of God.

Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Antisemitism.  Until I started following the threads of Obama's Chicago history, his church, his other associations, especially the religious ones, I honestly didn't think anyone but the scantiest few fringe neo-Nazis or throngs of Middle-Eastern Muslims still harbored Jew hatred. … But when I read the Black Liberation Theology books of James H. Cone, I saw a subtly disguised, resentful kind of antisemitism which I had never encountered before.

Who is Barack Obama?  Who is Barack Obama?  The truth is that neither Sen. Obama's supporters nor opponents can answer that question. … The people closest to Sen. Obama — and by his own account the two greatest living influences on his thinking — are his wife Michelle and his pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  And each of them has made comments about America that could dissuade Americans from voting for Sen. Obama at least until they can get to know him better.

Obama's Marxist Axis Of Friends:  [Jeremiah] Wright is an adherent of black liberation theology, an explicitly Marxist interpretation of the Bible whose aim is to stir up class and race hatred to advance communism.  Created by a rifle-toting Peruvian priest in the 1960s, it's now discredited in religious circles.  "Liberation theology isolates a few verses, takes them out of context, and then exaggerates their meaning," said the Rev. Bob Schenk of the National Clergy Council, on "Hannity's America" last weekend.  But Wright clings to it.  And recently, he loudly praised the Marxist Sandinista dictatorship of Nicaragua.

At Obama's Former Church, Hurt Lingers.  This was not how it was supposed to be.  Obama, the biracial presidential candidate who has pledged to unite Democrats and Republicans, rich and poor, blacks and whites, was going to provide an opening for Trinity and other black churches to shatter their stereotypes and bolster their national presence.  Instead, a landslide of negative video of Trinity's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., and right-wing political attacks left Obama's former church and others like it even more marginalized and vilified.

Obama Is No 'Post-Racial' Candidate.  The issue that troubled many Americans about the widely publicized sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright was his view that America is an "institutionally racist" society.  This view lies at the heart of the defense advocates of race preferences make for "affirmative action."  It is also at the core of Black Liberation Theology.  By supporting race preferences, Mr. Obama is unmistakably attaching himself to despicable ideas like Rev. Wright's.

Barack and Michelle Keeping the Faith.  I'm not buying the Obama campaign spin on Michelle Obama's patriotic faux pas this week, any more than I'm inclined to believe that Barack Obama's refusal to wear our flag pin in his lapel is a meaningless gesture.  Both Michelle's stated lack of pride in America until this precise moment in history, and Barack's unwillingness to don our national symbol are in perfect keeping with the doctrines of their church, Trinity United Church of Christ.

Start the scrutiny.  Almost 20 years ago [Barack Obama] became a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  There he gave his support to a program the church calls a Black Value System, which has nothing to do with Christianity, but encourages the separation of the races.  At its best the philosophy encourages the empowerment of black America.  At its worst it blames white people for every problem in the black community and tells adherents that they must not be "captive" to white society.

Obama's Farrakhan Test:  Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.  In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor.  Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories.  Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness."  That man is Louis Farrakhan.

The First Affirmative Action Candidate.  Can you imagine proclamations posted on the church websites of the white presidential candidates (Protestant or Catholic), proclaiming that they are "unashamedly white?"  Seems Obama's pastor; Rev. Jeremiah Wright of the Chicago Trinity United Church (of which Obama has been a member of since 1988) is quoted as stating that he is "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian."  Rev. Wright, whom Obama credits with being the inspiration for his book, The Audacity of Hope, subscribes to what he calls the "Black Value System."  Does Obama also subscribe to this value system?  Obama has distanced himself from Wright's decision to present an award to Louis Farrakhan, but he has not otherwise distanced himself from this black radical pastor.

Why Does Obama's Pastor Matter?  On March 1, 1972, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. became the pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), a position he still holds to this day.  Because he has been a revered figure in the life of presidential aspirant Barack Obama for two decades, Wright's political views, which he commonly draws from the tenets of liberation theology, are worthy of some scrutiny — if only to shed light on the teachings that have had enough resonance to retain Obama as a TUCC congregant since 1988.

The Editor says...
 FYI, the United Church of Christ also approves of same-sex marriage, abortion, and reparations for slavery.
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Barack Obama's Church Changes the Way it Describes its Mission for African Americans.  Barack Obama's church is scrambling to undo the impression it is a ministry for blacks only with a radical message.  The Web site of the Trinity United Church of Christ has been purged of a section which spoke of the church's endorsement of — "black ethics" that — "must be taught and exemplified … wherever blacks are gathered."  Among those black ethics are "commitment to the black community, commitment to the black family, disavowal of the pursuit of middleclassness and allegiance to all black leadership who espouse and embrace the black value system."

Barack Obama's Controversial Pastor Puts Church In Hot Water.  Barack Obama's controversial pastor and the church he's served for 36 years may be in hot water over statements he has made from the pulpit in support of the Illinois senator's run for the White House.  The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preaches that he follows the righteous path, but when it comes to the federal tax law, his Trinity United Church of Christ may have crossed the line.

Obama and the Bombmaker's Church:  Let's move on from the tale of Senator Barack Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, to another tale of Obama's United Church of Christ — a denomination that he and I share.  Does the name Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional — Armed Forces of National Liberation — ring a bell?  You may remember this charming group by its initials, FALN.

Obama Minister's Hatred of America:  In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama's longtime minister, friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as president.  The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school's Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006.  While snippets from the sermon have appeared in a few magazines, no news outlet has previously run the entire text of Wright's diatribe.

Obama Attempts Damage Control, Fallout Over Pastor's Sermons Unclear.  Obama's pastor long has been a lightning rod for controversy.  For starters, Wright's relationship with Louis Farrakhan, once described by Obama as a "close" relationship, has been of concern to many in the Jewish community.  And once Wright's remarks were publicized last year, Obama backed out of plans to have Wright speak at his Feb. 10, 2007, presidential announcement.

The AP Style Guide on Defending Barack Obama:  The Associated Press editors tasked in-house "writer" Phillip Elliott to write an article that dispels the "rumors and outright lies" concerning Barack Obama and the perception that Mr. Obama's support of Israel is questionable.  The product of that task is what you'd expect from any number of left leaning story tellers in the mainstream media who write about Obama as opposed to journalists, reporters and political observers that actually take the time to research, study and honestly discuss that which they have found.

Obama's pastor disaster:  Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama's life.  He married the Obamas and baptized their children.  Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator's latest book, "The Audacity Of Hope," and assumed the title was an ingeniously parodic distillation of the great sonorous banality of an entire genre of blandly uplifting political writing discovered circa page 127 that in fact the phrase comes from one of the Rev. Wright's sermons.  Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years — in other words, pretty much the senator's entire adult life.

Wright and Wrong:  Obama's angry pastor.  If you've heard some of the chilling audio or watched some of the video from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a.k.a. Barack Obama's pastor, you've seen some of the dreams of Hillary Clinton's campaign realized.  Henceforth, it will be tough for media folk to fluff the pillows for Obama.  For once, reporters are having to focus on some unpleasant truths — truths you already know about if you've been watching Sean Hannity's Fox News shows or listening to his radio program.

The story behind the story:  Obama's pastor.  Wright is pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, which on its website calls itself "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian," and lists "a non-negotiable commitment to Africa" as part of its "10-point Vision."  The minister's controversial history has been written about countless times throughout the campaign.  Wright has ties to the Rev. Louis Farrakhan, the black supremacist leader of the Nation of Islam — a fact that has been noted in more than 100 news stories just in the past few months, according to the Nexis database of news coverage.

Did his mentor share hatred with Barack?  Loose cannons in the pulpit are nothing new.  But what makes this one worthy of a closer look is that he's Barack Hussein Obama's pastor, friend and spiritual mentor.  This would-be president, about whom much too little is known, has, in fact, been an active member of Wright's flock for the past 20 years, certainly long enough to have known what the man is all about, and long enough to have left in protest if he found the sermons offensive.

Obama and the Minister:  Much as most of us would appreciate the symbolism of a black man ascending to the presidency, what we have in Barack Obama is a politician whose closeness to Mr. Wright underscores his radical record.  The media have largely ignored Mr. Obama's close association with Mr. Wright.  This raises legitimate questions about Mr. Obama's fundamental beliefs about his country.  Those questions deserve a clearer answer than Mr. Obama has provided so far.

Obama's Jeremiad:  This newspaper was the first to draw attention to Obama's hate-mongering preacher, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, and his black segregationist church in Chicago. … Now comes the leaking of recently videotaped sermons by Wright angrily condemning whites as racists and America as evil.  If you close your eyes, you'd swear you were listening to the hateful rantings of uber-bigot Louis Farrakhan.  Like the Nation of Islam minister, Wright feeds his 8,500-member flock, including Obama and his family, legends about whites keeping blacks down by getting them hooked on crack and then locking them up.  He even claims whites invented AIDS to destroy blacks.

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The Editor says...
 To my great astonishment, I discovered recently that I have a co-worker who actually believes everything Jeremiah Wright claims, including the claim that the U.S. government invented AIDS to wipe out the blacks.  At the same time he doesn't seem to care that abortion has been used to exterminate millions of black Americans.

I Don't Believe Obama.  If Barack Obama is to be believed, he just figured out that The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a complete nutjob. … Does Obama really expect us to believe that in nearly two decades he never attended a service where Reverend Wright uttered an unkind word about America?  Did Reverend Wright only go off the deep end on the Sundays when Obama wasn't around?

Wrighting Dirty:  The videos of Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, surpass Saturday Night Live parodies.  As his congregants are hopping up and down like hyperactive children and fellow pastors are clapping him on the back, a sashaying Wright allows himself a range of rancid and conspiratorial musings that might even give Cynthia McKinney pause.  The feverish racism reaches its high point of buffoonishness when Wright accuses the so-called first black president, Bill Clinton, of "riding dirty," exploiting the black community as he exploited Monica Lewinsky.

The peculiar theology of black liberation:  Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors.  But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a "black messiah" and blacks as "the chosen people".  At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy.

Outspoken pastor brings down hellfire and brimstone on Obama.  Pastor Jeremiah Wright's inflammatory views from the pulpit have met a frenzy that has not been calmed by Senator Barack Obama's fierce repudiation, and the story of the preacher and the politician continues to dominate the US media.

Rev.'s Rants Shake Voters' Obama Faith.  More than half of voters are less likely to support Barack Obama for president after hearing the anti-American rants of his longtime Chicago pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a shocking poll revealed yesterday [3/17/2008].  The Rasmussen Reports survey found that Wright's controversial comments made 56 percent of voters, including 44 percent of Democrats, less inclined to vote for Obama.

Double Life of Barack Obama:  Barack Obama says he didn't hear the particular things that Jeremiah Wright said that are now causing so much comment. … If Barack Obama was not in church that particular day, he belonged to that church for 20 years.  He made a donation of more than $20,000 to that church.  In all that time, he never had a clue as to what kind of man Jeremiah Wright was?  Give me a break!  You can't be with someone for 20 years, call him your mentor, and not know about his racist and anti-American views.  Neither Barack Obama nor his media spinmeisters can put this story behind him with some facile election-year rhetoric.

The Dishonesty of Hope:  Evidently, Obama wants us to believe they never talked about anything besides the Gospel and the weather.  Nothing is so unbecoming as a beacon of the new politics resorting to such naked evasion.

Barack and the Bigot:  Other church members must have told Obama what Rev. Wright said, or he could have viewed the sermon on the church's Website.  It appears many others besides just Rev. Wright share this point of view.  If one looks at the video, church members are standing, shouting approval and applauding.  This is not one man speaking for himself.  From the reaction, one can fairly conclude he is speaking for most, if not all, of the congregation. But not for Barack Obama, he says.

Obama Attended Hate America Sermon.  If Obama's claims are true that he was completely unaware that Wright's trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ has targeted "white" America and Israel, he would have been one of the few people in Chicago to be so uninformed.  Wright's reputation for spewing hate is well known.

Obama's Lies.  Will Obama deny he was in attendance at the controversial Chicago church when the pastor referred to "white arrogance" and "the United States of White America" on July 22, 2007, accompanied by his Secret Service detail.  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."

Is Obama's hate-monger mentor really being lynched by his own videotapes?.  Obama:  "Ignore my actions (that I sat listening to hate and exposed my children to it); listen to my speeches."  "Ignore the words of my pastor for he knows not about what he speaks.  He is the victim of his generation"  Black ministers:  "Playing tapes Reverend Wright sells in his church equals lynching."  How more absurd can you get?!  If this does not remind you of Muslim apologia for Jihadists, I do not know what will.

Church accuses media of 'crucifixion'.  [Rev. Jeremiah] Wright built the church from a small flock of less than 100, to a strong pillar of African-American Chicago.  The church preaches an Afro-centric theology, describing itself as "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian."  Their black heritage is seen throughout the sanctuary.  Painted glass windows depict famous scenes from black history, like the founding of the NAACP, and church officials wear bright African print tunics and robes.

Obama's Church of Slurs:  Through months of outrage over Obama the Supposed Muslim, reporters have largely ignored the church Obama attends in Chicago.  The Trinity United Church of Christ claims to be "unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian."  It proclaims it's a church of "an African people, who remain 'true to our native land,' the mother continent, the cradle of civilization."  You can't tell conservatives that if their church said it was "a European people," committed to the European culture and motherland, that reporters wouldn't smell white supremacy in between the lines.

The Wrong Reverend.  What do we know — and what does Obama know — about Rev. Wright?  We know from his sermons that he blames the events of 9/ll on the United States:  "America's chickens are coming home to roost," he said the Sunday after the attacks, when human remains were still being uncovered in lower Manhattan.  He believes the AIDS virus is the malicious design of a white supremacist government.  He gave an achievement award to the anti-Semitic demagogue Louis Farrakhan.  We know, too, that he invokes the Bible to justify his crackpot conspiracy theories.

Throw Grandma Under the Bus.  As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. … We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger.  I will not pat blacks on the head and say, "Isn't that cute?"  As a post-racial American, I do not believe "the legacy of slavery" gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.

It's Time to Call the Democrats on Race Demagogy.  The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a very popular preacher of racial anger in Chicago.  So is Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Cynthia McKinney, Professor Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech and far too many others.  They always get favorable media coverage, because they are speaking for the Left.  If you look at conservative blacks, you see exactly the opposite….  So the Left, and its mouthpiece the Democrats, have chosen the destructive demagogues and not the peace makers.  So be it.  But it's high time to call them on it.

Ready for Obama.  [Scroll down]  So, why did the Obamas not find another church after finding out that Reverend Wright had some tart things to say about "the Man"?  Because they weren't listening to them as logic, but as atmosphere.  To the Obamas, attending to such rhetoric may even have felt like a gesture of solidarity with less fortunate blacks.  Commentators reading this as evidence that the Obamas are conniving to get at the reigns of a nation they loathe are missing that in black America, to an extent that is easy to miss if one has not lived it, race trumps class.

Obama's Pastor and the Traditional Religious Left:  Apologists for Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright have tried to portray him as a traditional voice for the black church in America.  But ... Wright's calls for America's damnation and his suggestion that our country deserved 9-11 are fairly traditional fare within the Religious Left, especially among the mostly white elites of his 1.1 million member denomination.  His liberal stance on homosexuality, which is conventional within the UCC, is also anathema to historically black churches.

The Wright Stand:  Reverend Wright clearly preaches from a particular cast of mind, one with which Obama was surely familiar.  If Obama isn't willing to voice his concerns and objections with Wright and stand up for his country as it is being slandered by his pastor, what can we expect from Obama when he is asked to stand up against some of the world's worst dictators?

Obama and His Minister:  The New York Times has praised Obama's speech as a "profile in courage."  That is baloney — reflecting the gross double standard that has prevailed for decades on the subject of race.  The underlying problem is that the liberals who still control so much of the debate quietly agree with much of what Wright said.

Obama's pastor — and populism — foster disunity.  By choosing — and sticking with — Wright as his spiritual adviser, Obama has damaged his ability to heal the nation's racial wounds.  And his agenda offers nothing that will attract Republicans and end political polarization.

The Barack Obama Double Standard:  Imagine in 1999, that a videotape had come to light showing the pastor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's church making vicious, hateful comments about America and cruel, racist statements about Americans of color.  Suppose this preacher had given a lifetime achievement award to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and had traveled to Europe with Duke to meet with neo-Nazi terrorists. ... Is there a doubt that Republican officeholders would have run from the Bush campaign like rats from a burning barn, that he would have become the political leper of the 2000 campaign?  And what about the media?

My letter to Barack Obama:  I wrote a letter to Barack Obama.  A dear friend asked me to after listening to my observation that it would be sad to see Obama's presidential bid derailed by Don Imus chickens coming home to roost.  Yeah, the defenders of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the people pleading for context and understanding of his irrational, unpatriotic and borderline racist words, are the same people who clamored for Imus' removal and claimed context had no place in the discussion of Imus' inappropriate description of female basketball players at Rutgers.

Obama's Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine.  Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

Obama's Imperiled Candidacy:  Ironic, isn't it?  Some conservatives have been calling for an inquiry into Barack Hussein Obama's Muslim connection — didn't he attend a madrassa in Indonesia? — when the real problem turns out to be Obama's Christian mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.  Wright is a kind of Ward Churchill in vestments.

The Audacity of Rhetoric.  It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious.  Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said.  In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — and a bunch of mean-spirited people are trying to make something out of it.  It makes a good story, but it won't stand up under scrutiny.

Champion of the little guy, indeed.
 Obama's Former Pastor Getting $1.6M Home in Retirement.  A two-week FOX News investigation ... has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his time in retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years.  FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

Church builds $1 million mansion for Wright.  Trinity United Church of Christ is building Barack Obama's controversial former pastor a million-dollar Tinley Park home complete with an elevator, whirlpool, butler's pantry, circular driveway and four-car garage, building plans show.  The four-bedroom home being built for the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is in the Odyssey Club neighborhood, which boasts some of Tinley Park's largest homes and a mix of town homes.  It backs up to the Odyssey Country Club and golf course.

Wright Moves On Up.  The concept of practicing what you preach is apparently lost on Wright.  After decades of lecturing blacks to remain loyal to the black ghetto and eschew the white suburbs, he's now building a 10,340-square-foot mansion in the white suburbs.  Among its amenities:  an elevator, a rubberized exercise room and room for a future theater and indoor swimming pool.

McMansion Marxism:  Padding between his reported whirlpool and circular driveway, or maybe while fishing out a snack from the butler's pantry, Wright can develop some thoughts for volume one of his memoirs on the blinding racism of bourgeois living in the USA.  Not that Wright is alone in his McMansion Marxism.  That's the familiar posture of most radicals:  the farther they get from Marxism, the better it looks; the more America protects their celebrity, status, and wealth, the more secure they feel in denouncing it.

Who's Scrubbing the Trinity United Church of Christ Website?  The website for Sen. Barack Obama's church – Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago – not long ago described the "Black Value System" in the "About Us" section of its website.  And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an award to Louis Farrakhan – a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah Wright's daughter.  No longer.

Obama's indoctrination:  The United States is "the number-one killer in the world," preached Wright, the "U.S. of K.K.K. A," a nation that only maintains its standard of living "by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty."  For 20 years, Barack Obama drank [this] Kool-Aid, never seeing the problem.  That makes him a problem.

Self-Destructive Democrats?.  Until Pastor Wright managed to become Obama's potentially career-shattering albatross, Obama looked unstoppable, indeed superhuman.  But as has happened repeatedly in this campaign, Hillary's persistence was rewarded — briefly, anyway.  Obama's long and close association with the incendiary pastor undercut his perceived ability to rise above both race and party.

Obama's church founded on radical creed.  The church where Sen. Barack Obama has worshipped for two decades publicly declares that its ministry is founded on a 1960s book that espouses "the destruction of the white enemy."  Trinity United Church of Christ's Web site says its teachings are based on the black liberation theology of James H. Cone and his 1969 book "Black Theology and Black Power."

The Wright Questions:  (#9)  With which elements, if any, of black liberation theology — as represented by Reverend Wright and Trinity United Church of Christ — do you strongly disagree?  Do you think any of the core tenets of black liberation theology are racist?  (#12)  Since the Wright story broke there seems to have been a concerted effort to keep Reverend Wright from speaking to the press or in public.  If he is the man you says he is — if the soundbites we have all seen are anomalous and the portrait of him is a caricature — then why not encourage him to do interviews in order to set the record straight?

Wright:  'Black Evangelism' Produces 'Religion of Hatred'.  In an essay entitled "What Do I Tell My Children" that was published in the August 2007 issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine, a publication of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. spoke critically of a "Black Evangelism," which he said "produces a religion of hatred, gay-bashing and heterosexism."

The Wright Stuff:  The American people can be forgiven for suspecting that there is more here than Obama is letting on.  Wright's comments on the United States weren't unleashed in the course of a drunken party or a fiery debate.  They were part and parcel of a serious statement — probably in the course of a sermon — addressed to the members of his church, and were received by them, enthusiastically, as such.

Dog-Whistling Dixie.  With Barack Obama's "postracial" appeal having proved illusory but Democrats likely to nominate him for president anyway, the party faces a difficult problem:  how to persuade Americans to vote for the spiritual protégé of a man who espouses crackpot anti-American and antiwhite views.  One response, born less of strategy than of reflex, is to claim that opposition to Obama is racist.  A pair of recent posts by prominent Angry Left bloggers show just how intense is the desire to impute racism to the other side, and how far they are willing to depart from logic to do so.

Obama Has Chosen His Running Mate:  Jeremiah Wright.  Do we really want a commander-in-chief who is capable of such incredible rationalization?  But let us cut to the chase.  The elephant in the living room is this:  Barack Obama would not have stayed in this Afrocentric, separatist church run by a paranoid, bigoted leader if he did not subscribe to the rhetoric that was being preached.  His insistence on defending Jeremiah Wright tells us a great deal about what Obama himself believes.

Obama's church:  'Enough is enough'.  It's time to talk about race.  And the media need to back off.  That was the message Thursday at Barack Obama's hometown church, Trinity United Church of Christ, which has been at the center of a political fire storm over incendiary sermons by its former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

20 Questions for Barack Obama:  (#3) If you didn't agree with Jeremiah Wright's racist and anti-American views, why did you take your own children to his church and expose them to what he had to say? … (#14) Can you give a more convincing explanation for why you no longer wear a flag pin and why you famously chose not to hold your hand over your heart for our National Anthem?

Lanny Spreads 'The Poison'.  Could Joe Klein provide any better example of the liberal elitist mindset and how disconnected it is from the real world?  Rev. Wright is on tape spewing some pretty vile anti-American stuff from the pulpit, yet Klein accuses [Lanny] Davis of being the one "spreading the poison" for having the temerity to question whether it was appropriate for Barack Obama to sit silent in the pews of Trinity United for 20 years.

If Jeremiah Wright is a Prophet, Isaiah Wasn't.  "Woe unto those who call good 'evil' and call evil 'good,'" said the Prophet Isaiah.  Those who cannot see the monumental moral gulf between America and the unspeakably evil jihadists America is fighting in Iraq and elsewhere are not prophets.  Those who think Americans got what they deserved on 9/11 are not prophets.  Those who think the Russian people were better off under Communism are not prophets.  Those who think America developed AIDS and infected people of color with it are not prophets.  Those who think America is more worthy of damnation than of blessing are not prophets.  They are fools.

The Hypocrisy Of Rev. Jeremiah Wright:  Add the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to the list of race-hustling, misleading double-speaking con men … Certainly, we are all too familiar with their names.  Their demagoguery is infamous.  They are often deemed by the media as the leaders and spokespeople of the black community.  In his lust for power, Wright, a haughty man, did irrefutable harm to every parishioner at Trinity United Church of Christ.  Whether they know it or not, their minds have been deliberately poisoned by a man who demeans their human worth.  For thirty-five years they sat in the pews and were told unapologetic, racist, bigoted lies, while allowing themselves to become brainwashed with anti-American hate speech.

When Will We Admit the Truth About Barack Obama?  Obama called Wright a friend, mentor and uncle; he had a 20-year relationship with him, during which time he attended Wright's church; he was married and had his child baptized by the reverend; and last year he donated $26,000 to the church.  Yet some would give Obama credit for not casting his friend to the winds.  After all, [Obama] said that he "cannot disown him."  But my question is:  Why, Mr. Obama, did you ever own him in the first place?

Obama's Wright Turn:  When Barack Obama made his official announcement that he was running for President over 14 months ago in Springfield, Illinois, the Senator made sure that his pastor Jeremiah Wright had no speaking role and was kept away from the ceremony.  Obama campaign manager David Axelrod has admitted that there were concerns back then about what Wright might say.

Wright's Honorary Degree Withdrawn by Northwestern.  Northwestern University withdrew its offer to give the Reverend Jeremiah Wright an honorary degree at this year's commencement because of the controversy over past sermons by the former pastor to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Jeremiah Wright and the AIDS 'conspiracy':  Among all the commentary on Wright's controversial statements, I have seen no informed challenge to his statements that the US government caused (or, he said later, could have caused) the AIDS virus in an effort to kill blacks.  With documentation from KGB archives, British historian Christopher Andrew and former KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin revealed nearly a decade ago that the AIDS-virus story originated in the 1980s as part of Soviet anti-American active measures or disinformation.

The Real Reason Why Rev Wright Dissed Obama:  [Scroll down] For sure, Rev. Wright's supersized ego has boxed out Obama's ambition.  But ego preservation pales when compared to Rev. Wright's real purpose — keeping the pledge payments flowing and collection plates full.  Wright's root agenda, in perfect alignment with the far left Democratic Party politics of indignation, has been to capitalize on the misfortunes of others, to stoke both race and class resentment, offer a platform and voice pipe for the permanently aggrieved all to fill his own coffers.  Rev Wright has amassed the equivalent of a small fortune not by finding solutions but by recycling a permanent state of self-inflicted misery, despair and bitterness.

Stabbed in the Barack.  Obama's candidacy, like any gamble, was a risky venture.  It was made more risky given the tightly guarded knowledge that revelations about Rev. Jeremiah Wright — Obama's pastor of some 20 years — could well bring down the junior senator's "audacity of hope" to be elected America's first non-white president.  The crash came this week when Wright appeared in public and confirmed to everyone that his bigoted ranting displayed on YouTube — which Obama, with the help of his liberal-left mainstream media friends explained away as "snippets of those sermons" taken out of context — were for real.

Wright's past, Obama's future.  [Rev.] Wright may have single-handedly done enough damage to make sure Obama never gets to the Oval Office.  If so, Wright probably will blame the white man for the defeat, but the rest of us will know who helped.

Obama's Trap:  The truth is, liberals don't find Reverend Wright shocking.  Liberals find themselves nodding in silent agreement with much of what he preaches.  Furthermore, they aren't offended by the notion of rewarding a domestic terrorist from the 1960's with professorship at a major state university.  Even more damaging is the notion that they really don't practice zero tolerance on racism and bigotry — they're happy to ignore it if it's being practiced by part of their base.

A Tragedy of a Father and Son.  Why did Obama feel compelled to join a church whose teachings were so inherently controversial?  Of all the pastors, ministers, priests, rabbis, and imams in Chicago, why did Obama choose Wright to be his close friend and confidant?  Why, when the first examples of Wright making shocking and outrageous comments from the pulpit became well-known, did Obama insist that critics were jumping to conclusions based on snippets?

Where Reverend Wright is Really Right:  I've got to give Jerry his due for not backing down from his point of view, unlike Barry and Michelle.  Yep, this guy actually believes the white devil-inspired US government put AIDS on black people's sandwiches, that Farrakhan is funkalicious, and the USA is a terrorist state.  He's sold on it.  He didn't give an inch when queried.

Bigot on parade:  Rarely in the history of American politics has a bigot had as much power as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright enjoys today.  Support for Sen. Barack Obama has plunged nationally and (more importantly) in North Carolina since Rev. Wright confirmed at his National Press Club appearance Monday that he does indeed hold racist, lunatic, anti-American views, and implied that Sen. Obama has been insincere in separating himself from them.  "He had to distance himself, because he's a politician," Rev. Wright said.

Jeremiah Wright's Controversial AIDS Charge.  The charge that AIDS is a plot against blacks has been used by people like Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan to inflame race relations.  Louis Farrakhan's newspaper, The Final Call, ran an article (December 15, 1999) quoting [Leonard] Horowitz as saying that AIDS is a "genocidal plot" against blacks.  The paper's on-line version carried a link to the Horowitz website.

Bulletins at Obama's Church Carry Their Own Controversy.  Articles published in the Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin in 2007 carried controversial comments written by people other than Jeremiah Wright.  Those comments included the claim that Israel worked with South Africa to build an "ethnic bomb" that would kill blacks and Arabs, that the Pentagon was training Latin Americans to be terrorists, and that the TV networks are run by right-wing racists.

Jeremiads:  I was tired of hearing Jeremiah Wright, so I started reading him.  This did not improve matters.  In his books I found mainly (in the words of one of his admirers) "Africentric Christian manhood," a panic about the situation of the African American male raised into a truculent paranoid theology.  There are many expressions of love in Wright's preaching, but only for his own, which is not love's strongest test.

Jeremiah Wright's 'Trumpet':  Trumpet provides a rounded picture of Wright's views, and what it shows unmistakably is that the now-infamous YouTube snippets from Wright's sermons are authentic reflections of his core political and theological beliefs.  It leaves no doubt that his religion is political, his attitude toward America is bitterly hostile, and he has fundamental problems with capitalism, white people, and "assimilationist" blacks.

Farrakhan on the cover of Trumpet
Obama's 'Mentor' Gave Farrakhan An Award.  That sure does look like Louis Farrakhan on the cover of Trumpet.

Obama, Wright and Farrakhan on the cover of Trumpet
I've Got You Covered.  Appears to be a picture of the TUCC Trumpet with Obama, Wright and Farrakhan on the cover.


Rev. Wright Magazine Featured Obama on Cover with Farrakhan.  To this day, Barack Obama continues to insist he was shocked and surprised to discover that Reverend Jeremiah Wright had bizarre racist views.  Now Tom Blumer has discovered images of Wright's radical newsmagazine Trumpet — and look who was featured on the cover of that magazine at least three times.

'I'm ready for my close-up, Rev. Wright'.  Now that we know Obama has appeared multiple times on the cover of a magazine which spouts shocking (to middle Americans) political views, it will be hard for him to credibly deny knowing what was up with Wright.

Left in Church:  Deep inside the Wright Trumpet.  Since repudiating his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., at an April 29 news conference, Barack Obama has done everything in his power to minimize the nature of his relationship with Wright.  Supposedly, Obama found Wright's recent and controversial remarks at the National Press Club shocking, unfamiliar, and out-of-character.  In fact, we now know that Wright's controversial remarks were entirely in character, and that regular church attendance, and even limited familiarity with church publications, would have made Wright's radical views entirely evident.

Rev. Wright's Teachers:  It turns out that a number of Jeremiah Wright's incendiary and racist comments are not new, and are traceable to leaders of the Black Muslim Movement.  As it turns out, Wright's radical ranting is an echo.  A glance back at history reveals an eerie connection between black separatists, the Nation of Islam (NOI) and Barack Obama's pastor.  Although both NOI and Wright excel at racist and anti-American rhetoric, it now appears that they read from the same hymnal.

The company Obama has kept:  Mr. Obama wrote in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, about his attraction to the leftist pastor's church as a vehicle for social change.  If black nationalism would uplift the race, he wrote, "then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."  That's a remarkable admission of a racialized "ends justify the means" morality.  It helps explain why Mr. Obama was willing to stick with a crackpot like Dr. Wright.  It also might explain why an up-and-coming Barack Obama found nothing particularly wrong with rubbing political elbows with Bill Ayers, the Chicago university professor and onetime fugitive member of the revolutionary, communist Weather Underground.

Reverend-turned-professor James Cone, Jeremiah Wright's mentor:  Cone's books are required reading at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, where Obama has worshiped for the past 20 years.  Trinity instituted the theology and its attendant "black value system" a full decade before Obama formally pledged membership in 1991. … Cone writes that "black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy" and all its institutions.

Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl Marx.  When I visited Obama's church, still under the directorship of Jeremiah Wright, I came away with far more questions than answers, and one thing leading to another, have spent the last several months trying to fathom how Marxist political philosophy wound up emblazoned with a cross and a pulpit, and pretending to rely on the Bible for its authority.  It is somewhat difficult to imagine a more contorted blasphemy, with the single possible exception of Hitler himself claiming to be acting by divine decree in the interests of Christianity.

Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx (Part 2).  From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. … For awhile, until Obama's actual "religion" became clear through the rantings of those who have formed his "moral compass", it did appear that Barack Obama would beat the religious right at their own "game."  But the foibles of faking faith can be quite the undoing of a man who proclaims to be above the low-road politics of deceit.

Meanwhile, Back at Trinity United...  The video was uploaded to YouTube this past Sunday, though it is unclear if it was shot then or earlier.  But to judge by the subject matter, it is quite recent.  The video features Father Michael Pfleger, with an introduction by the Rev. Otis Moss, Jeremiah Wright's successor at Trinity United.  As we noted last month, the Democratic presidential front-runner described Moss as a "wonderful young pastor" after Obama renounced Wright.

Father Michael Pfleger, Surpassing Jeremiah Wright at Trinity.  Much like written words don't do justice to Jeremiah Wright's sermons, the video must be watched to be believed. … Words cannot describe the surreality of watching a middle-aged white man in a priest's collar appearing like he is trying to imitate Jeremiah Wright at his most outrageous.

Obama 'Disappointed' by Pastor's Remarks That Were Critical of Clinton.  During a guest appearance last Sunday at Trinity United Church of Christ, the Rev. Michael Pfleger delivered a blistering critique of Mrs. Clinton's candidacy.  Mr. Pfleger, a wellknown activist Chicago priest and a friend of Mr. Obama, said Mrs. Clinton felt entitled to the presidency and was stunned by "a black man stealing my show."

Priest who mocked Clinton again draws spotlight.  He's a white priest at a largely black church.  He's held hands with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.  He's been arrested dozens of times and battled anyone he thinks has wronged his parish — from gun dealers to a local Catholic sports league.  Now the Rev. Michael Pfleger is something else:  the latest thorn in the side of presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Obama's latest racial problem:  Apart from the appallingly racist nature of Father Michael Pfleger's remarks about Hillary Clinton, what is one to make of the congregation who seemed to lap it all up?  How, one may be entitled to ask, do these assembled churchgoers differ from those white Appalachians who admitted they voted for Sen. Clinton on the basis of race?

Rev. Pfleger:  "America is the Greatest Sin Against God".  In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger's sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama's now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side of Chicago, the longtime Obama associate condemns America for racism in fairly harsh terms.  "Racism is still America's greatest addiction," Pfleger says.  "I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."

Obama's 'Spiritual' Problem:  Americans sure must be wondering about Barack Obama's "spirit" these days — given the wackiness of his spiritual advisers.  Turns out the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who calls AIDS a government plot and suggests America deserved 9/11, isn't the only nut-job pastor informing Obama's moral judgment.  Enter the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who's tight with Nation of Islam hate-monger Louis Farrakhan and who reportedly once threatened to "snuff out" a Chicago gun-shop owner.

Hillary believed she'd win 'cause she's white'.  Chicago Catholic pastor Michael Pfleger, speaking Sunday [5/25/2008] at Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ, implied Clinton was a white supremacist who believed she would win the nomination because of "white entitlement."

Obama Resigns Church Membership.  Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, resigned their membership in the South Side Chicago church that had been their spiritual home for two decades, but that recently become a political liability in Obama's campaign for the presidency, according to aides.

[Wait a minute.  Isn't this the same Obama who said he could no more disown his former pastor than he could disown his own white grandmother?  Granny must be worried now.]

Barack Obama quits Trinity United Church of Christ.  In a painful episode of his quest for the White House, likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday [5/31/2008] his family withdrew their membership at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.  The damage control came as his church — and controversial sermons from the Trinity pulpit — were increasingly becoming a target that threatened Obama's presidential bid.

The Editor asks...
 Who's to say he won't rejoin the church if he loses in November?

Obama Resigns Church Membership in Chicago.  Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have resigned their membership at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, after controversies stemming from the congregation created a persistent distraction for Obama's campaign.

Aha!  I knew it!
 Not So Fast, Barack.  A careful reading of the transcript of Obama's press conference over the weekend reveals that he neither denounced his church nor permanently quit it.  He twice left open the door to rejoining Trinity United Church of Christ after the election.  He said he and his wife merely decided "it was going to be very difficult to continue our membership there so long as I was running for president."  Typical of the coverage of this candidate, nobody in the press followed up with tough questions.  Nobody bothered to parse his words.

Barack Obama to delay church choice.  Senator Barack Obama, hoping to avoid his personal faith attracting more controversy, has said that he will not decide on which new church he and his wife, Michelle, will join until after the presidential election.  "Our lives are fairly unsettled right now," he told reporters.

No Liberation.  Having now left Trinity United Church of Christ, can Barack Obama escape responsibility for his decades-long ties to Michael Pfleger and Jeremiah Wright?  No, he cannot.  Obama's connections to the radical-left politics espoused by Pfleger and Wright are broad and deep.  The real reason Obama bound himself to Wright and Pfleger in the first place is that he largely approved of their political-theological outlooks.

Irrelevant Apologies:  For any politician, what matters is not his election year rhetoric, or an election year resignation from a church, but the track record of that politician in the years before the election.  Yet so many people are so fascinated by Barack Obama's rhetorical skills that they don't care about his voting record in the U.S. Senate, in the Illinois state senate, the causes that he has chosen to promote over the years, or the candidate's personal character and values, as revealed by his actions and associations.

The Unretirement of Reverend Wright:  When Sen. Barack Obama severed ties with his Chicago church, most political observers saw the move as a way for the candidate to insulate himself from the controversies stirred by its retiring pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr.  But Trinity United Church of Christ does not have that kind of insulation.  According to sources within Trinity, Wright, 66, who began the process of retirement two years ago, is resisting fully relinquishing his duties as senior pastor, hanging on to power in the church he helped build.

Reports of Rev. Wright's Retirement Seem Greatly Exaggerated.  Wright was to have stepped down as senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ last Sunday and his hand-picked successor, the Reverend Otis Moss III, was to deliver his first sermon in that role.  Instead, church bulletins identified Moss as "pastor" rather than "senior pastor."  And, Time Magazine Reports Wright said during a meeting with church leaders that Moss should be declared "senior pastor-elect" because he still needs supervision.

Jeremiah Wright's Apprentice:  The sermon was delivered by a preacher that Obama described to Tim Russert on Meet The Press, Sunday, May 4, as his church's "wonderful young pastor."  His name:  The Reverend Otis B. Moss III.  He is the pastor in line to assume Jeremiah Wright's position upon Wright's retirement.



Reverend Wright fails to shut up and disappear

Rev. Wright plays the victim card:
 Wright Defends Sermons, Calls Uproar Unfair, Response Political.  Wright, in his first interview since portions of some of his sermons began playing widely on television and over the Internet, said as an activist he's accustomed to being "at odds with the establishment."  He said the portrayal of his teachings is unfair, unjust and has made him the target of hatred.

Bad News For Obama:  In his National Press Club speech [4/28/2008], we saw another side of Rev. Wright — utterly unrepentant about any of the things he has said, and insistent that the wave of criticism aimed at him was really "an attack on the black church."  That argument is familiar — even pervasive.  When a visible member group that has suffered exclusion is challenged, that individual is frequently heard making that argument.

Who Needs Friends Like the Rev. Wright?  What is Jeremiah Wright doing?  That's easy.  He's helping himself.  Trying to save his reputation.  Smiling for the cameras.  What can Barack Obama do about it?  Not much.  The only thing worse than Wright speaking out is the respect with which he is treated when he does.  In numerous reports, Wright is being described as one of the leading African-American pastors in the country.

The Moment of Truth for the Left has Arrived.  Jeremiah Wright — the respectful word "Reverend" seems grotesquely out of place now — is shouting out the slander catechism of the Left.  His sermons say exactly what other Leftists say in calm voices, over and over again.  Mr. Wright just does it with real, raw hatred, and every new slam is cheered on by his jubilant congregation.  His is not a lone voice.  He just sings the music to fit the words.  We have been nursing a viper in our national bosom.  Seven years after September 11, 2001, this is the moment of truth, when the Left must finally decide what side it's on.

It's a Black Thing.  The crowd of 10,000 at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday night [4/27/2008] came ready to Wright a wrong.  The spirit of the 1960s' civil-rights movement hung above Detroit's Cobo Center as local black leaders took to the dais to celebrate "the hottest brother in America" — Rev. Jeremiah Wright — who had been lynched by the "monolithic electronic media," (Detroit pastor Martin Bolton) for "speaking truth to power" (Rev. Wendell Anthony, NAACP chair).  As Wright stepped to the podium, the throng stood (albeit slowly after their $150-a-plate dinners) with him — a standing ovation in anticipation of the misunderstood pastor….

A Christian Farrakhan.  [In a speech at the National Press Club, Rev. Wright] stood by his damnation of America and his contention that the U.S. government had created AIDS:  "I believe our government is capable of doing anything."  For good measure, he dishonestly denied Louis Farrakhan's infamous denunciation of Judaism as a "gutter religion" and called him "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century."  The more Wright talked, the more he sounded like a Christian Farrakhan.

Obama's Chickens Come Home to Roost.  Over the weekend, the Obama campaign suffered a further disaster:  the Reverend Jeremiah Wright finally seized his 15 minutes of fame.  Lured by the irresistible glow of the spotlight, the reverend launched a media blitz that took him from a softball interview with Bill Moyers on Friday, to a speech to a Detroit meeting of the NAACP on Sunday, to a press conference at the National Press Club on Monday morning [4/28/2008].

Obamastan.  Barack Obama would like us to believe that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who ranted anti-American profanities at the National Press Club was not the man he saw from the pews of his church for two decades.  He'd also have us believe that Weatherman terrorist bomber William Ayers, who played host to his first fundraiser and with whom he would later serve on a board, is just a "guy in the neighborhood."  Similarly, Obama would have us believe he doesn't accept the recent endorsement of his candidacy by Ahmed Yousef of the terrorist organization Hamas.

A Missed Shot.  Before the Wright scandal broke, Obama sailed through primaries and caucuses in snow-white places like Iowa and Wisconsin.  But once the images of Wright in kente cloth ranting about America's chickens coming home to roost hit the perma-loop on US airwaves, things changed.  At first, Obama quelled white flight with a powerful speech in Philadelphia about race.  But he refused to denounce Wright himself, even as he condemned his words.  So deep down, the Wright effect continued to gnaw away, only to be forced back into the headlines with his decision to take his case to the public.



Barack and Jeremiah go to Splitsville

Candidate faces down his former pastor, but what took so long?  For weeks, Barack Obama portrayed [Rev. Wright's] statements as isolated soundbites, deeply offensive to him, but nonetheless taken out of context by political enemies to create a negative impression of an otherwise caring pastor.  It wasn't until Wright took to the airwaves over the past week to defend himself and take fresh ownership of the statements that Obama became fed up.

Obama:  I am 'outraged' and 'angered' by Wright's Comments.  Barack Obama, declaring "that's enough," denounced Tuesday [4/29/2008] as "appalling" and "ridiculous" comments made in the last few days by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.  In a press conference in North Carolina, the Illinois senator used his strongest language to date to condemn Wright's controversial sermons, which have remained a burden to his campaign since they became national news more than a month ago.

On the verge of making history, Obama opens a can of worms.  Well, it is likely that Sen. Barack Obama won't be going back to Trinity United Church of Christ.  Not after this. On Tuesday [4/29/2008], Obama responded to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's ill-timed defense by condemning his former pastor's fresh comments as "ridiculous," "outrageous" and "appalling."

Obama took too long to denounce Wright.  Wright for four long days had been back in the headlines.  In a PBS interview with Bill Moyers on Friday [4/25/2008], he essentially dismissed Obama as a posturing "politician," somebody who says what he has to say to get elected.  Then Sunday in Detroit, before 10,000 members of the NAACP, Wright did it again. … But Monday at the National Press Club in Washington was the worst, a combination of overarching narcissism peppered with sarcastic smackdowns.  Wright, who is a certifiably brilliant scholar and speaker, chose instead to be the bully in the pulpit.

Obama's Un-Disownable Preacher of Hate:  Barack Obama looked pale and wan at what he called his "big press conference" about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday afternoon [4/29/2008].  Numb.  Chastened.  Defeated.  Extolled for his eloquence, Obama stuttered and stammered his way through the question-and-answer session.  It appeared he was having an out-of-body experience.  Who knew that the greatest threat to his presidential campaign would come from the preacher who married him, baptized him and prayed with him?  Barack Obama should have known.  That's who.

How dumb does Obama think we are?  Barack Obama has a pattern of dealing with political problems by denial.  He denies that this person or that person is his foreign policy adviser; he denied a close relationship with Pastor Jeremiah Wright, yesterday — he called Wright just his "pastor".  Clearly the relationship is much broader and deeper than Obama is lately representing.  In other words, when people become a political problem for Barack Obama, he distances himself from them, redefines their role, throws them down a "memory hole" or throws them under the bus.

[Apparently Obama needs to find a larger bus.]

For Obama, the Danger From Wright Isn't Over.  Is it really plausible for Obama to say that he did not hear a steady stream of such stuff coming from Wright's pulpit in the last 20 years?  The fact that Obama is such a long-time member of Wright's church makes it reasonable to suspect that Obama found a lot to agree with in what Wright preached.  In addition, it is not clear whether Obama has fully renounced what he said about Wright in Philadelphia.

Obama throwing Wright under the bus.  Obama has now taken two positions on Wright.  March 13:  No, I cannot disown him.  April 29:  Yes, I can.  Left still unanswered is the question:  How can the man we heard deliver that speech in July 2004 about what unites us — in which his strongest line was "in the blue states we worship an awesome G-d" — how could that Barack Obama have attended the church of that Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years?  And not just attended:  He and his wife contributed more than $20,000 to the church.  It just doesn't add up.

The more you know about Wright, the more you doubt Obama.  The message lives, but the messenger is wounded, perhaps fatally.  And Obama has only himself to blame.  He practically called out the divorce lawyers Tuesday, but what took him so long?  How could he sit and listen to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's wackiness for 20 years and fail to see him for what he so obviously is?  Or is it true, as many suspect, that Obama did see Wright in full, but rationalized his presence in the church and the financial support he gave it as the cost of building a base in Chicago's often-radical black politics?

The company Obama keeps:  Just six weeks ago, Sen. Barack Obama said he could no more disown his former pastor than he could disown his own white grandmother.  Until, of course, he did.  Obama finally (and firmly) disavowed the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright this week.  But the moment came only after sensing his presidential bid could be undone by the simmering controversy.

The Wright-Obama Split in Historic Perspective:  [Booker T.] Washington's philosophy of self-reliance and Dr. [W.E.B.] DuBois' sophisticated resentment are contradictions, not contraries.  One is true and the other is false.  For the modes of existence available to Black America — self-help or protest — are not mutually inclusive, like yin or yang.  Black existential choice comes down to Washington or Dr. DuBois.  Lately, that dilemma has manifested thus — Sen. Obama or Rev. Wright.

Obama Would Be A Clinton Third Term.  First, Obama thought it best to castigate Wright's critics, and deflect criticism by attempting to point out faults among the race of Wright's presumed detractors, including Obama's own white grandmother.  Then, when this ploy proved ineffective, Obama did the exact thing he had previously insisted he would not do, which was to disavow Wright who was, it turns out, expendable.

Not that I really care all that much, but...
 Barack Obama's web site says that he "is a committed Christian."  So it is only natural to wonder:  Where does Senator Obama go to church, now that he has split with the TUCC?

Obama's church must not be forgotten.  Senator Obama is now trying to erase his personal history by resigning from his radical Left church, after two decades of active membership — that's more than 1,000 Sunday sermons over twenty years. … The Rev. Wright, Rev. Moss, Rev. Meeks, the demonic Father Pfleger, Rev. Willie Brown, Louis Farrakhan and the whole Black Liberation movement — they must not be forgotten, just because Obama and the media want us to.  Not just for this election alone, but because the crypto-Marxist churches and their allies in ACORN and the radical Left have deliberately been making things worse for ghetto blacks.  This follows the old Leninist maxim that people should be made to feel worse about their social conditions in order to bring about the Revolution.

Reverend Wright plans an October surprise.  New York Magazine has done a special issue this week on race and the US election.  There's lot of good stuff in the package but this line from John Heilemann's cover story stood out to me:  "In October, Obama's former pastor, Wright, will publish a new book and hit the road to promote it" … This is a huge problem for Obama.

Obama Re-invents his Trinity Church History.  He did not indicate any scheduling problems or absences back in 2004, no scapegoating of his daughter.  Now he has to deal with Pastor Wright controversy and he just dreams up a different history -- and Newsweek helps him along.

Editor's note:
 Quoting from the article in Newsweek:  "After he began his run for the U.S. Senate, he says, the family sometimes didn't go to Trinity for months at a time.  The girls have not attended Sunday school."  Is that the behavior of a "committed Christian?"

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