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"God Damn America"

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So says Barak Obama adviser and pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. As a further appeal to political moderates, the good Reverend states that the US was to blame for the 9-11 attacks - saying "America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America."

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism."
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Cylinder said:
So says Barak Obama adviser and pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. As a further appeal to political moderates, the good Reverend states that the US was to blame for the 9-11 attacks - saying "America's chickens are coming home to roost."
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I've heard on the radio about 60-90 seconds of speech excerpts from Rev Wright over the past week. Some of the language is rather disturbing. Tune in Sean Hannity for a few moments Friday afternoon and you are certain to hear them, (probably several times over). I don't know that it reflects poorly directly on Obama, but it certainly won't help him any.
 
Cylinder said:
So says Barak Obama adviser and pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. As a further appeal to political moderates, the good Reverend states that the US was to blame for the 9-11 attacks - saying "America's chickens are coming home to roost."
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Brother Wright forgot, methinks, that bit about not taking the Lord's name in vain. You'd think a clergyman would set a slightly better example.

Oh, wait, Phred Phreaking Phelps.

Never mind.

Wright is on schedule to start carrying his "God Hates Fags" signs about November 11th, just in time for Veteran's Day.

Him not being a Catholic, I'm not sure how he's gonna deal with that sin, repentance, and so on, but I imagine he's got an angle. He's in the business, he knows people.

WIth friends like him, Obama hardly needs Hillary to hurt his chances at winning the election.

DR
 
Uh-oh.
Just saw this video:

(Video might get pulled if Fox tells Youtube to pull it)
Quite a polemic on race and Barack vs. Hillary.
Found here
Fox story here
Will voters hold Barack's preacher's rhetoric against him?
Obviously Barack will probably have to distance himself from these remarks somehow. I don't know if he has to actually leave his church and join a less controversial one or if it's enough just to denounce Wright's remarks.
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If I was conspiracy-minded, I'd think someone was out to sabotage Barack Obama.
Did the good Reverend perhaps get a large donation recently from anyone connected to Hillary or a Republican dirty trickster? Perish the thought.
 
Wow. Attacking a candidate's preacher as an election tactic?

The Republicans may not be happy with how that turns out.
 
Cleon said:
Wow. Attacking a candidate's preacher as an election tactic?

The Republicans may not be happy with how that turns out.
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If you're going to present yourself as a devout member of that church, it is fair game.

Who is McCain's preacher, and what does he say?
 
This guy has been preaching the same stuff for many years. Obama must at least partially agree or he wouldn't be going to that church. I mean, come on, if you vehemently disagreed with your preacher, why would you keep going to the church for 20 years?
 
WildCat said:
Jesus was a black man? I could of swore he was Jewish by all accounts. Were there any black people living in that area back then?
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Ahem... Candyman, candyman, candyman, candyman, CANDYMAN!

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I guess hearing the Revs pontifications have got me reflecting. As much as I hate to admit it, he does have some salient points

For instance:

Rev. Wright said:
"Hillary ain't never been called a [n-word]!"
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And to think - after nearly a decade of hurling invective at Ms. Clinton I thought I had done enough.
 
John Bentley said:
This guy has been preaching the same stuff for many years. Obama must at least partially agree or he wouldn't be going to that church. I mean, come on, if you vehemently disagreed with your preacher, why would you keep going to the church for 20 years?
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I don't think he has said he vehemently disagrees with him, but this is going to be a liability.

McCain has John "The catholic church is the great whore" Hagee, on his side.

This video has some CNN clips of McCain with Hagee and some of his sermons. If I would avoid Obama's pastor by a mile while running for president, I would avoid Hagee by 100.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qNi7tPanUA

And it's mystifying that while Barack Obama has been willing - in the phrase he made fashionable - to "reject and denounce" Louis Farrakhan because of Farrakhan's anti-Semitism, McCain hasn't gone nearly as far in dealing with Pastor John Hagee. The evangelical leader, who called the Roman Catholic Church "the great whore," has endorsed McCain. McCain distanced himself from Hagee's anti-Catholicism - there are, after all, a lot of Catholic swing voters - but why is McCain so reluctant to use much stronger language about Hagee himself?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/opinion/main3925070.shtml

The media has given McCain a pass. In most reports Hagee is described as simply "pro-Israel".

Daredelvis
 
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