Is the Obama Campaign Imploding?
March 17, 2008 · By Greg Farries
With the media scrutiny of the Obama’s pastor continuing, James Taranto thinks the Obama campaign may be in serious trouble over Obama’s so-called “spiritual mentor” who Taranto describes as a “certifiable America-hating crackpot.”
Read more here at Best of the Web…mid way down the page.
Obama never listened to his pastor in twenty years, what was he doing in church?
Last I checked, America was a free speech zone, and last I checked, Mr. Obama is not Mr. Wright. Wright has every right to speak out against historical injustices and to scorn “America” for the wrongs it has committed and continues to commit against all types of minorities.
Frank Schaffer wrote a brilliant response to this Wright/Obama smokescreen:
“When Senator Obama’s preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father — Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer — denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.
Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my father’s footsteps) rail against America’s sins from tens of thousands of pulpits. They tell us that America is complicit in the “murder of the unborn,” has become “Sodom” by coddling gays, and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children. They say, as my dad often did, that we are, “under the judgment of God.” They call America evil and warn of immanent destruction. By comparison Obama’s minister’s shouted “controversial” comments were mild. All he said was that God should damn America for our racism and violence and that no one had ever used the N-word about Hillary Clinton.
Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation’s sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the Republican Party. (This was while I was my father’s sidekick before I dropped out of the evangelical movement altogether.) We were rewarded for our “stand” by people such as Congressman Jack Kemp, the Fords, Reagan and the Bush family. The top Republican leadership depended on preachers and agitators like us to energize their rank and file. No one called us un-American.”
A friend commented to elsewhere:
“Since I am not running for office I can admit that I am, FOR THE MOST PART, in agreement with the “inflammatory” remarks of Rev. Jeriamiah Wright. Americans ARE reaping what they have sown. But that does not mean that Rev. Wright and I are anti-American; it means that we demand that OUR America be right, not EITHER right or wrong.
I don’t know how Obama, Clinton or McCain think and feel. Being politicians they can’t and won’t say.
But I’m very glad I am not voting for Wright. As a moralist he is right; as a politician he would be dumb. “