Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Obama's Mentor for 20 years

eggcream wrote: It's not Drudge milking it, it's the racist Obama and his minions trying to divert his bad publicity, they leaked this picture that means squat.

eggcream wrote: It's not Drudge milking it, it's the racist Obama and his minions trying to divert his bad publicity, they leaked this picture that means squat.

Subject: "Chickens coming home to roost" from Malcolm X

God's Judgement of White America (The Chickens Come Home to Roost)
Malcolm X, edited by Imam Benjamin Karim

December 4 , 1963

note - this speech was delivered before Malcolm left the Nation of Islam and accepted true Islam -- so his views in this speech do not reflect his own or those he held near the end of his life.

This speech is sometimes called "The Chickens Come Home To Roost," because of an answer Malcolm X gave in response to a question following the speech. The question concerned the late President John Kennedy. It was Malcolm X's answer, that the Presidents death was a case of "chickens coming home to roost" -- that the violence that Kennedy had failed to stop had come back to him, this resulted in the Elijah Muhammad silencing him. Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam a short time later......

Boygabriel wrote: The fact that Obama didn't publicly explain his thoughts on Wright (in fact, he may have lied about it) is a valid one, but it's not make or break to me. He tried to sweep the issue under the rug, and when he realized it wasn't going away, he gave a 40 minute speech that spoke to voters like adults.

There isn't a politician alive who wouldn't have also tried to sweep this under the rug. The important point, IMO, is that few politicians would have responded with the eloquence and intelligence that Obama did. Few politicians would have responded at all, outside of completely throwing Wright under a bus and claiming they were asleep for the past 20 years while they attended his church.

eggcream wrote: It amazes me to see liberals defending a racist, and Obama is a racist, as is his hate filled "pastor". Who the hell can defend US of KKK?, God Damn America, accusing the gov't of spreading aids in Africa, has ties to Farrakhan another racist, doesn't salute the Flag, his wife is proud of her country for the first time in her life and etc etc. Obama disinvited the "pastor" one year ago not to attend his run for the Presidency ceremony so he knew then what he is lying about now.

Oh, and that speech, yeah selling your white Grandmother down the river and comparing Ferraro to Wright, that's intelligent. He cringes at Grandma's remark, typical white person, but not 20 years of Wright's hatred.

Great article:

Obama's Anger

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/obamas_anger.html

March 26, 2008

Quick Links (Obama Edition)

by hilzoy

Some interesting pieces:

(1) Spencer Ackerman has a very good piece on Obama's foreign policy team:

"They also share a formative experience with each other and with Obama. Each opposed the Iraq War at a time when doing so was derided by their colleagues, by journalists, and by the foreign-policy establishment. Each did so because they understood that the invasion and occupation ran counter to the goal of destroying al-Qaeda. And each bore the frustration of endless lectures on their lack of so-called seriousness from those who suffered from strategic myopia.

"There is a popular notion that Democrats have to try to appear like Republicans to pass some test on national security. The fact that that's still the case after Iraq is absurd," says one of Obama's closest advisers. "So you break from that orthodoxy and say 'I don't care if the Republicans attack me because I'm willing to meet with the leadership in Iran. We haven't for 25 years, and it's not gotten us anywhere.'" (...)

The Obama foreign-policy team describes it as "the politics of fear," a phrase most advisers used unprompted in our conversations. "For a long time we've not seen much creative thinking from Dems on national security, because, out of fear, we want to be a little different from the Republicans but not too different, out of fear of being labeled weak or indecisive," another top adviser says. Identifying that fear as the accelerant of the Iraq War mind-set is the first step to a new and innovative foreign policy. John Kerry was not able to argue for fundamental change in foreign policy because he was consumed by that very political fear. Obama's admonition to Democrats is much like Pope John Paul II's to the Gdansk shipyard strikers -- first, be not afraid."

(2) Barron YoungSmith has written a piece about Obama's proposals for intelligence reform. I'm not competent to address those proposals, but they are interesting:

"One of Obama's most important attempts to roll back the Bush administration's foreign policy is also among the least understood. It is his proposal for intelligence reform. Obama's rebuke to conservative orthodoxy on this issue can be found buried in a Q&A and complementary article published earlier this month in the Washington Post: "Obama repeated his pledge to end the Bush administration's 'politicization of intelligence' and said he would give the director of national intelligence--who currently serves at the pleasure of the president--a fixed term, similar to that of the Federal Reserve chairman."

It's common for Democrats to promise an end to Bush-style politicization of intelligence. But the way that Obama frames the issue--likening the DNI to the independent, technocratic Chairman of the Federal Reserve--indicates that his view of the intelligence process is ontologically opposed to the way conservatives see it. (...) In saying the DNI should be like the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, (rather than, say, the Secretary of Defense, who always serves at the pleasure of the President), the candidate is throwing his weight behind the idea that the intelligence community (IC) should be an independent assessor of empirically-verifiable facts; that intelligence assessment is a non-ideological exercise in finding out what's true and what's not."

eggcream wrote: "he only way we are ever going to get anywhere is when a new generation with new experiences takes over the world, political and media.
We are in a quagmire."

Never going to happen when the Obama's of the world bring their children to listen to this hate speech. It's not just the old timers who believe this. Obama is in his 40's and he has been listening to this racist crap for 20 years. Wright has been like a father to Obama and we're now to believe he disagrees w/Wright?

eggcream wrote: We don't have to repeat it, the Rev. does that for us. Good one trying to pin this racist crap on O'Reilly/Limbaugh. If it was the other way around liberals would be screaming their heads off. Can you imagine McCain saying typical black people?

eggcream wrote: Funny how the Racist's speeches have been cancelled.

eggcream wrote: Wonder why he is Obama's former pastor?

eggcream wrote: I'd rather vote for a senile guy than an anti-American racist or a pathological liar.

18 wrote: Factor military duty into criticism[/size]

By Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss
April 3, 2008

In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.

In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)

The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation.

What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.

While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.

Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?

After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America's biggest cities.

This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, who has been in the news for comments he made over the last three decades.

Since these comments became public we have heard criticisms, condemnations, denouncements and rejections of his comments and him.

We've seen on television, in a seemingly endless loop, sound bites of a select few of Rev. Wright's many sermons.

Some of the Wright's comments are inexcusable and inappropriate and should be condemned, but in calling him "unpatriotic," let us not forget that this is a man who gave up six of the most productive years of his life to serve his country.

How many of Wright's detractors, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to name but a few, volunteered for service, and did so under the often tumultuous circumstances of a newly integrated armed forces and a society in the midst of a civil rights struggle? Not many.

While words do count, so do actions.

Let us not forget that, for whatever Rev. Wright may have said over the last 30 years, he has demonstrated his patriotism.

Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. They work at The Center For American Progress. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.

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eggcream wrote: Obama Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’

"That’s the Cuban flag with the image of Ernesto Che Guevara superimposed on it. It’s tacked onto the wall of an office in Barack Obama’s Houston campaign headquarters. An office belonging, apparently, to a low level staffer who’s in charge of setting up the office."
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