Rev. Wright Speaks At NAACP Dinner »

Posted By TimALoftis 1 year, 6 months ago in News

"I am not here for political reasons. I'm not a politician. ... I'm not running for the Oval Office. I've been running for Jesus for a long, long time and I'm not tired yet," he said to laughter and cheers.

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    DropkickaLib1 year, 6 months ago

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    Is he working for someone else's campaign now, because he certainly isn't helping Obama?

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    kboy1 year, 6 months ago

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    Rev. Wright continues in the path of others like Rev. Sharpton and Rev Jackson. He spreads discord against whites as an excuse for lack of success. I seem to have missed the talk about social responsibility. I hear nothing about crime. I hear nothing about children without any male members of the family. I hear nothing about respect. How does this show that someone that listens to this for 20 years can be a leader of everyone?

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    Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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    K, one listens to a lot of stuff in our media-saturated culture without--one devoutly hopes--taking it all as gospel (pun, etc.).

    Not the best move for a pol aspiring to high elected office not to have been cannier about disassociating himself from Wright earlier.

    But now Obama has done so. Those for whom his relationship with Wright is a deal-breaker have the option not to vote for Obama (whom they probably wouldn't have supported anyway).

    Others may consider the relationship unfortunate but not, ultimately, determinative in re supporting O.

    I would council not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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    simonsez1 year, 6 months ago

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    I just watched Wright on Fox answering questions at the National Press Club.

    He just blew Obama out of the water.

    Hillary must be thrilled. Talk about toast ...

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    ETproductions1 year, 6 months ago

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    I can certainly understand why the Obamas stayed in Rev. Wright's church for 20 years. He is a gifted and powerful speaker. And he uses that speaking ability to try to point out inequities within the US and in our foreign policy -- places where we as a country stray from the message of Christ.

    Sad to say that DropkickaLib's hate filled slurs fall far short of the man he hopes to malign.

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      Blackacereturn1 year, 6 months ago

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      Yes ET but this is the problems GOPers have with LIBS we point out our countries fault because we expect her to be better, they cant get that. We know she can do and be better than they have made her in the last 7 years, they are against anyone that says she is in bad shape because, well they put her in that bad shape. Like Rev Wright, I love my country and cant stand to see what these fools have done to her in the name of green and any real American would be mad as hell over the state she is in!

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        walden31 year, 6 months ago

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        Best Wright quote of the whole event, "Please tell my stuck-on-stupid friends that Arabic is a language, it's not a religion. Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. There are Arabic-speaking Christians, Arabic-speaking Jews, Arabic-speaking Muslims and Arabic-speaking atheists. Stop trying to scare folks by giving them an Arabic name as if it's some sort of diseaseâ;¦Did you hear me, O'Reilly?"

        Believe it or not some people won't vote for Obama because his middle-name is Hussein. What jamokes!

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          Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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          And Grr, above, page 3 (of the Con playbook) is "call them antisemitic"...., as in, all libs are.

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          Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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          Grr, what about "appeasers?" Sub-head of "pacifists?" Or a separate page?

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          Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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          Oh, yes! Let's not forget "Marxists!" Doesn't matter that the last one was Karl Marx....

          (Well....)

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          stephen-johnson1 year, 6 months ago

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          There are folks in the Obama campaign who in their heart of hearts want the "good" Reverend to vanish until after Election Day

          But he won't.

          God bless him! ;-)

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          abntv1 year, 6 months ago

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          Damage control nothing more

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            kfolive1 year, 6 months ago

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            So, why are we mixing religion and politics anyway? I for one find it appalling that this is an issue that the country is focusing on. All its really doing is distracting from the facts our country really needs to address. How sad!

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            SAAB76991 year, 6 months ago

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            OK whatever! Now tell me what he meant by saying the US

            government came up with AIDS to kill off that black man.

            I think that quite a few white people have died from this too.

            I thought that this disease originated on the other side of the Atlantic.In fact Sixty Minutes did a story back in the eighties about a "WHITE" male flight attendant thought to be

            the first person to bring AIDS into the US.The story was called"Patient 1"

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            Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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            Here is the mantra: Wright is not running for president, Wright is not running for president, Wright is not running for president.....

            OMMMMMMMMMM!

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            Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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            ...which, ab, does not compromise the idea's validity, assuming you believe, as you seem to, that whatever he says is at the very least suspect.

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            Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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            ...and, ab, who invented "blame the victim?" I don't think it's a liberal formulation.....

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              abntv1 year, 6 months ago

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              I am not blaming anyone.

              I simply pointed out that in the years since the AIDS virus coming to this country, the blame has been tossed around like a hot rock

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                Poulenc1 year, 6 months ago

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                (Actually, Grr, above, it's spelled apizza, as in...well, you know....)

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                  Wolfie20071 year, 6 months ago

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                  I just heard this on the news; More of Rev Wright's sermons have been found and they are worse than the others.

                  Btw, I guess that Rev Wright moved into a gated white neighborhood because he is afraid of white people. LMAO

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                  Iwasthinking1 year, 6 months ago

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                  I'm tired of people taking Rev. Wright's "God damn America" quote out of context. I'll like to point out the he uses "God damn" as a subject and verb, which is very different from saying "God-d#@n" which is its usage as an adjective. Anyway here is the full context of the quote.

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                  Iwasthinking1 year, 6 months ago

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                  Rev Wright: "Where governments lie, God does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change. And I'm through now. But let me leave you with one more thing. Governments fail. The government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius, Pontius Pilate - the Roman government failed. The British government used to rule from East to West. The British government had a Union Jack. She colonized Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Hong Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the tip of Argentina in the Falklands, but the British government failed. The Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The German government failed. And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps...

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