ROLLING STONE Article Obama did not find offensive !
by ATLJay, Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 06:46:24 PM EDT
Tonight we heard about senator Obama once again speaking to REV WRIGHT issue, saying he never heard the specific comments AKA RACISTS / ANTI AMERICAN on tapes or comments which were that incendiary - implying THAT' S WHY! he did not come out and disavow his pastor a year ago.
He specifically mentioned in tonight's debate about a Rolling Stone article he read last year as a introduction to some of REV Wright's hate speech and that was the only extent of his knowledge about any comments his pastor made.
After reading that article Barack still kept his pastor on his campaign.
Obama has always left us with the notion that while he heard " SOME""OTHER" comments he never heard the horriable ones like on the tape. You be the judge if rolling stone articles citing of specific comments should have made obama drop his pastor ASAP!
NOW HERE IS THE ARTICLE! Please tell me what part of the language he learned within this article a year ago was not grounds for walking away from the church or kicking his pastor off his team.
The Trinity United Church of Christ, the church that Barack Obama attends in Chicago, is at once vast and unprepossessing, a big structure a couple of blocks from the projects, in the long open sore of a ghetto on the city's far South Side. The church is a leftover vision from the Sixties of what a black nationalist future might look like. There's the testifying fervor of the black church, the Afrocentric Bible readings, even the odd dashiki. And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. "Fact number one: We've got more black men in prison than there are in college," he intones. "Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!" There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. "We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!" The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: "And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!"
This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr. Wright is not an incidental figure in Obama's life, or his politics. The senator "affirmed" his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a "sounding board" to "make sure I'm not losing myself in the hype and hoopla."http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/sto ry/13390609/campaign_08_the_radical_root s_of_barack_obama/print
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