{"id":2746,"date":"2008-03-18T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/is-obama-trying-to-bamboozle-us-with-his-wright-denials\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T00:10:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T04:10:48","slug":"is-obama-trying-to-bamboozle-us-with-his-wright-denials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/is-obama-trying-to-bamboozle-us-with-his-wright-denials\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Obama Trying to Bamboozle Us with His Wright Denials?"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Thinker<\/a> | Kyle-Anne Shiver | Mar. 18, 2008<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I’m getting a bit queasy at the thought of Barack Obama’s tendency to know nothing about nothing when it comes to people and problems right under his nose. If he genuinely was not on to the racism of his own pastor, the guy who was like an “uncle” to him, how will he be able to see through the lying hypocrisy of IslamoFascists. <\/p>\n

If even the heralded celebratory award his Church magazine gave to Louis Farrakhan, the infamous black Muslim and Nazi admirer, didn’t open the eyes of Mr. Gullible, what on earth would?
\n[…]<\/p>\n

“Some of my fellow clergy don’t appreciate what we’re about. They feel we’re too radical.” Jeremiah Wright to Barack Obama (Very first face-to-face meeting — Chicago, mid 1980’s*)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought I might have entered one of those political twilight-zone moments when I read this statement made by Obama Saturday, in response to reports on his pastor of twenty years:<\/p>\n

“I noticed over the last several weeks that the forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again. And I’m not here to cast blame or point fingers because everybody, you know, senses that there’s been this shift,” Obama said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Begging the Senator’s pardon, but this condescending, schoolmarm admonition seems to me like the proverbial kettle calling the pot black.<\/p>\n

Obama continues: <\/p>\n

“If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Giving the Senator the benefit of the doubt here, I don’t think he means to imply with this statement that he knew an awful lot more, including the statements played in the videos in the press. Maybe that’s not what he meant to say, but that’s sure what it sounds like to me.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter remains that we journalists were not the ones sitting in Reverend Wright’s pews for 20 years, listening to his racially divisive, anti-American rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Oh, my. Obama actually contends he wasn’t either.<\/p>\n

So, what did he think Jeremiah Wright meant when he said that fellow African-American clergymen found him too radical for their understanding of the Christian faith?<\/p>\n

What did Obama know and when did he know it?<\/strong>
\nWright to Obama, in the same very first face-to-face meeting:<\/p>\n

“Cops don’t check my bank account when they pull me over and make me spread-eagle against the car. These mis-educated brothers, like that sociologist at the University of Chicago, talking about \u2018the declining significance of race.’ Now what country is he living in?” (Dreams from My Father; Barack Obama; p. 283)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, let’s think just a minute here. Barack Obama has steadily maintained that he knew absolutely nothing about Reverend Wright’s proclivity for mixing racial hatred and anti-American politics into his sermons at Trinity United Church of Christ.<\/p>\n

Yet, incredibly, right there on page 293 of Obama’s Dreams from My Father, when Barack is describing the wondrous event of his own conversion in Wright’s church, he lets on otherwise.<\/p>\n

“…Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We know now Reverend Wright’s opinion of Hiroshima and the Country who dropped that atomic bomb.<\/p>\n

And apparently, Michelle Obama holds the same entirely negative opinion of America as her pastor.<\/p>\n

Yet, Barack Obama maintains that even though his pastor and his wife have no pride in America, he himself has remained above all that division and strife, incredulously, because he never even knew about it.<\/p>\n

And candidate Obama wants us to let him have a conversation with the Iranian president so they can work out something other than a big-bang solution for world peace.<\/p>\n

. . . more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Thinker | Kyle-Anne Shiver | Mar. 18, 2008 I don’t know about you, dear reader, but I’m getting a bit queasy at the thought of Barack Obama’s tendency to know nothing about nothing when it comes to people and problems right under his nose. If he genuinely was not on to the racism of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}