(2008-03-19) — The latest presidential poll shows that public exposure to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racially-charged, anti-American preaching has allayed Democrat voter fears about Sen. Barack Obama’s evangelical Christianity.
Sen. Obama’s long-time pastor and mentor has called on God to ‘damn America’, and he blames rich, white people for everything from the crucifixion of Jesus to the epidemic of HIV in the black community.
“Until mainstream Democrats heard Rev. Wright’s remarks,” said an unnamed pollster, “many were troubled by Sen. Obama’s profession of faith in Jesus Christ and his regular church attendance, which are generally-accepted indicators of mental weakness and deep-seated bigotry.”
However, the source said, now that Democrat voters know that Sen. Obama’s pastor essentially preaches mainstream progressive talking points, they seem more willing to tolerate the Democrat candidate’s Christianity.
As one survey respondent said, “At least he’s not some kind of religious nut, like George Bush, trying to force his god delusions and twisted morality down our throats.”
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25 responses so far ↓
1 boberinyetagain // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Twisted morality…gotta love it!
2 prettyold // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I find nothing Reverant about Dr Wright ,the only preacher I have ever heard who only used God’s name to Damn those he considers his enemies.
Restaurant no Hawkeye’s family has to cook the steak at home.
3 prettyold // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Yep ,it discribes you perfectly Bobity.
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4 woodnwheel // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:33 pm
What can I say that I don’t say in just about every thread?
wv: sickness links — this one is open for all Scrapplers: finish the headline
5 da Bunny // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:37 pm
But which “Jesus” does Obama profess faith in…the Jesus Christ of the Bible, who was born a Jew, or the “black Jesus” of Wright’s “black liberation theology?”
“Progressive talking points,” indeed; I saw yet another clip of a Wright rant, aka “sermon,” last night where he was screaming about how the SCOTUS was going to “overturn Roe v. Wade” with the newly seated justices. Some “Christian” that Rev. Wright, advocating infanticide. His “black liberation theology Bible” must be a “pro-choice” manual.
Obama was born to a white mother, and the fact that he sat there listening to a buffoon making racially divisive, angry, generalized statements about “white people” totally dishonors the woman who gave Obama life. Ingrate can’t even honor his own white Mama, but he tells us that he’s all about “unity.”
6 boberinyetagain // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Thanks Scott but she is probably correct. Her version and mine probably differ quite a bit (but probably not as much as she may suspect)
aimed this…this what?
7 Libby Gone // Mar 19, 2008 at 2:09 pm
My deep seated fears, if I may.
Obama has alot of charisma, More personal appeal it appears than Clinton. I believe he has a VERY good chance of being our next President. If so, and I pray not, does he begin a “Jimmy Carter esque” program of systematically destroying America? Does he feel, like many neoeuroweenie libs, that America needs to “Back off”, “Take our place”, “Pay for our excesses”???? All in the name of UNITY, equality, ………
This issue may be a glimpse into a {self delete} future for America.
8 RedPepper // Mar 19, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Are you familiar with the writer Roger L. Simon ?
He’s penned an interesting piece on his reaction to Obama’s speech …
9 Just Ranting // Mar 19, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Happy Birthday, Hawkeye. May you have at least twice as many happy healthy ones.
healthful hazards…not having a spotting partner in the weight room perhaps?
10 upnorthlurkin // Mar 19, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Seriocomic - from the last thread….you’re good! Though I’m not sure Cindy’s waistbands can stand many more hunger strikes…..seems she gained weight on her last one!!
Libby - a candidate cannot win without the white cracker vote…Obama’s got some damage control to do in that area. Not all white males are as forgiving as some we all know…..
wv Parle esthetic…..why does this word verification thing pick on me all the time?! If I can’t use it in Scrabble they shouldn’t be able to use it either!!
11 upnorthlurkin // Mar 19, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Red Pepper - wow!
12 Darthmeister // Mar 19, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Messiah Obama’s New Lexicon of the American Language
“God D@&% America” - in some black churches the phrase actually means, “God d@&% America is a great place to live, it beats living in Africa and getting whacked with machetes by tribal competitors.”
“Jew bloodsuckers” - borrowed from the Black Muslim faith a la Louis Farrakhan. It actually means, “Liberal Jews are our friends, but Jewish capitalists are the bane of man’s existence, just ask Hitler and the other Nazi National Socialists.”
“Liberation Theology” - God’s update Gospel given to mankind through the prophet Karl Marx. Also known as Khristian Marxism. Originally popular among progressive Catholic priests in Central America who supported the communist Daniel Ortega and his Sandinistas.
“HIV was a genocidal conspiracy by Whites against Blacks” - Actually a phrase of endearment showing how some black leaders like Reverend (sic) Wright believe
honkiescrackerswhites are very enterprising people.Has Global Warming Taken a Breather?
Buwahahahahahahahaha. Consensus science indeed!
13 Darthmeister // Mar 19, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Happy Birfday, Haweye. Hope they can fit all the candles on the sheet cake!
14 Darthmeister // Mar 19, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Er, that’s HAWKEYE! Sheesh.
Hadn’t known you were getting senior discounts for the last year.
15 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 19, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Oh, oh, oh, me to , me to
Happy Birthday Hawkeye, but I betchya you ain’t older than me (yet).
wv: superbaby this-ya baby
16 camojack // Mar 19, 2008 at 7:03 pm
How anyone claiming to be a pastor can string God and damn together (in public, no less!) is beyond me…but maybe he doesn’t understand the meaning of the word blasphemy.
Or much else, for that matter…
17 gafisher // Mar 19, 2008 at 7:19 pm
camojack Re#16: “Or much else, for that matter…”
He understands how to whip up a mob.
18 camojack // Mar 19, 2008 at 7:28 pm
gafisher // Mar 19, 2008 at 7:19 pm
He understands how to whip up a mob.
Should I clarify my statement?
Maybe he doesn’t understand the meaning of the word blasphemy…or much else (of God’s will), for that matter.
OK?!
19 PanamaRed // Mar 19, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Ok, if we have to beat this dead horse some more, look at it this way. If Barrak H. Obama didn’t like what he heard from his pastor, he could have left. Given that he didn’t certainly gives the impression that he liked and approved of what he heard or had no spine to question what was said from the pulpit.
Now, we are asked to take on faith that Barrak was not a believer of what his pastor said, even though he maintains that said pastor was a ‘dear friend’ for 20 years, but those words were just euphemistically uttered to describe the frustration of the black people against the ’system of entrenched racism’ of white America against the black victims of this policy.
To accept this, one compares what Barrak said about his grandmother’s fears of approaching black men and her fear of them to nearly identical words by another Reverend, Jesse Jackson about his relief to turn and see a white man following him at night as opposed to a black man. Following that revelation, Barrak acknowleges that his grandmother used racist terms and epithets that he was ashamed of, yet I will wager as a white woman raising a black child, she was subjected to both by whites and blacks as well. To denounce her for uttering what could have been common usage in her life of perjorative terms for both races, why does (or did) it surprise Barrak who must have borne witness to the cause of what was said? Of all people, should he not been given an insightful look into both sides of bigotry and racism or did the passing of his grandmother let him choose to move to the black view of oppression and race forgetting what he saw as a young boy?
No, you have a politician willing to tell, with the aid of a willing media, thathe can no more disown his pastor in the same breath as he disowned his grandmother. Barrak has become the politician willing to profess lofty ideals, yet deliberately asking the people he addresses to not see or think of those ideals that tarnish each polished word he speaks. God forgive me, but I would trust Hillary before I would Barrak, simply because Hillary has her views out front, but also because the history of blacks in the Clinton Administration was small in proportion to that of President Bush’s and Hillary must maintain a like for blacks because the Democrat party relies on them for votes with promises of largesse from the coffers of the country while Barrak promises nothing but ‘hope’ and ‘change’ and manages to get a majority of the black vote as well as white democrats who dislike Hillary and, I believe, want to be a part of history regardless of the price to be paid down the road.
Barrak’s color means nothing to me. Honesty, integrity, experience in dealing with greater challenges than what position one has at any one time concern me far more than skin color. Until that happens, Barrak is just another slick talking politician willing to say anything to get elected, but I guess that its so easy is not his fault, but ours for our laziness about voting for what is in our best interests and not our countrys. Pity we have so much that we think we can never lose it all.
20 mindknumbed kid // Mar 19, 2008 at 10:18 pm
The Wright reverend is all wrong, but that sounds a bit judgmental on my part. I guess it must be one of those gray areas that I just don’t understand too well.
21 Fred Sinclair // Mar 19, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Re #12: The global warming link provided contained what surely must be the writers attempt at satire: “Global warming doesn’t mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming.”
That is the precise lack of logic set forth by the liberals when an anticipated increase in some entitlement program of 6% is reset to 5.5%, it is immediately denounced by the liberals in Congress (with amply gratuitous support bwo the MSM) as an attack on the part of the opposition to slash the budget of that entitlement, when in fact the entitlement has not been cut at all. Only the rate of increase has been slightly lowered.
“….a period of less rapid warming.? my left foot!
Heirborn Ranger
22 mindknumbed kid // Mar 19, 2008 at 10:21 pm
PanamaRed - Are you sure the politicians don’t really mean all of those things that they say? If this is true I may lose my faith in them….
23 mig // Mar 20, 2008 at 4:21 am
Its’ just to obvious that if Wright were white and saying those same things about any non-white racial group he would be strung up without a defense as it should be,. Wright is not white so he can say these things and people might whisper and shake thier heads but no more than that.
Thanks to all that voted for Patti P, she is in first place. Keep up the good work!
24 Hawkeye // Mar 20, 2008 at 6:11 am
Prettyold #2,
Yes indeed. I had my steak at home, thanks to my wonderful wife…
Thanks also to:
- Just Ranting
- Darthmeister
- Ms RightWing, Ink
Darth,
Yeah, I’m a card-carrying member of AARP (but don’t tell anybody that I’m working more… and enjoying it less).
Ms RW,
Not yet, but I’m working on it.
is benefiting — Who I wonder?
25 prettyold // Mar 20, 2008 at 8:43 pm
mig #23, that is the part that worries me . They didn’t just whisper and shake their heads, they shouted Amen ,Hallelujah,Yes Yes and applauded ,and they Laughed.
Where are the Moderate Black People ? I know they are supposed to be out there,just as the Moderate Muslims are supposed to be out there.I would just like to know where they all are and whay aren’t they speaking up ?In fact ,I’ve only heard the “Usual Suspects” say anything about it. Jackson ,Sharpton etal.
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