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Wright to Offer Prayer Rebuttal at Democrat Convention

by Scott Ott · 58 Comments

(2008-05-01) — The Democrat National Committee (DNC) announced today it would allow the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Official Disavowed Pastor of the Obama for America campaign, to deliver the “invocation rebuttal” at the party’s convention in Denver this August.
“After the traditional opening prayer and the singing of ‘God Bless America’,” said an unnamed DNC source, [...]

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Rev. Wright: Big Oil Attacked Because It's Black

by Scott Ott · 55 Comments

(2008-04-02) — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, retired pastor to Sen. Barack Obama, said today that politicians “are getting after Big Oil because it’s black,” noting that “you don’t hear nobody talking smack like that on Big Milk.”
The Rev. Wright said he came out of seclusion to make the remarks out of concern that substantive [...]

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Rev. Wright Apologizes to Rich, White 'Jesus Killers'

by Scott Ott · 93 Comments

(2008-03-21) — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, today attempted to quell the furor over his racially-charged preaching by apologizing to “rich, white people”, whom he had blamed for killing Jesus, and noting that “if Jesus was a poor, black man, then so was his betrayer, Judas Iscariot, as well as the poor, black Jewish mob that [...]

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Tags: Politics · Theology

Poll: Preacher Calms Dem Fears of Obama's Faith

by Scott Ott · 25 Comments

(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 [...]

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Obama Ends Bid to Become 1st Black President

by Scott Ott · 13 Comments

(2008-03-18) — Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, in what was billed by his campaign as a “major speech on race” in Philadelphia today shocked the Democrat party by announcing he has abandoned his bid to become the nation’s first black president.
“After a lot of prayer and conversations with my wife and Pastor Jeremiah Wright,” said Sen. [...]

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