I am no prude, and I don’t regularly attend church, but this pastor’s tapes absolutely floored me. I am used to far left rhetoric (working at a university) but this was absolutely disgusting. I have also attended the First AME Church in LA, and it did not resemble in the least this screed. The maniacal glee and venom and sex talk with which Wright attacked America and Hillary and even Bill–”he did us like he did Monica Lewinsky, riding dirty”–will echo across the country for years to come.

No rational person will vote for Obama, a man who sat and listened and approved raw hate, hate, hate. In a house of worship!! What is Wright saying when he thinks no one is listening?!

“The black church is probably the only space in America where black men can have unquestioned authority,” he said.

This might be problematic for Obama as he seeks to become the most powerful leader of the free world…a job where unquestioned authority is absolutely essential. On so many levels its time for Obama to shop for a new ’spiritual advisor’.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/profiles/chi-070121-relig_wright,0,5184608.story?page=1&coll=chi_news_custom_religion_promo

“I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe here. Why is everyone talking about this race as if a 2000 lb bomb hasn’t exploded in the middle of it? If the media actually gets around to covering it, this nomination fight will be measured pre-Wright and post-Wright. Obama had an uphill road already as a black man, but in light of the videos of Wright yelling “God damn America” and saying we deserved 9-11, there is no way the superdelegates can allow Obama to have the nomination. All the Republicans have to do is run videos of those sermons during the weak before the election and Larry Craig could beat Obama. This race is over.

Posted By: Albert | March 13, 2008 at 08:34 PM”

I don’t want Hillary to be the nominee but Albert’s comment still made me laugh. (Politico link here.)

I watched this on GMA. It just hit me that he stole his line from Steppenwolf’s “Pusher Man” — those old timers like me remember that song. The way he delivered it was similar.
Okay only half serious….
And for the young’uns a link to the lyrics

http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/thpshrr.html

Don’t worry. This is the kind of “viral” item that will spread on YouTube whether the lamestream media wants people to see it or not.

It’s accessible to people who don’t have a very deep knowledge of politics (everybody understands what the pastor is saying, and why it matters) and it’s controversial. By the time the election rolls around, most voters will have seen it or at least heard about it.

Obama could have found another church, a church that preaced the love of Jesus and the Gospels, not hatred for white America. He could have just not gone to church. There were options open to him; he chose to stay with Trinity and Wright even going so far as to donate $22,500.00 to Trinity in 2006.

Obama has two children. Would you stay in a chuch whose pastor preached such vile hatred to only expose your children to that kind of talk? If so, then you are no better than those who put their children in Phelp’s church.

And sorry, while Wright’s sermons are full of emotions, they are all about politics. The politics of racism.

Oprah may think she’s a worshipper, when in fact, like Obama, she is a member of her own personal cult.

Last year, she pumped the worldwide bestseller The Secret, the overwhelming success of which may have been an indicator of how ready the planet was for A Leader About Nothing. Now, she’s enrolled hundreds of thousands in an online metaphysical education course based on the some whoozat guru’s book A New Earth. Scripture? It’s too restrictive, divisive, and boring by itself. Echkardt Tolle is like Religion Helper.

And make no mistake about it; nobody — be it a civilian or a politician or a celebrity — gets on the Oprah show without drinking and regurgitating the Oprah Juice of touchy-feely feel-good positivity. She can no longer deal with people who don’t. To wit: Oprah had Dr. Laura Schlessinger on the show in 1998 as she promoted her book on the Ten Commandments. Throughout the show, it seemed Oprah couldn’t take Laura, and for the last ten minutes, O didn’t address her at all, speaking with members of the audience instead. One spectator gushed all over Oprah for some reason I’ve forgotten, and there was Oprah and that woman in an embrace, with Dr. Laura on stage in the background, ignored completely.

One last thing about Winfrey — Whenever she retires, she will have done so without ever interviewing the most powerful black person in the United States since 1991: Clarence Thomas. Bet on it.

Let me interject at this point that I am a black man.