Patterico's Pontifications

3/29/2008

A Warm Reception for Jeremiah Wright

Filed under: 2008 Election — DRJ @ 1:50 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Barack Obama has likened Jeremiah Wright to an old uncle who is out of step with the times, but the parishioners at a South-side Chicago Roman Catholic church think Wright is A-OK:

“The Rev. Jeremiah Wright got a raucous standing ovation when he entered Saint Sabina church on the city’s South Side on Friday night, according to video from WBBM-TV. Members yelled “Hallelujah!” as Wright embraced The Rev. Michael Pfleger, Saint Sabina’s pastor.

The smiling Wright accepted an invitation to give the benediction at the Roman Catholic church but did not address the furor over his past sermons.”

NOTE: According to this report, it sounds like the TV station was at the church to cover Maya Angelou’s appearance at the church to celebrate her birthday. The minister invited Wright because Wright is a fan of Angelou.

— DRJ

15 Responses to “A Warm Reception for Jeremiah Wright”

  1. Dana Carvey’s Church Lady speaks for me on this one.

    I think that this mess will cost Obama FAR more than it should. And notice how Wright doesn’t care about that.

    I think that Wright cares about Wright, not what is right.

    Eric Blair (2708f4)

  2. I think it’s kinda funny. I mean, the guy cancels all his scheduled appearances and then has to actually sneak into a church unannounced. And then there’s the courageous Obama. He was so terrified to go to church on the holiest day of the Christian faith, he left the country.

    jimboster (364ef3)

  3. Ugh.

    “It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.”

    SteveMG (f9b0ae)

  4. Birds of a feather, flock together…and the TUCC and St. Sabina virtually 100% black (with a Socialist white pastor) and the very socialist/communist inspired congregation.. fit neatly with Rev. Wright.

    Red winged blackbirds, whose mating calls are nearly indistinguishable and also closely related to Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

    So, it should not be surprising that Sen. Obama’s closest advisors, staff, friends and associates all seem to fly in formation when heading South Chicago for the winter.

    Nation of Islam members Cynthia Miller and Jennifer Mason are but two folks who have held high ranking Obama staffing positions.

    (making the very, very late distancing from Louis Farrakhan a bit disingenuous, to say the least)

    The red flags associated with Obama’s inner circle does not begin and end with the Theo-political grindings of Farrakhan, Wright, Otis Moss, or Pfleger.

    There is also the red diaper baby, Robert Malley…whose father, a Syrian cum Egyptian domicile…was thrown out of France…..FRANCE!…for being so wildly pro-Communist and anti-American, anti-Israel.

    Malley, a noted apologist for Palestinian terrorists and a Brzezinski lapdog in his “blame the Jews” stances, is but one of the many red diaper babies that Obama has surrounded himself with.

    While Samantha Power is also a blame Israel, Harvard hothead…she is but a pimple on the festering boils of Socialism/Communism/Anarchism inside the Obama inner circle.

    His flirtation with Bernadette Dorhn and William Ayers is stronger and deeper than meets the eye. The weathermen underground bombers are fellow board members with Obama.

    His fringe associations don’t end there. Obama has a strong attachment to the furthest left extremes of this country and his comfort with their positions is reflected not only in his votes in the Senate, but in his personal choices as well.

    While Carter has shown his pan-Arab colors repeatedly (and brother Billy, while not peeing on the lawn…was collecting money hand over fist from them)…Sen. Obama has spent most of his adult lifetime embracing the folks who are the most virulent anti-American, anti-Israel leftists in the country.

    What do Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Wright, TUCC congregation, St. Sabina congregation, Malley, Power, Anthony Lake, Brzezinski, Carter, Dohrn, Ayers, Tony Rezco….all have in common?

    Very strong apologists for Arab terrorism, very strong negative feelings toward Israel, very leftist leanings.

    I have zero interest in becoming a socialist country. I have zero interest in abandoning Israel as a friend and ally. I am not swayed by pretty words, I would like to pull back the Iron Curtain and see who is pulling the levers.

    Red flags abound. If you are not a braindead leftist…it’s time to tell them to get the flock out of here.

    cfbleachers (4040c7)

  5. “St. Sabina virtually 100% black (with a Socialist white pastor)”

    Who affects black preaching style and is, with respect to the Catholic hierarch, a maverick, to use a favorite euphemism of the left.

    Jim C. (d32322)

  6. The good Rev. Pfleger is a white version of Rev. Wright. He is also very close to Calypso Louis, who he has had speak at the church. He has had Harry Belafonte address the congregation about why the U.S. was responsible for 9/11. He also has had noted race pimp Al Sharpton preach a number of times. A man of peace, he has threatened violence to gun shop owners and those supporting gun ownership rights. Very lovely man, I’m sure he does much good in the community.

    daleyrocks (906622)

  7. Patrick, I thought I left a comment on Saint Sabina earlier today this doesn’t seem to be here. That’s odd.

    MIke K (86bddb)

  8. Sorry, Patrick, it was over at Festering Swamp. Saint Sabina is well known in Chicago for a radical priest like the one Simon and Garfunkel sang about years ago. It is notorious in Chicago.

    MIke K (86bddb)

  9. Here’s my new bumper sticker::

    G*d Damn Amer-kkk-a – Obama 08

    Catchy, huh?

    red (9e9332)

  10. Why isn’t anyone doing a story on how all of the recent stuff with Barack’s PASTOR will affect his chance of becoming president?
    The republican party will use every bit of REV. WRIGHT’s stuff against BARACK OBAMA if he is picked to represent the Democratic party….
    There are VIDEOS .. Church papers…They wont have to work very hard with any of it.. It is bad enough without digging much ..
    All of this is a dream come true for KARL ROVE and his Republican buddies..
    Look at what they did with the SWIFT-BOAT stuff ….
    It could mobilize the GOP base and possibly affect the swing voters like the Swift-Boat attacks did ..
    Karl Rove and the others who are behind the scenes will have a field day…
    It will make the SWIFT-BOAT attacks look like kids stuff ..
    I am amazed no one has questioned why the republicans seem to be working so hard to get BARACK in as the DEMOCRATIC nominee, on certain FOX and CNN news programs it is all that the pundits seem to be doing, while making sexist mean remarks about Senator Clinton….
    For a while I didn’t understand why, and I kept thinking to myself “Wow, do these guys hate Hillary Clinton that much, or the idea of a female President, that they could actually be pushing Barack Obama to be the nominee of the democratic party?”
    And then one day I heard a couple of republican pundits on one of the cable news programs mention that all Rev. Wright’s stuff should be used against Barack Obama if he got the nomination and it was like a “AH HAAAAA” moment for me. That was it .. !!
    It would seem to be a DREAM come true for the republican party, not only Barack’s inexperience and youth, there is also his way of always taking the highroad and not fighting back when politically attacked, then there is the Rezco guy and his story, and now, the ICING on the CAKE, and probably the most damaging of all Rev. Wright and his hate-filled racist ranting from the pulpit, not only on video but also posted in church papers ..
    If the Democrats truly want to have a chance at the WHITE HOUSE … They have got to think with their heads and not their hearts….
    Who can and will win? Who has the most stuff that can and will be used against them by the republican nominee and party?

    Donna (d671ab)

  11. “He was so terrified to go to church on the holiest day of the Christian faith, he left the country.”

    Maybe Easter means nothing to him.

    “The republican party will use every bit of REV. WRIGHT’s stuff against BARACK OBAMA if he is picked to represent the Democratic party….”

    Not if McCain has anything to do with it. Remember, he has a guy on his team who will flee if Obama is the opposition and he just placed a liberal in charge of the Republicaan Convention.

    davod (5bdbd3)

  12. “…They have got to think with their heads and not their hearts….:

    The Dems can think? Who knew?
    I thought all they could do was “feel” and emote.

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  13. Thats nothing i mean YASSIR ARAFAT and FIDEL CASTRO get standing ovations from the miserble UN deligates we just as soon deport them all including wright and all his scumball fans

    krazy kagu (10add8)

  14. When a white person talks like that racist pastor all the whiney blacks pop up and won’t shutup until they get what they want!! The only people with a race problem are the people of the black race! Maybe they should spend more time teaching their kids a hard work ethic instead of how to create more babies, one of the few things they do well besides looting and comitting crimes!!!

    Dan Moe (a4a11f)

  15. The most racist of races is coming to light ….. for the world to see!

    Chris (13fd32)


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