Wright “Coming After” Obama?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Religion
Looks like he’s suggesting he’ll try to bend the ear of his former parishioner to sway policy decisions. And Obama can’t be too happy about that.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that he will try to change national policy by “coming after†Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president.The pastor also insisted Obama “didn’t denounce†him and “didn’t distance himself†from Wright’s controversial remarks, but “did what politicians do.â€
Wright implied Obama still agrees with him by saying: “He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was [portrayed as] anti-American.â€
Wright, who was Obama’s pastor for 20 years and performed his wedding, made the explosive comment during a chaotic question-and-answer session at the National Press Club in Washington, following the pastor’s remarks about the black church in America.
“I said to Barack Obama last year, ‘If you get elected, November the 5th I’m coming after you, because you’ll be representing a government whose policies grind under people,’ Wright said.
Asked whether he believes that “America is still damned in the eyes of God,” Wright was unapologetic about his sermon. He recalled that he told Obama last year, “If you get elected, November the 5th I’m coming after you, because you’ll be representing a government whose policies grind under people.”Wright continued: “It’s about policy, not the American people. . . . God doesn’t bless everything. God condemns something. . . . God damns some practices. And there is no excuse for the things that the government, not the American people, have done. That doesn’t make me not like America, or unpatriotic.”
While his arguments aren’t necessarily wrong (see every single right-wing argument about the sanctity of life), if Wright was looking to aid Obama by explaining his remarks further, well, this wasn’t the way to do it.
Unfortunately it’s now up to Barack to correct the record yet again and make sure people know Wright will have zero influence over his policy decisions.
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April 28th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Poor Obama. At this point he’s got Hillary Clinton, John McCain and, now, the screaming Jeremiah Wright coming after him. He doesn’t have a chance.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Not only is Jeremiah Wright claiming that his spiritual apprentice Barack Obama is a typical politician who deceives the public in order to get elected (not quite the “new type of politics” Obama has promised), he is also telling us that the genetic components of intelligence, as well as brain structure, are inherently different between blacks and whites. Get a load of this:
“Africans have a different meter, and Africans have a different tonality… Europeans have seven tones, Africans have five. White people clap differently than black people. European and European-American children have a right-brained cognitive, object-oriented learning style…Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style,â€
He keeps saying different is not deficient, but I wonder which one, in his opinion, he likes better. Or a better question, How does half-white, half-black Barry learn from this controversy? What side of the brain does it take to disown this idiot completely?
April 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Yes, his pastor of 20 years, that he considers family, that married him and his wife, that baptized his 2 daughters, that help him get elected to Ill. Senate and then the U.S. Senate, with a +30 years under his belt of radical political activism, who refused to denounce even given the level bat-shit crazy rhetoric…
Will have absolutely NO influence!! Zero. The American peope will definitely need the audacity of hope on that one.
April 28th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Jimmy, thank you for making my week. That is one of the funniest things I’ve seen…ever. Or at least, since MW seriously thought he might be debating against a highschooler.
I would love to see “subject-oriented”/right-brain education in the field of say physics. Example: Kobe jumping over a moving car. So Justin, if jumping over a moving car was a form of “subject-oriented”/right-brain education — let’s say, a lesson on gravity — as opposed to a Nike commercial — would that be okay with you?
I have come to love Rev. Wright — he is quit frankly a great American — yes, stupid and insulting, but a great American nonetheless.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Accountability!!!!!!!!!! All Americans should keep their government accountable!!!! The press hasn’t done it with this idiot president. MSM hasn’t done it. Maybe we need civic/religious leaders to shine the bright daylight onto the actions of American Foreign Policy!!!! Are you proud of this Iraq occupation? Or any of the US of A’s imperialistic foreign actions. Somolia? Panama? Viet Nam? Afganistan?
Fight them there????? Are you kidding me…. ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG
April 28th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I’m glad he’s talking, takes a lot of the bite out of the image the MSM has created around him.
Jimmy and Dos are of course throwing a party over the words, but are forgetting that this won’t affect Obama negatively, all the fallout from the Wright issue has already happened, Wright coming across as a person, a kooky person with some controversial views, but still a person is actually a plus for Obama. The biggest weapon the Right had on Obama is Wright, but now he’s defusing it himself by running around in the media
April 28th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Avinash – I’m one of those right-brain subject-oriented learners…so I couldn’t quit read the words that you wrote…could use post a .wav file with a series of clicks, clucks and whistles so that I can understand you, maybe sometype of tribal fire dance will help me also…
I’m sure the Dept. of Education will fully endorse the “readin’ and writ’in just ain’t natural for blacks” educational philosophy.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
You just proved my point, the whole thing has passed from anger at his words into satire and farce. People are no longer caring as much, and the more he keeps this up the better it will be for Obama in the end. I hope he keeps talking about how he’s coming after Obama.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
You write:
Uhhh…are you serious? I don’t think that was the suggestion, nor do I think that’s a fair interpretation. Rather, it seems pretty obvious that Wright was saying that he’d be critical of Obama.
*sigh*
April 29th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Yes…but to what end? Could it be, oh…I don’t know…in order to ultimately sway policy decisions?
*sigh* indeed
April 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Ah – the “audacity of wishful thinking”.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:35 am
This whole blog should be renamed the “Audicity of Wishful Thinking” – unfortunately hope tends to dilute reality. Obama is hurting – he is running a huge risk think he can ride out the clock. Dems are going to implode into a straight out civil war, there will be blood. Mark the Dos’ words — this is the perfect storm.