Obama had better disown Wright, and fast

April 29th, 2008 at 12:45pm Chuck Sweeny

This is the weirdest Democratic presidential campaign I’ve ever seen. First, Hillary Clinton was the inevitable Democratic nominee, then she was toast because Barack Obama was the man with the “yes we can” plan.

Now, it’s Barack who’s on the ropes, and all Hillary had to do was sit back and watch.

Rather, it was Barack’s own pastor, the Rev. Jeramiah Wright, who threw Obama under the bus not once, not twice, but three times over the weekend , in a series of speeches that prove the guy is about three bricks short of a load.

Wright claims it’s the “black” church that’s under attack. What “black” church? Now, I’ve been to a fair number of services at black churches over the years, and I’ve heard some mighty dynamic sermons. There are a number of worship styles in so-called black churches, same as so-called white churches.

(Although 11 a.m. Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour in America, there are in Rockford at least a couple of churches that are multiracial, the chief among them being Faith Center, pastored by Don Lyon.)

Of all the sermons I’ve heard in  my life, I’ve never heard anything like the anti-American, paranoid rantings of the Rev. Wright. And I’m not talking about the 7-second sound bytes heard over and over on Sean Crapity.

To get the whole picture of the man, I  listened to Wrights’ entire speech at the NAACP, and his entire presentation to the National Press Club. And, I watched the entire interview with Bill Moyers. Conclusion: Wright is so far out of the mainstream with his anti-American conspiracy views (the government created AIDS to kill black folk, we’re the United States of KKK America, his belief that God damned America)  that if Obama does not strongly rebuke, reprimand, disown him and leave his church, his candidacy is  effectively over. If it isn’t already.

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