You’d be surprised who defended Rev. Wright before Moyers’ interview on PBS – Mike Huckabee, Hilary Clinton’s pastor in Little Rock, as well as Her Former Church in Washington DC. Read below.

1.Already on March 19, Obama’s former pastor was defended by Mike Huckabee, an arch-conservative Republican opponent who also said the controversy will not be a problem for Obama in November. Mike Huckabee is on a short list for McCain’s VP, so we can keep him on his word Do see it on You Tube (huckabee wright).
2.On the same day, the Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, posted a Statement in defense of Rev. Wright on their web site (still there today). President Clinton and First Lady attended this Church during their years in the White House. See the address below in 3.
3.On March 23 the Senior Pastor of the FoundryUMC, Dean Snyder, gives a beautiful Easter sermon where he condemns the media for their vicious clippings of Rev. Wright’s sermons and appeals for racial reconciliation. See http://www.foundryumc.org
4.Senator Clinton is still a member of the First United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and remains in touch with its former pastor Rev. Edward Matthews. In a recent 35 minutes phone interview with the New York Sun her pastor admits that he himself holds some very controversial political views, not unlike those of Rev. Wright, yet Senator Clinton remains a member. See www2.nysun.com/article/74027?page_no=1
5.On March 25, 2008 “Diverse Group of Prominent Religious Leaders Condemn Personal Attacks” in a letter to Senator Clinton. These leaders represent many faiths. You may google it by the title.
6.Fred R. Krauss of Rockford, Illinois, writes a remarkable letter to his local newspaper in which he objects to another letter of March 28 titled “Beware of Obama”. He is a retired pastor in the United Church of Christ who has served churches in Chicago, southern Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. See http://www.rrstar.
7.On April 6, 2008 Rev. Lavanhar defends the theological and prophetic implications of Rev. Wright’s preaching in his sermon “Why Jeremiah is Wright” on April 6, 2008 in the context of the experiences of the Hebrew prophets, African American patriots like Nat Turner, Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the historic black church. This is a must read. Rev. Marlin Lavanhar is the Senior Minister of Tulsa, Oklahoma All Souls Unitarian Church, a mostly white congregation. See http://www.allsoulschurch.org/
8.Check the website of your house of worship. Perhaps they defend Rev. Wright as well. Or talk to you spiritual advisor what she thinks about him. After all it concerns the freedom of speech and freedom of following one’s religion. Yours.

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Oh I see,,,, It’s all my fault because I haven’t watched the whole sermon,,,,

Well where and when can I see the whole sermon?

I’m anxious to see this majic trick where “God Damn America” suddenly comes to mean something other than “God Damn America”.

Maybe I can use that same trick so I can show my exwife how “your ass is huge” didn’t actually mean “your ass is huge”.

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Nathan, what would you think of JC Watts? Could you vote for him?

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Word,

Don’t let our newest, ignorant, hate-filled propagandist troll “unmurikan” see this. He/She will have a conniption because it prove… yet again… that his/her hateful, ignorant diatribe is just that.

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defended himself over the controversy, saying that his words were twisted.

They have not been twisted at all. They are what they are, and are representative- not out of context- of the overall message that is laced throughout his sermons.

Nathan wrote:

In the original sermon six days after 9-11, Rev. Wright quoted the statements of a former U.S. Secretary of State

Yes, because he believes the message in those words. Which is exactly why Reverend Wright was quoting from Ambassador Peck. And his “faith footnote” which is bally-hooed by Obama supporters as cherry-picked and taken out of context, is anything but taken out of context. All the “sensationalized” excerpts of his sermons underscores and are the highlights of an overall message of an Afro-Zinntric worldview of blame white Imperialist America for the ills of the world and the misfortune of non-whites.

I listened to the entire post-9/11 sermon, and Reverend Wright is painted accurately.

We need to face up to the fact that our foreign policies are racist in nature and creates new enemies for us.

2.3 trillion spent over half a century of Marshall Plans for Africa? And America’s foreign policy are “racist in nature”?!?!

Is that why President Bush has done more for blacks in Africa than any other previous president?

“I think he’s done an incredible job, his administration, on AIDS. And 250,000 Africans are on anti-viral drugs. They literally owe their lives to America. In one year that’s been done.”- Bono

” … the Bush administration is the most radical — in a positive sense — in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.”-Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof writes for Time Magazine:

I have always wondered why it was never told properly to the American people, who were paying for it. It was, for example, Bush who initiated the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with cross-party support led by Senators John Kerry and Bill Frist. In 2003, only 50,000 Africans were on HIV antiretroviral drugs — and they had to pay for their own medicine. Today, 1.3 million are receiving medicines free of charge. The U.S. also contributes one-third of the money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — which treats another 1.5 million. It contributes 50% of all food aid (though some critics find the mechanism of contribution controversial). On a seven-day trip through Africa, Bush announced a fantastic new $350 million fund for other neglected tropical diseases that can be easily eradicated; a program to distribute 5.2 million mosquito nets to Tanzanian kids; and contracts worth around $1.2 billion in Tanzania and Ghana from the Millennium Challenge Account, another initiative of the Bush Administration.

So why doesn’t America know about this? “I tried to tell them. But the press weren’t much interested,” says Bush.

And our military interventionism?

Here’s an interview of Robert Kaplan on the Hugh Hewitt radio show:

HH: You know, I want to begin in the 9th chapter of this, your second book on the American military, as you were driving out of Timbuktu, 11 hours beyond the gates of Timbuktu. Use that as a metaphor for what you were doing and why you went the places you have gone.

RK: Well, Timbuktu is not the edge of the Earth. The edge of the Earth is miles beyond Timbuktu, north into the heart of the Sahara desert. And I was with a company of American Special Forces officers, about twelve of them, all non-commissioned officers except for a captain. And you would think what is the U.S. military doing in the heart of the Sahara desert. Well, we’re not only in the heart of the Sahara desert, we’re all over the Pacific ocean, we’ll all over South America, and all this is occurring while we are fighting a war in Iraq and in Afghanistan. And what I tried to do in the course of the years in which I embedded with the military was to show the whole thing. Not to ignore Iraq, but not to be limited by it, either, because one big deployment might overstretch us like Iraq, but dozens upon dozens of smaller deployments will do no such thing. So I was with a company of American Special Forces officers who were investigating just what was in the center of the Sahara desert in terms of al Qaeda movements, humanitarian, prospects for humanitarian relief, just getting to know Africa. Because in this global world war on terrorism, really is a global war.

HH: Now you’re accompanied by, extraordinary in the course of this book, an extraordinary array of Americans, one of which on this particular trip is an Evangelical staff sergeant from Oklahoma who doesn’t want to be identified, because he doesn’t want his deeds to serve himself. I thought that was another metaphor for the extraordinary people you’ve spent the last many years with.

RK: Yeah, the people I…what I did was I didn’t report on anybody in this book. I befriended a lot of people, and revealed them to the reader as they revealed themselves to me. And the best of these people didn’t want any publicity, not because they were afraid of being written up badly, but because they were afraid of getting public recognition for anything they do. For them, the real sweet thing is to do it and not get recognition, if you can believe it. And this Evangelical staff sergeant, he drove most of the way through blistering sandstorms, he slept only six hours, which was interrupted by an hour and a half of guard duty, and he got up the next morning to fit little African children for eyeglasses as part of a civil affairs project that this Special Forces A-team was doing. And just, you know, just dealt with one child, one woman after another throughout the morning without any complaining about lack of sleep or anything.

Yet our U.S. foreign policy is the problem in the world?

As for his comments about the government injecting AIDS into the Black community, did everyone suddenly forget about the Tuskee experiments. From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. government injected Black males with syphillis and then did not allow them to get treatment. For forty years Black males were left with untreated syphillis just so we could see what would happen. The outrage has little to do with Rev. Wright and more to do with America’s inherrent racism. The bottom line is this country of ours will never ever elect a Black or Jew as President.

The U.S. did not “INJECT” black males with syphillis. They were left untreated as an experiment. Still unethical, but certainly not the spin and slander it’s been given by those who wish to find validation in their unreasonable America-hating and afrocentric racism against white America.

This is not the 1930′s. This is not the 1960′s.

This country has been ready for a non-white president for some time, now. We just need the right one to come along who is qualified.

Obama is not that man. He speaks of unity, but he is a divider. He is not his hype; he is not the trans-racial, post-ethnic candidate the wishful thinkers ache for. He is not the second coming of MLK; he is not the “black Kennedy”. “Hope” is a four letter word that appeals to emotions. Obama believes words are important. And he is correct. So looking to the substance of his words, beneath the veneer, you will see the sneer of everything that is wrong about him for America.

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Bill Moyer and PBS using our tax dollars to resurrect an unrepentant racist! What else is new?

And Nathan, you want to cite what I think we all believe was the despicable Tuskegee experiment. But do you also believe, as Rev. Wright states that “the government created the AIDS virus to destroy people of color.”

You cite WWII and say ” our foreign policies are racist in nature and creates new enemies for us. ”

Do you believe as Rev. Wright suggests that it was wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Did that create more enemies for us or did it save the lives of over one million Americans and Japanese who would otherwise have died if the U.S. would have been forced to invade the Japanese home islands?

You may be alive today (and FREE by the way) because President Truman made that painful decision to drop the atomic bomb.

You seem to be a well educated individual and it’s my guess that you probably also enjoy a fairly good standard of living which is surprising considering that Rev. Wright says “rich white people” are out to oppress blacks.

Since we are talking about history, I’d like to remind you how many hundreds of thousands of white people, both rich and poor, died to end slavery. And it was Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party that led the fight to free your ancestors.

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i think nathan speaks the reverends words much more civily, but he has the same message. i was born in 1972, don’t put that crap on me. i am tired of the african americans being far more racist than your “typical white person”, they get away with it by claiming that they have been wrong since before the sperm and the egg were joined. my fear of obama comes from him “speaking as a politician”, and not as a man.

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As an African-American and a frequent viewer of the services at Trinity, it does not surprise me the media’s distortion of Rev. Wright”s comments. In the original sermon six days after 9-11, Rev. Wright quoted the statements of a former U.S. Secretary of State stating how the U.S. Middle East policy was a contributing factor in the attacks. That the enemies we now face will not have a large army but will have individuals that would be willing to die. This is not a new strategy for it worked well in WWII as well as Viet Nam. We need to face up to the fact that our foreign policies are racist in nature and creates new enemies for us. As for his comments about the government injecting AIDS into the Black community, did everyone suddenly forget about the Tuskee experiments. From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. government injected Black males with syphillis and then did not allow them to get treatment. For forty years Black males were left with untreated syphillis just so we could see what would happen. The outrage has little to do with Rev. Wright and more to do with America’s inherrent racism. The bottom line is this country of ours will never ever elect a Black or Jew as President.

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I’m hoping we’ll get to mine Jeremiah Wright’s upcoming speech at the NAACP event in Detroit for more golden tidbits of lunacy.
What stands out most clearly to me is the last quote: “I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.” You know, I’m much one for religious debate, but I have a real problem with people who try to use the name of Christ to push a racist or political agenda; be that the Marxists in Nicaragua who tried to invent a new form of Communist based Catholicism, or the guys up in Montana and Idaho who have created themselves a church that purports divine backing for white supremacy, Black Liberation Theology also falls into this category quite squarely.
Now it’s possible I was sick that Sunday, but I never heard a sermon about how Christ gathered up his disciples and said “God damn the Roman Empire,” or claimed that the Romans were trying to spread Leprosy amongst the Jewish people, or stated that the terror Hannibal inflicted on the Roman citizenry was an example of Rome’s “chickens coming home to roost” per se.
If this guy is BHO’s spiritual guide and mentor, we’re in dire trouble if BHO takes up residence at the White House…

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Yeah, “God DAMNED America!” isn’t an unpatriotic thing to say at all. This guy’s brilliant-scary, but brilliant.

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