From Jake Tapper's blog at ABC News:
Obama's controversial former pastor [Jeremiah Wright] was defiant as he spoke to a room packed with non-journalistic supporters [at the National Press Club], defending himself, dismissing Obama's criticism of him as mere political expedience, and jokingly offering himself as a vice presidential prospect. He clearly was not doing Obama any favors, not only by reappearing before a ravenous media thus distracting from Obama's attempt to relate better to white working class voters in Indiana and North Carolina, but by implying Obama's condemnation of some of his sermons was not sincere...
...On his contention that the U.S. government had created AIDS as a method of committing genocide against African-Americans, Wright referred to a hotly-disputed 1996 book "Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional?" by Leonard G Horowitz, which contends that AIDS and the Ebola viruses evolved during cancer experiments on monkeys.
..."I believe our government is capable of anything."
Except fighting a war in Iraq, right?
(Drum roll and cymbal crash)
What a completely unhinged kook. And this was Obama's pastor for 20 years?
The Company You Keep, indeed.
I'm not quite sure what drunk driver and Republican-hater Bill Moyers was doing giving a softball interview to that Racist, America-Hating Preacher last week. Was Moyers trying to make Obama look more centrist by attempting to buff the edges a bit? Thanks to Jeremiah Wright's National Press Club speech this week it looks like Wright is going to continue to crash his car, but this time to make Obama look bad because that half honkey nigga ain't stayin' on da plantation ans ain't gots my back!
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ReplyDeleteCareful there State. An attack on him is an attack on the black church, dontcha know.
ReplyDeleteI attend a predominantly white church with a few black members. I guess I belong to the white church.
Or maybe "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28 NIV)
But I guess I'm the crazy one who is clearly racist for believing there shouldn't be such separations within the church, and such needless labels like 'African-American' or 'black' are divisive and not descriptive. (shrugs shoulders)