No other churches for Obama to pick?
At some point, in some venue, Mr. Obama is going to have to give a speech directly addressing his longtime pastor’s views and answering a simple question: Why didn’t he find another church that didn’t include a leader who so frequently engaged in such hate speech?
That’s John Fund in WSJ.com’s Political Diary, voicing my very thought in the matter. It’s been 30 years (this month, in fact) since I regularly attended church on assignment. But I must say that there have to be other South Side churches and preachers — black, white, and indifferent — that don’t demagogue the Gospel.
But O. found something he was looking for in this church that he could find in no other, we assume, and now he’s stuck with this wild-man preacher.
Look, even Catholics can pick and choose among Catholic churches. As a Protestant, O. is part of a tradition where picking and choosing got its biggest boost religion-wise.
He did not know about the man’s oratorical proclivities, he says. He wasn’t there when he said this or that. But how many sermons did O. have to miss not to catch the drift of this man, who is not a crazy uncle he inherited but a spiritual father whom he chose?
He was surprised to hear the man talks this way, as “so contrary to my own life and beliefs.” If only he had known.
And where did those worshipers come from pictured in the video cheering the pastor on? Did they pop in knowing he would uncork something big and exciting that day? Were they surprised when he talked that way?
Blithe Spirit 
It is unbelievable that Barack Obama did not know that his pastor was a racist. Church represents an extended family. Those belonging to a chuch embrace the spirit expressed by the leader of the church. During a period of 20 years Obama must have sat through countless sermons where the pastor expressed rascism, anti-Semitism, and hatred for an entire race of people. How does a person continue going to a church for 20 years if the rhetoric expressed is offensive and out of step with ones own set of beliefs? Rev. Jeremiah Wright did everything under the nose of Barack Obama. Wright’s lungs yelled out what he believed week after week.
Obama chose to join Wright’s church after he was attracted to it back in 1985. It was then that Obama met Rev. Wright. Wright told Obama that he might not wish to become associated with his church because of its radical reputation. Yet Obama joined the church and stayed with it for 20 years as a member. This could only mean one thing, that Obama and his wife feel at home in the racist church and are not uncomfortable with Wright’s teaching, knowing full well what Wright stands for. Obama must be attached to the church. It must represent a part of his belief system. As such Obama cannot leave it. Accordingly, Obama is not fit to be president of this nation. Obama represents that which divides, in contrast to his promise as one who can unite.
Obama’s chosen church has a membership of 8,500. It is rather frightening that Rev. Wright’s hate filled anti-white and anti-American rhetoric is reaching so many blacks in Chicago. I was surprised to learn that Oprah Winfrey is a member of Wright’s church.
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NOthing about the Black community in Chicago should surprise any of us too much. Have youo not heard similar stuff from other Black “leaders”?
We should not be surprised by this Preacher. What bothers me most is the enthusiasm of his congregation.
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well done, bro
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