Say what you want but if my pastor began to talk politics at the podium I would be out of that church in a heartbeat. I go to church to worship and learn about my lord, not to hear any one man’s political ideology.

My pastor preaches of love and forgiveness in our church every Sunday. A black person could sit next to me and feel welcomed and loved by me, my family and the congregation as well as the message being delivered. I shudder to think of how I would feel in Rev Wrights church as he spewed his hateful racist anti American ideas at me.

It makes me wonder if I sat next to Obama in his church, would he smile and hug me as a Christian brother? Or would he take pity on me and tell me that I do not want to hear what his pastor is about to say? Somehow, I feel that his most likely response would be to politely excuse himself and shuffle his family off to another seat, securely next to a black family.

Racism is racism. It doesn’t matter what color it’s being dealt from.

This nonsense about Obama and his Pastor reflects how blind people are to the contradiction between the standards they apply to others and what they think is OK for themselves. According to the people who judge Barack Obama harshly for not throwinga his pastor under the bus, I should have dissociated myself from my best friend who believed and spread the idiotic conspiracy theory that the Clintons murdered Vince Foster. According to them, James Carville and Mary Matelin should break up a happy marriage because when it comes to politics, there’s hardly anything one says that the other doesn’t consider offensive.

Thankfully, that’s not the world most of us live in. We all have friends or relatives or business associates who think and say things we consider crazy and obnoxious. We disagree, we argue, sometimes things may get heated, but we do not cut them out of our lives for their beliefs. That would contradict what virtually all of us agree on as Americans about the value of uncensored thought and the right to express it.

The black and white ideological worlds of the internet and talk radio may be about forming circles of acquaintances around identical beliefs to fortify each other’s certainty and inflate each other’s self-esteem. But in the real world people are less predictable and human relationships more complex. In the real world, we bond with people we don’t necessarily agree with about everything, and very few of us would break those bonds just because a loved one believed or said something that offended us, even about politics, God or country. And I for one am grateful for a politician who, for a change, is talking honestly about his life in that real world that I can relate to.

Obama’s wife comment.” first time proud of been an America” any evidence of Rev Wright brainwashingR

I for one did not fall for Obama’s speech. That’s all that man has is a speech. His actions show otherwise. He is lying through his teeth just to get elected. He’s saying what the American people want to hear. But again his ACTIONS show otherwise.

I do not want this man as my President. Nor do I want Michelle Obama as the First Lady, they obviously have a problem with the United States of America. They’ve proven that with the remarks of Michelle Obama and staying at that church for 20 years where Rev. Wright spewed anti-american rehtoric.

I also know that a lot of Americans have a problem with Hillary Clinton whether it be because they just don’t want a woman as President or because of her husband or that they just don’t like her. But look at what she offers, she truly loves America and all the people that are in it, she wants better for us and she’s worked hard in her lifetime for all Americans, black, white, latinos and others. Her plans are smart and thoughtful and can bring real progress. She is one tough woman and doesn’t take any crap, and can handle any crap that gets thrown at her. After all these years she’s still standing and she’s still strong. Give her a chance, open your minds and look what she has to offer before bashing her.

I am voting for Hillary because I trust her, and I believe her, she isn’t racist as people like to think, most of what was said about her came from the Obama camp, to paint her as a racist. She’s done a lot for the african american community so did Bill Clinton.

Everyone wants change and for some reason think Obama can bring that. When you ask how, they say he can bring people together, well if that’s the case why are we all so divided now at this campaign season? He has divided us, blacks against whites, why hasn’t he done anything in the Senate to bring republicans and democrats together while serving his term? All this man has is a speech, and contraversial people on his side, he has done nothing in my opinion to show that he can actually do anything but make speeches.

While it shouldn’t take a lengthy condemnation of his very own grandmother to do it, perhaps by now most Americans will realize that Mr. Obama is not and never has been a Christian, despite his assertions that he is.

The senator’s “church,” the “Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago,” isn’t actually a church devoted to Jesus Christ.

Oh sure, they get tax exempt status like most churches. But they are part of the larger “United Church of Christ,” an activist organization that couldn’t care less what Jesus said, did - or died for. Read about them yourself, if you have any doubts.

As pointed out by Senator Obama himself in his own book, the main reason he initially joined it was due to its size, having the largest Black congregation in Chicago (so as to secure their votes in his rise up the political ladder). He wasn’t interested in any Scriptures. He even dissed the Book of Romans when recently trying to justify his stand on civil unions (which he is for, while against gay marriage, if that is even possible).

The real test, however, is love. Or in this case, the lack of it.

Christians are taught to not hate anyone, for any reason. Like the rest of us, they are human and will err. But hatred is to be shunned, in all its forms, at every opportunity, however difficult. It is the fundamental principal of Christianity; to love God, to love your brother, your neighbor and even to love your enemies.

Spending just a few minutes with anyone spewing as much vile as the “good Dr. Wright” would send any half-authentic Christian in the other direction. Actually, such an encounter would send them home to pray for Dr. Wright and his ilk. Pray they might someday “see the light,” and the great dark void in their empty, little hearts.

Because Senator Obama has let twenty years slip by without taking one, solitary step in the other direction, and instead has actually taken his own children to personally hear Dr. Wright’s ranting, raving and railing against America (no wonder so many angry felons are Black), he is no more “Christian” than his toilet, which is precisely where his campaign needs to go.

It is deplorable that he fancies himself a “Christian.” He doesn’t know the meaning of the word, literally and otherwise.

While I do not agree with the pastors words, I also think it is ignorant to believe that the he sat through twenty years of hateful sermons.

If he did then we would have been bombarded with more than a 15 second clip of hateful words. The media obviously couldn’t find more than 15 second clip in twenty years, so my mind says that the rest of the twenty years were not hateful sermons.

So, I did my homework and checked out some of the pastors other speeches and I was right, there is nothing there. It’s a shame we believe the media and have allowed ourselves to be part of their “witch hunt”. I for one am smart enough to research, before making such hateful remarks about someone.

Bet Obama agree in his 20 year pastors receiving his last award too!!!!!

20 years-I wonder if he still does dope before he speaks….use granny….to get out of heat…..I just wonder whom he is listening to now???Castro..Iran president….his dad…..Obama what a bigot you became and I’m neither white nor black, I’m just a good old US of A citizen…..

Americans can no longer trust the agenda driven media (especially those who are so far to the left such as Keith Olbermann of MSNBC) to present the truth. Voters must begin to ask many questions of Barack Obama who is attempting to win the White House in 2009. We MUST begin to ask “who is Barack Obama?”

The following excerpt is from Obama’s book titled Dreams from My Father; “I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets.”

Obviously, aside from Obama’s current esoteric position about transcending race- the important question is “why surround your self with Marxist professors? Simply put- Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. How does this relate to America, which is based upon Capitalism through individual freedom.

Therefore, who would Obama as President surround himself with for advisors? Would it be the Marxist Socialists from the Left? Or worse?

Obama just didn’t join any church- he intentionally joined a “militant black nationalist one.” Rev. Wright preaches a “black” gospel or “Black Liberation Theology” in the black community. It is the same Marxist/Communist, revolutionary, humanistic philosophy found in South American Liberation Theology and has no more claim for a scriptural basis than it did in South America.

Therefore, it should be no surprise why Obama chose the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to join his campaign for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. It should be no surprise why Barack and Michelle Obama chose Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ 20-years ago. When Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks he reflects the mind-set of his congregation, which includes Michelle and Barack Obama. People attend houses of worship, which make them feel comfortable.

It is no secret Rev. Jeremiah Wright courts utterly immoral people (i.e., Farrakhan and Momar Kadafi) who hold anti-Semitic, anti-white prejudges and Marxist/Communist beliefs which are un-American and ungodly. The question is not should Obama be judged by his pastor’s comments for the past 20 years- but, are Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright inseparable in belief, theology and philosophy?

How could Obama and his wife sit in a church pew for 20 years and listen to ANTI-AMERICAN “sermons” from a Marxist/Communist sympathizer and not want to hear these ungodly words? This is not just an issue of racist remarks. It is an issue of Obama posing as the successor to JFK and MLK, but in reality he (Obama) being the Pied Piper singing his sweet eloquent sounding words as he leads this great country to disaster.

The Democratic Party leadership along with the American voters need to think about the consequences before continuing down this road of supporting Barack Obama.

JN in NY

we have praised george washington for over 200 years and he is a slave owner. does that mean all of us believe in slavery?
we praised thomas jefferson and he owned slaves too. should we denounce him as well?
we have a holiday for christopher columbus and he committed genocide in the western hemisphere.
lincoln thought whites are superior to blacks. does that mean anyone who likes lincoln is supporting that ideal?
this is silly. obama is a good man. if you don’t like his policies, so be it. but to put the views of his minister on him, is craziness. people are looking for an excuse to hate him. people say if wright were white, obama would have left that church. he would have never have joined and no white minister is capable of saying those things. the black experience, i hate to advise you, is different from the white experience.