Back Talk

New releases of racist anti-white speeches by Obama’s minister, Jeremiah Wright, whom Obama has taken on as a member of his campaign team. Correspondent Mike Gallagher on the minister: “Wright is radical racist, an angry, vicious little man who blamed America for 9/11 and said we should say God Damn America, not God Bless America.” Wright said that the white man intentionally put AIDS into the Black community, and keeps the Black man down so he can more easily control him. He said one of the white man’s goals is to “keep the third world in grinding poverty.” Obama has few options to answer this so he is making the political, however unpersuasive, one that he didn’t hear any of the racist diatribes in all the 20 years he has been attending the sermons – that he doesn’t agree with everything Wright said. Wright’s ugly remarks were not made last week; he has been raging like this in his sermons and has appeared in heated TV debates for 20 years. Obama’s statement that he heard none of this wild ranting is too much of a credibility stretch. An Obama supporter said, “For perspective, I certainly do not agree with everything the pastor said every Sunday.” That’s a bit like saying Hitler was wrong about some things, but he built some great roads in Germany. How is Obama going to convince anyone, other than the blindly dedicated, that he should be the leader of all of America’s people after he sat and listened to those racist sermons every Sunday for 20 years, called Wright “his mentor,” his “spiritual advisor,” and took him on to help run his campaign?