It really amazes me that
Barack Obama supportors continue to excuse his association with Jeremiah Wright.
Last week's highly entertaining episode of the Jeremiah Wright Show didn't tell us anything new about the demagogic reverend. He stands by his sick notion that American foreign policy and jihadist terrorism are equivalent, his defense of Louis Farrakhan, and his wacky conspiracy theory that the AIDS virus was cooked up by the federal government.
But we did gain a new perspective on Wright's former parishioner, Senator Barack Obama. And it's not flattering. It took the Democratic frontrunner 20 years--and 50 days since videos surfaced of Wright's incendiary sermons--to discover that the man who helped him become a Christian, officiated at his marriage, and baptized his two daughters is a conspiracy theory-loving self-publicizer. What does that say about Obama's "judgment," on which he largely bases his claim to the presidency?
It's not Wright but Obama who has changed. He has changed his position on his former friend time and time again:
* "These days, [Obama] says, he attends the 11 a.m. Sunday service at Trinity . . . every week. . . . His pastor, Wright, has become a close confidant." (Chicago Sun-Times, April 5, 2004)
* " 'Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church.' " (Obama campaign statement reported in the New York Times, April 30, 2007)
* "[Wright] is like an old uncle who sometimes will say things I don't agree with." (February 25, 2008)
* "I don't think that my church is actually particularly controversial." (March 2, 2008)
* "I can no more disown [Wright] than I can disown the black community." (March 18, 2008)
* "I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday. . . . The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago." (April 29, 2008)
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It really amazes me that Barack Obama supportors continue to excuse his association with Jeremiah Wright.
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There are at least ten reasons to not vote for Obama, that do not include his lack of judgement in choosing Wright as a pastor:
1)Obama refuses to speak to reporters/walks out of conferences. He is not a transparent politician.
2)He was involved with Tony Rezko, who was indicted for influence peddling and is a corrupting influence in Illinois politics. Tony Rezko got millions of dollars from the government to create affordable housing in Obama's district, now 11 of the buildings he was supposed to fix are boarded-up and are unlivable.
3)Obama supports nuclear power even though radioactive nuclear waste is a problem no country has solved, the added terrorist threat that nuclear power poses, and the history of accidents such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Obama supports nuclear power because he was bought off by the nuclear power utility industry. He has taken a lot of money from them.
4)Obama voted "present" hundreds of times instead of taking a stand because he did not want to offend contributors, like Robert Blackwell, who Obama helped obtain state grants for.
5)Obama chose as his mentor Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who are terrorists who detonated bombs on US territory and they helped him start his career.
6)Obama lied about filling out a questionnaire that details his stand on many important issues like abortion, the death penalty and gun control. It has his handwriting but he said a staffer filled it out. Obama also lied about the Kennedy family helping his father.
7)Obama also has acknowledged that he "voted by mistake" many times?!
8)Obama made a statement that said his grandmother is "a typical white person" who has a "reaction bred" into her when she sees someone she does not know.
9)Obama made a statement that small-town Americans are bitter and cling to guns, religion, and anti-trade sentiment.
10)Obama lies about the Clinton economic boom, if you go to FactCheck.org, you will see that Clinton is credited for passing the 1993 budget that helped create the boom of the 1990s.
Watch the videos here:
10 Reasons to Not Vote for Obama
Obama Supports Nuclear Power
Obama is a Phony
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