Obama Doesn't get it . He heard plenty of sermons but he sees nothing wrong

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Presidential candidate Barack Obama preaches on the campaign trail that America needs a new consensus based on faith and bipartisanship, yet he continues to attend a controversial Chicago church whose pastor routinely refers to "white arrogance" and "the United States of White America."

In fact, Obama was in attendance at the church when these statements were made on July 22.


Wright's strong sentiments were echoed in the Sunday morning service attended by NewsMax.


Wright laced into America's establishment, blaming the "white arrogance" of America's Caucasian majority for the woes of the world, especially the oppression suffered by blacks. To underscore the point he refers to the country as the "United States of White America." Many in the congregation, including Obama, nodded in apparent agreement as these statements were made.

How could Obama or any good American with political aspirations continue to listen to the filth this man spewed on a weekly basis? How could he have this racist anoint his daughters with holy water? The answer is that Obama sees nothing wrong. Obama doesn't get it.

Several prior remarks by Obama's pastor have caught the media's attention:

• Wright on 9/11: "White America got their wake-up call after 9/11. White America and the Western world came to realize people of color had not gone away, faded in the woodwork, or just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns." On the Sunday after the attacks, Dr. Wright blamed America.
  
  
• Wright on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway: "Black women are being raped daily in Africa. One white girl from Alabama gets drunk at a graduation trip to Aruba, goes off and gives it up while in a foreign country and that stays in the news for months."
  
  
• Wright on Israel: "The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."
  
  
• Wright on America: He has used the term "middleclassness" in a derogatory manner; frequently mentions "white arrogance" and the "oppression" of African-Americans today; and has referred to "this racist United States of America."

Senator Obama's supporters love to point to his "judgment". His judgment in not backing the Iraq war. I'll give him that. He was right.

But one good judgment in a lifetime of bad judgments does not make a President. In his book, Obama calls Reverend Wright his mentor yet he now seeks to distance himself and say he had no idea what his mentor was preaching. That my friends is politics as usual, in fact that is plain old lying in order to try and sweep away a relationship that he should have ended years ago.

Obama sees nothing wrong. Obama doesn't get it.




*emphasis is mine
edited to remove the war reference which has nothing to do with this argument