Nice Perks and Obama Disowns Former Pastor
Would you like to work in Chicago’s poor black area for between 23 and 25 years and receive as part of your retirement package a 10,000 sq. ft. four bedroom house in addition to your retirement pay?
Well, if your name is Jeremiah Wright and you pastored the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago you would get this perk upon retirement.
Not bad for working a couple hours a week and tearing down your own country in every crisis it has faced.
Now Barack Obama is claiming he would have left the church if Wright hadn’t retired.
He would have left the church pastored by the man he felt was like an uncle? The man whom he compared favorably to his own grandmother when stating her fears?
“Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church,” Obama said Thursday during a taping of the ABC talk show, “The View.” The interview will be broadcast Friday.
Sure, Barack, we believe you. After twenty years of following this man you thought of as an uncle; the man who married you and your wife and baptized each of your children, you would have finally said you had heard enough and left.
Not when he said God should damn America, not when he said the American government created the AIDS virus so they could infect black men, not when he said the chickens were coming home to roost when planes flew into American buildings on Sept. 11, 2001, and not when he gave an award from your church to one of the most bigoted, anti-semites in this country, Louis Farrakhan.
It took twenty years for you to see the light, but now that you are probably the Democratic candidate for President of the United States you will abandon your uncle. The man for whom you threw your own grandmother under the bus to defend.
But we also know and believe if you weren’t running for president with a real shot at the nomination you would have begged him to stay and you never would have said a bad word about this man who is your father figure.
You can fool some of the people all of the time…you know how the rest goes because it was said by another famous man from Illinois.
Written by ~J~
Hal Says:
March 30th, 2008 at 5:47 amVisit Hal
J, Keep up the good work. Love this piece.
~J~ Says:
March 30th, 2008 at 9:28 amVisit ~J~
Welcome, Hal and thank you for the compliment!