Barack Obama, Rev. Wright, and Racism, America Responds: We’re Not Done With You Yet

OMG - how many out there have serious head injuries???

It's not about Obama conveniently ending his long relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that ends it and Jeremiah Wright is a bad man and racist and how could he?

It's all about Barack Obama how after 20 years of having a close relationship with Pastor Wright appears to have a dual personality - one of which is a dark hidden side with racial confusion and the convenient use of disposable people. Obama - remember chose Jeremiah Wright and his church. Jeremiah Wright had very little to do with it except to just accept Barack Obama's friendship and now come to find out - hidden agenda.

It is an extreme stretch of anyone's imagination that this Obama – Wright relationship of convenience is all a complete surprise to Obama after 20 years of spiritual mentoring by Wright and Obama naming a book after a close friendship with Jeremiah Wright.

This is all about saving Barack Obama's presidential campaign after the public scrutiny does NOT like what it sees in the Obama racial controversy. This could set back civil rights 40+ years. This is NOT something to be ignored and just explain it away with another grandiose Obama public lecture/speech!!!

This candidate Obama comes highly manufactured and repeatedly groomed after more numerous focus group encounters and fine-tuning than half a dozen candidates combined. Obama may be the most highly tuned candidate, as the result of many, many focus groups – of our time. Obama "SLICK" is the quintessential political consultants dream robo-candidate that is intentionally designed to mislead the public...and he is!!

http://thejunction.net/justfacts/2008/04/28/jeremiah-wright-demands-race-privilege-central-obama-campaign-issues/

NO one - I am convinced can have it both ways. The real discussion should now focus on whether Obama should drop out of the race altogether. This is not Presidental and what the American People deserve or need right now. This Obama racial controversy could set back civil rights 40+ years. This is NOT something to be ignored and just explain it away with a public lecture/speech.

Obama had it for twenty years HIS WAY with the racist Wright - now he wants us to completely disregard that - it was different - it didn't happen - we don't understand - we are taking it out of context - we need to move on - it's not important... HS it is very important. It is outrageous.

The American People deserve to know exactly what we are getting into with any Presidential candidate and most rational people I know do NOT like what they see NOW in the Obama - Wright relationship of convenience.

When Michelle Obama wants to move on - that is an indication that they are into campaign damage control and no more and the race for President over-rules personal privacy and ANY relationship of convenience such as Obama- Wright.

Obama is too radical and NOT Presidential - and this comes from a Democrat.
The remaining Democratic primary voters and super delegates can/should act wisely and DENY Obama the White House.

I went searching for the truth, and only found facts - I hate that !

The chickens are coming to roust ( yes I meant to spell it that way) for Obama. The politically correct double standard that Buzz-Flash and other turncoat progressive sites have been trying to sell, is imploding. At least the truth is coming out, before the general election. Instead of making excuses for Obama and his crew, why isn't Buzz-Flash at least making an effort to get to the truth of the Obama, Wright, Farrakhan connection of hate. Wrights words are straight out of Farrakhan’s play book of “hate the blue-eyed devils”. Wake-up and smell the racism and it’s not coming from the Clintons. Does the staff of Buzz-Flash really want a democrat in the Whitehouse? Or are you going to keep pouring water on the drowning democratic hopes for America? The swift-boaters will have a field day with the Obama, Wright, and Farrakhan and Obama will take good democrats down with them. I wrote about the Black Muslim movement ( five percent-errs) in North Carolina’s prisons in my 2005 book. They espouse the same rhetoric as Rev. Wright and Luis Farrakhan. The political correct name for this behavior has been “reverse racism” as if all racism is the fault of the white folks of this country. Wright is a racist, and it’s out of the closet now, there is nothing reverse about it, racism is racism! Obama has been listening to that sort of hateful rhetoric all his life, from his wife, his black friends and his minister Take your collective heads out of the sand and stop supporting the one democrat who cannot win the general election. Now’s when Y’all react with you puffed-up righteous indignation to this post, and try and brand me to be a racist, as you have branded the Clinton’s and almost everybody who is a Clinton supporter. Here is a little tid-bit out of my past, that pops that imaginary racist bubble. I campaigned for Harvey Gant’s run for U.S. Senator, this is of course documented by a speech I made on a local radio station and a TV appearance. I made in his behalf. How about Y’all at Buzz-Flash get back to some sort of balance in the stories you post. The continuous barrage of anti-Clinton opinions are hurting our chances to elect democrats in Nov. If Y’all used a small fraction of the energy you put into nit-picking Ms. Clinton, into researching Obama and his crew, then you would be an asset to putting a democrat in the Whitehouse and democrats in congress. As it stands it appears that being politically correct is more important to Buzz-Flash than the obvious truth. If it squirms like a snake, if it hangs out with snakes, or sleeps with snakes, then chances are “it” also is a snake. Skip Roth.

I think there is some racism in the constant attacks on Obama and Rev. Wright. But, I also think it is fear. Not fear of African Americans. but, fear in what Obama promises to bring. He is a young, dynamic and highly intelligent man. He also promises reform. And the powers that be know it's more than campaign promises. He is challenging the establishment and conventional wisdom. And the Clinton machine. They don't want reform. They like things fine now and bankrupting the country and selling it out to the highest bidder. And the clintons are the ones who control the party now and are in bed with corporate and lobbying interests. When Obama became a real threat to the Clintons and establishment and threatened to be the nominee, it was time to take him down. They have gone after this man thru the media with relentless pounding about everything from his clothes to beer to his associates. No one has had their pastor used to take a candidate down before. But, Wright was an effective tool to use to bring down the threat of Obama. We have had a month and half of nothing but, Wright and some about Ayres to try to make the man unelectable. The media piled on for over a week painting him elitist. And notice that a state that was a given he would not win suddenly became a story about him losing like he was suppose to win it and this tearing down began the very evening of primary of Pennsylvania. painting him a total loser. The Clintons will not allow anyone to be the nominee. They sell themselves to the far right in taking obama down. Now we have a surrogate set up the press club thing yesterday? And isn't Moyers a hard Clinton backer? They will not let Obama have the nomination not so much because he is black as he is threatening to give the government back to the people and change things for real. And judging from the polls, they are winning.

"Which is why they won't let go of Reverend Wright." "Otherwise?" "They'll have to face the music." "Which is?" "Their having to answer serious questions such as 'What is it again, Mr. President, that our loved are fighting and dying for in Iraq?" "Or how come there's so few of you and so many have nots and left outs?" "Along with the ineveitable appeals to our better selves." "From one of the candidates, for example, who promises us that if we elected he'll end the Iraq War, negotiate with Iran plus turning things around here at home." "And then what sort of world?" "It'll be up to us."

I have one simple question. Is it true that the organizer of Jeremiah Wrights Press Club Event, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, (she was introduced as the organizer) is the very same Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds the ardent Clinton supporter?? They said the timing of Jeremiah Wrights speech couldn't have been worse. But I guess for Clinton it couldn't have been better!

Seperation of Church and State anyone?? I love America but the one thing that just bugs me about my beloved country is that we think we are without sin and have every right to cast any stone we want to. We should knock it the hell off but I fear many of our religious leaders have lead us AWAY from Christ. Or from reason and kindness (your religious or non religious mileage may vary and that's fine with me). <<>> What is the lesson for us as a nation over this Rev Wright thing? Perhaps that we should remove the hatred out of our own eyes before we try to remove it from another's? Instead of accusing each other of hate, do as Obama is striving to do and reach for common ground? I don't really know but while I love my country, it's unrelenting hatred of *itself* is just sad. Sad sad sad.

and I think Rev. Wright has a point! God DAMN America under the Bushes and the Clintons, indeed!

Wright speaks the truth to America's satanists. They in turn respond with their usual hate and violence. The only way for Obama to win is to throw Wright under the bus. Of course at that point he has lost (lost the truth, lost God, lost, hope, lost the dream) but he might be president.

So let me get this right, Hagee, Robertson and Falwell have no right to preach what they preach, but Reverend Wright does. If there was a preacher stating that the government was trying to kill white people through AIDs and drugs, would you stand behind that preacher’s right to preach? The left has criticized Hagee, Robertson and Falwall for decades. The left criticized Bush’s religious views his whole time as President. And what does Obama have to say on the issue regarding Reverend Wright? “I think that people were legitimately offended by some of the comments that he had made in the past. The fact he's my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue.” But here is Mark Karlin, who claims that the first three preachers have no right to preach their sermons, but Reverend Wright does. Then he starts with the racist claims. Let me ask you Mark, which of the three candidates said that they won’t wear the flag pin? Obama. The other two never made that statement, so they are not criticized for it. It’s not racism, as you claim. Criticizing Obama is not racist. If you want to criticize Hagee, Robertson and Falwell, that’s fine, but don’t call people racist for criticizing Wright. Obama donated over $20,000 to Wright’s church last year and it is a legitimate argument to link the two. You’re hypocritical statements are very typical of the left though. Don’t worry you’re not alone.

One thing being overlooked here is that since Bill Clinton has been banging his family shield and acting like Mel Gibson leading a charge in Brave Heart for his wife....what good is he now to the Democrat Party as being their headline campaigner?

Obama should have had this thing wrapped up a long time ago and when he eventually does, how does Bill Clinton get out in front of a crowd with a straight face and campaign for Obama? How would Hillary herself do it when Hillary is now basically threatening the entire Democratic power establishment with the prospect of being the second coming of Joe Lieberman.

The echo of their fully embedded racist woven "win at any cost" campaign (both white and black voters KNOW the frickn' code) have rendered both of these Peronists invalid...but not in the eyes of their corporate sponsors who will win either way...McCain or Hillary will mule their agenda. Obama won't.

Imagine...an ex-Democratic president unable to campaign for his party's nominee? Bill Clinton likes to work a crowd but there are some crowds that won't welcome him any longer for what he has allowed himself to stoop to for his always smiling, waving wife as if she was in the lead car of a big parade. Why is she smiling and waving....? You can almost see the drool on the side of her mouth now that she has discovered the key to success in the remaining primaries: its the old Dick Nixon Southern Strategy but applied nation wide now.......Pull out that deck of cards and say it in as many ways as you possibly can. It works.

Sort of.

McCain who is the unluckiest guy in the world in one view (involved in an horrendous and totally rare aircraft carrier deck incident...then gets shot down and is painfully injured and then spends five years in an Hanoi slammer..then gets involved in the Keating Five stuff...then gets hammered by of all people, George Bush, in 2000) has finally had his ship come in. George Wallace could have won this time if the Democratic nominee was Hillary Clinton.

Yeah....Bill Clinton..America's first black president. We won't be saying that as a term of endearment any longer. 'But 12% of the population can't turn any tide', he and his charming wife figure.

We'll see about that won't we if Hillary steals the nomination with those Super Delegates...and you know that is exactly what she will do. Risking 12% minimum staying home come November is betting the farm that this cute new Southern Strategy will work on a bigger canvas.

Yeah..that's gonna be this summer's big story....will she actually get those Super Delegates to vote for her with Bill's help? Will she DARE to do this out in the open....will she do anything to close her own deal?

Yep.

Fasten your seat belts....

This is a party who can't figure out how to UNignore two major states and their delegates. They have had 4 months now to try to fix it. This is the question mark that Hillary wants to have perpetually floating in sky for everybody to see because it is the ultimate key to her success in order to justify her continued presence in this campaign.

They don't want to fix it.

Giggle away Pelosi....rant all you want Dean...

The Democratic Party will only provide afterglow atmospheric lighting for McCain's Inaugural Dance celebration in January when this double star finally runs into each other and explodes.

Super Delegates...? Who the F thought that one up in the first place? But there they are. Ace up the sleeve for a loser candidate. Perfect

How did that happen?

Who wrote those rules?

I'm at a slow boil over this crap....all I can see is the face of Joe Lieberman staring back at us. The Lieberman Southern Strategy.....

We have driven up to a multi car wreck on the interstate and its the Democratic Party.

What I wrote here is all over the place because I just can't believe that OUR party is doing this to itself.

Better watch out since November could also destroy the DEM majority in the House of Representatives and make Lieberman fully flip in the Senate and then we lose that house as well.

Then the GOP can cement the deal by finally getting a Supreme Court majority who fully stands aside for whatever extremee right wing coroporate agenda is floated their way...

We stand to lose this whole Banquet Frozen TV Dinner.

Keep it up Bill....

Keep it up Hillary....

What do you two personally have to lose at this point anyway?

Play the full deck. Put all the chips on the table....this is so much fun, ain't it?

If you want to compare Rev. Wright to Timothy McVeigh, tell me if Timothy McVeigh was in the operating room with Lyndon Johnson when he needed medical attention?

Rev. Wright was as a Navy Medical Corpsman. Did you see the picture on Bill Moyers' program?

The sooner religion disappears as a legitimate topic of political conversation the better.

The candidates are as complicit as the media in introducing their religious "faith" into the public conversation. Enough already!

Rev Wright is not running for office. The sooner Obama stops talking about him the better. The sooner all candidates stop soliciting and accepting endorsements and campaign appearances by religious leaders the better.

Politics is in "Caesar's" realm, so let's talk about public issues and how to deal with them.
War, taxes, health care, income disparity, education, poverty, diplomacy etc etc etc.

Colleen Clark
Cambridge, MA

why does america hate the black man? He has been enslaved for over 400 years.forced to work in the fields and farms of slave masters. With out health care, proper clothing, proper shelter, no pay, no time off, if sick or with child.Beaten or hung if you refused to comply. with being raped or cursed at. This seem like the same treatment that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is being put through now. by the news media. Sen. Obama is being persecuted by the news media. because he knows rev. wright and he is his pastor. Who can carry the weight of anothers sins on his shoulders. Does ones mother, father, brothers, sisters speak for you? Do we all think alike?

Right on GOPHater and helen. The media is in control everytime you see a newscaster say "and Rev Wright is in the news again" of course-they put him there! He's been on KRON 4 at least a dozen times since I tuned at 7AM this morning! He has been there since yesterdays news on Kron 4 and ABC 7.... They put him there and keep him there repeating the same lines over and over! Of course my favorite line is the one he speaks about being patriotic and serving in the military and asks Cheny where he was..

The corporate media create and promote their own "reality" by what they choose to show us. It doesn't matter what Obama says or what one could dig up about other candidates. The media will ignore whatever they want to bury. They are a corporation and have no interest other than profit. And I'd like to hear Obama say something like "Rev Wright can say anything he wants. This is a free country. Any other questions?"

robertsgt40- If guilt by association stands, why not take a look @ Hillary's buds. How about Jorge Cabrerra photo with Hillary(campaign contributor and convicted drug smuggler)? Or where is Hillary's ex pastor, William Procanick, doing 3yrs.(sentenced Feb '08) for molesting 7yr old girl....Well inquiring minds want to know

Barry O has a real problem here. He can’t cut himself off completely from Wright or he’ll instantly lose the 90% of black voters who are supporting him solely because he’s a brother. But clearly Wright is not going to take the hint and go away quietly, which jeopardizes support for Obama among the 88% of the U.S. population that’s not black. Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy. Almost. Talk about the chickens coming home to roost. Obama took legitimate comments by Hillary and Bill Clinton and deliberately spun them as racist rhetoric. He stood by and did nothing as his supporters viciously branded Hillary Clinton as a race-baiting monster. He tried to intimidate anyone asking him hard questions by implying that if you challenge him, you’re a racist. He’s encouraged the idea that if he is “denied” the nomination, African-Americans will stay home and doom Democratic chances in November. Nobody in this election has played the race card as strenuously or with such duplicitous intent as Barry O. The idea that his “crazy uncle” may now prove his undoing is absolutely delicious. Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy. Almost.

Mark, you have framed the issue perfectly. Wright is not running for president. I've never witnessed a set-up like yesterday's National Press Club debacle. The questions were all right down the middle of the Clinton plate. Every one was designed to cast Barack in a bad light. And in a subtle appeal to the youth vote, the questions were asked in a highly smarmy manner by a telegenic, young 20-something female. And the national mass media ate it up. CNN embarrassed themselves with wall to wall coverage Monday all the way to midnight. And after the first hour or so, there was no new news - just a relentless rehash of questions that had been asked and answered weeks ago. But, then again, that's their job. The editorial department of the NY Times had purportedly chosen to endorse Obama. Then word came from upper management that the endorsement was to go to Hillary. The national corporate media is endorsing Hillary. If she wins the nomination, even dottering old warhorse McCain can beat her. In truth, it really doesn't make any difference who wins between Clinton & McCain. Both are owned by special interests and will do their bidding. What the media has effectively done is revive racial fears and hatreds. Hillary won PA playing that card and she'll continue to play it through the early June primaries. She still won't get a big enough majority to win, but some super delegates may back off their pledge to Obama and the remaining ones may be convinced Barack no longer has coat tails. I've got to say it; Hillary, you are one nasty and anti-American human being.

Beautifully said, Buzzflash. I agree with nearly every sentence of our editorial. This primitive grilling of Obama and Rev. Wright is embarrassing, distressing, disheartening. I'm stunned that I have been stupid enough to think that we (I include the general population in this, not just the media)were better than this. Hagee comes off as nearly psychotic, in my opinion. Rev. Wright, IMHO, comes off as educated, clear, with a passionate grasp of history and a commitment to his ministry. Wright can have 20 times the humanity of Hagee, and yet it is Wright who is being cross examined by "America." If you want to see a shining example of this primitive fear and racism played out in our own progressive territory, take a look at Joan Walsh's commentary on Rev. Wright ("Why Wright is So Wrong") in Salon, yesterday. She "hears" him as hateful, incendiary, unappreciative of white people, vengeful, and of the opinion that 9-11 victims deserved their fate. She says she "feels sorry for him." (mighty white of her). No mention of Hagee, whose renewed comments about New Orleans' sinning (read: Gay Pride Parade) being punished by hurricane Katrina took place in the same timeframe. This skewed interpretation of Rev. Wright is staggering. Of course it's racism! It is startling that, right along with the right wing, some of us progressives can vomit this up and not even smell it for what it is.

After viewing, ad nauseam, the out-of-context tape loops of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's sermons and his recent appearance on Bill Moyer's Journal and Monday at the National Press Club I am left to wonder...Yeah?...and?...so?...

Anyone who has a smattering of unadulterated American history knows the truth of Rev. Wright's words. Even out of context.

But the lap dogs of truth would rather feed us the Gerber Baby Food version of U.S. history: where Thomas Jefferson never fathered childern with his mulatto slave Sally Hemmings; Robert E. Lee didn't callously defy his father-in-law's, George Washington Parke Custis, dying wish to manumit his slaves; that the CIA's overthrow of democractically and legally elected Prime Minister of Iran had nothing to do with the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini...need I go on?

What did the millionaire TV newsreaders expect the Rev Wright to say? "Thank you, white America, for 300 years of involuntary servitude, followed by 100 years of Jim Crow, limited educational and employment opportunities, and substandard housing and run-down inner city communities! It's made us a stronger people. Please, white America, we want some more!"

So here we are in the first decade of the Twenthy-first Century, and the millionaire newsreaders of network and cable TV, at the behest of their corporate masters, are stirring up the old code of racial fear; a small, disparate, scattered minority of the nation's population will somehow rise up and slaughter the white 85% of the country in its sleep. Utter nonsense. But that is the unspoken, underlying meaning of the "code."

The greatest problem with this country is that collectively the American people suffer historical amnesia. We are no longer even Pavlovian dogs but pabulum-fed television-zombies, who concentrate on bobbles, trinkets, any and all meaningless distractions which the millionaire newsreaders dangle before our eyes while their masters pick our pockets.

Jimmy Carter once said America deserves government as good as its people, or words to that effect. So do not be surprised, ladies and gentlemen, if we wake up on November 5 to a president-elect McCain.