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Will Reverend Jeremiah Wright be President Obama’s Spiritual adviser?

Obama has not distanced himself far enough from Jeremiah Wright. After his appearance at the National Press Club with his entourage of Nation Of Islam Bodyguards along with Cornell West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party, Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad and ex-convict Marion Barry.

This Three ring circus did nothing for Obama’s candidacy.

In Wright’s own words from the National Press Club on Monday Apr. 28, 2008

“I stand before you to open up this two-day symposium with the hope that this most recent attack on the black church is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright; it is an attack on the black church. … The most recent attack on the black church, it is our hope that this just might mean that the reality of the African-American church will no longer be invisible.”

On Obama’s renouncing some of his remarks:

“Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever’s doing the polls. Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors. They have a different person to whom they’re accountable. As I said, whether he gets elected or not, I’m still going to have to be answerable to God November 5 and January 21. That’s what I mean. I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do. I am not running for office. I am hoping to be vice president. …

“He didn’t distance himself. He had to distance himself because he’s a politician. From what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American. He said I didn’t offer any words of hope. How would he know? He never heard the rest of the sermon. You never heard it. I offered words of hope. I offered reconciliation, I offered restoration in that sermon, but nobody heard the sermon. They just heard this little sound bite of a sermon.”

On his God Damning the United States and if he should apologize:

“God doesn’t bless everything. God condemns some things. And dem, D-E-M, is where we get the word damn. God damns some practices and there’s no excuse for the things that the government, not the American people, have done. That doesn’t make me not like America or unpatriotic.”

On his claim that the US invented the AIDS virus to use against minorities:

“Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything.”

On claims that he is unpatriotic:

“I feel that those citizens who say that have never heard my sermons, nor do they know me. They are unfair accusations taken from sound bites and that which is looped over and over on certain channels. I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?”

This press conference was not about the black church in America, it was about Jeremiah Wright and nothing else. He did himself no favor by including the New Black Panthers and the Nation Of Islam as his goon squad for protection. Obama should be ashamed of this spectacle and express his disdain for Wright.

t/b: Stop The ACLU, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin

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