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Video: Senator Obama Praising Jeremiah Wright

Kerry Picket of NewsBusters posted a 1995 video of Barack Obama talking about his book, “Dreams From My Father”.  In it Senator Obama says of Reverend Jeremiah, “wonderful man” and “the best of what the black church has to offer“.  In the video excerpt Senator Obama gives high praise and further positive commentary to the bigot Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

For example the interviewer Connie Martinson says of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, “wonderful man there, Reverend Wright”. To which Senator Obama responds below [with emphasis mine, comments bracketed]:

Wright, who is my pastor, and he is a wonderful man…He’s a pastor of a large congregation in Chicago, and one of the interesting things that I discover in my journey to discover what my identity is and who my father is, is also discovering my own faith, which is not necessarily a traditional faith[so not only does Senator Obama praise Jeremiah Wright, he acknowledges Wrights racism couched in articulate language]. I don’t come out of an institutionalized religious setting, but what becomes important to me as I work with churches in the South Side of Chicago and low income neighborhoods is to realize that all of the stories and songs of the Church, the hope that is embodied in the Church, the sense of liberation that is embodied in the historically African American Church, is really something that moves me deeply, and I think is probably the main pillar around which a lot of inner city communities are going to be built, and Rev. Wright, my pastor who I speak about in the chapter in the book, I think represents the best of what the black Church has to offer.”

The entire Connie Martinson interview of Senator Obama follows below.  If you go around the 2:40 mark of the YouTube video below you’ll get the above excerpt.  Or if you just want to view the excerpt itself go here.

Biretta tips to Kerry Picket of NewsBusters and Philip Klein of American Spectator.

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Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Saturday, November 1, AD 2008 2:32pm

S_T_A_L_E_ D_E_S_P_E_R_A_T_I_O_N_!

Michael J. Iafrate
Saturday, November 1, AD 2008 3:30pm

Oh no! He said LIBERATION!

So do the documents of the Catholic Church.

Jack O'Hara
Jack O'Hara
Saturday, November 1, AD 2008 10:19pm

Listen to the words of Obama (hear them yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpzHQ_PC1uI).

“I’ve got to give a special shoutout to
• my pastor
• the guy who puts up with me
• counsels me
• listens to my wife complain about me.
• He’s a friend, and
• A great leader (not just in Chicago but all across the country).”

But who is Jeremiah Wright?
• Pastor of Trinty United Church of Christ, the church that gave a lifetime membership to the racist, anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who has said that “Hitler was a great man” and ”White people are potential humans; they haven’t evolved yet.
• A man who encourages blacks not to say “God bless America” but rather “God damn America.”
• A man who INSPIRED Barack Obama TO TEARS (according to Obama’s own book) with an epiphany at the first sermon of Wright that Obama heard. In this sermon Obama spoke that Wright spoke of “white folks’ greed runs a world in need.” Clearly Obama (despite his disingenuous disclaimer) was fully aware of Wright’s anti-white rants from the FIRST SERMON HE HEARD.

Can America really afford a President, who is so enthralled with a man who “counsels” him, is a personal “friend” and a “great leader.” Yet he was fully aware of the fact that the man he praised so was actually a vehement racist.

Tito Edwards
Saturday, November 1, AD 2008 10:27pm

We know so little about Senator Obama it’s frightening that he’s close to being President of the United States.

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Saturday, November 1, AD 2008 11:08pm

I’d take Wright over a neo-conning clergyman any day.

Tito Edwards
Saturday, November 1, AD 2008 11:11pm

I wouldn’t take either.

I’m so glad I’m Catholic.

Michael J. Iafrate
Sunday, November 2, AD 2008 3:07pm

I wouldn’t take either.

Riiiight. You prefer neo-conning lay persons. I get it.

I’m so glad I’m Catholic.

Yes, it’s nice being safe and perfect and right, isn’t it?

Tito Edwards
Sunday, November 2, AD 2008 6:52pm

Michael I.,

Yes, you know me so well.

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