Bryan Fischer
Obama's pastor raises questions about Obama's judgment
By Bryan Fischer
While the left relentlessly pressures John McCain to distance himself from Pastor John Hagee and his criticisms of the Catholic Church, they seem blithely unconcerned about Sen. Barack Obama's 20-year association with his racist pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
ABC News revealed yesterday that Rev. Wright's sermons contain repeated denunciations of the United States, including the use of profanity in a 2003 sermon to call down curses on this country.
Said Rev. Wright in that sermon, "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God d--n America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d--n America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d--n America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
In addition, while the left thundered against Rev. Jerry Falwell for suggesting, in the wake of 9/11, that America's moral decline had weakened its defense against evil, the same press seems blissfully un-bothered that Rev. Wright also blamed 9/11 on America.
Said Wright at the time, "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our front yards."
It's fine for people to claim that Rev. Wright's opinions should not be charged to Sen. Obama. Yet the presidential candidate has chosen to sit under this man's preaching and teaching for twenty years, and listened week after week to what appears to be a constant stream of racist and anti-American rhetoric, all apparently without batting an eye.
Now if Obama was listening and learning, week after week from his mentor, as he claims, then the public has to wonder just how much of Rev. Wright's hatred of whites and America he has welcomed into his own soul.
Perhaps we can now understand Michelle Obama's comment that she is just now proud of her country for the first time. If Barack wasn't listening to Rev. Wright, his wife apparently was.
If Obama firmly rejected this constant race-baiting and blame-America first pulpit-pounding, then the public has to question his judgment: why would someone who wants to be the president of all Americans meekly endure white-bashing week after week in his own church? Why wouldn't he do what most Americans would have done, and walk out? And why would he want to lead a country he has been taught to despise, and why should we let him?
Said a member of Obama's church, regarding the influence of Rev. Wright on the candidate, "He has impacted the life of Barack Obama so much so that he wants to portray that feeling he got from Rev. Wright onto the country because we all need something positive."
Maybe that's exactly what we have to worry about.
© Bryan Fischer
While the left relentlessly pressures John McCain to distance himself from Pastor John Hagee and his criticisms of the Catholic Church, they seem blithely unconcerned about Sen. Barack Obama's 20-year association with his racist pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
ABC News revealed yesterday that Rev. Wright's sermons contain repeated denunciations of the United States, including the use of profanity in a 2003 sermon to call down curses on this country.
Said Rev. Wright in that sermon, "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God d--n America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d--n America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d--n America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
In addition, while the left thundered against Rev. Jerry Falwell for suggesting, in the wake of 9/11, that America's moral decline had weakened its defense against evil, the same press seems blissfully un-bothered that Rev. Wright also blamed 9/11 on America.
Said Wright at the time, "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our front yards."
It's fine for people to claim that Rev. Wright's opinions should not be charged to Sen. Obama. Yet the presidential candidate has chosen to sit under this man's preaching and teaching for twenty years, and listened week after week to what appears to be a constant stream of racist and anti-American rhetoric, all apparently without batting an eye.
Now if Obama was listening and learning, week after week from his mentor, as he claims, then the public has to wonder just how much of Rev. Wright's hatred of whites and America he has welcomed into his own soul.
Perhaps we can now understand Michelle Obama's comment that she is just now proud of her country for the first time. If Barack wasn't listening to Rev. Wright, his wife apparently was.
If Obama firmly rejected this constant race-baiting and blame-America first pulpit-pounding, then the public has to question his judgment: why would someone who wants to be the president of all Americans meekly endure white-bashing week after week in his own church? Why wouldn't he do what most Americans would have done, and walk out? And why would he want to lead a country he has been taught to despise, and why should we let him?
Said a member of Obama's church, regarding the influence of Rev. Wright on the candidate, "He has impacted the life of Barack Obama so much so that he wants to portray that feeling he got from Rev. Wright onto the country because we all need something positive."
Maybe that's exactly what we have to worry about.
© Bryan Fischer
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