Obama’s Church Plays The Victim Card
Posted on March 16, 2008
After blaming America for everything from HIV to 9/11, it was inevitable that the church would continue playing the victim card. Now they accuse the media of character assassination! But as others point out, isn’t it character suicide when the “victim” provides the poison? Heh, As David says in the comments, doesn’t one need to have character before it can be assassinated?
The Chicago church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) issued a statement Sunday contending that coverage of his pastor’s inflammatory remarks amounted to character assassination and “an attack on … the history of the African American church.â€
Obama distanced himself from inflammatory comments by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., retiring pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ, after they circulated on YouTube last week and were played repeatedly by cable news channels.
Wright, condemning society as racist, said, “God [expletive] America†and referred to the “U.S. of KKK-A.â€
The statement begins: “Nearly three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe.â€
The statement adds: “Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry is inclusive and global.â€
Inclusive and global? Calling America the US of KKK-A is inclusive and global? The victim card has apparantly become a crutch for this church.
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Playing audio and video of Wright speaking is considered defaming Wright?
Right.
I don’t agree with either but how was Wright’s post 9/11 sermon any different than Robertson & Falwell remarks on 9/11? All 3 were using 9/11 to push their own agenda. I think they are all wrong but to be outraged at Wright and not at Falwell & Robertson is just pure hypocrisy. When you wingnuts disavow the religious right, then I’ll listen to your opinions on what’s un-American.
Comments from the Thursday, September 13, 2001 edition of the ‘700 Club.’
JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this.
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.
JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way–all of them who have tried to secularize America–I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.”
The peddlers of hate do so because it is much more lucrative than peddling love. There’s none of that messy forgivness to deal with and it makes you feel so alive. All that Jesus stuff is so passé.
Fallwell and Robertson didn’t get free passes on their bigotted and ignorant statement. Then neither should Wright.
Isn’t necessary to have character before it can be assassinatd? Make a lovely libel trial
We are so angry at BARAK OBAMA because
he not only lied to the American People
but he wasted so much of the Democrat
monies. Think of the good that money
could have done in the right hands.
As Americans we want to know what the
salary was for Rev jeremiah A. Wright
for the last few years. May we see his
IRS form?
The point is you bunch of idiots, Obama took his sweet time to denounce Wright’s statements and allowed him to hold a position within his campaign. Sean Hannity was talking about Wright a month before this broke. When he did finally denounce, he did so after 2 other attempts. First through a surrogate. The second in an interview and it fell short. This proves that he didn’t want to do what he needed to do. I for one don’t believe him when he says that he never heard those divisive speeches made from the pulpit. I don’t believe that he is truly distancing himself from Wright.
Obama is a graduate of Clintonian Politics 101. He’s playing the Clinton part better than Clinton. Meaning: We can’t believe a thing that he says.
So far he’s been nothing but empty speeches and platitudes. What makes any of you think that his denunciation is anything more than the same?
“Nuff Said McGreavey” spent his time arguing against a straw man.
He probably feels pretty good about defeating that straw man of his.
I saw HUNDREDS of right-wing pundits online and on TV condemn Falwell and Robertson after those remarks, Nuff Said McGreavey. So either you are stupid or you are a liar. Which is it?