In Focus: Obama’s Lame Excuse for Jeremiah Wright
It takes a hope-drunk partisan to rationalize Barack Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, writes Michael Weiss. Here's why Obama's apologia doesn't wash any better than the defense offered up by his online claque.
“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Jeremiah Wright told the New York Times in April of 2007. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
Well, Obama hasn’t got past the primaries yet and already he finds the distance vanishingly small between himself and the odious Rev. Wright, head of the Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago. Last week’s YouTube disclosures of the kind of sermons Wright delivers to his flock have forced Obama to confront a host of uncomfortable questions. Does he share his God-whisperer’s belief that the U.S. brought the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on itself by its own long, sorry history of state terrorism? That the government invented the AIDS virus as a plague for blacks? Or that a politician can know a preacher for twenty years, be married by him and have his two children baptized by him, without once having been privy to the preacher’s nasty rhetoric?
According to Obama, we’re expected to believe that the answer to that last question is a definitive yes:
“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.”
So Obama wrote Friday in a terse and woefully inadequate essay on the Huffington Post. Note that the first sentence stands in stark contradiction to his prior admission, recorded in his own books, that he was indeed well acquainted with Wright’s opprobrious politics, which, speaking before a Jewish audience recently, he described as that of a kooky uncle at whom the whole family rolls their eyes but lovingly tolerate out of filial obligation. And how paltry an explanation is it that Obama remained a member of a toxic congregation because the man who encouraged him to join it was on the verge of retirement? This reeks of desperation and — oh, what’s the word? — hopelessness.
The same cynical calculation that led this bright atheist from Hawaii to join a church with supposed political access to black Chicago has led him to act as if no one would notice the kind of “spirituality” he’s been imbibing for two decades. We are the idiots we’ve been waiting for, I suppose.
That New York Times article makes clear that it was precisely Wright’s histrionic and demagogic pulpit style that endeared Obama to Trinity in the first place:
“Mr. Obama was entranced by Mr. Wright, whose sermons fused analysis of the Bible with outrage at what he saw as the racism of everything from daily life in Chicago to American foreign policy. Mr. Obama had never met a minister who made pilgrimages to Africa, welcomed women leaders and gay members and crooned Teddy Pendergrass rhythm and blues from the pulpit. Mr. Wright was making Trinity a social force, initiating day care, drug counseling, legal aid and tutoring. He was also interested in the world beyond his own; in 1984, he traveled to Cuba to teach Christians about the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Wright said his visits implied no endorsement of their views.”
Now, I’d like to think that I’m concerned with the world beyond my own, too, but traveling with a filth merchant to the demesne of a tinpot dictator is not how I choose to stay informed. Nor would I, in shopping around for an electorally beneficial faith, look to take communion from a man who saw this as a worthwhile holiday.
But just you try telling Obama’s cheering section that their man has got more explaining to do.
Andrew Sullivan, lately the Saint Sebastian of the right, thinks he’s mounting a vigorous defense of Obama by reminding his readers that one’s “belief” is not necessarily indicative of one’s beliefs: “I remain in a church which describes gay people as ‘intrinsically disordered.’”
And Josh Marshall adds: “I’m not sure there’s much in it that doesn’t come out of the sermon tradition of African-American Christianity with a 60s twist,” which nicely insults both African-American Christianity and the 60’s in the same breath.
On the same day Marshall posted this to his Talking Points Memo blog, by the way, he linked without similar qualification to David Corn’s exclusive in Mother Jones on John McCain’s campaign ties to the vile Reverend Rod Parsley, whom McCain has called his “spiritual guide” and who believes the United States was founded to destroy Islam.
Don’t worry: Not much there that doesn’t come out of the sermon tradition of right-wing evangelicals with an eschatological twist.
Michael Weiss is the New York Editor of Pajamas Media. His blog is Snarksmith.
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1. McClum:Step back, way back and understand the historical and social context of what you are saying to and seeing.
Of course many don’t want Obama to be the Democratic candidate, and of course not President. This Rev. Wright thing you have going is great to pursued and scare uneducated people but many of us see more clearly than others what you are doing to pervert our election process.
Mar 17, 2008 - 10:31 am 2. Curly Smith:What church should Obama attend? If he’s the “magic negro” as the Los Angeles Times suggests, and he’s in the election to assuage white guilt, then shouldn’t his church preach white guilt?
Mar 17, 2008 - 10:33 am 3. Jon Motherwell:Geraldine Ferraro caused a storm of controversy a few weeks ago when she suggested that Sen Obama would no have been so successful if he were not a black man. “He is lucky to be where he is,” she said. When pressed, she defended her comments (which were factually untrue). The Obama campaign criticized her remarks as racially divisive. She responded (on the FOX news channel) by attacking back and threatening to even the score. Within a few days, video clips of Rev. Wright in the pulpit began to circulate among media professionals. There seemed to have been a campaign to draw media attention to these remarks. Is the Rev. Wright controversy Geraldine’s revenge?
Mar 17, 2008 - 10:50 am 4. deversole:This is a topic that is not going away and could sink the Obama ship. Very interesting to watch how this plays out.
Mar 17, 2008 - 10:58 am 5. P. Ami:Obama is not in the election to assuage white guilt. He is in the election to be President of the United States of America. If this same man has bitterness, anger, resentment and hate for America then it makes no sense for us to put him in the position to protect and defend that same Union of States.
Various little events on Obama’s road to Democratic front runner seemed off; his refusal to wear the flag pin, his keeping a hand off his chest during a song honoring our nation, his wife’s comment regarding her lack of adult pride in America until her husband’s candidacy. All but the last comment could be explained to a certain extent. Take away his socialist agenda, his promise to have us out of Iraq or any of the other political differences he might have with me and many others. You can take all that away and what you are left with is the wonder, does this man have America’s best interests at heart, will he do what it takes to defend our interests and will he do what it takes to defend our body, our freedom and our treasure? I would hope that even the Americans that agree with other aspects of Obama’s political agenda will at least love their country and see clearly enough that behind this agenda is a world view, a view of America, that is not presidential but more aligned with those who hate us.
Mar 17, 2008 - 11:43 am 6. huxley:What church should Obama attend?
There are many, many black Christian churches that don’t have a pastor screaming “God damn America!” from the pulpit or raving about the US government creating the AIDS virus to kill blacks. It’s a pretty low bar actually.
Obama chose this church and stayed in it for twenty years. Obama chose this pastor for his spiritual mentor and gave him a place in Obama’s campaign. Choices have consequences.
Mar 17, 2008 - 11:50 am 7. Angry African:He might have a lame excuse. But he is still better than anyone else on the block. Maybe one of the key challenges facing America is a lack of a vision for the future. Obama offers some, but a recent global survey showed that Africans have more hope than Americans when looking at the future. Maybe we can learn from this? I discuss this in my blog – Africans live in Hope, but Americans not? http://angryafrican.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/africans-live-in-hope-but-americans-not/
Mar 17, 2008 - 12:00 pm 8. vova:I don’t think Obama needs to make excuses at all. The more he does it, the deeper he gets. Chicago’s Southside and Harvard Sq. will be alienated by his surrender to the whitey, and middle America won’t buy it, so it’s a lose-lose proposition
Mar 17, 2008 - 12:06 pm 9. huxley:Angry African — I doubt most Americans are interested in a vision of the American future rooted in “God damn America” as the present.
Mar 17, 2008 - 12:11 pm 10. Jeremiah:Thanks to the sermon of Rev. Jeremiah Wright we can now make an idea of the Obama’s spiritual milieu in his years of maturity i.e. since the early 1990s when he became a member of Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ. This milieu is clearly fascist and racist. White or black fascism, the essence is always the same. It is very significant the hate for America that this new “Jeremiah” preaches. It seems to hear a Muslim Prophet: “Allah damn America!” His “anti-U.S. remarks” only repeat the old and most infamous falsifications that Russian communists and European leftists have been spreading: AIDS virus have been produced in American laboratories, the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks have been prepared by American Government, etc. In one word, this priest, God knows of what cannibal demon, wants to say that all the evils come from America and therefore this country must be destroyed. I understand that also in the US there are many the perverse idiots which hate their country and want its destruction. They found at last in Obama, elected by Luis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s infernal trinity, the ideal prophet of Hate and Destruction.
Mar 17, 2008 - 12:59 pm 11. Seer:I remember, 20 years ago or more, when one sect’s followers went to Guiana jungle and killed themselves, 800 persons, men, women, and children. In the same way I see the end of Obama’s church fanatics, when he is dead from an overdose in an extreme attempt to make true his father’s dream.
Mar 17, 2008 - 1:21 pm 12. AJ:Good work, Weiss. You are correct.
And the reason Obama does not totally discount Wright’s racism and anti-americanim is because Obama agrees with it, at least in part. Otherwise, it would be easy for him to categorically deny his association with Wright, completely condemn it, etc. But alas, he loves this man. He was married by him, and his kids were baptized by him.
Obama is bad and dangerous for America, just like his wife and pastor.
Mar 17, 2008 - 1:28 pm 13. OmegaPaladin:If anyone here has been to the south side of Chicago, they would know that there is no lack of churches to go to. The south side is packed with storefront churches and also has quite a few full size churches. I would assume that they are overwhelmingly black, given the local demographics, and many openly proclaim their african ancestry.
Mar 17, 2008 - 1:43 pm 14. William:Actually it’s laughable and very sad to see Obama getting this far in our political process. But of course the Democrats could not find anyone with a resume. What executive experience does he have? NONE! To top it off the fact that he has gone to this church with this so called minister with a wife that is angry and bitter with America should be a wakeup call for anyone.
Obama has had plenty of time to disavow himself from this cult of hate. He’s too entrenched though. He is what he is. No speech he gives will change that!
Mar 17, 2008 - 1:53 pm 15. Olivia:As an American who immigrated from East Africa, I’m horrified by “Rev.” Wright and his so called Church.
Mar 17, 2008 - 2:01 pm 16. Ritter:This is the man who Obama claims brought him to Christianity!
There is nothing Christian about damning your country, hating white people or humping a lectern like it’s Monica Lewinsky.
And it’s not just a few hate-filled conspiracy theories from the pulpit,
the Church itself screams crazy afro-centric garbage with it’s “black” value system and questional bookstore selection.
But this is all news to Obama, the man of judgment, hope and change. Give me a break.
Last I checked Jesus was not a vitriolic five-percenter in a dashiki.
And now Obama not only has to explain his relationship to Jeremiah Wright and his Church,
but the unfortunate pattern that has emerged in light of all this “new” information
Like why did he refuse to wear an American flag lapel pin?
Why was his wife only proud of her country recently?
Why does Louis Farrakhan claim that “Obama has been groomed to be seen as a unifier to promote the Black Cause”? (I guess I didn’t get the memo on what this supposed Black Cause is all about)
How was he so offended by Bill Clinton’s comments in South Carolina after listening to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years?
This wasn’t just a few times the pastor has said something this crazy,
in the youtube clips you can see the camera pan to the congregation jumping and hollering in their seats.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
But black people still rooted in some strange slave mentality will defend him like they did OJ and every other inexcusable idiot.
I am unbelievably disgusted. Ugh.
I think he could get into trouble with all of those states full of white people who voted for him the first time. They will not be fooled twice.
Mar 17, 2008 - 2:13 pm 17. Greg Turner:Church is a uniquely personal environment, it is one place that I go, that what is spoken as teaching and instruction, is the most important reason for attending. School would be another place where words that are spoken as instruction are of the highest importance. This is a very important point in my opinion. I choose to go to a church that delivers a message from the pulpit that fits with my concept of faith. I would not choose “Black (or white) Liberation Theology” as the sound track for my spiritual life, not for 20 weeks, 20 months and certainly not for 20 years, but I would defend Mr. Obama’s right to do as he chooses. But once he chooses, he must stand behind that choice and defend it.
Thankfully, we (including Mr. and Mrs. Obama) have free will when it comes to choosing our place of spiritual and social instruction. I listen very intently to what my pastor is saying each and every time I attend. My pastor is my friend and after 16 years in my church I know who he is and what he believes. I fellowship with those who attend my church, both at church and away from church, and we continually discuss the fundamentals of our shared belief. With this in mind, I can only draw one conclusion when Mr. Obama says, after 20 years, he has no knowledge of his pastor’s fundamental belief (or speeches for sale on his church’s web site) on the doctrine of “Black Liberation Theology,” Mr. Obama is not being honest. This is profoundly different than John McCain being endorsed by Mr. Hagee or Mr. Parsley or George Bush speaking at Bob Jones University although each of these needed to be and were addressed.
I would prefer that Mr. Obama defend his pastor (and mentor) and the entire “Black Liberation Theology” that he preaches instead of pretending to be shocked by these sermons and condemning them when pressed, just to save his political life. I could then disagree with him, but at least Mr. Obama would show continuity of thought and behavior which is a trademark of intellectual honesty. I wonder how Mr. Obama’s fellow church goers, that were shouting out in agreement at Mr. Wright’s hate filled sermons, feel about one of their own suddenly condemning their beloved pastor and the fundamental belief of their church. I would think they see him as being “two faced” and dishonest too. This wouldn’t be such a big deal in most cases, but Mr. Obama is asking us to make him President of the United States. I’m going to have to tell him, respectfully, NO!
Mar 17, 2008 - 2:17 pm 18. william jonas:Obama has stepped in it and he knows he has. All the deceptive excuses and denial won’t cover the thing that he is so desperately trying to bury. Some might call it the TRUTH. It is very difficult to disguise and hide it. It keeps revealing itself and each time you deny it , it grows greater.
Mar 17, 2008 - 2:42 pm 19. anne munro:I think a Christian would know that.
I don’t understand why Obama has to
Mar 17, 2008 - 2:46 pm 20. Andi Mitchell:apologize for any of the “pastors”
comments as I am white and I hear
on playstation people in the U.S
refering to “niggers” all the time.
I can see how that would upset the
African Americans. Obama would like
to “unite” all people and I would like
the USA to get off the crap and get
on with the real issues.
I am ashamed of people who are so
prejudiced and yet they are. Maybe
Obama can help.
Suppose we all were responsible for the actions of our friends, relatives and associates. Do you stop loving family members just because they say something you don’t approve of? Do we disassociate ourselves with people we care about just because they have a different opinion? People usually speak from experiences including hurt and disappointment. Rev. Wright understood his language and so it is with many others that have struggled throughout the years. Does this mean that we hate because of those experiences, no of course not. We have learned throughout the years to accept and love each other in spite of our differences. If you listen to the core of the message of Rev. Wright, sad to say, he was only speaking the truth. Yes, the truth sometimes hurt. Therefore, let us move on and not fall into traps of indifferences based upon what we feel is not acceptable language when we have not had the expereinces that define this language. Besides, aren’t we all entitled to our opinion. The injustice that many Americans have recieved including African Americans and Caucasians, have not always been fair, and can never be justified as right. Yet we move on!
Ann
Mar 17, 2008 - 3:10 pm 21. William:Well anne munro…
That’s quite the apologetic for Barrack-the christ of all rock stars- Obama .
I guess the great uniter has your vote. Congratulations B.H. Obama!!!
Mar 17, 2008 - 4:02 pm 22. Just the facts.:Obama’s pastor and church were financed in part by Obama and his family for twenty or so years.
Obama was very close to his pastor over the period of twenty years. Clearly, Obama had intimate knowledge of the pastor’s beliefs. Why didn’t Obama distance himself and his family from such vile thinking? Why did he for years expose his impressionable children to these concepts of hate?
Obama’s affiliation to his “troubled” pastor is a poor reflection of his judgment.
Obama’s pastor said: “God damn America”
John McCain spilled blood for America, was tortured and held in captivity for nearly five years for America.
Who do you think American voters should elect President? The answer is obvious!
Mar 17, 2008 - 5:01 pm 23. RHM:Yes, this is troubling. Especially when you account for the fact that this “Holy Man” married Obama and his wife AND baptized their children.
I’m not so sure the voters will get over this. But they will get over McCain’s preacher friends’ views.
Isn’t it all ridiculous in 2008? Keep religion out of politics.
Mar 17, 2008 - 7:39 pm 24. Fat Man:“Destiny’s Child: [originally "The Radical Roots of Barack Obama"] No candidate since Robert F. Kennedy has sparked as much campaign-trail heat as Barack Obama. But can the one-term senator craft a platform to match his charisma?” by Ben Wallace-Wells at RollingStone.com on 2007-Feb-22:
… And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he intones. “Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!” There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!” The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: “And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!”
This is as openly radical a background as any significant American political figure has ever emerged from, as much Malcolm X as Martin Luther King Jr. Wright is not an incidental figure in Obama’s life, or his politics. The senator “affirmed” his Christian faith in this church; he uses Wright as a “sounding board” to “make sure I’m not losing myself in the hype and hoopla.” Both the title of Obama’s second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright’s sermons. “If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from,” says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, “just look at Jeremiah Wright.”
Obama wasn’t born into Wright’s world. His parents were atheists … Obama could have picked any church – … Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and “felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams.”
… When you read his autobiography, the surprising thing – for such a measured politician – is the depth of radical feeling that seeps through, the amount of Jeremiah Wright that’s packed in there. …
Mar 17, 2008 - 8:38 pm 25. An European:I admire Condoleezza Rice, not because she is black and woman, but because she is a great diplomat and a political genius. The white folk that votes the last invention of the American toy industry, Obama, because he is black and knows to smile so sweetly showing the perfect line of blinding white teeth and articulating passionately the magic word “change”, are truly a degenerated race. Fortunately not all the whites nor the blacks are enthusiasts of this anthropological experiment of his extravagant inventor.
Mar 18, 2008 - 1:56 am 26. Monk:Angry African, your mind is confused. A man with the confused mind, as Buddha says, can’t have hope and future nor in this life nor in the other. And what we can learn from an angry man? Only hate, desperation, never quietness of spirit. I have pity of You, Angry African.
Mar 18, 2008 - 5:09 am 27. Edmund Jenks (MAXINE):It probably is very hard to break the bonds of psychological slavery.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, as pastor and leader of a Christian church, uses a belief system based upon conspiracy theories that he preaches to enslave people, in an effort to make himself more important than the teachings of GOD.
Once one buys into this form of Psycho-Slavery, it becomes impossible to think outside of its construct – Hate breeds Hate and the Reverend Wright is the pied piper!
The sad part in all of this is that the messages of Reverend Wright are designed to take people who are already indoctrinated into a culture of fear and hate and strengthens their conceptual bonds. GOD teaches us that there is a way out of oppression, fear and hate and the right Reverend Wright has seen fit to distort GOD’s teachings and turn them around for harm in our society.
We ARE judged by the company we keep. Reverend Wright’s Psycho-Slavery of fear and hate (and others who believe and preach the messages he teaches) has got to stop if our country is ever going to get beyond the identity based divisions the Democrat Party is famous for through its embrace and representations.
The media exposure of what actually goes on during the sermons at the TUCC does not bode well, or speak well, of Barack Obama’s judgment given the twenty year association and support Barack has already shown to his (his word) MENTOR!
Barack Obama, and his “the dog ate my homework” push off to the real association he must have had with the TUCC and the teachings of Rev. Wright, in the end, will be unexplainable in the context of a person (any person) running for President of the United States.
… notes from MAXINE
Mar 18, 2008 - 6:51 am 28. Gilbert:http://tinyurl.com/32uzh9
I really love to see how ignorant these people really arte.. imagine the US or anyone else for that matter creating the AIDs Virus.. we cant cure the common cold and that with many more billions of dollars thrown at it over the years by pharmaceuticals.
He sounds just like Hitler when he began oppressing the Jews … only Mr. Wright wants to oppress whitey …
Mar 18, 2008 - 8:33 am 29. Chris M.:Many of you who sit here and criticize Obama & his pastor are the same ones who acknowledge(d) & embrace(ed) Pat Robertson’s, the former Jerry Falwell’s, James Dobson’s & their ilk’s endorsements and cozying up to past Presidents & candidates. They, including Obama’s pastor, are all offensive to me. I see no difference. They all teach intolerance and bigotry. You now see how it feels when their words are aimed more at YOU! It doesn’t feel so good does it? Grow up you whiners! Get over it.
Mar 18, 2008 - 9:02 am 30. pch1013:Why is it OK to criticize Obama’s pastor, but not OK to criticize Mitt Romney’s religion?
Mar 18, 2008 - 9:45 am 31. Truman:Hmmm, what I heard was that Obama enabled and entitled the African American churches to continue with their Black Supremacy rantings against whites, because of the history. What I heard is that Obama himself doesn’t trust the white race. What I heard is that the white race is racked by Faulkner’s guilt and hate over the black man (please note he did not say black woman) (which has a measure of truth to it by some small 2% portion of society). What I heard is that Obama once again is making sure that African Americans should be treated special, because they huddle in their communities hating and in fear of white society. What I heard is that Obama wants to give mo’money and entitlement to the black race, like we haven’t given enough over fifty years. What a bunch of bull/crap. What African Americans should do is step out of their irrational fears, clean up their own house, and learn to live in the sunlight – like the English did when they came to this nation after being persecuted, likewise the Irish, the Welsh, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese. Nobody helped them, they helped themselves. Most, look at the latino – they opened their arms, their customs and blended resoundly with all cultures.
I am tired of African Americans waving slavery and what not in my face – I’ve given my time, courtesy, money and caring to them – and watch them scuttle back to their homes and rant against the bad white man, and demand more money that they squander. In 50 years, has all our tax money helped the inner cities – no. They’ve squandered their money. Crime is higher, drop out rates is higher, teen pregnancy is higher, abandoned children are higher, drugs is higher. And now they demand more.
In my book, they are not special. They are just plain americans like the rest of us. No more special treatment.
Mar 18, 2008 - 10:27 am 32. John Montez:I’d like to hear most Republicans lame excuse about there long-time relationship with Rev Moon..resident nut-case, brainwasher, and new prophet..Let’s let all the crap bubble to the surface including all the hate and diatribe on the white side of the fence..but that would be too much to ask for………..
Mar 19, 2008 - 10:26 am 33. John Montez:Chris M.
Thanks..for your comment. I’ve had enough of the incessant whining of my
white brothers and sisters. Waah, waah..I pulled myself up from my bootstraps, ya right.
Mar 19, 2008 - 10:34 am 34. John Montez:Miles Davis was once asked how he pictured his last day on this earthly plane and he replied he wished to go out strangling “a white man” around the
neck. I love the sentiment and totally understand it, and I’m White. Cause when I leave this earthly plane, I’m gonna think of all the white jerks that kept me from my dreams, put up road blocks to me at every chance and made my life hell..Anger at a Black individual will be the furthest from my mind!
Mar 19, 2008 - 10:40 am 35. Juan Moncrief:Blaming your own failure on others is a popular activity. You see it on blog comments all the time.
All the ___ jerks that kept me from my dreams, put up road blocks, made my life hell!
Yeah, right. The sound of a loser.
Fix yourself first before you come back whining here.
Mar 20, 2008 - 8:45 am 36. Robert Shay:The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright land transaction at http://www.webofdeception.com
Mar 26, 2008 - 8:16 pm 37. Lisa:Good You Tube Video.
Obama’s Excuses and backpeddling
“I wasn’t too close to Rezko….I made a mistake…I made a poor decision….I would of left the church…..
Mar 31, 2008 - 4:34 pm