I don’t know what’s goin’ down at 5 pm….but I hope everything works out for you, whatever that may be!!

It would seem that Oprah had the good sense to leave the church.

Barack Obama joined TUCC in 1991, he tacitly accepted this same Jeremiah Wright as a spiritual mentor.

Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. He has been attending Wright’s church regularly since 1988.

In 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.

The title of Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004.

Obama is asking us to trust his judgment when the criticism was that he had little experience. Now it turns out he had experience, just the wrong kind. Yes there are important issues ahead… and that is why looking at how Obama deals with the middle-east is so important. If he chooses Reverend Wright as a spiritual speaker, what type of speakers will he broker a peace deal with.

(recent postings on the internet do seem to show that he has been in the church less the 30 years, but on closer inspection on the relationship of Obama and Wright it seems all the more likely that the two were very close.)

below are some excerpts taken from this address

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=c19d4d91-618e-40d3-a5d9-c07d7a87a5ba

On March 1, 1972, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. became the pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), a position he still holds to this day. Because he has been a revered figure in the life of presidential aspirant Barack Obama for two decades, Wright’s political views, which he commonly draws from the tenets of liberation theology, are worthy of some scrutiny—if only to shed light on the teachings that have had enough resonance to retain Obama as a TUCC congregant since 1988. So great is Obama’s respect for Wright, that the former sought the Reverend’s counsel before formally declaring his candidacy for U.S. President. Moreover, Obama and his wife selected Wright to perform their wedding ceremony and to baptize their two daughters. These are honors of considerable magnitude, and it is reasonable to speculate that if we learn more about Rev. Wright, we may gain some insight into the personal qualities and belief systems Barack Obama holds in high regard.

“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens,” says Wright.

in 1996 Farrakhan told a Tehran newspaper that God would “bestow upon Muslims” the honor of “destroy[ing] America.” In February 1998, he sent a cordial and supportive letter to Saddam Hussein, calling him a “visionary” who had earned the Iraqi people’s “love,” and whose demise would “mean a setback for the goal of unity [among Muslims].” In July 2002, he declared that America, “with blood dripping from [its] hands,” had no moral authority by which to overthrow Saddam. In February 2005, he condemned the United States for waging a war “against Islam,” adding: “[T]here’s no way that I, as a Muslim, could countenance my children or grandchildren fighting a war against fellow believers in any part of the world.”

Farrakhan also has a long, well-documented history of venom-laced references to the white “blue-eyed devils” and Jewish “bloodsuckers” who purportedly decimate America’s black communities from coast to coast. Moreover, he has referred to white people as “the skunks of the planet.”

On a 1984 trip to meet with the Libyan dictator (and America’s arch enemy) Muammar Qadhafi, Farrakhan was accompanied by none other than Jeremiah A. Wright.

I shudder when I think of having this racist as our president.