Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the notorious liberation theology preacher at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave a rare interview to the Washington Post yesterday. Wright revealed that he and Obama were even closer than most people knew.
"It is unrealistic to think that one person can change the mess that this country has gotten into, but to pick on him is like picking on one of my kids," Wright said. "I have been knowing him for 20 years."I have not stopped loving him because of what the press did, and to see him beat up on because of things he is not responsible for is painful."
Wright is the same preacher who screamed "God Damn America!" from the pulpit and said 9/11 was just America's "chickens coming home to roost," among other anti-American statements. The fact that Wright thought of the president as a son makes Obama's denouncements of him during the campaign seem even more dishonest. Obama knew what Wright was up to for 20 years, but only resigned his membership from Trinity under political pressure.
In the Post interview, Wright also repeated the lie that he hasn't had any contact with Obama since the campaign, and said he didn't expect to see Obama until he was "out of the White House." But Wright's name was on the White House guest list that Obama released last year. Not only has Wright been in touch with Obama, the president threw the White House doors open for the noxiously anti-American pastor. Wright's lie echoes another anti-Semitic remark he made to the Daily Press of Newport News last year: "Them Jews aren't going to let [Obama] talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office."
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