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What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know it?

by Jacob Freeze, Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:06:23 PM EST

It's sort of a paradox that Reverend Jeremiah Wright disappeared as soon as he became famous.

If he gave a few interviews, maybe he could answer some specific questions that the mainstream media and the blogs have somehow forgotten to ask Barack Obama.

What did Barack Obama know about the "God damn America!" sermon and when did he know it?

So far Mr. Obama is very, very vague about what he knew. There were some "controversial" sermons, and some "inflammatory" sermons, and now that Obama has finally heard about them, he "vehemently disagrees." But nobody is asking specific questions about what and when, and Mr. Obama isn't volunteering any specific information.

So maybe if Jeremiah Wright came out of hiding and gave a few interviews, he could expand the discussion beyond the usual platitudes and excuses.

What did Barack Obama know about the "God damn America!" sermon, and when did he know it?

Tags: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright (all tags)

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Yes, the question on the lips of Americans... (2.00 / 1)

... everywhere!

by Bob Johnson on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:08:37 PM EST

Re: What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know it? (none / 0)

He took a cruise. Yeah right. Did he go with Obama's Grandmother she disappered as well. That would be two peole the MSM should interview at length.

by coolofthenight on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:09:02 PM EST

Re: What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know it? (2.00 / 1)

Give it a rest with these pathetic 'gotcha' games. What did Clinton know about Vince Foster's suicide, and when did she know it? Cattle futures? Whitewater land deals? It's fun to ask so many rhetorical questions.

by rfahey22 on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:09:35 PM EST

Re: What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know it? (2.00 / 1)

I don't care and I can't imagine many people do.

This is not Watergate, bub.

We care about politics because we know politics matters for people's lives and opportunities.

by politicsmatters on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:23:31 PM EST

Re: What (2.00 / 2)

Actually people do care. Get off the Obama blogs and talk to some people. People are talking about it all over the place.

No longer a Democrat, now proudly an independent voter!

by Ga6thDem on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 03:44:40 PM EST
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Re: What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know it? (2.00 / 1)

So... have you yet watched that entire sermon? Just curious. I'm sure you did, in the interest of fairness, and aren't basing your knowledge from the five-second soundbyte played on the news. Right?

So, what'd you think about the context?

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:24:01 PM EST

Context? (2.00 / 1)

I have watched videos of numerous sermons by Jeremiah Wright, and read other texts and interviews, and there is still no context that makes "God damn America!" sound any better.

From those who have not, everything will be taken, even the little that they have. -Matthew 13:12

by Jacob Freeze on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 01:36:43 PM EST
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Re: Context? (2.00 / 1)

So, by "Yes," you mean "no", right?

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:00:05 PM EST
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By "Yes" I mean "Yes." (none / 0)

Jeremiah Wright's litany about the government giving drugs to black people, building bigger prisons, and passing three strikes laws doesn't make it sound any better when he curses his own country.

So let me ask you the same question Jeremiah Wright asked Sean Hannity.

How many books by Wright's mentor James Cone have you read? Did you read Black Theology and Black Power, where Cone claims that "While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism." [p. 14-16]

That's part of the real context of Wright's sermons that Obama's friends want to forget.

From those who have not, everything will be taken, even the little that they have. -Matthew 13:12

by Jacob Freeze on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:14:35 PM EST
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ragekage should post a link. (none / 0)

If you have a link to the full sermon, post it. I listened to the fullest version I could find, and the context for a couple of minutes on either side of the money quote is raving about the government selling crack in the ghettos, and the rest of Wright's paranoid fantasy structure.

Many you think paranoia is a context that makes Wright sound better when he screams "God damn America!" but I can't agree.

From those who have not, everything will be taken, even the little that they have. -Matthew 13:12

by Jacob Freeze on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:24:06 PM EST
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Re: ragekage should post a link. (2.00 / 1)

It's on CNN. Roland Martin did a thorough dissection and examination of the entire speech.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:27:56 PM EST
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Re: By "Yes" I mean "Yes." (none / 0)

Ahhh, we have a winnah!!!

My point precisely, thank you.

Hooray for John McCain!

by ragekage on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:27:12 PM EST
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You claim the New Testament is a context for hate? (1.00 / 1)

Now you're really on the same wavelength as Jeremiah Wright and James Cone.

"What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal." [A Black Theology of Liberation, p. 70]

From those who have not, everything will be taken, even the little that they have. -Matthew 13:12

by Jacob Freeze on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:30:46 PM EST
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It isn't an observation, it's a curse. (1.00 / 1)

When Wright screams "God damn America!" he isn't making an observation about what God may or may not be doing, as "new account" claims.

Wright is exhorting God to damn America.

Another way to say it is that Wright is cursing his own country.

And he is also urging his own congregation to sing "God damn America!" to the tune of "God Bless America!"

Maybe there's another YouTube video out there with this uplifting song on it.

I'm sure Obama's disciples could explain it away with "context."

From those who have not, everything will be taken, even the little that they have. -Matthew 13:12

by Jacob Freeze on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:39:17 PM EST
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Re: What Did Obama Know, and When Did He Know it? (1.50 / 2)

Yawn! Zzzzzzzzzzz

"we have the most radical president we have ever had, leading our country right now, and he is completely uneducable." - Seymour Hersh

by Lefty Coaster on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:04:33 PM EST

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I cant find the diary that said a HRC supporter owned the company that did the passport breach

but if you are out there I wanted to let you know I heard this and see if you can confirm

"The article said a focal point of the probe will be an employee who works for The Analysis Corporation and is still with the company. The firm is headed by John O. Brennan, an Obama adviser. The Times reported he advises the Democratic presidential candidate on intelligence and foreign policy matters.

"The Times reported that the employee at TAC is the only individual who accessed both Obama's and John McCain's passport information. TAC decided to honor a State Department request to delay firing the consultant to give investigators time to conduct their investigation, the company said."

ginaswo

by ginaswo on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:37:40 PM EST

Really.... who cares? (2.00 / 1)

So minor in the scope of things. Let's focus on the issues that really matter, like a big win in PA.

by HRC 2009 on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:50:24 PM EST

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The electorate.

Stop doing this, you're dooming us.

Until recently I was selling drugs, and now I'm selling Obama T-shirts.

by switching sides on Sat Mar 22, 2008 at 02:58:34 PM EST

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