On Obama's lunatic pastor Jeremiah Wright.

To give credit where it's due, for months now FoxNews' Sean Hannity (whom I'm no fan of) has been trying to call attention to the black seperatist church the Obamas attend. Its the church whose pastor performed the Obamas' marriage. Its the church where they're children were baptised.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the pastor whose sermons inspired the title of Obama's The Audacity of Hope. And, he's the pastor whom Obama has called his 'spiritual advisor' and with whom Obama prayed right before announcing his run for the presidency.

NPR reports that Seattle's even-lefter-that-usual weekly newspaper, The Stranger, praised Rev. Wright, saying that he's "a fiery pastor who delivers magnificently cranky sermons on how the 'African diaspora' struggles under the yoke of the 'white supremacists' who run the 'American empire.'"

That same newspaper credits Wright with "rhetorical wizardry," and writes that Obama has been able to use Wright's thoughts and craft them in "an acceptable - even, conceivably, a winning - creed for middle-of-the road white voters."

Now, thanks to some particularly investigative journalism by ABCNews (VIDEO), you can see just exactly what the Obamas have been listening to, coming from the pulpit to them in the pews, for the last 20 years -- the message that, according to leftists, Obama has managed to make appealing to 'middle-of-the-road white voters'.

In 2007, a church publication -- Trumpet Newsmagazine -- gave the 'Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpeter Award' to Louis Farrakhan, saying that Farrakhan 'truly epitomized greatness'.

Perhaps, for the anti-white, anti-Semitic Dr. Jeremiah Wright, he does. After all, they seem to have common cause.

But, to most Americans, Farrakhan epitomizes racism and anti-Semitism. Farrakhan has, after all, "compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler -- 'They helped him get the Third Reich on the road.'", according to Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. "[Farrakhan] has vilified whites and singled out Jews to blame for crimes large and small, either committed by others as well or not at all."

And, yet, Obama's pastor endorses Farrakhan's worldview and praises him for his 'depth of analysis when it comes to the racial ills of this nation', his 'integrity and honesty', calling him 'an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose.'

In an a debate hosted by Tim Russert, Obama addressed the issue saying:

"The reason that I have such strong support [from the Jewish community in Chicago] is because they know that not only would I not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form ..."

Except, apparently, when it comes from the pulpit of his church.

When asked about his church, Barack Obama said:

I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial.

Unfortunately for Barack, after reviewing the statements of its Senior Pastor, I don't think that many Americans will agree with him.

ABC News found that, in 2003, Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached:

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

Anything 'particularly controversial' there?

Then see if you can see anything 'particularly controversial' about Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermon, given on September 16, 2001 -- just five days after the September 11th attacks, while firefighters were still at ground zero performing rescue and recovery -- where he said:

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye.

"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost,"

What's that? America was to blame for 9/11? Nah, no reason to see anything 'particularly controversial about that ...

The Wall Street Journal continues, quoting from a sermon Rev. Jeremiah Wright gave on January 15, 2006:

Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.

So, I'm a bit confused. Is he saying that Dr. Condoleeza Rice is only Secretary of State because she's a whore?

Rev. Wright goes on to say:

"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world ... We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers ... We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi ... We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.

"We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic ... We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means ...

"We started the AIDS virus ... We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty ..."

So, apparently, the Obamas' pastor is one of the conspiracy kooks who thinks that the U.S. Government came up with crack and AIDS to kill black people. Anything controversial about that, Barack?

[ Just to give further example of how media has given Obama a pass, rather than discuss the lunatic, anti-American, anti-Semite bigot whose church the Obamas have been attending for 20 years now, MSNBC offers this 'hard hitting' piece of journalism about how Obama's 'free-spirited mother set [his] path' ... ]

Now, to 'defend' Obama a bit, he did tell a group of Jewish voters that he thought of Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with." Unfortunately, he hasn't really articulated any of his points of disagreement.

As a Kansan, we're rather intimately familiar with pastors who preach hatred. We've got a guy who preaches that "God hates America" due to its acceptance of homosexuality. He and his followers stand on street corners, and picket outside soldiers' funerals, thanking God for IEDs and loudly proclaiming a message of hatred.

Unfortunately, his message is not altogether unlike that which Obama's pastor has preached. The only difference is the 'reason' -- homosexuality or 'American terrorism' -- why God, and by default his followers, should hate America.

That pastor is roundly condemned, and rightly so.

Obama, however, while stating that he 'deeply disagrees' with some of the things his pastor has said, continues to honor this hateful, bigotted man.

Obama honors him by having him perform their marriage ceremony. He honors him by having him baptize his children. He honors him by using his sermons to title his book. He honors him by continuing to attend his church for 20 years. He thanked him specifically after his election to the Senate in 2004.

I find it a bit difficult to understand how someone can continue to attend a church and give so much respect to a man like that, much less state that the things being preached from the pulpit weren't 'particularly controversial'. And, I most certainly would not continue to attend that church for more two decades.

As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Obamas wouldn't choose to belong to Wright's church and seek his advice unless they agreed with at least some of his views. And, in light of the views preached at their church, Michelle Obama's comments about finally feeling proud of America for the first time in her adult life start to look less like a faux pas and more like actual, honest belief.

Obama's campaign regularly questions Hillary's judgment. Perhaps that is merely to deflect from Obama's own apparent lack of judgment when it comes to the people he's chosen to associate himself with.