If the comments are so acceptable or usual why did Obama reject them and compare the person who said them to a nutty relative? Why is Obama throwing Wright under a bus? You can't have it both ways.

Obama and the DNC better step in and shut down these wacky defenders of the indefensible. This is hilarious spin, and the fact that Mitchell and CBS can't see it is shocking.

The rock star Obama has been caught with groupies in the back of the tour bus. This isn't going away.

It was a sure thing the media would run cover for this - because they don't disagree with the pastor.   They call such language "divisive" only in relation to their understanding that many Americans don't agree with them.  But, if they were sitting around the facaulty lounge of most colleges in the country, or sitting sipping coffee in the breakroom of most news organizations, they wouldn't find much wrong with Rev. Wright's thoughts.

CBS, defending the racist and spreading racism one broadcast at a time.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

You can have fiery rhetoric without the hate, venom, and vitriol. These guys defending the hate speech are no better than the brownshirts beating up on people for saying your violent.

Sick.

"The Prophets used it in ancient Israel. The Disciples used it, Jesus called the Pharisees whitened sepulchres or whitened tombs."

This is true enough -- John the Baptist, the Apostles Peter and Paul, and Jesus Himself, had plenty of "fire and brimstone" in a radical call for repentence and conversion.  Never, however, did they issue the blanket statement along the lines of "God Damn Rome to Hell."  Jesus on the cross, speaking undoubtly of Roman and Jewish authorities, prayed "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Now that these MSM talking heads have raised "WWJD?", what is ironic is for us to consider just who is the real self-righteous Pharisee here?

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'

    "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

    "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

-- Luke 18:9-14

"BUTTS: Well, because people love their pastors, and in the churches they understand the rhetoric. See, you shouldn't look at this as they walk into church and the pastor says something shocking and they immediately run to it. They understand what is radical rhetoric and what is the practical application of the love of God to everybody. "

So, when the radical white pastor or KKK leader in a church, refers to blacks as lazy and shiftless, it's just rhetoric and we should accept it within it's context of driving home a point in a sermon???

Sure, that'll be the day.  I don't care who says such things or where/when...it's not acceptable, just as the things that Wright said are unacceptable.

If he's a victim, it's the Church that did it to Obamarama. . .  he who does not know what's going on in his own Church that he gave $ 22,000 to last year .

Mitt Romney had to STOP, and make a mandatory Religious Explanation SPEECH.  Religion was made an Election issue. 

How's he going to Run the Country, without realizing what's going on in New Orleans  ?  Iowa Corn Fields ?  or the Church in the same Neighborhood he lives in ?

My Vote is NO, to his run for the Presidency.   No, to David Duke, No to The Rev. GD Wright. 

For decades, our universities have accepted and encouraged the doctrine of black power.  Liberal whites have lent tacit approval to the teachings of Stokely Carmichael and Bobby Seale and Angela Davis and Donald DeFreeze and Reverend Wright with his black liberation theology and on and on…. Umgawa!  Black Power!   

Now many of these same liberals will have to ask themselves if they are really comfortable having an apologist for this nasty little philosophy occupying the White House.  The one-sided presentation by the Early Show shows me that the liberals at CBS have made their decision.

Has anyone asked Springfield's Reverend Lovejoy what he thinks yet?

Reverend Lovejoy: Homer, I'd like you to remember Matthew 7:26. "The foolish man who built his house upon the sand."

This so-called new Wright religion is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants, designed to take away the money of fools.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Just wondering.

Does anyone know whether the Reverend Wright's Church has any policy on sexual relations between the races? Married or otherwise.

Would he, for example, counsel against such a union? 

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

I have some questions I think Jesus would have asked "preachers" like Wright, Sharpton, and Jackson:

Why are you talking secular politics in church?(and don't tell me its a "tradition")

Are you poor, or is it just your followers who are poor?

Are you rich? How did you come by it?

How have the lives of your followers been changed by your preaching?

Why is the ghetto still so full of drugs, crime, etc. after the past 30 years of your "preaching"?

Why do you hate the white man? Will you ever stop hating the white man?

Why do you encourage your followers to break the laws of this country?

Do you know how deep in Hell the Lord puts hypocrites? ( listen up, BO.)

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

This is gonna be the "Wack-a-Mole" story for the Dems.They"ll keep trying to plug the holes, but it ain't gonna work.Ha!

You folks really have this stuff all wrong. Apparently, racism and hatred of America is preached all the time in black churches in America, so this is no big deal. Really, it isn"t.

Anybody else notice the complete absence of Sharpton and Jackson in this whole "dialogue"?

What's up with that?  These hucksters don't usually skip out on an opportunity to plead the cause of their victims.

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