Jeremiah Wright, Obama's Pastor: "Hillary Ain't Never Been Called A N****r"

Video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor and mentor to Barack Obama, has been posted. The Reverend defends his most famous constituent and attacks Hillary Clinton, saying, "Hillary ain't never been called a n****r."

Meanwhile, The Blotter has detailed some highly controversial statements by Wright in the past:

Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America."

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side, has a long history of what even Obama's campaign aides concede is "inflammatory rhetoric," including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own "terrorism."

UPDATE: Politico points out that Wright actually holds a formal position with Obama's campaign:

Wright is a member of Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee -- the sort of largely honorary, advisory body that in recent days has recently been used mostly to throw people off who say controversial things.

The Obama campaign couldn't immediately say whether he'd remain on the committee.

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Comments

[mponti]

Obama needs to dump this preacher now.

[sklfcats]

America needs to dumb Obama now..

[HumeSkeptic]

...so spoke the "dump" one.

[hank48188]

All you Obama supporters better wake up, Obama will not be elected by America, they don't want America haters in the White House

[armadillious2002]

Jerry Falwell - republican moral majority leader - also stated soon after 911 that the terrorist attack was America's fault. He sited it as punishment for moral decline as the cause - If you're gonna get to the truth you've got to look at both sides. It must be a preacher thing.

[hopeforchange]

Oh-is Jerry Falwell Hillary's preacher-you Obama people always have some new way of looking at things-dont you.

[SeekerOne]

Has Hillary lived Black in America? Most of us white people have chosen to look away from the legacies of slavery. Maybe it's time to look.

[transendentilist]

Everything is Hillary's fault, don't ya know!

[AguynamedWayne]

So you are saying that Obama's racist church isn't bad because Republicans have a racist preacher too. When did two wrongs make a right? Racism is Racism, Bigotry is Bigotry. It doesn't matter which side is promoting it.

[transendentilist]

Surely you don't agree with that? Moral decline?? So America is now Soddem and Gomorah? Just America?? Nowhere else in the world??? So God is biased against Americans? Sounds silly, doesn't it?
We were attacked on 9/11 because of our military presence in the "holy lands," of the middle-east. Osama has even said as much. It doesn't make what the terrorists did acceptable, but it does give them motive. We brought this on ourselves, by too much meddling in the affairs of other countries.

[Seafarer61]

John McCain will be using Jeremiah Wright as third base throughout the summer....watch and see. Combine this with Michelle Obama's comments about pride and her country (or lack of) and the Obama campaign seems to be handing the general election over to the republicans for another four years.

To paraphrase Elvis Costello:

"Never knowing it's a real attraction, all these promises of satisfaction."

[Charmed]

John McCain will be using hillary's endorsement of him also.

[aftershock]

McCain won't, that's the 527's job.

[snowcat]

MOTHER JONES - Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from that connection. "A lot of evangelicals would see that as just cynical exploitation," says the Reverend Rob Schenck, a former leader of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue who now ministers to decision makers in Washington. "I don't....there is a real good that is infected in people when they are around Jesus talk, and open Bibles, and prayer.". . .

When Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, one of her first steps was to join a Bible study group. For the next eight years, she regularly met with a Christian "cell" whose members included Susan Baker, wife of Bush consigliere James Baker; Joanne Kemp, wife of conservative icon Jack Kemp; Eileen Bakke, wife of Dennis Bakke, a leader in the anti-union Christian management movement; and Grace Nelson, the wife of Senator Bill Nelson, a conservative Florida Democrat.

Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.

Clinton declined our requests for an interview about her faith,

[snowcat]

the link to this article with more info on Hillary's bizarre ties

http://prorev.com/2007/12/hillary-clinton-heavy-into-rightwing.html

[hopeforchange]

I thought we were trying to build bridges to republicans-oh-but thats only when Barac want to get elected-of course he wont run his presidency based on a plan he used in his campaign.

[snowcat]

http://prorev.com/2007/12/hillary-clinton-heavy-into-rightwing.html

the link to this article and more on hillary's bizarre ties

[tbone99]

OMG --Thats disgusting .This just proves that there is no god!

[langstonhughesfan]

Big Obama fan here...And I say DUMP THIS LOUDMOUTHED CLOWN OF A PASTOR!! He's a distraction to the campaign, and that alone is reason to cut him loose. Get rid of him YESTERDAY!!

[hopeforchange]

You don't get rid of your God, and you dont get rid of his messenger. How could Obama "dump" him. What silly talk.

[rubicon101]

I think it's a little too late for that..20 years of participation, they were married by him, Obamas children were baptized by him..I heard he recently donated over twenty thousand dollars to his church..To just say "Barack should dump him" is a too little, too late as far as I'm concerned..
I would say that America needs to step back and take a closer look at who Barack Obama really is!!

[sklfcats]

AND TAKE BARAK WITH YOU PREACHER
WE DON'T NEED THIS OR THEM IN USA

[vsign]

The relation Obama has to his church is important. Very important.

It is where many of his supporters come from. It is the religious politics he preaches on the campaign stump. It is a continuation of 1968. It is what 1968 evolved into over the last 40 years. Revolutionary Christianity doctrines. Revolutionary Political doctrines.

I have had many persons contact me that I knew in 1968 - wanting me to vote for Obama.

If the country wants to know Obama, the press needs to follow up on this thread about his church and political associations.

[snowcat]

according to your profile, you hate Obama ans use the term race-baiting alot...hmmm....

[hopeforchange]

Maybe he is pointing out that Obama is a race baiter?

[vsign]

I don't hate Obama - snowcat.

I think he is a politician like Hillary. I think he is the one who has played the race card to divide us in this primary season.

I think he may be using alot of blacks and whites who vote for him in kinda a cynical way. He preaches alot about a different America. Does he want America to look more like his church?

Who is he really? He has so little of a political record - all thinking people need to ask - who is he really?

[MNmommy]

Interesting that this story still sits in the middle of the page on the politics tab when it is dominating all of the morning cable news shows.

Meanwhile Buchanan telling motor-mouth Goff to shut up is still on the front page.

[RobertaInCT]

I'm glad to see you posting again MNm , I miss reading your posts :)

You caught that as well, it should have been on the front page from the beginning. This is something that will not go away........ They cannot spin this.

[snowcat]

He's just like Geraldin Ferraro- old, sad and fighting old militant fights that have driven them crazy.

I have written to MSNBC to let them know I'm angry about this morning's coverage. They are talking about the pastor and showing video and making it look new and seem like it is just breaking! This was covered extensively a year ago! OLD NEWS. Joe S. and Tucker were screaming about it this morning and going on and on about 911. The fact they are both republicans says it all. They are not however bringing up any "old news" on the Clintons like Whitewater, Vince Foster, Bill's library, , travel-gate, etc, etc...

There is also old news on Joe Scarborough that he never asnwered on air to like the aide, Lori Klausutis who died in his office. There were lots of whispers about that, maybe he should answer on air to that "old news"

Tucker Carlson writes about "false" rape accusations against him in his book. Maybe he should talk on air about that "old news"!

The pastor thing has been around forever and Obama answered to it as McCain has about all his controversial supporters.

[hopeforchange]

Is there old news that Obama denounced-er rejected-er denounced-er -rejected his ministers hate speech? You should bring up that old news.

[AguynamedWayne]

Again I ask: If Obama "answered" all of this, then why does that racist still have an official position within the Obama campaign?

[Colmore]

Maybe the good reverend would do better to encourage young blacks to stop using that word with each other? Why blame white people all the time, when their own people constantly use that word? I hate to hear the word from anyone regardless of color. Comedians use it constantly, and it really bothers me. Since the reverend rants on, screaming and using the word, he is setting a bad example, plus firing up racists in his own congregation. No all racists are white, rev. Can we look forward to more of this if Obama gets into the WH? Where are all the religious leaders who preach "unity" instead of promoting bigotry?

[CubanPete]

To quote Michelle Obama (sorta) WHITE PEOPLE BETTER WAKE UP!

[AguynamedWayne]

After seeing these racists rants by Obama's preacher, I think a lot of white people in America HAVE INDEED JUST WOKEN UP! And to use Obama's own words: We've been HoodWinked!

[SeekerOne]

Awakened to what? The disparity between the white and black experience in America?

[billrott]

I support Obama and believe this reverend should be removed from his campaign committee that he is on. This person has become a distraction from the issues and either HIllary's campaign of negativity or the Republicans will make an issue out of this one. Barack needs to tell the guy thank you; however I don't want to see your connection with me take down either the church or the goals of improving the nation we both share. I feel this reverend should understand what is going on.

[AjicNYC]

Why? whats going on? American people are on to them? He exposed himself and his family to this crap for 20years. He gave the same old same old answer "hes like an uncle" um OK what does that mean?? Say publicly that you stand behind your church or you dont. He is trying to apeal to all. I am sorry people need to know the truth in order to make an intellgent decion.

[NC4Obama]

Well it seems this stuff has been brought up again by Fox (Murdoch) to help out Hillary.

[moevaughn]

no, Wright's church just released these videos following his retirement. frankly if Hillary Clinton's pastor had said anything like this, Huff Post would haverun the story at the top of the page headline, as would have all the major news outlets.

[vsign]

Obama is the front runner now. We have to decide if he can win the General.

[Tizzy]

So now that Obama is not a Muslim, it will be nice to show the kind of Christain Church he worships in.How low can people go to stop a fellow American from winning the White House? Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. What does the Christain faith teach us about tolerance and discrimination and adultery? If we open up the background of the Clintons backers over the past 35 years, people will see that Obama is a 'saint' compared with the 'devils' the Clintons dine with. Obama's Pastor is an idiot and I will not punish Obama for the Pastors actions.

[Tizzy]

Wonderful. So Obama is not a Muslim afterall. Hillary would'nt know?

[hopeforchange]

He isn't?

[tbone99]

I guess he didn't show up at her "prayer" meetings with the Repugs.

[Mutineer]

What I want to know is what does this have to do with preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ?

[hopeforchange]

Evidently to Obama this is what Jesus was all about-hate.

[tbone99]

This minister is trying to say for all their Christianity , whites really haven't been so "Christian." and shame on them. Can you argue with that? Tell me it isn't so.