Sunday, March 23, 2008
Just as I did not believe it when President Clinton claimed that he smoked marijuana but did not inhale, I do not believe that Sen. Barack Obama was unaware of the incendiary, racist, anti-American sermons of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
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Give me a break. Politicians must think we the people are idiots.
Obama went to Wright's church for 20 or so years where the reverend preached. The Rev. Wright married the senator and his wife and baptized their children. The senator titled his book The Audacity of Hope after a Wright sermon.
The senator appointed the reverend to serve on the religious committee for his presidential campaign, for God's sake.
Obama now has come out and denounced Wright's insanely anti-American rants. Wright's horrible, racist and uneducated statements can be viewed on youtube.com. Go and see for yourself.
The reverend is a disgrace to Christianity and to America. He is a classic false prophet.
Yet Obama claims he never once in 20 years of attending the church heard the Rev. Wright utter a racist or anti-American word.
Obama claims the reverend helped him find Jesus, but now likens the reverend to a "crazy uncle" once the media put the spotlight on the reverend's bigoted and foolish comments.
Can you say "schizophrenic"?
The hate-filled segments I've seen of the Rev. Wright's sermons contain nothing Christian-like. It is shocking that a so-called Christian could have such hate in his heart.
We all make mistakes, the Rev. Wright included. But it appears that he is sticking by his anti-American and racist comments, because he has offered no public apology.
I have more respect for former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. At least he admits to getting caught.
Where there is smoke there is generally fire. Obama's wife has stated that for the first time in her life she is proud to be an American, even though she and her husband have done very well both professionally and financially in what she was obviously referring to as a white man's America. Her statement had an ugly Rev. Wright tenor to it.
The question comes down to believability. Do you really believe Sen. Obama when he claims he has not ever heard the Rev. Wright unleash a torrent of inflammatory racist diatribe from the pulpit once in the 20 years he attended this church?
I may have been born at night, senator, but I was not born last night.
Politicians of many political stripes have made mistakes and then have tried to weasel out of them through carefully crafted statements when they are obviously guilty of the mistake.
You would have to be incredibly naïve to believe that President Clinton did not inhale or that Obama did not hear inflammatory remarks from the Rev. Wright over 20 years in the pews. I believe he did hear such words and he did not quit the church or publicly repudiate the Rev. Wright's ugly sentiments.
Obama only denounced the Rev. Wright's morally repugnant statements when the media's spotlight shined upon Wright's darkness. I don't believe Sen. Obama and neither should you.
When given the opportunity to tell the truth, Obama took the slick and slimy road too often traveled by our politicians.
America cannot afford to elect a dishonest fraud as president.
Ted Nugent is a Waco-based musician and television show host. Contact Ted directly at tednugent.com.
