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Alex · #**292** (**permalink**) 03-21-2008

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Originally Posted by Johnny K

Umm Alex,

I asked you a question, if you would prefer not to answer, just say so. I'll understand.

I don't need to answer the question- he lied about it. He knew that Rev. Wright was an America hating racist and pretended he was 'shocked, shocked' when he found out about it. Any way you slice it, that is a lie. He was not shocked. He knew it all along. Obama wrote about in his first book "Dreams from my Father" published in 1995.

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The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.” He began with a passage from the Book of Samuel—the story of Hannah, who, barren and taunted by her rivals, had wept and shaken in prayer before her God. The story reminded him, he said, of a sermon a fellow pastor had preached at a conference some years before, in which the pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.

“The painting depicts a harpist,” Reverend Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountain. Until you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.

“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”

And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate. The reverend spoke of the hardship that the congregation would face tomorrow, the pain of those far from the mountaintop, worrying about paying the light bill

… Obama is trying to tell us that the hateful rhetoric his reverend is deploying now isn’t what he heard during his two decades in that reverend’s congregation. Yet it’s clear from this memoir that the Reverend Wright was saying the same things then as he’s saying now. Obama’s only trying to distance himself from Wright now because Wright has become politically inconvenient.....So, If you want to pretend that he never knew, then you can. Like I've said countless times, I don't think Obama shares all of the Reverends opinions, but he has show seriously bad judgment by his twenty year association. This is fair game in an election.