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Rev. Wright Speaks To Bill Moyers
Just when you start missing those Youtube clips of Obama’s pastor ranting and raving in front of his congregation, Rev. Wright does something to get himself front and center once again.
No matter how many times I see those clips of pastor Wright I still laugh out loud. It looks like it’s time to cue up those clips again, because the rev. is back and he’s not one bit sorry!
In an interview that will air tomorrow, Rev. Jeremiah Wright sits down with ultra far-left journalist Bill Moyers.
Here’s a snippet of the interview:
“It’s to paint me as something — ‘Something’s wrong with me. There’s nothing wrong with this country … for its policies. We’re perfect. Our hands are free. Our hands have no blood on them,’” he said. “That’s not a failure to communicate. The message that is being communicated by the sound bites is exactly what those pushing those sound bites want to communicate.”
When asked what the people who aired the clips “wanted to communicate,” Mr. Wright said, “I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint? That’s what they wanted to communicate.”
Mr. Wright, who has acted as Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor and retired in February as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said that he has never heard Mr. Obama repeat any of his controversial statements.
“Absolutely not,” Mr. Wright said. “I don’t talk to him about politics. And so he had a political event, he goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician. I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.”
Mr. Obama publicly denounced Mr. Wright’s remarks, a reaction Mr. Wright said “went down very simply.”
“He’s a politician, I’m a pastor,” he said. “We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they’re two different worlds.”
He added, “I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician.”
I don’t think it was “guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint…” at all. I think people have a right to ask someone who wants to be president why they have a racist black militant for a pastor.
I think we have a right to ask why Obama would bring his family to a church that teaches that AIDS was invented by white people to unleash on the black community. It seems strange that a guy with a message of “hope” who likes to “bring people together” would be so closely associated with a raving lunatic like Wright.
-Chris Jones
Cheney Says Murtha and Dingell Don’t Have “Big Sticks”
Vice President Cheney warned in an interview with The Politico that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would invite “further attacks” against the United States and said he has been surprised by the weakness of the Democratic Congress.
The funny part of the interview is when he taunts the Democratic leadership. He talked about Democratic Reps. John Dingell and John Murtha, scoffing at the idea of two men who spent years accruing so much power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the big debates of the year.
Murtha “and the other senior leaders … march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker,” Cheney said. “I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened.”
“They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel got wind of the Vice President’s talk of sticks and fired back,
“Some of us were surprised that the president didn’t have a bigger stick when he could have stood up to Dick Cheney.”
Cheney also left no doubt that he takes pride in the most-criticized policies of the Bush administration, including the wiretapping of suspected terrorists, and the long-term imprisonment and aggressive interrogation of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“We’ve been very successful,” he said. “It’s not an accident; it’s because those programs have been there.”
The Vice President also made the prediction that Iraq will be a self-sustaining Democracy by 2009.
But Cheney said that by the middle of January 2009, it will be clear that “we have in fact achieved our objective in terms of having a self-governing Iraq that’s capable for the most part of defending themselves, a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, a nation that will be a positive force in influencing the world around it in the future.”
One thing you have to admire about Dick Cheney and President Bush is their willingness to do what they think is right, even in the face of withering criticism. Say what you want about the Bush Administration, but the fact remains that we haven’t been attacked again.
I’m also glad that Cheney brought up the one fact everyone is aware of, but refuses to acknowledge. Republicans really do have “bigger sticks” than Democrats.
-Chris Jones
New Book Says Saddam Admitted His WMD’s Were A Bluff
A new book tells among other things the story of the FBI agent who spent seven hours a day everyday for a year with Saddam Hussein after his capture. They drank coffee, smoked cigars, and talked about everything. FBI Special Agent George Piro says Saddam even cried on their last meeting before his execution.
Saddam admitted that he bluffed the U.S. about his weapons capabilities in hopes of scaring Iran. He didn’t think the Bush Administration would actually attack him. He also told the agent outright that his plan was to wait until the UN sanctions were eventually lifted, and then reconstitute his nuclear program.
Surprisingly, Saddam never used body doubles – as was widely believed – because no one could “play” him, Piro quoted Saddam as saying.
To find out more you’ll have to read “The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack.”
-Chris Jones
Nuclear Plant Lockdown: Worker With Explosives Detained
Security officials at the nation’s largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small explosive device in the back of his pickup truck.
The worker was stopped and detained at the entrance of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. Officials then put the entire plant on lock-down barring anyone from entering or exiting the facility.
Authorities described the device as a small capped pipe that contained suspicious residue. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office rendered the device safe and investigators began interviewing the worker.
French president walks out of TV interview
French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked out of an interview with CBS television news show 60 minutes, according to a clip of the show released Sunday in advance of the interview’s airing.
A clearly disturbed Sarkozy stood up muttering in French about the question, which was not heard, in a short publicity clip put on the Internet ahead of the 60 Minutes broadcast Sunday night.
Before the CBS news show interview in Paris even began, Sarkozy called his press secretary “an imbecile” for arranging the session on a busy day.
In the interview conducted earlier this month and aired Sunday night, he candidly discussed what he likes about the U.S. But he grew frustrated when asked about his wife.
“If I had to say something about Cecilia, I would certainly not do so here,” Sarkozy replied.
He declared the interview over and said: “Bon courage.” Two weeks later, the Sarkozys’ divorce was announced.
-Chris Jones
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