Obama’s Double-Life
Thomas Sowell has a well-written piece at National Review Online in which he addresses the recent embarrassment to the campaign of Barack Obama. For those who haven’t read or seen the news in the past few days, Sowell is refering to Obama’s 20 year membership in a church pastored by Jeremiah Wright, and his regard of Wright as his mentor and spiritual advisor. The problem with Wright is his black liberation theology and blatantly racist ideology. Sowell states:
While talking about bringing us together and deploring “divisive” actions, Senator Obama has for 20 years been a member of a church whose minister, Jeremiah Wright, has said that “God Bless America” should be replaced by “God damn America” — among many other wild and even obscene denunciations of American society, including blanket racist attacks on whites.
Nor was this an isolated example. Fox News Channel has played tapes of various sermons of Jeremiah Wright, and says that it has tapes with hours more of the same.
Wright’s actions matched his words. He went with Louis Farrakhan to Libya and Farrakhan received an award from his church.
Wright’s sermons have been divisive and anti-American, damning America for spreading drugs in the black community and calling the U.S. the “US-KKK-a”. Sowell, and many others, are rightly criticizing Obama, not just for being a part of this church (It is America and a man can hold whatever views he wishes), but for now pretending that he had no idea that the church and Pastor Wright held such radical views. Here is a youtube excerpt from one of Wright’s inflammatory sermons.
For a man ful of rhetoric about uniting America, Obama has a lot of explaining to do concerning his double life.