Jesus Just Left Chicago

"Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth." Jeremiah 1:9

We may rest assured that God did not put His words into the mouth of "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, from whose mouth spews filth. Wright was the pastor of a church of racists who paid him to blame their own failures and discontents on others, which is always easier than taking responsibility for one's own decisions and conduct.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788

Barack Obama did what he had to do to be elected to the Illinois state legislature from Chicago, and that included affiliating himself with a racist church whose leader could mobilize voters for him. Now that Obama seeks support from Democrats in a national campaign, he needs the support of voters who don't hate white people, and his karma from Chicago has come back to haunt him like a bad burrito.

So, Barack and his advisors were forced to decide what spin to put on this problem that would alienate the fewest voters. Obama doesn't want to alienate either his racist or non-racist supporters, so he did what he does best: say nothing with many words, beautifully. Thus the spin: disown Wright's "divisive" comments but not Wright and his followers. Americans will forgive anything, so those who want to believe Obama will believe him, and this will include both his racist and non-racist supporters. His old racist base will believe that he is winking and nodding at them and that he really believes, as they do, that their failures, disappointments and, yes, even their sins are caused solely by the blue-eyed devil. His new liberal base will believe that he sat in that church, offended by what he was hearing over and again, and never just went to another church instead. (Look in the Yellow Pages sometime--there are many, many churches to choose from.)

Obama, true to his vocation as an American politician, obviously believes nothing. If he really believed Wright's racist tripe, he would be saying it himself, like an Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. If he didn't believe it, he would have stood up like a decent human being and walked out of that church one day. The only way he can avoid doing one of these rational alternatives is to believe nothing, which accounts for his tremendous success in politics.

I once belonged to a Masonic lodge and, in fact, was one of the top three officers in the lodge. One night, nearly the entire lodge indulged in racist jokes, and I walked out that night and never returned. It's not that hard to stand up for what you believe in--that's what legs are for.