Obama's pastor pretty radical

Hat tip to Dan Curry at Reverse Spin for the story.

Recently a reporter, Ben Wallace-Wells, attended a sermon given by Sen. Barack Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Below is an excerpt. The story comes not from the Wall Street Journal, but lefty magazine Rolling Stone:

And there is the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a sprawling, profane bear of a preacher, a kind of black ministerial institution, with his own radio shows and guest preaching gigs across the country. Wright takes the pulpit here one Sunday and solemnly, sonorously declares that he will recite ten essential facts about the United States. “Fact number one: We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he intones. “Fact number two: Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!” There is thumping applause; Wright has a cadence and power that make Obama sound like John Kerry. Now the reverend begins to preach. “We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional KILLERS. . . . We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. . . . We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. . . . We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means!” The crowd whoops and amens as Wright builds to his climax: “And. And. And! GAWD! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!”

Obama has been a member of Wright's South Side Chicago congregation, the Trinity United Church of Christ, for about 15 years. As I've noted before, the title of his recent best-selling book, The Audacity of Hope, comes from a Wright sermon.

Obama's first job in Chicago was as a community organizer representing 13 Chicago churches. He was not a churchgoer then, but of the many congregations in the city, Obama chose Trinity United Church of Christ. Wright has been the pastor at the church for over twenty years.

Of course, as Curry notes, the media is obsessed about Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, but is somewhat silent on Obama's.

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