Perfect Time for Obama to Denounce Pastor's anti-Semitism

by Fran Eaton

Barack Obama is scheduled to give a major policy speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's regional forum Friday in Chicago. 

It will be the perfect time for 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Obama to denounce his longtime pastor and spiritual advisor Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr's unashamed anti-Israel views. 

But alas, we're told, no questions will be allowed.

From Obama's pastor's church July 2005 newsletter column, read here:

The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now. It took a divestment campaign to wake the business community up concerning the South Africa issue. Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community up and to wake Americans up concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.

The Divestment issue will hit the floor during this month’s General Synod. Divesting dollars from businesses and banks that do business with Israel is the new strategy being proposed to wake the world up concerning the racism of Zionism. That Divestment issue won’t make the press either, however.

It will be interesting to see how Obama's campaign theme of unity and cultural blending will slip and slide around the teachings of the man who inspired the title of Obama's current New York Times' best seller "The Audacity of Hope."

Wright's pastorate, the Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and its controversial 12-point Black Value System was featured Wednesday night on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes.

Comments

[Bob Schmidt]

Saint Obama's message is one of reconciliation and unity. His goal is to arrange for the lion to lay down with the lamb. We can only hope that when the lion is no longer hungry, it works.

[Jeffrey Levine]

What do people expect. Mr. Obama was raised as a Muslim. No Antisemtitism, there!

Now, in order to cover up his typical Muslims ideaology, he is attending a Church. But not any Church, a Church that celebrates its Antimenitism.

Why Americans are being fooled by this man is beyound me. I would vote for Ahmadadinejad, before I'd vote for Barak Obama.