Hypocrisy at its finest.
In a fiery sermon taped and available on DVD, Barack Obama’s longtime "pastor" (this guy is no pastor) and "spiritual adviser" can be seen and heard cursing the United States.
The "Rev." Jeremiah Wright Jr., in his taped sermons, also questioned America’s role in the spread of the AIDS virus and suggested that the United States was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Confronting the content of some of Wright’s sermons, Obama on Friday moved to condemn the remarks in his firmest statement on the matter to date, after initially stopping short of a full repudiation.
"Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," he said in the statement. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue."
Obama said he never personally heard Wright preach the statements at the center of the controversy, but that he first learned of them when he launched his presidential campaign.
The pastor delivered his final sermon last month and retired as leader of his church in Chicago.
In DVD copies of his sermons available for purchase, Wright can also be seen questioning America’s role in the spreading of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS. In another speech, made the first Sunday after 9/11, he suggested that American foreign policy invited the terror attacks.
"We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye," Wright said.
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost."
The pastor also said: "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
"This is not just someone that Barack Obama has a casual relationship with," said Tom Bevan, executive editor of RealClearPolitics.com. He noted that Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama, and Wright’s words were the inspiration for the title of Obama’s book, "The Audacity of Hope."
Prior to his retirement last month, Wright delivered commentary from the pulpit in which he praised Obama, as well as remarks focusing on the racial divide between Obama and Clinton.
"There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction," Wright said during his Jan. 13 sermon.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright said. "Hillary would never know that.
"Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person."
In a Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said: "Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
Wright stepped down Friday from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee, said the Politico's Ben Smith, citing campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
Editorial: Now that Obama has been exposed as nothing more then a lying politician, we will not say We Told you so. His statement that he never heard the racist rantings of his "pastor" is ludicrous. Anyone who attended 1,000 sermons in 20 years and denies knowledge of the nature of the content of these speechs is a Liar! If you do not agree we have a wonderful bridge in Brooklyn, New York that's up for sale.
Additional reporting by Fox News.
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