Jeremiah Wright, them Jews, and why it still matters

"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me."

"But Peren," you say, "Obama doesn't go to that church anymore! How can you connect him to that?" Please. Has religion really become that irrelevant to the average American -- or at least that off-limits -- that we don't think it's at all pertinent what doctrines a person listens to every week for years on end? Are we really so foolish as to think that theology and philosophy don't affect one's outlook on the world and one's actions? Really?

Watch this little classic, then report back to me.



Did you watch it? Okay then.

Look. Obama went to that church between two and four times a month (depending on which interview with him you believe) for twenty years. He got married there. He had his kids, who have been there their entire lives, baptized there. He used a line from a sermon there as the title of his second autobiography. While he did admit at the Compassion Forum that he only joined the church in the first place for political positioning, you can't tell me that it wasn't important to him, or at least that he didn't want to be seen as thinking it was important. And he didn't leave it until after we started paying attention. Wright has a history of comments like that, he didn't just start making them all of a sudden in '08, and there's no possible way you can honestly put a good construction on Obama's role in this. Either he agrees with the anti-white, anti-Jew, anti-American hate preached there, or he was too ignorant (and negligent, in bringing his young impressionable children there) to notice it, or he's apathetic toward that kind of thing, or -- least likely -- he tried to confront Wright about it but was too incompetent and ineffective to do anything, and then he still didn't leave.

And Wright's latest comment about "them Jews", later "clarified" as meaning to say "them Zionists" is all the more relevant in the light of Obama's accusatory tone toward Israel in his recent Cairo speech. So in addition to all those connections highlighted in the video: Marxism, meeting with genocidal dictators, implying that whites are inherently racist; now we can add a distaste for uppity Jews. Can we really afford to believe that Obama doesn't sympathize in the slightest with his "spiritual mentor" of twenty years, whom he abandoned only when he became a political liability?