Obama pastor blames Israel for 9/11

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=59250


Tuesday, March 18, 2008

WorldNetDaily Exclusive

Obama pastor blames Israel for 9/11
'You wanna borrow my glasses?' he asked congregation in 2002

Posted: March 18, 2008
12:29 am Eastern



WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's pastor for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, blamed Israel for the 9/11 attack in a September 2002 sermon.

It's the latest in a series of revelations that have set back the Illinois' senator's seemingly unstoppable quest for the Democratic presidential nomination in the last week.

"I said that dirty word, again," Wright said. "Every time you say 'Israel,' Negroes get awfully quiet on you. 'Cause they scared. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. You don't see the connection between 9/11/01 and the Israel-Palestinian? Something wrong – you wanna borrow my glasses?"

While Obama has spent the week distancing himself from the man he has previously described as his "political and spiritual mentor," Wright has refused to comment on his fiery attacks on America and whites.

(Story continues below)






In fact, he has not talked to media since video segments of his sermons over the past decade surfaced last week – including one in 2003 in which he encouraged blacks to damn America in God's name. But in a 2007 interview replayed on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" show Friday, he repeatedly fended off Sean Hannity's questions with an appeal to authority, asking if the host had read any of the books of Cone, professor at New York's Union Theological Seminary, or Dwight Hopkins, professor at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, notes the Asia Times columnist who writes under the pseudonym Spengler."

As WND reported yesterday, Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago has removed from the "About Us" page of its website a section outlining its radical belief system for blacks.

Obama issued a statement Friday referring to the taped statements from sermons, saying he strongly condemned and denounced "some inflammatory and appalling remarks [Wright] made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents."

Despite having been at the church for two decades, Obama said he was not in attendance when Wright made any of the statements and never heard such talk in private conversations.

"Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," Obama said. "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."

Late Friday, Wright stepped down from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee.
_________________
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." -General George S. Patton

Psalm 82-8: Arise, O God, judge the earth, for You inherit all the nations.