Did Obama try to bribe Jermiah Wright into silence? Shh we gotta fool the people

[Christians4LessGvt]

The "bribe" to silence Wright
 
By EDWARD KLEIN
 
May 13, 2012



When sermons of Obama's Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, surfaced during the Iowa primaries, it threatened to derail Obama's campaign. ABC aired one where Wright screamed, "Goddamn America!" Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama's team tried to buy his silence.
 
"Man, the media ate me alive," Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago's Kwame Nkrumah Academy. "After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election."
 
"Who sent the e-mail?" I asked Wright.
 
"It was from one of Barack?s closest friends."
 
"He offered you money?"
 
"Not directly," Wright said. "He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me."
 
"How much money did he offer you?"
 
"One hundred and fifty thousand dollars," Wright said.
 
"Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?"
 
"Yes," Wright said. "Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, "You're used to coming to my home, you've been here countless times, so what's wrong with coming to my home?" So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I don't know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere.
 
"And one of the first things Barack said was, "I really wish you wouldn't do any more public speaking until after the November election." He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, "I wish you wouldn't speak. It?s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that."
 
"And what did you say?" I asked. "I said, "I don't see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?" And he said, "Well, I wish you wouldn't speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive."
 
"Barack said, "I'm sorry you don't see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?" And I said, "No, what's my problem?" And he said, "You have to tell the truth." I said, "That's a good problem to have. That's a good problem for all preachers to have. That's why I could never be a politician."

"And he said, "It's going to get worse if you go out there and speak. It's really going to get worse."
 
"And he was so right."

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[Plane]

Jermiah Wright could work on his understanding of truth.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Wright's only famous sermon was made and recorded before the election. There is no evidence that President Obama even heard it.

The point of the sermon was that God should not bless America for its crappy treatment of Blacks. Does lynching merit a blessing?

[Plane]

Wright's only famous sermon was made and recorded before the election.

Well this is the point of the thread isn't it?


Rev. Wright preaches hatred for decades , does he or doesn't he ccool it long enough to allow the Prez to be elected sans baggage?


Linching is no good at all , in modern terms we would call it a policy of terrorism, who does he credit for the diminishment of this ?

In Andersonville Ga. there are thousands of bodys of white men who gave up their lives as white men for the sake of extending the franchise or freedom . Was their attitude comendable at all?

[Xavier_Onassis]

I do not see Wright's sermon as preaching hate. he simply said that God should not bless America for its many injustices. He said that White Americans should not feel themselves God's favorites because they made a practice of first enslaving and then lynching people who were not White like themselves.

Is slavery something that merits God's blessings?

[Plane]

There is good reason to think that God doesn't like slavery.

So why wouldn't God bless a nation that quit a bad habit?

[Xavier_Onassis]

The Brits gave up slavery in 1830 with no wars over it at all.

Many countries rejected it entirely.

They deserved being blessed even more, but it didn't happen. Belarus and Poland never had slavery, only serfs.
Switzerland had neither, at least not since medieval times.

Only in the last 200 years has any degree of success come to these countries.

The whole bit that God blesses countries is largely a conceit. God does not seem to do that.

Wright's sermon simply makes sense to Wright, and anyone should be able to understand why.

The Kickapoos and Mandans,  Piutes, Choctaws and Sioux have even less reason to think that the Great Spirit should bless the Palefaces. 

[Plane]

The Brits gave up slavery in 1830 with no wars over it at all.

Many countries rejected it entirely.


 

Error in fact.

England was in war to end slavery for decades.

What countrys do you think are "many" which never had the evil habit of slavery?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Slavery was outlawed in most of Northern Europe.

I really do not consider this country worthy of "blessing" because it eventually ended slavery. But God decodes whom to bless. Not me, not you, not Rev. Wright.

God Bless America is a patriotic song. It declares a wish, not a reality.

Wright's sermon was rather stupid, but I understand why he said what he said. He is a screamer and likes attention.

Perhaps if the threw Bibles at the faithful or "walked the pews" he could have gotten even more attention.

I am not going to blame President Obama for the sermons of any preacher.

England abolished slavery in the 1830's, that is a fact. Then it sought to prevent anyone else from transporting slaves to the Americas, and seized slave ships of Americans, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese, among others.

[Plane]

Wright's sermon was rather stupid, but I understand why he said what he said. He is a screamer and likes attention.

I guess I can agree with that.

England abolished slavery in the 1830's, that is a fact. Then it sought to prevent anyone else from transporting slaves to the Americas, and seized slave ships of Americans, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese, among others.

England made huge fortunes from slave trade , then had a Christian revival, then fought on land and sea for decades to impede slavery.
Get the scale of it, and the time line right, and it is an astonishingly big story.

[sirs]

I am not going to blame President Obama for the sermons of any preacher.

I doubt you'll find anyone "blaming Obama for Wright's sermons", but nice strawman effort.  No, what you can blame Obama for is sitting in this man's church, listening to his repeative Anti-american & Racially intolerant bile, and not once standing up and leaving, much less finding a new church

And if the left wants to try and pull Romney's religion into the campaign, then its game on with Obama's religious past, including the paster that he listened to, nearly every Sunday for years, just prior to becoming President