Who Cares About Wright the Second Time Around?

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Black Liberation theology and president Obama- the reason it matters is that liberation theology aligns itself with political and even violent revolution~

By Karin McQuillan

When the videos of Obama's angry pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, hit voters' TV screens in March of 2008, Obama's favorable ratings plummeted. The number of Democrats saying he would be their nominee fell 20%. In a Rasmussen poll, a strong 56% of likely voters thought Obama shared some of Wright's views. Soon after, we were told the Wright story was over, that it was racist, and never to mention it again.

Democrats and mainstream media then and now insist that Obama's church is off-limits, while simultaneously attacking Mormonism. "If Mormons are such responsible people, why are voters turned off?" asks the New York Times, while TIME magazine piously intones, "Associating Obama with Wright's radical views raises the specter of racial stereotyping ... knowingly discounting his stated positions and making assumptions that may be influenced by his race."

It is less clear why Republicans continue to cave in to the Democrat pressure to shut up. The polling data at the time showed that Obama's closeness to the odious Rev. Wright went over very badly indeed with more than half of independents, precisely those voters essential to Romney's re-election.

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Preacher's kid...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Daughter Indicted for Alleged Money Laundering
April 11, 2013 - The daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama's controversial former pastor, has been accused of laundering money in an alleged $1.25 million fraud led by an ex-police chief in Illinois.

Jeri L. Wright, 47, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly accepting $28,000 from former police chief Regina Evans and her husband, ex-police officer Ronald Evans, for Wright's supposed work related to the Evanses' not-for-profit program called We Are Our Brother's Keeper. Approximately $20,000 of that money, however, found its way back into bank accounts controlled by the Evanses, prosecutors said. According to a release from the Department of Justice, Wright was playing a part in a scheme by the Evanses to misuse a $1.25 million state grant that had been awarded to the not-for-profit program in 2009.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright leaves the Selma Performing Arts Center, March 5, 2009, in Selma, Ala. Jeri Wright, president-elect of the Chicago chapter of the civil rights organization, the National Action Network, speaks during a press conference at Chicago's historic Regal Theater

We Are Our Brother's Keeper was supposed to spend the money on training up to 40 participants in bricklaying and electrical work at a Regal Theater also owned by the Evanses, but the indictment alleges that "little, if any, of the training provided in the grant agreement was ever completed." The Evanses have been charged with more than 10 fraud-related counts. In addition to the alleged money laundering, Wright stands accused of making false statements to federal law enforcement officers and lying to a grand jury. If convicted, Wright could face potentially decades in prison.

Regina Evan's attorney has reportedly claimed the couple didn't do anything wrong. Jeri Wright could not immediately be reached for comment. In March 2008 ABC News reported inflammatory, anti-American comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright during his sermons at Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's south side -- sermons long-attended by President Obama in the years before his election. Among his more controversial comments was his claim that the U.S. was to blame for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks "because [of] the stuff we've done overseas."

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Black Liberation theology and president Obama- the reason it matters is that liberation theology aligns itself with political and even violent revolution~

By Karin McQuillan

When the videos of Obama's angry pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, hit voters' TV screens in March of 2008, Obama's favorable ratings plummeted. The number of Democrats saying he would be their nominee fell 20%. In a Rasmussen poll, a strong 56% of likely voters thought Obama shared some of Wright's views. Soon after, we were told the Wright story was over, that it was racist, and never to mention it again.

Democrats and mainstream media then and now insist that Obama's church is off-limits, while simultaneously attacking Mormonism. "If Mormons are such responsible people, why are voters turned off?" asks the New York Times, while TIME magazine piously intones, "Associating Obama with Wright's radical views raises the specter of racial stereotyping ... knowingly discounting his stated positions and making assumptions that may be influenced by his race."

It is less clear why Republicans continue to cave in to the Democrat pressure to shut up. The polling data at the time showed that Obama's closeness to the odious Rev. Wright went over very badly indeed with more than half of independents, precisely those voters essential to Romney's re-election.

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IMHO, the Republicans should not have shut up about Wright. McCain made a mistake there. But he was trying to be "nice" and he didn't want to have to deal with being called a racist by the same people in the media who liked him when he was attacking President Bush.

They let Obama get away with that one speech where he claimed he never heard anything wrong from Wright during his 20 years of attending services there, even tho Oprah stopped attending because of what Wright was saying.