Powell calls out Hannity over obsession with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright | The Raw Story
Retired Gen. Colin Powell is encouraging Fox News host Sean Hannity to give up his obsession about President Barack ObamaÂ’s former relationships with Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
“I find him one of the most divisive figures in — that I’ve witnessed in politics today,” Hannity told Powell during an interview on Tuesday.
“[T]hat’s a term that’s being used rather freely,” Powell noted. “I don’t think he’s that divisive an issue. … What could have been more divisive than, when President Obama was inaugurated, for a number of Republicans, friends of mine, and a number of commentators to say, ‘We’re going to destroy him. We’re going to destroy him’?”
“I wasn’t out to destroy him,” Hannity insisted. “I was critical about Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright.”
“Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright are just passing things,” Powell pointed out.
Just passing things? A mentor for 20 years? G_D America? And Obama never heard his mentor speak like that? Hogwash, Gen. Powell. You just lost credibility.
Have you ever listened to or read that quote in context? Do you know what Reverend Wright was talking about in that ONE "damning" clip?
The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon
WrightÂ’s scriptural focus was Luke 19:37-44 (reading from the New Revised Standard Version).
In this sermon, Wright spoke about the military rule during biblical days, led by Pontius Pilate. It was clear, through his language, such as “occupying military brigade” that he was making an analogy to the war in Iraq.
“War does not make for peace,” he said. “Fighting for peace is like raping for virginity."
“War does not make for peace. War only makes for escalating violence and a mindset to pay the enemy back by any means necessary,” he said.
He then gets to the thesis of his sermon, saying, “y’all looking to the government for only what God can give. A lot of people confuse God with their government.”
Wright criticizes the Bush administration and its supporters for using Godly language to justify the war in Iraq. He equates using God in America as condoning the war in Iraq to the same perspective of Islamic fundamentalists.
“We can see clearly the confusion in the mind of a few Muslims, and please notice I did not say all Muslims, I said a few Muslims, who see Allah as condoning killing and killing any and all who don’t believe what they don’t believe. They call it jihad. We can see clearly the confusion in their minds, but we cannot see clearly what it is that we do. We call it crusade when we turn right around and say that our God condones the killing of innocent civilians as a necessary means to an end. WE say that God understand collateral damage. We say that God knows how to forgive friendly fire."
So he was basically saying that God does not bless America for the war in Iraq, but damns it for going against God's principles.
How different is it than this song sung at the Value Voter's Summit in 2007...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X77R_prkCkg"]Why Should God Bless America?[/ame]
attended by
Hunter, Duncan
U.S. Representative, R-CA
McCain, John S. III
U.S. Senator, R, Arizona
Thompson, Fred
U.S. Senator (1994-2003), R-TN
Paul, Ron
U.S. Representative, R, Texas
Tancredo, Tom
U.S. Representative, R-CO
Romney, W. Mitt
Governor (2003-2007), R, Massachusetts
Schmidt, Jeannette Marie
U.S. Representative, R, Ohio
Gingrich, Newt
Chairman, American Solutions for Winning the Future
Or how about this from the Reverends Falwell and Robertson. They've had the ears of lots of Presidents haven't they?
I'll remind you that this discussion took place less than 72 hours after we were attacked on 9/11...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CAcdta_8I"]Falwell and Robertson on The 700 Club after 9/11[/ame]
The fat guy on the right, less than 20 seconds into the video, said that God probably gave us what we deserved on 9/11. (saying, essentially, that God doesn't Bless America, but damn her)