Rev. Wright: We’ve gone from “I have a dream” to “I have a drone”
I wondered yesterday if Rev. Wright would go off the rails in his first major public appearance in, well, a long time. Sure enough, he did. Via The Washington Examiner:
Jeremiah Wright, the former spiritual mentor toΒ President ObamaΒ who shouted “God damn America,” was a keynote speaker at a Wednesday breakfast held by the Chicago Teachers Union to honorΒ Martin Luther King Jr.Β He used the occasion to slam the president’s military andΒ foreign policy.
In his speech, Wright said that although King declared “I have a dream, Barack says, I have a drone.” He called for a rejection of the “three-headed demon” of “racism, militarism and capitalism,” according to a report by theΒ Chicago Sun-Times.
“Every Tuesday morning, thereβs a kill list that the president decides who theyβre going to kill this week,” Wright said.
CTU President Karen LewisΒ told PoliticoΒ she was unconcerned about any negative publicity for having him. “He’s a theologian and scholar.”
Wright, who baptized Obama’s children and gave Obama the inspiration for the phrase “the audacity of hope,” was subsequently repudiated by the president in 2008 after videos of sermons surfaced showing him saying the U.S. got its just desserts in theΒ Sept. 11 terrorist attacksΒ and thatΒ AIDSΒ was created specifically to destroy African-Americans, among other viewpoints.
Actually, no. Β The President stood behind his now-former “spiritual mentor” right up until the time he had the audacity to accuse the then-candidate for the Oval Office of … gasp! … playing politics and “doing what politicians do” to win voters and get elected. After that, the Rev. got thrown under the bus within a matter of hours.
President Obama, meanwhile, was unavailable for comment on Wright’s speech today – not that he’d have cared to. Β He was busy in North Carolina, surrounding himself with his usual – a captive audience of impressionable college students. Β And while he wasn’t greeted – at all – by Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), who wasΒ busy avoiding Obama by staying in DC, he was warmly greeted by some of my fellow conservatives Β …