A well-regarded Republican strategist at a private gathering recently warned And just wait until they play that Mormon card. By they he meant the Obama campaign and its complicit media cheerleaders.
Lawrence ODonnell only days later gave his viewers a historical tutorial on the Mormon religion darkly suggesting that we all should be afraid very afraid. The Democratic governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer called Mitt Romneys grandfather a polygamist.
This is actually good news for the Romney campaign.
By making Romneys Mormonism an issue the Obama campaign has as trial lawyers like to say reopened the issue of religion. The Romney campaign can therefore revisit the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Obamas close relationship to him. True Obama apparently severed ties to Wright but Obama did so only after the very salvation of his first presidential campaign depended upon it.
Wright Obamas pastor for some 20 years was described by Obama as his spiritual advisor. Wright married the Obamas baptized their children and blessed their home. One of Wrights friends is the anti-Semitic advocate of racial separatism Minister Louis Farrakhan. Trumpet Magazine published by Wrights daughter and formerly promoted on the churchs website once honored Farrakhan in a cover story as a man who truly epitomized greatness. In the article Wright lauded Farrakhan as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African-American religious experience.
There is of course the infamous YouTube excerpt of Wright shouting: We bombed Hiroshima we bombed Nagasaki and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. ... We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. Americas chickens are coming home to roost. And understand Wright gave this blistering attack against America the Sunday after 9-11!
In his autobiography Dreams From My Father Obama tells of how he met Wright. Obama made an appointment at Wrights church to see the pastor. Wright was late. While waiting Obama spoke with Wrights assistant a single mom whose husband had just died. She told Obama that she intended to leave the city and move to the suburbs to escape the violence. She also wanted her son to attend a better school. Her son she said would like to join a band and his current school didnt have one. His future school had a band and free uniforms.
Hes always wanted to be in a band she said softly. When Obama told Wright of his assistants plans Wright acknowledged that he tried to talk her out of moving. Why? Wright said that the boy wont have a clue about where or who he is. Astonishing.
Wright said this to a biracial man the product of a black man and a white woman? Wright said that the assistants son wont know who he is? Didnt Obamas mom send a young Barack back to Hawaii to live with his white grandparents in order to get a premium education at the finest prep school in the state?
All Wrights poor single mother/assistant wanted was a safer neighborhood where her son would be able to join a band and wear a uniform an opportunity not afforded at his urban school. Did Obama get up and leave after Wright outed himself as an anti-white racist who did not want the best for the son of his assistant? No. Obama joined his church.
Obama attended Wrights Audacity to Hope sermon. Wright talked about war crimes and compared Sharpeville to Hiroshima. Sharpeville? In 1960 the South African apartheid government shot down unarmed protestors in the township of Sharpeville killing 69 black men women and children. Most of the dead were shot in the back and nearly 200 more were wounded. Wright compared a morally justifiable bombing to the apartheid South African governments murder of innocent blacks. Obama remained a church member.
As to Romneys polygamous grandfather what about polygamy of Obamas father? Obamas father wrote The New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof in 2008 who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Roman Catholic school was also polygamous in keeping with local custom taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Obamas mother but remained a consort ... .
Why is this relevant? After all Obama has governed for three years having shed his pastor. But when Obama instinctively sides with the black professor versus a white Cambridge cop doing his job; when Obama injects himself in the Trayvon Martin case saying If I had had a son hed look like Trayvon; when Obama falsely asserts that blacks and whites receive very different sentences ... for the same crime one can reasonably ask to what degree is Obamas worldview colored and shaped by Jeremiah Wright -- his angry hostile anti-Semitic pastor of more than 20 years.
Larry Elder is a best-selling author and radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder or become an Elderado visit www.LarryElder.com.
A well-regarded Republican strategist at a private gathering recently warned And just wait until they play that Mormon card. By they he meant the Obama campaign and its complicit media cheerleaders.
Lawrence ODonnell only days later gave his viewers a historical tutorial on the Mormon religion darkly suggesting that we all should be afraid very afraid. The Democratic governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer called Mitt Romneys grandfather a polygamist.
This is actually good news for the Romney campaign.
By making Romneys Mormonism an issue the Obama campaign has as trial lawyers like to say reopened the issue of religion. The Romney campaign can therefore revisit the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Obamas close relationship to him. True Obama apparently severed ties to Wright but Obama did so only after the very salvation of his first presidential campaign depended upon it.
Wright Obamas pastor for some 20 years was described by Obama as his spiritual advisor. Wright married the Obamas baptized their children and blessed their home. One of Wrights friends is the anti-Semitic advocate of racial separatism Minister Louis Farrakhan. Trumpet Magazine published by Wrights daughter and formerly promoted on the churchs website once honored Farrakhan in a cover story as a man who truly epitomized greatness. In the article Wright lauded Farrakhan as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African-American religious experience.
There is of course the infamous YouTube excerpt of Wright shouting: We bombed Hiroshima we bombed Nagasaki and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. ... We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. Americas chickens are coming home to roost. And understand Wright gave this blistering attack against America the Sunday after 9-11!
In his autobiography Dreams From My Father Obama tells of how he met Wright. Obama made an appointment at Wrights church to see the pastor. Wright was late. While waiting Obama spoke with Wrights assistant a single mom whose husband had just died. She told Obama that she intended to leave the city and move to the suburbs to escape the violence. She also wanted her son to attend a better school. Her son she said would like to join a band and his current school didnt have one. His future school had a band and free uniforms.
Hes always wanted to be in a band she said softly. When Obama told Wright of his assistants plans Wright acknowledged that he tried to talk her out of moving. Why? Wright said that the boy wont have a clue about where or who he is. Astonishing.
Wright said this to a biracial man the product of a black man and a white woman? Wright said that the assistants son wont know who he is? Didnt Obamas mom send a young Barack back to Hawaii to live with his white grandparents in order to get a premium education at the finest prep school in the state?
All Wrights poor single mother/assistant wanted was a safer neighborhood where her son would be able to join a band and wear a uniform an opportunity not afforded at his urban school. Did Obama get up and leave after Wright outed himself as an anti-white racist who did not want the best for the son of his assistant? No. Obama joined his church.
Obama attended Wrights Audacity to Hope sermon. Wright talked about war crimes and compared Sharpeville to Hiroshima. Sharpeville? In 1960 the South African apartheid government shot down unarmed protestors in the township of Sharpeville killing 69 black men women and children. Most of the dead were shot in the back and nearly 200 more were wounded. Wright compared a morally justifiable bombing to the apartheid South African governments murder of innocent blacks. Obama remained a church member.
As to Romneys polygamous grandfather what about polygamy of Obamas father? Obamas father wrote The New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof in 2008 who apparently converted to Catholicism while attending a Roman Catholic school was also polygamous in keeping with local custom taking an informal Kenyan wife who preceded Obamas mother but remained a consort ... .
Why is this relevant? After all Obama has governed for three years having shed his pastor. But when Obama instinctively sides with the black professor versus a white Cambridge cop doing his job; when Obama injects himself in the Trayvon Martin case saying If I had had a son hed look like Trayvon; when Obama falsely asserts that blacks and whites receive very different sentences ... for the same crime one can reasonably ask to what degree is Obamas worldview colored and shaped by Jeremiah Wright -- his angry hostile anti-Semitic pastor of more than 20 years.
Larry Elder is a best-selling author and radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder or become an Elderado visit www.LarryElder.com.
