Jeremiah Wright – Self-Appointed Messiah of the Black Church Community

I watched Jeremiah Wright’s performance at the National press Club yesterday and I thought: when is this schoolboy going to grow up? It was an immense ego trip for the guy who single handedly is destroying Obama’s attempt to become the first Black American president.

Wright tried to be his own Bill Cosby, but looked more like a fifth grader (sorry fifth graders) making a show and tell presentation. All he wanted to show was how conceited he is; all he wanted to tell the world that attacking him was an attack on the Black Church.

Who appointed him as the spokesperson for the Black church? Is he so big headed that he actually believes this stuff? How many African Americans does Wright know that have been given a $1.5 million dollar home by their workplaces? This ministerial maverick has been living in wealth for so long, that he has forgotten the pain in his community.

Any other pastor who caused a presidential candidate so much trouble would have taken a sabbatical and kept out of the headlines. Wright is bent on wrecking Obama and veils his hypocrisy in, you’ve guessed it, biblical quotations.

And as for his unpatriotic, vitriolic You-tubed sermon comments about America, he totally “nullified” the issue by saying if you haven’t heard the rest of the sermon, then sound byte viewers don’t know what they are talking about.

Perception in politics is reality, ministerial man. If you don’t understand that one, then you don’t know what the rest of America is talking about.

Bring it home, preacher man, and give Obama a fighting chance. Don’t become a millstone around his neck. This is the first time that the African American community has a real opportunity of having a Black President. Take your controversial circus act out of town until the 6th of November. Otherwise, in years to come, the name Jeremiah Wright may become synonymous with Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot in both the African American community and the field of politics.

And, as for one of the biblical quotations that you paraphrased to suit yourself the other day, here’s what it actually says:
Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.

Perhaps you should reflect upon the verses that directly follow it:
Proverbs 18:1, 2
1 An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment.
2 A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

The Next Obama Spiritual Scandal: the Oprah Connection

For the past two weeks, we have all been bombarded with images of Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s hostile homily about America. Obama has ridden the media storm and seems to have survived the political frenzy. He can breathe quietly for a while, but only for a short time.

Just when he thought that the road to the Whitehouse was safe, his one-time political partner, Oprah Winfrey, is beginning to create another theological storm for Obama.

Recently, the TV icon of superficiality has gotten herself involved with a New Age guru, Eckhart Tolle, and has begun toting his revolutionary ideas of re-hashed transcendental meditation on her website. Not since the Beatles went to India in the Sixties, has a major celebrity ever used their popularity to spiritually misguide a large part of the population. At a recent online seminar, two million Oprah devotees enthusiastically allowed themselves to be cybernetically brainwashed to what Oprah calls “a new awakening and a shift of consciousness across the planet.”

Eckhart Tolle promotes these meditational techniques in his book “A New Earth.” Everybody in the world needs to transform and follow this current wave of New Age spiritual mumbo-jumbo. According to Tolle, "A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die."

This smacks of spiritual elitism and harps back to the days of Nietzsche and Nazism.

So, how will this become another albatross around Obama’s neck? When the mainstream faiths begin to feel threatened by this spiritual dabbling of the Queen of superficiality, and when Obama’s opponents are looking to tag him with yet another controversial connection. It seems like he has made another awkward judgment call.

If I was to make a prediction of when this will happen, I would say sometime in early April…