Once again the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright let the entire world know how much he dislikes President Obama. This time the forum was at the Chicago Teachers Union birthday breakfast honoring the MLK holiday. When it was time for Wright to take the podium, all recording devices and cameras were cleared from the room. A CNN reporter was able to catch some audio and footage where Rev. Wright made unsubstantiated and derogatory comments about Obama and his policies.
To the shock of the audience Wright forcefully stated that “every morning, Obama gets a kill list of enemies and he personally decides who will die.”
Wright went on to paraphrase Dr. King and mock Obama at the same time by stating that with Obama it’s “I have a drone, not I have a dream.”
The audience chuckled at his juvenile wordplay as Wright went on to state that Obama was ” not a man of peace, but a man of government. A government based on militarism and racism.”
At various times during the breakfast the audience laughed, voices “amens” and were receptive to his message. Wright went on to state that like Dr. King, his message to America has been reduced to sound bites.
Since the presidential election of 2008, Obama and Wright have not shared any of the spiritual closeness they enjoyed in the past. Obama was accused of throwing Wright under the bus when he denounced Wright’s rhetoric of intolerance and anti-American catchphrases. Since that time Wright has vilified and engaged in personal attacks on Obama. But the president has remained silent and continued to focus on his domestic and foreign policy. While Wright spewed hate, Obama saved the country from another Great Depression, pulled U.S. troops out of Iraq and instituted the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
