Conservative Common Man

A January 2007 article in The Chicago Tribune is titled: “Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.: Pastor inspires Obama’s ‘audacity.’” This article presents Reverend Wright as the one who, in B. Hussein’s own words keeps his “moral compass calibrated.”

Obama says that rather than advising him on strategy, Wright helps keep his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.

“What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama said. “He’s much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I’m not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that’s involved in national politics.”

Obviously B. Hussein respects Reverend Wright and values his guidance in his life… or at least until the DVDs that apparently the church sold on its web-site became public. Now the great orator of emptiness has written a piece on the always balanced Huffington Post in which he seeks to distance himself from the inspiration for his book and his personal moral compass calibration unit. I just wish he would distance himself from this line in his church’s mission statement:

The fortunate who are among us combine forces with the less fortunate to become agents of change for God who is not pleased with America’s economic mal-distribution!

Does B. Hussein believe in socialist redistribution of wealth or is this something he suddenly rejects as well as Reverend Wright? Perhaps if B. Hussein O. played the role of a modern day Robin Hood, even Michelle Obama could be proud to be an American for the second time in her adult life.

But I digress. Back to B.H.O.’s silky smooth posting on HuffPo, where he is obviously the choice candidate of the publisher. The man who convinces so many people that he is for magical, mystical, substance lacking change wrote a piece called “On My Faith and My Church,” in which he insinuates that if Reverend Wright weren’t retiring, he might have left the church!

The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.

It might be more believable if he were to say that he rarely attended church and only belonged to the church for the political capital to be gained. This way it would at least be possible that he would not have personally heard on of Rev. Wright’s blazing tirades against America. This would also explain why he is a liberal Democrat, since if he never went to church and if the pastor was the one who calibrated his “moral compass,” then it is understandable that the “moral compass” is so far out of calibration!

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