Sermon on the Roost

You know, on Sunday here in SF it felt like the City's IQ dropped a few points. Now I know why; Rev. Wright was in town! Obama's Fiery Former Pastor Visits SF Church

President Obama's former pastor gave the sermon at one of San Francisco's oldest Baptist churches Sunday and gave local parishioners a taste of the controversial oratory style that created such a stir during the presidential campaign - ultimately prompting Obama to resign his membership at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Chicago church.

Wright was invited by the Rev. Amos Brown, a former San Francisco supervisor, civil rights activist and longtime pastor at the Third Baptist Church, near Alamo Square. Wright was one of several featured speakers as part of a celebration of the church's 33rd anniversary under Brown's leadership.

In a half-hour, high-energy sermon, sprinkled with spontaneous songs, jokes and impersonations, Wright admonished the under-40 generation that Obama's ascent to the White House is not the culmination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of equality for all.

"King did not dream that one person would become president, he talked about all people," Wright said. "We still have a broken health care system, working poor, an education system that misleads our people ... Gaza, Darfur and Sudan, and in California, you have Prop. 8."

Jesus Mary Joseph Buddha Allah & Vishnu, what an ass. Since when does he care about Prop. 8, except as a cheap applause line for the trained seals among SF's progressive church-goers?

This article is actually of a piece with the relentless incuriosity that the mainstream media has approached the Rev. Wright story. The sermon itself is barely remarked on with the exception of the brief, elided quote set out above. Did he mention whether he still thinks the US gov't created AIDS to kill black people? Does he still think America deserved to be attacked on 9/11? Does he honestly think Martin Luther King would have been smiling and nodding along to his anti-American politicized sermonizing?

We are told that the sermon was "fiery," which is usually a euphamism for "unhinged Leftist ranting." Wright, in case you didn't know, has a "controversial oratory style." I suspect the person who wrote this story knows some discomforting truths about Rev. Wright and the congregation that listened to him, but couldn't bring himself to discuss them too much because of the possible effect such revelations may still have on Obama.