Wright: Obama made 'bad' choice to distance self, but it's ok
BY MAUREEN O’DONNELL Staff Reporter
President-elect Barack Obama made a "bad decision" by distancing himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his church, Wright said in a sermon Sunday - but that’s OK.
"He’s still my child," Wright said in a sermon in which he expressed pride in Obama’s longtime association with Trinity United Church of Christ.
His talk was spiced with Wright’s trademark blend of history lesson, mimicry, and - depending on your point of view - insults, or telling it like it is.
This time the object of his contempt seemed to be Elizabeth Hasselbeck of The View, whom - while not saying her name - twice referred to as a "broad," including once as "that dumb broad."
Wright, speaking on the church’s 47-year anniversary, said he was proud of "the only church that produced the first and only African-American president in the 211-year history of the United States. No other church can say that.
"The hatred of the media and the haters in politics may have caused him to distance himself from us, but the love of Christ will never allow me to distance myself from him," Wright said of Obama. "Hey, hey, hey. I can no more disown him than I can disown any other child of mine makes bad decisions. He made a bad decision but he’s still my child. I am the old uncle."
And an old uncle cannot turn his back on his nephew, Wright said, even when the nephew is hanging out with people giving him "bad advice."
Wright retired from Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ this year but was invited back to speak on the church’s anniversary.
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