WASHINGTON POST: REV. WRIGHT HAS NATION OF ISLAM BODYGUARDS

[Dana Milbank-washingtonpost.com]

Dana Milbank at the (formerly) Obama friendly Washington Post gives us more details about the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s disastrous appearance yesterday morning at the National Press Club in Washington DC:

“From the moment he entered the room, Wright seemed to be looking to stir controversy; he was escorted by Jamil Muhammad, a leader of the Nation of Islam, which contributed to the minister's prominent security detail.

“Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, the New Black Panther Party's Malik Zulu Shabazz and Nation of Islam protocol director Claudette Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his belief that the government created AIDS to extinguish racial minorities, and stood by his suggestion that "God damn America."

"Most problematic for the Democratic presidential front-runner was Wright's suggestion that Obama was insincere in distancing himself from his former pastor. "He didn't distance himself," Wright announced. "He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American." Wright spoke of friends who told him that "we both know that if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected," and he said of his past parishioner: "Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls."

“And that apparent decision by Obama to exclude Wright from his presidential kickoff announcement? Didn't happen. "I started it off downstairs with him, his wife and children, in prayer."

“In front of 30 television cameras, he mocked the media, leveled charges of racism at the government and, at one point, did a little victory dance on the podium. It seemed as if Wright, who jokingly offering himself as Obama's vice president, was actually trying to doom his former parishioner. The pastor played right into the small band of anti-Wright
protesters outside, who waved a sign: "Obama's chicken comes home to roost."

“He explained his claim that the Sept. 11 attacks meant "America's chickens are coming home to roost." Said Wright: "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you."”

Wow!

Could the man that Barack Obama refused to disown have been more controversial and offensive to white America if he tried? Walking into the press conference with bodyguards from the Nation of Islam? Again claiming that America created HIV-Aids to kill blacks?

It will be a miracle now if Obama can even carry North Carolina.