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FIERY REV. IS OBAMA'S CROSS TO BEAR - HE SALUTES FARRAKHAN, BLASTS
U.S.
WA****NGTON - Barack Obama's worst nightmare, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
yesterday delivered his most brutal wallop to his pal's campaign as he
hailed hatemonger Louis Farrakhan and accused the United States of
committing terrorism.
Wright called racial inflamer Farrakhan "one of the most im****tant
voices of the 20th and 21st century" and likened him to American icon
stockbroker EF Hutton.
"When LF speaks, black America listens," Wright said. "Louis Farrakhan
is not my enemy. He didn't put me in chains, he did not put me in
slavery, and he didn't make me this color."
Wright, in a bombastic, nationally televised speech to the National
Press Club, ripped the United States as a ruthless, modern-day Roman
Empire trying to rule the world - and said it brought 9/11 on itself.
"You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it to never come
back to you," Wright said, mentioning the US nuclear bombing of
Hiro****ma and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
He griped that the government has never "confessed" to nor officially
apologized for slavery - and he refused to back off his assertion that
America invented the AIDS virus to kill black people.
"Based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our
government is capable of doing anything," said Wright, who was
provided bodyguards by Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, according to The
Wa****ngton Post.
Asked about his patriotism, the former Marine said, "I served six
years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did
[Vice President Dick] Cheney serve?"
Cheney avoided the draft during Vietnam.
Obama, campaigning in North Carolina, again tried to distance himself
from Wright.
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