Well the hot item of the day floating around the net is an excerpt posted by the NY Post about a conversation Rev Wright had with Obama written in an unauthorized biography by Edward Klein. Apparently Obama wanted Wright to stop speaking publicly until after the election in ’08. Wright claims he was offered $150K from someone close to Obama via emails to one of the members of his church.
Does anyone doubt this conversation? I think it’s clear now after 3 and a half years this corrupt regime will do whatever it takes to silence people even those deemed friends to hide WHO Obama is. Unfortunately the new media is doing the job the main stream media should have done back then in vetting Barry. Glenn Beck has even taken it a step further calling Obama’s life a fairy tale!
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The ‘bribe’ to silence Wright
NY Post
When sermons of Obama’s Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, surfaced during the Iowa primaries, it threatened to derail Obama’s campaign. ABC aired one where Wright screamed, “Goddamn America!†Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama’s team tried to buy his silence.
‘Man, the media ate me alive,†Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election.â€
“Who sent the e-mail?†I asked Wright.
“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.â€
“He offered you money?â€
“Not directly,†Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.â€
“How much money did he offer you?â€
“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,†Wright said.
“Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?â€
“Yes,†Wright said. “Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, ‘You’re used to coming to my home, you’ve been here countless times, so what’s wrong with coming to my home?’ So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I don’t know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere.
“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’
“And what did you say?†I asked. “I said, ‘I don’t see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?’ And he said, ‘Well, I wish you wouldn’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.’
“Barack said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your problem is?’ And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’ And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ I said, ‘That’s a good problem to have. That’s a good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a politician.’
“And he said, ‘It’s going to get worse if you go out there and speak. It’s really going to get worse.’
“And he was so right.â€