Why Wright Threw Obama Under The Bus

the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a very angry and hurt man. Imagine how you would have felt if you took someone under your wing, brought him into your fold, mentored him, became almost like a father and he disses you. He married Barack and Michele Obama, baptised their children, and was such a major influence in Obama's life that he named the title of his book, The Audacity of Hope after one of Wright's sermons. Now, imagine then that this individual excluded you from probably the most important announcement of his political life: The announcement to run for the Presidency of the United States. If you were relegated to the basementas wright told us he was, suggesting that his protege was ashamed of him, or regarded him as a political liability, it is understandable then that Wright would be inclined to be "bitter." I believe Wright feels Obama has treated him badly, even used him and his church for political expediency and he feels no loyalty toward Obama at this juncture. I think he feels that he made Obama and he can destroy him.

When Reverend Wright says Obama is a politician and says what politicians say to get elected, he is in fact saying Obama agreed with his sermons and is now singing a different tune now that he is running for President. Clearly, Reverend Wright wants to expose Obama as a person who will say and do whatever it takes to be elected. Wright's comment about "hoping to be Vice-President" was very sarcastic and telling. I suspect that Wright believes Obama will never get the nomination and if he does, he won't become President. The quip about "playing the dozens" was I think directed at Obama, not at the media.

Reverend Wright made the comment that "if Obama was meant to be President, no racist white people could prevent it from happening" but how about a racist black person (in the eyes of whites)? Despite his comments to the contrary, Wright was making a political statement by appearing at the National Press Club. He knew darned well that Obama has had difficulty wooing white Reagan Democrats and so had to know that his controversal statements (which he repeated) would turn off the very voters Obama needs to win to secure the nomination. So, one has to come to the conclusion that he did it to destroy Obama's Presidential hopes.