Chicken Comes Home to Roost in $1.6 Million Home
Being an anti-American racist minister has its perks.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright is about to roost in a 10,340 square foot $1.6 million dollar home.
It's in a gated community no less-- You've got to keep the riffraff out, you know.
FOX News reported:
FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.Now what is that famous quote by Jeremiah Wright again?... Oh yeah:
While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.
“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.
White folks' greed runs a world in need.Yeah, that's the one.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/27/2008 05:45:00 PM
47 Comments:
A gated community?
Isn't that a rather "typical white AmeriKKKan" kind of place to live?
PS-GP, check out the Hillary credential fight post. I posted something there that might be of interest.
Well, now, revvy, if this is how the mean old USA treats the downtrodden, poor, starving, cold, disenfranchised, hate-filled masses, then I think being an anti-American racist might have its good points. Got a spare wing for me?
/sarc off
Wright should move again.
Now we know where this moron lives.
He needs to sell and find a nondescript unassuming shell of a home with no heat or A/C.
That will cool his jets.
Wright's a frikken' slave trader. He sells his own people out to something that will enslave and condemn them to a life of dis-ease, paranoia, and resentment. What an evil little man.
According to the Bible, a church isn't true unless it's clergy is unpaid.
Good grief, who designed that abomination of a house? Someone needs to punch the architect in the face.
Oh, right, also, shame about Wright's hypocrisy.
I wonder how his congregation, who were nodding, and air-pumping, and clapping as he screeched his anti-American, anti-white, anti-middle class diatribes feel about his new McMansion? Or do they think this is just another way to stick it to The Man?
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Joan of Argghh! @ 7:03 PM..
[Wright's a frikken' slave trader.]
you hit that nail on the head..
Muslim Black slavery - Islam slave history of Black Africa
and this is happening today!!
Muslim racists kill black brothers - eyewitness in Sudan
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ps: bg @ 8:18 PM..
re: this is happening today!!
what is Rev. Wright & his NOI bud
Louis Farrakhan stand on this??
excerpt:
[On his 1996 "World Friendship Tour" (Let No Thug Go Un-hugged) -- which saw the NIO leader in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the Sudan -- Farrakhan proclaimed: "God will destroy America at the hands of Muslims. ... God will not give Japan or Europe the honor of bringing down the United States; this is an honor God will bestow upon Muslims." That was 5 years before the jihad reached our shores.
At the same time, he pronounced Saddam Hussein "a visionary," Hezbollah terrorists "freedom fighters," and Muammar Qadhafi his "friend," "brother" and "fellow struggler in the cause of liberation for our people." No wonder Farrakhan thinks the man who unleashed the Holocaust was, in the words of the Cole Porter song, the tops.
He also thinks Barack Obama is
"the hope of the entire world."]
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Can anyone say "bling, bling"? Does anyone else want to guess on what kind of ride the good pastor will be driving?
Alice -- the Bible does not say that. Timothy talks about ministers of the gospel being paid and Paul claims a right to be paid -- even though he footed his own bill. Wright's house is gaudy, ostentatious and hypocritical. That last one is talked about at length in the Bible.
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flashback..
excerpt:
[In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson on a hug-a-thug tour of Libya and Syria, presumably, to counter the lies the U.S. had been spreading about Gaddafi.]
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I really don't see what the big deal is about that unassuming little house.
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"TYPICAL BLACK PERSON"
believe what i say, not what i do..
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This is pretty typical for these types of Protestant ministers. They live high on the hog on the backs of the poor in their church.
I've been there, done that, and I think there's a special place in hell/purgatory (depending upon their eternal condition) for such ministers. They are wolves in sheeps clothing.
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re: bg @ 9:12 PM..
apologies to Blacks (have several in my own family, including 2 precious granddaughter's).. that was strictly meant to counterpunch Obama's verbal categorization of whites..
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Well, to be fair, it's probably only worth $1.2M right now...
I usually find that the louder a leftist is, the more hypocritical they are.
Look at Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Jesse Jackson, Barbara Boxer, Michelle Obama, George Soros, and now Jeremiah Wright.
The louder a leftist is in their rantings, the more hypocritical they are.
I didn't actually read all the comments here. I read a few of them and got the general drift, but if my post offends anyone whose take on this is not in line with what I've seen, I apologize in advance.
You should ask yourselves: Is it improper, or perhaps immoral, or even illegal, to own a 10K sqft house? Is there some specific class of people who are entitled to such houses? Does this class include Al Gore, for example?
If Obama had never run for the Presidency, nobody would ever have heard of the Rev. Wright, and he would have continued to tell his parishioners what they want to hear, and in return they would continue to make him moderately wealthy. No one can reasonably claim that the Rev. Wright impelled Obama toward the Presidency -- his advice is now, as it has always been, to give up and blame it all on whitey. I'd personally prefer to see that 5th string players like Wright do not get dragged into the ugliness of politics.
For the record, I do not own a 10K sqft home, and I do not advocate giving it up and blaming it all on someone else. Maybe that's why I'm not rich.
What the H. He is a classic entrepreneur. There were around 80 in the church when he started it. He grew the business. The house is a just reward. Now regarding one's not liking the product the business peddles, no one is forcing us to buy the product Wright has been peddling for 30+ years.
Gringo, the product he is selling is paid for by our taxes. His business is tax-deductible. He also riles up his followers to raise our taxes. And now his ultimate product, Barack H Obama, is set to take over and give us "change" (once your actual $20s and $10s are extracted).
Last I heard, taxes ARE forced, by defintion.
The problem, Gringo, is that when the product is self-righteous hypocrisy, there's a little logical Mobius strip involved. I.e., he's firing rockets up his own posterior.
;)
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Pink Pig @ 9:59 PM..
[If Obama had never run for the Presidency, nobody would ever have heard of the Rev. Wright, and he would have continued to tell his parishioners what they want to hear, and in return they would continue to make him moderately wealthy.]
Barack In The Day
excerpts:
[Republicans controlled the Illinois General Assembly for six years of Obama’s seven-year tenure. Each session, Obama backed legislation that went nowhere; bill after bill died in committee. During those six years, Obama, too, would have had difficulty naming any legislative achievements.]
[“He said, ‘Cliff, I’m gonna make me a U.S. senator.’”
“Oh, you are? Who might that be?”
“Barack Obama.”
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.]
[So, how has Obama repaid Jones?
Last June, to prove his commitment to government transparency, Obama released a comprehensive list of his earmark requests for fiscal year 2008. It comprised more than $300 million in pet projects for Illinois, including tens of millions for Jones’ Senate district.
Shortly after Jones became Senate president, I remember asking his view on pork-barrel spending. I’ll never forget what he said:
“Some call it pork, I call it steak.”]
[But, as a state senator, Obama evaded leadership on a host of critical community issues, from historic preservation to the rapid demolition of nearby public-housing projects, according to many South Siders.
Harold Lucas, a veteran South Side community organizer who remembers when Obama was “just a big-eared kid fresh out of school,” says he didn’t finally decide to support Obama’s presidential bid until he was actually inside the voting booth last month on Super Tuesday.
“I’m not happy about the quality of life in my community,” says Lucas, who now heads a black heritage tourism business in Chicago. “As a local elected official, he had a primary role in that.”]
[“That was not a wise decision,” Black says. “It was poor judgment on his part. He was operating like a politician trying to win the next step up.”
Obama has spent his entire political career trying to win the next step up. Every three years, he has aspired to a more powerful political position.
He was just 35 when in 1996 he won his first bid for political office. Even many of his staunchest supporters, such as Black, still resent the strong-arm tactics Obama employed to win his seat in the Illinois Legislature.]
[“He’s been given a pass,” says Harold Lucas, the community organizer in Chicago. “His career has been such a meteoric rise that he has not had the time to set a record.”
A week after my profile of Obama was published, I called some of my contacts in the Illinois Legislature. I ran through a list of black Chicago lawmakers who had worked with Obama, and was surprised to learn that many resented him and had supported other candidates in the U.S. Senate election.
“Anybody but Obama,” the late state Rep. Lovana Jones told me at the time.
State Rep. Monique Davis, who attended the same church as Obama and co-sponsored several bills with him, also did not support his candidacy. She complained of feeling overshadowed by Obama.
“I was snubbed,” Davis told me. “I felt he was shutting me out of history.”]
Obama's Audacity
Obama District
Obama cuts-and-runs from press
more here..
Obama-Odinga-Rezko-Ayers-Auchi-Saddam Hussein
there's much more, too much to list in one post..
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re: bg @ 11:54 PM..
oops..
Pink Pig @ 9:59 PM..
[If Obama had never run for the Presidency, nobody would ever have heard of the Rev. Wright, and he would have continued to tell his parishioners what they want to hear, and in return they would continue to make him moderately wealthy.]
bur he did run for the presidency..
and there's much more going on
with Obama than Rev. Wright..
btw: didn't even get around to
Farrakhan, Ayers, etcetcetc..
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> there's much more, too much to list in one post..
I have no doubt, but does any of it have to do with Jeremiah Wright? As far as I know, no one doubts Obama's ambition, but why exactly should that ruin Wright's life?
> the product he is selling is paid for by our taxes.
There's a difference between being tax-exempt and being subsidized by the government. If we were to revoke Wright's tax exemption, we would more or less have to revoke the tax exemption of every so-called church in the country. (Hey, I didn't create this system.) My point is that you aren't really in any meaningful way paying for (i.e. subsidizing) Wright's lifestyle. If you want to argue that exemption is effectively a subsidy, well, it's a debating point, but you can argue it until you're blue in the face and the number of people you'll win over could easily fit on the head of a pin. And somewhere along the way you might explain why Wright is worse than other pastors and therefore deserves to be singled out.
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Pink Pig @ 12:18 AM..
aside from being a close friend, Wright has been (& still is) Obama's mentor & political sounding board for some 20 years.. then there's Wright's connections (& Obama's) to LF of the NOI (Wright was also a former Muslim, and traveled with Frarrakhan & Jackson to nations such as Lybia & Syria just to name a couple).. like i said, there's much more to this than meets the eye (not to mention the ear)..
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re: bg @ 12:40 AM..
okay, 3rd times a charm?? :)
(not to mention the ear)
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Doesn't that take the cake...
Reminds one of Al Gore, screaming about the environment, all the while he is the biggest energy user.
Just a big scam...
This REV. is an outrage.
A God For Us is about James Cone, Wrights theological mentor.
Some really ugly stuff.
10 thousand sq. ft for $1.6 million?
The housing market really has collapsed in Chicago.
Well, bg, as long as you think I hit that on the head, you coulda linked my hammer!
:o)
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A few responses:
Citizen Grim: I agree. Brick Columns?
Kim: It has already been said, but duh, the Bible specifically states that a minister of the Gospel is entitled to compensation for providing a service. A proverb is even employed "Do not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the grain". Animals that were used to separate wheat from chaff were entitled to some of the fruits of their labor, so too are ministers.
A house like that and he's letting all that good Section-3 Housing in Chicago go to waste?
My dad was a pastor and we never lived anywhere like that, except maybe one big old mission-house in India - but it wasn't ours, it was the Mission's. We were transients.
It's not a profession either, it's quite literally a "Calling" - and one that pretty-much includes taking a vow of poverty as far as I could tell.
Is it fair to say that Rev. Wright succeeded on the backs of the poor?
$1.6 million for the house is not as big a question as the unsecured $10 million Line of Credit granted to the church at the same time... This LOC will not appear on any of the church public documents or other places... Just sloshing around money-?
Lots of mischief to be revealed if anybody follows this story.
WHYCOME nobody in the alphabet-soup-group (abc-cbs,nbc,cnn,msnbc, cnbc,pbs) is focusing their expensive reporters into this tale-?
Let's remember ministers get paid by the monies parishioners put into the pot. I'm thinking Reverend Wright has his hand in that pot, and the pot is calling him black.
This isn't about Reverend Wright's church getting a tax break, but more for the reason 'why' any church gets a tax break in America. A Church gets a tax break because the monies put into that church are coming from the parishioners' pockets, and the Reverend has a responsibility to the parishioners' welfare and the welfare of all people in need as far as those dollars can stretch.
The fact that Reverend Wright can own and afford a 1.6 million dollar mansion means monies that should be going to help the less fortunate are going into his pockets. A Reverend should lead a moderate lifestyle, expecially if he has lead it on the back of the dollar his parishioners are placing in the pot.
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Joanne @ ..
[monies that should be going to help the less fortunate are going into his pockets.]
$t also went into the Obama's pockets off the backs of the "poor" they were supposedly helping.. birds of as feather do flock together.. *sigh*
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I'm POSITIVE that Rev. Wright will properly report the full imputed rental value of the house as taxable income while living there.
Then again, since he's now retired and probably had an agreement to live in this mansion before he quit, this could raise a huge deferred compensation question (and a ton of taxes that will be due immediately for the good Reverend), as I doubt the Rev's house is Section 409A compliant. Got to punish those greedy executives for using deferred compensation arrangements to avoid paying their "fair share" of taxes.
It is not unusual for pastors serving african american congregations to live in luxury - we have at least one
living in a 4 million dollar lay out in Detroit. It is one way to be "in your face" to the very communities he
criticizes - and the cadillac goes with it.
While I am sure that Hilary's crowd is enjoying this - now it is time for the critics to survey the sermons of the Methodist Pastor in D.C. who supposedly counseled the former President and his wife about his sexual antics. His views are the polar opposite from Rev. Wright, but just as critical of America and the good ol' USA.
fair is fair - give Obama a break. I sure would not want someone to review my 50 years of preaching and grab some lines in order to put down someone.
"fair is fair - give Obama a break. I sure would not want someone to review my 50 years of preaching and grab some lines in order to put down someone." by Anonymous at 12:43 PM
No one is grabbing lines in order to put Reverend Wright down, he has put himself in that position by what he has stated, not the other way around. There is more to Obama's church than just the Reverend Wright's racist views; the church is also racist because of its 10-Point Vision, which isn't all about America but about Africa.
Reverend Wright may have retired from Obama's church for the time being, but he certainly hasn't retired in general.
Wright is squarely in the tradition of the Reverend Ike, famous for saying "The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them." Born Frederick Eikerenkoetter (and still alive BTW although he first appeared on radio 50 years ago) Reverend Ike is a light-colored black man just like Jeremiah Wright. He is, however, less hateful and more entertaining.
I wish I was Black....
I note that various commentators here consider it "bad form" for Wright (and by extension I suppose Obama) to live well. How willing are you to forego the benefits of modern civilization, I wonder?
It seems obvious to me (at least) that Obama is a doctrinaire socialist -- the alternative being an opportunistic socialist in the Huey Long mold. Isn't that a sufficient reason to oppose him (assuming of course that you consider socialism to be at best unworkable in America)? Why do you all want to drag in irrelevant nonsense? Do you expect to lose? Do you really think the American people are stupid enough to vote for him? Who's the real elitist here?
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Pink Pig @ 11:05 PM..
that's quite a polite way of trying to stifle debate vs telling us to STFU.. real slick, slicker than Willie or Obama, but it won't work, and it's realistic not real elitist..
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And the difference between this man and his white counterparts is…
What a palace of redneck ostentation. The aesthetic is one step removed from Graceland. Wealth or poor taste aren’t the real issues here, it’s the fact that this racist demagogue is mirror image of the very people he hates…a mirror image right down to living habits and sense of aesthetics.
I actually liked Obama’s speech on race in spite of its faults. Obama needs to remember that when he speaks of overcoming prejudice this needs to go too. There’s a few other things to overcome too.
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