Wright's words right into context

    Hillary Clinton broke her silence about Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright yesterday.
    Unlike Barack Obama, she would have, she said–and I’m paraphrasing here-- told any minister who spoke about America like Wright spoke about America to let the door knob hit ya where the good Lord split ya. The former First Lady said she would have parted ways with any minister who said the things that the former pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ said.   

    Small problem.

    Those never ending loops, as seen on TV, took Rev. Wright’s sermon way out of context. The “Amerca's chickens are coming home to roost” quote was from a white ambassador Wright heard quoting Malcolm X  on TV and then a riff off the quote. Taken out of its sound bite status and given a little more airtime, Rev. Wright’s sermon shortly after 9/11 is an every-Sunday Christian message.

    “This is a time for me to examine my own relationship with God,” Wright preached. “Is it real or is it fake? Is it forever or is it for show? Is it something that you do for the sake of the public or is it something you do for the sake of Eternity?”

    In it, he called the terrorists attacks against the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “an unthinkable act.” In the sermon, he preached that “this is a time for self-examination” to see if you're good with God.
    Why would Christian Hillary, or should Christian Obama, part with a Christian minister who called on his flock to examine their closeness to God?
    “This is a time for me to examine my own relationship with God,” Wright preached. “Is it real or is it fake? Is it forever or is it for show? Is it something that you do for the sake of the public or is it something you do for the sake of Eternity?”
    Had Hillary sat through that sermon, then maybe she would have been saved from “misspeaking” about her misadventures in Bosnia.
    As for the maligned minister’s message, don’t take my word for it. Listen to Rev. Wright’s words. Words that last a little more than nine minutes rather than the length of a sound bite snippet.