Has Barack Obama bamboozled a great many American voters?

Well, yes, I believe he has.

Barack Obama says he’s a unifier, a healer of old wounds, a new kind of politician. His ads say things like, “We can change the world,” and “The world as it is, is not how it has to be.”

Barack Obama, in 20 years of close association, has not been able to affect change in one minister, in one congregation, and he is supposedly among Christian people, who are commanded by the Gospel to forgive all others, if they expect to be forgiven by God.

“…forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”

But the very last thing you’ll hear in Jeremiah Wright’s sermons or in the books in his church bookstore or in the “Black Value System,” is any talk of forgiving white people. There may be forgiveness in the halls of Trinity United Church of Christ, but it seems to be reserved for “blacks only.”

Wright’s mentor’s mentor, James H. Cone, rejected what he called the “white Jesus,” dreamed up by the white people to keep black people enslaved and oppressed. The gospel according to Cone is one for blacks only:

“What need have we for a white Jesus when we are not white but black? If Jesus Christ is white and not black, he is an oppressor, and we must kill him.”

“The appearance of black theology means that the black community is now ready to do something about the white Jesus, so that he cannot get in the way of our revolution.”

(A Black Theology of Liberation; Cone; p. 111)

Well, from visiting Trinity and listening to Wright’s sermons, I would have to definitely concur that he is worshipping a completely different Jesus than the One I have encountered in my Catholic Church, of all races and nationalities. We worship One Jesus, the One Jesus who we believe came into this world so that all who believe in Him could be saved from eternal damnation.

If anything in America needs to be changed, I would have to say that change ought to have started right under the roof of Trinity United, in the hearts and minds of its pastor and those who welcome his racist hatred and lies about America, Jesus and the Jews.

Obama has been part and parcel of this church, one of its most prominent members for two decades, and yet has utterly failed to bring about any change in people’s attitudes.

With the leader of his church, Jeremiah Wright, he contends that he disagrees. Yet that disagreement has ended in a complete capitulation by Obama to the minister’s hatred, racism and division.

This is the man who says he can change the world?

This is the man who says he can unify America?

This is the man who says he brings something new?

Forgive me, but I am stunned, truly stunned by this man’s audacity.

It is pure gall, grounded in the useless soil of racial hatred, not the fertile ground of charity towards others.

According to the World Book dictionary:

Audacity: reckless daring; boldness; too much boldness; impudence.

And that’s a perfect word for Barack Obama’s claims that he can deliver “change we can believe in.” It’s audacity, yes, the kind that smacks of arrogance and false pride.

We’ve been bamboozled, all right.

If Obama can’t change the mind of a single man or the goings-on in one church, how’s he going to change the country, much less the world?

In my opinion, we were fools to have put any credence in Obama’s deceitful claims.