Barack Obama's "spiritual advisor", Rev Jeremiah Wright of has some very interesting viewpoints when it comes to the Brotherhood of Man and the Audacity of Hope.  The guy is a flat - out bigot of the first degree. Obama's continued association and affirmation of this person, as well as the attitude of Obama's downtrodden spouse  is a strong indication that all this blather about "uniting" the country is nothing but that – blather.

A true “uniter” (sic) would distance himself from people who are on record for saying things like this. I think Roger Simon summed it up best  when he said “[W]e don't choose our family, but Obama chose this racist demagogue as his pastor for decades. It's not funny. Barack is running for President of the United States." Ron Kessler summarizes all this very nicely.

 And wait a minute. When has Obama ever referred to Wright as his Pastor? Wright is referred to as Obama’s “Spiritual Advisor”. Someone tell me the heck is a “Spiritual Advisor”? My LCMS pastor is my Pastor, although one of his functions is to serve as my “spiritual advisor”. Why doesn’t Obama ever refer to this guy as his Pastor? I think it’s just another way of having it both ways.

 In 2004 our Pastor (a different one, BTW) was very careful not to preach politics from the Pulpit like Wright has (view the Powerline link that has a video of Wright basically campaigning against Hillary Clinton from the Pulpit). At that time the Pastor (my Spiritual Advisor) explained it to me this way: It’s against the rules, and we obey the rules.

The rule:

"Under the Internal Revenue Code, all IRC section 501(c)(3) organizations, including churches and religious organizations, are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office. Contributions to political campaign funds or public statements of position (verbal or written) made by or on behalf of the organization in favor of or in opposition to any candidate for public office clearly violate the prohibition against political campaign activity. Violation of this prohibition may result in denial or revocation of tax-exempt status and the imposition of certain excise tax."

 I guess some people get to make up their own rules.