President Obama's former, 20 year Pastor granted the New York Post an eyeopening interview where he tells the Post that Team Obama had offered him a bribe to not publicly speak until after the election.
Its an astonishing interview that shows just how Chicago style politics works, in Obama's world.
‘Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office
at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on
me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until
the November presidential election.”
“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”
“He offered you money?”
“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”
“How much money did he offer you?”
“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.
“Did Obama himself ever make an effort to see you?”
“Yes,”
Wright said. “Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure
place. And I said, ‘You’re used to coming to my home, you’ve been here
countless times, so what’s wrong with coming to my home?’ So we met in
the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at
South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I don’t
know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere.
“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you
wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’
He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish
you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’
“And
what did you say?” I asked.
“I said, ‘I don’t see it that way. And
anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?’ And he said, ‘Well, I
wish you wouldn’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.’
“Barack
said, ‘I’m sorry you don’t see it the way I do. Do you know what your
problem is?’ And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’ And he said, ‘You have
to tell the truth.’ I said, ‘That’s a good problem to have. That’s a
good problem for all preachers to have. That’s why I could never be a
politician.’
“And he said, ‘It’s going to get worse if you go out there and speak. It’s really going to get worse.’
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