I hadn’t intended to make a part 2 to this particular blog. However the issue of Obama’s worthiness to office and items about his pastor of 20 years, won’t die out. In fact, new revelations are more disturbing each day.

First disturbing item came to my inbox.
As usual, I did my Snopes check and it is a true image.
Here is Obama refusing to place his hand on his heart while national anthem is being played:

Now where this custom isn’t often done, and I am not saying “Mrs dodge the sniper fire Hillary” is a better person, however, one has to wonder if a man who wants to be president wouldn’t respect the Flag Code (below).

(b) Conduct During Playing.— During a rendition of the national anthem—

when the flag is displayed— 

(A)all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart; (B)men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold the headdress at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart

There is just something very wrong with this picture for a man wanting to be our president. 

Next disturbing item.

Obama’s hasn’t really sold me that his pastor and even himself isn’t racist.

According to the Sun Times, “NBC reported Thursday that bulletins published by Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side included “anti-Israel” material and a piece calling Italians “garlic noses” and references to “White supremacists” who “run the U.S. government.” 

After all that has been reported on what the “reverand” Wright has preached from his pulpit, on the particular sermon that Obama based his own book on, Wright talks of the “greedy white man”.
Explain to me then why the church gave to their Rev. Wright a home worth 1.6 million in a gated high class community upon his retirement?
Interesting real estate for the outspoken Rev who doesn’t like the greedy white man. Now I don’t have anything against a person who owns a nice home. I just question this man having one, funded by his former church through a series of questionable buy-back and loan schemes, according to Fox News.

FOXNews
March 27, 2009
Jeff Goldblatt 

This was supposed to be the week that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. returned to the pulpit to preach for the first time since his anti-American sermons generated nationwide outrage and drew condemnation from his longtime parishioner, Barack Obama.

But, citing security concerns, Wright canceled his speaking engagements in Florida and Texas. A spokeswoman at his former church in Chicago said his schedule is pending.

A two-week FOX News investigation, however, has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his time in retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years.

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.

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.

According to documents obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds, Wright purchased two empty lots in Tinley Park, Ill., from Chicago restaurant chain owner Kenny Lewis for $345,000 in 2004.

Documents show Wright sold the property to his church, Trinity United, in December 2006, with the proceeds going to a living trust shared with his wife, Ramah.

The sale price for the land was just under $308,000, about $40,000 less than Wright’s original purchase two years earlier.

Public records of the sale show Trinity initially obtained a $10 million bank loan to purchase the property and build a new house on the land.

But further investigation with tax and real estate attorneys showed that the church had actually secured a $1.6 million mortgage for the home purchase, and attached a $10 million line of credit, for reasons unspecified in the paperwork.

There is apparently nothing wrong with that, according to non-profit tax expert Jack Siegel of Charity Governance Consulting, who examined public documents FOX News obtained from the Cook County Register of Deeds and the Village of Tinley Park.

“At least looking at it from a public document standpoint, there’s clearly not a problem that jumps out or some sort of wrongdoing,” Siegel said.

Siegel characterizes the transaction as unusual, however, because of the way Wright sold the property to Trinity and the way the deal was financed, with the attached $10 million line of credit.

Because churches are classified as private businesses, Trinity isn’t required to reveal its intended use for the line of credit. Nor, because it’s a non-profit entity, is it required to provide that information to the IRS.

A spokesman for ShoreBank, the Chicago-based financial institution that secured mortgages for the loans, said the deals were aboveboard.

Wright did not respond to repeated calls for comment, and Trinity United refused to discuss the specifics of the home it is building for him and the way the deal was financed.

The church referred FOX News to its denominational headquarters in Cleveland, which provided a statement of support:

“It is customary and appropriate in many Christian denominations, including the United Church of Christ, for local churches to offer housing provisions for retiring clergy, especially in cases where pastors have served long-term pastorates. We support efforts by our 5,700 local churches to ensure that retiring pastors and spouses have continuing housing, adequate pension and health care, as an expression of our continuing appreciation for their years of service. Each local UCC congregation is free to honor a retiring pastor in ways it feels most appropriate to address the needs of that clergyperson’s circumstances,” wrote the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, spokesman for UCC’s national office.

“This is about how these kinds of churches work,” notes Walsh. “These pastors who made big successful churches are real valuable commodities. Is it morally wrong? Well, Protestants don’t have the idea that their religious leaders should live modestly or aesthetically. We’re not talking Buddhist monks or Catholic priests here. There’s no tradition that says they have to live poor.”

Tradition at Trinity United centers on a congregation that’s unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian, according to the church’s website. There are also no apologies from the church for the home it’s building for its former senior pastor, who nurtured a religious empire that grew to have more than 8,000 congregants.

From Right Pundits:

Like the church lady at Saturday Night Live used to say, “isn’t that Special?”
Wright was wrong about America, and Wright is wrong about his role as a retired pastor. Living in a 1.6 million dollar home along with a secured $10 million dollar loan account, paid by the working poor and the elderly that he served is not only wrong, it is immoral and corrupt.

Nobody denies a pastor a decent life in retirement. The problem is that Rev. Wright has joined the ranks of all those white televangelists who used their pulpits to live in luxury.