In the first sermon Obama ever heard preached by Jeremiah Wright, the reverend proclaimed that “white folks’ greed runs a world in need.” In Dreams from My Father, Obama recalls listening to this sermon by Wright entitled “The Audacity of Hope.” Obama writes: “And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House.” While Ben Smith, Rich Lowry, Mickey Kaus, Hugh Hewitt, and Sean Hannity have drawn attention to this passage, a search in Nexis of the terms “Wright” and “white folks’ greed” yields a whopping 11 results–none of them from national newspapers or network news programs. Over at the Washington Post‘s Trail blog, Perry Bacon Jr. notes that Obama’s aides still have not “specified which of Wright’s sermons the candidate attended or if there was a difference between ‘objectionable’ comments Obama did not hear and ‘controversial’ ones he did.” We’ll see how well the Obama campaign can obfuscate and stonewall the press about what Obama knew and when he knew it. But is it too much to hope that some intrepid reporter in the mainstream media will crack open Obama’s autobiography and point out that Obama heard Wright make racially charged statements the very first time he attended Trinity?
