Obama’s Pre-Shabbos Call to His Pastor

The New York Times has an article about Senator Obama’s last-second decision not to have his spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, deliver the invocation at the launch of his presidential announcement….

“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.

Can’t imagine what Obama was worried about….

“When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.” Mr. Wright added that his trip implied no endorsement of either Louis Farrakhan’s views or Qaddafi’s.