Jeremy Wright was complaining on the Bill Moyers show that the clips that have been playing over and over again were taken out of context and being used for political purposes. But the context for the sermon was healing:

“We want revenge. They wanted revenge,” Wright told “Bill Moyers’ Journal.” “God doesn’t want to leave you there, however. God wants redemption. God wants wholeness. And … that’s the context, the biblical context, I used to try to get people sitting again in that sanctuary.”

Um…I can’t see how you can get from “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” to “wholeness” and “redemption.” But judge for yourself. Hugh Hewitt played the sermons related to the 9-11 and the God-D America comments and I thought they sounded much worse in context.
While I was listening to the “sermon” I couldn’t help but wonder if Obama wanted us out of Iraq because he thought we were imperialists and tyrants who brought on 9-11 ourselves. Does he believe that America is “‘the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name of a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem?” That we are no different than the murderous thugs who flew planes filled with civilians into buildings filled with civilians.Does he think that we are leading a crusade? Does he think that whites have been running this world too long and that they’re should be a black face at the next G8 summit? Does he believe that the US deliberately allowed Pearl Harbor to get hit? That the US gave blacks AIDS?
Does he agree with this?

But in all of my years of preaching, I have never preached a sermon that dealt with these difficult verses, these last three verses in Psalm 137, these brutally honest verses, and these verses which express what the people of faith really feel after a day of devastation and senseless death. And that is exactly what these three verses express. Now in our class sessions on our Church study trips, I have lifted up these three verses to help our Church members understand much of what it is they feel as they have stood in the slave castles in West Africa, as they have stood among the poverty in Ethiopia, stood in the townships of South Africa, and stared at the favelas in Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. African-Americans have a surge of emotions as they see the color of poverty in a world of wealth, and begin to understand that it is no accident that the world’s tourists are one color, and the world’s riches are another color. And when they tie together the pieces of 500 years of colonialism, racism and slavery with what it is they see in 2001, a surge of emotions hits them. And the last three verses of Psalm 137 help them to understand what it is they are feeling. I have treated these verses in a classroom setting, and on the study tours that our congregation has taken. But I have never touched them in a sermon. Today, I was telling Freddie Haynes, the spirit of God has nudged me to touch them, and to treat them prayerfully, as many of us try to sort out what it is we are feeling, and why it is we are feeling what we feel after the trauma and the tragedy of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, symbols of who America is: the money and the military.

And the last three verses of Psalm 137?

ESV Psalm 137:7-9 Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!” 8 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! 9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

This is from Rev. Wright’s 9-11 sermon where he wanted to bring wholeness and redemption to his congregation. How is it healing to blame America for 9-11? Whose children do you think he was talking about dashing? How is this sermon different from the comments that Pat Robertson made about 9-11? That it was a judgment from God. Does Obama think we deserved 9-11 and that it was a judgment from God?
I’m not saying that just because his pastor believes these things he does but since this guy is his mentor and they have been friends 20 years, I think the questions are valid. Especially when you hear the reaction of the congregation. This is stuff they found acceptable. If Obama was in the audience, would he be shouting his agreement as well?