President Obama may have distanced himself from Minister Louis Farrakhan before the 2008 election, but that hasn’t stopped Farrakhan from addressing him anyway. For his Saviours Day speech Sunday Farrakhan spoke for over three hours about the dangers facing Obama and his beliefs about Obama’s responsibility to the poor. More details once you
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan claims the “white right” is trying to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
Speaking to an estimated 20,000 followers of the black nationalist movement at the United Center on Sunday, the 76-year-old Farrakhan said, “The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated.”Referring to a Southern Baptist preacher’s recent prayer that the president die, Farrakhan said, “There are Christians praying for God to kill Obama.”
Obama distanced himself from Farrakhan before the presidential election because of Farrakhan’s long history of anti-Semitic remarks.
But in a 3½-hour Saviours’ Day speech Sunday, Farrakhan said Obama’s current political difficulties began when he stood up to the Jewish lobby during an Oval Office meeting.
“When they left the White House, his problems began,” Farrakhan said.
“The Zionists are in control of the Congress.”
Referring to Obama’s chief economic advisers Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson and Larry Summers, Farrakhan said, “Who does he have around him? The people from Goldman Sachs.”
The “bloodsuckers of the poor” were rewarded with a bailout, he said.
Farrakhan also urged Obama to do more to help the poor, saying, “If you can speak for the gays, you can speak for the poor.”
He added, “Your people are suffering. You can’t ease their plight, but you can use your bully pulpit. Speak for the poor. Speak for the weak.”
He also called on Obama not to attack Iran and for ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide to be returned to power.
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