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Title: BARACK'S REV. 'STOLE A WIFE' EX-HUBBY: HE COUNSELED US, THEN WED HER
Source:
NY Post
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/0504200 ... s_rev__stole_a_wife_109298.htm
Published: May 4, 2008
Author: SUSANNAH CAHALAN and VERONICA HINKE
Post Date: 2008-05-04 08:59:31 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 1193
Comments: 127
BARACK'S REV. 'STOLE A WIFE' EX-HUBBY: HE COUNSELED US, THEN WED HER By SUSANNAH CAHALAN and VERONICA HINKE 32; FUROR: Fire-breathing Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright (left) reportedly met his wife Ramah (right) after he counseled her and then-husband Delmer Reed in 1983. The Reeds divorced soon after the sessions. 32;32;32; 32;32;32;32;32;32; 32; May 4, 2008 -- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner - after the man sought Wright's help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends. Delmer Reed, 59, confided to pals that he believed the minister moved in on his wife while Wright was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 1980s, The Post has learned. "That's exactly how he said it," Reed's divorce lawyer, Roosevelt Thomas, told The Post. "It looks like Delmer might have been right," he said, because after Delmer and Ramah Reed were divorced, she got remarried - to Wright. "Either that or this was the biggest coincidence in the world." Asked about the relationship between Wright and his ex-wife, Reed told The Post, "Oh, the things I could tell you." Initially, he didn't believe the rumors. "People were telling me that my extremely attractive wife was seen with the pastor," Reed said. "But I didn't believe it. I thought, 'So what?' " Was he wrong in the end? "Well, yeah," he said. Asked if Wright broke up his marriage, Reed laughed, then said, "I told my kids I wouldn't say anything to hurt their stepfather, so I'm not saying anything." But he said he's been hounded by the press and "offered money" to tell his story. A spokesman for the Wright family flatly denied the allegation yesterday. "This story has no merit whatsoever and is not based on facts," said George Lofton. "They had problems throughout the course of their turbulent marriage, and the couple never received marriage counseling from Rev. Wright or anyone else." But Reed, a former investigator for the Illinois secretary of state, told The Post he and his ex-wife went to Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ for counseling when their marriage hit the skids over his demanding work schedule. "I spoke with [Wright] four times over a few months," Reed said in an interview at his upscale home in Lemont, Ill. "Her father asked me to go to counseling. We thought we'd be together forever. I decided to try to work this out." Asked if he's forgiven the pastor, Reed nodded. "I let it go," he said. "I don't want my kids to hear anything negative about their stepfather."
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#6. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
I see that Reverend Wright has his past snooped into & gossiped about in this manner. But he's not even a candidate. mcCain & Clinton are both candidates. Here's some stories that the press could popularize about those 2 if they were of a mind to rather than to slam Obama. Mccain was known as a womanizer early in his life, he cheated tremendously on his wife. then he went to vietnam. When he came back from vietnam the story I heard from friends here in Phoenix, some of whom were personally acquainted with Cindy who married Mccain, was that cindy was at the hotel bar where Mccain spent his first night of freedom in Hawaii back from Vietnam. Mccain went to the hotel bar and immediately walked up to her. He had a one-night stand with her and it turned into a marriage. he never even went back to see his wife. He divorced his wife without even ever going back to her after his vietnam trip. The press could really hammer him, his 1'st wife has told people that Mccain never even came to see her before taking up with cindy. but the game- plan is to slam Obama currently. I'm sure a lot of us remember stories about Hilary clinton. She attended swinger clubs with her husband. She was seen snorting cocaine. She had an affair with Vince Foster. there are stories about her going into lesbian mode sometimes. there are actually people who will say this is true. does the press pay them money to speak on national tv? No, it is the game plan currently to slam Obama. and pursuant to this game-plan of slamming Obama it is fun to slam Wright if that is all that can be done.
Guess what, now ole Red is spamming, good heavens. And ye shall be known by the company you keep.
and Hilary keeps company with Bill clinton. and there are many people who will recount the cocaine days and the swinging and the wild sex. bill was a star at that, he's not dragged through the mud. hilary participated too. she's not dragged through the mud.
FLASH! Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruths
home run record!
those stories were never told in the mainstream mass media. they told the Monica stories ad nauseum, but ignored all the others. Now that hilary is a presidential candidate it is appropriate to let people speak nationally in the mass media who saw her snorting cocaine & swinging & such. that is a lot more significant than Wright going to a church. I'm not a fan of Obama, although I agree with paul that he's slightly better. I'm only pointing out what is being done. any of the 3 candidates could be destroyed by the media.
Dig 'em out and post them. The 4um free market decides what's of interest or not. I've posted articles I thought were of interest only to met by crickets. I guess current events are the key to how an article is received.
#27. To: Jethro Tull, red jones (#26)
Patience while red checks todays play book and gets on the right page.
Regarding those specific stories I recounted in #6 - those are things that myself and others who have a long history of reading on FR, LP, here & elsewhere are aware of. The story about cindy being picked up by John at the hotel bar I heard that story from cindy's closest friend and I didn't read it. But those stories I mentioned in #6 I don't think ever got published in the national media. so there's one standard for Obama clearly and another for the other 2. Obama is their target. Regarding whether Obama & wright are a bit racist - I think obama's written statements indicate a little racism. but that doesn't bother me at all compared to the fact that Obama supports the Federal Reserve, obama supports the war on terror, Obama doesn't care to roll back patriot act. I'm not really pro-Obama, but I might vote for him on election day. Do you think there's a better choice to vote for on election day? I've written in people's names before, they didn't win. The only benefit I can see in voting for Obama is to send a message to the rest of the world that at least we Americans tried to put in a candidate who pretended to be not-so-pro-war as the others. thats a very small benefit I admit, but do you have a better way to go?
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#8. To: Red Jones, Jethro tull (#6)
and pursuant to this game-plan of slamming Obama it is fun to slam Wright if that is all that can be done.
#10. To: Cynicom (#8)
And ye shall be known by the company you keep.
#17. To: Red Jones (#10)
and Hilary keeps company with Bill clinton. and there are many
people who will recount the cocaine days and the swinging and the wild sex.
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#17)
FLASH!
#26. To: Red Jones (#22)
those stories were never told in the mainstream mass media. they told the Monica stories ad nauseum, but ignored all the others.
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