Valerie Jarrett Uses Ebenezer Baptist Church To Give Political Speech

On January 15, 2012, the day before the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, Obama Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett spoke at a church service at Ebenezer Baptist and used it as a platform to campaign for Barack Obama.

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[Mike Hawk]

Sooo... was it suppose to be Martin Luther King day or Obama day

[garyowenvet1996]

The only way you can be African-American is to be born in Africa. Otherwise you're an American. You want equality? Stop making yourself out to be better than everyone else. We are all Americans, no division, no hyphens.

[Bairkus09]

You already elected her President, groundhog. Obama is her tool. Check out the video, Obama's "Other Half". She's his mama. He couldn't be there without her.

[groundhog2008]

I love what this woman is saying!!!! If she ran for president in 2016, I would vote for her, unless our First Lady runs, then I would have to vote for her first!!

[backagain20101]

You should look at all the money she has made in Chicago riping off the black people...Just like obama they DO NOT CARE about anyone but there selfs

[jrkidd3]

You can bet that if a republican politician showed up in a church and hacked on democrats, if a republican pastor talked about Obama the way this one did about Gingrich, it would take about 2.5 minutes for the democrats to start hollering about church and state issues and taking away the tax exemption of that church. the word "Democrat" has synonyms: racist. hypocrite. liar. phony. arrogant and yes, absolutely "Un-American".

[jrkidd3]

Blacks having fun hacking on republicans to honor Martin Luther King Jr, who was a repbulican. The sad fact is that the so-called civil rights crowd of today has totally hijacked the name of Martin Luther King not to ensure rights, not to ensure that all men are judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, but to ensure racism and accusations of racism ALWAYS work in their favor. The democrats would be impotent with out the ability to paint others as racists.

[bill bixby]

The homeless can sleep better at night in allies knowing the unemployeement is still high, the debt has trippled and the other two democratic controlled government braches being the senate and white house think their farts don't stink. Winning!

[klg1956]

Scapegoating? It's Bush's fault. Race baiting? Hillary and all Republicans (even black Reps) are racist...Hey, Eric Holder, it's on tape that a church is holding a political rally. Where is the IRS to shut them down? Isn't that why letters go out to every church across the fruited plains every election year? to threaten no politics from the pulpet..and then this example of ignoring their own threats. Very religious, lying from the pulpet but then lying is a progressive strategy.

[BErectus]

Could well be. It would not surprise me. But, nothing will happen to this church. There are so many double standards in America that it's hard to think of the US as a nation ruled by law anymore. In fact, there are many places in America where the only law is the law of the jungle.

[idneilkell]

Most people love Martin Luther King. I don't think she represented him or even how a Christian should behave in a church.

[idneilkell]

wasn't it the pastor who did the same thing after her by going on and on about Gingrich? Seems to me that the "church" exposed itself a little.