Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama’s former pastor, from yesterday in New Jersey:

“Let me tell you how I know what I’m talking about,” Wright said at Elmwood Presbyterian Church, where he leads a weeklong revival each September. “Twenty years ago, a scrawny little kid — pointed nose, big ears, momma from Kansas, daddy from Kenya — the Lord told him, an ordinary black boy, He told him, ‘You could be a state senator …’ “Not only did he become a state senator,” Wright continued, as cheers rang up in the sanctuary, “this black boy with an African daddy from Kenya and a white American momma from Kansas, he had the audacity to hope, so he ran for the U.S. Senate, and the Lord turned the ordinary to the (extraordinary). And now! And now! Oh my God, and now! Whoo!”

And . . .

“I’m a testimony,” Wright said from the pulpit, guided by lyrics to an African-American spiritual song. “I didn’t make it on my own, and I’m not standing here alone. It was Jesus … who gave me this opportunity. Not (Sean) Hannity. Not Bill O’Reilly. It was Jesus.”
Then, he said, to cheers, “I ain’t preaching for no journalists, I’m preaching for Jesus … I ain’t preaching for no president, I’m preaching for the prince of peace! … Look at me! I’m a testimony! Stand on your feet!”