Via Hot Air, comes this latest revelation from the Wall Street Journal. The pastor of Barack Obama’s church, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., last seen constantly campaigning for Obama from the pulpit, says he believes America actually created the AIDS virus. Seriously.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Mr. Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, gave the sermon at the school’s Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel in Washington on Jan. 15, 2006…

Concluding, Mr. Wright said: “We started the AIDS virus . . . We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty. . . .”

The good Reverend Wright has some other interesting opinions on America, too.

“We’ve got more black men in prison than there are in college,” he began. “Racism is alive and well. Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body.”

Mr. Wright thundered on: “America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”

We’re so friggen White supremacist that our last two Secretary of State, one of our last National Security advisers, many members of Congress, our Ambassador to the United Nations, our last Attorney General, and many other high-ranking officials (and the likely Democratic presidential nominee) are all races other than white.

And, uh, what’s the issue with turning public opinion against Castro and the terrorist Ghadhafi?

His voice rising, Mr. Wright said, “We supported Zionism shamelessly while ignoring the Palestinians and branding anybody who spoke out against it as being anti-Semitic. . . . We care nothing about human life if the end justifies the means. . . .”

The man is either so full of it he’s about to burst, or he’s an ignorant conspiracy nut who should be wearing tinfoil hats during his sermons.

Obama responds:

Q: I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but it’s all over the wire today (from an ABC News story), a statement that your pastor (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side) made in a sermon in 2003 that instead of singing “God Bless America,” black people should sing a song essentially saying “God Damn America.”

A: I haven’t seen the line. This is a pastor who is on the brink of retirement who in the past has made some controversial statements. I profoundly disagree with some of these statements.

Q: What about this particular statement?

A: Obviously, I disagree with that. Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people say things that are just wrong. But I think it’s important to judge me on what I’ve said in the past and what I believe.

Who cares if he’s on the “brink of retirement”? Obama’s book title, “Audacity of Hope” came from one of Wright’s sermons. The Reverend has been revealed to have campaigned for Obama from the stump. The fact he’s about to end his career is irrelevant.

“Cherry-picking”? Obama’s spiritual mentor, who was responsible for the title of his book, believes that America created AIDS, we;re the world’s number one killer, we’re all racists, and that God should “damn America”. Should we just ignore those?