Obama's pastor's little shack

That great apostle of black nationalism and the poor, downtodden, inner-city black folks, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Barack and Michelle Obama's pastor for the last 20 years), is building a little retirement shack.

Nope, it's not in the Chicago inner-city where his parishoners live and his former church, Trinity United Church of Christ, is. It's in the wealthy, lilly-white suburbs, on a site he purchased for $345,000. With the little 10,000 square foot shack he's throwing up on that humble piece of dirt, the whole project is costing $1.6 million.

In classic "do as I say, not as I do" fashion, Wright is moving into the lap of luxury, while preaching to his parishoners to not aspire to the middle class, but to take joy in being humble and poor.

It's an example he may have picked up from his most famous parishoners, Barack and Michelle. While Barack seems to have set the world record for sleeping in church, Michelle heard and has feasted on every word Rev. Wright preached. She has been heard repeatedly on the campaign trail, telling young black women to work in public service jobs, and not corrupt corporate America.

She has regaled us with how tough life was for she and Barack to keep up with student loan payments on public servant's humble salaries. Barack's 8 years in the Illinois State Senate and four years in the U.S. Senate may not have been too lucrative, but the $1.6 million in royalty payments for his two best-selling books presumably bailed out their finances. That, and oh, his wife's humble $345,000 a year job in PR for the Chicago public hospital.

Each Obama has two degrees from expensive, exclusivie Ivy League universities. As their own $1.2 million shack--obtained in conjunction with Chicago slumlord and influence peddler Tony Rezko's help--shows, you can live a life of privilege and entitlement, while still preaching about the poor and enslaved.

Obviously, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has taken the Obama's sterling example to heart.