[EBH]

So I am to believe Wright shutup for a paltry $150,000? Naw...don’t buy it all. People like Wright don’t shutup for chickenfeed from major political candidates...like folks running for President.

There might be other reasons to shutup or tone down, but $150,000 doesn’t buy silence.

And if this interview is true...neither did any of the other tactics.

[basil]

That was my first thought, too—150 grand was peanuts to this guy......

[Sacajaweau]

I thought Wright retired shortly after Obama threw him under the bus. Why do I think Wright gets an annual payment out of Dem party “expenses”?

[Sacajaweau]

http://blog.beliefnet.com/reformedchicksblabbing/2008/03/rev-wrights-retirement-home.html

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Reverend+Wright%27s+home&view=detail&id=1EA5DD1FFD31077BFE2BB1D077928875765BF629&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR

[A'elian' nation]

“$150,000 doesn’t buy silence.”

For me, yeah it would, but for Jeremiah, no way.
Axelrod probably yanked the briber back to DNC realizing that they didn’t need to offer Wright an Indian nickel.

The Stasi stenographers wouldn’t report anything he would say anyways. Wright also knew that anything he said would just come back home to roost.

[caveat emptor]

So I am to believe Wright shutup for a paltry $150,000?

$15,000,000?

Whatever he got, it wasn't for shutting up; that alone would have caused Obama even more trouble. Like, eg. "Obama must have bribed him, or threatened him." Obama had to repudiate him on the basis of "new evidence".

Whatever happened behind the scenes, Wright set that up with his Apr. 28, 2008 interview.

Here are some excerpts from Obama's response:

Senator Barack Obama, saying that he'd had enough, forcefully repudiated his former pastor yesterday and declared that racially charged remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. contradict "all that I stand for."

Obama said he had tried to give Wright "the benefit of the doubt," but decided to disavow Wright after the minister's nationally televised appearance on Monday reignited a lingering controversy on the eve of two crucial Democratic presidential primaries.

Wright, he added, is no longer "the man I met 20 years ago."

And with some help from his friends (media and McCain), Bob's your uncle.

[cherokee1]

I threw the BS flag on the 150K number also——when Wright retired from his church they gave him a two (2) million dollar credit line (might be off on the exact digit but it was a million plus). He started building a new shanty house but had no visible income stream to pay off the credit line. Anyone wanting to help pay down his credit line would need to come in with much more than 150K bones.