Posted on 03/14/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Obama says his pastor 'pained and angered me' 'Denounces' anti-American, racist rhetoric, insists he never heard such talk in person
Responding to mounting controversy over radical anti-American and racist statements by his pastor, Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement today to the Christian Broadcasting Network saying he strongly condemns and denounces remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. that disparaged the country or degraded people.
Obama referred to the "firestorm over the last few days" from unearthed video segments of Wright's sermons that the senator described as "some inflammatory and appalling remarks he made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents."
The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said he was not in attendance when Wright made any of the statements and never heard such talk in private conversations.
"Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," Obama said. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue."
Late today, Wright stepped down from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee, said the Politico's Ben Smith, citing campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
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Pookie had it in his “Today’s Toons” today. If you don’t look at that every day, you otta.
Ahh, he must have drank too much iced tea like Al Gore, and was in the bathroom when the hate speeches were made.
By whatever means necessary...
If only the sheeple-of-the-mass-media will get the message!
As I understand, his “black” side is only about 7%. What a scam.
Please. Do not speak down to us. We understand very well. Liberation Theology is a bastarization of Christianity. Social Justice is a veil of ignorance. Marxism and Christianity is like oil and water. Add a little racism and hate and you have Churches like this one. I am very aware of this theology. It is a lie.
It is called White quilt his maternal side of the family appeared to have suffered from it.
Sorry but one of the sermons was on Christimas.
You'll get no argument from me.
What amazes me is that Wright hates rich, white Americans, yet Obama’s mother was white and Obama was raised by his rich, white grandparents.
I am darker than Wright, and my wife calls me “The whitest man alive...”
Uhmmm... well Barack was probably attending Midnight Mass then.
I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT MY HERO COULD BE TIED UP WITH A PASTOR AND CHURCH THAT HATE ME!!! I AM TOO YOUNG TO BE DISILUSIONED!!
Don't forget "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God Bless America? No, no, no! Not God bless America. God damn America! It's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating its citizens as less than human!"
What do you think Obama's leanings are????
As for the legitamcy of the picture www.snopes.com
UNLESS—you can find and exploit that white grandma you had stashed away until the majority-black southern primaries were over. You know, the woman who raised and educated you after your sperm-donor dad and wacky mom abandoned you. You dismissed her as “white folk" once you realized it would be to your advantage—affirmative action admissions/scholarship—to select a black rather than multiracial persona. But you can reverse that. Drag grandma around the Legion Halls in whitebread Pennsylvania. Might work. “White folk” have short memories.
Well, we know that Jesus wasn't black. And from what I've read and heard, Mary was descended from King David, and also, Mary and Joseph's family were not poor, but above middle class.
Why is Bob Barr wearing a robe?
ROFLMAO!!!
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