Posted on 03/15/2008 6:56:04 AM PDT by jdm
From an April 2007 New York Times article:
“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
Somehow that quote seems relevant today, with the news that Barack Obama has distanced himself from Jeremiah Wright.
Obama’s untimely distancing was made in a qualified, lawyerly fashion. He repudiated “the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue,” and dismissed him from the African American Religious Leadership Committee.
One wonders about the timing, since it wasn’t news to Obama that his pastor of 20+ years says outrageous things in his sermons. As the New York Times article I linked this morning says:
According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
This is all reminiscent of the whole Goolsbee/NAFTA flap, isn’t it? The message: there are certain things we have to say in campaigns. Between you and me, don’t take it seriously.
Boy, Obama sure is different from other politicians, huh?
UPDATE: Now that Obama is claiming that he didn’t know about Wright’s outrageousness until the campaign began, the game is to find the evidence that Wright was always like this, and Obama must have known. Tom Maguire starts the ball rolling.
UPDATE x2: Thanks to Instapundit for the link. I have more on Obama on the main page.
Too little, too late. He’s been with this hate-monger for 20 years.
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Yeah, but he didn't really. He only condemned the statements that got him into trouble and also defended Wright and said he was sticking with the same church, all on the same night.
I saw some woman on BOR last who defended the preacher because we do not understand what African-Americans have gone through. I had to change the channel.
According to the New York Times,
“But the church is also more Afrocentric and politically active than standard black congregations.”
This is how the New York Times describes a church and minister who preaches hatred for whites and hatred for America. I actually thought when I saw that there was a New York Times article that they may have actually taken a stand against a church that preaches hatred but this article only seeks to understate it.
Doesn’t Oprah also belong to that church?
So his soothing kumbaya rhetoric is meaningless, and Obamessiah is just another phony politician? Say it’s not so...
I don’t think Obama should have to distance himself from these ideas, since they are his ideas, and he shouldn’t be condemned for holding them. Obviously, a lot of people, like 8000 Chicago chuch members hold to them. Instead, he should embrace them, put them out into the “market place of ideas,” and let the voters decide their merit. The worst thing to do is to censor or shame them into silence.
So I stuck my fingers in my ears and hummed, REALLY LOUD. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Morrissey: “I sat in his church, but didn’t inhale”. ROFL
The hunt has been joined to place Barry in a pew while the Rev spew his anti American stuff.
Thanks- I’m out of the loop most of today til evening- if you get any goodies please ping:)
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It is not credible to think that he could go there for 20 years, donate so much money there, be married by the guy, have him baptize his children, make him a religious counseler on his campaign, claim that he his his mentore fr Heaven's sake...and yet know so little about the guy.
These statements by Wright, this hateful rhetoric are this guy's MO. I believe Obama has shot his foot clean off over this.
If he did know (and he surely did) then he is a liar and complicit with the hate. If he did not know, then his judgement and powers of perception are so pathetically inadequate as to compromise and disqualify him in any case.
Obama’s tarnished halo has really slipped.
Obama’s toast. Just my 2 cents. I work in a chemical plant and talk politics with the blue collar flag waving misinformed union crowd daily. This did the guy in, believe me. There’s just no way he can survive this, Clinton will win PA huge and take off from there. By the convention, even if he leads in delegates, there will be no doubt who the nominee is. Will Obama be her VP choice? Will the black vote stay home? Will they riot? I have no idea, but the ballgame is over.
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