Posted on 03/28/2008 6:38:32 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama says in an interview scheduled to air on TV Friday that he would have left his church if his pastor had not retired and had not acknowledged making comments that "deeply offended people."
Trinity United Church of Christ released this 2005 photo of Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
Obama talked about the dispute as it continued to brew over some of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons and comments, which many viewed as anti-American and racist toward whites.
Bulletins from Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ in 2007 include comments -- reprinted from other sources -- that maintain South Africa and Israel worked on "an ethnic bomb that kills blacks and Arabs." They also quote a historian who said that "what the Zionist Jews did to the Palestinians is worse than what the Nazis did to the Jews."
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Feeling the heat and he’s not even dead yet!
“I Didn’t Enhale!” Alert.
I guess Obama is a very patient man. Wait it out 20 years and then enough is enough.
Wright has his orders..”shut up, sit down, stay out of sight”..
First he threw his grandmother under the bus, now the pastor has praised for ALL these years..
“....acknowledged making comments that “deeply offended people.”
They were not merely “offensive” ORacist, they were lies. Lies about America, lies about whites and lies about alleged racism. Not everyone lives a life governed by hair-trigger “offended” grievances by the way. Believe it or not, there are more serious things than being “offended”.
I thought this guy was intelligent. It has taken him this long to come up with this most obvious, infantile excuse.
What a guy! I bet if he knew Dahmer, he’d have told him: “You eat one more boy and I’m gonna drop a dime on you.”
Now everyone knows that he will say anything to get elected.
I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky.
Well...at the very best, Obama is slow on the trigger... (it took him 20 years) ...and is incredible dense... (he’s just now figuring out what Wright’s views are) ...and his judgment is lousy... (he gave 20 years of his time, resources, and money to a man whose opinions he considers deplorable {when he finally understood them} {’most everybody else got Wright’s message right off the bat!) ...
But he previously stated, “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community...”
like the new pastor is much better? he just doesn’t have a 35 year history yet.
This is just like his charity record.
He didn’t give diddly squat to charity until he decided to run for president. Then he gave it to this racist minister.
Damage is done already. Pointless to say it now.
In other news, former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that the bitter irony is that he had decided to stop patronizing prostitutes right before he was caught at it.
That’s exactly right. Obama refuses to call Wright’s rantings for what they are, lies and the delusions of a fevered mind. Instead he chooses to say some were “deeply offended”. It’s very interesting here that Obama is unwilling to make any type of judgement as to the validity or morality of the statements. Just that some people like his white gramma have these wacky preconceptions and therefore they somehow can’t understand this black reality that BHO obviously agrees with.
Yes, how does he reconcile this with what he said in his speech?
I see the bus coming.....look out Mr. Wright, Obama is pushing you in front of the bus.
That WILL hurt him with the majority of voters in the meaty middle section of this country. And the top people at the DNC must see this obvious fact.
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