[Sacajaweau]

I've disowned people for much less. It has to do with my reputation and/or standards.

His grandmother isn't in the same category.

He "picked" Wright as a friend and mentor.....Just like Hillary picked Alinsky.

[pnh102]

Part of me feels bad for Obama. Obama really stuck his neck out for Pastor Wright when Obama gave his speech in Philadelphia and Pastor Wright repaid his kindness by going on every TV talk show you could think of and screwing Obama even more.

You'd think if Pastor Wright wants Obama to win so bad, the first thing Wright would do is to shut up... maybe book a yearlong vacation in Africa or someplace else. I can't imagine that Wright doesn't believe that each time Wright opens his mouth, it hurts Obama badly.

[PJ-Comix]

Obama's turning surprise about Wright into something to be counted against whites -- one of the more clever devices in that shameful, brilliantly executed, 5,000-word intellectual fraud in Philadelphia -- now stands discredited by Obama's own admission of surprise. But Obama's liberal acolytes are not daunted. They were taken in by the first great statement on race: the Annunciation, the Chosen One comes to heal us in Philly. They now are taken in by the second: the Renunciation.

Clever observation about the Obamassiah!

[Dixie Yooper]

Where is Reverend Wright? Has anyone seen or heard from him since Obama tossed him from the Smooth Talk Express ? Are The Nation of Islam goons keeping him under house arrest until the primaries/election is over? What happened to him?

[OldYank1]

Very nice article but it is missing a couple of changes that I feel reflect even greater reason for the change.
Wright made two claims that show with great clarity the reasons for the sudden change.

First, he introduced the idea this was purely a race issue. “This is an attack on the Black Church”. To this point in time there has been no mention of Black Theology. A difference between black churches and white churches yes but not the extreme views lying in the foundations of Black Theology. If Wright pushes this agenda, Obama will have a very hard time convincing white America that he isn’t on the same path as Louis “man-of-the-year”.

Second, and probably the bigger slap by Wright, was the revelation that Obama “gave the answers he had to give”. “I am a preacher, he is a politician and says what he needs to say to get elected.” The smug look at the time was also very revealing. You could almost see the “wink” signaling Obama “didn’t really mean it”. If this were coupled with the Canadian NAFTA “wink”, it could leave a massive gap in the Obama sincerity cloak.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Yeah but when will Obama disown the author of his autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, for his racist remarks?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"But these comments are not new. These were precisely the outrages that prompted the initial furor when the Wright tapes emerged seven weeks ago. Obama decided to cut off Wright not because Wright's words or character or views had suddenly changed. The only thing that changed was the venue in which Wright chose to display them -- live on national TV at the National Press Club."

This is the Moral Equivalence Gap, between the elitist "bitter" remarks in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Speech, and the meltdown at the National Press Club, which may prove decisive for the 2008 Democratic presidential race, winning a place in future history books. What happened to the messiah of hope and change?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The jealous Wright is peeved because Obama is “acting white.” If getting a good education is acting white, imagine what Columbia and Harvard Law mean! And then factor in a possibility of becoming POTUS. Now that’s acting white beyond the pale.

[mtbopfuyn]

The most scary thing that no one has mentioned is that Wright has been preaching this same hate to how many tens of thousands and multiple generations of his congregation for all these years. It’s those who have learned at his knee that we should be afraid of.

[ricks_place]

Remarks at the National Press Club by Reverend Jeremiah Wright were taken out of context. - lol

[The Brush]

Obama expects us to believe that he listened to Rev Wright for 20 years and had no clue that the man was a racist.
He also expects us to believe that he has the intelligence to understand the truth about our enemies.
Many people have been praising Obama and his Pastor for the last month inferring anyone who questioned his comments was racist. Now that Obama has, on the surface, agreed with Wright's detractors, would Obama be considered racist... or just a bad judge of character?

[Jeff Head]

The bottom line is, despite all his protesting, despite all his whining, this problem is one of Obama's creation. No one else's. Same with Bill Ayers, same with Rezco. Obama chose these associations.

He made his bed and now he can lie in it.

But he is unwilling to do so.

Despite the fact that Wright is just as big an enemy and a virulent anti-American...I have a measure of reluctant respect for him because he stands on what he is...in your face, and rabidly against me and mine and the values I cherish and hold dear...but he is at least upfront about it.

Obama is a charlatan that I have no doubt feels the same way...but wants to hide behind a smile so he can get into a position to stick the knife in all of our collective backs.

Again, he chose these associations and knew full well who they were.

Now his chickens have come homw to roost.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[popdonnelly]

Wright is a huckster, and it pays well.