[Question Liberal Authority]

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.

No. Obama lied through his teeth by saying that the Right Wing was looping Wright's comments and taking them out of context. Then Wright repeated the comments quite clearly and articulately. Then Obama lied through his teeth again and said he never heard such a thing.

[aruanan]

Here is what happened: Everything was fine as long as Wright's comments were plausibly deniable or could be sufficiently spun into irrelevancy either by referring to the motivation of those playing the clips or by referring to them as out-of-context sound bytes or by referring to Wright as a product of his time and place like Obama's typical white person grandmother.

The content of what was said didn't bother Obama at all. But when there was sufficient publicity and Wright directly said on news shows many of the same things he said in his church and doing nothing (according to the poll numbers hastily gathered that weekend) would hurt Obama, then Obama denounced what he had before denied and then diluted. When it was convenient for Obama to use Wright's church on the local scene to enhance his political life, he did so. When it became inconvenient on the national scene, he dismissed him (this is like certain politicians being pro-life on the local political scene and then "growing" to embrace pro-abortion when moving to a national scene).

It isn't about whether there was anything objectionable about what Wright said, it was all about the possible effect of Obama's perceived political fortunes. He followed the typical leftist Democrat M.O. of doing and saying whatever he needed whenever he needed to advance his own cause. It's all about Barack.