I'm so confused. Is the story true or false?
FReeper Philo1962 wrote the article and attended the service, and he says Obama and Wright were at the service. Obama's camp has come out and called him a liar.
Given Obama's track record with the truth, I believe Philo. Rev. Wright is sinking the Obama campaign like an anvil... they have every reason in the world to lie right now.
That makes two of us. I posted the story and even I'm not sure what to take away from all this.
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/03/i-dont-know-wha.html
Barack catches a break - the NewsMax reporter who claimed Obama was in the church nodding in agreement during yet another of Jeremiah Wright's speeches has a space-time problem. From NewsMax:
Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the minister blamed the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks.
However, Barack spoke that Sunday to a La Raza rally in Miami - here is video from his website, a Washington Times story, and the speaking schedule - Barack was due up at 1:30 PM.
This does not resolve Obama's central problem - he is telling the nation that
"We’ve got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. But what I continue to believe in is that this country wants to move beyond these kinds of divisions."
but there is no evidence that, over the course of twenty years, he has moved his own minister past anger and bitterness.
However, if Obama was not attending church the specific day NewsMax claims he was, this gotcha is gone, and Obama's ludicrous claim that he was unaware of Wright's incendiary black separatism has not yet been disproven.
Props to Mickey Kaus for this.
MORE: Planes, trains, and automobiles? From Chicago to Miami for a 1:30 scheduled speech? I could believe Obama flew in Sunday morning, but to have time to go to church first? Per NewsMax, it was a Sunday morning sermon. And there is a one hour time difference between Chicago, so even the 7AM service would be a tight schedule. Hmm, in by 8 AM (Eastern time), out by 9 (C'mon, don't tell an old Catholic that the early service isn't the quick one), private plane for three hours to Miami - EZ! Or at least, not utterly implausible. Pretty high level of energy and commitment from Obama, though. Show us some plane ticket receipts!