Oh bullshit.
And not one MSM reporter will ever ask him, if he’s so outraged, why he continued to go his sermons for 2 decades.
Great! You took the words right out of my mouth (GULP).
Posted on 04/29/2008 12:13:45 PM PDT by kellynla
Barack Obama, declaring “that’s enough,” denounced Tuesday as “appalling” and “ridiculous” comments made in the last few days by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
In a press conference in North Carolina, the Illinois senator used his strongest language to date to condemn Wright’s controversial sermons, which have remained a burden on his campaign since they became national news more than a month ago. Wright spoke Monday at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
“I am outraged by the comments that were made, and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday,” Obama said.
“The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe they ended up giving comfort to those who prey on hate,” he said.
Wright capped off a weekend-long set of public appearances at the Press Club, returning to the spotlight and casting an unwanted shadow over Obama’s campaign. Wright used his appearance to taunt reporters, criticize his country’s foreign policy and suggest that Obama only distanced himself from Wright out of political posturing.
Obama said he was particularly “angered” by that suggestion.
“If Reverend Wright thinks that that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well — based on his remarks yesterday I may not know him as well as I thought either,” Obama said.
Shortly after the Wright controversy broke, Obama condemned his pastor’s sermons but still kept him at an arm’s length, saying Wright was “like family” and he could no more “disown” him than his own grandmother.
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Oh bullshit.
And not one MSM reporter will ever ask him, if he’s so outraged, why he continued to go his sermons for 2 decades.
Great! You took the words right out of my mouth (GULP).
I think there are a lot more people who will never vote for Obama than will never vote for Hillary - therefore I hope Obama gets through this and now the guilt ridden whites have an excuse to not vote for him.
So now that he has FINALLY come out strongly condemning Wright's actions, it's time to move the focus to Ayres for a bit. I'm not saying that people should quit talking about Wright, but we can't allow Obama to make it seem like Wright is the only extremist he has associated with and that his association with Wright is inconsistent with his other actions.
After Ayres, pick another of his associates. If he's hanging out with those two there has got to be more.
yup. It’s the classic “Good Cop, Bad Cop” routine.
A liar through and through.
Obama done played the dozens now.
Maybe. But even if you’re right, it’s a gamble of the first order.
The only reason millions of white people have voted for Obama thus far is that he truly seemed like the post-racial candidate, as if he had nothing in common with the racist race-baiters such as Sharpton and Jackson.
If he truly throws Wright under the bus, that actually will be a good day for America. Obama will have to sink or swim without the racists. And I believe his outrage at being called, essentially, a “puppet” by Wright (”He was only saying what politicians say; he’ll be dancing to my tune when he’s in the White House”) is very real. Obama knows very well if he were to ever show any more evidence that he’s (as Wright implied) Wright’s “boy,” his national political career is over.
I don’t think Obama would take that chance. If he manages to escape out of this one, I think he will have learned his lesson: don’t pick up a snake and think you can put it in your pocket without it biting you.
His ONLY chance now is to go to full disowning of Wright. And if Wright comes out swinging, then Obama has no chance but to go to full-scale war with him.
That might end up being good for the country. Someone like Obama is the only guy who (at least at this moment in history) can take these guys out. And I for one hopes he does it.
It may not save him politically this time around (obviously I don’t want him to win in November), but it may help our country and for that I’d be grateful. If Obama has the hormones to really fight back at these racists and say what needs to be said, I’d give him great credit for that.
I laughed for about thirty seconds straight when Reverend Wright disparaged Cheney’s lack of military service and snapped a salute. I think this guy would be a more entertaining president than any of those jokers running.
It may give Obama some cover on the Wright issue, but it also gives him a great vulnerability. Many believe in what Wright says-—that’s how he got enough money to build that new million dollar home in an all-white golf course community in Chicago this year. Whether they will chose Wright et al. or Obama remains to be seen.
Obama didn’t want to risk losing the Wright-follower support previously. Now he has no choice.
I don’t know. The pull of becoming a famous national racist leader might be immense to someone like Wright. He was certainly feeling full of himself at that presser yesterday.
Gotta love the look on Kirk’s face when Scotty delivers that line.
I find NOTHING “entertaining” about an anti-American racist...and he shames the memory of every United States Marine who ever wore the uniform honorably.
There are some very interesting comments here.
Too late, Hussein. You had the opportunity WEEKS ago to do this and now it will look exactly like what it is; a statement released more for political purposes than for personal beliefs.
because it's bull...
Obama joined this “church” because it was politically expedient and stayed in the “church” because it was politically expedient...
little did he realize that this “reverend” and his racist, anti-American “sermons” would come back some day to bite Obama right in the butt!
Now that's what “we get!”
Because that's all there is...nothing more, nothing less, grasshopper. LOL
Whether premeditated or not, not many people will be deceived by this that do not want to be deceived. Everyone will know that Obama knew that he had made a mistake by not denouncing him when the controversy started and now he does it for political expediency.
HE’S outraged? How does he think WE feel?? If he can’t properly vet his own pastor, how can he run the WH?
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