Wright Confidante: He Didn't Intend to Hurt Obama

Oh yes, Obama is so ready for prime time. So, his pastor said something controversial. Believe or not, pastors, priests, and even ministers say something that is over the top.

No, Hillary Clinton's entire campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination wins the top prize, hands down, for "...the most personally and purely self-centered act by a public figure in the political arena."

Perhaps Rev. Wright didn't mean to hurt Obama personally, Father, nor the chance that there would ever be a national discussion in this country.

Without an Obama presidency though, I doubt it will ever take place as the old negative politics of pitching one constituency against another keeps the people busy fighting each other instead of for even the basic human needs of all.

I wish I hadn't seen the Nat'l. Press Conference. I keep waking up with a picture of the Rev.'s mimicking of Kennedy's speech in my mind and - uhmm, personally, I got hurt too.

Typical-63yr-old-white-lady-in-Wisconsin.

Rev. Wright knew damn well he was going to hurt Obama. He's an angry delusional man, but he also knows *something* about politics. It is both sad and ironic that Rev. Wright's legacy might be that he destroyed the hopes of millions of black Americans.

When I heard that Wright was going in this media tour I thought he could only be doing this to either help of hurt Obama. I was clear during his performance (at one point I thought he was going to breakout with the chicken dance) it was immediately clear to me that Wright was intentionally trying to bring Obama down. So what does Wright do now that there are millions of Blacks who absolutely hate him for turning into a tool of the Clintons?

Some wise person said, "When life gives you a lemon make lemonade". The only way for Obama now is up. Watch the press for details!!!!!.Errol Smythe.

I really have no idea why you want to drag Bill Clinton into the Wright controversy....I guess the answer would be that both showed poor judgement.

Hillary has baggage but a cheating husband (75% of women have experienced this)does not compare with an extremist minister that you never bothered to correct on "Aids created to kill Blacks" or "Jews evil-Hamas good" and even America deserved 911, Whites are evil and political opponents can be attacked from the pulpit. The long time Farrakan "sound bite" defense of these racist views is not really going to fly after all.

Obama was there for 20 years...He is still claiming he had no idea what his minister was preaching...He found out in the Rolling Stone magazine article year ago....Who believes that?

Does it even matter that Wright's paraphrasing of the ambassador about :chickens coming home to roost" was not even close to the original remarks that he claims to have gotten form Peck?

Here's the thing...Count the votes and let the people speak. We want to win in Nov...and there is still Rezko and Obama's financial support of his terrorist African cousin to deal with.

MSM won't tell the story but Fox will drop the news a little at a time...Obama=Unelectable.

I think the base for Obama and the base for Hillary is pretty firmly set....at 50% each....although the Wright controversy did change some minds (buyers remorse) of those that have already voted.

All in all it's the Republicans leaning Democrats and the Independents that will be impacted...almost every state has about 10% undecided and since the Wright contoversy these have been going for Hillary.

It should have already had an impact...in TX PA and Oh....I'm thinking that Obama's lead in independents and those that previously voted Republican has shrunk as voters get to know him.

Crossover appeal slowly dwindling...

Starting to think this was a planned set up by the Obama campaign. I do not believe Obama has not had personal contact with Wright in the last few weeks.

Rev. Wright and his church has had the same beliefs for 20 years and Senator Obama knew exactly what those beliefs were. Senator Obama and his wife must believe that most Americans are fools.
Vote NO to Obama. He is the FOOL.

With friends like these...who needs
enemies, Obama. You could pick up
another 10% of us if you learn to
pronounce your favorite word..Y'oh
as most illiterates do..."Y'know".
Should have been taught to you in the Ivy Leagues...but not used 200 times
in each sentence. God bless affirmative
action.

MidWestIowa, it's clear you're EXACTLY the same as you were when you were in college. Yep, didn't let any of that education affect you one little bit, did you? YOu were determined to leatn absolutely nothing, and that's exactly what you did. No change. Not now, not never. Just stay stuck right in your little rut.

"These experiences have made it apparent to me that the path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will likely lead to my further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant." - Michelle Obamas senior thesis at Princeton. Well,here's hoping you WON'T become a White House participant!

the story doesn't deserve this amount of ethernet or whatever.

I think it's just a ploy for attention... to keep B O in the spotlight while erasing his need to get in trouble proposing something important like A SOLUTION... or at least a SUGGESTION about how to ease some of this country's problems.

But NOPE..

It's all about B O.

Poor baby....

Buford Gooch said "Amazing. According to the pro Obama posters, Obama can do no wrong. Anyone who is against him is either stupid or evil."

I don't see that here. I'm an Obama supporter. I don't believe he can do no wrong, and I don't believe those who don't support him are stupid or evil, and I haven't seen posts from his supporters that claim that.

I do believe he's the best of the three candidates to represent me and America in the White House, and Rev. Wright and Obama's relationship to him, and his handling of the present controversy haven't changed my mind about that.

It really is amazing how there appearsto be so many self proclaimed show casing political cases in this election soap opera.We have the media piranha feeding frenzy after the mudsling kitchen sink strategy brainstorming group allegedly set up Reverend Jeremiah Wright to step into the limelight for fifteen minutes of fame so that they allegedly could slice and dice soundbites and put them on those forty-five to seventy two second soundbite loops packaged for the alleged targeted couch potatoe gulluble public so that polls could be manipulated up or down.
Those polls sometimes get it wrong and all these ping pong mind games qoting percentages and figures to dazzle and frazzle the minds of the voting public ain't going to work this time.
The streetwise man in the know says the word is on the street that to all intents and purposes the media have got the word from who knows where to wreck Barack cause Barak is on a roll.
All this talk of this and that and fireside chitchat and coffee drinking talk about the Obama/Wright association is just going to dry up.
American's don't like being taken for a ride. The media circus is over. People want to get serious and talk about serious issues. Things that matter. Bread and butter issues. American's are tired of who said what. There sure is something more real to talk about.
Can there be timeout on all this ? The election is not about Obama and his associates. Surely there are real substantial issues that need to be addressed like the rising cost of fuels,alternative energy sources, global food crisis, housing crisis, banking crisis, pension crisis, tax rebates,world peace, global warming and climate change, desertification,pollution,ozone layer,agriculture, poverty,hunger, empty food shelves in Africa etc etc etc.
Barak is just living the American dream. What is wrong with that? Why do we like broken dreams more than fulfilled dreams/ Let the dream live on. Hope is a good thing there is nothing wrong with hope. Peace to all and goodwill to all men . Errol Smythe.

I know this beyond a shadow of a doubt: None of the posters on this site who are crying about the Obama/Wright issue and blaming Obama would not have voted for Obama in the first place. Their true purpose in this issue to try to persuade others to vote for Hillary.

crisis08 writes:
"This is just a dirty conspiracy between them.
I hope voters are smart to figure it out."

Well, let's hope a truth team rolls out on Thursday: Alice Palmer, Wright, and Jesse Jackson, maybe. Maybe joined by Tom Hayden's "pacifist wife" ... certainly SOMEthing's up (and nobody's posting, also peculiar).

As far as figuring it out, anybody who watched Brother Divine's talk yesterday presumably knows not to vote for HIM, but the disinformation's so deep it's discouraging.

It was a Clinton operative who set up the appearance by Rev. Wright with the National Press Club.

Belle Starr,

I think so. That doesn't make sense at all why it's so sudden this pastor showed up 3 days in the rows.
They are afraid he is loosing the white votes because it's been all over media he can't embrace them.
This is just a dirty conspiracy between them.
I hope voters are smart to fifure it out.