Wright Confidante: He Didn't Intend to Hurt Obama

Obama said that Rev.Wright is like family for him. When Obama speeched yesterday, I just look that just a set up from Obama campaign.

The scenario yesterday just like Obama plan aboaut NAFTA when he become president as his campaign adviser told the canadian.

Rev. Wright still will be his mentor/spritual advisor!

The truth is we don't know either Obama and his pastor are playing to get white voters back or something else.
Obama just made a mistake not to denounce his pastor six weeks ago but he did it yesterday because he thought Wright offended him not to white people.

Obviously Wright said some extreme things, and on Monday let himself get caught up in anger and his own ego. But none of that changes the fact that he's led a life of service and helped thousands of people. He started a ministry that runs homeless shelters, soup kitchens, daycare, job training, AIDS care, and numerous other humanitarian efforts. Maybe if you looked at the man as a whole you'd be able to see why Obama had given him the benefit of the doubt. Wright is not a hateful man; a hateful man couldn't inspire a diverse community to work in service of others. A hateful man wouldn't be so strongly defended by prominent religious leaders like Father Pfleger (a white Catholic priest by the way).

The fact is that out of 20 years of sermons all we've seen are a few brief minutes that are offensive, but not hateful in their full context. If those caricatures were the real Wright, don't you understand that we'd have seen more by now? The reason we haven't is because that's not who Wright is, and that's not what service at Trinity is like. Haven't you noticed that no one from Trinity has spoken out against Wright? If this was commonplace, and representative of who Wright is, we would have seen at least something about it from current or former members of the church. But we've seen none of this, because it's not there.

Unfortunately, this Monday showed us the sadder side of Wright. We saw a man who lashed out at the media--the people who bear much of the blame for the attacks on his character and the community he devoted his life to building. He should have used that forum as a bridge, but instead he acted out of anger. His actions were wrong, and they were sad to watch. I admit that his state of mind is not an excuse, but it does help understand his actions and who he is. Honestly, wouldn't you be tempted to lash out if you had been misrepresented this way, witnessed threats of violence against your church, saw people hounded during services, and heard how the elderly and ill were harassed?

So, to those who hurl accusations and attacks at Reverend Wright and Obama, I have three questions for you. First, what have you personally done that compares to the good works Wright has done throughout his life, and that Trinity continues to do every day? Second, what have you done in your life that could be used against you were it snapped out of context and bore in an endless loop? Finally, how would you feel if all the good you had accomplished were ignored and the people you cared most for were attacked because someone caricatures you as nothing more than a handful of failings?

If you feel that your answers entitle you to continue, then, by all means, let you who are without sin cast the first stone.

irma writes:
"The "chickens are coming home to roost."

Accompanied by the corporate weasels, some of them pretending to be the "left".

Imagine, the US nation is being led towards the abyss by a bungling bush; and the focus is on the HARMLESS RHETORIC of an old Black man?
All because of America's racist obsession!

All any intelligent mind has to ask is, "How really harmful can mere rhetoric of Right be to ANY American?" Who is bruised?

It's not like Mr Right is making threats of harm against the nation or against individual Americans?

911 demonstrates to the world that Americans will lull itself to sleep with non-issues when real threat to the nation arises.

Americans will be fast asleep, lights out, "when the bridegroom cometh"

How about the Peter Paul trial. Alice Palmer who?

This aspect of the Obama drama with Wright is painful. I do believe they like each other. I do believe they are self promoters, but not BAD people. Boy, talk about "issues", that's politics! Wright is not a representative of the "Black Church". He is who he is. There is nothing wrong with him. He is actually easy to watch. It's about the political choice Obama made with Wright 20 years ago for a certain voting block. We all know it. It's one of his political strategies. However, it's the character attack tactics he used on Hillary/the Clintons from the start. He started with very ugly politics. “Same old politics" huh Obama? The "chickens are coming home to roost."

Getting back to the assignment question, it looks like Wright's press club and NAACP performances were engineered by Obama's handler David Axelrod, given the fact of the public relations firm and all that.

So it doesn't appear that Wright's excursions into the nitty-gritty are "personally and purely self-centered act[s] by a public figure in the political arena", unless the public figure is Axelbama.

Where's Alice Palmer? Tomorrow for that, maybe?

Rev. Wright disapointed with Obama because most of his campaign advisors are white. Wright concern when Obama become president, Obama will not bring the spirit of Trinity Church, president for black people, in his policy. That's why he said Obama is a politician.... may i add as a puppet too.

The lack of evidence on the side of Hillary supporters is just amazing.

Besides just suggesting that Obama may be this way or may be that way because he knew a person, do you have any evidence that he is this way or that way?

Bring it on. Real rvidence, not just repeating your BS.

Jeremiah Wright - Hillary Supporter?

No sane man, who is an Obama supporter, would do what Jeremiah Wright has done in the last week. Many pundits are saying he's an ego maniac, he's been swept up, he's trying to pay for his new house, blah, blah. After thinking about it, I disagree. This was deliberate, planned and timed to inflict maximum damage to Obama. Think about it. What could Wright do to get maximum attention? Answer: speak at the National Press Club, with a large group of supporters present, and with Nation of Islam security on stage with you. Make inflammatory statements, dredging up every outrageous thing you've ever said, and inflating them even more. Be cocky, arrogant, and rude. Make sure that the Nation of Islam guy is in the background of every shot. Scare people to death.

Wright's not crazy. He supports Hillary. It is well known that Wright knows the Clintons. He went to the White House during the Clinton administration. I now believe that he is a Hillary supporter and either did this on his own or was goaded into acting by a supporter. I don't know if he's in communication with the Clinton campaign itself, but I wouldn't be surprised.

This was intentional to hurt Obama, and it sure is working.

Do you know the RNC has purchased half-million dollars worth of ads so far featuring the Rev. Wright and democratic candidates from all over the country. Not only will Obama not win but many good democrats around the country will not win.

It seems that there's MORE Obama campaign involvement -- David Axelrod himself, no less! -- in the perhaps-manufactured Wright crisis.

"Axelrod confirms that he called Jim Terman, the president of Jasculca-Terman and Associates, a major Chicago P.R. outfit that specializes in doing crisis P.R. management for corporations and large institutions.

"I called Jim Terman and asked if they were interested in helping out and they followed up with the church," Axelrod emails, adding that his involvement ended there."

A major PR firm engineered this debacle? What in the world does THAT mean?

@ middle of the road...

Harold Ford, Jr. has been very well respected. Unfortunately, I don't think our bigoted country will be ready to elect him as he recently married his blonde white fiance a few weeks ago.

Belle Starr and your posts are on topic. Ok, sure.

Well, it looks like nobody's discussing the assignment, which is a puzzling one -- sort of suggesting that Jeremiah Wright is to Obama as Monica Lewinsky was to Wild Bill Clinton. Perhaps not an outstandingly felicitous suggestion.

Who delivers Obama's pizza? Maybe we should be discussing THAT?

Obama put Rev.Wright on his Spiritual Advisory Committee. Yet he didn't really know about Wright's sermons and radical views? Another example of very poor judgement. And another lie.

The truth is, the Clintons were responsible for NAFTA, and while Hill can say "I was secretly against it back then," the reality is, it was the signature of the Clinton years. And it was her own campaign head, Harold Ickes, who as part of the DNC rules committee, stripped FL and MI of their seats. She agreed with him until she started losing, and she's trying to spin the fact that she wouldn't allow people who had voted GOP in the first MI vote to vote Dem in the revote as promoting a legitimate revote, when it's not b/c a lot of people knowing the original wouldn't count had switched over. And when people talk baggage, it's funny- Bill was almost impeached, Hill is being arraigned in a few months (not someone she knows but she herself)in the Paul v Clinton case, objects were stolen by the Clintons from the White House when they left, documents went missing, Hill obtained a criminal pardon for her brother's criminal friends, Vince Foster was murdered, Monica, Jennifer- the list goes on. It's just that Obama wanted to keep it clean so he didn't mention any of these, but the reality is nobody has more baggage and shadiness than the Clintons. The Clintons had even bombed Iraq, if anybody cares to remember. It was not a rainbow and unicorns peaceful time. Even Hill's claim to be active in the administration was proven false by the records; she started out strong, but when her health care efforts failed, she became another tea and tourist first lady. People even forget her outrageous lies and her constant smearing with the absurd excuse of preparing Obama for Republicans, as if that were her job. A former governor's wife and then the president's wife, Hill has 100 million dollars in her pocket and grew up well-off, to become a member of the head board of anti-Union Walmart- yet she pretends now to have any semblance of connection to grassroots America. From moving to NY, a state she never lived in, to take advantage of an easy election that would put a big state in her hand come 08, to her episodes of tears, to her whining about speaking first in debates and her willingness to put McCain above Obama, Hill has shown that she has been planning a long time for the throne that was her birthright. The only reason that the 90s was prosperous was because there was a computer, internet and technology boom which is now over. Even the concept of a president's wife now becoming president is inherently ridiculous- it smacks of royalty. Now, her campaign, badly managed, is in debt, and she's had to fire 3 top campaign strategists. She didn't even bother to read the Iraq intelligence reports when she voted to send our boys to war. There is simply, absolutely nothing that would make her qualified.

Vickie, don't bother. No one reads long posts like that.

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