STUPID STATEMENTS!!! That is an understatement. What is stupid will be the American public if we believe his lies and cover ups and more empty rhetoric. His speech tomorrow should be his resignation speech for the unity and the common good of the democratic party.

When did Senator Obama's father become an African-American?

Thought he was Kenyan. Can this guy keep anything straight?

You know, I've had many criticisms of Sen. Clinton but have never felt the need to call her names or make nasty comments whenever there was an opportunity whether it made sense or not. I wish her supporters would be equally restrained. ----------If he said 'African-American' (and it may have been a slip-up on the part of the reporter or typist), I suspect he used the term, as many of us have come to, as synonymous for 'black.' His father was black ---- and, in fact, when he was legally in this country and married Obama's mother, I suppose he was quite literally an African-American. ------ My own comment was going to be that I sincerely hope that we will be allowed, after all, to have someone this capable of real, coherent *thought* as our President. It's been a long time and we so desperately need some genuine intelligence applied to our many problems.

Just because it's said in a black church does not make it any less offensive to me. I would have love to seen the reaction if the situation was reversed and it was Mrs. Clinton's church spewing venom and her minister spewing it!!!!!

Obama has the word change right okay. He has changed his story on his relationship with Rev. Wright several times since June 2007 when he said Wright was his pastor and kept him out of trouble etc. Obama isn't just now finding out what Wright stands for. Obama has been a part of his church for 20 years and I know he isn't that dumb or that naive to act like he hasn't known what Wright's views were all this time. And, if Obama didn't agree, why did he stay under his leadership for so long. I would not believe anything Obama said at this point no matter what Bible he swore on. I am very disappointed in him.

Notice how he throws Ferraro in the conversation-he's always ready to blame someone else. What a jerk!!! What Ferraro said was nearly as horrific as his own pastor. AT LEAST IT'S NOT TOO LATE AMERICA-VOTE HILLARY 08; and let's put an end to this reverse racism and hatred for america!!! I love America!!!

Obama has the word change right okay. He has changed his story on his relationship with Rev. Wright several times since June 2007 when he said Wright was his pastor and kept him out of trouble etc. Obama isn't just now finding out what Wright stands for. Obama has been a part of his church for 20 years and I know he isn't that dumb or that naive to act like he hasn't known what Wright's views were all this time. And, if Obama didn't agree, why did he stay under his leadership for so long. I would not believe anything Obama said at this point no matter what Bible he swore on. I am very disappointed in him.

Barack Obama can take this ugly issue and turn it into a positive. America needs to deal with this headon or we will never progress and Obama can make it happen. That is why I have supported this guy and believe he can make this country and the world a better place.

Jill- I completely agree; he's so arrogant that he actually thought he could get away with belonging to a hate mongering church. He thinks the American people are stupid!!! THIS SICKENS ME!!!

You Hillary people should not get your hopes up. This issue will not stop Obama from getting the Dem nomination. The math is extremely biased against Hillary. There is no way she can catch up and the supers will not overturn the delegate leader. Pelosi, Dean and others will see to that. This will only have an impact in the general and Obama has several months to work on that.

Bob, in DC. Barack Obama has created this ugly issue with poor judgment and trying to evade and ignore this huge problem until the MSM ran with it. Now, all it is is damage control to see how many supporters he will have lost and how many undecideds will move to Hillary or McCain. Obama has no one to blame but himself on this issue. He is damaged goods right now, I doubt anything positive will come out of this for him.

There is nothing he can say that will regain the trust of the many who now believe he's been misleading the American people all along. He is not what he seems. He accuses others of race baiting when it is HIS campaign relentlessly pushing the race issue at every opportunity. He says he's a "uniter" while sending out insulting messages against Hillary (she's dishonest, she's calculating, she's divisive). Right, this man is a walking talking case of "projection" (seeing your own faults in others) and he's now succeeded in dragging everyone else into his private neurosis. Just what we need in the Oval Office: a psychological case.

As far as Pelosi and Dean, they both should resign. They are the epitome of useless in this election. Neither of them have any power or sway over the super delegates as you will see, and as it should be. They are both biased and fully support Obama, which is a joke. They should be on neutral ground until every last vote is counted. They are both a disgrace to the Democratic Party and the democratic process.

has anybody heard or seen from Rev.Jackson and Rev Sharpton, if this was said by Clinton's pastor they would be all over the tv threatening a law suit

Obama relationship of 2o years speaks volumes. Pastor Wright spews racist comments in such a angry and bitter tone.

This is not UNITY and sounds more like

No We Can Not............

Obama praised his Pastor, remember the Book Audacity of HOPE!!!! Please not you are denoucing ...

Anyone Sane individual can see that a 20 year relationship and calling pastor Wright your Christiam Mentor...means you believe in him and what HE Respresents................ HATE and DISDAIN FOR AMERICA...
P.S.... Lets not forget Pastor Wright praises of Farrakan...

A disgusted Democrat who will vote for McCain if Hillary Clinton is not nominated...
Obama is not a Unify and NO He Can NOT

No matter how much Obama tries to distance himself from the pastor who married him, baptized his children and who sermonized before Obama's family for 15 plus years, this is not going to play well in conservative, moderate or liberal white America.

Obama is in big trouble, and I don't see how rational Democrats who support him can expect him to hold up in a general election.

His ghosts are blowing the doors off his closet: Obama says one thing about Nafta to the American people while his aides whisper something else to foreign governments; Obama professes limited financial exposure to Tony Rezko but this weekend he has been exposed as financially tighter than he first claimed that he was; Obama backed and voted for an energy bill that allows Big Oil to rake in billions while Americans are paying higher costs at the pump; Obama's preacher is an avowed racist but Obama giggles it off by claiming he's like an uncle who has a propensity to say embarrassing things; Obama claims he's a different kind of politician who wants to be transparent, positive and bring people together but his campaign mails our flyers that are negative and willfully attempt to mislead the public; Obama says he'll have the U.S. out of Iraq in X amount of days, but an aide tells the a member of the media off-the-record that Obama's plan is a best case scenario that will not likely happen.

If the Dems put Obama anywhere on the ticket, I'm voting McCain, and I while my country has many faults, I cannot vote for a man whose spiritual leader shouts "God Damn America!" while Obama whispers "Yes We Can.

What a shock -Obama goes to a safe interview with black woman Gwen Ifill.

Obama is arrogant and defensive. So far, he has lied to the American people. He claims he never heard this kind of disgusting racist homophobic remards from his uncle "Wright".

He does not deserve to be a senator, and President.

‘Believing with you that man owes account to none other for his faith or his worship than to God...I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their federal legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.' - Thomas Jefferson

"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President -- should he be Catholic -- how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him." - John F. Kennedy

We should stop bringing religion into this election. This is for the office of President not the spiritual leader of the country. Allowing religious influence to enter into governmental decisions is a violation of the very constitution a President is sworn to uphold. If a candidate can't keep it out of the campaign, how can we believe that he will keep it out of his office? We have had many Presidents since JFK who continue to violate this - all Republican. A true democrat would honor the founding father's intent in drafting the constitution as JFK did.

This goes beyond Pastor Wright and his "stupid comments". If you noticed when he made these comments many in the congregation cheered and shouted their approval. Why is that? Why are so many in the black commnunity still so angry and bitter? America needs to come to grips with this or we will never make any further progress in racial relations in the country. Is it all simply a problem with black folks? Do they just need to get real and face reality and get over it? Or is it more complicated than that? I think Barack Obama can help us find the path to the solutions to this problem and tommorrow may be the first step.