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Gingrich: Wright May Be Deliberately Trying to Hurt Obama
April 29, 2008 7:58 AM
ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: In a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning America, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested that controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright is angry with parishioner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and may be deliberately trying to hurt his presidential bid.
Saying that Wright "went out of his way to weaken Obama" during Monday's address at the National Press Club, Gingrich told Barbara Walters "I think Reverend Wright has a greater interest in his self-importance."
WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE!
Gingrich described Obama former pastor as "hard-line anti-American", and said "if Rev. Wright continues to talk that the burden that Sen. Obama carries becomes bigger and bigger. "
Gingrich described Obama's challenges as "two-fold", citing "left-wing relationships" calling the Illinois senator "disingenuous" about them.
Gingrich also referenced complications in the path to the Democratic nomination via Michigan and Florida. (Both states were stripped of convention delegates for holding their primaries too early in the 2008 process.)
"I don't see how they're going to have a convention and not have the fourth biggest state in the country represented," Gingrich told Walters.
Gingrich said "at the rate things are going" come November the winner might "not necessarily" be a Democrat.
"McCain could be the one Republican who could win the election this year," Gingrich said in a live interview with Barbara Walters.
Gingrich pushed back on notions of his own re-entry into the presidential candidate pool,
"That's an alternative history we'll have to come back and talk about some day," Gingrich said.
Gingrich appeared on Good Morning America to promote his new book "Days of Infamy", the former House Speaker's second historical novel about Pearl Harbor. Gingrich said he wrote the book to "draw more Americans into the Pacific" for a new look at the region and learn "the very tough lessons of history" embedded there.
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I absolutely fel that ReV. Wright is purposly trying to knock down Obama. Just look at his timing. Just look at how he tries to suggest that if Obama does speak out against him that Obama is just being "political."
Posted by: marie | Apr 29, 2008 8:12:38 AM
Sounds like Gingrich got some good points.
It also sounds like Wright don't like Obama very much. Maybe Obama should use this as an opportunity to break free of this nutcase.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Apr 29, 2008 8:19:04 AM
Is this guy serious.?
Posted by: krist | Apr 29, 2008 8:19:34 AM
i guess now many of these guys cant just satnd rev.wright for truth.he is not hurting Obama.i dont think so you now trying to make a cuase for it.Why dont you speak for the reason he has come out to speak.
Posted by: krist | Apr 29, 2008 8:21:31 AM
Superdelegates take note - How in the world can anyone think that Obama can unite us when this election has stirred up more racial turmoil that I thought even still existed??!!! I certainly didn't think that racism was being PREACHED FROM A PULPIT!! Obama the great "igniter" is UNELECTABLE!!
Posted by: fairsuperdelegates08 | Apr 29, 2008 8:28:00 AM
Why won't Obama disown him? What does this guy have on Obama? I think there is a whole lot more to their relationship than meets the eye. Guess time will tell, in the meantime Obama will explain it away and the followers will once again begin their adoration and chanting.
Posted by: Bitter Voter | Apr 29, 2008 8:31:42 AM
Rev. Wright might be reminding Obama about the reason his friends got him to where he is.
Wright is Unifying the Black Community.
Stirring up votes for Obama.
If Obama is not the nominee, or Elected President. Wright will take them(the black communitry) all over the deep end.
So You have Obama Playing on the good side of things, and Wright playing on the other.
Through Wrights speeches and interviews, He implies Obama will not seperate himself from Wright. Obama said he can't disown him.
Posted by: seah | Apr 29, 2008 8:39:26 AM
Gingrich is right.. I thought of the same thing over the weekend.. wondering why in the world he would keep on and on and on. I mean, if he had stopped after the Moyers interview, and given a toned down speech at the NAACP, I think it would have been a net positive for Obama. But the press club stunt went horribly wrong.
Perhaps people like Wright who make their money off the gospel of victimhood would not want an AA like Obama to make it to the whitehouse. Because, once the barrier is broken, all of a sudden the victimhood (and all the whining and complaining that accompanies it) no longer makes sense, and people like Wright can no longer revel in it, nor make millions of dollars spewing it to the masses.
I don't think Wright represents the black church anymore than Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson represent the white church. All of them are opportunists, what the bible called "false prophets". People who use the gospel for their own glorification, and for their own monetary gain. They all disgust me.
Posted by: A reader in georgia | Apr 29, 2008 8:42:45 AM
Well, if this was all part of a grand plan on the Obama campaign to send Wright around and say such offensive things that Obama has no choice but to disown him, it may have backfired, because Wright said what he has been saying to Obama for the past 20 years. Plus, Wright says he prayed with Obama, Michelle and the two children in the basement before Obama went upstairs to announce his presidential run. So much for truth telling and saying he "disinvited" Wright to his nomination announcement. At this point, disowning Wright is simply politics as usual, political expediency, but Wright has made it very clear that Obama does not have the good, strong judgement needed to be president.
Posted by: rs | Apr 29, 2008 8:46:13 AM
If Obama denounces Wright, Wright will then comment, and I am sure more angrily than ever. If Obama doesn't denounce and basically tippy toes around the issue with vague answers, the cloud still hovers over him. Sounds to me like a lose, lose situation. He now should do the RIGHT thing, resign, unify the party and help Hillary whoop McCains *** in November.
Posted by: char19145 | Apr 29, 2008 8:52:23 AM
Hey Aston, thanks for the morning laugh!!!!!!!!!!!! Not voting for Obama.
"Most of this bickering is simply BS.
Obama will, in fact win the nomination and Clinton supports will tag along as ardent Obama fans. Most put the party over and above Clinton's moderation.
After the 'kiss and make up', the Clinton supporters will be convinced that their differences with Obama were simply cosmetic. All will be forgiven!"
Posted by: tony | Apr 29, 2008 8:54:18 AM
To Aston: How will Obama ever unite the democratic party? The only votes he is getting at this point is 90% black vote and white rich liberals who don't care about the price of gas while they fill up their giant SUV's. The list of groups of voters that Obama has offended during his campaign, and the race card he is pulling to get the nomination, is splitting the democratic party. Obama has not united anything up to this point, even with the giant media love fest and propaganda machine running, and he won't unite the party after he gets the nomination, the blue collar democrats, small towners, typical white people, women, hispanics, asians, jews, catholics, anyone over the age of 45, and every other group Obama has offended, will continue to cling to guns and religion and feel bitter towards the DNC and the Obama campaign for dividing the democratic party.
GO HILLARY 08!
Posted by: calli | Apr 29, 2008 8:57:21 AM
The problem is not Wright. The problem is the focus on Wright. It is almost as if what Wright says or does can lead this country into a civil war or a depression.
Hillary's claim of obliterating Iran is far more important but that hardly made the news.
It is such poor coverage that allowed Bush to hoodwink us into war.
Our media is doing us a major disservice.
Posted by: John Rawlings | Apr 29, 2008 8:59:10 AM
Wright, Jackson, and Sharpton all live to stir up racial hatred in the USA. It's easy work and great pay.
The end game for this is a race war. Stock up on food, water, and ammo.
Posted by: Truthfull Observer | Apr 29, 2008 9:00:17 AM
'...wondering why in the world he would keep on and on and on.
Perhaps people like Wright who make their money off the gospel of victimhood would not want an AA like Obama to make it to the whitehouse. Because, once the barrier is broken, all of a sudden the victimhood (and all the whining and complaining that accompanies it) no longer makes sense, and people like Wright can no longer revel in it, nor make millions of dollars spewing it to the masses. '
I couldn't believe this post. I'm from Australia and it reflected exactly what I was telling my husband tonight - that Wright must be trying to stop Obama from reaching the White House to further his own 'victim' scenario.
What a mongrel act.
I hope Obama can break free.
Posted by: KarynA | Apr 29, 2008 9:02:53 AM
PLEASE TAKE NOTE. It is not just a president we are looking for, a president is only as good as the people he surrounds himself with after elected. If Mr. Obama has this kind of following (As in Rev Wright), I do not want to see an America after four years of an Obama Presidency.
Posted by: nashfun | Apr 29, 2008 9:08:15 AM
Neither Obama or Hillary have what it
takes to unify badly divided
Democratics. This is Democrat 'chickens coming home to roost'. If you win through d
divisions along race,gender,and class, milking resentments along the way, you lose.
Posted by: bluecollarbytes | Apr 29, 2008 9:08:36 AM
He is right.
Obama walks the most difficult line we have... talking to all sides in their extreme positions and their egos.
Here is a guy that listens to Wright and Gingrich. and Reagan and Kennedy.
This guy does what none of them do...
and to be honest that is a good thing.
Posted by: dl | Apr 29, 2008 9:09:11 AM
Newt is correct on all points. I am glad the truth is coming out now after the free ride the press has given Obama for months. A black man will indeed someday be President - just not Obama.
Posted by: Don Fletcher | Apr 29, 2008 9:09:16 AM
People are starting to realize that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...Obama has befriended a radical leftist terrorist, a radical leftist criminal, and a radical leftist minister. Obama's voting record is to the left of an avowed Socialist, Sen. Sanders! The American people will not elect someone as far out of the mainstream as Obama in the general election.
Posted by: Cory | Apr 29, 2008 9:10:53 AM
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