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."

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.

Is this guy serious.?

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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!

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.

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.

'...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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gingrich LIED when he said that Hillary's popular vote over Barack Obama is substantial.

Gingrich is infact a LIAR.

To GVegas: Don't put this one on Hillary. Obama belonged to that church for 20 years, named his book after Wright's sermon "The Audacity of Hope", said nothing about the anti-semitic, Hamas supporting entries in the church bulletins and newsletters while he was a sitting United States Senator, said nothing about his "white man's greed" sermons while running for president on the politics of unity and bringing all people together. Obama brought this on himself. Why do Obamanations always try to blame Obama's faults on Hillary?

GO HILLARY 08!

Obama is a good candidate. I think Wright is trying to hurt him. Hillary Clinton could be involved too. She had dealings with him also. I stand by him anyway. I still like the change he will make for our country. He is loyal and he will get rid of the phony politics and power Clinton represents. Clinton cannot handle her marriage or her campaign funds. How does she expect to run the country? What is her experience in? I am a white woman in my late 30's and I could not vote for her. If she is nominated, I place my vote for MC Cain

I think Rev. Wright's recent interview with Bill Moyer and different high-profiled speeches just want to show what he really is, rather than he intentionally want to hurt Obama who has been Wright's spiritual follower for two decades. Rev. Wright's view seems to represent the very left of the spectrum that almost everything the government did on foreign policy is wrong.

Maybe Reverend Wright knows deep inside that Barack Obama has no substance to him and can't see an incompetent like him become President after 8 years of Dubya Bush. Wright, after all, said he's accountable to God! I dont know, but that's what he said! Rev Wright knows him better than anyone else - so maybe he's on to something?

Obama is for empire. Obama is for Israel. Obama is for corporate power. Rev. Wright is right. Obama is wrong. Obama jumped the shark when he dissed Rev. Wright.

Come on guys, this is nothing but a damage control game plan from these two peas in one pot. (1) to control damage by creating diversion. (2) to manipulate the others'weak mind and soul by using reversed psychology to create it is me not him type of game plan. Got you, brothers !

Gingrich, Wrote a book and he is promoting it by bashing Obama in a sly way to try and help McBush short coming. What a creep, who surface now and then.

McCain best days are behind him.

Obama all the way.

A , Billy and Hilly make a better president ????WHO is runnig here,but you got it right BILLY wants back in so bad it hurts....

It is now evident that Wright is part of the vast right wing conspiracy....What was wrong with Harold Ford Jr. again? Why does the DNC always go in the WRONG direction? Next time, do not pick as your frontrunner a politician from Chicago....just a suggestion.

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!"

I think Rev Wright is so out of touch that he doesn't realized the problems he is creating for Obama.

Rev Wright is the BEST thing that has happened to the voters
NOW they have an EXCUSE NOT to vote for Obama
other than - he is black.

It was too good to be true. I'm switching my vote Senator Clinton; Obama has some issues to work out with his Pastor.

BO becomes more transparent every day
HE has no one but himself to blame fro all of his problems
The people he has chosen to align himself with were entirely his decisions
Boneheaded?
So should he be elected-does he intend to hide Wright in the basement of the whitehouse?
Enough of the BO crap- he is the one who has played on race from the beginning
He and his obnoxious wife had the whole thing planned out
They never thought people were smart enough to figure it out
The Obamas have no one but them selves to blame for their problems at this point
I know they will blame the Clintons and others but really they have done it to them selves

Why isn't the focus on Obama , who has yet to answer all of the hard questions as have been aasked of Sen. Clinton. If she is responsible for Pres. Clinton (news flash he isn't running for Pres.) then Sen. Obama should be responsible for Rev. Wright.?????? Oh, no we're suppose to give him a free pass....

I don't think that Wright is trying to hurt Obama. I feel that he is simply trying to defend himself. At any rate, it still seems to be hurting Obama and thank God for that. Obama also has hurt himself by simply being in that church, thinking like his pastor, his remarks regarding "clinging to guns and religion", his inability (and unwillingness) to debate Senator Clinton, his anti-american wife, his LACK OF EXPERIENCE, his inability to appeal to the real base (not just new voters, young voters, black voters) and the list goes on and on. Iowa made a mistake and now the rest of the country is taking a second look.

Why isn't the focus on Obama , who has yet to answer all of the hard questions as have been aasked of Sen. Clinton. If she is responsible for Pres. Clinton (news flash he isn't running for Pres.) then Sen. Obama should be responsible for Rev. Wright.?????? Oh, no we're suppose to give him a free pass....

For those thinking that people are going to distinguish Obama from the reverend, they are very mistaken.
Obama has said over and over, the Rev is the one that introduced him to Christ. Where did Obama go from there? Nowhere. He remained under the tutelage of Wright and no one else for 20 years. He knows no different. All he has learned he has learned from Wright. You know, the guy he refers to as an uncle, the same one that he "cannot disown any more then he could disown the black community." Obama publicly solidified his relationship with Wright a long time ago. There is no denying him now.

Both of them are one in the same. Dr. Jekyll (Obama) and Mr. Hyde (Rev. Wright). Unfortunately, the 2008 version of Nat Turner rebellion will suffer the same fate especially with language of entitlement such as "this is MY White House" and people in Rural PA are bitter and "cling to guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiment" got his motivation from a person who "God Damns America" and states "that Hillary ain't never been called the n-word" as if that is a qualification to be President of the U. S.

As a criminal lawyer, you never put a Defendant on a witness stand because of the possibility of self-incrimination. Likewise, a politician does not run for President of the U. S. when he will ultimately expose and damage his church and leader's ability to exercise the free expression of religion in Private and w/o fear of persecution.

Obama and Rev. Wright will suffer the same fate and I hope it is not the result of the Nat Turner rebellion.

I would be interested to see Michelle Obama interviewed. I have always suspected that she is militant and probably led Barack to that church.

You know, last night I watched Rev WRight answer questions and speak fo ran hour because of all the HOOPLA surrounding his statement. You know what I found? I found that I TOTALLY AGREEE WITH HIM. He is a VERY reasonable man who is now on the defense because of a bunch of POLITICAL HACKS who have indeed taken a snippet, a sound-byte of a speech he made and are trying to WHIP IT UP into a political FROTH. I swear to you, this nation has gone to the dogs. We allow right wing DEMAGOGS to host our news sources, and if not host them then we feature them as commentators! I have never been so shamed to be an American as I am today. YOU GO REV WRIGHT!

It is interesting to me how these bigots get front page news stories to discuss anything relating to the black america....Newt is one of the biggest racist in this country...which includes the hate monger Pat Buchanan...he needs to be diminished to the size of an ant.....he reminds me of everything that brought black people in to slavery.....when are white people that care about humanity going to stand up against these type of hate mongers....do you thing black people or any non-white people can change this country alone?....either the white carpetbaggers step up to the plate and stand up with black people this country will never change....as far as I am concerned....we as black people are just a hated group of people this country....when really we shoudl be the haters....after all that has been done...stolen from Africa......with out African ancestors not knowing where we were........American people have been dumbed down to the point that we are unable to critical analyze what is really going on in this country.....constant hate toward people of color.........

Wright knows exactly what he's doing and in his mind, it's payback time against his deserter Obama. Everytime Wright opens his mouth it's yet another reiteration of his militant racist and bigoted extremism. Wright doesn't speak for the black church as a whole, nor does he speak for the black people as an entire group. As long as Obama says nothing, he is condoning and reaffirming all of the trash Wright has been saying. Wright is also caught in a clench-fisted reefer smoking sixties era. This man needs a new career on another planet. He will be Obama's downfall, but too many, that won't be such a bad thing.

It's all about money. After Obama's speech, Rev. Wright is likely experiencing shrinking contributions as people leave his congregation.

He is attempting to salvage his reputation.

I was so dissapointed by the choice of Newt Gingrich to address Dr. Wright's comment. Was it not the same Gingrich who disgraced the American people by his conduct, while serving as an elected official?

Apparently, many people who claim Christianity have not read the Bible. The word of God speaks against injustice, etc.

Can you imagine the uproar if Dr. Wright stated that the attack was against the "universal church?" People couldn't handle it.

The media is fanning the flame of hurt, division, confusion, and uncertainty.

At least ABC, you could have had another opinion to bring forth balance reporting.

Let's open dialogue with churches, media, that there may be clarity when there is discussion of God's will in our lives.

Please media, put this nonsense, that you continue to splash before the viewer's eyes to rest.

Newt, Newt, Newt go away! Your train was derailed years ago. Why do you think you need to comment on anything political?
Rev Wright is speaking his own mind and you have no right to say anything about what he is feeling. What was it that you did again? Hypocrite is a hypocrite!

Newt is an idiot, a has been, a blowhard
We don't need him making any comments. He is nobody to listen to. He must have a motive, just like always. Probably wants to promote another book or talk show deal. Everyone already knows Wright has hurt Obama. Obama should step aside. The American people will never elect a racist like him. Take that to the bank.

It's all about money. After Obama's speech, Rev. Wright is likely experiencing shrinking contributions as people leave his congregation.

He is attempting to salvage his reputation.

...and, it could all be reverse psychology. With Wright pushing Obama away from himself, by his own velvet-covered tirades on a number of subjects, the end result, should Clinton win the nomination, would be an increased exposure of her own leftist contacts during the '60's. But, we already know that the existing press would never open that pandora's box, would they? To do so, there would be another link to the Clinton's, such as the multiple deaths and/or "suicides" that surrounded them. You got to love a mystery to follow all of this, huh?

Tony at 9:18 is still living in a dream world. Clinton supporters have not given up on her (even when Obama supporters have almost demanded that she drop out) and we're not likely to support Obama (even less likely now with all the new stuff that comes out daily) if she does not get the nomination.

The fact that Wright's comments are hurting Obama does not necessarily mean that they are intended to do so. Not all consequences are intentional. And mind-reading is always tricky, at best. We could just as well infer that Wright is trying to help Obama, in the sense that he believes that he is undoing the damage inflicted by his prior comments. He might be thinking that he is correcting the record by asserting his patriotism forthrightly.

I'm still voting for Obama.I'm tired of the Clintons nor do I want to see 4 more years of Bush(McCain).

So, Wright sounds like a crazy man eh? Isn't that what Senator Obama told us months ago? This guy was like a "crazy old uncle" that he doesn't always agree with. Refreshing honesty coming from a politician. Mr. Obama is running for president, meaning he must represent, BUT NOT ENDORSE OR AGREE WITH everyone's opinions. The constitution guarantees our rights to say whatever the hell we want and as president he must ensure that that happens. Why would he want to stiffle someone's voice during the nomination process? This is showing us what kind of president he will be and its about time.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a racist moron. He is trying to grab his 15 minutes of fame. He sees Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson making money off of the backs of poor black people and he wants to grab the brass ring. All he has to do is keep racism alive and he's got it made.

20 years is a long time to know someone. Wright knows a lot more about Obama than we do. Wright may now be disappointed with Obama's approach and feels he is saying things just to get elected and not standing up for what he truly believes in or may have given Wright the impression over the years that he would stand up for.

Wright in return is speaking out to remind Obama of what he should stand for, Wright does keep saying that Obama is just talking for talking sake and it does look as if he does no admire that, maybe Wright took the conscious decision as to if Obama is going to be so flaky on the political platform then he should not be President.

Obama must of given Wright one impression in private and now in public he is doing the opposite so Wright is now on his case.

Gingrich is a racist, plain and simple. This country will never be UNITED. This election is going to go down the drain. Hillary will not win.

Knowledgeforreal: Rev Wright didn't kill anyone Nat Turner did right or wrong. This country seem to want to return to its racist past listing to some of these Clinton supporters.

Obama all the way

Wright is using the politics as a way to get publicity for himself, not matter who it impacts. Obama should be judged by his character, not the color of his skin, name or relationships. A as a citizen of the United States of America, I am disappointed in the way we have represented ourselves as Americans.

Wright is using the politics as a way to get publicity for himself, not matter who it impacts. Obama should be judged by his character, not the color of his skin, name or relationships. A as a citizen of the United States of America, I am disappointed in the way we have represented ourselves as Americans.

When all is said and done and John McCain is president, Barack Obama will only have one person to blame. His name--Jeremiah Wright. Can I get an amen?!

Stan: people are reaaaaally starting to see the true picture of this ultra liberal left wing person, and his collection of nut cakes around him, he will never win, get on the bus and go back to chicago,

These words are the reason why Barack Obama is fighting an uphill battle!

And Barbra Walters, is wrong for putting him of all people on TV to speak for someone. If I were white, I would be ashamed that Gingrich said that someone was "weird", for PRAYING!
Obviously he is not a Chirstian.

I think that Barack cannot do anything else to inflame this guy who has very good points but very bad intentions...The press has given him free reign to do as he pleses for ratings so lord only knows what he would do if his apparently sensitive ego was hurt...

Rev Wright is as much the status quo as Hillary and John McCain represent...We will never get away from this nonsense as long as they have power. As far as the guilt by association thing, I do not think that Blue Dress Bill and Keating McCain have any room to talk about their associations...

I smell demanding for reparation. The dude lives in a 1.6 million dollar house in a wealthy white neighbourhood and that same dude using God name to talk about hatred, slavery, chains, color of his own skin. How much is enough?

The theory that the Clinton voters will simply forget all their candidate has been put through by the Obama-liberal media alliance and follow into the Obama campaign is dead WRONG.Rev Wright issue and the attempt by the liberal media to treat it as best as they can as a non issue is appaling.
I hope Clinton wins and the slimy monstrous smile is wiped off Jack Cafferty's moronic face.

Sen. Obama has no power to shake Rev. Wright. The way Hillary was and still now has no power to shake Bill. The equation is solved!

calli, how can you say the only reason Obama is leading because he's getting 90% of the black Vote,when black people make up only about 15% of the population of this country. For gods sake...the man won UTAH!!! the only black people in UTAH are the Utah Jazz!!!

My guess is that the chickens are roosting again. Obama threw the preacher under the bus and now he has returned the favor. This guy is a lunitic. I mean he makes Al Sharpton seem sane. The more he talks the more people will realize he is just crazy.

It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club "who organized" the event - is an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter. What a surprise...more Clinton dirty politics. This was a set up and Wright is too full of himself to figure it out.

Or is Wright just doing what Obama wants? Is Wright in collusion with Obama by giving Obama and "out" in distancing himself from Wright? "Hey Barrack, I will beat you up a little to make the country think we are NOT in sync. I will give you a way to disavow me without actually having to disavow me." Would an Afrocentric man like Wright do something so deliberate to tank the closest person to be the first African American in the White House?

Maybe Wright is judging Obama by his character or by what he portrayed to him over 20 years, its amazing that AA first taught Wright was the best thing since slice bread, but now that Wright seems to be not going along with the Obama train, some of saying he is out to get Obama.

Maybe Wright knows a lot more than we do about Obama, Obama was the one that did not want Wright praying with him in public but settled for the man saying a pray for him in some back room away from the eyes of the media, maybe Wright does not admire that kind of hypocrisy.

Wright no matter how radical he may seem sure seems to me as a man that will say what he wants, when he wants and is not going to shy away from anything because people may not like what he says.

Obama had it right when he said that he and the Reverend are from 2 different generations. He sees the way forward, while Wright is stuck in the past. If Obama succeeds and is elected President then the gripes of Wright and race baiters like Jackson and Sharpton will be empty and thus their power lost. But if Wright hurts Obama and he loses than they hold onto power and hold back millions of blacks (crab in the pot syndrome). So just who are the racists of today?

It is apparent that ABC News was not represented at the National Press Corps conference in Washington DC where Rev. Wright spoke yesterday. Otherwise, you might have shared a quote or two from his remarks in this morning’s broadcast. Or, you might have talked to Senator Obama or one of his representatives, a Democrat, or, maybe even an African-American to elicit their comments regarding his remarks. Instead, you chose to dig up those fossils Newt Gingrich and Barbara Walters to sit around discussing their opinions of Obama’s electability while showing the same video clips you have been looping the past several weeks. Your show is starting to represent the worst in journalism.

I wonder if people who say Rev. Wright is anti-American have really listened to the whole sermons or just to the snippets that spread all around the media. It is certainly out of context. And what he mentioned is absolutely true. I wonder if people know that there was a genocide that eradicated native Americans and pushed them out of their lands. Has American government apologized for that? It's not anti-American to be critical and say the truth about America's mistakes in the past, it's the right way to be honest with ourselves and try to have a better future.

Wright represents everything and I mean everything that keeps the black man down. Constantly talking about how the oppressors (white man) are keeping them down. It gives the black man an excuse for not trying, for their violence, for EVERYTHING that's wrong with the black community. Just think what it would be like if that church had a positive role model. Peoples lives would be changed forever for the better.

Classic politics:
-Problem-
Obama gets caught with a wacko racist pastor/mentor of 20 years.
-Solution-
Step 1. Obama must denounces the pastors statements but not disown the pastor. Note: It is essential not to disown the pastor as this would pose as a serious character flaw on Obamas part.

Step 2. Pastor must step down so as not tto incriminate the senator any more that he already has.

Step 3. Pastor must now turn against obama causing a "percieved desention". This false disownment created by the pastor will in turn sever all ties with Obama. It will also make Obama who was originally the suspect now becomes the victim. If spun correctly this will generate small line of voter sympathy enough to avert the publics eye from the underlining issue(The very real influence that Obamas coo-coo pastor has had on him.)

Rev Wright is "Rev Wrong" If he looked inside those prisons or even at the faces of his own congregation; he wouldn't see the racism as much as he would the impoverished. Poverty is the root behind all this. The poor from all walks have lived with the same snubs. Stop preaching war - Educate the poor. This is America. I don't want money. I want education. Don't feed me. Show me how to feed myself. Don't make education so costly.

What exactly does Wright want? Simple....reparations.

marie...you are so right. I think Rev Wright is doing this now to damage Obama permanently. This way Hillary will get the nomination and McCain will win. That way, when things go wrong he can blame American...Make sense?

I guess its the same reason that Hillary didnt throw Mark Penn under bus...What does he know about the Clintons...Money they have taken from foreign governments...remember who gave us the China Problem....

perhaps there is much dirt that Wright would not like exposed. Donald Young for example.