Obama on Wright: 'He Does Not Speak for Me'

No he just sat in the mans church he was Obama's pastor like an Uncle it is really insulting to think you can fool people with bs. Gov. of NC is to endorse Clinton.

Obama wanted Wright to speak for him for twenty years as his pastor. He wanted Wright to speak for him as his friend, "uncle," and spiritual advisor during his Illinois and US senate campaigns and for the first year of this presidential primary. He wanted Wright to speak for his children by baptizing them. He wanted Wright to speak for him by marring him to Michele. Suddenly now, when he could lose the nomination, he says Wright doesn't speak for him.

I think this IS a strategy between Wright and Obama. Funny he says, " you can see we are not coordinating with him." As they say in the movies, this is to easy, too pat. This way, Obama can distance himself from current remarks and take the heat off of his 20 years when he listened to other remarks. After seeing how Obama's campaign started the whole race thing, I don't put anything past his campaign.

Rev. Wright should shut up, period. In fact, someone needs to go hide that MOFO in a cage. Anyway, we'll see what happens. I have become sick of this entire Presidential campaign. No wonder hardly anyone i know gives a f*ck. The media and that bastard, Rev. Wright, have turned this thing into a soap opera.

I really don't think the president can bring that much change in Washington the whole place needs cleaned we should vote everyone that has been there since the sixty's and seventy's out.

Mr. Obama has been an active member of this cult
for 20 years and is clearly still under
its influence.

WOW...the more I read these blog comments, the more I realize there are many disillousioned Americans out there than I thought.
If you do not like Obama, then simply don't vote for him, but it is counterproductive to spend countless hours saying "how could sit in church and listen to these hate sermons", when most of the persons speaking against Wright probably have NEVER heard of him until recently.
To be responsible is to form an opinion of someone based on the facts that you have grown to know and not just pieces of the facts that you have been fed.

There is nothing hateful about what Wright says. It is probably offensive to some, which is understandable, but sometimes the truth does not come in a comfortable cute package.
I've found more hate-filled anti-American words in these messages boards than in the snippets of Wright's speeches. The fact that we do not embrace differences (whether it be diffrences in races, cultures, backgrounds, environments, and/or opinions), is what still feeds many of the problems in America...

@ rs: You may be right. This could all be an attempt to galvanize black voters to support Barrack. The problem is that many African American parishioners and pastors are now saying today on the various news shows that Wright is divisive, and that Barrack's association with him creates doubt as to his viability as the democratic nominee. Even if Obama does "disown" Wright, the damage has been done.

The only reason this is still in the news is because you at ABC news and the other television, radio and news papers will not let it go away. I am watching ABC world news with Stephanapolis and listened to the clips he play of Rev. Wright and am sickened by his lame attempts to make the Reverends statements seem controversial and inappropriate when they clearly are not! Let it go it is not important to this election. Or lets start hearing about McCains association with his controversial religious supporters! Thank you.

Obama is not being judged as an
average american but righfully so
as an applicant for Commander in Chief...

That is why we are hard on him
and why his unusual profile
and hypocritical passive behavior is high cause
for concern.

Okay, let's try this again. The author of the above article says that Wright "argued" that many critics have not heard all of his sermons and that the media have twisted his words. This is yet another example of the mainstream media's duplicity. First, can anyone doubt that a great many people (including among Wright's critics) have not heard his entire sermons or even anything from them other than the brief snippets we've all heard? Second, can anyone who listens to extended excerpts available on the Internet have any doubt that the meaning of the brief sound bites we've all heard has been misrepresented?

ebony say - "Obama is not being judged as an average american but righfully so
as an applicant for Commander in Chief..."

This is a fair point. Obama is way ahead and the only way Hills can win is by burning down her own party and swiping the nomination in the smoke filled room.

So there are going to be more stories on Obama.

How many stories are there about Mike Gravel? Not many, because he does not have a chance to be president.

Eb's other sentence is vacuous, however.

Okay, let's try this again. The author of the above article says that Wright "argued" that many critics have not heard all of his sermons and that the media have twisted his words. This is yet another example of the mainstream media's duplicity. First, can anyone doubt that a great many people (including among Wright's critics) have not heard his entire sermons or even anything from them other than the brief snippets we've all heard? Second, can anyone who listens to extended excerpts available on the Internet have any doubt that the meaning of the brief sound bites we've all heard has been misrepresented?

Obama says Rev. Wright does not "reflect my values or concerns" --- if this is so, why did he spend 20 years in this church and why would he have his children listen to this type of hatred for America each Sunday? This did not just happen overnight--you can listen to this type of sermon (they are taped) for years!

We are facing critical changes in our country. Obama is not the man to fix these cracks---his very speech and actions are encouraging huge cracks and dividing this country. Obama doesn't have to wear the American Pin out of "respect". Obama can forget to place his hand over his heart "out of respect",these are just symbols important to some, others do not care. He can have laspes of memory when it comes to his close friend Rezko (on trial for fraud), or lapses of memory in meeting a billionaire from Iraq at Rezko's home before his funding began to run for Senator of Illinois, he can condemn, denounce or "reject" constantly things that do not make him look good but when all is said and done ---you are known by the company you keep. We all know now that Rezko was the largest donor to Obama's senate campaign and Rezko even broke federal laws by giving money to another individual to say it was from him to make sure that Obama had more than enough money to win---more will likely come out in this trial---generally people that are this devious have a lot of skeletons in their closets. So if Obama is the nominee and more comes out he will never be elected. John McCain will be elected --the war in Iraq will continue, the problems facing us today will continue, American's will have no health care (even Obama's plan fails and millions of Americans (your families, friends and neighbors)will still be without health care and in a nation as great as ours this is deplorable and unacceptable.

It is too late for Obama to distance himself from the Wrong Reverend Wright. The American Public will not buy it this time. Obama's achilles heel is that he allows a problem to get to critical mass before he addresses it. Pleaae, no more speeches, no more denials about Wright not being a reflection of the type of man he is. It is just not believeable. Obama should have known what kind of man Wright was anyway, when after offering spiritual counseling to the Clintons, he then used what he knew about them to create a sermon about them. That's your karma, Obama, coming back to bite you in the butt.

A Proud, Black, Hillary Supporter
Rise, Hillary, Rise!'08

Wright is only Obama's former pastor because he retired....not because Obama had left the church or anything...

You know I kind of feel sorry for all of the hopeful optimists who have been bamboozled by Obama, but I have even more sympathy for his two young children who have been sheltered by a church of hate for so long and then being exposed to a media blitz that includes their father, mother, and pastor that paints Obama as a liar, a mother who is bitter and insensitive, and a hateful racist pastor who hates the US.
I would not want my children exposed to such filth in the first place, but to know the kind of humiliation and torment they would have to endure when such information became public is unspeakable!
Shame on the Obama's for attempting to pull the wool over America's eyes...shame on them for subjecting their innocent girls to such torture!

how can anything obama does be called
positive "leadership"....///

His whole campaign has made me and my family ill...

Any and every white candidate with a similarr relationship with a "white" Wright would of been driven out long ago by the media, Obama, Sharpton, Jackson and the rest.

it is 100% because of obama's past actions that
Mr. Wright's smut is on American
television...

Mr. Obama is very bad news...

Lol Omentum:

Such intense denial!

Are you actually attempting to spin that Obama and his family attending Wright's sermons for 20 years had absolutely NO influence on his thinking whatsoever? And that now Wright is involved with some conspiracy just to bring Obama down?

That is some funny stuff!

Just for the record I am a registered Liberal who supported Obama in the beginning until I read about his ties with Rezco, Ayers, and what he subjected his children to at Wright's church. Not to mention the 21 debates he had to prove himself nationally and failed miserably. I was severely disappointed. Yes for those who still support him they continue to be bamboozled, conned, manipulated however you wish to phrase it. The case against Obama in higher office becomes clearer and clear everyday!
I will vote anyone else other than Obama.