Posted on 03/14/2008 9:54:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
CHICAGO, March 5 — The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama’s presidential announcement.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.
But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama’s decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign’s apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright’s teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
Bill Burton, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said the campaign disinvited Mr. Wright because it did not want the church to face negative attention. Mr. Wright did however, attend the announcement and prayed with Mr. Obama beforehand.
“Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church, but because of the type of attention it was receiving on blogs and conservative talk shows, he decided to avoid having statements and beliefs being used out of context and forcing the entire church to defend itself,” Mr. Burton said.
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What did he know and when did he know it?
“Shabbos”? What, is he Jewish, now, too?
It's interesting that Alan Colmes all night was asking conservative guests if McCain should distance himself from a pastor McCain liked who said things about homosexuals.
I got the distinct impression that Colmes was trying to imply that these attacks on Obama were Republican Dirty Tricks because McCain wasn't being held to the same standard, when we all know it's the Clintons who have something to gain at this time. McCain is holding his fire until the Democrats settle on a candidate.
-PJ
It’s stuff that needs to be discussed but on the other hand...
I don’t like the media trying to manipulate voters.
Gotta be the one who thinks this sort of thing is "the fun part" - the witch herself.
Tonight he said that ABC news had all of the same material that f\Fox had,...mention was on the Brian Ross Web Blog...but the TV only showed 10 seconds of the Video....
So I’m thinking Hillary and Friends are doing this and they’ll try to blame it on McCain and the “evil Republicans”.
Since McCain is bending over backwards to not say negative things this may not fly.
Is Mr. Burton on the Clinton payroll?
bkmk, need for later
Ack, “who is pushing this”?
how about whether it is true or not?
ROFL!
I suspect the clintons.
LOL!
Good post potlatch!
I don’t think the problem is that his church concentrates on Black people. I would have no problem with that. When he says September 11 was chickens coming home to roost and G-d d—n America I have a real problem.
Thank you!
Thank you Ernest!
HAH, that looks accurate.
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