Posted on 03/18/2008 12:14:20 PM PDT by tessalu
One of President Bush's former White House spokesmen told a gathering of young Jewish activists here that he was deeply troubled by Barack Obama's relationship with his pastor.
Several national media outlets have aired video clips of inflammatory remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the recently retired pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, an Afrocentric church on Chicago's South Side, where Obama has been a member since the early 1990s.
Obama, a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, has denounced Wright's harsh condemnations of American policy, which include an assertion that the United States brought the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks upon itself.
The US senator from Illinois said he only learned of those comments from news reports during the presidential campaign.
But on Sunday, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer said the pastor's comments were still a cause for concern.
"The statements that your clergy make when you join give a little bit of an indication of your own sense of right and wrong, and you cannot just divorce from that," Fleischer said during a plenary session of the United Jewish Communities' Washington 15, a gathering of more than 1,000 donors younger than 45 who are active in the Jewish federation system.
"If my rabbi had made those statements, I would have left the synagogue immediately," said Fleischer, an active board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition. "It really troubles me that Barack Obama only waited until now to speak out about this issue.
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Not only that but all of the “parishners” were on their feet clapping and doing all the jive they do so evidentlyno one there is shocked with the comments and seemed common place to all
Fleischer was a good guy. I was sorry to see him go.
I.E. They knew.
Yeah, and I’m sure NObomba just saw there quietly thru it all.
What a racist fraud this clown is.
If you see a clip again, look at the man to Wright’s left (from your point of view). He looked miserable. However, your point is well taken. I was astounded that so many people were clapping. I thought, before this past weekend, that the black church in American was in good shape. I had no idea this was going on apart from Farrakhan. Or at least, was so widely supported by African-Americans. I will never look at the problem of race in America the same again. Ever.
The Pastor is also conveniently touring Africa this week.
Wonder how long he’ll stay out of country?
Excellent...
Ari, we hardly knew ye. :(
Nobody cares about his condemnations of POLICY, you obfuscating fatuous wonk. It's his condemnation of the NATION and ALL its PEOPLE that riles me up.
YouTube reports that “this video is no longer available”.
“If I had entered into any church and heard the remarks of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, I would have left immediately too, for I would have known that I was in the wrong place.”
You and ever other sane person on the planet!
What scares the hell out of me are the THOUSANDS who attend this racist, anti-American diatribe of Wright’s EVERY WEEK!
And who knows how many more of these black racist “churches” there are in America???
Thanks.
“Rev. Wright will be forever known as Obama’s Pastor.”
Correction...he will forever be known as his IMAM!!
This idiot is no more a “Reverend” than the man in the moon!
I thought a Reverend was supposed to be reverent like in the Boy Scouts code.
you tube KGB have deleted your file. turn back to the other pro-NoBama station.
You seem to be confused about whose video it is.
I see Wright’s rant as no different than a representative of the KKK getting up and addressing his constituents during a meeting.
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