[freerepublic_or_die]

The Very Reverend Jeremiah "X". Wright's outright, egregiously solipsistic tendencies reminds of the classic narcissist, who after an interminable long-winded ode to himself says, "Okay, enough about me, let's talk about you. So,what do you think of me?

[counterpunch]

Ah, New York Time, how you make us laugh.

[ml/nj]

Obama’s former pastor

This guy Wright didn't sound as if he were giving up "pastoring" anytime soon. So what's with the word "former"? Was Wright dismissed by Obama's church?

How long was this "dismissal"(!) in the works?

ML/NJ

[samtheman]

The government invented HIV and spread it to black people. The US deserved what it got on 9/11. It’s not G-d Bless America, it’s G-d D-m America.

I don’t care how much you try to put these statements “in context”.

They are what they are. They say what they say. They mean what they mean.

In the words of candidate Hussein: Words matter.

Wright is what he is: an anti-American racist bigot.

[Pontiac]

While MSNBC was waiting to go live to the event, an anchor asked Mr. Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, why the campaign had allowed Mr. Wright to refocus attention upon himself. “He is doing his own thing,” Mr. Axelrod said wearily by telephone. “There’s not a thing we can do about it.”

A church that was once a political strong hold for Obama has become a political box canyon from which he can not escape.

[gusopol3]

Wright would have the same voting record as Obama (and Karl Marx) if he were in the U.S. Senate. You can’t get to the left of Obama in practical terms.

[omniscient]

You heard it here first: The NYT endorsement of Wright as veep nominee is the next logical phase in the sanitation program. The original choice was Ward Churchill, but Jeremiah’s brilliant racial insights give him the nod in the minds of NYT editors.

[Aquinasfan]

Mr. Wright revealed himself to be the compelling but slightly wacky uncle who unsettles strangers but really just craves attention.

Admitted by the NY fishwrap on April 29, 2008. It's officially over for the Dems this time around.

[SatinDoll]

The Rev. Wright is a diversionary tactic, to draw attention away from the greater damaging story concerning the close relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama, who’ve know each other since 1988 when their wives worked together at the same law firm in Chicago.

[roses of sharon]

“Not Speaking for Obama”??????

How would you know, NYT?

And would you give this benefit of a doubt to a Republican?

[Bob]

I suspect that Allessandra may have creamed her jeans writing that drivel.

[joebuck]

"Viewers who had seen the Chicago preacher only in brief cable news clips or campaign attack ads finally saw the unexpurgated version,"

And the unexpurgated version was the exact same as those film clips we've been seeing. I'm glad he confirmed those clips ARE Rev. Wright. Jihad with a Cross.

[Bender2]

Re: Viewers who had seen the Chicago preacher only in brief cable news clips or campaign attack ads finally saw the unexpurgated version, and it was an illuminating display. Followers of Fox News may have been appalled by the sound bites, but so were members of Mr. Wright’s congregation, including Mr. Obama, who complained that the inflammatory snippets were reductive and unfair.

No amount of whitewash like this above will provide any explanation why it has taken nObama 20 years to come to the conclusion Rev Wright is a racist!