Obama's "big press conference" on Wright

Michelle Malkin ^ | 4/29/08 | Michelle Malkin

[LJayne]

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What, pray tell, could Barack Obama possibly say now to undo the damage of his two decades of bad judgment about Jeremiah Wright?

Will he weigh in on black liberation theology? Wright's phrenological discourse? How about Wright's defense of his comparison between the Roman soldiers who killed Jesus and the US Marine Corps?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Maybe we'll find out:

Obama was asked about Rev. Jeremiah Wright just now by a woman in Winston-Salem who tells the audience to watch his PBS interview, which will quell their concerns.

"I'm going to be having a big press conference afterward to talk about this," he responded, then referred back to a story the woman told about a mother having to borrow month to get to work.

"This is diverting attention from the first story that you told," Obama said.

So, he's advising supporters to watch the Bill Moyers interview. What about the NAACP and National Press Club diatribes?

2:00pm Eastern. Here we go. Barack press conference is on:

"I'm outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle. The person that I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate. I believe they do not accurately portray the perspective of the black church. They certainly don't portray mine. If he considers this political posturing, then he doesn't know me very well. And I don't know him well either."

AIDS conspiracy: "Ridiculous proposition."

Farrakhan support and analogy of Marines/terrorism: "They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. They should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing clearly and unequivocally here today."

[edcoil]

Sister so-ja moment.

[Recovering_Democrat]

You can bet the LameStream Media will ask him ALL SORTS of questions about his bad judgement....NOT.

The LSM: in the TANK for Obama.

Just say Nobama.

[gunservative]

Keep talking, Barry.

And pass the popcorn.

[opineapple]

[They'reGone2000]

B-HO’s lookin’ good!

[goldstategop]

Obama resorting to damage control. You would think he would that have said that stuff back when the Wright tapes first aired. So I guess he had no choice but to do a Sister Souljah on Wright. He's finally had to repudiate and disown him. To keep his candidacy politically viable.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AppyPappy]

Put the coffee pot in the stove momma. Obama is coming home.

Hillary just lit the victory cigar.

[Williams]

Obama keeps saying, in essence, that Rev Wright is causing Obama a problem in the election, that’s the real reason Obama suddenly finds the remarks so offensive. He keeps saying Wright is not showing respect for what Obama and the American people are going through.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Obama be goin’ afta Wright’s Mama...............

[ClearCase_guy]

They guy doesn't have an elevator pitch? He doesn't have 30 seconds on Wright that he can unload at a moment's notice? He has to direct people to a TV show if they want to know how he feels about this issue?

Pathetic.

[LJayne]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician’s public repudiation of an allegedly extremist person or group, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician or their party. Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party, although such a repudiation runs the risk of alienating some of the politician’s allies and the party’s base voters.”

[econjack]

Hmmm...looks like the US trials for Olympic Backpeddling.

[edcoil]

Well, at least one Clinton knows what to do with a cigar.

[Williams]

It's all about this being an "insult to what we are trying to accomplish in this campaign". It's all about Obama and what is convenient to him.

How about loving your country?

[edcoil]

I know that, that is why is said it in Ebonics.

[Always Right]

[RC2]

Do people really buy this BS? I’d bet that he already talked to his, so called pastor, and they agreed to let Obama turn on him until he got elected. Then you would see the whole clan in the white house. This country isn’t ready for this and won’t be for a long time to come. I think they have just burnt all the bridges for the next 100 years.

[vietvet67]

"Guess it's time for a press conference."

[El Cid]

The right words...
Unfortunately for him, most of us are wondering why he didn't run out of that 'church' 19.9 years ago, screaming the same words.
Now, whether sincere or not (and I'm guessing, 'not'), Mr. Obama's response just appears to be political damage control.

[goldstategop]

What Jeremiah Wright did was to try to torpedo his protege's presidential candidacy and past friendship is not going to be allowed to stand in the way of Obama's dream to be President. No matter what Obama said today, the issue is heavy baggage going into the fall election.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Army Air Corps]

So, you chose as your spiritual mentor, guide, and close friend a man about whom you know jolly little. Sure, and I am the Crown Prince of Norway.

[TonyInOhio]

"They should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing clearly and unequivocally here today"

"They should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing clearly and unequivocally here today, now that I'm cornered like a rat."

[goodnesswins]

He's a DEMOCRAT....i.e......He's a LIAR! This is for political expediency ONLY.

[geo40xyz]

Obama who:-()

[opineapple]

"Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Lamont eagerly sought and received, the blessing of radically left organizations like MoveOn.Org and the Daily Kos. Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Lamont was a political neophyte with almost no relevant experience. A neophyte who, because of his ideological opposition to the war, was blindly embraced by much of the mainstream media in search of biased political champions who could inflict rhetorical wounds on the hated George W. Bush."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DouglasMacKinnon

It all comes back to lack of experience. If this is how he runs his campaign, think how he'll run the nation.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think they have just burnt all the bridges for the next 100 years.

Could well be. Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams have both said that the first black president needs to be really good -- Jackie Robinson-type good. Otherwise, it could result in a real setback for the country. Well, I think we're seeing the setback right now, because Obama is so awful.

Personally, I'd love to see the GOP run a black candidate -- not Alan Keyes, and not Condi Rice. But I'd be thrilled to vote for a good black conservative.

[vetvetdoug]

Watching the press conference, Obama is sucking eggs. He's toast. He screwed the pooch. His loyalty and preference to the radical black religious nuts are obvious and he's paying the cost now...bout’ damn time. He's having a Ted Kennedy moment and rightly so.

[goldstategop]

In other words, a black Jimmy Carter.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Army Air Corps]

What next? Will Obambi throw his wife under the bus?

[alecqss]

“I don’t know him [Wright] well either.”

20 years and still lack of experience?!

[TonyInOhio]

Sure, and I am the Crown Prince of Norway.

And I'm dating Princess Madeline of Sweden:

[alecqss]

What next? Will Obambi throw his wife under the bus?

If he wins in November - next is entire country.

[goldstategop]

That's another iconic moment in U.S politics where Ted Kennedy was asked by Roger Mudd in a famous interview why he wanted to be President and he didn't have a ready answer. I don't think Obama has a ready answer for his inexcusably bad judgment of the past two decades. If he couldn't see anything wrong with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, he's not going to be able to see anything wrong with America's enemies abroad. That's the long and short of it right now.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[geo40xyz]

Tony, in your tagline! you forgot white gunowners:-()

[Obadiah]

Yep, Sister Souljah moment for sure. But, too late. Where was Obama for the last 20 years. He gave the “church” over 20,000 last year. Now he simply looks like a pandering politician who is throwing Wright under the bus for expediency's sake. Too late.

[opineapple]

All rhetoric and no substance makes him unelectable.

[LJayne]

You’re right about that.

[goldstategop]

I wouldn't expect much from a liberal politician. They are in love with their own words. But when you look behind them, there isn't anything there that makes you think they would really offer change.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[murron]

“Hillary just lit the victory cigar.”

And you’re OK with that? She’s going to cream McCain in November. Obama was the beatable candidate.

[fullchroma]

This is fun.

[Shermy]

“Keep talking, Barry.”

He sure doesn’t know how to laugh things off.

He should have taken care of this from the beginning, like, “I know he’s controversial but my church does a lot of charity work, let me tell you about it, we do etc. etc.”

Instead he needlessly insults Wright with sanctimonious indignation.

I’m looking forward to the Reverend’s book.

[sr4402]

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[Arrowhead1952]

Hey BO. The genie is out of the bottle and won’t go back in.

He is trying to shove a wet noodle up a mad wildcat’s butt.

[goldstategop]

Agreed. The point of Obama's candidacy is he brought something new to the table, he was something different in politics and supposedly would bring us all together. As it turned out, his messianic claims didn't even bring him as far as walking on water. Jesus could perform miracles. Obama can't.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[geo40xyz]

Behold! I am the ONE who I was looking for! Change is coming, behold:-()

[SJackson]

The point of Obama's candidacy is he brought something new to the table, he was something different in politics...

He did, a candidacy which has provided a national platform for an overt racist/America haters. The good Reverend will be with us for awhile, competing with Sharpton/Jackson/Farrakhan for attention.

Wonder what Michelle has to say, she struck me as a Rev. Wright fan.

[vox_freedom]

Obama quote today: "His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate.

Well, that's exactly what we have been waiting for. Now let the real fun begin!
Back to you Reverund Wright.

[Jeff Head]

It has become obvious, too obvious to Americans of all stripes that Wright is hate-filled and anti-American.

Obama's lame attempts to distance himself, though probably orchestrated for just this purpose, will not wash. Wright has just been too close for far, far too long. Since his ties to Obama are so deep and long standing, people are now looking at what Wright actually teaches, his ideology and theology, and what Obama has listened to for the last 20 years.

Wright teaches Black Liberation Theology that was the creation of the black radical James Hal Cone, who took the Latin American Liberation Theology that had been created by Marxists to lure poor catholics into their "revolution" (because they knew their totally Godless marxism would not work), and revamped it for blacks in America.

This theology teaches that Christ was an oppressed black man living under whitey rule (the Romans) who was as much or more of a social revolutionary against white oppression as he was about spiritual salvation. In this sense, the theology is much closer to what the Islamics teach about Christ than what true Christians teach about Him.

It is a hate-filled, bigoted, anti-American, race bating, marxist construct. Here is what it's creator, James Hal Cone, says about it, the same James Hal Cone who Wright constantly refers to and holds up as an icon:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

This then is the trough from which Barack Hussein Obama has fed and the well from which he has drunk deeply for the past 20+ years.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[Rocko]

Sister so-ja moment.

Sister So-Late moment.