Posted on 03/14/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Obama says his pastor 'pained and angered me' 'Denounces' anti-American, racist rhetoric, insists he never heard such talk in person
Responding to mounting controversy over radical anti-American and racist statements by his pastor, Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement today to the Christian Broadcasting Network saying he strongly condemns and denounces remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. that disparaged the country or degraded people.
Obama referred to the "firestorm over the last few days" from unearthed video segments of Wright's sermons that the senator described as "some inflammatory and appalling remarks he made about our country, our politics, and my political opponents."
The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said he was not in attendance when Wright made any of the statements and never heard such talk in private conversations.
"Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," Obama said. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue."
Late today, Wright stepped down from his formal role in Obama's campaign, as a member of his African American Religious Leadership Committee, said the Politico's Ben Smith, citing campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.
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I just saw something that said Obama dropped him as spiritual advisor. (up on Drudge don’t know if it got here yet)
Now that he is in political hot water.
I just don't buy it, how can you go to a church for 20 years and never realize that the pastor is a raving America hating, anti Semite, racist Black Supremacist???
Exactly...it took a presidential campaign for Buraq to discover his antipathy for “some views” of the Grand Wizard of Trinity UCC.
Hee! Hee!
Osama Hussein Obama’s wife is proof of what they think of America. He must think we’re morons to buy his BS.
We stopped attending the church which we had belonged to for some ten years when the minister advised that we look into our hearts to discover what we, as a nation, had done to make people angry enough at us to do what was done on 9/11. I haven’t missed it.
Bullfeathers. Obama’s church is steeped in radical antiAmerican ideas. It isn’t just “retiring” Pastor Wright. The new pastor is a fan of black (Cornell West) and white (Michael Lerner) Leftists. We already knew about Obama’s links with white Weatherman terror-bomber Ayers. The mask is coming off, Barack Hussein.
What white folks don’t realize is that this grievance mongering hate-America nonsense is so common in the African American community that people don’t really see it for what it is. It is like one is trying to outdo the other, and it is treated as such.
So if you have a small grievance or you want to be anti-establishment, you say something like “G_d d*mn America” and people just say MMMM HMMM, without evaluating that statement objectively. It is only slightly more outrageous that what somebody else said last week, so you are not seen as being an idiot.
Now a bunch of outsiders are looking at these sermons and taking them in isolation. In this context, they are outrageous, and if you asked 95% of the people who were clapping and saying “Amen” at the time to consider them objectively, they would probably agree. But at the time, it only seems mildly outside-the-lines. People are so used to this sort of thing, it’s just “blah, blah, blah”.
Now, I think this particular tendency of African American society is wrong and ultimately holds the people back, on the whole, but it must be considered when evaluating this sort of statement.
I wish a smart photoshopped would change that A into an O.
It does stain credulity, doesn’t it?
Neither of these men look very "black" to me. They're just two scammers using a drop of blood as career builders.
amusing himself while abusing himself
Obama is toast. Maybe a liability if he’s on Hillary’s ticket.
I'll show you 'Pain and Anger!'
The chants have changed from “O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma” to “Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye!”
And some ear plugs.
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