Posted on 03/14/2008 7:53:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Barack Obama on Friday, in a written statement and then in an interview with FOX News, issued his firmest denunciation to date of his longtime Chicago pastor and described the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.’s anti-U.S. remarks as “inflammatory and appalling.”
Obama, in an interview Friday with FOX News’ Major Garrett, said he has been a member of the church since the early 1990s after working with the congregation as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago.
He was married at Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ, had his children baptized by Wright and donated money to the church, but he said he first learned of many of the pastor’s controversial statements only when they were aired in the media in recent days.
“None of these statements were ones I had heard myself personally in the pews,” Obama told FOX News. “Once I saw them I had to be very clear about the fact that these are not statements that I am comfortable with. I reject them completely they are not ones that reflect my values or my ideals.”
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
I love the smell of “toast” in morning. Obama, where have your gone?
“I don’t want Obama to be damaged beyond reprieve - I want him to be the nominee.
Many Americans who aren’t that tuned in to racist hate mongering are going to be absolutely shocked by what they hear this pastor say.”
Don’t worry. Sharpton hasn’t put in his 2 cents yet.
I love my Orville Redenbacher’s right now!
Campaign Ad: Photo of Barack and Pastor (play clips of racist, anti-us rants)...add the fact Obama contributed 22500 to this church in 2006. Play over and over....
It just might happen my friend. Modern Americans , especially those under 30 have zero perspective of history and cannot even imagine that bad things can really happen to this country. People are too spoiled , dumb and brainwashed to think that America can be conquered . We’re close.
“I had heard myself personally in the pews”
There`s the hair splitting, maybe not “in the pews” but he has heard it:
Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
I grew up in the NY area. Me and my buddies always divided people up between a$$holes and non a$$holes ..never black or white.
Only if you buy Obama's ridiculous denial that he never heard any of that hate spewed from the pastor's pulpit while attending that same church and hearing that same pastor preach for years can you have any respect left for his truthfulness and honesty. Just the fact that he's a flaming left wing liberal has been enough to dissuade me from trusting his honesty or respecting his word, (pssst libs are liars by nature, pass it on) but after this obviously false denial why would even another liberal, except of course his mentally impaired groupies who swoon away to sexual fantasyland when he enters a room, take his word concerning anything else?
Thats if the MSM lets people hear the truth . They won’t.
I have a young son too. One day he’ll be drafted to fight the Islamic hordes. You and I (our generation) are going to get lambasted. “Why didn’t you finish the problem back when you had the chance?”
Toast?
That is a racist statement. Code for his skin color!
:)
I will be voting Obama in my primary next month!
Wow, Is the Queen of Swooning White Women also a member?
“We can get a close-up and personal look later this month at the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., an eloquent and sometimes controversial preacher and author who is pastor to Sen. Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/529891.html
Excuse me all to hell … ;-) LOL!
Need to dig a lot deeper on this guy and see what we come up with.
Wright may be Husseins vp.
Another question comes to mind when seeing that photo. Why is the former first lady of the president who committed treason by selling top secret US missile technology to the communist Chinese holding her hand over her black heart unless she has a gas pain from too many bad chicken dinners at fund raising affairs? It certainly can't be because of any respect or love she has for that flag flying behind her, traitors don't normally have any respect or love for their nation's flags and symbols.
“Thats if the MSM lets people hear the truth . They won’t.”
The MSM relies on the dimocrats to keep people on welfare so they can’t afford cable and satellite for alternative news and information.
FR took down Dan Rather . I think this should be our next project . For the sake of saving the USA we must , with our combined effort and energies we need to dig into this racist past and we need to educate America as to what Obama really is .
LOL.
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