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 Wrights 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 pastors 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.
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Well you see, he’s now proud of the US so it is the first time he’s actually noticed the words were less than flattering.
All $20,000+ this past year alone. That’s not exactly chump change for the church coffers. Especially this neighborhood (south side Chicago).
Maybe he’ll ask him to be VP.
...and one more thing - why aren’t the MSM asking those questions?
He is only saying this now since it has hit the MSM. This stuff has been fodder here on FR for quite a while now. Its not like any of this is new. Some of this stuff is years and years old.
Rev. Wright’s rhetoric is right out of the Malcolm X playbook. You’re right on target!
this has been available on the internet for years.
i read the minister’s rants last year.
i don’t see what the hubba bubba’s all about.
oh, that’s right, everyone’s helping out bubba and his wifey
by slamming the black man.
Well, his association with Wright DID help prove to the black community that B. (he whose middle name must never be spoken) Obama,,,,
REALLY IS BLACK ENOUGH.
So his making public his association with Wright has already accomplished its purpose.
You don’t see what the hubba bubba is all about? How about a scandal concocted by the Hitlery&Carvile team? And watch the sickening, sheep-like reaction here, as the Witch’s campaign had planned it!
My question is which is it. There is a big difference between retirement and a sabbatical.
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.
How on earth did the senator think these two loose cannons of rage would be assets to his campaign?
Very few blacks in Denver. Or in the whole state of Colorado for that matter.
Rev. Moss admires Cornell West, another black racist leftist, and Michael Lerner, a white Berkeley radical (former SDS, presently with ANSWER).
Just dumping Wright ain't gonna cleanse you, Hussein. Your red streak is showing.
that was my point.
Catholic?
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