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.”
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This looks like his pathetic, transparent and phony version of a Sista Soulja moment.
Blah, blah, blah.
this is so not believable.
And he probably sat right there in the pew and listened to them all, then placed his donation in the basket when it was passed.
He firmly deserves the Democratic nomination. He represents their values and I want to see him nominated.
I suppose he doesn’t have much choice, but this “Casablanca” moment (”I’m shocked!”) is just a joke.
And if you believe his denunciation.........I have some swampland in Florida............
(15 years of regular Sunday attendance.)
Too little, too late.
Pathetic political CYA.
The jig is up, Barack.
We’ve got your number now.
That sure is a lot of words to say “I haven’t heard it.”
Hey, give him a break.
It was only a 'passing friendship'. He has only known Wright for 20 years--nowhere near long enough to realize what he is all about!!! /s
I believe Obama was present at that church and heard every work.
That could explain why Obama won't wear a flag pin and I remember the picture of Obama when he wouldn't say the pledge of alegance to the flag.
That also explains Obama’s wife saying she's not proud of her country.
Mr. Wright is a preacher of hate and is no different than those Islamists preachers of hate.
It makes you want to find out what is in that sermon “Audacity of Hope” that inspired the book by Obama. It would be interesting to hear what is in those 20 yrs of sermons. Amazing Deception.
Are we really to be persuaded that Barack Hussein Obama was unaware that the pastor he had supposedly listened to for 17 years was a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth racist? That isn’t new behavior for the “Reverend” Wright, after all. If Obama didn’t know, then where has he been all this time? And if he did, why did he embrace this hateful, evil man as a member of his campaign staff?
It might be a long hot summer, leading to Denver. Imagine if Barak goes in ahead on delegates, but the superd's all vote for Hillary because of Barak's terrible polling against McCain by then.
It'll get ugly in Denver and other cities, if millions of blacks believe that their candidates was robbed by the white establishment.
It’s ok, Obama was in the pews but he didn’t inhale.
So what are the odds that in over TWENTY YEARS OF SITTING IN THIS MAN’S CHURCH AND LISTENING TO HIS SERMONS that Ubama *NEVER* heard any of this “inflammatory and appalling” rhetoric???? In Texas, we have a phrase: SLIM TO NONE! >:-(
And if Wright DID spout this egregious nonsense with Ubama sitting there but apparently zoned out and not paying attention to the situation, does that raise a lot of confidence in how he’d do in a briefing room full of world leaders who threaten the security of our country??
Again, SLIM TO NONE. Period.
Obama's "I didn't inhale" moment.
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