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Posted By not2needy 1 year, 6 months ago in NewsDemocrat Barack Obama says he was outraged by the comments of his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and saddened by the spectacle of his appearance on Monday.
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not2needy1 year, 6 months ago
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Obama said, "I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday."
Wright's incendiary comments have dogged Obama's presidential campaign.
It almost appears that Wright is trying to sabotage Obama's campaign, jealousy, hogging his 15 minutes of fame, whatever it is, i think Obama is done with Wright!
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TimALoftis1 year, 6 months ago
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A video of Senator Obama's comments can be seen here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JicZeBkg67A&eurl...
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Klarissa1 year, 6 months ago
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What Wright could have said. "I am proud of my friend and member of my parish, Obama, who is showing every American that if you study hard, and go to college, you too can be a senator or even run for president.
Obama gave of himself to our community, he shared his hard earned skills with the our black community.
We have 6,000 members in our church. We can lift up our children to greater heights, out of the attitude of, we are oppressed, to the attitude of, YES, WE CAN DO IT.
I ask each of you to let your children know that a black man could be president in 2008. Let us help our children to take advantage of the world as it is today, and not commiserate about the past.
Go forth and work to keep the children in school, and let them know that, Yes, they can do it."
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 6 months ago
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Twenty years of sitting in the pews and finally Obama figures it out?
Multiple choice question:
Do Senator Obama's comments today make you:
(a) Question his judgment about people's character
(b) Suspicious that he and Wright are giving us the ole okey-doke
(c) Conclude that Wright was correct - Obama IS just a politician
(d) Laugh your a$$ off
Hmmm...
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questionseverything1 year, 6 months ago
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seriously what it makes me think of obama is:
he has more patience and thoughtfulness than i thought possible
sonofmask,i have attended the same church my entire life and i couldnt even name every pastor we have had,not alone what they thought about dif political happenings
giving a pastor benefit of the doubt is not a sin
obamas judgement on iraq and the whole war mongering thing is what i care about but u keep smearing him while mccain/bush keep spending my grandchildrens money in iraq while our own infastructure and the dollar crumbles
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 6 months ago
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There is no shock when people age less than gracefully and become far more outspoken and boisterous. Just look at Seinfeld. Do loud older people become remembered for the last 6-10 years of their rebellious and anti-social life, or do they deserve the dignity and respect to be understood and remembered for the first 70 years of their life??
You may write this off as a lifetime of bitterness and
hatred, but apparently that is not how most seniors have lived their prime years, and to many this is not how Rev. Wright lived the prime of his life.. Stop making him the candidate
and try to respect Obama's respect for his elders.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 6 months ago
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SOTM, I strongly suspect that you know Obama is no racist. Americans have an opportunity to put the the race issues of the past behind them to large degree through people like Obama who reject the divisive and focus on the common. The past cannot change, but we do not have to continue it's mistakes. I suspect men like Wright, or Trent Lot, people of that age have personal excuses(they see them as reasons) for their divisive behaviors. McCain and Hillary both would continue the right-left divide- a stalemate that has polarized this nation.
Obama's bill's both in his state and as a Senator have bipartisan sponsorship, the republicans who worked with him on these bills all say he is willing to meet them halfway if they will meet him halfway.They all say he is a breath of fresh air, a decent man.
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bubba21 year, 6 months ago
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I give up ... I can cede that Wright was out of line about the AIDS insinuations. I still don't think the rest of what he said prior to that is either inflammatory or even understood.
I can also cede that Wright does need to LET IT GO and quit talking about it. He did a fine job of dealing with it when he talked to Moyers, and it is now obvious that he should have let it go at that point.
The media also need to let it go, but they won't. They will replay and replay and replay it all and will never let Obama forget it.
Meanwhile, the mis-statements of McCain and his supporters will continue to be basically ignored or downplayed by that same media.
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flyonthewallzz1 year, 6 months ago
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Sludge is good for you? US gov. thinks so and tests it on poor African American children.
http://marcelinopena.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/s...
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gbpCMPX9_kRt...
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/23/sludge_te...
Check the dates:
Food for thought.
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mrkchgo1 year, 6 months ago
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Really? So you had no problem with the nonsense about how blacks and whites learn?
Few people are commenting on it, but to me, the points about speach, learning, and emotional expression were crude and ignorant.
He actually said that black kids don't want to sit still in a classroom because of something inherent about their race. How wacko is that?! It's also pretty racist.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 6 months ago
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FTA: "At a certain point if what somebody says contradicts what you believe so fundamentally and then he questions whether or not you believe it - in front of the National Press Club - then that's enough," Obama continued."
Uh oh...did he "disown" Reverend Wright? I thought he said he couldn't do that?
"I can no more disown him (Wright) than I can disown the black community." Barack Obama, March 18, 2008
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walden31 year, 6 months ago
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Now some people have said that Obama threw his white grandmother under the bus for speaking about what she allegedly said about young black men.
Is this another example of Obama throwing someone under the bus?
And if so how does it reflect on his character, and are we better off with someone like GWB who puts loyalty above all else?
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jovial1 year, 6 months ago
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Rumsfeld. Was he thrown under a bus? Wright said some things on a three minute montage of cut and paste video. Rumsfeld was responsible for the much of the problem we have in Iraq now and as a result we lost American and Iraqi lives. Trying to make this an issue in this political race is being shortsighted. The real issues that save lives are being overlooked, while we concentrate on Obama's grandmother and his pastor. Utter foolishness.
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mrkchgo1 year, 6 months ago
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I'm one of those people that says Obama threw his grandmother "under the bus" (the use of this particular phrase is really starting to get on my nerves, however).
I think what Obama said about his grandmother was kind of reprehensible, and it's one of the things that has made me suspect him of being quite the weasel.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 6 months ago
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Barack Obama:
"It is antithetical to our campaign, it is antithetical to what I am about, it is not what I think America stands for, and I want to be very clear that moving forward Reverend Wright does not speak for me, he does not speak for our campaign... It contradicts everything that I am about and who I am."
Now, after Wright took a swipe at him, after Wright questioned Obama's sincerity in calling Wright's comments "inflammatory" and offensive, only now does Obama say that Wright's views are anti-thetical to his campaign, anti-thetical to what Obama is about. Only now does it contradict "everything that I (Obama) am about and who I am".
But for 20 years, it wasn't anti-thetical?
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greenmac1 year, 6 months ago
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I couldn't get the video to play, but based on the comments I guess Obama provided some distance between him and his pastor. It is to bad it had to come to this,I think Obama made a judgment call that may have compromised his values for the sake of himself and his country.I say this,as if he is not the leader of the country after the election, I see the country as going down hill for a few more years.
If Mcain comes to power, the warrior mentality will continue on.....it's in his blood, he has been trained fight .... not to negotiate with the enemy. The enemy will see a Bush clone in the White House and they will continue their aggression. The body count will rise on both sides and the debt will climb as well. China will smile and buy up the broken economy. Yes life will be just peachy under Mcain .....aint it ashame.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 6 months ago
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Barack Obama today: "What became clear is that he (Wright) was presenting a worldview that contradicts who I am and what I stand for."
So, Barack, tell us what exactly is new with what Rev Wright had to say? Isn't Wright simply reiterating positions he'd already taken over the past 20 years? Why did it only become clear to you now? Remember this is the same man who:
"As imperfect as he (Wright) may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children." Somehow, over 20 years of listening to the man preach from the pulpit, being the officiant of your wedding, helped introduce you to your faith (Obama's words, not mine), baptized your kids...somehow during all those interactions, you're only now finding out that he completely contradicts everything you STAND FOR?!
So who changed?! Sure seems like Wright is saying the same thing he's always said...
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 6 months ago
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You really deny your entire life's observation of what happens to people as they age??? Really?>
You're going to insist that this is the SAME Reverend Wright as he was in 1987?
Really??
You've never seen people age bitterly and lose their edge?
Really??
(just watch Seinfeld and it'll catch you up)
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greenmac1 year, 6 months ago
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As I stated above SOM he had no choice....he had to compromise his values ... he had no choice. Though I think the Pastor was a little off the wall in his last two appearances ....more than normal. At the same time I believe some of the pastors observations were accurate ...
Let me say this ....Bush, Mcain and Clinton have done a lot more back pedaling than what Obama has done today. The whole issue of the relationship between the pastor and Obama is childish in the big scheme of things. I can't believe so much attention has been focused on it. Like.... your economy is tanking....you have a war going...you have an unstable president......these are real issues. Is religion that blinding!!!!!!
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greenmac1 year, 6 months ago
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I would have to say that he has one main character trait that I personally like.....he is a born leader. I enjoyed working for that type of person in the past. He can provide the synergy that is presently lacking in the current government.
I believe he can envision bright new day...not the "same old..same old" style of government. No leader has the ability to be everything to everybody ..... no one has that ability. A leader must be able to surround himself/herself with the right people and have them work toward common goals....this is what he has...this is what Kennedy had.
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Howtogo1 year, 6 months ago
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I think I'm starting to agree with the thought that Obama's Rev. Wight is trying to sink his congregant chance for pres. If Obama does not win the election Wright will be able to say "I told you so, White America hate the black population." I find it difficult that Obama being an intelligent man did not see this coming. After all if he did sit in that church for 20 years and heard this racist pastor he should have known the man was out of bounds and capable of anything for his racist credo.
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automan9091 year, 6 months ago
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First obama said that we took pieces of Wright's sermons and spun them to make him look bad.
Then he said disowning Wright would be like him disowning the black community.
Then he said how wright was his mentor.
Now he said that he was shocked when he heard the same kind of stuff Wright has been ranting all along and how he was finished with him.
Liar liar pants on fire.
You all want him just because he is black. That makes you all racists.
If Edie Amin was running you all would vote for him too.
I see right through you black racists now. It's all clear to me.
I'll just "cling" to my AR15
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