Hillary Clinton 2008

Obama releases statement about Wright

dustinjames

3/14/08 02:18 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama/on-my-faith-and-my-church_b_91623.html

Two things really stand out to me on his statement:

1) "It's a congregation that does not merely preach social justice but acts it out each day, through ministries ranging from housing the homeless to reaching out to those with HIV/AIDS"

You mean that disease the U.S. Government propagated on the blacks according to Reverend Wright?

2) After reading his entire statement, he denounces his pastor's statements, but still keeps Reverend Wright on his campaign.

This is the change Barack has been promising?

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• Too little too late

  stillife

  3/14/08 09:46 pm (UTC)

  

  But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.
  
  1. Wright's "retirement" happened at the same time as Barack's campaign was kicking into full gear. Coincidence much?
  
  2. Barack chose to have Wright perform his wedding ceremony and baptize his daughters. It's not like an accidental association. This guy was his mentor!
  
  3. If Hillary (or even McCain) were associated with a white church that preached against lazy, no-account black folk, their political careers would be over.
  
  I feel that the MSM, for whatever its reasons - white liberal guilt (although I don't think they're really that liberal)? ratings from young audiences? or maybe they just like the tingling feeling that Obama gives them in their legs - has been in the tank for Obama. My former TV boyfriend Anderson Cooper said on his show last night, "But is this really such a big deal?" If they can make it go away, they will.
  
  I remember when Jesse Jackson's campaign was sunk by the Farrakhan association and "Hymietown" and "Jews are a gutter religion" remarks. I guess we're past all that, huh? Obama is so above racial politics.
  
  I might be more inclined to take a charitable view of this latest kerfluffle if Barack's campaign hadn't been playing the race card for months. Now, as his minister would say, the chickens have come home to roost.

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  • Re: Too little too late

    expanding_x_man

    3/14/08 10:19 pm (UTC)

    

    Wright is really a liability for the Obama campaign; and I really don't like the sound of that preacher. He is an enormous influence on Obama, and while it may be true that he has done some good work, as many churches have done, it still does not cancel out the fact that he preaches hatred, and is associated with people like Farrakhan. Wright's pulpit is the meaning of "divisive". It does make me wonder about Obama and who he really is as opposed to who he claims to be. Obama is trying to wiggle out his association with this guy, but I don't see how it can be credible. And, yes, his remarks about Hillary Clinton are over the top! Here was someone who as a young girl wanted to be an astronaut but was told that NASA did not accept women, she certainly knows what it is like to be a second class citizen.
    
    

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