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Obama told reporters Tuesday that he was "saddened" by the spectacle of Wright's comments in recent days.
"The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago. What particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing," Obama said at a campaign stop in North Carolina.
DANG B! "You're not the person I met 20 years ago?!?" That sounds like something a wife tells her husband before she leaves him for another man. ...
But seriously, Obama says Wright has showed little consideration for him and his run for the presidency and it looked like he just wanted to take center stage. Obama also said that he cannot prevent Wright from speaking. True, and True.
"When I say I find these comments appalling I mean it. It contradicts what I'm about and who I am ... it is completely opposed to what I stand for and where I want to take this country."
Maybe it's time for Obama to have one-on-one with Wright or just get a divorce.
"You Said It!" on BV Members Rev. Wright
"After viewing his latest speaking engagements, I have to admit, I'm a slightly embarrassed but highly disappointed in fact that it appears as if he doesn't give a darn about Obama becoming America's FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT! His comments seem a bit hostile toward Obama, a man I thought he loved. His timing for speaking out seems 'out of season' and I have to question the TRUE motives of Rev. Wright at this point." - bettyboo2687
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"What do you think is Rev. Wright's motive for speaking in the manner that he is speaking right now in public? To cause Obama harm!!!!" - MizzDelaney
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"His comments are not hostile towards anyone and he does love Obama that is why he is speaking out the people who started this nonsense are the ones who don't give a darn about Obama. why people can't understand that I do not know why." - gilcrease11
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"If you want to know what Wright meant you should ask him. Obama is not his top priority. His top priority is too God, himself and his flock. ( Yes I know that he has retired.)" - nsimone
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"I know I am going to catch heck for this but so be it!!!! I think Wright wants to have his say and if I were in his shoes, I would also want to clear my name. However, Wright before this fiasco was an unknown( outside of Chicago) retiring minister. Now he is probably the most well known black minister in this country. He rarely made the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper now he's on the front page of most newspapers and covered in magazines. He will get paid speaking engagements and interviews." - pecanmermaid
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"Rev. Wright showed out for the cameras. People keep saying that he should speak out in his own defense but when you defend yourself, it should help you not hurt you more.He had a wonderful platform to defend himself and his legacy but he chose to act for the cameras." - addedtouchll
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By: Wilma on 4/29/2008 3:55PM
Wright wants his 15 seconds of fame, bottom line.
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By: Keysha E on 4/29/2008 4:03PM
No He wants a book deal, a movie and a documentary done on him. 15 mins might not be enough for this guy. Where I agree with some of his statements I do not think he should be draging Obama thru the dirt with him. I should sit this one out and let this MAN Make HISTORY!
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By: sissy2004 on 4/29/2008 5:40PM
He is a digusting, ignorant man who chose to be foolish when he had an opportunity to be poised, uplifting and clear his name. I was cringing when I saw him at that podium jumping around, playing peek aboo and just be a da#$%m fool. What an awful interview from a supposedly wiseman of God. Obama keep your head up and don't stoop to his level. Hopefully he will SHUT UP and go away.
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By: carla jennings on 4/29/2008 4:07PM
Rev Wright, is indeed right but there is a such thing as being dead right. and at this time he is dead right meaning he may be killing the presidency of Obama. Rev Wright should know the america and the media by now. He should not even mess with them. by the way if Obama jumps the Wright hurdle the next one will be Oprah. Thats right you see according to reports she has started a new religion she is an occult lol keep prayed up people
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By: sissy2004 on 4/29/2008 5:39PM
I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this idiot at the podium. He is an elder and supposedly a man of education and politically savvy. Did anyone see that? What a win for the Republicans and Hillary.
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By: Sol on 4/29/2008 4:10PM
Rev Wright is a disgraces to the black church and African Americans in general, his buffoonish behavior at the Press club yesterday leads me to assume that he is either jealous of Sen.Obama's shining star symbol of a greater man than he is and as such wants to drag him drown or he (and Conell West) forgot to take their psychotic medication. If he truly understood the tremendous odd and uphill battle Sen. Obama is facing to become the President of USA, he would have at least answered the questions ask of him in a more distinguished manner that he has the ability to do. Rather, he choose to reaffirm the negative image of a village idiot, which the main stream media (MSM) wants to make of him- a caricature image, which Sen. Obama himself did not want the public to make of Rev. Wright. In my opinion Rev. Wright is more devilish than the Clintons, because he should know better. I truly hope Sen. Obama had disowned and should have thrown Rev. Wright under the bus a long time ago before his low-life behavior yesterday.
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By: Lynn on 4/29/2008 4:26PM
Sol,
Obama is not a shining example. He had already thrown Rev. Wright under the bus. What do you think calling him a crazy uncle, wrong, divisive, offensive, etc (without himself hearing the entire sermon, nor criticizing the media for taking Wright out of context) was?
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By: Lynn on 4/29/2008 4:33PM
Rev. Wright is not a disgrace. He is a man who has been badly treated by both the media and by a "friend." I personally did not see Wright's behavior as so outrageous, but I can see that with other people, it did not help his cause. That notwithstanding, I think it would be a shame for the black community to turn against a man who has fought for Africans and African Americans all of his adult life.
The root of all of this uproar is the media. When the smoke clears and the dust settles, a two decades long spiritual partnership has been torn apart, not primarily because of Rev. Wright's behavior yesterday, but because of the media's persistent desire to use controversy to tear down Obama.
Don't blame Wright for this: the man has been humiliated, is living under death threats, and is probably hurting like hell. If there's someone or something you want to find disgraceful, then find the media disgraceful. It has been their lack of integrity that brought all of this to pass.
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By: Aitana on 4/29/2008 4:43PM
I find it more than a little unsettling that the conference yesterday was organized by avid Clinton supporter Beverley Reynolds. It's unfortunate that Obama has gotten drawn into all of this, and equally unfortunate that Rev Wright handled things the way he did yesterday. Obama is surrounded by alot of white liberals advising him, and needs to learn to fight these racist attacks and massive media bias with a bit more racial awareness and sophistication. I'm hoping that there won't be a massive backlash from Rev Wright, that he'll sum up what's really operating here and not get into an ego war. Obama is still a much better choice than the Hillary Clintons of the world, who say things like:
1. "Martin Luther King had his dream, but it took an experienced politician like Lyndon Johnson to get things done."
2. Bill Clinton: "Well, Jesse Jackson won here too, (South Carolina), so?"
3. Who overhauled the welfare system to the detriment of mostly single, struggling black women, over the massive objections of the Congressional Black Caucus? Oh, Bill Clinton.
4. Bill, screwing over Lani Guinier.
5. Bill, screwing over Sister Souljah.
6. Bill, screwing over Haitian refugees, trying to escape crushing poverty brought on by United States (Clinton) policies.
The Clintons may have put African Americans into their cabinet, but you don't do that and then the above at the same time. Bush also has Condi Rice, who was buying shoes at Ferragamo during Hurricane Katrina.
Be disenchanted by Obama, you can think he made a mistake. But don't go to $109 million dollar Hillary.
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By: INERTIAIMMATCHUA on 4/29/2008 4:45PM
REV. WRIGHT DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE A MINISTER.
HE DOES NOT PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACH! HE SAID, JESUS SAID DO UNO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU...........DID HE FORGET HIS OWN TEACHING!? Would he want someone to sabotge his job, or to block his chance to preach? DIDN'T HE SAY TO US THAT "GOD DAMN AMERICA" for the things AMERICA have done to other countries such as going to war with Iraq and bombing Japan, etc. IF HE WANT GOD TO DAMN AMERICA FOR DOING HURTFUL AND HARMFUL THINGS, THEN SHOULDN'T HE EXPECT TO BE DAMNED FOR DOING HARMFUL AND HURTFUL THINGS to NOT just OBAMA but to BLACK!!! He, a colored man have done more to hurt BLACKS then any white man. THE WHITE MAN PUT US IN CHAINS, WRIGHT put a PADLOCK ON THOSE CHANGE. Whites have been agreeing with OBAMA TO FORGIVE AND FORGET; to move on as a COUNTRY WITHOUT RACE BUT TO BE A COUNTRY INDIVISIBLE UNDER GOD. DR. WRIGHT'S BEHAVIOR IS SAYING NO, I LIKE THE CONFUSION, THE DIVISION let us continue TO HATE WHITES AND LET WHITES CONTINUE TO HATE US because "I AM WHITIER LOOKING THAN OBAMA, I have more degrees than OBAMA, I speak more languages than OBAMA and I HAVE NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME PRESIDENT SO I WON'T LET HIM BECOME PRESIDENT EITHER. HOW good of a minister is he? HIS JEALOUSY, HIS SELFISHNESS, EGO have made him forget SEEMING, THE MANY THINGS THE BIBLE SAYS, I.E., Job 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one; He FORGOT Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
WRIGHT said,"NO!
NO!NO! God damn AMERICA," MY ancestors, who died for freedom and equality, AND I, say to JEREMIAH WRIGHT, "NO!NO!NO! maybe it is YOU, who GOD will DAMN!"
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