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Hillary's leadership abilities have little to do with the fact that she was First Lady but that she is currently a SENATOR and has been involved in politics for 35 years. She even worked on Nixon's impeachment.
Your anaolgy of a plumber wife is also ridiculous! The plumber's wife does not go around town making friends and finding work for her husband. She may have allmost nothing to do with her husband's work. The First Lady lives and breathes her husband's job every second of everyday! She lives in his office! Being First Lady is an actual position requiring diplomacy and knowlege of world affairs.
Get real, and before you make statements give them SOME thought!!!!

You better change the way think about people. If you don't pretty soon you will end up in Psychiatric hospital, or at the most in hate crime. Think with reason and follow your conscience to avoid sin and hatred. By now you are on the verge of a desperado situation. Get out of this dark cubicle full of selfrighteous narcisistic view about innocent people who just want to serve their nation like any other good and honest Americans. Stop hating people like you even if you have reason to hate because tere is no reason to hate in Christianity. Give the erudite and one of a kind Sen. Obama to serve and save the nation from all these crises of war and economic war which is getting bigger and bigger everyday.

I'm sorry but Hilary has no leadership experience in the White House. If you're connecting her time as First Lady to experience then she should accept responsiblity for deregulating the banking industry, which has led to the sub-prime crisis, deregulating the oil industry, which now does not have to report the data showing how much it cost to actually produce oil, and free trade agreement, which now allow corporations to outsource jobs to other countries.

The fact that a woman is married to a plumber for 25 years doesn't mean she makes a great plumber. Only her total years of plumbing should be considered when a plumbing job is available.

Obama is now talking against minister Wright.He sat in his church and for 20 years and he listened to Reverend Wrights speeches.Wright married Michelle and Obama.The Secret Service men that trail Obama around have said that they sat behind Obama in his church with Wright speaking and Obama kept bobbing his head to every word that that hatefull wright had said.That was the reason Michelle Obama has said that all her adult life she was never proud of America until now.If Obama were not in the lime lite she would still not be proud of America.We sure do not need the likes of her in the White House.This country will never turn the White House into the BLACK HOUSE.

I think that Mr. Wright was simply looking for publicity. I also think it was a case of the house black, and the field black. coming home to roost. I also think that Mr.Wright could have kept his opinions to himself. Why wait now to voice your opinion, while the presidential election is now running? sounds like to me misery loves company.

I pledge my allegiance to the flag first. This is my country, and it nurtures and protects those from all religions, not just mine. Separation of Church/State is important for me, otherwise this Christian nation just might outlaw us Jews.

He took a hundred pounds of clay and made an idiot. Your remark shows how far you will go on just gas.

lol, back at you!

I do not pledge alligance to the flag because as a former witness we only give our pledge of alligence to God. I was born American, I am as patriotic as anyone. What does the flag have to do with it. There are other flags flying on a certain capital in USA that has nothing to do with loyalty to America if you know what I mean. I would die for my neighbor and I don't have to wait for a war because God said I must. Yet the IN God we trust is an issue. Wake up!

The time has come for us as a united people to stop looking at race as a factor in anything. Not too long ago and out of ignorance people thought blood transfusions could not be done between people or different races. This concept left some people to die an unfortunate and unecessary death (once again out of ignorance). Rev. Wright is suffering not only from that same ignorance which has divided people all around the world but it is obvious he is also suffering from a very sick jealous streak. This man, who calls himself a man of God is attempting to cheat an honorable and respectful man out of the Presidency of the United States and shows a complete narssistic attitude and disrespect for all living things. He has no right to consider himself a man of God. People like Rev Wright should have the title REV revoked!!!! Also I hope people are smart enough to know that guilt by association can only go so far. Im sure each of us have friends or family who do things we would never consider and considering Obamas eloquence. He deserves the benefit of the dout. People stop seeing color and start to see change for the better. Wright is the Devil and he is trying to keep us in the same confused state that we are in now just so he can get a little bit of attention. Personally I know this is not lady like and very unchristian but if I could be face to face with Wright I would slap the@%$#@& out of him until his stupid head spun around like a top and his new name was what it should be and that is MR. WRONG!!!!! GO HOME REV the country does not need any more escaped patients from the insane asylum on the loose dfamaging the credibility of hard working honest decent blacks. Please shut up and go home. Please lock yourself in?!!!!!!!!!

No I do not believe that he is the best choice for America. First of all nobody has ever heard of him until this election. So why would/should I vote for someone I never heard of to run this country?

I believe Mr. Obama is a sweet talking polititian. Has very little experience in what life really means.

He is as unamerican as he can be.

http://www.tucc.org/pastoral_staff.htm see otis and ramah

Hey folks, look at the credentials of Jerimiah's staff http://www.tucc.org/pastoral_staff.htm -see Otis and Ramah. This church spent decades developing great leaders for business and govenment in Chicao and nationally. The staff is black ivy league except for two. (1) Otis, the recent replacement Sr. Pastor has a compromise background that would appeal to an uneducated rank and file. In PC terms this is the "democratization" of Trinity UCC Chicago. And (2) Ramah Wright has NO CREDENTIALS listed. Obiously a few years ago Jeremiah turned away from the path of building a citadel of enlighted leaders and his church indulged him. What were the movers and shakers with decades invested in progressive Black Chicago to do? Weather the storm (Paul to Rome) and keep on keeping on (Gal 6:9). Here is of interest to our kind: the real measure of sainthood for Obama is his avoiding mentioning Hillary's goto prayer warrior Rev. Doug Coe. God give Obama strength to stay above the fray and not say "obliterate". Oh - too late. He said it when he said she said it.
JAMES

You believe that God will judge our nation because of the hate of slavery-what about the the hate that runs deep in the African American community? Cain killed his brother Able. Go into any African American neighborhood and watch how this is still happening-"brothers" still killing "brothers". You can see why people say that the mark of Cain is the black people. How can you not see the plank in your own eye???

Excerpt from John Nichols column in The Nation

"....The problem is not Jeremiah Wright.

The problem is a contemporary political culture that has come to rely on character assassination as an easy tool for reversing electoral misfortune -- and a media that willingly invites manipulation.

Let's not forget how Wright became an issue in the 2008 presidential race. Republican operatives, fretful about their party's political fortunes, decided that the only way to weaken the candidacy of Wright's longtime parishioner, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, was by suggesting the Democratic presidential front-runner was in the sway of an anti-American radical.

That end was achieved by separating out from long and thoughtful sermons regarding matters biblical and political seemingly offensive phrases and then inviting the Grand Old Party's media echo chamber to repeat the sound bites until they became conventional "wisdom."

This is a classic guilt-by-association maneuver, played out so aggressively in the current circumstance that it would make Joe McCarthy blush. But it has worked, at least in part because people of good faith have not taken the time to assess and appropriately answer the charge that Obama's connection to Wright confirms the candidate to be either a closet radical or, worse yet, a dupe of some free-floating, ill-defined but still frightful fringe.

The response of Obama -- most recently in an extended and at times painful press conference on Tuesday -- and of many of his supporters has been to try to put distance between the candidate and the preacher. "They offend me," the senator said of controversial comments by the minister who presided at his wedding and baptized his children. "They rightly offend all Americans and they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally today."

That's strong stuff, to be sure. But it is not likely to end the wrangling over Wright.

While it is always good to maintain America's historic wall of separation between church and state, the Obama camp has not had a lot of success so far in separating this particular statesman from his church.

That's because the candidate and his backers have consistently come across as being embarrassed and ashamed by Wright.

That's the wrong response. It's perfectly fine to disagree with Wright. And Barack Obama should do so.

But there's little if anything about this pastor that should provoke embarrassment or invite apology.

Wright can be unsettling, thought-provoking, often right and sometimes wrong. But he is neither anti-American nor unpatriotic.

In more ways than Republican and now Democratic critics seem prepared to admit, Wright is the embodiment of an American religious and political tradition of challenging the country's sins while calling it to the higher ground that extends from the founding of the republic. No less a figure than Thomas Jefferson -- who constructed that wall of separation between church and state but who worried a good deal about questions of the divine -- worried openly about the retribution that would befall a nation that permitted slavery.

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other," wrote Jefferson in 1781's Notes on the State of Virginia, where he asked, "(Can) the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever."

The wrath of God brought down on a country that permits slavery? A nation damned by its original sin? God damn America?

America has been blessed from its beginnings by champions of liberty, by abolitionists and civil rights marchers, by suffragists and union organizers, by anti-imperialists like Mark Twain and challengers of the military-industrial complex like Dwight Eisenhower. Necessarily, these patriots have said some tough things about American leaders and policies. They have acknowledged flaws that are self-evident. Yet, they have not done so out of hatred. Rather, they have loved America sufficiently to believe it can be as good and as just as figures so diverse and yet in some very important ways so similar as Thomas Jefferson and Jeremiah Wright have taught us.