Obama says he's outraged by former pastor's comments
Associated Press Posted 29 weeks agoDemocrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged by the latest assertion by his former pastor that criticism of his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church.
The presidential candidate is seeking to tamp down the growing fury over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his incendiary remarks that threaten to envelope his campaign.
"I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday," Obama told reporters at a news conference.
Thoughts
Still the Judgement ?
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by CNDespite all the kudos that the Obamedia is heaping on, what should not have been the Senators personal choices, over 20 years, there are huge Questions that need adressing.
His judgement; or the lack thereof, exhibits his Inexperience in the realm of Government, about 1 Year as a U.S. Senator. Which is evident ie; that by such an issue was not anticipated as fatal in the political world. Nor his imediate Condemnation long before.
His Honesty; to claim that he is ignorant regarding his pastors manefiesto, or that he recently devloped his views is an insult to the Citizens with a half a brain.
In addition to not be aware of the high esteem that Farrakhan garners with Obama's pastor along with the congragation, witness the honors bestowed upon the radical muslim is not to be accepted in reality, not to mention, Truth.
His motives: when he had a chance to make his statement unequivacably he did NOT
Now that his problem manifested in the light of the world, the question begs what was the attraction over 20years that kept him mezmerized, and what bought him to the belated conscience?
I liken his actions to the rancher who closed the barn door; after the horse had been long gone.
Peace, CN The Passerby
Just imagine
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by John 2000if Hillary had already dropped out.
RE: The heat
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by Jim LakelyThis explanation works only if we are to believe that in 20 years of attending Wright's sermons, he never heard this "jerkier" stuff before. That is simply not plausible. We are to believe that Wright was a conventional, mainstream preacher up until he addressed the National Press Club?
Wright's comments are surely giving Obama trouble. But most fair-minded people -- like you, and even me -- are not comfortable holding Obama accountable for statements that his pastor made. But this mess is really hurting Obama because it undercuts the candidate's credibility.
When initially faced with this problem -- a problem Obama knew would eventually come out because he warned Wright that, at some point, he'd have to distance himself from him -- Obama decided to qualify and pass over Wright's comments and deliver a lecture on race in Philadelphia. When pressed (gently by his fawning press) to deal directly with Wright's comments, Obama even qualified those responses with references to "sound bites" that seemed to offend some people (maybe even him) that he never heard in person -- or even knew anything about -- despite 20 years in the congregation. Oh, and they were probably taken out of context. And it only seems bad because they play on a "constant loop" on the news and YouTube. Oh, and besides, I can't disown Wright anymore than I can disown my own racist granny.
What Wright said this week as he reveled in his 15 minutes of fame, by all accounts and logic, is nothing that he hasn't thought and preached for decades. Yet only now, today, has Obama finally seen it for the ugly stuff that it is? Right. It's that shocked -- shocked! -- routine that is hurting Obama. He's insulting the intelligence of Americans, at best.
(The less charitable reading is that Obama was trying to distract attention from Wright without a full denunciation because he did not want to risk losing the votes of a "black community" that might be offended by the repudiation of Wright and his insane expressions of the black American experience. After the National Press Club and Wright's wack-a-thon tour, such a strategy is untenable.)
The heat Obama is feeling today is of his own making.
The heat
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by JoelWell, sure you can, if the heat is getting hotter because the pastor's getting jerkier.
Are we to evaluate Barack Obama now on every crazy thing his pastor says in the future? Even though there's now been a clear disavowal? That's what it sounds like you're saying, and that's taking guilt by association to a bit of an extreme.
About those chickens, Barack
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by Jim LakelyNice try by Obama, but no sale.
He can't at the "Great Race Speech" -- oratory that Chris Matthews put on the par of Lincoln -- say that disowning Wright would be to disown the "black community" and then ... well ... disavow him when the heat gets hotter.
Nor is it easy to believe that Obama's only exposure to Wright's oratory of the racist, Marxist and divisive "black liberation theology" consists of only what the rest of us have heard in "snippets."
To paraphrase Wright, Obama's embrace of radicalism -- and refusal to address it head on in the beginning -- is coming home to roost.
it is what it is
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by CNIt's a bit late for his rebuttals, reasioning and "please" no more speeches!!
They are becoming redundant at this point, not to mention disingenuinious.
Peace, CN, The Passerby