Barack Obama faces the press and denounces his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
Obama rejects and denounces Wright. Is it too late to matter?
Barack Obama probably thought that Jeremiah Wright would try to fade from the scene. Instead, Obama's former pastor spent recent days making increasingly strident racial remarks in increasingly public venues. And so, on Tuesday afternoon, Obama did what he had to do to contain the damage: He repudiated Wright.
"My reaction has more to do with what I want this campaign to be about.... in some ways, what Rev. Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything that I've done during my life," Obama said. "It contradicts how I was raised and the setting in which I was raised; it contradicts my decision to pursue a career of public service. It contradicts the issues that I've worked on politically."
Wrights' comments have been damaging to Obama's presidential campaign. Is Obama's denunciation enough to save his candidacy?
Thoughts
Well said
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by AnonymousI agree
Well that is a valid point,
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by wishnevskyWell that is a valid point, but the cultural differences between an "average" American who identifies him (or her) self as an African American is perhaps larger than the felt differences between a Democrat and a Republican, although the categories overlap.
Which is why Obama got cut a little slack in the beginning. But it will all come out in the wash. If Obama was to win the nomination, and McCain was to select an African American as a running mate, that would be fun. Might actually have to vote for people "according to the content of their character"
One Blood
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by rom12921"Black should be president..." or could? Should implies a racial preference, not that I believe in race.
I recently read that people are 99.8% similar, genetically. Focussing on skin color or differentiating characteristics means we are focussing on the .2%, not the 99.8%. The idea or making decisons based on 'race' seems absurd.
I meant our souls as in
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by wishnevskyI meant our souls as in doing the right thing, voting for an African American, as a gesture of atonement for past racism. I still think a Black should be president, but not this one
Academy Awards
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by John 2000I can't decide whether Obama or Wright should get best actor and which should get best actor in a supporting roll.
I can't even determine the category:
- Comedy
- Drama
- Musical
- Documentary
- Science Fiction
Dems are a shoo-in for best producer.
Guess I'll go watch some old Bush reruns now.
Smoke"em if you Got"em
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by RespectfulguestWill take a masterful effort to beat Liar, Liar Pants on Fire..
Wishnevsky- soul man
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by rom12921What do you mean "for... our souls"? The condition of my soul does not depend on who's elected President, unless I missed something in one of Reverend Wright's sermons.
Early in the campaign Obama had to fight the Muslim accusations by claiming Christianity. I'm a Christian, my church is..., my pastor for 20 years is...
Now he has to distance himself from Crazy Uncle. Reverend Who?
WHAT IS HIS REAL AGENDA???
Submitted on April 30th, 2008 by AnonymousHow easy this nation forgets. We knew that before the race that Sen. Obama and Rev. Wright already discussed the possibility of Sen.Obama distancing himself from his mentor at some time during his run for presidency.
Now he has done just that and the nation acts like this was a big surprise-GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
He joined that church because he liked what he heard. He stays in that church because he likes what he hears.
Sen.Obama is a deceiver and he thinks that the American people will believe ANYTHING that he tells them.I only have one question-WHAT IS HIS REAL AGENDA???
This is so typical of people
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by wishnevskyThis is so typical of people who claim to represent a race, or progress, or change, but who are just in it for the fuzzies and the cash.
Wright would rather bring Obama down in flames than admit that he runs his Reverend yap without giving a crap how it sounds to white people, and Obama can't admit that he and his wife were all just sucking up that Black Liberation Theology rap when it was "nobody here but us chickens."
Suddenly he discovers that he needs the votes of a majority of American voters to get into the big time, and they don't like this racist BS.
Whites actually tried real hard to get over their racist heritage, many of us were going to vote for Obama for the benefit of America and our souls, but now?
SSTBYMIG
Obama rejects Wright
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by AnonymousSo he finally showed a bit of guts to rejects his crazy pastor. Too late, should have done it first time when questioned about his relationship with the nut. Now its like he is forced or pressured by circumstances to do so. Like the pastor said, he is a POLITICIAN. Took him 20 years until now to realise what Wright is preaching. What judgement is that from someone who said he had the good judement to vote against the Irap War? Actually he never join in the vote because he was new at the time. Whatever, he is wimpy & a crybaby.
AC
The Die is Cast
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by John 2000LOL
WHAT TOOK OBAMA SO LONG ?
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by AnonymousLIAR PANTS ON FIRE.
Obama said Pastor Wright was his MENTOR and called him "like an uncle". Now he's losing ground to Hillary he decides maybe having Wright as an mentor isn't such a swell idea after all. This is the kind of "change " he offers us ?
I'm not gullible but I'm sure there are some people all full of praises about Obama's recent testimony.
toothpaste out of the tube
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by rom12921Using cliches like they're going out of style, like the plague
the rub is that
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by John 2000the genie is out of the bottle
The real pandora's box
Submitted on April 29th, 2008 by John 2000has been opened.