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Obama Denounces Wright

infiniteregress.tv — Fordham Univ. Prof Paul Levinson: "Obama just finished an extraordinary and much needed press conference ... most significant was Obama's denunciation of Wright's mocking of the political process at the National Press Club yesterday ... Obama was completely right to describe these as "ravings" ... he denounced and divorced Wright"

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  • tcbishop12, on 04/30/2008, -10/+15Excellent summary and analysis, Professor, as always.
    • RepubOperative, on 04/30/2008, -20/+14You heard Jeremiah Wright the other day. Obama is just doing what a politician does...nothing more. He is still friends with the racist Jeremiah Wright.....they talk all the time on the phone. This is just a show for the masses. Obama is still a ***** racist supremacist.
      • mickman17, on 04/30/2008, -12/+8I soooo much want to put you in your place with some zinger of a comment but as I write this I realize that stooping to that level would equate me to a republican operative.
      • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -6/+11In other words. mickman17 has absolutely nothing credible or worthwhile to say.
      • EricBarnes, on 04/30/2008, -8/+3I think this primary is just showing everybody how divided our country still is over race. The white people call the black people racists, and the black people call the white people racists. The majority of black people vote for Obama and the majority of white people vote otherwise (not necessarily for Hillary). Everybody has a little racism in them whether they want to believe it or not. We all want to believe that we are part of the smarter and better group. It would not surprise me if Obama partially believes some of the stuff Wright says.
        • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -7/+6That is very true. People like Wright only exacerbate the problem and people like Obama who spend 20 years in his church only give credibility to the hate speak.
          • mickman17, on 04/30/2008, -3/+9Just like the Republican senators give credence to the Religious right who openly stated and continue to state that homosexuals caused 911.
            The pettiness that exists in our country is truly outstanding - when we get distracted on Flag pins, a candidates preacher, mistatements about 100 yrs in iraq - then we need to blame ourselves for the problems that we face. Until we accept that no candidate is perfect nor is any citizen for that matter - we will continue to be persuaded by the MSM to fight and bicker amongst ourselves about the most inconsequential things and not focus on the real issues that we face.

            All the conservative and liberal rhetoric wont solve any problems until we demand that the candidates that are vying for our votes actually start to solve the problems we have instead of continually dredging up pointless issues such as Wright or McCains 100yr comment
          • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -6/+5How can you trust a man who chose to sit in TUCC for 20 years to solve anything? Either he's completely blind to what Rev. Wright is all about, or he's a complete fraud. Either way, I don't want Obama trying to solve anything.
        • Ajajadude, on 04/30/2008, -2/+6I'm white, hate McCain and Clinton but love Obama...
      • rpgmaker, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Even though you put it on a bad way you are kind of right. I think that Jeremiah Wright and Obama are really good friends, to the point that Wright is keeping some things off the record to protect Obama, Obama maybe doesn't agree with the 'extreme' and racist comments but maybe he do with what they really were meant to be - I know that I do (you need to watch the whole speech to really understand what Wright is saying. That said, I think that if Obama really have in mind what Wright meant to say with that speech after the 9/11 the US government will be in good hands with him in office.
    • mooseontheloose, on 04/30/2008, -8/+5Is it? I think it's an excellent job the way he turned his back on a trusted associate. I wonder if he'll do the same to his supporters. I'm betting he will.
    • trunkster, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2-- digg down
      There really should be a way to delete your own comment...
  • Cfahooligan, on 04/30/2008, -13/+14I think this whole thing is just sad. The media and Wright have pushed Obama in to a corner. I personally think Wright is only speaking out right now because one he obviously is under personal attack, but two I think he is taking this out on Obama for not getting his back like he expected Obama to. He has become this stupid little man hell bent on keeping himself in the limelight and he feels upset that no one not even Obama got his back. This feels like payback. If you don't support me then I will take you down.

    Of course I don't know that for sure, but why else would he come out and make such a fool of himself and try and willfully take Obama's campaign down? If Wright truly cared about Obama or Obama's incredible message and grassroots campaign. He would have just shut the ***** up and stayed in the shadows until this thing was over. It's got to be a bitter and personal attack.
    • BECoole, on 04/30/2008, -16/+16Obama has allowed himself to be cornered by not plainly denouncing that kook.
      • dinot, on 04/30/2008, -10/+13What part of "I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy" do you not understand?
        • ehalasey, on 04/30/2008, -6/+11Apparently all of it.
        • Dragular, on 04/30/2008, -3/+2My only question is, why is it that with TWENTY YEARS of dealing with this apparently insane man, Obama JUST NOTICED THIS yesterday? I mean, before this it was "The things he says are what most black churches believe." Now suddenly it's "Hey you know what those things he said, which I said the black church believes, are actually ***** insanity."
          • dinot, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2Maybe because BOTH men have changed? Being on the campaign trail for over 1 year and meeting people from across the country kind of changes your perspective on things.
      • nicktx, on 04/30/2008, -12/+15It's impossible to denounce and make a clean break from someone whose sermons you attended for over 20 years. If Obama had any judgment, he would've left that church a long time ago. What he says now has little weight against his actions in the past.
        • tomgsmyth, on 04/30/2008, -9/+12are we still talking about some 20 second sound bite, anyone who looks at these at face value and fails to look past it, into the context in which he was saying them is a whore for the msm, and not only are you a whore you're a cheap whore because you are'nt getting paid. when everyone in america can STFU about trivialities like this, America be fine and great like it should be.
          • nicktx, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3Yeah, too bad it's not just a 20 second sound bite taken out of context. Its decades of tirades in the same spirit and Obama sat there and listened. Now his chickens are coming home to roost.
        • thebaron2, on 04/30/2008, -3/+6Did you just call Obama a whore, tom, because apparently he's also offended by Wright's comments?
        • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -7/+12Obama is not Ofended by Wright comments. He agrees with them when it benefits him.
  • KFantasy017, on 04/30/2008, -8/+27It's a shame that his brilliant speech about not wanting to break his ties with Wright has to go to waste, but this is getting absolutely ridiculous.
    • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -15/+25Mar 18, 2008 Barack Obama:" I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. "
      Apr 29, 2008 Barack Obama:" I disown this man."
      Apr 29, 2008 p0s3r: "LOL"
      • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -11/+4May 1, 2008 Barack Obama "Bye-Bye black community"

        lol
        • RepubOperative, on 04/30/2008, -6/+5The black community will stand by Obama. You have to be kidding. There isn't another black in the race and that is all they ever cared about.
          • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -4/+1I didn't mean to say they wouldn't I ment that he might throw them under the bus if he had too
      • knumbknuts, on 04/30/2008, -7/+2What about his gramma, is that bitch going down, too?
        • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -2/+1he booted her a month ago where were you?
    • DesertDude, on 04/30/2008, -3/+3Wright was right about a lot of things, especially the part about 9/11 being retaliation for American foreign policy.

      The average American thinks there was a group of people who one day woke up and said "hey, let's suicide ourselves in a plane attack on the US because of their freedom!"
      • dinsy, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1Correct sir. He was also tell the truth about AIDS virus being manufactured at Ft. Detrich, Md. People just refuse to face the truth. I would vote for Rev. Wright before I'd vote for Obama.
  • BECoole, on 04/30/2008, -24/+15Obama never really denounced Wright.
    All Obama did was make some lame excuse that some people reasonably think that way, but for poor 'lil Obama to play, he had to put up with him for 20 years and make Wright a campaign staffer.
    Obama agrees with Wright, he just can't come out and say it plainly enough for liberals to understand without jeopardizing the election.
    • bernos, on 04/30/2008, -11/+1oh sharrup you dont know what youa re talking about
      • RepubOperative, on 04/30/2008, -15/+9You heard Jeremiah Wright the other day. Obama is just doing what a politician does...nothing more. He is still friends with the racist Jeremiah Wright.....they talk all the time on the phone. This is just a show for the masses. Obama is still a ***** racist supremacist.
    • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -5/+4wat is sharrup?
  • swrostmore, on 04/30/2008, -24/+15Its over, Clinton won. Sad, but preferable that a fellow Democrat used this to destroy Obama rather than McCain doing it in the general election. The only open question is if Clinton will honor her statement to the effect that she'd accept Obama for the VP spot.
    • nicktx, on 04/30/2008, -12/+3If she became the candidate and added Obama as VP they still keep hers and his negatives and gain what, uniting the Democratic electorate? Just getting Bush and the republicans out of office is going to take care of that once the nomination is decided.
    • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -12/+15Clinton didn't force Obama to go to Wright's church for 20 years.
      Clinton didn't force Wright to make a complete ass of himself on national TV.
      • swrostmore, on 04/30/2008, -13/+7Who said Clinton did these things? What a stupid comment.
        • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -9/+9"Sad, but preferable that a fellow Democrat used this to destroy Obama rather than McCain doing it "
          You implied that Obama's downfall was because of Clinton. Clinton had nothing to do with this.
      • chaosium, on 04/30/2008, -8/+7"Clinton didn't force Obama to go to Wright's church for 20 years.
        Clinton didn't force Wright to make a complete ass of himself on national TV."

        Obama didn't force Bill Clinton to consult with Wright either, dumbass.
        • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -6/+6What does that have to do anything? What a stupid comment.
    • Gabberwok, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4How is it preferable to be stabbed in the back by a friend than an enemy?
  • diggFunction, on 04/30/2008, -20/+15 Typical politician. Throw you beloved pasture under the bus after 20 years because you political career is on the line. This is the man that married him and his wife, even baptized his children. Hardly the agent of change in my eyes.

    • ehalasey, on 04/30/2008, -7/+9Pasture?
      Okay, that aside, did you read the article? Or, perhaps an article that's written by a REPUTABLE news source on the subject?
      According to Reuters, this is part of what Obama said:
      "The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate," Obama said.
      Wow. The guy denounces hate speech, and his career is over? Considering all of the politicians who feed on hate speech, I would say that this is just another instance of Obama's standing up to the status quo, and doing so with incredible grace.
    • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -7/+13He already threw his Grandmother under the bus because it would help save his political ambitions did you actually think he wouldn't do it to anyone else?
  • DiggLive, on 04/30/2008, -29/+23Republicans are going to KILL Obama.

    "First time I've been proud of my country"
    "God DAMN America!"
    "typical white person"
    "punished with a baby"
    "they cling to their guns and God because they're bitter"

    Not to mention he won't wear the American flag or put his hand over his heart. He's not going to win the general election, no matter what anyone says.

    The American public is going to view him as an elitist far-left unpatriotic liberal.
    • nicktx, on 04/30/2008, -12/+1I dugg you up but to put the word "liberal" in this negative context is just wrong.
      • masterm1nd, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3The word modifier being "elitist far-left unpatriotic"
    • Dumbledorito, on 04/30/2008, -13/+8Right, because the right-wing religious nutters that McCain is actively courting are so much more palatable.

      And now for the "aw, snap": Perhaps he'll use the saving grace that apparently no Republican actually follows any religious tenets regarding morality?
    • JSVH, on 04/30/2008, -5/+5So basically DiggLive, you don't like Obama because you don't have enough faith in the American people to be able to vote for a candidate on anything more than sound bytes.
      • nicktx, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2The American people elected Bush twice. I don't have faith in us either. McCain should be getting trounced right now in polls but he's not. Sound bites work with the American people and I think DiggLive is right, the GOP leadership has no morals or sense of decency. Obama has not been able to knock Clinton out despite all his momentum and money when the campaign is more or less on a high ground. Imagine what will happen when the sleaze machine gets to work.
  • Hiji, on 04/30/2008, -11/+12About freaking time. I blame this disaster on the media. I'm scared for our country.
    • brycelb, on 04/30/2008, -6/+10Right, because blaming it on Obama is just crazy talk. He shouldn't have to take responsibility for his previous comments and affiliations.
      • alk509, on 04/30/2008, -3/+1Yeah, he definitely should've taken responsibility for what Wright said. That's how it works, see? Obama's responsible for the crazy ***** Wright says, Hilldog is responsible for all the pussy Bill gets, and McCain is responsible for what his white supremacist advisor Richard Quinn does...

        Jackass...
  • brainboy77, on 04/30/2008, -21/+17why are you guys ripping on wright? did you even hear his whole speeches or even the bill moyers interview? everything he said was either taken out of context or not wrong. "God Damn America" was taken out of context. "America's chickens have come to roost" has nothing wrong with it. For years after terrorizing and funding terrorism overseas, it's poetic justice the same happened to us. Shame on you diggers. By just believing MSM and reading one-line quotes, you have stooped to the level of Republicans. Shame on you.

    Digg me up or down, please leave a reply why you feel so. Thank you.
    • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -13/+11It's very clear now that Wright was just telling us white folk what he thinks we want to hear. The snake shed it's skin on Monday.
    • thebaron2, on 04/30/2008, -3/+8What's the acceptable context for "God damn America"?

      I haven't seen the context of this one, so this is an honest question, not a snarky rhetorical one.
      • joshuasawyer, on 04/30/2008, -7/+9"REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT (SERMON TAPE): Where governments lie, God does not lie. Where governments change, God does not change. And I'm through now. But let me leave you with one more thing. Governments fail. The government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius, Pontius Pilate - the Roman government failed. The British government used to rule from East to West. The British government had a Union Jack. She colonized Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Hong Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the tip of Argentina in the Falklands, but the British government failed. The Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The German government failed. And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into position of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no. Not God bless America; God damn America! That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizen as less than human. God damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is supreme!"
        http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/transcr ...
        • mustangmike53, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3The government did all that? Wow! I had no idea... Sounds like government is the problem, not the solution.
      • Pherdnut, on 04/30/2008, -3/+3I'm not very god-fearing but it's a pretty awesome speech, IMO.
    • mcquitty, on 04/30/2008, -4/+8Yes, I watched the interview with Moyers. However, it was a complete fluff piece. Moyers didn't ask a single question that challenged Wright. It was meant to soften the message that Wright gives. I listened to his speech at the National Press Club. How can criticizing a man be criticizing a race or church? To quote Obama, "All it was was rants, not granted in truth."
    • BabushkaBlue, on 04/30/2008, -3/+4I didn't hear his talk with Moyers, but I did listen to his one-hour-long speech in Washington D.C. The speech was okay - even informative - but when he answered questions, his smug/amused demeanor coupled with several of his answers were outrageous.
    • DaDrake, on 04/30/2008, -2/+8How was "US manufactured HIV as a means of Genocide against colored people" taken out of context? Then he DEFENDS THAT POSITION on monday.

      The guy is a kook.
  • Dumbledorito, on 04/30/2008, -13/+11So is he done with his denouncement quota for the week, or will Fox News bring this up yet again before Friday?
    • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -11/+10Fox doesn't have to, if you think Wright will stay out of this your fooling yourself. You are trying to minimize a problem that is tracking Obama left, right and center. He is a lousy judge of character and has surrounded himself with alot of bad people. This kind of thing makes him a huge huge mistake for President.
      • masterm1nd, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Lol at the thought of them crawling back to Clinton.
    • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -7/+7Its ok Dumbledorito. You can deflect the responsibility by blaming Fox News. If that makes you feel better about Obama, than have at it.
      • mcquitty, on 04/30/2008, -6/+3If only it was just Fox News.. I was watching CNN and it was there, too. Hmm. Must be a conspiracy!
        • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3Yeah cause CNN and MSNBClove to work with Fox
  • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -20/+23What kind of mental distortions are the Obamabots going to have to go through to square this circle? They've been defending Wright and Obama's relationship with him all this time. Now Obama complete disowns Wright out of political expediency, and proves, beyond doubt, that he's just plain ol' politician who's just been doing what's in his own self-serving interest this whole time.

    And the latest Axelrod 'Hope & Change' product crashes and burns.
    • tomgsmyth, on 04/30/2008, -18/+9you are a sheep and the MSM is your sheperd. now go little sheep run with the herd so that you can feel safe
    • orangedude, on 04/30/2008, -4/+12So tell me, what did you expect him to do? Just sit there and let the MSM rip into him even more and have the new Rev. Wright clips played on endless loop for the next month or so?
      • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -5/+8He should've done what Oprah did. Left the church a long time ago. Obama claims he has the judgement to be President. What did Oprah see that Obama was blind to?
      • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -8/+4He could've done what he did last time and say that he can't disown the man. Maybe he could've come up with some dramatic speech to deflect the attention again. Better yet, he could've said that Wright has been drinking during the day a lot.
    • lhbaker, on 04/30/2008, -7/+8Wright and Obama are not the same person. Wright is demonstrating his rights under the Constitution, which the right seems to resent.
      • mcquitty, on 04/30/2008, -2/+6I have no problems with Wright speaking his mind. I think that Wright has issues with race. I think that Obama associated himself with Wright for over 20 years.

        In fact, up until a day or two ago, I was quite dismissive of Wright's comments (look up my history). Comments taken out of 20 years of sermons, it is easy to cherry pick comments.

        So, I ask you this: If Wright knew that anything he said would affect Obama, why would he make this speech?
        • Gemfinder, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Who can predict whether there will be scurrilous, cynical, manipulative and Machiavellian people who will twist our words and burn us with them at any time in the future?
          The probability is high but you can't go through life whinging and worrying about being the target of a "turn-and-burn" scam by some rascal. You shouldn't, I don't.
          What you do, is live your life, know that someday, someone, somewhere, is going to call you onto the rug for something you said or did. For fair reasons or foul. You go on, and cross that bridge when you come to it. Am I right?
          This bridge is being crossed.
  • ivandir, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2ughhh
  • CrudeDarkness, on 04/30/2008, -15/+6First digg makes wright a hero then they trash him.

    Freaking vote for Ron Paul already. Vote for the guy who makes sense, not the guy who wants to invade iran. not the woman who lies about everything. Not the other guy who talks about this imaginary 'change'. vote for the guy who is really trying to change.

    some people might vote for obama because they feel that ron paul won't win. I say stick to your guns and vote for ron paul. do not back out.
    • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -5/+8Why would anyone vote for Obama if they were planning on voting for Paul? They are on opposite ends of the spectrum on everything except Iraq both want the US to be seen as running away with our tails between our legs.

      For that both should be kicked in the head hard. So they might see the problems that would cause in the future
      • toxicityj, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3Because that's what Digg does. Everyone latches onto the popular candidate. Then when a new one comes along, everyone jumps to the next bandwagon of political fanboyity. That, of course, makes true RP/Obama supporters look bad.
    • l0k0, on 04/30/2008, -3/+15Way to go completely off topic. What does Ron Paul have to do with Obama publicly denouncing some of Wright's comments?
      • CrudeDarkness, on 04/30/2008, -8/+4Obama has bad people who influence his decisions all the time.
        Ron Paul on the other hand is the one who influences the people around him.
        • DavidS9, on 04/30/2008, -3/+5yeah it seems he influenced you right into the looney bin
      • toxicityj, on 04/30/2008, -1/+6Ron Paul would've pulled out his Liberty Laser and pewpew'd Wright until he apologized to America from DAY ONE.
        I don't want to have to end this with /joke, but people around here never seem to catch on. so /joke.
  • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -5/+4BS!
  • dcmusicfusion, on 04/30/2008, -4/+10Obama & the campaign should have done this AGES ago.....

    Both J. Jackson and Howard Dean should have told him too....along with his wife (at a minimum)
    • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -9/+6Too bad Jackson and his wife hate America.
      • mcquitty, on 04/30/2008, -4/+4They don't hate America. They hate the white people of America. There's a difference.
      • toxicityj, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4no, just white America.
  • irvman21, on 04/30/2008, -9/+13So, it took him until today to realize that his pastor was a complete racist?
    • whiterice0, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4No. It took him until today to realize that by continuing to defend his pastor and former political advisor, he was comitting political suicide. He always knew his pastor's comments would be unpopular, but he may have agreed with them without consequence in the past.
      • DaDrake, on 04/30/2008, -3/+2You're being too nice.... Wright is an obvious racist. I think Obama felt compelled to defend Wright at first.... but his true color came out. You simply don't accidently "misspeak" about the US creating HIV....then send it over Chicago in a promotional video of your church..... THEN defend your position monday night.

        The guy is racist
  • Shiftgood, on 04/30/2008, -11/+12This is just getting dumb. You god damned idiots out there are destroying our country over trivialities. What the *****? i mean... what the ***** is up with all this? since when did a flag pin or a pastor really mean anything about being a president? give me a ***** break. I hate you people, you ***** cow people out there that have no foresight, no sense of logic and reason. ***** YOU im so ***** sick of sharing a country with you. I know "melting pot" and "diversity" are supposed to be good things. But you people are just breeding like bacteria and spreading your ***** ignorance around the country. Its not a "difference of views" anymore. Its "the common denominator" now... which is some stupid fat white middle american woman watching QVC and Dr. Phil. Since when did we give them so much power? Disenfranchise idiots. Im sick of it. ... just so ***** sick of it.

    /rant
    • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -15/+6If anything I'd say we just saved the country not destroyed it.
      • alk509, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4Jesus Mother-***** Christ... The sad part of that comment is that, as far as millions of morons are concerned, this p0s3r idiot is right. There's people out there who actually, truly believe that the ***** they've been fed about Obama over the past three months or so, is somehow relevant to this election...

        The fact is that we live in an America where some folks think that repudiating a man based on a few of the people around him is somehow valid. An America where someone who can't understand the difference between knowing someone for 20 years, and agreeing with every word they've ever uttered, is somehow listened to. An America where a black politician can be called a racist based on the denunciations of racism of his pastor, all while completely ignoring the white supremacist ties of his white rival. An America where people who are too stupid to understand what Obama was talking about when he made his "bitter" remarks, are the ones setting the tone of the electoral dialog. And an America where those people can then go on the internet and write a post (with no punctuation - commas are elitist!) about how by doing all that, they just saved the country.

        It's true: If this ***** works and ends up costing Obama the nomination or the presidency, these people will have saved America (their idea of it) by inching us closer to the dried-up hunk of ***** that they think America should be.
    • fedupamerica, on 04/30/2008, -7/+3Klonapin......
    • oldhick, on 04/30/2008, -9/+3I don't think the flag pin or covering your heart had anything to do with Rev. Wright, let alone Obama denouncing Wright. While your rant was kind of funny, the truth is much more bleak.
      The people that get caught up in thinking that a mainstream candidate is going to be any different than any other are just balloons waiting to be popped. Regardless of Obama's reasoning on this, either way, he's now a douche.
      Either he's denouncing Wright because he finally believes (like the majority of the population) that Wright is nothing but a divisive clown who speaks not about the truth (obama's words I believe, or he said rooted in the truth), or he's denouncing Wright because he's selling out to political expediency.
      If he didn't know Wright was a bag of hot air just trying to divide people and just now came to that conclusion, he's a complete idiot.
      If he's kicking Wright under a bus because he thinks it'll help his chances in the polls than he's a douche bag liar like the rest of them.
      Real change won't come from the two party system folks or it'll be at the hands of the Kucinich's and the Ron Paul's. The fringe... Scary, but true!
      • Pherdnut, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1Can't agree with much of what you say hick but I certainly agree that it was Obama's uncharacteristically sloppy handling of this that makes him look bad either way. I don't defend Wright's transparent tactics in attempting to associate attacks on him with all black Americans but if Obama hadn't been in such a hurry to appease the super-patriots by distancing himself from the guy when it's clear that the God damn America was being taken out of context, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
        • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3It was always about more than "God damn America".
    • alk509, on 04/30/2008, -1/+3Thank's for that. I owe you a ***** beer.
  • coffee200am, on 04/30/2008, -16/+10After 20 years of listening to this crap....obama just now "denounces" this racist preacher?

    yeah right....
  • LeadOffMan, on 04/30/2008, -10/+5too late
  • joshuasawyer, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3Reverend Wright at the National Press Club (transcript)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28te ...
  • lhbaker, on 04/30/2008, -8/+17Who gives a ***** what his pastor says? Are we going to start quoting his butcher?
    • mcquitty, on 04/30/2008, -7/+3Does he call his butcher his friend and mentor? Did his butcher help lead him to where he is today?
    • LomasLou, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2Obama, the baby lamb & what the butcher saw
      Tonight on FoxNews
    • DaDrake, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2Obama said himself its a ligaments issue and it is.... during a presidential election.... EVERYTHING is an issue.
  • nixfu, on 04/30/2008, -7/+9I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT MINISTER!
  • nixfu, on 04/30/2008, -8/+6"Obama has credibility issues with Wright as well as his other problem associates Ayers and indicted Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko. In each and every case, Obama has first downplayed his connections to these political hot potatoes. Wright was a 'crazy uncle.' Ayers, a 'neighbor.' Rezko, just 'one of thousands of contributors' to his campaign. Only when these associations have reached a critical political mass has Obama tried to put out the fire."
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/a-defining-moment-for ...


  • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -11/+13What's utterly disgusting about this whole mess is how quickly the Obamabots and the MSM pivoted on Wright. Yesterday, when Wright is just attacking America and Whitey, the MSM and the Obamabots were full tilt in defense of the man. AS SOON AS Wright damaged Obama's candidacy, PIVOT, Rev. Wright is a crazy man to be thrown under the bus. Moral of the Story? ***** on America and white people all you want, but don't you dare hurt the Obamessiah!
    • DaDrake, on 04/30/2008, -1/+4people digg you down because its true lol
  • LomasLou, on 04/30/2008, -10/+6Flip-flop
    If Obama's the candidate, Republicans will pick him apart until there's nothing left.
    • DaDrake, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2I wouldn't call this a flip-flop but Obama certainly handled this situation poorly.
    • dinsy, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1I don't believe there was anything there to begin with.
  • whiterice0, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4Video of Obama disavowing his pastor and political advisor
    http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintel ...
  • Tikisam, on 04/30/2008, -10/+7SCREW OBAMA!!! It has taken him 20 years to realize what a lunatic his pastor is? And he just so happens to realize this when it's politically convenient? Methinks not.
    Fact is Obama shares Wright's views and belief that he doesn't share these types of views is lying to oneself.
  • DaDrake, on 04/30/2008, -6/+4I love how many diggers defended Wright, saying his comments were taken out of context (like US manufacturing aids for black people) but then denounce him after Obama denounced him.

    I hate to say I told you so.... but this guy was a racist from the first time the story broke. Obama did himself a disfavor by not quickly dissociating himself with him quicker. Defending Wright comments only made some people look even more out-of-touch with mainstream America.

    Obama trys to go past sterotypes and racist tensions...... Wright does the opposite.
  • Kalimotxo, on 04/30/2008, -3/+6Spin, spin as fast as you can. Weeks ago: "Obama better denounce that man!". Today: "Obama is a politician! Look, he is doing it for political gain!" You can't please all the people all the time.
  • westerner22, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4I would respect views of the people like Hilary's pastor:
    1.Already on March 19, Obama's former pastor was defended by Mike Huckabee, an arch-conservative Republican opponent who also said the controversy will not be a problem for Obama in November. Mike Huckabee is on a short list for McCain's VP, so we can keep him on his word Do see it on You Tube (huckabee wright).
    2.On the same day, the Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, posted a Statement in defense of Rev. Wright on their web site (still there today). President Clinton and First Lady attended this Church during their years in the White House. See the address below in 3.
    3.On March 23 the Senior Pastor of the FoundryUMC, Dean Snyder, gives a beautiful Easter sermon where he condemns the media for their vicious clippings of Rev. Wright's sermons and appeals for racial reconciliation. See www.foundryumc.org
    4.Senator Clinton is still a member of the First United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and remains in touch with its former pastor Rev. Edward Matthews. In a recent 35 minutes phone interview with the New York Sun her pastor admits that he himself holds some very controversial political views, not unlike those of Rev. Wright, yet Senator Clinton remains a member. See www2.nysun.com/article/74027?page_no=1
    5.On March 25, 2008 "Diverse Group of Prominent Religious Leaders Condemn Personal Attacks" in a letter to Senator Clinton. These leaders represent many faiths. You may google it by the title.
    6.Fred R. Krauss of Rockford, Illinois, writes a remarkable letter to his local newspaper in which he objects to another letter of March 28 titled “Beware of Obama”. He is a retired pastor in the United Church of Christ who has served churches in Chicago, southern Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. See www.rrstar.
    7.On April 6, 2008 Rev. Lavanhar defends the theological and prophetic implications of Rev. Wright's preaching in his sermon “Why Jeremiah is Wright” on April 6, 2008 in the context of the experiences of the Hebrew prophets, African American patriots like Nat Turner, Frederick Douglas and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the historic black church. This is a must read. Rev. Marlin Lavanhar is the Senior Minister of Tulsa, Oklahoma All Souls Unitarian Church, a mostly white congregation. See http://www.allsoulschurch.org/
    8.Check the website of your house of worship. Perhaps they defend Rev. Wright as well. Or talk to you spiritual advisor what she thinks about him. After all it concerns the freedom of speech and freedom of following one's religion. Yours.
    • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2Because somehow that makes Wright less than crazy and less than a racist bigot.
  • ileftfark, on 04/30/2008, -3/+2You know, I've tried really hard to envision Obama as a new kind of candidate, something fresh, something different. I've tried to ignore all the things I've observed that lumped him in with "politics as usual", and made excuses. I can't do that any more. This is by no means the defining moment where I came to that conclusion, but it does solidify that sentiment. My whole take on the pastor is: He wasn't a huge deal; but I always wondered what Obama saw in him. He's been a radical in his field (he's been denounced in other African-American churches throughout the country) since day one. Now Obama has completely denounced him, and is "outraged" (his own words). This brings up a question: Has Pastor Wright suddenly shown a completely new side of himself that Obama does not like, or have things finally caught up? My sense is Pastor Wright has been like this for years, and now that it isn't politically behooving, Obama denounces.

    Not a comment to sway anyone, simply a short synopsis of my take on the situation, and the candidacy in general.
    • siszam, on 04/30/2008, -2/+4Been like what? You mean Wright has been telling the truth for years and Obama finally started denying the truth? Because that's what just happened.
      • p0s3r, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3It's too bad. There's one demographic that just got completely disenfranchised today. Now who will you America Haters vote for now that Obama has completely and utterly rejected you?
  • DeskFlyer, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1About friggin time.
  • siszam, on 04/30/2008, -2/+3Rev. Wright was telling the truth and Obama has shown he's willing to deny truth to get power. See the video of Wright stating sources for this info. Even gov. documents admit it. http://www.infowars.com/?p=1800
    • masterm1nd, on 04/30/2008, -1/+3Do the sources prove God damned America?
      • dinsy, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1That would be, as they say, self-evident.
  • Pherdnut, on 04/30/2008, -0/+2I think the mistake on Obama's part was to be complicit in lending credibility to the soundbite by denouncing it when the issue first came up. I suspect it would have been over by now if he'd stuck with what he's best at, which is saying what he honestly believes. It just seemed uncharacteristic of him to back down so quickly in obvious fear of the idol-worship as patriotism crowd. I certainly don't like how he handled it, but I can't blame Wright for being pissed.

    He's obviously no politician but as a religious leader his reputation is just as much of a concern and the initial attacks and subsequent mischaracterizations of Wright's message were extremely unfair. He's a bit of a loon who's perhaps a bit too quick to indulge in questionable theories but hardly an anti-white supremacist and I think it kind of sucks how fast everybody's done a complete 180 on the guy the second he screwed with the campaign.
  • Breticus07, on 04/30/2008, -1/+3Funny how people on digg change from supporting wright to hating him based upon media
    • pintomp3, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2most of what wright has said in his sermons are on point and people assumed the more vitriolic stuff was from a long time ago. i still think he makes good points, but he should know by now that parts of his will be clipped and skewed. perhaps it's because he has little experience under such national scrutiny, because not many reverends would sound very good if you only judged them by a few sound bites. another reason could be he lost his cool after being painted as enemy #1 by most of the media. whatever the reason, he really hurt himself.
  • smacksaw, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1One is a politician, one is a preacher. Now they can both go and do what they do best after this cleverly orchestrated public break.
  • ndnspongebob, on 04/30/2008, -1/+2The Reverend isn't helping Obama's cause but if you listened to his whole speech, he seems like an intelligent guy with some views that are worth thinking about and hes definitely not a racist, i think a lot of people are caught up in the delivery of his message than the actual content(example: when Wright called American policies, "terrorism" toward other countries and how the chickens are coming home to roost (THE CHICKEN WILL DESTROY YOU!!!! "lol"), the same view is held by Ron Paul who supports non-intervention in foreign countries but knew how to say it in a better way), Obama has no choice, denounce him to please white Americans who may possibly vote on race if this goes ape *****.
  • SEANWOOKIE, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1OBJECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    (Sorry had to get it out of my system)
  • coffee200am, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1Wright is not helping Obama with racist and just out right plain nutso coo coo statements. Obama knows this.
  • masterm1nd, on 04/30/2008, -2/+2I love it. Obama's a smart guy. Here they collaborate on Wrights "spontaneous" media tour. The plan is Wright appears as crazy as possible to distance themselves and provide Obama an opening to properly distance himself while also giving the impression that Obama has no influence over Wright and "Wright doesn't care if Obama wins", "because they're so different". The right wing media ate it up and just sit there stuck at the conclusion that "Wrights not doin Obama any favors"
  • StanleyKoolPrik, on 04/30/2008, -0/+3Obama is *****. I wish he wasn't, but he is.
  • MattBlackCat, on 04/30/2008, -1/+1What is with the thumbs down on the patently obvious remarks of people.

    Everyone rides on the back of each other - you only throw some one off when they start undermining your position or credibility. Which is what has happened here - pastor rides on obama to get his view out there - obama noticing the public really don't like this - ditches his the man as he his now a liabilty to be associated with.

    IT IS POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY PEOPLE, NOTHING MORE.
  • mustangmike53, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1Obama's chickens came home to roost.
  • estate, on 04/30/2008, -0/+1This is an Obama story yes? I don't understand, for some reason it's got 200 Diggs and still not on the front page!
    Something's wrong with Digg.
  • Acronym, on 04/30/2008, -0/+0hmm 200 comments and the top one only got +19 just shows the difference of opinion about this subject
  • macdoodle, on 05/01/2008, -0/+1the right wing is milking it. trying to lead the masses to fear the nation of islam taking over the whitehouse etc etc..
    as you know Bush won based on Fear Factor .
    now the naacp in Detriot is hosting the reverend.
    WhO IS MORE THAN WILLING to USE his parishoner ,OBAMA, for 15 minutes of fame
    please write them AnD SAY HUH?
    - WRIGHT AIN'T RIGHT AND HE AIN'T LEFT- HE'S FROM MARS - NOT ONE OF OURS!
    washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org,


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