Obama Speech: Jeremiah Wright Is As Much A Part Of Me As My Grandmother
And thus he cannot disown him.
So, I guess erasing Wright from his campaign website and condemning (vehmently!) anything Wright said that might have offended you isn’t “disowning” him.
I’m sure the media will use this speech as an excuse to bring the Wright scandal to a close, but I still haven’t heard Obama answer this simple question: How could you sit in a church for 20 years where the reverend was damning America from the pulpit?
The statements from Rev. Wright are not controversial so much as they’re just plain wrong. HIV wasn’t a government plot. 9/11 wasn’t a government plot. This isn’t the “U.S. of KKK-A.” Yet Wright preached these things as if they were true and Obama sat and listened to him.
For twenty years.
I just don’t see how Obama can weasel his way out of that.
Update: All the ways Obama blew it according to Kevin Williamson at The Corner:
1. The Rev. Wright, he says, is like family to him—and not like the crazy uncle. Family like his mother and grandmother, he says. The Rev. Wright is a conspiracy kook and a racist. You don’t get to choose your family, unless you adopt. And Obama has just adopted the Rev. Wright.
2. Obama just went on a riff about all the complexities of race in America “that we’ve never really worked through.” The upshot: Let’s pick every scab off of every racial grievance in the history of the United States and “work through” those “complexities.” Let’s don’t. It doesn’t sound like a good idea, especially for the guy who was supposed to be the post-racial candidate. “Working through complexities” sounds like a trip to the marriage counselor to me. Obama is running for president of the government, not Redeemer-in-Chief.
3. Blaming black America’s problems on the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow isn’t going to cut it, especially if you don’t have some interesting, radical proposal to address those problems. But Obama has proven himself to be a more-of-the-same politician with a gift for oratory. He’s already backing away from his best proposal, i.e. letting poor families decide which schools will educate their children.
I think Obama’s speech will satisfy many in the media who, frankly, are in the tank for him and are looking for a way to move past this most inconvenient scandal…but I just don’t see it satisfying many American voters.
Update: The entire Obama speech is after the jump.
Good points, Hannitized.
Some people do demur from comments like that, as Hagee confessed. I think I am one of them.
I agree that katrina was destiny. I agree that New Orleans is a city full of sin. But the reasons for it happening are up to God and God alone.
I’ll take it with humility and won’t bother speculating as deeply as Hagee has done.
But, as Proof said, this is not context for what Wright said.
Getting yourself pastored for 20 years by a radical hater shows bad judgment. Lying about it when asked by the media shows dishonesty. Request for presidency denied.
–klqtzz
Either Obama is lying that after twenty years he had no idea Wright held these aberrant, hate filled views; Or, he is grossly ignorant when such views are being expressed, and in either case it makes him unqualified to be Commander-In-Chief!
About Obama’s speech:
Rev. Jim Wallis, after reading Obama’s speech, said it was powerful and recommended that all Americans should listen to or read the speech, with their children.
The mostly negative remarks about the speech came naturally from FoxNews.
Buenas tardes, Roberto
Hannitized: Thanks for complaining about how Wright’s words were taken out of context and refusing repeated requests to put “God Damn America” in it’s proper context!
PS Telling us about whatever John McCain has done is NOT context for what Wright has said.
Telling us what a liar and propagandist Rob is is NOT context for what Wright said.
Here’s a quarter, buy a clue! The context of what he said is the context for what he said. (Duh!) Would you care to parse it for us?
What is amazing is Mrs. Obama has already kinda spilled the beans. Her statement about being proud of America for the first time goes hand in hand with the Rev. Wright spewed. Of course the liberals will see it differently.
As I expected, this sort of deeply revealing information is on FOX news. The Dems who watch CNN and MSNBC are going to see two contrasts: The great messianic Obama and the Obama who is a malcontent and is putting on an act–a conclusion exposed by the recent comments of Rev. Wright.
However, the two are hardly compatible with each other so much that the former is going to be forgotten easily in some maybe even many cases.
The sort of news that is being posted on FOX is what needs to be shown to the Dems on other medias, they need to acclimate themselves with the disturbing idea that Obama is a man who does not like America, that the comments of Rev. Wright and the videos on this blog post need to be shown EVERYWHERE.
Factual evidence such as this, not to bring down Obama, but to confront him with.
Republicans can only wish they had a communicator as sincerely honest, articulate and motivational.
Imagine if George Bush had addressed every issue he had as honestly and directly? Again, the Republicans only wish, they could have someone with this much character.
Obama is going to crush McCain.
Barack Obama wants to both eat his cake and have it. He wants voters to rise above race and religion, while appearing religious himself. He is in deep trouble if a spotlight is placed on his own THEOLOGY. See:
http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com
My bet is that the Dems will embrace his explanation and spin this back on the Republicans as being racist.
Neiman. I think it is worse than this. Many people have withheld judgement on these-type “churches”, mosques, etc for decades. We now have seen yet a sample of this hatred for people unlike them and worse than that, a mind set that includes anti-american hatred and the mentality that the world owes them a living because someone’s great-great-grandfather was treated badly. Many people have been treated this way and way worse. Murdered by communists.
These people also express pro-communist ideas. We now know The Truth about this church and should take a look at more like them.
But….Rev Wright sermonizes often in his church that he hates Obama’s grandmother.
Hannitized: Puhhlease! Character?!?
McCain was tortured for the name of his fellow soldiers in his squadron as a POW in the Vietnam war and you know what names he gave them?
The offensive line of the green-bay packers.
That’s character.
Meanwhile Obama is supporting a Reverend who is despises the world and a wife who can hardly see America for what it is best.
People admire and glorify the pessimistic unfulfilled lives of people like them too much.
It is independents and liberal, Obama Republicans (Talk about a contradiction in terms) that will make the difference. My guess is, unless the conservatives keep digging, find out more facts and keep this story alive, it will very, very soon fade into history. McCain will not bring it up in the General Election, to not lose all blacks Hillary will keep quiet about it all, and the story will die. The result? Obama is still the man to beat in the Nominating process and the Genearl election. This was not a death blow!
I still say, unless this story has more legs after this spech or another major scandal arises, it is President Obama this November.
Barrak Obama is lying about attending church for TWENTY who the minister, Rev. Wright, who was openly racist towards whites and made anti-American rants.
And McCain supports and welcomes money and support from Pastor Hagee, who thinks Katrina happened because of gays.
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He is just playing the politics game just like everybody else.
If you read Obama’s speech and ignore his delivery, you learn that he is just as hate filled and ignorant as his Pastor. He is a skilled orator but Presidential material, NO WAY!