Obama: Discussion Over Wright’s ‘Stupid Statements’ Have Been a Distraction

STUPID STATEMENTS!!! That is an understatement. What is stupid will be the American public if we believe his lies and cover ups and more empty rhetoric. His speech tomorrow should be his resignation speech for the unity and the common good of the democratic party.

You know, I’ve had many criticisms of Sen. Clinton but have never felt the need to call her names or make nasty comments whenever there was an opportunity whether it made sense or not. I wish her supporters would be equally restrained. ———-If he said ‘African-American’ (and it may have been a slip-up on the part of the reporter or typist), I suspect he used the term, as many of us have come to, as synonymous for ‘black.’ His father was black —- and, in fact, when he was legally in this country and married Obama’s mother, I suppose he was quite literally an African-American. —— My own comment was going to be that I sincerely hope that we will be allowed, after all, to have someone this capable of real, coherent *thought* as our President. It’s been a long time and we so desperately need some genuine intelligence applied to our many problems.

Obama has the word change right okay. He has changed his story on his relationship with Rev. Wright several times since June 2007 when he said Wright was his pastor and kept him out of trouble etc. Obama isn’t just now finding out what Wright stands for. Obama has been a part of his church for 20 years and I know he isn’t that dumb or that naive to act like he hasn’t known what Wright’s views were all this time. And, if Obama didn’t agree, why did he stay under his leadership for so long. I would not believe anything Obama said at this point no matter what Bible he swore on. I am very disappointed in him.

Obama has the word change right okay. He has changed his story on his relationship with Rev. Wright several times since June 2007 when he said Wright was his pastor and kept him out of trouble etc. Obama isn’t just now finding out what Wright stands for. Obama has been a part of his church for 20 years and I know he isn’t that dumb or that naive to act like he hasn’t known what Wright’s views were all this time. And, if Obama didn’t agree, why did he stay under his leadership for so long. I would not believe anything Obama said at this point no matter what Bible he swore on. I am very disappointed in him.

Jill- I completely agree; he’s so arrogant that he actually thought he could get away with belonging to a hate mongering church. He thinks the American people are stupid!!! THIS SICKENS ME!!!

Bob, in DC. Barack Obama has created this ugly issue with poor judgment and trying to evade and ignore this huge problem until the MSM ran with it. Now, all it is is damage control to see how many supporters he will have lost and how many undecideds will move to Hillary or McCain. Obama has no one to blame but himself on this issue. He is damaged goods right now, I doubt anything positive will come out of this for him.

As far as Pelosi and Dean, they both should resign. They are the epitome of useless in this election. Neither of them have any power or sway over the super delegates as you will see, and as it should be. They are both biased and fully support Obama, which is a joke. They should be on neutral ground until every last vote is counted. They are both a disgrace to the Democratic Party and the democratic process.

Obama relationship of 2o years speaks volumes. Pastor Wright spews racist comments in such a angry and bitter tone.
This is not UNITY and sounds more like
No We Can Not…………
Obama praised his Pastor, remember the Book Audacity of HOPE!!!! Please not you are denoucing …
Anyone Sane individual can see that a 20 year relationship and calling pastor Wright your Christiam Mentor…means you believe in him and what HE Respresents……………. HATE and DISDAIN FOR AMERICA…
P.S…. Lets not forget Pastor Wright praises of Farrakan…
A disgusted Democrat who will vote for McCain if Hillary Clinton is not nominated…
Obama is not a Unify and NO He Can NOT

What a shock -Obama goes to a safe interview with black woman Gwen Ifill.

‘Believing with you that man owes account to none other for his faith or his worship than to God…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their federal legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.’ – Thomas Jefferson
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President — should he be Catholic — how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference, and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him, or the people who might elect him.” – John F. Kennedy
We should stop bringing religion into this election. This is for the office of President not the spiritual leader of the country. Allowing religious influence to enter into governmental decisions is a violation of the very constitution a President is sworn to uphold. If a candidate can’t keep it out of the campaign, how can we believe that he will keep it out of his office? We have had many Presidents since JFK who continue to violate this – all Republican. A true democrat would honor the founding father’s intent in drafting the constitution as JFK did.

Here in Jena, LA. we had these young black men that were arrested because they had beat up a young white man.
It took Al and Jesse days to get 10,000 people here to protest. Where are they now? I promise you that they would be screaming the loudest if it was a white minister saying these HATEFUL, HURTFUL statements.
I don’t believe it should be tolerated by anyway saying things like this!!!
He can not say anything tomorrow to excuse HIS MINISTER!!! How can saying G** D*** American be taken out of context?

My hope is that Rev Wright gets “enlightened” and appologizes to all those he insulted and then makes a serious pledge to work with Barack and others to try to find a common ground and begin the healing process. Is that too much to hope for?

Obama can’t change any of this fiasco. Once again we’ll have his “words” but for 20 years sitting in this hatefilled church is his “actions.”
Actions speak louders than words.

Only a very arrogant man thinks that anything he can “say” will wipe away a close and influential 20 year relationship with a Louis Farrakhan wannabe.

An ordained Catholic minister, I can assure you that if any homily sounded like Mr. Wright’s, in my church it would be brought to the attention of the bishop and the minister’s faculties to preach would be terminated.
Long ago I learned that if someone or something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
It pains me to admit that the senator from Illinois — may not be what he pretends to be. Remember, in the end we only tell others what we want them to know about ourselves. It is our job, to discern the truth of the man.
His association and participation in this church speaks volumes…and frightens me to death.
rev. mr. ron

I’m so tired of all of the “it’s over now for Obama” posts.
Do you honestly believe Sen. Obama forgot what color his skin is? Do you think he didn’t know there are still racist people in this country? Do you think he counted on “smooth sailing” to the presidency without the right wing nuts reminding everybody of the animosity that still exists out there between whites and blacks?
You might be able to say that he didn’t expect this to come up in the primary, and maybe he should have taken more pro-active action about it. And maybe that would have helped a bit. I guess his fault is to trust that democrats, the party that preaches inclusion, wouldn’t be as biased.
Sen. Obama didn’t jump on this willy-nilly, and without being realistic. The reason Sen. Obama decided to run, why he hoped he could succeed, is because he counted on the fact that America is less divided now than in the past, and also that the votes he would have lost anyway to people who would have never (not before, not after Wright) vote a black person into office would be counteracted by the millions that will come out for a new found hope in a political process that serves the people of the country, instead of the millionaires.
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Regarding Rev. Wright’s comments:
How can somebody rather take the “guilt by association” stance on this, and claim Sen. Obama must be a racist and a country hater, while completely disregarding that:
* he was raised by one parent – his white mother. are you suggesting he is a racist that grew up with his white mother?
* he has been in public service for this country since he graduated from Harvard Law. every year.
If you want to know his feelings on racism, patriotism, and actually want to make an informed decision, rather than let FOX tell you what to think, please consider reading his books. they are also available on audiotape, in fact he got a Grammy for his last one.

Breaking: No revote in FL. Another major blow to Hillary. If MI has a revote Obama will probably win or tie. So how exactly is Hillary going to catch up?? The supers aren’t going to overturn the elected delegate leader — Pelosi, Dean and others will see to that.

that is the doctrine of universal restoration. i believe that in the end, God’s love is so complete and Jesus’ redemptive act so perfect, that all are saved. Salvation is through Jesus but he can save anyone he wants and he wants to save everyone. That’s the good news. But the anger, the hate, the sexual gyrations are not needed–they are not of God. I keep my eyes on God and not on the reverend. And I am ever watchful of charismatic figures who enthrall people–they too often are demigods. Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing.

The Trinity church has now quietly whitewashed (pardon the pun) the church’s website to take all out all references to it having a full on black agenda. Gee, are they ashamed??!! Too bad for them many websites have the old stuff on file. You guys cannot cover this up.
Obama is so over it ain’t even funny.

Interesting how no one on the Left thought it was a “distraction” when the liberal mainstream media was pouncing 24/7 on Mitt Romney’s church and his mormonism.

America can only be united under Constitution, the foundation of United States.
But it will be divided on all practical issues because Constitution allows free of speech, allows democracy, allows balance of power…
Division is not bad at all, it is democracy…But we are united under one Constitution, one nation… That will be truly united..

cba news flash obama may win the primary, too late most states have voted, but I assure you he wont win the presidential election people will vote for McCain, Not obama…..

Ok, I think I can tell from the comments here what people have found out. From now on, when Barack Obama speaks, he is immediately backing up the notion that he is evil, racist, a liar, a jerk, and takes his kids to KKK-like meetings for balck people…oh and he referrred to his father as an african-american even though he was born in Kenya…is that right?
I will say this again. This is not a defense of the candidate, this is a defense for our country.
As Americans we are proud. We are proud of our freedoms. We are proud of our achievements and our history of perseverance in the face of some terrible odds and situations. We are proud to be Americans.
We as a people identify with that truth everyday and we carry ourselves proudly with that knowledge. It is who we are.
But with that strength of country must come the burden of the cost. We, as a nation, have been witness to slavery, inequality for women, internment of our citizens. All things that we wish hadn’t happened. But they did. And that doesn’t define America.
I don’t believe that slavery is OK, even though our country was founded in slavery and it was written into the constitution.
I don’t believe women should be denied the vote even though that was our country’s position at our founding.
I don’t think that our citizens should be imprisoned because they look like our enemies even that was an American decision.
If Barack Obama’s pastor, has critical things and Obama himself does not agree with the comments, how does that make them Obama’s beliefs or hold him liable for them?
Mistakes are made, people say terrible things. That does not define the listener or the countryman. We are defined by our actions and America is a great nation and I am proud of our country. Just as I am proud of Senator Obama’s achievements and the service he’s given his country. I will not judge him because his pastor said angry and damaging things.
Our national discussion needs to be our economy, our wars, our fellow Americans. Who will lead us, together, through the most important issues of our time.
We need to move past this and the reasons that divide us and and move towards a reason to hope. A reason to believe.
You remember hope right? It’s the belief that there is good in the world and good things to come. And this greatness can and will be achieved by all of us…we just need to work together.

I agree with you saying Hagee is an idiot! He joins the ranks of Wright! That is why we NEED Hillary Clinton!!

Obama is very smooth. Hopefully, Americans can see through him, this time.

WRIGHT ON DAY ONE!!!! where is your judgement now obama? you have deep seeded issues obama, being president is not going to help you. Hillary will take care of things now, you need to go home and pray, hopefully at another church.

There is NO excuse for what this man has said—Obama CAN NOT wiggle out of this!!

to late for Obama, no excuse for Obama, it will take years to heal those words and associations. You have 8 years Obama, when Hillary is done she will help you, she is a true definition of a democrat, its all about the party. VP is looking pretty good right now isn’t it?

i suggest the democratic party draft colin powell, he is a known quantity, a man of integrity, he is from a mainline not a fringe religion and can unify this country.

I don’t know which is worse, Rev. Wright’s hate America & whites speeches, or Barack’s weak and pitiful attempts to explain them away.

Hillary has virtually no chance of winning. Obama only needs about 35-40% of the vote in the remaining states to hold a signifcant lead in delegates and popular vote. He will do better than that in most of the remaining states. The supers won’t overturn the delegate leader. Hillary will be lucky to win back her Senate seat.

Bob, DC**** People are not going to elect this HYPOCRITE!!!!

Senator Obama has gone up the in polls and even won delegates this weekend, because most main stream people have moved on and realized you can’t judge someone by another person’s words or judge someone based on 30 second clips.

New CNN poll (post Wright) shows Obama still leading Clinton:
Fifty-two percent of registered Democrats questioned in a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say the senator from Illinois is their choice for president, with 45 percent supporting Clinton.
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Most American Dems realize the insignficance of the Pastor Wright issue.

Leslie, I don’t know what planet you’re living on but Obama has slipped about 5 points in 3 days. He won some delegates, but he won’t win with the general public. Spin all you want, but facts are showing otherwise. Watch for a landslide for Hillary in Pennsylvania.

Another poll has Barack down 5 points virtually overnight. Just wait until this gets even more airtime.
It will only get worse. Somewhere Hillary is having a very very good day.

Jo: What poll? Gallup daily tracking had him dropping a bit but not significantly. Couple of points, I believe. 4

47-45 ain’t going to cut it for Hillary — not even close. She needs about 70-30 to even make it interesting.

I actually feel sorry for the pastor. His life has changed simply because Obama chose his church for political reasons. Let the Pastor stay in his church, let his church be. It is Obama who should be experiencing the brunt of HIS mistake. The pastor is who he is. I mean how dare Obama act like it’s a problem with his pastor. Saying dumb things like “stupid words” about the guy. Yeah, stupid words YOU, the man who wants to lead all of us, chose to listen to. It’s YOU Obama, not your pastor.

Of course Obama negatives are on the rise with the relentless non-stop negative media attention he is getting now. This will pass. Notice though even though his negatives go up most voters still don’t switch to Hillary. I guess her negatives are more negative.

Mccain will easily beat either Hillary Or Obama because you already have the democrat party deeply divided. The Hillary supporters loathe the Barack people and vice versa. The half whose candidate loses will sit home.

Obama making a big speech tomorrow about race. But who needs the lecture about race? He does, and so does his pastor. How arrogant is he to think he’s one to talk on the subject now that we know what we know about him.

I had to take off my Obama car sticker yesterday, anyone have some goo-gone to get off the sticky residue?!! Also I have noticed some Obama signs around the neighborhood that are now gone. Guess word is out.

1. Wright’s comments and the congregation’s agreement are unfortunately shared by millions of African Americans. The bandage has now been removed, exposing this festering wound.
2. Barack should repudiate all false and stereotyped perceptions and ask African Americans to do so as well.
3. Barack should announce he will address these issues in person from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in two weeks.
4. Reverend Wright should put out a new videotape on the Obama website, and set the record straight on what he believes… in his own words. This new video image will replace the unfair and inflammatory videos now used by the media for lack of anthing else.
5. Barack should announce the formation of a new advisory council that includes the highest level and most respected African American religious leadership. They will be asked to review and provide a public report on current myths vs. genuine issues discussed in thousands of black churches everywhere.
6. A website could be established to correct all “urban myths” being repeated in African American churches, i.e., AIDS myths, 911, conspiracies, etc.
7. Barack should announce the suspension of his participation in this church until he can be assured that such myths are not used to promote racial disharmony.
Barack should use this controversy to preview his leadership ability.
8. The Clintons will attempt to discredit all of the efforts outlined above through surrogates. Barack should preempt such politics by formally asking Hillary to not encourage, directly or indirectly, racial politics.

Now, where is Michelle hiding? where is Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan? and where are the “rich white” guys Rev. Wright was referring to in one of his “uniting sermons”? Where are they now? They only talk when they need to bash Hillary or I bet they are all waiting for Axelrod’s scripted words to talk.
I remember well what Michelle Obama said: ” This is the only time I feel proud to be an American” and just because her husband was running. The media didn’t even bother to question her on that…they were scared to be called racist!

Rasmussen Stats as of today….
Most voters, 56%, said Wright’s comments made them less likely to vote for Obama. That figure includes 44% of Democrats. Just 11% of voters say they are more likely to vote for Obama because of Wright’s comments.
The great divider=Obama, Wright, Farrakhan.

Yeah, I am so over Obama. What a fake.

BoB DC-Obama and his camp has already given away FL and MI even before the general begins, plus Obama’s policy adviser Samantha Powers insulted Ohio voters for voting Hillary which in turn will cause Ohio to lean republican, so I’m wondering how you see Obama winning the general considering the Wright problem to go along with this?

BobDC; Oh no he won’t try to overturn Roe v Wade; he’s pro choice. In any case I will never ever vote for a Republican again. I learned on my first vote as a nineteen year old for Reagan. I think I just rather sit this one out since the forces behind Obama have decided to just shut us out.

americans are moderate people and fear radicalism. jeremiah wright’s words are radical and for obama to listen to such garbage frightens me enough to vote republican. i am american first and a democrat second.
plus when I preach to a catholic congregation of 5,000 parishioners it is about Jesus–they don’t care about my views, my theology–life is about God, not about me.
now i understand why michelle has never been proud of the USA–why obama wont wear a flag lapel pin: they are influenced by a charismatic voice–my mom is Jewish and this reminds her of the frenzy of the Germans with the Austrian–he was whatever they wanted him to be: the most educated people in europe fell to the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
obama is no hitler but until we know who he is, he will neither be nominated not elected.

New Yorks first black Governor; makes me feel a little better. He’s sharp, quick on his feet and funny.

If Bush is so unpopular, and McCain is so linked to Bush, and Barack is such a great guy, why is McCain ahead in many polls or neck and neck with Obama? Obama & Hillary should be 20 points ahead. And this is before the Wright issue.
People aren’t that unhappy with Bush after all. Either that or they just don’t trust Obama & Hillary in the numbers the dems would have us believe.

Is he going to call Wright’s remarks another “bonehead” decision or two, or three? What can he say? All is not peace and love in his neighborhood, but he wants to lead this country to that imaginary place. His speech on race tomorrow will have to include “words” from Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, Rosa Parks, and….Jeremiah Wright? The City of Brotherly Love will light up the night with his words of wisdom calling us all to walk hand in hand to that imaginary place (Washington, DC), where his words can soothe us all and compel us all to agree and get things done. Oh, wow, I can hardly wait for the wisdom to come pouring forth!

Sadly, at a time when we have an ideal African-American candidate positioned for a great presidency we discover that he’s been keeping the wrong company with a pastor who has been teaching, preaching, mentoring and modeling his anti-American, hate-mongering behavior to his congregation and to Obama for the past 2 decades. Makes one recall the old saying of Birds of a Feather Flock Together. There’s just too much of Rev. Wright’s radical views to ignore and excuse. I want a president who is President of the UNITED States, not a president whose followers and supporters loudly speak along racial lines such stuff as God Damn America and who naively and with ignorance of history speak against the bombings during WWII. We bombed for a reason!! We did not go after Japan without reason and justification. Do we not remember Pearl Harbor and the bombings by Japan that started our involvement in WWII and the subsequent need to drop the A-bombs??? Do we not remember factually why our American men died in WWII—to preserve our nation and our freedoms? Do we not remember that the A-Bomb was all about stopping the Japanese expansion and domination? Do we not remember the facts about why we fought in WWII? What a disservice to our fallen heroes and those who served so bravely in WWII! Sermons and influential figures such as Rev. Wright cannot and must not be allowed to use negativity to distort the truth of history. Personal viewpoints about history without truth and facts to substantiate them cannot and must not be allowed to be espoused from religious pulpits or anywhere only to be excused as the rantings/words of a dear old uncle. Birds of a Feather DO Flock Together. If you drive the get away car and a crime is committed, or if you observe a crime but do nothing to stop it, you are guilty of complicity and punished. Sitting quietly in a congregation, continuing to be involved in that congregation, and not speaking out or finding someplace else to worship are all supportive acts that give silent permission and support to the inaccuracies of historical events and serve to inflame racial divisions not integrate and heal. I want a President of the UNITED States, not a President of a Certain Gender, nor a President of a Certain Race (regardless of the racial mixture or familial international experience.) I want a president evolved, grounded and mature enough who will help integrate and heal us and not divide us along racial OR gender lines. Please think America. Think!!

I don’t care to get into the race issues, we are racist by our cultures…what I am concerned about are the lies, the embezzelling and fraud. Yes, he has lied, he has kept quiet on issues eg; Rezko and there is no smoke without fire…time will tell, but I think there is alot more about to surface for Obama to answer.

For some reason, there are politicians that want America to remain dependent on foreign oil which in turn will cause America to go further and further into debt. We have enough oil to actually sell excess to other nations if congress would relinquish the stranglehold it has on oil drilling. It is as if they wish America to fail in order to usher in nationalizing companies and pushing this nation into a socialistic state… a system that has failed everywhere it has been tried in the world.
We need to become energy independent and strive for alternative means of energy. This includes nuclear power, wind generation, solar power, hydrogen power, and eventually, we hope, wave/current energy. Anyone opposing our independence is suspect in their motives in doing so.
We need a change from politicians trying to dictate to us the course of our nation and our continual fall into the abyss of debt. We need to elect politicians that will be willing to go against corruption no matter which party is the offender. We need another team like JFK and Bobby.
Unfortunately, Obama isn’t that politician. He has never crossed party lines to achieve anything. He directed millions of dollars to contractor friends to build tenements for the poor in the Chicago area in the 1990s. Today those tenements are uninhabitable and need to be condemned. My house is older than those tenements and is in great shape.
Obama refused to battle corruption in the guise of Chicago politician John Stroger who ushered in the highest sales tax in the nation, laid-off hospital staff and replaced them with friends and relatives who earned 6 figure incomes. The list of Stroger’s corruption is too long to list here. Forrest Claypool, a liberal democrat was fed up with Stroger’s corruption and ran against Stroger in the democratic primary. Obama refused to support Claypool and actually endorsed the Stroger ticket (now Todd Stroger, John Stroger’s son) and opted to perpetuate corruption to expedite his own political career.
A vote for change??? Hardly…. Obama is more of the same corrupt politics who uses his office and flip-flops (at least in doublespeak) on issues when he feels he needs to in order to retain his political career.
I am an independent. I am sick of politicians who put their political careers in front of doing what is best for our nation. Obama seems to be in contempt of our nation and wishes to change us into a Marxist regime. He does not care about the poor, he only cares about the power he envisions he will have to further his socialistic ideas.
America needs to wake up and realize the perilous path some politicians are trying to push the USA on. Stop looking for handouts, get off your knees begging for scraps, and stand up to politicians who view us as mindless cattle willing to do there bidding without question.
This is not about Democrats or Republicans; this is about American citizens being sold down the river. These corrupt leaders seem to be incognizant that there are still Americans that will refuse to succumb to this tyranny. We will resist.