Obama throws Rev Wright under the bus

[GaryC 7]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

[no name 1]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

damn, I missed it!

As I posted earlier, Wright is pissed. He will continue to use his 15 minutes.

Edited April 29, 2008 by illumine

[GaryC 7]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

damn, I missed it!

As I posted earlier, Wright is pissed. He will continue to use his 15 minutes.

It wasn't pretty. Not pretty at all. I can see a lot of political commercials coming from that Q & A.

[kaydee457 13]

Well, now he's a guy that can't be trusted!

[no name 1]

From cnn:

In his harshest criticism yet of his former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama said he was “outraged” by Wright’s comments at the National Press Club Monday, and “saddened by the spectacle.”

“I have been a member of Trinity Church since 1992. I have known Rev. Wright for almost 20 years,” he said at a Winston-Salem, North Carolina press conference Tuesday. “The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago.”

Yet, he was a member til when, this year?

So if he truly wanted to disown the man, he coulda done it, say 15 years ago, or 5 or 1? But no, he stayed on till the scandal broke. Pathetic.

[kaydee457 13]

Freggen backstabber...

[mawilson 2,133]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

He should have done it a long time ago.

[GaryC 7]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

He should have done it a long time ago.

He is in damage control. No doubt about that. With more primaries coming up next week it does not look good for him. You know I have wanted the battle between Hillary and Obama to continue. This is very good news for Hillary. My guess is that Hillary can now catch him in the popular vote and will have a real case to be made about being the most electable. I now give her even odds of getting enough SD's to get the nomination. The dem party will melt down. How about it Obama fans, if Hillary gets the nomination what will you do?

Edited April 29, 2008 by GaryC

[no name 1]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

He should have done it a long time ago.

He is in damage control. No doubt about that. With more primaries coming up next week it does not look good for him. You know I have wanted the battle between Hillary and Obama to continue. This is very good news for Hillary. My guess is that Hillary can now catch him in the popular vote and will have a real case to be made about being the most electable. I now give her even odds of getting enough SD's to get the nomination. The dem party will melt down. How about it Obama fans, if Hillary gets the nomination what will you do?

[HAL 9000 96]

Well like I've stated before. If HC is somehow able to get the default nomination (if the current frontrunner drops out), I will either vote for her or not vote at all in November.

As for the OP- well, it really is a dead horse getting beat. In a way the Pastor has done Obama a favor by cementing the differences between them, to the chagrin of those that want to continue beating that dead horse about.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

How about it Obama fans, if Hillary gets the nomination what will you do?

If she gets it because his failure to address the Wright issue leads to him dropping out of the race, I may vote for her.

If she gets it because the supers overturn his pledged delegate lead, I won't vote for her.

The manner in which she wins will be important (to me).

Edited April 29, 2008 by VJ Troll

[no name 1]

"At a moment when Barack Obama is struggling to win over white voters worried about the economy, a series of public appearances by his former pastor is threatening to revive a tempest over race, patriotism and religion that the Democratic presidential front-runner hoped he had quashed," Peter Nicholas writes in the Los Angeles Times.

Said David Axelrod, understating the case: "I think candor requires me to say it's not ideal."

link

O's own CM can admit it, when will his VJ supporters admit it *DOES* matter?

Edited April 29, 2008 by illumine

[Dan J 277]

I was just watching a news conference on TV. He just totally disowned Rev Wright. He looked very nervous. He was stammering, stuttering and every other word was "um". He said that "nothing that Rev Wright said yesterday was constructive". Ok, he did it. He has disowned him. I still have to wonder how someone can sit in a church for 20 years and not understand what the preacher stood for. This isn't over, not by a long shot.

He should have done it a long time ago.

He is in damage control. No doubt about that. With more primaries coming up next week it does not look good for him. You know I have wanted the battle between Hillary and Obama to continue. This is very good news for Hillary. My guess is that Hillary can now catch him in the popular vote and will have a real case to be made about being the most electable. I now give her even odds of getting enough SD's to get the nomination. The dem party will melt down. How about it Obama fans, if Hillary gets the nomination what will you do?

Wright's comments didn't seem give Hillary much advantage in Penn. That was her state, and she had all the cards, including the Wright controversy working for her. But she only managed a 9 point margin. If you took the Wright controversy out of the picture, she probably would have still won by 8-10 points.

[GaryC 7]

Well like I've stated before. If HC is somehow able to get the default nomination (if the current frontrunner drops out), I will either vote for her or not vote at all in November.

As for the OP- well, it really is a dead horse getting beat. In a way the Pastor has done Obama a favor by cementing the differences between them, to the chagrin of those that want to continue beating that dead horse about.

Yeah right, with your logical mind tell me this- how could he have known Rev Wright for 20 years and not have known his views? It's a real stretch to believe that. If he really didn't share his views then why didn't he leave long ago? Oh no, this just proves that Obama knew what he was like and because Wright made an azz out of himself yesterday he is forced to do damage control. Say by-by to Obama folks.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Well, now he's a guy that can't be trusted!

Kaydee, he never was trustworthy!