Obama’s “big press conference” on Wright: “I’m outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle;” Wright’s remarks “a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth”
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What, pray tell, could Barack Obama possibly say now to undo the damage of his two decades of bad judgment about Jeremiah Wright?
Will he weigh in on black liberation theology? Wright’s phrenological discourse? How about Wright’s defense of his comparison between the Roman soldiers who killed Jesus and the US Marine Corps?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Maybe we’ll find out:
Obama was asked about Rev. Jeremiah Wright just now by a woman in Winston-Salem who tells the audience to watch his PBS interview, which will quell their concerns.
“I’m going to be having a big press conference afterward to talk about this,” he responded, then referred back to a story the woman told about a mother having to borrow month to get to work.
“This is diverting attention from the first story that you told,” Obama said.
So, he’s advising supporters to watch the Bill Moyers interview. What about the NAACP and National Press Club diatribes?
2:00pm Eastern. Here we go. Barack press conference is on:
“I’m outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle. The person that I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate. I believe they do not accurately portray the perspective of the black church. They certainly don’t portray mine. If he considers this political posturing, then he doesn’t know me very well. And I don’t know him well either.”
AIDS conspiracy: “Ridiculous proposition.”
Farrakhan support and analogy of Marines/terrorism: “They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. They should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing clearly and unequivocally here today.”
It’s antithetical to our campaign. It’s antithetical to what I’m about. It’s not what America stands for. Rev. Wright does not speak for me. He doesn’t speak for our campaign. I can’t prevent him from making these outrageous remarks…When I say I find these statements appalling, I mean it…Makes me angry and saddens me.”
Q&A.
1) Why the change in tone between now and yesterday? Obama: “I hadn’t seen it…He wasn’t just defending himself. He was presenting a worldview…What particularly angered me was the suggestion that my previous remarks were political posturing…”
Ok. Let’s be clear then: It wasn’t the fact that Wright has been spewing this same recycled crap for years that finally got Obama mad. It was that he finally realized it was hurting his campaign. And he was personally miffed by Wright’s insults against him.
2) What does this say about your judgment to superdelegates? “The person I saw was not the person that I’d come to know over 20 years…Shocked me, surprised me.”
Bullcrap.
Anyone with eyes yesterday saw that Wright’s was a finely-honed, time-tested act.
2:11pm Eastern. “Now is the time to pull together.” Refers to dire economic situation. “That didn’t matter to Rev. Wright. What mattered to him was commanding center stage.”
“I don’t think he showed much concern for me…or for what we’re trying to do in this campaign.”
3) Question: Have you spoken with Wright? “No.”
BO: “This has obviously put strains on the relationship” between Obama and Trinity Church.
“I want people to understand who I am. In some ways, the things Wright said yesterday directly contradict my life, issues, service, what I’ve said in my books, in my convention speech, announcement for president, everything I’ve said on the campaign trail. What I tried to do in Philadelphia was provide a context and lift up some of the contradictions and complexities in America and try to make something constructive out of it. There wasn’t anything constructive out of yesterday. All it was was a bunch of rants that aren’t grounded in truth…It was a show of disprespect to me.”
5) Question: What did Michelle Obama think? BO: “She was similarly angered.”
6) Question: Do you agree with Wright that attacks on him are attacks on black church? How important is black liberation theology?
BO: “I’m not a theologian.”
But he’s the Obamessiah!
BO: “I went to church and listened to sermons. What I heard, there’s an emphasis on importance of social struggle, striving for equality, justice, fairness, a social gospel. Rather than fancy word like black liberation theology, he uses social gospel.” Didn’t view attacks as attacks on black church.
2:23pm Eastern. There have been unfair caricatures, but “yesterday, he caricatured himself.”
Obama says he tried contacting Wright before his Philadelphia speech. He was on a cruise. When he returned, they did speak. But Obama will not elaborate. “But what I can say is that I told him I found the snippets of past sermons inexcusable.”
“There’s been great damage” to relationship with Wright. “Won’t be the same.” Denies that Wright was his spiritual mentor. But he married Michelle and I, baptized my children, prayed with us, etc. etc.
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Update: Rick Moran reflects on a “defining moment.”
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#86 alaskangrizzly
Sorry about the soda. I almost lost my whole lunch watching Obama.
However, I can’t wait to hear the next salvo from Wright. Methinks this divorce could make the War of the Roses look like a grade school fist fight
Even if Obama was being honest here, what the hell difference is that supposed to make?
Another rookie mistake.
How come Gutter-Bama is just now outraged over comments he’s been hearing for 20 years?
Wright baptized his children.
Gutter-Bama is F-ed! LOL!
I think Operation Chaos voters are going to have to switch to voting for Gutter-Bama to keep this circular firing squad going!
ha ha ha!
I’m from Georgia…
One of my best friends is a liberal- but said she just can’t bear to vote for Obama… because if you place a G in front of his name it says, “Go Bama” – and THAT ain’t happenin’!
Off topic, I know..
Rush got it right, “Can you say, ‘toast’?
I can hardly wait to see what Wright’s comeback is…you know the reporters are on his doorstep as we type asking his response! If he thinks this will be the last of it, he’s sadly mistaken!
y’know, it is sweeps month, having b.o. and rev. wrong verbally slapping each other around on springer would be AWESOME!
mebbe louie f. can drop by too …
Hey, what’s McCain’s take on all of this?
*Memo to McCain, take your own and advice and JUST SHUT UP.*
The best thing B. Hussien O. can do is bow out quietly. If he thinks this will make us think he has been scammed by Wright it won’t. All it does is show how stupid b Hussien o is and hopes we are as stupid as he is. Before he could not dismiss Wright now he can not dismiss him fast enough… what does this say about him
As you probably heard, Operation Chaos is on hold until El Rushbo has a chance to gauge the drive-by response tonight.
your own advice… arrgghhh
# 100 DT
y’know the old saw “don’t pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel”
b.o. appears to be picking a fight with somone who gives a big ol’ speech on stage every sunday, 52 times a year …
/ha-ha!
I am from Georgia too… now i know why i know why i did not trust him…LOL
I’m just waiting for the day when he loses so he can go
BHO-HO-HO…somewhere else.
BHO-Who? LOL.
Ah, In an Absolut World!
Does this press conference regarding Jeremiah Wright mean that Obama is now “attacking the Black church?”
If so, as Reverend Jeremiah “the dozens” Wright just said yesterday:
Can you smell what Reverend Wright is cookin’?
Oh Barry! You’re gonna lose all the street cred’ you worked for down at the Trinity’ Church if you keep dissin’ the Rev. like that…you heard him…you don’t be doin’ the dozens on the man…or his mommas religion. He’ll start saying you is “Mixed-Brained” or somethin’.
I still don’t think that enough supers are going to switch to Hillary, because they will disenfranchise a huge chunk of the Democrat base if they do. And Hillary seems to screw up somehow every other week, and don’t forget that Slick Willy is Hillary’s own lesser version of Wright.
I say keep Operation Chaos going until the convention!
Hehe thanks, it’s not everyday someone gets me to laugh while reading and drinking soda at the same time
And I agree, the popcorn is ready for the continuing drama to unfold.
The “politics of race” chickens are coming home to roost to a black presidential candidate. For Sharpton, Jesse, farrakan and the rest of the race hustlers; they can spew on in front of their friendly choir audiences. But for a black candidate to win over the white electorate, Bull****, and anti white rhetoric are not going to remotely pass muster. Caucasions (independents and republicans)are not that stupid. Now Sharpton is criticizing Obama for not being the race baiter that Sharpton is, by Obama’s calling for non violence in the aftermath of the Bell verdict. (How dare he call for non violence and peaceful protest!!!) Again, Obama will have to distance himself from the scummy race baiting “leaders” of the black comminuty if he hopes to get elected. Blacks, once again, are eating their own.
Rush Limbaugh just got finished playing the Two Little Two Late tune with a How Stupid Do You Think We Are encore. Two of the worlds luckiest people in the world are now running for POTUS. One, McStupid and two, your so lucky your black who ever.
Obama’s chickens…are coming home to roost.
“Blacks, once again, are eating their own.
sadly, they are not the only group afflicted by that disease, tho they have done a bang-up job of it over the past 1/4 century, non?
Regardless of his motivations, I am glad to hear Obama forthrightly denounce the outright evil rantings of Jeremiah Wright.
Under the bus. His gradmother was bitterly clinging to it with her gun and Bible.
Obama denounces Wright, change we can believe in. Yup, I believe…
I believe that he is toast.
I just watched E.D. Hill on Fox. Wow, is this guy rearranging deck furniture on the Titanic or what? I don’t believe one word he said! He didn’t hear any of this s#*! till now? Oh please !!!!
Well said, 30 pcs. It remains to be seen if McCain will decide to snatch snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Maybe by publicly proclaiming the issue of Rev Wright closed….
Does this press conference regarding Jeremiah Wright mean that Obama is now “attacking the Black church?”
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It’s worse than that! I think this whole debacle is Gutter-Bama’s excuse to finally come out of the closet as a Muslim Jihadist!
This whole thing is so stupid that I really almost can’t believe it…If it’s possible that the Wright thing was staged, then the Obama campaign is either purposely trying to self-destruct or trying to ramp up sympathy for him in some sort of reverse psychology measure.
On April 29th, 2008 at 3:04 pm, libertyvista said:
Regardless of his motivations, I am glad to hear Obama forthrightly denounce the outright evil rantings of Jeremiah Wright.
I’m going to buy a WHOLE bunch of stock in the Redenbacher Co. This show is gonna be long and good!
I can understand why Sen. Obama is hearing what the Rev. has been saying for the first time…I tend to fall asleep as soon as my pastor starts into his sermon too.
Funny. Obama touts his skills as a uniter and the only candidate who has the ability to heal racial divides. And he can’t get his own pastor and friend to stop from making hate filled and racist remarks for a lousy 6 months.
# 127 bimb
but, as posted earlier, wrong yells so much it would be impossible to get shuteye there …
McCain: We must heal the Nation by apologizing to all African-Americans and granting blanket amnesty to all immigrants.
I thought about putting the sarcasm tag but let’s see what happens…
So did he stop going to church 20 years ago also?
Ya ever notice that nobody ever sees Ralph Nader and John McCain in the same place at the same time? It’s always one or the other, but never both. Hmmmmmmmmmm……..
“…Shocked me, surprised me.”
Hmmm.
Was Obama also shocked and surprised yesterday when his advisor, Cornel West — one of the two members of Obama’s Black Advisory Council — was CHEERING AND WHISTLING AT WRIGHT’S APPEARANCE YESTERDAY!!!!????
More shuck and jive from Odrama……
Mr. Olympia!!
O’Drama!!!!! CLASSIC!!!!
Rev Wright is not out of the fight! I’m telling ya. He has many speaches this week. At the end of this he will have more power than Jessy and Big Al combined.
On April 29th, 2008 at 2:48 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:
Say. What’s that red, white and blue thingy behind him in the background? Is that a US flag? Where’d he find one…
Nope. Look closer. It’s another Cuban flag with Che Guevara’s image on it.
Obama keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper!
I wonder if Obama will also come to the realization that he should be talking with Iran either. Of course it took him 20+ years to figure out Wright, so I doubt it.
Yes, I believe Obama was genuinely angry. But not at the content of Wright’s remarks – he has been hearing those for over 20 years and they never bothered him.
What he is angry about is that Wright could not keep his mouth shut or lie low for 6 months. He is angry that Wright, rather than offering evidence that Wright’s remarks (which Obama heard) were taken out of context, has only validated the context of those remarks as hate filled and racist.
He is angry that Wright revealed that Obama denounced him out of political expediency, but that “in the basement”, the two shared the same views.
He is angry that Wright has done immeasurable damage to Obama’s campaign. He is angry that he has no room left to argue he never knew Wright was a card carrying racist and bigot.
Obama said in Philadelphia that he could no sooner turn his back on Jerimiah Wright than do so to the black community. Meaning, Jeremiah Wright was the embodiment of the black community. Wright’s views were those of all African Americans.
Obama stopped short of cutting his ties to Wright. And that is a huge strategic and tactical mistake. By preserving his relationship with Wright, he will endure further questions and issues when Wright struts and crows out his next racist rant.
Yes, the chickens are coming home to roost for Barak Obama. And Jeremiah Wright is playing the role of the rooster.
Damage control, damage control!
What a ruse man.
WOW! Is there any limit as to who he’ll throw under the bus?
His wife better watch her back.
“I endorsed Rev. Wright before I denounced him.”
What, is this a pathological problem with all Dems? Sheesh.
#16 said:
Someone should ask him if he is now rejecting the entire black community.
Right on… and what of thouse cheering thousands at the NACCP confab? Wright may be wrong, but he sure as shinola has supporters out there…
Bitter Obama – bigoted, America-hating mentor clinging since 1988.
Awww, he’s a VICTIM…
/kinison
Yeah, He’s badly wounded, but the ones hurt most in the long run…Conservative Republicans…WTF, you may ask.. Well here is why I make the prediction…The luck of the Clintons is almost demonic…and the beast will now prevail as Barack has been torpedoed by another black hater, in absolute contradiction to the “message” that had her thighness totally derailed…Not so now….she comes on stronger than before because she had not one damn thing to do with the “lynching” of Obama…That was accomplished by a man of the Black Cloth…Now comes into the cage, our standard bearer, Mac the White, who was befuddled about North Carolina Repubs using footage of Wright’s rant and he was against it before he was for it..(seems I’ve heard that before)….He, Mac, wants to be seen as the impeccable Southern Gentleman as he deals with Hillary…..Ha! She will have his balls in a lock box as he doffs his hat in a respective gesture toward a so called lady, one who knows no respect for anything American…Our MacMidget is no match for the Hulk “Hillrod” after her nourishing and feeding on the heart of Barack, which is so generously offered from the pulpit of Black religion…Therefor…Eight more years of Clinton and the detestable bent one…and Blacks are set back 3 decades…Conservatism, 4
Obama/Wright and McCain/Hagee…lets just call it even.
The huffpo posters are having some sort of collective melt down. Nobody has told them how to think about this yet. Me I just think this proves Obama is just another politician. The messiah is dead. Except to the cultists of course. For them Obama could burn bunnies alive in front of them for fun, and they would still believe.
Who cares what these two agree or disagree about lets hi-jack the issue. We should be driving a wedge between the likes of pastor wrong and any blacks who prefer to be grounded in truth. Divide and conquer baby. This is a Godsend if we really want to improve race relations in America, for real this time. We need to make it clear that you can be an American seeking life liberty and the pursuit of happiness or you can be an angry hateful spiteful loser. That’s right just because you have an expensive house and a few thousand followers don’t make you a winner just listen to his sermons can you find any helpful positive life enhancing stuff there? Id call him the black Hitler but the Hitler analogy is so, well, oft used these days, these types deserve their own moniker.
Stop b4lucy!!! My sides are hurting!!!
Well heck, I just met the guy a little while ago and didn’t have any idea about what his philosophy was.
Remember some years back, Spike Lee said that Ronald Reagan distributed Crack just to kill black folks. Louis Farrakan said Bush blew up levees in Nawlins just to kill black folks. NOW Wright is sayin’ that the govment’ released AIDS to kill black folks! Any one else here see a pattern of paranoid insanity ? Or am I just bitter?
It’s almost as if Obama encouraged Wright to make additional crazy statements just so he could more forcefully denounce him in a good cop/bad cop sort of way. But it still is a tenuous proposition that Wright has only been goofy like this in the last few weeks or months. The whole thing is almost laughable except for the fact that Obama is my Senator…
Wow, took him 20 years. Kind of slow, don’t ya think?
Obummer did some research and discovered that his black ancestors were owned by wright’s white ancestors…that’s all this is.
I disagree b4lucy. If hilldog gets the nod, espically after BO has one so many states, the black vote won’t come out in November. That put states like Pa in play, as you’ve just taken 200k+ votes away from the dems. It does the same thing for Ohio and Missouri, were areas like Cinci and St. Louis have sizeable AA populations.
# 148
um, nope, not “even” …
/you WISH …
Obama was For his Pastor before he was Against him.
BO is in trouble and he knows it. No matter how much the media tries to spin for him it can’t change the fact that now he’s shocked. Are you kidding me? The sound bites that have been circulating for weeks didn’t shock you be a calm and calculated response from Wright explaining the context of the rants does?
That does NOT pass the smell test!
Then wright learned that his black ancestors were owned by obummers’ white ancestors. They owe each other reparations which the white side will not pay, and the black side will never forgive. The wedge is driven.
Obama, while shaking his finger at the camera. I did not have spiritual relations with that pastor, Jeremiah Wright…
Perhaps he was nodding off during the sermons?
His mega gulpa did take real issues off the table for the next hour or two though. If McCain says anything it’ll be condensending and if Hill say anything/cries about anything she’ll be suffering hormone imbalance. Either way Wright and the Chosen One gets the media coverage.
Give him a break, will you? He was sleeping during the incindiary portions of the sermons.
Where’d I put my flag pin!
fact of the matter is, if the
Supah Delegates give the nomination to Sill-ary, while Obama has more raw votes; the majority of the black community will boycott the election in November.
buckaroo = hypocrite…there, now we’re even
Hey, Delos, I’m a NY absentee voter and I have Shrillary and Chucky Schumer as my “esteemed” senators. You wanna trade?
# 169
do you even comprehend what yer typing or so you just string together a few words and hit “post”?
I guess Obama does not like it when his chickens come home to roost.
20 years in Jeremiah Wright’s church!
Obama does not get to dodge responsibility here until he finally makes a full accounting of what he, his wife, and his children were doing sitting in Jeremiah Wright’s pews year, after year, after year, after year, after year, after year, after year, after year…
If it took BO 20 years to realize Rev. Wright’s true beliefs, he will not be very good at detecting the lies of Iran and North Korea.
He must have been using the right side of his brain.
Right side or white side?
Obama has not honestly seperated himself from the filthy pack of Marxist, Racist and America Hating crowd that He has embraced for most of his adult life.
Rule .308 might work in this case.
Nuff Sa
Good thing for her that Barbara Walters doesn’t have to interview Wright about whites and right brains. (Pesky wabbit.)
Rubbish. B. Hussein isn’t mad at Wright, he’s just mad he got caught! With apologies to my own mother, whose logic I borrow more as I get older…
This is all so very fascinating. Here we have the first serious black candidate for POTUS (no, I don’t consider Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. serious candidates). So serious, that in the early days of the campaign, he looks like he just might win not only his party’s nomination, but the general election as well.
Then things start happening. To quote somebody, “There’s no THERE, there.” And some people notice, but the Obama train rolls on.
Then we get the Rev. Wright. Remember that the Rev. Wright was the one who said some time back (about a year or so) that he knew that BHO would have issues with his friendship and BHO would have to distance himself from him.
So BHO had his chance to do just that in the Philadelphia speech . . . and didn’t.
So today, we have this spectacle. And now, Al Sharpton is piling on over the murder case in NY – says BHO is “grandstanding for the white folks”.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think what you’re seeing here is the old line race-mongers like Sharpton, et.al. are seeing that their “Golden Boy” was just a little too golden, and maybe just a little too stupid (politically and otherwise) for their tastes.
They want him out of the picture. They see someone other than themselves as the chief purveyor of race hustling and they don’t like it. BHO must go!
And they are doing their best to make sure he does. All the while positioning it so they can blame “whitey” (their former best buds, the Clintons among them) for the mess, thus cementing their power base for another decade or so.
Then again, maybe I’m wrong and BHO is just an idiot.
Could turn into a Dr. Seuss book.
BHO and the Clinton Mob will not just Go Away. Some Dumb Ba$tards Voted for them to hold public office.
I was not one of them.
They are not fit for office, but your friends and neighbors gave them both Cash and Votes!
They are “Entitled” and they believe it.
Pretty damn sad!
We are stuck with Them.
taylork, you might be correct….But I see MacMidget so ineffectual that many honest conservatives will not vote….Maybe me,too…Again, witness the last few days stupidity on the North Carolina issue…..Besides, I’m still pissed about the gang of 14 that literally threw away our chance to end fillibusters on Supreme appointments…and eventually, blacks will be lured back in the general election because Hillrod didn’t “ride dirty” on them…it was one of their own who betrayed their messiah….MacMidget could have handled messiah Barack….However, Hillrod will gut him like a mackerel….and believe me, I’m sickened at the stench