What Finally Prompted Sen. Obama to Denounce Rev. Wright?
Was it Reverend Wright’s infamous and much publicized condemnation “God Damn America”? No, that didn’t do it.
Was it Reverend Wright’s public statements that the United States Government deliberately infected African Americans with AIDS? No, not that, either.
Was it Reverend Wright’s pronouncements that America is a terrorist nation and 9/11 was simply “America’s chickens … coming home to roost”? No, he was still “like family” to Sen. Obama when that one made the rounds.
Could it, perhaps, have been when Reverend Wright dared to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama, Presidential Candidate for two of his three years in the Senate, was nothing more than a Politician?? Bingo!
And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing. Anybody who knows me and knows what I am about knows that I am about trying to bridge gaps and that I see the commonality in all people…
Well, I want to use this press conference to make people absolutely clear that, obviously, whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed, as a consequence of this.
I don’t think that he showed much concern for me. More importantly, I don’t think he showed much concern for what we are trying to do in this campaign and what we’re trying to do for the American people and with the American people
Senator Barack Obama, 4/29/08
So, to summarize, attacking America, A-OK, attacking Barack Obama, unacceptable. It certainly helps to know what a candidate’s priorities are!
May 1st, 2008 at 11:02 am
This was political expediency at it’s finest. He sat in the pews of this nutbag’s church for 20+ years, subjected his family to the divisive rhetoric, tried to brush it off when it all became public…and now when Rev. Wright resurfaces once again, and it’s clear the American people are outraged…Obama throws him under the bus and completely disassociates himself with Wright. That’s awfully convenient timing.
Obama preaches togetherness, crossing racial and partisan lines. Michelle Obama speaks on college campuses and chastizes kids for not hanging out with people of other races, sexualities, religions, etc. Yet these two sat in a church most Sundays for the past 20 years and listened to and obviously embraced (since they continued to attend there and cozy up to Rev. Wright) the racially divisive and anti-American rhetoric.
He can say that Wright’s views aren’t his. But let’s pose another scenario. If Rudy Giuliani were seeing hanging out with mafia bosses in NYC on a regular basis…would he be able to distance himself and say, “they’re friends, but I don’t share their views”?
And you can’t tell me that Obama “never heard the outrageous comments” until they were recently made public. I’m not buying it, and I don’t think the American people are buying it either.