Is Obama a wolf in sheep's clothing ?

[Geo]

SJ,
Like I said two posts ago- I think you are a fair guy (and most everyone else does). As such, I would love to read your thoughts on Wright's speech.

Genuinely...

Any chance you'll read it and comment on it (as well as what you've heard reported about it and posted about it by all of us here)?

GW

 

[Bob]

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Jeremiah_Wright rev wright

 

[sunspotbaby]

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Jeremiah_Wright rev wright

I thought dickipedia was a typo! OMG

 

[Miss Kitty]

I thought dickipedia was a typo! OMG

...me, too! Leave it to Beav, I mean BOB!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Sen Obama "Outraged" by Rev Wright's Comments

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama said he is "outraged" by comments his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made Monday at the National Press Club and is "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 news conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago."


Obama said he is outraged by Wright's remarks that seemed to suggest the U.S. government might be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community and his equation of some American wartime efforts with terrorism....(full story)




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GeoWickey, if Rev Wright is making honorable commentary in his speeches, why has Sen Obama denounced Wright's comments? Seems like Obama fans would have been also been denouncing Wright, rather than defending the Rev.

 

[Geo]

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama said he is "outraged" by comments his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made Monday at the National Press Club and is "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 news conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago."


Obama said he is outraged by Wright's remarks that seemed to suggest the U.S. government might be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community and his equation of some American wartime efforts with terrorism....(full story)




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GeoWickey, if Rev Wright is making honorable commentary in his speeches, why has Sen Obama denounced Wright's comments? Seems like Obama fans would have been also been denouncing Wright, rather than defending the Rev.

SJ, that's an easy one-

Obama is denouncing the speech because it is much easier (and imho- he will be more successful in doing so) to distance himself from the out of context inflammatory soundbytes than to correct the record of what Wright is actually saying and why...

Obama has to do this. If after the media makes Wright look like a quack Obama didn't do this he wouldn't stand a chance...

Like Wright said- Obama is a politican...


I personally am not so much defending Wright as I am exposing what the media is doing here. And given what the media *is* doing- If I was Obama I would handle this the same way. I don't think at this point that Obama would want us (his supporters) to try to right Wright.

2 cents,

Set me straight...

GW

 

[Teresa]

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama said he is "outraged" by comments his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made Monday at the National Press Club and is "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 news conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago."


Obama said he is outraged by Wright's remarks that seemed to suggest the U.S. government might be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community and his equation of some American wartime efforts with terrorism....(full story)




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GeoWickey, if Rev Wright is making honorable commentary in his speeches, why has Sen Obama denounced Wright's comments? Seems like Obama fans would have been also been denouncing Wright, rather than defending the Rev.

good point SJ. my guess is that it is a complex situation all the way around. Senator Obama is realistic enough to know that the average American is not going to possibly look deeply enough to have any kind of real understanding of the Reverend or his words. people hardly know the story behind their own family or church history and culture and they surely aren't interested in anyone else's. they are going to judge wright based on what they have seen and heard in the media. period. Obama needs to nip it and move on. it is completely irrelevant. he is doing what he has to do politically. imo.

 

[Geo]

good point SJ. my guess is that it is a complex situation all the way around. Senator Obama is realistic enough to know that the average American is not going to possibly look deeply enough to have any kind of real understanding of the Reverend or his words. people hardly know the story behind their own family or church history and culture and they surely aren't interested in anyone else's. they are going to judge wright based on what they have seen and heard in the media. period. Obama needs to nip it and move on. it is completely irrelevant. he is doing what he has to do politically. imo.

Exactly what I am trying to say (see my post just before yours)- you were just much more eloquent.

 

[Teresa]

Exactly what I am trying to say (see my post just before yours)- you were just much more eloquent.

no, I like yours better.

 

[Smiling JOe]

OMG, you aren't saying that Obama is a politician and that he will put poliTRICKS before his principles, are you? He would denounce the comments of his preacher in order to have a better standing with the voters? I cannot believe it. He's a politician. (shocker!)