WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama seemed to suggest in an interview aired Friday that his former pastor has acknowledged that his controversial remarks were inappropriate and hurtful, although there are no public accounts of the minister having done so.
Obama discussed his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on ABC’s “The View,” which was taped Thursday and aired Friday.
“Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church,” Obama said.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the senator’s remarks did not imply that Wright has expressed misgivings about his statements.
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What I see here is Barack Hussein Obama making an attempt to cover his ass as he finds out that many Americans, from both sides of the aisle, just aren’t buying into the ‘contrite‘ thing concerning his racist preacher, and somehow, I seem to detect the strong fragrance of bullshit from the Obama camp as it permeates the blogosphere.
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LOVED your BS meter on that story ….ROFL.
He is covering his butt but everyone sees through it.
His pastor is not a man of god,
His pastor is a racist,
His pastor is a bigot and a hatemonger,
And everyone sees Obama as weak and ineffectual in his denouncing the pastor.
Heck I heard that Oprah attended the same church and left if after the blistering comments made by the pastor.
But let Barack and Michelle keep on defending him and their racist/slanted views…we can see thru it.
‘Nuff said
Sage
If Obama keeps talking, your BS meter will explode….
In some areas, heads are already exploding…
I don’t know how this is going to over but here it goes.
First off, I don’t support Obama or his Black AssHat of a pastor and I don’t agree with the pastor words.
What I would like to know is where is the outrage over the Catholic Church?
The leadership of this Evil Religion, including the Butt-Romping, C**k-Sucking Pope tried to hide the offences of their members who Sexually Abused the children in the church, time after time, year after year.
Did members walk out? Never to come back. NO, they didn’t.
Actions speak louder than words.
Obama’s pastor spoke some words, the Catholics dropped their pants and forced children into unbelievable sexual acts, which is worse?
I do not defend the WORDS of Obam’s pastor, I’m just asking.
Ranando, you won’t catch any BS from ME over that comment…
And I DO know some folks that walked away, never to return, I am one of them… Not ALL folks that were FORCED to attend the Catholic church were idolaters and hypocrites, but the ones that have STAYED in the RCC are…
I am sorry, but I disagree with all those who are up in arms about Pastor Wright. The reverend has not said anything that is different from what many African Americans say to one another in barbershops, beauty salons and over coffee. If this surprises you, then, don’t take this the wrong way, but you really haven’t been listening closely to the Black community.
I don’t agree with the pastor’s comments about the U.S. having a hand in the 9-11 attacks, but I am not going to condemn his other comments. The U.S. IS a major drug importer. And this country remains racist. Black people stiff suffer discrimination on the job, in financing and even in healthcare. Numerous studies and news stories have borne this out. You can’t expect Black people to ignore this. I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this, pointing to Denzel, Halle, P Diddy and Jay-Z as a proof of a color-blind society. But those are celebrities. And that is not the reality of Black America.
Most people who are fulminating against Pastor Wright claim the man hates America. Yeah, right. How do you explain that after he attended Virginia Union University, an historically black school in Richmond, he then joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the 2nd Marine Division with the rank of private first class? He later transferred to the U.S. Navy and entered the Corpsman School at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1963. What man who hates America does that?
Wright was trained as cardiopulmonary technician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and graduated as salutatorian in 1967. Wright then enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s degree in English in 1969. You may not like Pastor Wright, but don’t try to take away his freeness of speech. If you do that, you make a mockery of the claims of Conservatives everywhere: That this country is a bastion of freedom. True freedom includes the freedom to disagree.
I don’t know if there is a thread on here about how Barack Obama should have left Wright’ church. So I’ll respond to those who think the Senator should have.
Why is an all-Black church racist? Because that would mean an all-White church is the same. What about an all-Chinese congregation? Is that racist? The latter it simply a matter of linguistics and the all-Black and all-White churches are likely a result of geography and demographics.
Pastor Wright’s United Church of Christ is a member of a longstanding Christian denomination with many ethnicities and lifestyles included. So, why should Obama have left?
Did Catholics leave their church when priests horribly violated young boys and girls? Some did. But most did not. Did Mormons leave their church when Blacks weren’t considered human? No, Mormons did not. You notice Mitch Romney never left. But he claimed he pulled over to the side of the road and cried when the Mormons decided that whoops, African-Americans were human, after all. How come nobody has asked Romney why he remained loyal to the folks who run Salt Lake City?â€
Has John McCain given up associating with Rev. John Hagee who claimed Hurricane Katrina was God’s judgment on New Orleans because gays and lesbians lived there? Hagee has made several anti-Catholic comments and once likened adherents of The Vactican to whores. But that is okay?
Pastor Wright may have said some things that were stupid. Goodness knows, Rev. Pat Robertson sure has. But that does mean that all of their good works have to be dismissed? Heck no. The final judgment isn’t ours anyway. Leave them to God. He’ll decide.
Jude, what would you call it if you took Wrights sermon, had Pat Robertson preach it, and replace every racial reference with the word BLACK??
What would you say if Pat Robertson got up on the pulpit and screamed “God DAMN BLACK America”??
Don’t tell me that the black community wouldn’t be up in arms, I know you to be a good and decent guy, don’t make me think you’re a hypocrite, PLEASE…