The Obama campaign is continuing it’s efforts to disassociate the candidate from his controversial former pastor:
CHICAGO, March 14 — A campaign spokesman said Friday night that the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, is no longer affiliated with Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential race after coming under fresh scrutiny for controversial comments that the Illinois Democrat called “inflammatory and appalling.”
And yet there is something not quite right about Obama’s repudiation, particularly this part:
The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments
The idea that Obama and his family would be part of this church for twenty years and yet the first time that he heard of Wright’s controversial views was when he began his Presidential Campaign just doesn’t make sense.
Was Obama just conveniently absent from the pews on the days Wright made those type of remarks ?
March 16th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
More here: http://acropolisreview.com/2008/03/barack-obama-condemns-reverend-jeremiah.html
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I have a question for all of you. If barack Obama truly disagreed with Rev. Jeremiah wright’s extreme views, do you think he would let his two daughters to grow up in this Trinity Church and being influenced by that kind message?