From today’s appearance at the National Press Club:
Wright suggested that Obama was insincere in distancing himself from his pastor. “He didn’t distance himself,” Wright announced. “He had to distance himself, because he’s a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American.”
Explaining further, Wright said friends had written to him and said, “We both know that if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.” The minister continued: “Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls.”
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That significantly complicates Obama’s job as he contemplates how to extinguish Wright’s latest incendiary device. Now, he needs to do more than express disagreement with his former pastor’s view; he needs to refute his former pastor’s suggestion that Obama privately agrees with him.
I don’t care which candidate you support, that’s not going to go over well in Indiana.
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