Perhaps this is what he should have done in Philadelphia a month ago:
(CNN) — In his harshest criticism yet of his former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama said he was “outraged” by Wright’s comments at the National Press Club Monday, and “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 North Carolina press conference Tuesday. “The person I saw yesterday is not the person I met 20 years ago.”
Obama said he was 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. And he seemed to signal a complete break with his former minister.
“What particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing,” said Obama, who added that Wright had shown “little regard for me” and seemed more concerned with “taking center stage.”
We all knew this was coming, though I wasn’t expecting it quite this soon. We’ll see how this plays out, I guess.
[...] Write Side of My Brain and here.College Republican Federation of VirginiaBelow the Beltway here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (WHEW!!!)The Contemporary Conservative here, here, [...]
[...] person. Only a few short weeks ago, after Wright made another bizarre public appearance, Obama finally denounced Wright, but said nothing about the church Wright ran for more than two decades. Then, finally, when we [...]