< shaking head very sadly>

How many diaries will be made on the front page about this one topic today?

And seeing his bumbling response doesn't make it any better.

It only helps the GOP with their "obama is anti american" narrative. What else is out there? Probably lots more to come.

The people who defended Bill Clinton now come to tear apart Obama.  Amazing.

And Dean lost it for screaming.  Politics can be a very delicate thing.  People have certainly been ruined for less.  Hey, I am a Hillary supporter and even I feel bad that this minister has become such an issue. For one, it just gives a wider voice to his views which I don't really think is helpful at all.

And the "Dean scream" gave us Kerry in the first place, because the Democratic establishment cowered in fear of the rightwing spin machine.  Spin it however you want, but arguing from a position of fear about what the Republicans may or may not do in the fall is defeatist and sad.  

Well, since the swiftboaters have you guys on their side...

The most offensive thing to me (and I rarely go to church anymore) was the part where the pastor damned America.

It was as if he were damning ME. I served 6 yrs (in the 80's) proudly and lucky CARTER didn't take us into a needless BS war.

re; Trinity Church - I would report ANY church that drew politics into it's teachings as that is a NO NO - they are TAX exempt - seperate - supposedly. The IRS will be looking into this.

Why should they NOT pay taxes if they are preaching politics?

I would have reported them.  Shameful. jmo.

I've been watching this Pastor Wright flap with amusement, and it's becoming clear that the Hillarites are all over it because that's all they've got.  Obama just whuppped ass in a couple more primaries, it's a long, long way to Pennsylvania, Hillary is way behind in pledged delegates and the popular vote, and there is a steady drip, drip, drip of superdelegates going into the Obama column.

The Democratic Party elders are watching, and the very last thing they want is three more months of ugly.  They are going to start pulling the necessary levers to bring an end to the carnage.  And the Clinton campaign will have only themselves to blame for driving the Party into the ditch.

So my sympathies go out to you desperate Hillary folks tonite--  if I were in your shoes I'd be scrapping for every bit of good news as well, even if I had to get on my knees and crawl in the gutter looking for it.

Black or white, we've all encountered racist people in our lives. How do we know they're racist? Because they can't help themselves. They let their hate out slowly, testing the waters, and then perhaps feeling safe from censure, they make public pronouncements, at dinner tables, card games, or from the pulpit. We all have known these people. We ignore them, avoid them, or try to silence them. But we don't consciously try to see them every week for 20 years and call them our spiritual advisers.

http://noratings.blogspot.com/

For anyone who hasn't clicked on the link, the NYT article is from April '07, and it says Obama had already distanced himself from Wright a year ago.

I cannot believes this man remained a member of Obama's campaign until today.

Not sure if everyone caught this part...

"If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me," Mr. Wright said with a shrug. "I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen."

This is Wright talking, not Obama.  But do you suppose Obama really could have believed none of this could become an issue in a Democratic primary?  (If so, I blame Jerome Armstrong for ruining it all.)

doesn't make it any more dead.  Isn't that a 1 year old article?

How is it dead?  He said in countless interviews tonight this guy is like his uncle, a part of him family.  And Michelle Obama's speeches are just a sanitized version of this stuff.  "First time I'm proud, America is so mean, I want to scratch Bill Clinton's eyes out."  How is Obama a unity candidate when his wife, uncle/preacher and his church is so angry?

TL2

That was a favorite expression of Richard Nixon henchman Bob Haldemann.  It stands for too little, too late.

Americans just are not going to judge candidates based on thier selective quotes from thier pastors.  It just reinforces Obama's image as a man on faith and principle.  You guys tried this stuff in South Carolina.  The result was that Bill Clinton was tarneshed forever and Hillary lost by 20 points.  

TL2 (and Haldeman did time in jail).

God damn Wright!

Jerome, you do realize that by writing (at least) two article about this that you're actively contributing to it NOT going away, right?

Spare us the "Hell yeah, hope we still can." BS, because you don't hope anything of the sort.  Absolutely shameful.

This isn't a simple issue that is just going to go away.  The problem with Wright and his sermons runs deeper than whether Obama shares the opinions Wright expresses or Obama's long association with Wright.  Wright's speeches reveal a deep hatred for white America - a hatred that can also be glimpsed in some of Michelle Obama's comments as well as some of the diatribes of some other noted AA leaders.  See http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/ 2008/02/sobu-dick-gregory-goes-off-on-bi ll.html

If Obama and his campaign had refrained from accusing the Clintons or Ferraro of being racists.  If Obama had said that neither they nor their statements were racist (which they weren't), but instead were misconstrued.  If Obama hadn't played the victim card, he could have disassociated himself from this white hatred that he is tied to by virtue of his association with Wright. But Obama didn't do that (and in fact it appears his campaign planted the racist charges).  Once Obama placed himself in the victim box, he inextricably tied himself and his candidacy to this white hatred and words of renunciation alone aren't going to help.

So now we're in a situation where if Obama doesn't win the nomination, the Democrats risk an onslaught of white hatred and if he does win the nomination, he'll lose the GE because people will be too afraid to put someone in the White House who is tied to this white hatred.  

Obama did not take the high road when he accused the Clintons and Ferraro of being racists (and by not denying it he accused them).  The Clintons have long been champions of the AA community.  They are not racists and everyone knows that.  It was wrong of Obama to play to the sensitivities of the AA community in order to garner votes.  Now it looks like he may have doomed America to another four years of Republican rule for that error in judgment.

Look you guys, we can have a President who belongs to a church where the Pastor said some wacky, angry stuff in 2003, or we can elect a woman who voted to give George Bush free rein to attack Iraq and Iran, and then continued to defend her decision even after it was apparent to everyone on earth that the results were catastrophic.  600,000 dead Iraqis, 3000 dead Americans, trillions of dollars of new debt, and you guys have your shorts in a twist because Obama's Pastor said some stuff five years ago?  WTF?

Me, I'm taking the guy with the unruly Pastor as my President.  If you really believe that America is better off with a woman who rolled over twice for GW Bush on something as serious as war, than it's apparent that we have dramatically different values, and there probably isn't any reason to continue the conversation.

The Republicans are extremely good at building story lines. First it was the flag pin and the pledge of allegiance. (Silly stories, right.) Then Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam was added to the mix. (The plot thickens.)  Michelle Obama kindly helped build the story with her "first time in her adult life that she was proud to be an American" line. (Personal tie in) The videos of Rev. Wright are another installment. (Visual proof to add creditability) How many more installments are yet to be added between now and November?

This is not looking good.

Is this the FOX news comment site that I bumped into?

Is this a concerted effort by My DD commenters to disengage their brains?

Look, I'm AA and go to a predominantly black church. I'm not surprised at what Rev. Wright said as it is along the lines that many preachers in black churches say. However, I am not going to say that Obama knew about these comments because I often miss services ( I know, I'm sorry) and then I might hear months later about what my preacher did. I don't always condone what my preacher says but it doesn't mean I have to disavow him.  I think that most church goers can relate to this. I don't think it's going to be a huge problem unless there is video tape of Barack Obama jumping up and down during one of Rev. Wright's infamous sermons.

Nation of Islam was a black separatist church.

Malcolm X was a member.

So was Muhammad Ali.

So that means, by Jerome's Law, that a huge chunk of Americans are rabid racists because they have yet to publicly denounce Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.

And let's not even talk about Kareem Abdul Jabaar ...

Sum U fokes R pathetic. Rilly.

Elsewhere in this thread, there's a debate raging over whether people piling on this are acting like right-wing talk radio hosts or whether that's being silly, that the right-wing hosts will still do what they'll do.

Both miss the point.

The right thing to do is this: this is still the most likely nominee of the Democratic party for President. Clinton supporters, you know this. You may hate it, but you know it's true.

The right thing to do is to make it plain that Obama has done exactly the right thing in denouncing the negative views of Wright; that these views are unacceptable and we as a party reject them, and stand behind one of our candidates' denunciation of them.

This is a time for the Democratic party to take a big step forward in inoculating ourselves against any such things in the future, any such allegations. Forcefully and directly reject the politics of guilt by friendship. Accept that the supporter of a candidate may have skeletons in their past that do not tar that candidate (are you listening, people whose supporters include Ferraro and Spitzer?); that it's possible for even those who are relatively close to be unaware of every remark that their friend has made, especially remarks many years in the past.

Or we can choose to divide up, make political hay from this, damage one nominee, damage the party, and risk a loss in 2008.

I believe Obama can and will rise above this. In the immortal words: there really is no there there. We're debating words that were said many years in the past, words that were said at times it's virtually certain that Barack Obama and his family were not there.

We let ourselves fall into an even more destructive cycle of politics if we fall for this. This is not an issue this election will hang on unless we as a party make it one. This is not a winning issue in a year where the economy, the war, health care, and many other things are major issues.

But if we go nuts and tear each other up, then it's an issue.

That cannot be real.  The DCCC had to pull Albright from fund raisers for months after that whole port deal. He cannot be putting her on the ground as a principal. That could be an old invitation and she has been replaced by a non-monster spouting principal.

The irony of all this is that McCain itself (I know he will let Republicans use it as a talking point but still) is on the record saying this is a BS story and he knows Obama does not believe any of this.

How ironic is it that Jerome A. attacks Obama harder than John McCain.

Hillary Clinton was (and perhaps is) a member of right-wing fundamentalist prayer meetings and also of the shadowy, elitist, fundamentalist and righist "Fellowship." Are you sure she's been vetted?

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id =23858
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/a rchives/2006/12/hillary_clinton_4.html

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A year ago, this problem was in fact foreseen.  By Steve Sailer, Nazi.  He's been researching and writing and dredging this stuff up for the past year.  In fact, there's a pretty disturbing similarity between his stories and some of the diaries around here.

Just a bit ago in fact, Universal accidentally posted a diary with a link to one of the White Supremacist sites this guy writes for... apparently without even noticing who she was linking to. (Oops!)

I think it's time for some of you two wake up to exactly where these attacks are coming from.  Stop celebrating.  These attacks on Obama originated in the far far right wing, amongst quite literally, Neo-Nazi's.  

It's now being dredged up by Fox and the MSM, and worst of all, Democrats and progressives so desperate for an 11th hour scandal to derail Obama and clear the way for Hillary that they're not even paying attention to where this stuff is coming from, or the potential damage it could do to our party in the Fall.

Obama cannot lie, as he did tonight during every interview, and expect no one will call him on it. he said he had no idea that Rev. Wright preached such things as the bombing of Hiroshima and other such hatred about whites and this country. However, that is a lie. As evidence I give you a passage from 'The Audacity of Hope':

Again from Rich Lowry of NRO:

Wright in "Dreams of My Fathers" [Rich Lowry]

Before he ever thought he would have to deploy Clintonesque spin to try to get himself out of a campaign controversy, Barack Obama wrote (an achingly good) memoir. In the book, Obama makes it clear that Wright when he first got to know him was pretty much the same Wright we're getting to know now (the one that Obama is at pains to say is on the verge of retirement). Wright was striking some of the same notes, saying racially venomous things and attacking the bombing of Hiroshima. Note this passage about the first sermon Obama heard from Wright, the source ultimately of the title of Obama's second book and one of the central themes of his presidential campaign:

"Lord, we come first to thank you for what you've already done for us....We come to thank you most of all for Jesus. Lord, we come from different walks of life. Some considered high, and some low...but all on equal ground at the foot of this cross. Lord, thank you! For Jesus, Lord...our burden bearer and heavy load sharer, we thank you...."

The title of Reverend Wright's sermon that morning was "The Audacity of Hope." He began with a passage from the Book of Samuel--the story of Hannah, who, barren and taunted by her rivals, had wept and shaken in prayer before her God. The story reminded him, he said, of a sermon a fellow pastor had preached at a conference some years before, in which the pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.

"The painting depicts a harpist," Reverend Wright explained, "a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountain. Until you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.

"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, **where white folks' greed runs a world in need,** apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!"

And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, **Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpsville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House.** As the sermon unfolded, though, the stories of strife became more prosaic, the pain more immediate. The reverend spoke of the hardship that the congregation would face tomorrow, the pain of those far from the mountaintop, worrying about paying the light bill..."

Instead of pumping up this little non-event of Obama's, you guys ought to devoting some energy to supporting your fellow Democrat by pointing out that in the past couple of hours the MSM has put greater focus on Pastor Wright than they have in weeks of coverage of that 'religious' creep John Hagee who is supporting McCain.

Trying to score some cheap points on Obama doesn't advance the Democratic Party one bit--
Putting the spotlight on a vile beast like Hagee would do us all some good.

it is time we situate michelle obama's lack of patriotism in its proper context.  

There is one aspect of one of Wright's remarks that strikes me as particularly ugly, but I haven't yet seen remarked anywhere.

Wright's comments on 9/11 mirror almost exactly an infamous comment by Malcolm X:

When asked for a comment about the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm said that it was a case of "the chickens coming home to roost." He added that "Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. It only made me glad." This remark prompted a widespread public outcry.

It's hard not to believe that Wright wasn't perfectly aware of that history. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't expect his audience to be aware of it as well.

Like Obama or not, whatever you think of Pastor Wright, you have to give him credit he is fighting back hard and on multiple fronts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7piGy0u4 3c

(He taped the message denouncing Pastor Wright and is asking his supporters to circulate the video through email and so on).

He won't let people swiftboat him.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/ 2008/03/pelosis-delegat.html

Here's Nancy Pelosi with some really bad news for Hillary and her faithful.  

My sympathies to all...

You know what's odd?  The media and the Hillary supporters are demanding the Obama disavow his relationship with his Pastor.  Yet nobody is calling for Hillary to denounce and divorce her husband, who is well known as a serial adulterer.
Why aren't the religious zealots up in arms about the fact that HRC continues to co-habitate with someone who disrespects the sacred institution of marriage?

WTF?

It's clear that you really know very little about Christian theology.

What drives me crazy is how this could have been avoided so easily if Wright was the slightest bit media-savvy. Had he merely controlled his tongue and limited himself to advocating an attack on Iran to encourage massive worldwide Muslim attacks leading to a fulfillment of the biblical prophecy of end-times and bringing about Armageddon and the summary slaughter of every Jew, Muslim, Catholic, and non-believer on the planet while rapturing him and his flock up to heaven, then followed it up by denouncing Catholics as cult members and blaming Hurricane Katrina on gay people, this story wouldn't be metastasizing like this. One five minute milquetoast repudiation by Obama and it would all be behind him.

But what does Wright do instead? He spews this vile "God damn America" bile. What a psycho.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

This situation will only harm Obama's campaign if Democrats make it so.

Sure, the GOP will air this stuff and more. BUT -- if they did, they'd have to answer for Pat Robertson, Bob Jones, etc.

If Dems air this stuff, well, much less having to answer for.

That's why the GOP is LOVING this. They run it, and it's more GOP racist crap. Dems run it, it's now "bipartisan concern" and becomes all the more important in the eyes of the media, and harder to counter.

If the Clinton campaign and its supporters were truly concerned about ending the Bush legacy, they'd act accordingly. Not silencing concern, but handling it in such a way as to give the BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TO THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT, no matter which one it is.

By not doing so, you're backing a different horse.

I'll come back here in 2010, see how everyone is handling the McCain courts dismantling of Roe v. Wade. See how offended we still are about Pastor Wright.

sorry for yelling but this is a sensitive topic for me.  I have gone to the same church for 10 years and I love the place the people and the Pastor.  They know I would leave if there were sermons that offended me.  They know I am pro-gay rights and that I would not be happy if I ever heard a sermon bashing that or any other group of people.

Where the hell does this guy get off going all fire and brimstone against Hillary from the pulpit?  WTF does he know about her life or what it is like to be a WOMAN in this country.  What does he know about what names she has been called?
Why does he only talk about the poor black MAN?  why not women?  Want to see the real face of discrimination, be a black woman.

Consider:

Barack Obama is a very smart person. That should be hard for anyone to dispute, even the most ardent Clinton supporters. One does not get to be magna cum laude at Harvard Law, nor president of the Harvard Law Review, without being very sharp.

His political life has been completely within the era of Whitewater, Ken Starr, numerous investigations during Bush, etc.

He's a veteran of Chicago and Illinois politics, which is very rough-and-tumble; anything that can be used, will be.

Which is more likely:
1) He actually and honestly didn't know about Wright's former statements until he started his campaign in 2007. He started disassociating with Wright immediately. He believes none of the things he's denounced.

2) He's known for years but was so arrogant as to believe that in the google, internet, tabloid era that no one else would ever find out. He started disassociating himself in 2007 only because by that point Wright could draw attention. He still believes none of it. Now that he's been caught, and it's obvious that things will come out, he still arrogantly believes no one can place him at those sermons.

3) He believes it. Everything he's written and says he stands for is a sham. He arrogantly believed no one would find out, and he still thinks no one will find out.

My money's on #1. I find it virtually impossible to believe that someone with any political ambition and any brains wouldn't have disassociated himself from Pastor Wright as quickly as possible. After watching the last 10 years of politics, I don't see how he could possibly believe it wouldn't come out; therefore, I don't think he did believe that.

I think it's exactly as portrayed. Pastor Wright went off on some, for lack of a better word, wingnut tangents now and then. Not very often. At those sermons, Obama was not present. When he found out, he began to distance himself.

Whatever happened to objectivity?

My husband and I discussed this at length. He said we would never vote for a leftist white supremist nor will we vote for a left black supremist. Obama may still be in trouble. I believe FOX News is going through all the video they find to see if Obama was sitting amongst the congregation during any of those awful sermons.

As for Hillary staying with Bill. It is none of our business. Many women of her age group and even slightly older like 70 yrs old like my mother-in-law were taught to stay married no matter what. Since we have no idea if she was taught this growing up we have no right to judge her staying with Bill. As a matter of fact, I am more proud of her for sticking by her man. Obviously it is also ancient history. Let it go you Hillary bashing fruitcakes. Thanks Jerome for posting this. By the way we share a last name in common!

Sorry to say this, but, I think Hillary is  Monster and her avid racist feminist supporters of the Likes  of Ferraro are working around the Clock to Win PA. Obama has the glorious chance to make the best of this Drama of his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he has the chance to turn the table around on his foes and to do this he has to enable the ancient act of winning a war. One hint is to associate himself with Dr. King. Obama should seize the moment, remember  when king was misconstrued,and was plagued by associating himself with others...? these events happened just before his demised and he was guilty by Association,was even called a communist? Obama should paint himself as a Victim of the desperate presidential candidates, his foes, they can not offer any clear solution to the American people's problem, but to engage in dirty politicking especially withing the Democratic party. Character assassinate an innocent man who has been faithful to his country and his Family. Does this ring a bell? Faithful country, people and family?.

If Hillary wins the nomination,the Democrats are at risk of losing their edge and this election has brought out skeleton out of the closet that their are hidden racism withing the party. The GOP has a lot to gain from this.

Clintonites want to make this all about fear. Fear of the 3am call, fear that the Republicans might win if we don't nominate master-politician, time-tested Hillary.  I am thoroughly tired of Hillary and her underhanded ways and the emptiness of her message, and tired of her cynical supporters as well.

Clinton and her supporters are clinging to one argument: Hillary's supposed advantage in electability. What a load of crap from people who were predicting Clinton would have this wrapped up after Super Tuesday. Hillary is losing the nomination despite her supposed electability and alleged experience, and this due in large part to her inept staff and her lack of planning. That shows me what kind of president she'd be. I think she's only proven herself to be divisive, incompetent, and unelectable. And I for one won't vote for her in the general.

MArkos still a hypocrite.

thank yo jerome, the silence elswhere is deafening.

This albatross Barack now will put around the neck of the Democratic Party.

  This Wright guy just adds to the creepy feeling a lot of people already have about Obama.  He is a wolf in sheep's clothing

Jerome, once again thanks for your post.

It's more than obvious that many of the Obama posters belong to the Obama party as opposed to the Democratic Party. Nothing he does will ever be wrong. Any report catching him out will be an evil plot driven by the racist, power-mad Hillary.

Here are some facts, folks.

Obama did not distance himself from Wright because Wright still worked on his campaign until this week. He served on his religious supporters committee. He has a twenty-year relationship with him.

Wright's remarks went beyond the proverbial pale - no, not a race remark; look it up - when he downgraded 9-11 and implied that a woman (Hillary) would not know oppression. Gyrating his hips as he talked about how Bill went "dirty" on them like he did Monica fell in the same category. Though most Americans won't get past the God damn US.

Obama and his supporters have skillfully used the race card throughout this campaign. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s lie that Hillary never cried tears over Katrina. The memo that circulated during the South Carolina campaign directing his supporters to play up Bill's remarks as racist. His latest speech in Mississippi warning voters not to get bamboozled and hoodwinked. The outrageously stupid NYT editorial that found references to Birth of a Nation in Hillary's ad. Most damning he stood silent after KO's hit piece this week.

Now they are getting burned on that third rail.

Contrary to your best efforts, this is still a campaign. You are supposed to bring up problems with your opponent. None of you opened your mouths when he and the MSM went after Hillary on the most outrageous of terms.

So reap what you have sown. Most dems will be just damn happy we found out before the GE.

Jerome---this is the worst kind of snarky blogging for the purposes of perpetuating garbage. I am stunned that this is your front page diary for the day. There was a time when you had something to say rather than parroting other people's talking points. What is going on with you?

This is pure emotion, not thought, and it's an encouragement to judge someone very unfairly.

What we've learned is that Obama has a minister who says some crazy things.  But we also know there is nothing in Obama's career or in his writings to suggest that he shares those views.    

Is it really that hard to believe that he disagrees with his pastor?  We had a crazy pastor (two of them actually) when I was growing up.  My parents and I essentially tuned out as soon as his sermons started.  It didn't stop us going to church, and it didn't stop my parents from volunteering at the church or being married there or having me baptized there.

I can't believe I'm the only one who's had this experience.

Don't be afraid.  We will never have a candidate who is immune from attack.  It is good that this is coming up now.  Once the press gets its fill of this story they won't make such a big deal about it when the general public starts paying attention to the race in September.  

Also, the R's are going to swiftboat Obama no matter what happens.  The only thing we can control is our response to such attacks.  I think Obama's letter at HuffPo is an excellent response.  

In the land of the Obama believers he can do no wrong.  In fact, according to some of these posts, its all Hillary's fault.  They jumped all over Hillary over Ferraro's comments, which were mild by comparison, blaming Hillary for them, painting with a broad hate filled brush, but just let something come out now against the ONE where it looks as if this pastor is anti-white and anti-America and definitely full of hate filled speech against Hillary Clinton in particular, trying to say that Obama knows the plight of being a poor black man in a white controlled world, which is so untrue because Obama was not in fact raised on the streets of Chicago but in a mixed privileged home with a private school, a Harvard education and living in a mansion while his constituents lived in slums.  And yet in Obamaland its Hillary's fault.  The Hillary haters/Obama lovers are so filled with this kind of thing they don't even see what they themselves are doing.  It is wrong to blame any of this on Hillary.  The blame rests squarely on Obama's shoulders, he is the one who did not get rid of Wright last year when he should have, and the questions is why?  Not to somehow try to twist even this into someway somehow being her fault.  To even defend the things Wright has said shows the complete blindness the Obama supporters have to the reality of the American electorate.  Not everyone is so in love with Obama, in fact half of the democratic party has not so far been so enraptured with Obama.  You cannot defend the indefensible and expect to remain credible.  Blaming Clinton for this is really silly and just seems to be more of the coolaid drinking spell you Obama supporters are under.  Can you not see that those who have not yet climbed onto Obama's bandwagon can and probably will use this kind of thing to not get on board?  It is not Hillary's fault that Obama has this man as his spiritual adviser and mentor, it is Obama's.

Wright has supplied the Republican Swift Boaters with the ammunition they need to turn candidate Obama into Malcolm X by November.  Thanks to both Wright and Obama for this great gift.

This whole Wright thing is a rightwing non-story, and it makes me sick when "liberals" fan the flames of this kind of crap to prop up their flawed and unloved DLC candidate, Hillary Clinton.

But but but I thought Obama did not know about all of his pastor's comments until this week.