save your diary (as you have already done) and then click the edit button.  cut and paste your url then, and click preview.  if you see your video, it worked.  click save or update.

btw, i don't agree with you that the videos that i've seen are damaging, but that's how you embed video...

the law doest apply to candidates speaking, it applies to the leadership of the party endorsing a candidate, I dont think its there yet, since the law must be hard to enforce short of "I Endorse ___"

No, you don't understand the law. Candidates can speak at church as long as the other candidates are invited as well. Until we have evidence that Hillary was also invited to speak, then they may well be in violation of the law.

Wright doesn't speak for me and he does not speak for Obama. He is a minster speaking at a church.

And, yes,I do think his use of this kind of rhetoric during a campaign season has a real potential to hurt a man he clearly supports and also to be fundamentally misunderstood.

I'm not going to "denounce" Wright as you wish, but I am an Obama supporter stating those views.

But what I'd like to share is that I grew up in a multi-racial community, my neighbors went to African-American Churches and, though I'm white and I'm Catholic, I would visit sometimes. 99% of the preaching was about Jesus and Holy scripture. That gets lost in these selected, edited, inflammatory video clips, and that's a shame.

In my experience, African American Christian Churches talk about Jesus from the point of view of the African American experience of history. That's how it has been for almost 400 years.

I studied African American history with Eric Foner at Columbia University. He was quite clear. The role of the African American Church during slavery and segregation was profound. It was the only safe place, the only safe harbor, for Blacks to talk and share fellowship as African Americans. That tradition, of speech, of music, of rhetoric is a part of all of our heritage as Americans. And it's an old part. It goes way back.

There's nothing "shocking" about a Black preacher talking about racism in a perdominantly African American church unless you choose to make it shocking. The more you watch that video, in fact, the less shocking that video gets. Though there are still parts I disagree with and find hurtful.

Personally, when someone comes to me and tries to take the words of a pastor talking in a sermon and make them out to be damning of a candidate and a campaign. I have to step back a bit.

We could do the exact same thing with so many preachers and religions. To sow fear. To foment resentment. People did this to Mitt Romeny on his Mormonism. People did this to JFK and Al Smith on their Catholicism. People routinely use this kind of bigotry against Jews and Muslims. Fact is, this nation finds it easy to accept Episcopalian or Presbyterian faith in a president because our presidents have often professed those views. But would YouTube clips of the most edited and extreme moments of certain Methodist preachers or Baptist preachers be "comfortable" for everyone in the U.S.A.? No, of course not. That's why we have freedom of religion.

What I'm saying is that preachers saying things that would not come off well on YouTube should not be a surprising thing given our American Tradition. Most pastors are going to be saying things that are matters of faith and don't work well in our public political discourse.

Yes, I am not a fan of Rev. Wright's rhetoric because I think, as it comes off in these clips, it has the danger of conveying a message directly opposite to that of the Obama campaign and how Obama's book...the Audacity of Hope...characterized Barack and Michelle's deep and abiding faith in Jesus Christ. It also is a horrible way for people to be introduced to Rev. Wright.

But, yes, Barack Obama is African American and a Christian. He and his wife attend a predominantly African American church where preachers do talk about Jesus in the context of racism and African American identity and history. If you make YouTube clips of some of those sermons there will be things that some people will find uncomfortable or even divisive. And perhaps rightly so.

I think we should judge a candidate in America, however, by what they say in public and what they do.

Barack Obama's overarching message has been about what we can do when we come together to work on the problems that face us as Americans, about what brings us together.

That's why I support and continue to support him, even as I state that I'm not a fan of the tone of this rhetoric from Rev. Wright.

I'm a militant Obama supporter and I think Jeremiah Wright is an asshole. I hope Obama publicly distances himself from Wright - even more than he has up to now. I'm sure that Jeremiah Wright is a much more complicated and compelling figure than the videos suggest. If you read Obama's book you can see Wright as much more inspirational than bigoted. But the face of Wright is the bigotry and Obama has to cut him off publicly.  

Are you talking about Hillary Clinton who used officers as waiters on Air Force One and at socials?

Drive down any highway in the South and you'll see billboards saying "God damns America" or "God does not bless America." Why? Because of legal abortion. Jeremiah Wright is hardly the first pastor to go that route. And his 9/11 remarks are almost identical to Falwell's.