Unless Barack uses the strongest language possible to distance himself from this nut, Barack will never be the nominee of the Democratic party let alone elected President.

In fact, and I say this with a very heavy heart, it may now be too late for Barack. The Reverend and this speech today could very well be the breaking point. Watch the polls plummet.

A sorry, sorry day for all of us, and I am a WASP.

I have it on good authority that radicals within the powerful rightwing Jewish Lobby including [AIPAC] American Israel Public Affairs Committee are vexed, frustrated and displeased with Barack Obama's refusal to accept special interest money and consequentially seek his crucifixion. The concern is that the Senator's policy prevents them from exerting influence or extracting favor from his administration should he become the next President in these United States of America. In an effort to allay their fears, Senator Obama has offered his assurance that if elected, an Obama administration would not be a foe- yet this does not seem to halt their resistance to his candidacy. Reportedly, Senator Clinton's campaign saw an opening to exploit the Jewish community's apprehension and began stoking the anti-Obama fire behind the scene.

In collaboration with the Clintons, they [the Jewish Lobby] dispatched a number of "candidacy assassinators" including former Clinton special counsel, Lanny Davis, Florida congress woman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, California congress man, Brad Sherman, CNN news anchor, Wolf Blitzer [vis-a-vis Lou Dobbs], Independent Senator, Joseph Lieberman, the far right crippled Washington Post Journalist, Charles Krauthammer and others to torpedo Obama's nomination bid. The above mentioned Jews were mandated to fan the flames of hateful passion against the Illinois Senator using demagoguery and nefarious spin of the Reverend Wright issue to toxify the American voters. Their mission is to convince the public that Obama would be unelectable in November due to his optics and alleged third party association to Rev. Farrakhan. This while simultaneously promoting Hillary as the only friend of Israel. It is also reliably reported that Democratic Jews are being counseled to vote for John McCain as a penultimate option should Senator Clinton not get the nomination.

Take a look at the YouTube video where Rachel Maddow from Air America recently discussed the topic on her show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdYzGzvXO0U

African American Leaders dub the Jewish and Clinton's anti Obama campaign, "mean spirited" but so far have opted to remain restrainedly tentative. They however suggest hypocrisy when Governor Rendell [who happens to be a Jew] is able to extol the virtues of Minister Farrakhan by praising his "goodness" and still remains an embraced surrogate of Senator Clinton. Elected Democrats have also taken note and are increasingly frustrated with the Clinton's controversial tactics of infusing racial divide into the electoral process. Appalling is how they describe her alliance to hawkish groups including John McCain to annihilate a democratic colleague and worry that it provides damaging ammunition to their nemesis [the republicans] that could derail Obama's candidacy should he become the nominee. Some are even calling her conduct treacherous and privately accuse her of deliberately trying to sabotage the Democratic Party because of the unlikely odds of her fairly winning the nomination. Mrs. Clinton has also been criticized for taken the low road by exploiting the gender card to foster disharmony amongst the sexes. But who is willing to bell the Cat? After-all, the Clinton's wield influential power within the party and super delegates worry about political reprisals should they offer public criticism.

Additionally, the Jewish Lobby has tremendous financial reach and political clout. For decades they have been able to effectively manipulate the Holocaust to keep politicians beholden to their agenda. Those who resist or oppose are targeted with the anti-Semitic or Bigoted label [as evidenced by President Carter] in order to gain compliance. Some feel they run the risk of overplaying their hands in this instance though. Their chief Obama "Hit-Man", Lanny Davis is causing tremendous concern at the great lengths he goes to decapitate the Illinois Senator's chances of ever ascending to the Presidency and his conduct is described as vilely snake-like. The argument is that public opinion can boomerang if blacks are able to expose hypocrisy in what many now view to be a Jewish lynching of Senator Obama. Some posit that Jews have a historical pension for betraying visionary men who promise sweeping changes to the status quo. Coincidentally, it was they [Biblical Jews] who betrayed Jesus to the Romans so he could be crucified.

What we see we do. What we do we become.
No amount of education will erase cultural inculcations. Wright knows this through experience. His association with Obama should have been broken many years ago. Do we blame the pastor or do we blame the congregate. Neither, we abandon the lost cause.

Obama is not going to gain from this. I will vote for him anyway, because I think he is what we need to move forward, but this nut Wright should keep his mouth shut. It's as if he wants Obama to lose. It reminds me of the trial of the Turk who took a shot at Pope John Paul in Rome in 1980. While he was in prison the right-wing media went wild with their theories that this act had been done by the Turk at the behest of the Bulgarians. When he was finally able to speak for himself, the first day of his trial, her stood, and intoned, "I am Jesus Christ." And then everyone knew he was a complete nutter.
Same with Wright. He should have left well enough alone.

it sure looks to me like the Republicans must be the ones making sure that the press' microphones and cameras keep snapping back to this lunatic. This fringe nut is clearly the Republicans' strongest weapon.

It's so sad that American national politics have degenerated so badly and that Americans' critical thought skills seem to be following the same trend.

The picture the WAPO ran this morning of Rev. Wright laughing with KWAME KILPATRICK says it all, dosen't it??

Only desperate fools that also have ZERO CREDIBILITY would align themselves with this dumb shytt. I also happen to think it is hillarious how so many politicians happen to "FIND GOD" just after they have been publically BUSTED for major indiscretions.

Kwame, hang it up already. You look so foolish trying to blame your choices on everything but your own foolish decisions.

We have enough problems as a nation without this idiot opening his yapper, and trashing Obama's "middle of the road image" even more!!

Obama-- you can't surround yourself with people like this, you will scare off the white people in droves!!

Yea,

The " anti-American " Wright spent six years in the service.Cheney had other priorities.But we know who the mainstream media will attack as being unpatriotic.

What about an apology for slavery ? American politicians are always apoligizing for the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany committed that crime.

Reverend Wright's latest comments have alienated more white voters and inflicted more damage to Barack Obama's candidacy.

But that's nothing compared to Obama's response about being too busy to debate Senator Clinton.

Too busy?

I am afraid he's no more believable than his mentor, the Reverend Wright.

Clinton has been waiting for a melt down of Obama campaign, and it appears to be happening. Unbelievable, although I don't support Obama, I don't believe he holds the same beliefs as this nut-case of a minister. Unfortunately, his association with his minister will be extremely difficult to explain away...especially a second time. This will sink Obama's chances as he heads into NC and IN.

Although some of the so-called 'mainstream America' may not have known anything about Dr. Wright before these past few weeks, he has been and remains a very highly-regarded preacher within what we refer to as the Black Church. He is the type of minister that would have his speaking schedule booked several years out, but it is only now that his speeches are covered by CNN and other media outlets. His "return" to the forefront is not to reignite controversy - it is simply a man going on with his life. The idea that he should have kept quiet and hidden under a rock until November is completely ridiculous and inhumane.

Dana Millbank is full of crap.

Wright is "right on."

I would advise anyone that is interested in this speech to view the speech themselves and draw your own conclusion.

"Tell a lie(s) enough times, people begin to believe them."

Dana Milbank, you look as retarded as your article reads.

I heard the comments of Reverend Wright and I happen to agree with them. Not from the perspective of black and white, the fuel of which you contend that he is pouring on the fire, when, in fact, it is articles (opinions) like yours, but from the perspective of a world operating in a manner contrary to the instructions of Christ.

Reverend right is a minister, dummy. I don't know what church you go to, but America has as a birth defect called "slavery". Many of the founding fathers, to include George Washington, were slave owners. That would make them mercenaries of human suffering along with the noble titles that this nation gives them. Is it racist or unamerican to state facts?

Rev. Wright is not Barrack Obama. And anyone, including whites, of which many of his contregants were white, who has heard the man in context, understand that he is a soldier for Jesus Christ not for corporate or political favor.

However, no matter how I feel about him, positive or negative, I am not so silly to think that what he preaches and how he thinks is how the thousands of church members think. That is absurd.

Perhaps if you had paid more attention to what he said, as opposed to tallying down a who's who in the audience, you may have actually GOTTEN the message. Of course, we all know you could have written this piece without hearing a word from the Reverend.

The more you try to sideline American thought with this Non-story, the more I support and encourage others to support Sen. Barrack Obama.

Keep up the good work.

Were you a "Rove" in a not too distant past life?

Why is everyone so scared of this guy?

*** Attention African-American Voters ***
The Democratic party will take the nomination away from Obama!
Come back to Lincoln's party; the party of Colin Powell and Condi Rice. No Black person can ever rise to the top ranks within the Demcratic Party, remember that.
Support John McCain.
McCain '08

"Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club."

i would to know whether mr. obama has handcuffed himself to mr. wright. if that has been reported somewhere, i missed it. nowhere have i seen where mr. obama either adopted or approved mr. wright's loonier pronouncments. in fact, he has made it emphatically clear that he disagrees with them. what the hell is he supposed to do? its about time the "serious" press realized that these are two very different people. it will not be mr. wright who shows up on the ballot as the democratic candidate anymore than it will be the larded mr. hagee who stands in for mccain. my perception of mr. obama is little changed by this story. i wish i could say the say about my perception of the mainstream press.

Wright is doing Obama no favor by attacking the liberal friendly media. They are the ones who usually do the democrats' racist accusations and character assassination work. Amazing to me that this racist turned on his own supporters, instead of just keeping his big mouth shut.

swanieaz.....What election are you watching? Mccain didn't distance himself enough with that White pastor who made those stupid remarks...It's just really sad that this country that I love will be STUPID ENOUGH NOT TO VOTE FOR BARRACK BECAUSE OF WHAT HIS PASTOR SAY'S!!!!! UTTERLY RETARDED AND IF YOU VOTE AGAINST BECAUSE OF THIS, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE KIDS EVER!!! ENOUGH STUPIDITY RUNNING AROUND THIS COUNTRY!

I expected mindless drivel from the right wing wackos posting here, but what is sad are the Clintonistas who keep drumming up the Wright issue. If any of them had enough capacity for independent thought and had listened to his entire speech, they would have discovered that Rev. Wright was also speaking out against the oppression of women in this country. Oh well, they resemble the Bushies more each day.

I was impressed with Rev. Wright's interview with Bill Moyers on Friday night. But hearing his speeches on Saturday and today, I am conficted once again. He should have stopped after Bill Moyers. That interview actually made him look good and misunderstood, but this doesn't. These latest remarks make him look like a greedy opportunist capitalizing on a parishioner's success for his own gain. Shame on him. He's hurting Barack in a very selfish fashion.

After all of these years of reading your column and seeing you on Keith Olberman's show, I thought you had some sense and integrity. I'm just wondering what you are basing your opinions on. Did you see the same speech or news conference that we did? Did you, as often journalists do, come there with preconceived story lines that you just don't want to change? Why are you doing this to Rev. Wright, Barack Obama and black people across this country and around this world, to say nothing of keeping a lot of white people ignorant. I've been reading a lot of blogs lately and I can tell you, this is still a tremendously racially divided nation and a lot of people just do not want us ever to be united and are not willing to help us form a more perfect union. Too bad. So Sad.

swanieaz said....."UTTERLY RETARDED AND IF YOU VOTE AGAINST BECAUSE OF THIS, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE KIDS EVER!!! ENOUGH STUPIDITY RUNNING AROUND THIS COUNTRY!"

Are you kidding me? Who's sounding retarded now? Obviously you don't know enough about elections or how people form opinions fairly or unfairly. I for one think Wright is a nut case, and I don't think it's fair for Obama. However, Obama didn't distance himself from him when he had a chance...he waited until a tape of terrible sound bites came up. He knew all along about this controversy yet he choose to take a risk. Your rage sounds very similar to Mr. Wright's...disgusting.

If Obama loses he still needs the church to win his Sneate seat in Illonois. Obama is not stupid, he has to play it out so he can have his cake a and eat it too. Yum!

I watched the Rev. The description of this article is far from the truth. He did not praise Farakhan. In fact he gave the example of the media trying to get Mandela to throw Castro under the bus during an interview and said "you don't tell me who to hate." The description in this article is far from the truth.

I don't intend to vote for Obama, ever. I don't vote for liberals who want to raise taxes, don't want to engage our enemies, and think abortion is a cool thing.

That said, this article and the way Wright has been used is sick.

The blacks incessantly complain about the past slavery issue in the U.S. but they continue their path.....slaves to the U.S. government "programs".
One of their own just ensured Obamas loss.
Go figure.

Surely Wright realizes that he's becoming the straw that will break Obama's political back? Maybe Obama isn't black enough for him?

My mistake...I meant to write "tj" said not "swanieaz" said.

This article is a disgrace. Please view the speech and make up your own mind.
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/rev_wright_stands_his_ground.html

If Obama loses it won't be because of Wright. It will be because of America's fear of African Americans. Wright is the cloak they are using to hide their fear and distrust of African Americans. America has never atoned for its sins against African American. So African Americans will never be fully trusted by many.

It's like if you steal from a man, beat him and burn his house. And later, you declare a truce, but you never apologize or reimburse that man for his loss. And then you're told that man is to be your house guest. You would never trust him because in your heart you know you wronged him and never atoned. Your sin has become your great fear. This is the relationship that exists between whites and blacks in this country. Wright is causing us to take a hard look at the things we don't talk about. If Obama loses it's not because of Wright. It's because of racism that was always here but not talked about.

Looks like Obama's "chicken's are coming home to roost!"

Rev. Wright does not speak for all black churches or for the entirety of the African American community, nor does he speak for anything that is constructive or positive -- his divisive tactics are not the way to move the debate forward in this country.

Senator Obama is inextricably linked with this man, by his own words and of his own free will. To protect this Reverend, he has thrown everyone else under the bus. That is not the way a President is supposed to act (our current disaster George Bush notwithstanding). His candidacy is over.

I have over the past had and continue to have major problems with Dana Milbank who basically has been a PR spokesperson for Barack Obama during the entire campaign.

So the fact that this column is written under his name is interesting.

I heard the press club session this morning and was amazed at what the Rev. Wright said. It is his words that I focused on this morning and in this column. Not any interpretation that Dana Milbank would put on them. Wrights words alone are enough to make anyone question how Barack Obama could sit in that church for 20 years listening to these sermons and not comment on them before he had to to save his political hide.

I don't acribe these words to Barack Obama-what I do question is his major lapse in judgement not to speak out about them before he was forced to and made his great speech in Philadelphia. But the Rev. Wright said today what I said right after that speech. It was a political speech and Obama said what he thought he had to say as a politician. He even as many in the African American community said "threw his grandmother under the bus" to make his point.

But that was a political speech and not a moral one. Had Barack Obama taken on race when he began his campaign he could have in some way innoculated himself from Wright and taken the moral high ground. I have to believe that either he didn't want to or failed to understand how Wright would sound to anyone not steeped in Black preaching.

Barack Obama is a neophyte politician and he is proving it every day. His criticism of Hillary Clinton and those supporters of his who criticize her for being scripted or sounding that way, should look at their own candidate today and wish he understood the true impact of his words and the words of his pastor.

I would trust Hillary Clinton more at an international summit just because even though she may not be quite as eloquent a speaker as Barack Obama she fully understands that every word a President utters is going to mean something around the world.

I am a Democrat and I think John McCain is unacceptable as President so I would even vote for Barack Obama over him. But as Americans are beginning to understand - and is coming out in the AP-Ipsos poll today- Clinton beats McCain by nearly 10% and Obama is tied with him. Take away the Bradley effect which even his supporters like Doug Wilder have warned him about and Obama loses to McCain.

Reverend Wright makes it all the more important that Democrats head what Steny Hoyer said recently, in a statment taken from the Civil Rights Movement, "Keep Your Eyes On the Prize", and the prize for Democrats is the White House.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could both make great Presidents, but Hillary Clinton has the better chance to win the prize.

lots of name-calling going on here, but I don't see anybody refuting the charges that Wright makes. could be that most of us don't like hearing the truth about our country and its often sad history.

Sigh. Again Rev. Wright's comments have been chopped into soundbites for use by the media. As soon as he was finished speaking last night, every right-wing pundit in America was still trashing him for the YouTube clips, as opposed to discussing what he had just said not 10 minutes before. And now Dana is ignoring the speech from last night and taking the hard line on the discussion this morning. Maybe Wright should have just kept to himself, but then again, he's not running for office and has a reputation to defend.

Let's face it - a load of white people were offended because of 30 seconds worth of a very long, energetic sermon regarding the somewhat predictible results of America's foreign policy and heavy-handed attitude toward the Middle East. He wasn't saying we deserved 9/11, but that it wasn't completely unexpected given the circumstances.

Is there an element of racism involved too? Sure there is. We're so dammned separatist in our daily lives that black preaching comes as a shock to whites, who are used to more sedate services. The couple of times I went to a black church as a kid were rather eye-opening - loud, raucous, exciting, energizing preaching and singing, and like nothing I'd ever experienced before. As Wright said - it's not better or worse, just different. And most Americans just don't like different. So, the conservative nuts and the closet racists will slap Obama with the "different is scary" label and people will buy it.

Sad. But he has my vote here in IN on May 6.

Does anyone realize that he is 50% white?

The Reverend Wright is making a case against Obama. I think he can overcome it but the preacher ought to have the decency to shut up. Is he so wounded about Obama's distancing of him that he wants to hit back? Whatever happened to any trace of pride in Obama's success? It's personal now the way Bill Clinton's reaction to attacks on his wife are personal attacks on HIM, not her. This is nasty and feeds the Republicans the way Hillary is feeding them. She is like the character in LeRoi Jones's "Dutchman" and he is starting to behave like the other character.

Wright should shut up.

Where's the 24 hour news cycle? Wright is OLD NEWS! That this story is a lead article is absolute bunk - no new information in a time that we have plenty to be considering. Just as the Clinton legacies are being buzzed about, I suggest editors should look to their own navels.

Bring something more important to your reader's attention.

"If Obama loses it won't be because of Wright." Whoever wrote this....what a pile of crap! There have been many groups who have been disenfranchised, beat down, treated with disrespect, left in the gutter...yet many of those individuls have not wallowed in self pitty. The current white Americans owe the current black Americans, nothing absolutely nothing because of slavery. No one on this discussion group was born in slavery nor are there any past slave owners. The only thing owed by both races is respect of each other.

I agree Reverend Wright is angry with Obama and acting out in the ultimate passive-aggressive way. By giving these speeches he can harm a man who condemned his statements, all the while pretending it is others, certainly not innocent old Reverend Wright, who have done the damage to Obama. (That being said, I still have not heard ANYTHING as bad as the statements by Pastor Hagee, whose endorsement John McCain actively sought and has continued to embrace despite the comments.)

So let's not elect Reverend Wright as president. In fact, let's take his spotlight away. He's lost the interest of novelty and shock value and he's just tiresome at this point.

If anyone's interested in Barack Obama's opinions, since I believe he is the actual political candidate, a newly discovered interview from the mid-1990s is available in audio via Huffington Post. Well worth a listen.

My main response to all this has been to donate again to Barack Obama's campaign. I encourage anyone else to do so who agrees with me. He is a good man who will be the best president for our country, he has the best ideas for involving citizens in the process, and he has a proven record of bringing people together at the Harvard Law Review, in Chicago's inner-city Southside community, through his books, in the Illinois legislature, in the Senate, and in his campaign. This too shall pass.

Mr. Wright thinks America hasn't apologized for racism? The blood of 360,000 union soldiers cries out from the ground, begging for Mr. Wright's ear to hear otherwise.

I have had it with the Obama-Wright association. I can't believe I am saying this, but I am switching to Hillary.

I think Dana and quite a few others, judging from the comments I've just read, missed the point completely. Wright has reignited something, yes, but not what you folks are picking up on. What Wright is reigniting is the challenge that America silenced when it killed Dr. King: to rise above the racism that has blighted our national conscience since the beginnings of our experiment in democracy.

This country needs to rid itself of that blight once and for all and it hasn't done it. The time is now.

I've said this for weeks -- months -- and I'm still saying it (below). Clinton's been saying this for months:

The Democrats are being set up for a disaster this Fall because the press hasn't been vetting Obama. This Rev. Wright isn't the only problem in Obama's background, just one that broke open by itself from behind the wall of media denial and biased coverage of the Dems' primaries. The only reason it broke back open now is because Wright won't shut up.

The rest of the vetting will take place if Obama is nominated. Then the vetting will become a bloodletting.

I am glad that the internet lets you see unedited deliveries of speaches. I listened to the same speach you did at the National Press Club, yet your summary was clearly not objective, nor was it nuanced or complete. Where is your journalistic integrity. This is a good example of writing for journalism students to study.

Two things for sure--

1) This is still a very racist country.

2) If the "super" delegates take the vote away from the people, the Democrats will be destroyed forever.

To Proud Republican: Try keeping on topic. Your anti-Semitic rant reveals what an ignoramus you are. I just saw your same rant on another WaPo page, so obviously you are incapable of any other coherent independent thought. You may think of yourself as a Christian, but you surely are not.

Boo hoo! I feel like a victim of racism! I'm going to cry now because the words of some guy I've never heard of before and don't care about really hurt my precious feelings. I'm going to be a white crybaby now and go and vote for a really really old man who looks like he'll drop any minute now and will just continue failed policy and wears too much make up to hide his oldness but it doesn't really work. And I'll do it just to prove a point!! Take that progress!

Milbank thinks an apology for slavery isn't warranted? Interesting. He should talk more about that.

Also, it was mighty nice of Dana to ignore Wright's Cheney comments. Mighty white of him, you might say.

Dana Milbank is a SUPER IDIOT! REV WRIGHT HAS IT RIGHT!!! YOU PEOPLE SICKEN ME, YOU DON'T DO A DAMN THING ABOUT BUSH AND HIS CRONIES BUT YOU DECRY OBAMA FOR SOMETHING SOMEONE ELSE SAID? WHAT A RETARD THAT DOES THAT! WHITE AMERICA ISN'T READY FOR TRUTH, YOU JUST WANT ALL THAT SLAVERY AND RACE RIOTS TO GO AWAY BECAUSE THATS WHAT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELVES. OBAMA WILL WIN, ALL OF YOU PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO VOTE 4 SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE OF WHAT REV WRIGHT SAID WILL UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE THE BIGOTS AND WE HAVE NO TIME FOR YOU ANYMORE IN THE COUNTRY. GOOD BYE AND GOOD RIDENCE!

It's Obama's fault, too. He's donated tens of thousands of dollars to this hate-monger's mission and Church for years, helping spread the poison and prop this guy up. How could he not know what Wright was doing?

Wright published the Hamas Terrorist Manifesto on his website, which called for the murder of Jews, and compared it to the American Declaration of Independence.

Obama is not the man he appears to be. As Karl Rove wrote in his open letter in Newsweek, "My Advice for Obama...",

"You said you weren't sitting in church when he said those ugly things. Two days later, you excused him, saying his comments didn't give "a well-rounded portrait" of him. Two days after that, you condemned his statements as "not only wrong but divisive" but still couldn't "disavow him" any more than you could your grandmother. Ten days later, you implied if Wright hadn't retired, you might have left his church. It would have been better to say from the start that Wright's words were wrong and offensive and you should have spoken out earlier."

Since Obama's handling of the disclosure of his pastor's beliefs and theories has surfaced, he's vacillated, flip-flopped and prevaricated with half-hearted half-truths.

I seriously doubt that Obama has any "cred" left on this issue should he finally come out with some kind of statement about it. Obama's record on Wright is already so inconsistent and lame that clips of his voice making these various comments could form the basis for good Republican attack ad.

The press and You DANA MILBANK are the voice of doom. consistently trolling Wright's addresses to take things out of context...

May Heaven prevent you from destroying and distorting the truth and bring you to see the error of your ways and apologize for staining a good man with your lies.

This is really a bad thing for everyone, not just Obama. These are fringe guys who are threatening to become mainstream and could if Obama wins and lets them. Scary!

Look, even if you set aside the swirling arguments above, this damaging controversy is the result of one thing: Obama ran too soon. A promising young senator, great orator, got greedy because this election seemed to favor a dem win so highly. He has accomplished almost nothing on a national level, exposed himself to attack on his inexperience, and left the vetting to fall will-nilly at the last moment. He could have put some distance between himself and his dubious band of funders and mentors. He could have shored himself up in his weak areas by actually doing some hard work on blue collar economic issues, women's issues. Let's hope the voters in Indiana and North Carolina can see now where this is going -- a massive defeat in November if Obama's at the helm.

>>Fairfax Vote wrote: "... Reverend Wright is angry with Obama and acting out in the ultimate passive-aggressive way."

I think so, too.

Vote wright. Vote Obama 08

I saw Wright's speech this morning on C-Span. (Thank God for C-C-Span) You folks should have a listen. I don't believe Milbank was there or, if he was, wasn't listening.

As a 40yo middle class white guy, I thought Wright's speech was spot on.

swanieaz: You are the one who is an idot! I if everybody held you accountable for something someone else did, you would cry murder also but here this black man about to become president and you trip because of what his pastor says and then you have the nerve to say he should distance himself from him even more! You don't understand blacks...of course you don't because you're not black so I understand your ignorance.. I have rage? See that dumb azz statement alone tells me all I need to know about you. YOU HAVE NO clue so enough with you.. be gone!

Tim.....

Your are a fool....

Dana, you are a white man. You cannot claim to understand, and will never understand the position of Jeremiah Wright. You said Jeremiah Wright speaking out has doomed Barack Obama's campaign. How so? Anyway,that is your opinioan;an opinion of another uninformed white man coming to an ill informed decision about a black phenomenon and instead of speaking for himself, pretend to speak the truth for everybody. Most honest white people hold Obama for what he says and does and do not follow people like you with hidden racist sentiment. Hiding your true self under pieces of pseudo journalism does not help anybody. You do not like Barack and do not support him. Let your true sentiments be known and stop being a hypocrite

I don't believe the MSM, McCain, Right Wingers or even Hillary would be satisfied even if Barack quits his church and shots his former pastor. Nothing of what he can say from now until election day will matter because this group is more interested in creating news than reporting news. This group is more interested in reporting trash than actually covering the news.

I thought better of Dana but now I see that he reports only on those things that would support his arguments, for example Mr. Milbank quotes only part of what Rev. Wright said about Farrakhan, in which he actually says that he doesn't agree with him but is willing listen to the guy.

Somehow we have made to believe that whatever Rev. Wright says is magically linked to Sen. Obama. Rev. Wright has his own political views and they should be seen as such. There are no videos, quotes, books, speeches in which Sen. Obama has said similar things to what Rev. Wright has said.

Pulease....when a black man DARES to point out America's flaws he's anti-American, a lunatic, racist, and the such. How DARE someone speak ill of a country founded on the backs of peoples (American Indian and AA) then be "granted" equal rights, only to then have those rights systematically denied. How DARE a member of that race speak against a system that professes to provide freedom to believe whatever you want, liberty to achieve all the dreams your heart desires...all for the price of allegiance and the ultimate sacrifice of their lives during periods of war and conflict. And they sacrifice home and abroad to come back home to prejudice, hate and disenfranchisement. This country will not erase 400 years of bondage and a century of state/federally sanctioned oppression with Affirmative Action. Not when the remnants of the past can still be felt today. Despite what the mainstream says, these actions are still felt today. So I say Rev. Wright's voice SHOULD be heard because he does indeed represent a silent majority of AA's. And for his views to be casually cast aside as racist is indicative of a nation still bent on stamping out any criticism of its hypocritical ways. And yes, as an AA it still burns that this nation won't even offer an apology of sorts for its actions. I guess we are supposed to "get over it".... And the mainstream has the nerve to act surprised when the real feelings of AAs come to light. Get real.

What I see is that there are all of these black preachers who are trying to take the place of Rev Dr. MLK. I don't think any of them will ever come close. They all sound like wackos (and yes, I have been a longtime member of the black church).

Obama is probably the best inheritor of MLKs legacy, probably as the culmination of the dream, to now set the course of the future now that the dream is starting to become realized. I don't know where the black community should go to next...but I think that taking on Bill Cosby's rant on the state of the black community continually seeing themselves victim's and changing that view is a start.

All Democrats are going to get tarred by even indirect contact with this guy via the primaries. I feel sorry for down ticket black candidates this year.

I'm no Obama supporter, but this is excruciating.

After viewing the speech and comments and rereading the transcript, I believe that Milbank's commentary is overly exaggerated. There was nothing new in the speech to condemn. The rationale for his views are also not so far out of the mainstream.

The United States has committee some very attrocious acts (Iran-Contra, Japanese internment, Black Codes, Slavery, genocide of the native populations) that have been corrected, but never apologized for. Reporters also constituently point out flaws in government actions. Rev. Wright places these events into Biblical context, which can only mean some type of damnation for the acts.

I believe that if people can take off the blinders and see the whole picture, one might be able see that Wright was talking also about reconciliation between different races and cultures to truly become united and bring about the change that this country so desperately need.To me it seemed as if Wright was giving a little history lesson(that many may not be comfortable with)to show how some may feel the way they do regarding traditions and injustices that have been a part of our nation's history.Understanding that this may not be a subject that many may feel comfortable remembering or hearing, we must face the truths in which we try to ignore.Even the Bible says in James 5:16 :"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed".. If we have evidence that one of our brothers or sisters in this nation are offended maybe we should take the appropriate steps to ensure that we can Reconcile " and move on 'One Nation under God'.

To all you folks out there criticizing Dana Milbank, if you can't see the reality in what he's saying it says a lot about you and your candidate. Thank goodness there are people in the mainstream press reporting accurately! Everyone seemed to gloss over what Rev. Wright said last night at the NAACP dinner; we got to see Round 2 this morning, however, and facts are facts. There's a reason for the term mainstream; Rev. Wright's views are way outside those of the majority, and Obama will suffer for it. That's just a fact.

Annette Keller,
No matter what Wright says that does not give Hillary pledged delegates or any credible way to win the nomination. Hillary only started being competitive when the Republican nomination was over and Rush Limbaugh sent his idiots out to screw up our election. If the superdelegates overturn the electorate, the Democratic Party is done for.

wright is perfect cover for the racists whom never would have voted for Obama.

The tragedy is that open minded folks will jump ship too.

Oh well, Not during my lifetime.

I think that we like to play let's pretend in this country. If I pretend that what Rev.Wright is saying is falsehood then I can contine to pretend that all is well with race relations in this country. Why does anyone have to shut up in order for a presidential candidate to be judged on the merits. This "problem" just showcase mainstream America's disinterest with what ails black America. That a black person is familiar with what goes on in a "white" church and mainstream America's shock at the tenor of the black church is a prime example.

Rev Wright is now officially indefensible. I am a big time Obama supporter and will defend Barack, but Rev Wright is a nutcase. Barack was part of the entire church program which ministers to the community. You can disagree with the pastor and still belong to the church because of its overall good.

What is scary is that so many black leaders are applauding this guy.

If these are the same militant voices who are threatening to boycott the Democrats if their candidate doesn't get the nomination, let them pick up their (lost) marbles and go.

Let's be realistic, folks. Obama and Reverend Wright will be joined at the hip in the media at least until November. As such, he will not pass muster with the superdelegates as the Democratic nominee. The Democrats best shot in November will be a ticket of Hillary and Barack. It will take the spotlight off Barack and allow the Democrats to unite behind Hillary.

The only reasonable, possible explanation to the Wright/Obamba debacle is that Obama agreed with his mentor for 20 YEARS. That is why Wright is out there giving his Black Recentment Speeches and Obama dares not refused nor denounced him because if Obama does, then Wright will spill out exactly what Obama said and how he felt for these last 20 YEARS. Obama cannot denounce nor refused Wright because the truth will come out. Wright is Obama's true political liability. Expect the following:
1- WRITE A BOOK.
2- CONTINUE TO GIVE NATIONAL SPEECHES.
3- HE WILL CHARGE FOR THOSE NATIONAL SPEECHES.
4- HE WILL APPEAR IN MORE COMMENTARY PROGRAMS.
5- DONT BE SURPRICE IF WRIGHT HIMSELF RUNS FOR SENATOR.
6- THERE WILL BE A WRIGHT IDIALOGY BASED ON HIS POLITICAL ANGLE.
7- OBAMA WILL NOT DISASSOCIATE, NOR RENOUNCED REV. WRIGHT.

SO ASK YOURSELF WHY? Why CANT THE NEXT POSSIBLE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DENOUNCE AND RENOUNCE HIS CRAZY, ANTI-AMERICAN PASTOR? EASY; WRIGHT KNOWS TOO MUCH.

WoW! Thank you media! Keep the racist distortions going. Highlight them. Spotlight them. Your naked bias is showing.

Folks are paying attention. In the end, the ignorant racist will be transformed by knowledge. An the pathological racist will stand naked and marginalized.
Your fear of the truth so clear. Your unwillingness to address the issues addressed by the pastor, so clear.

The coporate media "Bull Conner moment" has arrived!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

"Wright's audience cheered him on as the minister mocked the media and, at one point, did a little victory dance on the podium. It seemed as if Wright... was actually trying to doom Obama..."

That's a fascinating juxtaposition, Dana. Mocking the media invites doom. Tell us more.

The press and You DANA MILBANK are the voice of doom. consistently trolling Wright's addresses to take things out of context...

May Heaven prevent you from destroying and distorting the truth and bring you to see the error of your ways and apologize for staining a good man with your lies.
============================================

You should know God Damn America doesn't mean God Damn America. You Obamanites need that context interpreter real bad. Seems everything he says or is associated with is taken out of context. Seems the great Orator has trouble communicating?

I'm confused! The U.S. government has failed to apologize or pay reparations for all of the years of free labor and taxation without any representaion. Three times as many Blacks died during the Middle Passage to slavery alone as did during the Holocaust. Yet, noone is accountable for the past. To have racial pride or remember your heritage seems acceptable for everyone except the people who suffered the most. I listened to Reverend Wright simply point out differences between races. He repeatedly stated different isn't deficient. Are the white people who want more from Obama serious? If you really can't accept that people are different, please stop trying to be so covert about your racism and just wear your white robe and hood.

This article is nothing but an excuse to invoke Farrakan and give fodder to those who want to scare Jews with black boogeymen.

After watching the 'rev' speaking at the 'NAACP' and the 'National Press Club', I have learned a new math solution.


This is as follows: 15m = - 4y

15 "( minutes of fame for the Rev )" = - 4 ( years in the Whitehouse for Obama )

Dana Milbank you are so transparent. Why give a description of the people in the audience--at least those particular people in the audience? Why is it important that some of the Nation of Islam members served as bodygards? Do you think America's secret service, from the Bush/Cheney Whitehouse, can be trusted to protect Wright? You prooved Wright right, because your context of your article--the description of his message and you stressing the presence of at least four of the attendees--is to further incite fear, racism, distraction, confusion, and bitterness. You have no integrity. General Peck is right--America's chickens are coming home to roost. If nothing else this event shows just how racist Americans are, including you!!

"But that's nothing compared to Obama's response about being too busy to debate Senator Clinton."

I'm sick of the ridiculous argument that Hillary and your supporters are trying to drum up that Obama is afraid of debating her. There's been something like 20 debates already. Have you forgotten about those?

Neither is afraid of debating. I like Hillary and the Clintons, but it's a shame they have to resort to the lowest forms to win this election. Even worse is that people buy their nonsense.

My thoughts...

I watched Wright's full speech last nite. It provided the context. It was very interesting.

I watch the Q&A (skipped his prepared remarks). I understand he feels combative, but he should have looked at this from public point of view. He didn't, came across combative.

Long and short is, he is basically a reasonable guy. He harbours some views we'll disagree with. But he has a lot more integrity than most people in US (myself included)

Also, I am not sure what Dana is talking about. Did you listen to everything he said? The least you can do is think for yourself !

OBAMA IS THE ANTI NAACP!

Remember when all the traditional civil rights leaders were bashing on Obama and supporting Hillary because they were afraid they would lose power and influence to Obama's rational message?

Obama is 180 degrees from this guy's angry and divisive attitudes. Al Sharpton, Andrew Young, and the rest of the old guard LOVE Wright's angry tide.

It is how they keep the black community in a slave-era mindset. "You need us to fight the man who keeps you down" is the message. "You're the victim and you'll always be". Or "Whitey hates you".

Obama's message is more like "You'd better pull up your socks because we've got hard work to do together that the old guard has been telling you to avoid."

The more wright speaks the more I'm convinced of how badly we need Obama in the whitehouse to show REAL leadership of positive action instead of blame-placing anger and passive victimization and waiting for help.

The apology for slavery Wright is looking for was called the American Civil War.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom.

PERFECT, MILBANK. But Obama's spiritual advisor, the man who married him, baptized his children and whom Obama gave 20,000 of his money to propagate this racist, chip on the shoulder, hate-mongering, divisive BS IS STILL AROUND, STILL SPEWIN' IT.

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL GET IF OBAMA WERE ALLOWED NEAR THE WHITE HOUSE-YOU CAN'T HAVE BEEN AS INFLUENCED BY SOMEONE AS OBAMA WAS BY THIS PREACHERMAN AND FAIL TO AGREE WITH THE MAJOR THESES OF HIS SPEECH-WHICH IS BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AT ITS MOST DIVISIVE. OBAMA HAS BEEN VERY DECEPTIVE ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATION WITH WRIGHT-SO IT'S GOOD THAT WRIGHT IS COMING FORWARD TO TELL THE COUNTRY WHAT HE IS ABOUT-AND ALL THAT WRIGHT IS SAYING SIMPLY UNDERPINS ALL THOSE "OUT OF CONTEXT" SNIPPETS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED-SNIPPETS THAT OBAMA PROFESSES NOT TO KNOW ABOUT, BECAUSE OBAMA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THE EXTENT TO WHICH HE HAS ACCEPTED THIS RACIST DIVISIVE BELIEF SYSTEM AGAINST WHITES.

WoW! Thank you media! Keep the racist distortions going. Highlight them. Spotlight them. Your naked bias is showing.

Folks are paying attention. In the end, the ignorant racist will be transformed by knowledge. An the pathological racist will stand naked and marginalized.
Your fear of the truth so clear. Your unwillingness to address the issues addressed by the pastor, so clear.

The coporate media "Bull Conner moment" has arrived!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

People keep wondering why Wright is 'doing this' to Obama. The reason is that Wright's world doesn't revolve around Obama (I know, a stunning concept). Folks need to understand that Wright's loyalties are not primarily with Obama, but with the theology he espouses.

Wright believes every last word he's saying to his core, and he's believed this stuff for years. That's where his loyalty lies. There's simply no way he's gonna back off from what he believes, no matter what the consequences on Obama might be.

Wright's entire preaching career has been based on this theology, which means his commitment to it long predates Obama. From his perspective, it might be better for Obama if he kept quiet, but it would hurt the cause he's aligned himself with for decades. When presented this way, there simply isn't any mystery about what Wright was gonna do and say today.

The political implications aside, a Black pastor is voicing his views and opinions about issues and people label him a nut case. But, these are his views based on his experiences dealing with race in this country and how our government has acted both within this country towards its citizens and towards the rest of the world.

And, instead of actually discussing any of the issues he has brought up, he is labeled a nut case. So, of course, everything he discusses is dismissed.

As a white man, I see some truth in what he is saying with the exception of how the AIDS virus came about--but, our government did nothing for 5 years (that's how long it took Reagan to even mention AIDS publicly) regarding the virus and the disease while it was predominately affecting gays, drug users, and minorities.

And, of course, a white pastor can irrationally blame 9/11 on gays and Katrina on gays, and said pastor is NOT labeled a nut case.

Until someone like Rev. Wright can bring up these issues and we can have a discussion about them, there is no WAY that this country will be able to have a real discussion regarding race.

As for political matters, Obama is held accountable for the views of his neighbors, his pastor and all associates. But, George Bush and John McCain can actually court the support of white pastors who are racist, homophobic and irrational (nut cases) with complete impunity.

This says a lot about either our right leaning or racist media.

et tu Milbank? I use to respect you and what you had to say. It now appears you have sold out to the WAPO management. Enjoy your bonus. At least the cross burning KKK had ignorance as an excuse for their fear. What's yours?

Oh for God's sake, since when did the preacher at a person's church mean anything before this election? I am so sick of reading about this guy. The whole idea that this is even an election issue reeks of guilt by association and the lack of freedom of religion and/or speech. What a pile of crap, when there are serious issues. The double standard is appalling.

The 9/11 thing he said is only controversial to people who don't know what was going on with US policy in the middle east. They hate us for our heavy involvement in their politics in our quest for oil, and our one sided support of israel. Want to know why I think that? Thats what they said.

The only reasonable, possible explanation to the Wright/Obamba debacle is that Obama agreed with his mentor for 20 YEARS. That is why Wright feels free to give his Anti American Speeches while Obama shies away from denouncing him. Obama cannot denounce nor refused Wright because the truth will come out. Wright is Obama's true political liability. Expect the following, Wright will :
1- WRITE A BOOK.
2- CONTINUE TO GIVE NATIONAL SPEECHES.
3- HE WILL CHARGE FOR THOSE NATIONAL SPEECHES.
4- HE WILL APPEAR IN MORE COMMENTARY PROGRAMS.
5- DONT BE SURPRICE IF WRIGHT HIMSELF RUNS FOR SENATOR.
6- THERE WILL BE A WRIGHT IDIALOGY BASED ON HIS POLITICAL ANGLE.
7- OBAMA WILL NOT DISASSOCIATE, NOR RENOUNCED REV. WRIGHT.

SO ASK YOURSELF WHY? Why CANT THE NEXT POSSIBLE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DENOUNCE AND RENOUNCE HIS CRAZY, ANTI-AMERICAN PASTOR? EASY; WRIGHT KNOWS TOO MUCH.

Yes! Thankfully, Clinton can recover from the media and party-male-establishment assault on her. She held her ground. I watch the tapes of "fairytale-gate" and "lbj-gate" today and just became angry once again that Obama's campaign villified them as racists, just to get votes. Racism is a serious social issue, not something to play with. Yes, Obama will plunge in the polls. The Republicans were waiting and hoping for this in the Fall, but it's too late now. Got to wonder why Wright spoke again. Was there some deal her to kill Obama's candidacy? In any event, as a staunch Clintonite, I've very happy. Thanks Reverend Wright!

Rev. Wright, 4/28/08:

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

Enough is enough already. Addressing various comments that have been made --

America did not kill Dr. King. James Earl Ray killed him.

And yes, Civil Rights laws have only been in effect for about 50 years. And 50 years is the better part of one lifetime.

No white American living today was a slave owner. Very few white Americans approve of or participate in overt hurtful, harmful, racially biased behavior. Quite probably many white Americans somehow participate in behaviors that they don't realize are hurtful or harmful or racially biased, because they're not deliberate.

It's really time to stop the paranoia and stop the blame. Bridging the divide is a two-way street, the burden does not rest solely on white shoulders.

A lot of white people do think there are more pressing issues right now, such as war, health care, transportation, heat and food. And some white people are having a very difficult time understanding how it is that a bi-racial man who seems to reject the culture of his white mother and grandparents, and who has made much of his respect and admiration for the overtly racist rantings of Jeremiah Wright can possibly be the presidential candidate most able to lead a racial unity movement?

And, finally, yes, this is a racist country and racism is definitely not a one-way street. The road is just as long, twisted and jagged on the reverse journey.

Dis-enchanted thank you for putting it that way. TRUTHFULLY!!!

Vnd22- his remarks are not out of the ordinary, they're out of your view of ordinary. You should go to a black church, see we don't have time for revenge or all of that nonsense. We have a hard enough time with EVERYDAY things. Our church offer us hope, hope that one day, we will be treated as equals, not only during elections either.

as usual white media has missed the point entirely. thank goodness some of us black folk actually listen and read for ourselves. Rev. Wright said nothing wrong this morning or in his other sermons. I seriously doubt that Mr. Milbank or any of the other talking idiots have read or listened to the entire sermons. You as well as others are speaking from an entirely different point of view and you have made no effort to understand the point of view of others.

Rev. Wright is well within his right to defend himself and the black church. It doesn't have anything to do with Obama. Are you held accountable for everything that a reporter does wrong like fabricating a story? (Didn't the WAPO have a problem with this years ago? The NYTimes? The Boston Globe? USA Today?) Perhaps you knew some of the writers involved? Should you be indicted for guilt by association?

I think even you can see how ridiculous this line of thinking can become.

DANA MILBANK SICKENS ME. THE PRESS HAS FAILED WOEFULLY, ON OBJECTIVE COVERAGE.THE REASON WHY OBAMA WOULD FAIL IS BECAUSE YOU WANT HIM TOO.

IF THIS MEDIA HAD COVERED JESUS. HE WOULD HAVE GONE DOWN TOO. HE CALLED THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION THEN A"BROOD OF VIPERS" HE SAID PEOPLE SHOULD "HATE MOTHER AND FATHER".THESE WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR HEADLINES AND YOUR LOOPS. I COULD NOT BE SICKER OF YOU.

YOU TROLL AN HOURS ADDRESS TO FIND 15 SECS OF SOUNDBITE YOU CAN SPIN OUT OF CONTEXT...

GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU VILE LOT.

It is people like Wright spouting hatred and inciting his congregation to believe in their own victimization that is a cancer on the African American community.

As long as they feel sorry for themselves and wait for a handout to assuage a wrong which they did not even experience, they will not accomplish anything. The best thing for America would be to desegregate the churches and build people up instead of tearing them down.

Blow it out your a@@, Milbank.

Rev. Wright, 4/28/08:

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

Posted by: E.A. | April 28, 2008 2:34 PM
_____________
Neither did I!

Does anybody else think it is funny that Rev. Wright made fun of the KENNEDYS, those great supporters of OBAMA?!

What's funny is that Wright's comments are about the US Governement. Not white people. So why do so many whites think he is talking to them.

Fear. The biggest fear of whites has always been that, given the chance, blacks would do to them what whites did to blacks.

Racism = Fear.

Martin Luther King is one of the greates prophets the world has ever known. Much of what he predicted has come to pass.

Well just remember, he also predicted that racism would be our downfall. That predictions becomes closer to the truth everyday. With every election where we vote race over common sense.

Remember folks, the Euro will be double the dollar soon. The clock is ticking for this once great nation, we'll be a fallen superpower with 100 years.

And what of Clinton who said she would not stay with anyone who she disagreed with, and yet she clerked in 1971 with a radical communist law firm in Berkeley? Why did she choose to work for communists? According to her logic, she must have agreed with them. How will the Reagan Democrats vote for a candidate for President who worked for communists at a time when our soldiers were getting killed by communists? How will Hillary defend that?

I thought the speech was informative and honest...It's hard to understand how people can cover their eyes and act like this is some crazy old man. The most shocking thing to me about the entire piece was that the only question the moderator acknowledge she wrote was. Was does Barrack sleep in church? He was mocking the media b/c it's getting to a point where it's almost like 13 year olds reporting.

Any chance Clinton's campaign got to the good Wright with a handful of $ and promises? Politics is so filthy today that one never knows. I suggest we all write in Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich.

I listened to the entire speech and didn't hear what you heard. He didn't say the US created AIDS, he said the US would be capable of it, he didn't praise Farrakhan, he praised his power for mobilization, he didn't defend the view that Zionism is racist -he clarified that Farrakhan's controversial remarks had been about Zionism not Judaism as a whole, he didn't defend the ramarks. Amazing how you can hear what you want to hear, not what was said.

As for your last two paragraphs - if those comments offend you, there is no way you'd fully hear anything else he said. Anyone who thinks it's not wrong to claim to be a christian but be racist (or who thinks that such people don't exist), or who doesn't believe an apology for slavery would be appropriate - well, you need reconciliation.

I watched both of Rev. Wright's speeches (NAACP and National Press). He spoke about how "different is not deficient, just different". He also spoke about positive reconciliation of differences among a variety of different groups of people.

I want to go him one better. I add, that each individual human being has different and opposing thoughts or beliefs within his or her OWN psyche. The tension that is created requires conscious attention to those opposing thoughts and some reconciliation of them. Reconciling those internal differences requires work, but that work is albeit satisfying and growth producing. Talking about race creates lots of internal conflict within Americans. It appears many want Rev. Wright to "go away" so they won't have to do the internal work.

The work required involves transcending the "either/or"- ness of the thoughts and instead come to some "both/and" perspective. That is how humans grow psychologically. That is how we learn how to become mature and secure in the face of someone who is unlike us.

The ideas that Rev. Wright spoke about over the weekend and today challenge each individual to think more deeply. Whenever a person, especially an American voter, thinks more deeply and considers reconciliation of differences (rather than disowning the other) as a preferred approach, he or she has transformed him or herself.

When it comes to this election, he or she will listen to ALL perspectives, not just the ones the media have spoon-fed to them. He or she will not be like children accepting unquestionably the thoughts of the parent (i.e media pundits)

He or she cannot be predicted, forecasted, or written off. The American voter becomes free and nobody, not the press, nor the candidates can tell them what to think or what to do come election day.

The press (and some candidates) want to tell the voters what to think and what to do. By November or even by June, the American people will be thinking more deeply and critically. I already see it in the quality of posts on this and other on message boards.

In the end, a critically- and free- thinking American electorate will be good for America. Whoever wins the general election will have to contend with an American people who are more critically thinking and courageously outspoken than ever before in history.

They will have Rev. Wright to thank for that.

Just what we need in this country, another so-called religious leader spouting extremist nonsense....Wright can join Sharpton, Dobson, and Robertson in America's pantheon of whacko ministers. Our nation's founders were very wise to insist on the separation of church and state. We could do worse than to go back to not mixing religion and politics. We don't need these kinds of mullahs in the United States.

The blacks incessantly complain about the past slavery issue in the U.S. but they continue their path.....slaves to the U.S. government "programs".
One of their own just ensured Obamas loss.
Go figure.

Posted by: seedobecome | April 28, 2008 1:58 PM

You DO realize that there are more white people on those "programs" than black people don't you? You are great example of the ignorance of a lot of Americans Obviously not you

I think that we like to play let's pretend in this country. If I pretend that what Rev.Wright is saying is falsehood then I can contine to pretend that all is well with race relations in this country.
Posted by: Paulina W
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Pauline everything the Clinton's have said has been factual, yet they have been labeled racist. Obama has made this election about race and it has backfired. He has put himself in a damned if you do and damned if you don't position.

Race relations are a lot better in this country, but they have a way to go. White votes got Obama in the front runner position and he screwed it up by using the race card because he got arrogant and greedy.

Dan Milbank never discussed the basis of Rev Wright Challenge;the sinful past of this country. What he did in this article was a disgraceful and false analysis of the implications of Rev Wright speech as if Rev wright is tied to the pants of Obama. Its amazing that so called these so-called journalists cannot do simple investigative journalism and give us something to think about, but have rather become some bogus armchair news analysts, with their stupid anaysis based on nothing but bigotry. You don't know enough about the man, and instead of moving beyond the grainy video clip on U-tube, and finding information about him, you sit in your stupid office and write some stupid stuff. Getting stuck on STUPID will do nothing to help this country

Honestly Dana. You really did a disservice to your readers with this post.

You should have posted the entire transcript like the New York Times did and allow people to make a judgment for themselves.

Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?pagewanted=all

Will Wright be an issue for Obama? Anything and everything will be an issue in an electoral process that seeks to avoid real issues and lift up distractions. In my opinion, it's the height of stupidity not to vote for someone because of who their pastor is.

And I do believe that Wright is correct. In slamming him, people are attacking the right of the church to speak out on social issues--and that is very dangerous. The Conservative Christian Right should be called hypocrites for allowing that to proceed unabated--or maybe, since they are mostly Republicans, their silence is indicative of their desperation after eight years of Bush-it.

It's funny watching Obama people go after Milbank. Milbank is one of the white guys who has been bashing Clinton the entire campaign. Now he's doing it to Wright/Obama, and people are crying foul. Where were you when he was scorching Clinton and lending to her negative media image? Now that Wright has mortally wounded Obama, the liberal media is running back to Clinton, hoping to prevent McCain from winning. LOL -- this is too funny!

Jeremiah Wright continues to throw Obama under the train because he no doubt feels that Obama has done the same to him, e.g. disinviting him to speak when B.O. announced his presidential aspirations.

Looks like its bye, bye, Barack time. All thanks to the loose lips of former pastor J. Wright. The shame of it all is that he is still, I believe, by far the best candidate for president. Unfortunately, you can be done in not only by your own works and/or actions, but by those who 'supposedly' have your best interest at heart.

I bet the opposition (Clinton, McCain camps) can't believe the gift that former Pastor Wright just bestowed upon them!

Honestly Dana. You really did a disservice to your readers with this post.

You should have posted the entire transcript like the New York Times did and allow people to make a judgment for themselves.

Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?pagewanted=all

Will Wright be an issue for Obama? Anything and everything will be an issue in an electoral process that seeks to avoid real issues and lift up distractions. In my opinion, it's the height of stupidity not to vote for someone because of who their pastor is.

And I do believe that Wright is correct. In slamming him, people are attacking the right of the church to speak out on social issues--and that is very dangerous. The Conservative Christian Right should be called hypocrites for allowing that to proceed unabated--or maybe, since they are mostly Republicans, their silence is indicative of their desperation after eight years of Bush-it.

What in this piece could possibly provoke to a long nutjob "Jews control the world" diatribe? I guess bigots don't need motivation.

Also, that poster is no more Republican that Wright is a man of God. No GOP supporter would defend Jimmy Carter.

You mischaracterize Wright's comments on Farrakhan. He did not defend Farrakhan. He said, "Louis and I do not agree on everything." What he DID defend is his freedom to associate with people working for large goals (in this case the advancement of colored people) despite differences on some issues. Wright defended Wright's own right to associate with people of different views. To say he defended Farrakhan is facile, false and incendiary. Any one who believes in free speech and the freedom of association must applaud Wright's defence of those principles, not slander him through guilt by association. Like the Black church, whose voice is lost on the mainstream, Wright's speech is deliberately misinterpreted here.

I agree that Wright has doomed Obama's presidency. Wright is 2008's Willie Horton--a black man whose image alone can invoke fear among white people.

The best thing Wright could have done for Obama was to stay silent. Instead, Wright has sabatoged Obama's campaign. I hope Wright can sleep at night knowing that he has destroyed the chances of the first viable African-American contender for the Democratic nomination.

I really feel bad for Obama and his Zombie Followers, NOT!

Jeremiah Wright's hate, treason, and racism continues to work to divide this country in ways never before considered.
The remote possibility of the likes of a Jeremiah Wright being a frequent visitor or speaker at the White House will work effectively to drive voters to Hillary Clinton or John McCain.

From this point forward, every word uttered by Wright is a vote turned against Barack Obama.

From this point forward, every word uttered in defense of Wright by Obama supporters is a vote turned against Barack Obama.

Stick a fork in Obama, he is done!

New Clinton campaign slogan: "Wright On!"

Bwahahahahaha!

Does anybody else think it is funny that Rev. Wright made fun of the KENNEDYS, those great supporters of OBAMA?!

I do. But then again, who doesn't make fun of the Kennedys?

It is pretty sad that Rev. Wright tells such truths: that behind closed doors, Obama agrees with his teachings and HAS to say otherwise or he will not be elected. Obama is damaged goods. He needs to remove himself before HE destroys the Democratic Party and their chances to beat John McCain in November.

It is time for Obama to drop out of the race. He and his spiritual are hurting the party and no I am not a racist. If all the people who already voted could have a "do over" Senator Clinton would have the nomination secured right now. If the press hadn't just been attacking her and instead had been looking at them both equally she would have the nomination secured right now. Obama is unelectable. It is time to vote smart and vote Clinton.

It is lunatics like this that are holding African American politicians back from becoming more progressive and making a bigger difference. No one who shares this nut's point of view will ever hold significant political office. Furthermore, the mere fact that Mr. Wright inferred that Senator Obama shared his political opinion was beyond destructive. If this moron thinks that he speaks for the Black Church, he has lost his mind.

African Americans like him are the opposite of what this country needs. Ranting about hundreds of years ago as if an apology for slavery in this country is either plausible or useful. Focusing on topics like this, and some whacked out idea that White American government created aids is just preposterous. If this guy had an ounce of intelligence he would realize that he is ruining our countries chance at having another Black leader, because his comments are a huge gift to Hilary. Way to go Reverend Wright, you really showed white people.

What can I say. I have made a sustained and successful effort to make black friends and have benefited from those relationships enormously. There are many things in Rev Wright's bombast that liberate those who have been treated so badly. However, his self-indulgence is doing great harm not only to Mr. Obama but to the entire black community. Black ministers are not all racist loud-mouth baffoons and even Mr. Wright displays, at times, a high level of intelligence, but the timing of his actions seems vengeful and the impact of his actions can do not good to the one (Mr. Obama) whose association brought all this to light. The tragedy of the black psyche is its spasms of self-destruction.

Rev. Wright is wrong to speak out like this. He sets his own movement and the entire progress movement back at least another 4 years by ensuring a Clinton nomination. Sometimes you must remain quiet to assume power and make real progress. By scaring the average white voter with his rhetoric, he forces fence sitters to move in a safer (Clinton) direction. It's like a union voter voting republican, you know its against your own best interest, but they do it anyway. Stop the madness and let's get Obama elected, then you can spout all the pent-up bitterness you desire. It's crazy, just crazy. It's like Ralph Nader trying to move the country in a green, consumer friendly, less corporate greed direction by running and taking votes away from Gore in 2,000. Yeah...I know Ralphy, those weren't really Gore votes...yeah...thanks for the eight years of W. Your plan worked to perfection, just like Rev. Wright's is working now. At this rate the republications will control the Presidency and dictate foreign policy, environmental policy and education, labor...for another eight years. WTF are you thinking? Sometimes you must make a decision for the common good and not your own self interest.

I rarely hear any strong American voice, political or not, speaking so clearly about the American Administration policies. However, this only plays well with the electorate that is well-educated, which is already for Obama. The others cannot understand what he's saying and will only alienate them further.

Obama's adversaries have it very easy because it's easy to manipulate uneducated masses. Who would have thought that the black candidate would have it harder with them?

What a poor selection of everything this man has been saying for the last two days. If Mr. Milbank would post Wright's words in context, in their entirety, you wouldn't create an situation where his words could be so readily taken out of context and distract us from real issues (that he talks about). Milbank should know this, so the question remains, why do you present this issue in such a limited manner?

Wright speaks for himself. He has said this over and over. Anyone who decides to vote against Obama because of Wright was never really, when the curtain closed, going to vote for him any way. I found his comments often flippant at the Press Club, but underneath it all, he was more enlightening than shocking to people with open minds. Regarding his security team, it's his life that has to be protected, so it's his choice.

While supporters of Clinton relish the potential for bad press for Obama and talk of fodder for Republican attack ads, do they really believe the lull in Clinton bashing won't be quickly replaced with a full scale barrage, if she assumes the top of the ticket? At the top of the list, McCain will be showing footage of his many days as a P.O.W in contrast to the four different days over four months time when Clinton claimed she was under sniper fire. The clear double standard is that Obama is responsible for things he did not say, while Clinton skates over her out right lies and "resume inflations." If Obama had falsified this kind of story of heroics, there would have been calls for him to withdraw from the DNC and many of his own delegates.

McCain has to be very happy about this turmoil among the Democrats. No smart supporter of Clinton can rejoice at the possible failure of Obama to win the nomination. Blacks supported Bill with 90% of the vote and began the primaries overwhelmingly for Hillary. If Obama is perceived to have been smacked down by the efforts of the Clintons, the divorce from black voters will be a bitter one. Clinton will be assigned much of the blame and will win a hollow victory when much of the loyal, black electorate will "abstain from McCain," but be very "busy" in November. They will be spending their time healing in November, not voting.

Dana Milbank is intellectualy bankrupt. He cannot analyse, cannot do any rational deduction and the little deductions and analysis he makes are clouded in bigotry and bad judgment. what a pity. I wonder who his college professors were.

Um, rjdect1 - Are you aware that Obama was the FIRST to accept a debate in North Carolina over a month ago, but Clinton refused ? Then when she realized she was losing, she started demanding for one. Things change...

Are you also aware ( as I am sure you are not) that Hillary's Republican opponent in 2006,Jonathan Tasini repeatedly asked her to debate him, and she refused ?

Obama and Clinton have had 4 debates. He's on top: he's the nominee, and like Clinton in her senate race, he has the right to decline - especially since she was the first one to decline a month ago.

Case closed.

Obama: Let me throw my grand ma under the bus and save black KKK leader Wright

Obama supporters: Wright is right, we are with him...

Please keep up this great effort..... :-)

People, people settle down. This blog piece was written by Eric Pianin, not Dana Milbank.

I say again. This blog piece was written by ERIC PIANIN, not DANA MILBANK.

This blog was written from the perspective of someone who already held negative opinions and judgements about Rev. Wright based on the past 10-second video bites.

If Rev. Wright was running for political office then the mainstream media would have a legititmate concern in the need to cover him. As Rev. Wright has said, he is not running for the Oval Office, he is running for Jesus!

Obama can't be held responsible for statements of another man. Rev. Wright is not campaigning for Obama. All this focus on Rev. Wright's opinions diverts us from the real story which is what are ("President") Obama's opinions.

Rev Wright spoke the truth yesterday and today.

When I first heard the sound bites, I too was troubled. But then I thought maybe there is more to this sermon. I grew up in the black church and I know how heated a sermon can become. I listened to the entire sermon and I still disagree with parts of it but I understand the context.

As I listened today, all I could say was "AMEN, Preach the truth!"

There is nothing Obama can say or do to save his career.

Its over.

Matt G.

Exactly!

When will people stop blaming Wright? If it wasn't Wright it would be Michelle. If it wasn't Michelle it would be something else.

Did you all really think the race card was not gonna get played over and over and over again. That's always been the best strategy, "Remind everyone he's black."

If Barack loses because of Wright it will be a sad commentary for America. Even a guy that's have white is too black to be President I guess.

Obama claims to care about national security, but his own pastor justifies terrorist attacks on American soil !!!

Obama claims to be a uniter, but for 20 years he has been hanging around with a hate-preaching nut who only sees the U.S. government as an instrument of whites to oppress blacks, to the extent of saying that HIV was created by the U.S. to mass-murder blacks !!!

Moreover, according to Rev. Wright's words, it seems that Obama privately agrees with him, just doesn't say so in public.

Very much like Obama's top economic advisor meeting with Canadian representatives and assuring them not to worry about de future of NAFTA, since Obama's attack on free trade was just... to fool voters.

A lot of explaning to do...

I'm far more wary of the strings attached to the sudden wealth explosion of Bill Clinton and his overbearing influence on Hillary, than any relationship Wright and Obama could ever have!

He said his "God damn America" remarks were meant to show that God blesses acts of peace and kindness, but God damns acts of war and violence. He talked of slavery, racial segregation and poverty as condemnable acts and referring to the U.S. government, he said, blacks are still owed an apology for slavery, and said he's told Obama, if he's elected November 5, "I'm coming after you."

Should America apologize to African Americans for slavery?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=2297

.

INteresting that you chose not to report that it wasn't Wright who chose the words "chickens coming home to roost" in your piece. Ron Paul suggested as much and he won 16% in the Penn. GOP primary last week.

Also interesting that you didn't report that Wright said Obama distanced himself from Wrights "comments" and not Wright himself.

Seems you weren't even at the press club this morning.

Moreover, Wright's view of the world has nothing to do with Obama's spirituality or election platform.

If his asscoaition with Wright is an issue then so should Pastor Hagees be with McCain. Afterall, Hagee endorsed him and McCain said he was happy to have the endorsement. Really?

Dana, you're painting Wright as a nut, and your language drips with condescension, so maybe in your insulated universe it's never occurred to you that there are people who hold these views. But even in your selective and loaded rendition of the latest Wright sound bites, I find about 80% I can agree with, some strongly. And my mother, a 70-year-old Sicilian-American former educator, and Hillary Clinton supporter, calls Wright "sincere, balanced, learned and thoughtful."

This was nothing but a cheap hit piece that does nothing to help us understand Reverend Wright's thinking or the milieu in which it evolved, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Where is Eugene Robinson? Maybe this will be the topic of his op-ed piece for the week?

EUUUUGEEENNENENEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Guy looks like the little kid from the Exsorcist.

It was a great try Senator Obama and I planned on voting for you but you will never get the votes to win now with Rev. Wright on the speech circuit. We are known by the friends we keep. Goodbye and better luck in 2012 or 2016. You are certainly a leader and this country desperately needs a strong leader.

This guy is killing Obama.

I can't see anything good coming from a man surrounding himself with Farakhan and the clan. But I am sure the American people can see beyond this fool's tactic of trying to doom Obama....I bet Clinton is laughing in her dreams!
As an Obama supporter, I say it's time for Obama to distance himself from this crazy guy in the clearest form possible.

Really Dana? I'm so glad to have you guys around to tell me what to think! God knows how I would get through my day without you dissecting to the last morsel everything everyone says and what it means or doesn't mean. If I recall it was all you so called journalists who helped get us into this mess of a war by NOT challenging George Bush on the "weapons of mass distruction.
Now I am supposed to trust your judgement? I should sit back and have you indirectly telling me who to vote for by blowing up peoples words and attaching them to someone else? Are you really so afraid that we could have someone in the whitehouse that wouldn't give you more drama and idiocy to report on (or pander to)? NOT THIS TIME!!! I will think for myself and tune you out!!!

According to Obama's cultists --

"If Obama does it, it is not a crime"

Obama stuck with Rev Wright for 20 years.

There is nothing Obama can say or do that will save his career.

He let the poorest of the poor who put him into office freeze in slums that Rezko got $100M to repair, but didnt't, and Obama was "too busy" to check up on the well being of the poor people who elected him.

He will meet the failure he so richly deserves.

He has a heart of solid ICE.

The people who support Obama don't care any more about "Obama's Slums" than Obama did.

They are the biggest hypocrites of all!!!

Unfortunately, the whole Rev. Wright/Black Church/Left Brain - Right Brain think has me very sad. How can we bridge a gap between Blacks and the rest of American Society when we have political activists like Wright destroying bridges. It is hopeless to think that reconcilation can occur then Wright and those who applaud him represent Black "leadership". It reminds me of Palestinians and Israel. Until there can be meaningful, earnest and honest dialogue can there ever be any progress. Wright is adamantly against that progress. He is, like Hamas, intend on destroying any alliance with American culture.

This Story is Typical.

I haven't seen or heard of anybody in this country distancing themselves from the former slave owners or the KKK. Why is this any different???

tat does it!

I'm not going to vote for Jeremiah Wright.

I hope to vote for Obama in the general, though.

People, people settle down. This blog piece was written by Eric Pianin, not Dana Milbank.

I say again. This blog piece was written by ERIC PIANIN, not DANA MILBANK.

--------------------------------------
Mr. Milbank has his name on it so he should be the one taking the heat for the poor reporting. It's the same logic he's using in attaching Wright's comments to Obama.

Just what exactly is wrong with criticizing the KKK and supporting a foreign left wing government. Has our political discourse become so narrow that these opinions are so outside the norm that they are crazy?

As for the more famous of his assertions that "the chickens came home to roost on 9/11", there is no doubt it was crudely put and insensitive, but to say that those heinous acts came out of nowhere; not as a consequence of American foreign policy is myopic and incredibly dangerous.

AndI think that the government inventing HIV is preposterous but for a man born twenty five years before the voting rights act anything might be possible.

Maybe people are just not used to seeing legitimate black anger. I don't know.I really don't know. But what is clear is this, that this article is symptomatic of a culture that is more inclined to recoil in horror than it is to exercise empathy.

I hope that Obama is able to ovecome this for it is far more than the Presidency on the line now; if he loses the nomination because of Wright we lose forty years of white/black relations.

The obdurate refusal by an overwhelming, and obtuse, majority of Americans to acknowledge that, except for his views on AIDS, Reverend Wright has hit the nail on the head is beyond perplexing. It is simply mystifying.

Now, just as happened two years ago with Ward Churchill, Jeremiah Wright is being crucified, also in the mainstream media, for, inter alia, his sagacious reading of 9/11.

In a media world that consistently labels John McCain "a true war hero," instead of branding him the war criminal-cum-warmonger that he really is, this comes as no great surprise . . .

Capisce, Dana?

History unfortunately is not taught to our children accurately. If America hasn't been a terrorist historically, who has been? Did the Spanish think we were terrorists when we started the Spanish American war over the "Maine" incident? What about the perspective of the American Indian as we steamrolled them into oblivion? What about how we have propped up ( along with the British ) various monarchies in the Arab world in order to maintain favorable terms for their natural resources? If we were living in the "democracy" or Egypt or Kuwait I guarantee you there would be a lot of "terrorists" amoung us. The Reverend Wright is 90% right on all issues. The Aids issue is the only one I can think of where he may have gone off the deep end.

WRONG, DANA. The MEDIA have brought race to the forefront of Obama's campaign. Ever since Obama declared his candidacy, the media have had an endless obsession with race - both Obama's and the ones in numerous surveys. They have done their own fair share of posturing about the Wright affair - some responsibly, some not. As long as the MEDIA are obsessed with race, the issue of race in this campaign will be inflated far beyond its actual value.

The reason, of course, for the media's obsession with race is that race equals controversy and controversy sells papers, radio time and TV time.

You and your colleagues in the print media aren't doing yourselves any favors, particuarly in the credibility department, by continuing to take a hopelessly myopic view of Rev. Wright and his comments. Do you want exclusively conservative whites to read your paper and web site? If you do, just keep blowing the Wright thing out of proportion!

Unless Obama has a Delorean with a "flux-capacitor" handy, nothing he does can save him.

"Just Words" won't cut it.

Obama stuck with Rev Wright for 20 years.

Americans didn't just fall off a turnip truck.

Its over for Chicago Barry Obama.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy!!!

if Obama doesn't get the nomination, you can blame Rev. Wright, CNN & MSNBC -- Rev. Wright for basking in his 15 minutes of fame, and CNN & MSNBC for giving him a national audience. What a shame.

Dana, Give it a break! I'll bet you have never heard a full Sermon from Rev. Wright? Obama is fine and will be the next President of the United States of America!

This egotistical minister has just done his people a massive disservice. The black community needs to rebuke the "Rev." Wright and side with Obama in a big way. Obama is going to have to reject Wright AGAIN, this time with greater vehemence and without any mitigating words. This a tragedy and the "Rev." is a fool.

If anyone can figure out how to put this behind them, it is Barack Obama. God bless him and God bless the American people - may they look beyond the egotistical posturing of an injured old man.

The issue for me is that Obama portrays himself as a "uniter" (remember President Bush campaigned as a uniter - promising to change the tone in Washington) - yet, rather than choose a church where the congregants were encouraged to united and come together - he chose to attend a church where congregants subscribe to a commitment to "african" values (this is based on the Church's own description of the black value system) - it is certainly within any American's rights to choose the Church of his/her choice - but the contradiction between Obama's words and his actions are troubling - even Rev. Wright is saying now that Obama's distancing himself is a politician doing what a politician must do.... To be, this whole thing is NOT an issue of race, its a question of a viewing a candidate's actions to determine how they would govern if elected.

"These latest remarks make him look like a greedy opportunist capitalizing on a parishioner's success for his own gain. Shame on him. He's hurting Barack in a very selfish fashion."

There are two operative points here. First, the capitalizing opportunist bit...that's painfully clear, especially hearing about the McMansion in the gated community outside of Chicago that Wright's parishoners have put him into. Second, the selfishness...it's really obvious that Wright likes his lightning-rod role. He's practically standing in a field with a ten-foot aluminum pole during a thunderstorm, daring the skies to let him have it. Could it be that we're witnessing the birth of a new Al Sharpton? Don't put it past the good Reverend. Brother Al has made a lot of money being Brother Al, and there's always room for another demagogue.

"In front of 30 television cameras, Wright's audience cheered him on as the minister mocked the media and, at one point, did a little victory dance on the podium."

I agree; why, wouldn't I, most MSM are mocking the American people. Reverand Wright is only behaving in response to the assanine questions asked by the USA journalist in ways we wish the candidates would respond, with sarcasm and mockery. I would guess most of us find your ad nauseum trite-issue based reporting worthy of that mockery.

Just what exactly is wrong with criticizing the KKK and supporting a foreign left wing government. Has our political discourse become so narrow that these opinions are so outside the norm that they are crazy?

As for the more famous of his assertions that "the chickens came home to roost on 9/11", there is no doubt it was crudely put and insensitive, but to say that those heinous acts came out of nowhere; not as a consequence of American foreign policy is myopic and incredibly dangerous.

AndI think that the government inventing HIV is preposterous but for a man born twenty five years before the voting rights act anything might be possible.

Maybe people are just not used to seeing legitimate black anger. I don't know.I really don't know. But what is clear is this, that this article is symptomatic of a culture that is more inclined to recoil in horror than it is to exercise empathy.

I hope that Obama is able to ovecome this for it is far more than the Presidency on the line now; if he loses the nomination because of Wright we lose forty years of white/black relations.

The obdurate refusal by an overwhelming, and obtuse, majority of Americans to acknowledge that, except for his views on AIDS, Reverend Wright has hit the nail on the head is beyond perplexing. It is simply mystifying.

Now, just as happened two years ago with Ward Churchill, Jeremiah Wright is being crucified, also in the mainstream media, for, inter alia, his sagacious reading of 9/11.

In a media world that consistently labels John McCain "a true war hero," instead of branding him as the war criminal-cum-warmonger that he really is, this comes as no great surprise . . .

Capisce, Dana?

For Rev. Wright, he seems to need the 2008 Democratic presidential election to be about himself. Sort of reminds me of the need old Bill Clinton has to be the center of attention. Maybe Wright and Bill are one and the same but just a little different in color.

As Hillary repeated today, she wouldn't have stayed in the church where Rev. Wright was preaching ... no, instead she would invite him to the White House to pray over her and Bill when Bill's affair with Monica became public:

http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=4470

More Clinton hypocrisy.

Dana Milbank tells it right. For Obama to have had anything to do with this man for 20 years and then now try to dispel everyone's fears about his Wright connection will be hard to accept. Obama is not who he says he is. As for Hillary, she gets no credit for being a viable candidate from the press. In PA, the topic was why Obama lost - NOT how well Hillary did after being outspent 3 to 1. I'm sick of this entire race. Obama needs to drop out and give Hillary, the best candidate to beat McCain, a chance without impeding her. Enough of Obama and "HIS KIND".

Perhaps we should ask Native Americans or Native Hawaiaans whether or not America is a terrorist nation. I suspect a different answer might emerge.

It is time for the Republican-controlled Media to give this Wright controversy some fairness and enquire of Hillary Clinton and her surrogates the following:

Is it true that, (1) Hillary surrogate, Congresswoman Shiela Jackson Lee, is also a devotee of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright; that he's been preaching at her home church, where she is actively involved, annually for the past 15 years and has an open invitation to return, and, that she sat in the pews for his visits and did not bat an eye?

Is it true that (2) Hillary surrogate, Rev. Marcia Dyson was not only a longtime member of Trinity United Church of Christ but also still considers Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright her pastor? That Rev. Marcia Dyson's seminary education, in part, was sponsored by Trinity UCC and encouraged by Rev. Wright? And was it not at Trinity were she first met her husband, Rev. Dr. Michael Dyson, who's been very vocal in his defense of Rev. Wright.?

And, lastly of Hillary Clinton, that if Rev. Wright would not have been her Pastor, then why did she and Bill when going through Impeachment, turn to Rev. Wright for Prayer and Support and invite him to the White House? These things should be asked and answered.

And, finally, why would Republican-controlled Media give a "retired" Rev. Wright all this attention and air time, if not to try to destroy Barack Obama! Their true Fear! That is why Republican-controlled media and talking heads are building up Hillary, tearing down Obama, while McCain courts African-Americans that Clintons have ailenated by their "kitchen sink strategy, hoping all the while that she will become Democratic nominee, then unleash "arsenol" of weapons they have against her. Something they have been planning for years!

Where are they finding all of these black republicans to tear at Obama?

This is the true progress of America. Black Republicans are almost an oxymoron.

By the way, remember America's worst critics always choose to stay. Reverend Wright is building a $1.6 million house as we speak.

Lastly, what more does Senator Obama have to do to show he doesn't share these viewpoints. Take one of Hillary's guns and shoot Reverend Wright????

This is all so silly and some people are too thin skinned on both sides.

Mr. Milbank and I must have seen different speeches. I thought Rev. Wright was very impressive. After watching him Friday and today, he may even have brought this old heathen to Jesus! If I lived in Chicago, I think I would start attending his church.

All in all, he has a positive message of reconciliation and social justice. What is so wrong with that?

I'm a 62 year old white man, a Vietnam Veteran, and a retired DOD employee.

Well? What can you say to that? I would have liked to ask Wright what he thinks of the concept of the separation of church and state.
Long ago a young black man in Mississippi told me he was fed up with all black preachers. I think he was really onto something. I am fed up with all preachers period. This mixing up religion with politics does no one any good.
The more Wright talks the deeper the hole he is digging for Obama gets. He is Obama's worse nightmare. I can see the white votes vanishing as each day goes by.
Hillary sure got a gift from this loud mouthed angry old black man.
And he is wrong. This is no attack on the black church. It is an attack on him. He is hurting Obama more and more every day. Preachers who mix in politics are as dumb as politicians who mix in religion.

I think the members of the media's egos is bruised.

If anybody is to blame for his collapse, it's the media for not vetting Obama earlier.

Obama supporters don't get it.

America doesn't believe Obama about anything anymore.

Mainstream Democrats are "mad as hell" about Obama's sellout on FOX news yesterday.

He threw us under the bus too.

Obama's judgement and his association with Wright:

Obama can not seperate himself from Wright as this was the greatest personal judgement call he made for 20 years.

Obama funded Wright with his money.

Obama got married by Wright.

Obama children listened to Wright every Sunday.

Obama and Wright are inseperable. Wright is not just a hired or voluntary campaing person.

Wright is Obama's inspiration.

Wright inspired Obama's "The audacity of (false) hope"

If this is really the same Rev, Wright that Barack Obama has heard preach for the last 20 years, I am truly astounded. Rev. Wright is clearly so filled with hate and anger, the ideas he embraces wholeheartedly are so divisive, and his ego so huge, that I cannot understand how Sen Obama could really consider him to be a kind of loving grandfatherly figure in his life. Perhaps Wright's mind has gone and this rude and inflammatory rhetoric is coming from a place in his soul that he kept secret over the years. That is my best hope for Senator Obama, because as much as I find Sen Obama himself to be charming and broad minded almost to a fault, I just cannot understand how he could look up this man as a preacher of holy doctrine. I am waiting to hear what Barack Obama has to say about this now that Rev. Wright has brushed him off as a pandering politician. I hope it is not too late for him to put this "wackadoodle" behind him, but in my heart I believe it is all over for him now.

I think I've been watching the modern version of the fall of the Roman Empire for the past few years...

This clinches it... in all the strife... problems, issues, that we Americans face.

We're all talking about what someones ex-Pastor, or a Preacher that endoreses someone... instead of the real issues that face us.

I feel saddened for our future...I truely do.

The obdurate refusal by an overwhelming, and obtuse, majority of Americans to acknowledge that, except for his views on AIDS, Reverend Wright has hit the nail on the head is beyond perplexing. It is simply mystifying.

Now, just as happened two years ago with Ward Churchill, Jeremiah Wright is being crucified, also in the mainstream media, for, inter alia, his sagacious reading of 9/11.

In a media world that consistently labels John McCain "a true war hero," instead of branding him as the war criminal-cum-warmonger that he really is, this comes as no great surprise . . .

Capisce, Dana?

This Wright guy is trying to redeem his reputation. So what, it is a free country.

The bigger issue here is that he is even given this very public platform to do so.

We should be talking about the issues and yet the press gives this moron a platform to espouse his views. Why? Because they need a story.

This is not about Barack Obama or the race for the presidency. It is about Rev. Wright, his own motivations, and the media's insatiable urge to sensationalize the un-newsworthy. Our attention to Wright's rants makes him the story--and do we really care about him?

Obama's FORMER pastor.

It is almost as if Obama's minister doesn't want him to win the presidency. You'd think he'd keep his mouth shut. It must be more important for Wright to "clear" himself than let Obama make history.
An alternative theory is an Obama presidency will put people like Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, Louis F. out of work. They fear if Obama wins it will be hard to continue with the politics of victimization. This Minister is a real piece of work...

True Republican?...interesting read & I do belive you aren't far from the truth.

Pastors?...wright was invited to the White House during the Clinton administration (along with other baptist ministers) for "spiritual guidance"...Whats up with that?...Ed Rendell had a pic with Farakkan saying he was a greta man...what's up with that?...John McCain sought out the endorsement of controversal minister John Hagee (racist, sexist, homophobe) and uh...whats up with that?????

Americans?...time to change course and the obvious is in your faces...so clear...lets not waste this moment...as it may never come again.

OBAMA 08

If Barack Obama is not nominated or elected president, it won't be because of Reverend Wright, but because racism is still very alive and well in this country. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Wright, and Barack Obama each had a dream. Their dreams were to bring Americans together, but that will not happen in 2008, because we are still too proud to admit being anything but perfect.

Where would this country be today if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had given up in the face of insurmountable odds? Silencing Reverend Wright to increase Barack Obama's chance of becoming president would mean that we elected another president under false pretenses. I am a 64 year-old white racist male who prefers a president that truly earned the American people's respect. I hope that Reverend Wright's sermons will inspire thousands, millions to speak out for equality and justice in this country.

The younger generations, who are more apt to support Barack Obama, are making gigantic steps toward achieving the dreams of these great men. Barack Obama may not become president in 2009, but he will have furthered a movement that no one can stop. Fortunately racism is fading more and more with each new generation, and there will be increasing numbers of courageous Barack Obamas ready to take his place.

Regardless of my racial heredity, I am voting for Barack Obama to be next President of the Unites States of America!

Send in the Clown, again.

Hate-monger Wright is back!

And it couldn't happen at a better time.

Whites in North Carolina & Indiana have the ability to turn back Obama's racist "spiritual mentor" by voting for Hillary even if they will not vote for her in Novemeber.

Obama is a closet racist who has lied to the American people just to get their votes.

Obama should be ashamed of this man & apologize to the nation, then bow out of the race if he really cares about the Democratic Party.

But we know he doesn't.

If Wright's speech and subsequent comments this morning at the National Press Club should be the causative factor that eventually dooms Obama's candidacy,it will simply be yet another example of 'black on black crime'

Obama threw his grand ma under the bus to save his black votes and decided to support Wright.

Now Wright say's Obama is just another politician who would say or do anything to get elected.

How can Obama now throw his "inspiration" under the bus now?

Obama nuts please continue to defend Wright that is your only "hope" :-)

As a Zionist Jew and Obama supporter, I strongly disagree with some of Mr. Wright's views. But I do not think it is fair to attribute those views to Senator Obama. It would be wise for the Senator to further distance himself from Wright, and I suspect that this will happen sooner rather than later. But Senator Obama has proven himself to be friend of Jews and Israel through his actions spanning nearly three decades. To me at least, Obama's actions are far more important than Wright's words. Let's all take a deep breath here.

Obama has to blame himself for the mess he's in. Why didn't he leave church when this "piece of sh**" started his term as a pastor? The American people should question Obama and his troublesome wife as well. Sorry, Obama will never get my vote.

Both speeches for the NAACP and the press club were GOOD speeches Wright is obviously well educated and has a DEEP understanding of scripture. I was glad to hear him and get to know him a little bit more. The MSM got it wrong again! Wright for sure has a calling to Minister to the South Side of Chicago and America for that matter. A man of God no question!

Jerimiah could be possibly be right:

HISTORY OF SECRET EXPERIMENTATION

ON UNITED STATES CITIZENS

1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.
1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.
1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.
1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.
1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.
1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.
1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.
1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.
1950 In an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.

Obama looks like a choir boy in comparison to Bill, Hillary and McCain and all their excess baggage. And Bill Clinton, who is again inserting himself into the race (pun intended), a pattern we can assume will only continue in a Hillary White House, has yet to be thoroughly vetted. What has he been doing since he left the White House? What business ventures is he involved in? Who are his associates? Can the country afford another loose cannon in the White House after having just gotten rid of one?

Rev. Wright apparently missed the teachings of Jesus about humility and putting God before self. Does this guy work for Karl Rove? I voted for Obama back when he was the best and most inspiring candidate for all Americans who just happened to be half black. Now he has by his own actions turned himself into the black candidate representing the same tired "black leadership" demands that sink the individual aspirations of African-Americans into a sea of self-perpetuated "victimhood". There's no power for anybody in being a victim, but the Rev. Wright's of the world wouldn't have their "prestige", power, and money without a cadre of victims to pay the toll. A sad day for America because Obama had so much promise...

The real truth of the matter is that Rev. Wright, with his recent commentaries at the NAACP and today at the National Press has revealed himself to the american public in a way that trumps any accusations toward Hillary Clinton and her surrogates. The media has endorsed Obama by vast margins and Rev. Wright's statements did not surface in the media until much later in the campaign despite knowledge much early on by these folks. In fact, it was the Republicans led by Sean Hannity who released these states. If not for him we would not have had an opportunity to see these facts. So, I wonder when would we hear about the rest of the issues that need to appear before our eyes so that we can see all of the facts: Rezco, William Ayers, Prof. Adnan Auchi, etc.

I have also read about the commentaries posted by other sources and when I think about Rev. Wright I am astounded at those of you who defend his position. Any reasonable Pastor in this country is charged with leading their followers to Jesus and God and the preachings that for generations have been instilled on us is to love one another and forgive those that offend us as this would lead us into salvation. There is a focus of arrogance and divisionism that comes out quite clearly out of Rev. Wright as he speaks. Today he was basically rallying the troops and justifying his twisted views. A Pastor needs to understand that with the responsibility that they take, they are influencing the lifes and future of many and specially the young generations. With this african theology approach as he calls it, all he accomplishes is the fomenting of rancor and division.

It is true that the black population suffered in the past a great deal and could still be, but Wright abuses his power in taking such a negative posture that frankly does not speak of any Christian principles. More than anything it takes a centric position in giving an impression that only the black population has suffered. Let's take a look at the other minorities such as our american indians who were almost decimated due to mistreatment. The choice that Rev. Wright has taken is totally wrong and speaks highly of one who is using his role in vain and for only political opportunism at the expense of the black folks.

RECONCILIATION means coming together and Rev. Wrights actions reflect the fomenting of Hatred and Division. You cannot expect to maintain in life such an attitude if you want to move forward. I shudder of the image of this Charlatan preaching before families and specially children. What kind of future does he offer to the young generations when all he preaches is the promotion of these injustices that could be our past but in no way should be part of our future.

Reconciliation means Respect and Tolerance for everyone and recognizing that this nation is a rainbow of many etchnicities and that we can all learn to coexist and respect each other for what we bring together through our hard work and merit.

So, NO, NO, NO Rev. Wright I do not believe that you are genuine but one that puts personality in front and that sadly is using a Pulpit to bring a message that is false. You are one of the False Prophets that we were warned about in the Bible.

Obama's ties to this Rev. would prove to be damaging because deep down Obama believes in him!!!!

I struggle with Wright being such a long term part of Obama's life (well documented in his books) - flip the coin and tell me how it would go down if McCain was a 20 year member of the Westboro Baptist Church or a Christian Identity Church?

I watched Wright this morning, and read some of this article.

It seems DANA saw a totally different speech and Q&A.

DANA SAYS: Wright praised Louis Farrakhan
I SAY: Not really, he basically acknowledged Farrakhan's power in the Black community.

DANA SAYS: Wright defended the view that Zionism is racism,
I SAY: Again, DANA if full of it. Wright did not say such.

DANA SAYS: Wright accused the United States of terrorism,
I SAY: Uh, it's the truth.

DANA SAYS: Wright repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities
I SAY: DANA is a B.S. artist. Wright basically said "we gave biologic WMDs to Iraq, then yelled foul we he used them, so is not our country capable of unleashing AIDS?" Wright did not say it was truth, just a possibility.

As for "God damn America", you make your own judgement as to whether it's appropriate. Remember, there are over 1/2 million dead Iraqis because of our "liberation"

"The tragedy of the black psyche is its spasms of self-destruction".

....Very well said!! If Rev. Wright wants to be taken seriously, WHY would he even allow himself to be photographed with the likes of Kwame Kilpatrick or Marion Barry. Heellllloooooooo???? And now all of this is rubbing off on Obama, and by and large, Americans don't want that kind of DRAMA BS in the Whitehouse!!

I don't know how else to say this, as I really like Obama, but you have to understand how many Americans are processing this--A guy around the watercooler at my company was talking about this, and just looked puzzled....he said, "Gee, I thought I would vote for Obama, but with all the HUGE issues we face as a nation, I am now worried that he won't have the focus.

Then a lady around the corner said, "Yeah, just what we need now...The whitehouse full of angry black people"...

I'm telling you, it's not good for Obama.

You people are overly sensitive..why...because you have never had to fall down and get up again at the expense of bigotry and hatred... your paths have never been crowded with broken glass of denial that you had to tip toe through in order to make life liveable for you and your family... you've never had to see and don't see hear and don't hear because you did not want to be vocal about the prejudice that you saw all around you in the work place because you needed your job.. life as you know it is not the same experience for an African-American in America..you do not have the same point of reference...so when you are challenged to think outside the box..you get all defensive and jittery and in your shortsightedness you place blame on the messenger and the person you most want to destroy (in this case Barack Obama) instead of taking a minute to really listen to the words of Rev. Wright and see the truth in what he had to say... just because you have not experienced life from his perspective is no reason to automatically condemn him. Save yourself from yourself and take time to listen to opinions other than your own ..do not leave this earth the same way you came in..limited and self consumed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
It is just my point of view, but the US would be a better place if people learned how to work through their unreasonable thinking.

I do not believe that Obama's relationship with anyone should be called into question unless illegal activity is in question.
Who are we to judge who his friend and acquaintances are? I believe the bible has a story about Jesus being associated with "sinners and tax collectors" whom the accusers judged as unworthy so therefore Jesus was deemed unworthy.

Hypocritically Clinton has jumped on this bandwagon...yet she has her own ties to this man. (And far worse associations most of which are illegal)

The media just wants well...what the media always wants....sound bites.

So supposedly old white people are not going to vote for him because of this association? I doubt that's the real reason. More like.. they are unapologetically racist. Or ignorantly racist.
Either way it must be a miserable existence to be filled with so much hate and so little reason.

So who´s paying Wright to stir up trouble here?
I guess he wants McCain to win.

"I think I've been watching the modern version of the fall of the Roman Empire for the past few years...

This clinches it... in all the strife... problems, issues, that we Americans face.

We're all talking about what someones ex-Pastor, or a Preacher that endoreses someone... instead of the real issues that face us.

I feel saddened for our future...I truely do."

Exactly!! As this country falls into the bottom of the top 20 in every major category the citizens of this Idiocracy keep thumping their chest and saying we're #1. Which makes sense since our kids can't count anymore. America elected Bush twice. And now will turn it's back on a guy like Obama because "His father is Nigerian and his name sounds like Osama." (Insert Texas redneck or ethnic Pennsylvanian accent)

This country deserves what it gets. The Euro is almost double the dollar. We produce nothing but debt. Gas is $4. Kids are dumb. We torture. We spy etc. etc. And through it all we claim to still be #1. This country doesn't have much time left. Well long live President Camacho. (Idiocracy joke.)

Even Karl Rove can't save Obama...

From the UK Times

April 26, 2008

How can Barack Obama win keys to the White House? Karl Rove offers a few tips
Karl Rove suggested that race, far from hurting Barack Obama probably works in his favour

Tom Baldwin in Washington

Karl Rove, who masterminded the last two Republican victories in presidential elections, is gazing with undisguised relish at the giant target being painted on Barack Obama's back before the next one.

In an interview with The Times yesterday, he described the likely Democratic nominee as a "frail" candidate, who represents the values of an out-of-touch liberal social elite and demonstrates "tone deafness" to the concerns of ordinary Americans.

"You have probably seen this kind of guy at London parties, trailing ash from a fashionable cigarette into the carpet and making snide remarks about someone 'being an abominable bore'," Mr Rove said.

He suggested that voters have not heard the last of Mr Obama's recent comments at a San Francisco fund-raiser, where he suggested small town Pennsylvanians were clinging to guns and religion because they were "bitter".

The candidate sounded, Mr Rove said, as if he was following in the footsteps of his anthropologist mother "reporting on the exotic species of voter he had encountered in some dark corner on the opposite side of the globe".

All this is a far cry from just a few short weeks ago when Mr Obama's soaring oratory -- his promise to heal racial divisions or transcend the partisan politics of an older generation -- had Republican strategists regarding him with shock and awe.

It is now the Democrats' turn to worry. Mr Obama's decisive defeat in this week's Pennsylvania primary has been followed by whispers of alarm that they may end up with a candidate who is listing badly -- even holed below the water line -- just as he is about to cross the finishing line in his race with Mrs Clinton. His failure to win white working-class voters in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania -- both certain to be important battlegrounds in November's general election -- has raised doubts about his fitness for the fight against John McCain. He sometimes appears drained by his fight with Mrs Clinton, a woman 14 years older than him, taking time off the campaign trail this week and setting himself a light schedule for the coming days.

Whereas he once energised rallies with the chant, "Fired up! Ready to go!" he now complains about feeling tired and the length of primary season, or says he wants to go home to see his young family.

If Mr Obama loses again in Indiana on May 6, then panic will spread through the party. His campaign spent much of yesterday explaining to the Democratic super-delegates -- who could yet wrest the nomination away from him, why he remains the best candidate to beat the Republicans. Mr Obama himself was busy shoring up his battered Everyman credentials by holding a press conference at an Indianapolis petrol station.

But Mr Rove said that "unless something extraordinary happens", Mr Obama's lead among elected delegates still means that he will be the Democratic nominee.

And, although it may be unwelcome right now, Mr Rove even had some advice for him. First, he cease making attacks on Mrs Clinton and Mr McCain, which are "corrosive of his fundamental message about representing a new kind of politics".

Mr Rove also pointed out that Mr Obama cannot stand on a platform promising post-partisan politics when he has virtually nothing to show on this front from sitting in the Senate for three years.

"He should spend less time on the campaign trail between now and September and more time in the Senate" trying to get such an achievement under his belt, Mr Rove said. "The best way to prove a message is to live it."

Mr Obama has also been embarrassed in recent weeks by his black liberationist pastor Jeremiah Wright, who returned to the airwaves yesterday to denounce the media for portraying him as "some sort of fanatic".

Unhelpfully, he explained that one of the differences between him and Mr Obama is that he "goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician".

It is a treacherous, racially-charged subject, and Mr McCain has been careful this week to disassociate himself from Republicans who have launched a TV advert attacking Mr Obama's links with the pastor.

But Mr Rove suggested that race, far from hurting Mr Obama probably works in his favour by attracting white voters who regard the prospect of a black president as a "hopeful thing".

A bigger problem for Mr Obama, he said, is winning industrial states like Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania with a voter base that resembles "George McGovern's coalition of college students and white wine sippers".

Mr Rove cited polls showing that as many as 26 per cent of Mrs Clinton's supporters will vote Republican if Mr Obama is the nominee, saying even though such numbers were likely to come down before November, "there are going to be significant numbers of defections in this contest".

His scorn for Mr Obama was almost palpable as he described how the candidate had developed a habit of "parsing" when faced by criticism or complaining about rough treatment as he did after last week's TV debate against Mrs Clinton.

This makes him look like a whiner, Mr Rove said. "She has been getting tough with him -- but it's not as tough as it will get from all sorts of places in a general election."

Send in the Clown, again.

Hate-monger Wright is back!

And it couldn't happen at a better time.

Whites in North Carolina & Indiana have the ability to turn back Obama's racist "spiritual mentor" by voting for Hillary even if they will not vote for her in November.

Obama is a closet racist who has lied to the American people just to get their votes.

Obama should be ashamed of this man & apologize to the nation, then bow out of the race if he really cares about the Democratic Party.

But we know he doesn't.

Is Jeremiah Wright Obama's vice presidential candidate? Campaign advisor? A potential cabinet member? Not as far as I know. His political opinion is irrelevant to Obama's campaign.

There are a lot of people who I have worked with, met in daily life, my next-door neighbor, my in-laws, with which I agree with on many things, but have a subject on which our opinions are polar opposites.

Do you get up and walk out? Or do you listen carefully, consider the perspective and then logically refute it?

The whole "guilt by association" ploy assumes that Obama agrees with what the Rev. has to say and never tries to tell Wright that he should maybe chill out a little.

"Voice of Doom" -- Sad, petty journalism.

After listening to rev. wright on bill moyers and cnn yesterday I actually think he makes sense, you guys need to get over yourselves, don't play into the distraction

Hate to say it but HILLARY is now our only hope as Democrats.

Agree, with former poster. For better or worse, you can't associate with Crack Pot Bafoon Racists like Wright and expect to get elected!

After 7 years of Bush, we need serious organization and experience to get us back on track. Hillary and Bill are a 2 for 1 and mannn, do we need it!!

I'm looking at the transcript and Dana is being unfair when he quotes Rev Wright out of context. Dana states:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom.

the full quote from Rev. Wright is:
"As I said to Bill Moyers -- and he also edited this one out -- because of my mother's advice to me. My mother's advice was being seen all over the corporate media channels, and it's a paraphrase of the Book of Proverbs, where it is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The media was making a fool out of itself, because it knew nothing about our tradition. And so I decided to let them make a fool as long as they wanted to and then take the advice of Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Lies, lies, bless the lord. Don't you know the days are broad?"

Ugh.

Time to cut all ties to Rev. "Egomaniac" or time to give up your Presidential ambitions.

You decide, Barack.

Does Obama lose black enthusiasm, by repudiating Wright and his not unreasonable remarks? Or does he turn off on-the-fence whites by embracing a "radical" black minister (which is how the press will categorize him, since few will ever see the actual speech and make up their own minds1.) Can you split the difference on this issue?

Whichever way it goes, Obama may be mortally wounded by this. Clinton must not believe her luck, though she may rue the loss of a large black democratic vote in November.

The blacks incessantly complain about the past slavery issue in the U.S. but they continue their path.....slaves to the U.S. government "programs".
One of their own just ensured Obamas loss.
Go figure.

Posted by: seedobecome | April 28, 2008 1:58 PM
-------------------------------------
You DO realize that there are more white people on those "programs" than black people don't you? You are great example of the ignorance of a lot of Americans Obviously not you

Posted by: Facts | April 28, 2008 2:41 PM
-------------------------------------
Well, you know, you know, you know, as Obama would rationalize it:
There ARE 4 TO 5 TIMES as many white people in the U.S. than blacks so the safe assumption would be that there are more white "victims/slaves" than there are blacks. BUT, speaking on a percentage basis, there is a higher percentage of black people on government assistance than there are whites. One example would be, drive through ANY, formerly historic and successful, urban city and the numbers do not lie. This will not change until the black population stop the victim hood shroud. Nobody is listening anymore.

I just feel sorry for Barack. This is tragic. And I'm a Hillary supporter.

Wright is suffering from narcissism.... that is why he is "redeeming" his reputation even though it makes Obama's political life tougher.

Plus... Wright has a book coming out this fall. Probably will make a fortune off of it. And he will already be living in luxury in the "estate" that his parishioners are building for him.

So now how is Obama going to explain that this guy who Obama considers an "uncle" is really a true Christian looking out for the interests of others?

The Rev Wright is preaching Racism in the cloak of the gospel of Christ. Anger begets hatetred, hatetred begets antipathy.
This is not of God. Jesus did not ask the roman soldiers to appologize to him for taunting him, giving him stripes on his soldiers, for nailing his hands and feet to the cross, for mocking him with "king of the Jews", for spitting on him, dividing his clothes, giving him Vinegar instead of water,No He said, "father forgive them for they know not what they do."
He accepted Judas kiss of betrayal, he healed the soldiers ear yet knowing what he would have to suffer for ALL peoples of the world.
NO Wrights preaching is not the Gospel of Christ.
Furthermore he should also demand that Africa appoligize for SELLING their kindred to the slave traders. Those who supplied were as guilty, if not more guilty than those who purchased what was provided.
Also my great grandfather shed his blood during the civil war and ultimately died from those wounds- was that not a sacrifice? He was the first in my family to come to America. He left Prussia just before the civil war, becasue he did not want to fight in Prussia endless wars.
Yet he chose to fight on the side of the Union. The rest of my Granparents all came here from Norway. Not one bought or sold slaves. Don't lump all people that happen to be white in the same group, that is racist.

Just a couple of observations. I too am a preacher and know the Bible quite well. Anyone, as some do, can lift Scripture out of context and twist its meaning to satisfy their ends. Wright does that as many others do, but he doesn't represent Jesus Christ or what Jesus came to do.

Second, it's impossible to separate Wright and Obama. Obama doesn't differ with Wright or he never would have supported him for so long and exposed his family to his teachings. Obama is an extension of Wrigh and Wright is just showing us what Obama is like.

Third, for Wright to attack the MSM is stupid and arrogant. They have been his best friends. He has bitten the hand that has fed him.

Fourth, I am not responsible for what someone did hundreds of years ago. My congregation has blacks, hispanics, asians and whites. We love one another and serve the Lord together in love for Him and for each other. I am not a racist. To call me one is simply to tell me that you are.

America can do better than this man. One day, a worthy black man will run for President and I'll vote for him, but not this one.

I'm a white guy so for me it's either Hillary or McCain.

I'm proud to be white, and I'm sure glad I'm not black.

No wonder even illegal immigrants from Mexico are passing them by. At least they want to be here.

Thank heaven we have a free press to go after nuts like this man Wright. But today was perfect he did it to himself just by showing us who he really is. And believe me that was no "sound bite" I was listening to.

I just wonder what all of you will say when you face God on the Day Of Judgement? What will your excuse be for the way you have lived on this earth? What will you say when He says to you "depart from Me you workers of iniquity"?

You know, even Malcolm X, a very great man, IMO, said that the USA is a better country because we at least TRY to solve our racial problems.

I don't think Rev. Wright cares about solving these problems. Nor do I think Mr. Obama cares. However, I do believe that the vast majority of black Americans DO care very much. And they are being let down by black liberation theology and by Chicago-style political influence peddling.

To me, that's what is really sad and terrible.

Shame on Rev. Wright!
Shame on Mr. Obama!

Worried about Wright? You'd never have survived the 1960's; read a book and ask yourself why so many old arguments remain relevant today?

Obama threw his grand ma under the bus to save his black votes and decided to support Wright.

Now Wright say's Obama is just another politician who would say or do anything to get elected. Wright knows Obama for 20 years.

Obama's own father, mother or wife does not know him over such a long period.

How can Obama now throw his "inspiration" under the bus now?

Obama nuts please continue to defend Wright that is your only "hope" :-)

I didnt think it was possible after this weekend for ANOTHER person in the media to take Rev. Wrights comments out of context. But then again, this is the washington post. Anything that comes out of this cum rag of a newspaper should be taken with a shot of vodka.

Can we believe the contradiction that we see being promoted by Obama and the views of this Pastor? For an individual with the talents that he has, I find that tolerating this individuals for 20 years is hard to believe.
Exposing his family?

Unless Obama believes in him............

That is the only credible explanation!!!

Republicans are laughing all the way to the bank.

He should make a mockery of the media because you all are a joke. If Hillary gets the nomination because of your nutjob coverage of Rev Wright (Fox worthy coverage, at best) I am done with elections.

Obama should be made to sit in front of an audience & forced to listen to his nut job Reverend & then explain how he could have let his big-butted, big-mouthed , bully of a wife Michelle coerce Baracki Boy into following this guy.

Obama the liar is now a minstrel joke.

Would somebody please do a little solid research and find out who exactly paid for the National Press Club room this morning; I know that it costs a lot of money.

While traveling in Europe i learned of many atrocities that have been conducted by the CIA and now American contractors / hired guns that are not shown on CNN. When it comes to AIDS most of us dont know that Western scientists were experimenting with polio vacines and monkey strain, and testing it on Africans. But that is a fact. People would rather believe africans had sex with monkeys. The media does not report the murder and rape of iraqi and american women soldiers in iraq that makes us look like barbarians. But, all Americans are not like that of course. So until we know the facts and openly talk about it, the atrocities will go on. We have to travel abroad to learn about the contras and the hired guns / contractors in yugoslavia that lead to genocide of white mainstream muslims, or in africa that use starving kids to control the diamond trade. Did you know that Bayer the pharmaceutical company distributed HIV contaminated blood to the third world for at least six months AFTER they knew it was contaminated? there is an article in the new york times; hemophilliacs in asia are suing bayer because of it. this is a fact. search the internet if you dont believe it. also search rape in iraq. Sure Rev. Wright could be more tactful, but then again we have democrats who will vote for war and tax breaks to the rich rather than a man of integrity. This is not about white or black issues, it is about our integrity and respectability as a nation. In our refusal to face the hard cold facts, we fail to hold our government responsible, and the injustice goes on. Since we want to punish Obama for what his minister said, then do the research on aids, Bayer and rape in iraq for starters. then lets have this dialogue again.

Republicans are laughing all the way to the bank.

Posted by: Roger | April 28, 2008 3:22 PM

Yes!! But who is to blame. The GOP or stupid Americans that are so easily manipulated.

This one of the most pathetic pieces of journalism I have seen. If I had not viewed the speech I would of certainly thought this was the end of the Obama campaign. If Dana Milbank can trump up this insanely false depiction of Wright's speech maybe it should mark the end of his career as a journalist, at least for the Washington Post. Maybe the National Enquirer will be better suited for a man of his talents.

Hey... you Obama supporters... I saw the speeches (Sunday NAACP and today)... and Wright is an excellent performer and inspirational to many... but sometimes the words do not jive with reality or the plurality of American experiences. In other words, he is speaking to a specific audience with similar ideology.

You Obama supporters have to realize that even though you may understand and accept the rhetoric, that telling someone to "listen to the words" of Wright does not help at all.

For someone trying to bring people together, it appears that the Obama campaign has ended up exposing the racial rift... and yes it surely has opened up a national debate on race, but not the one Obama hoped for.

I didnt think it was possible after this weekend for ANOTHER person in the media to take Rev. Wrights comments out of context. But then again, this is the washington post. Anything that comes out of this cum rag of a newspaper should be taken with a shot of vodka.
---------------------------------------
On the contrary. The curtain has being revealed and NOW a great majority of us are seeing it before us.

Rev. Wright has done it to himself and is out there in the open. So, when Obama lose his supports cannot run and point the finger and say that Obama lost because americans are racists!!!

NO, GOD DAMN AMERICA has been placed in perspective and we saw the light!!!!

"Tell a lie(s) enough times, people begin to believe them."

Hahahahaha. I love irony. You realize that that is a quote by Vladimir Lenin.
You would use a Lenin quote to defend that communist/marxist Wright. obama's spiritual adviser. Yeah, spiritual adviser - right.
obama is finished.

Perhaps the Obamanauts can spin this as Obama being victimized by Wright's ego, which has the benefit of being partially correct. That's the only way I see them getting out of this now.

I think we're witnessing the ignominious end of Obama's candidacy. He did it to himself. Even when I used to support Obama, he always struck me as eerily vacant as a thinker. That great lack positioned him to be vulnerable to a mad mentor. Obama needs to grow a backbone.

This is America. We invite all kinds of nuts to speak at the National Press Club.
Now we have heard him from start to finish in a long speech and question and answer session. we can make up our own minds. He can't hide behind that "soundbites"argument anymore.

Funny how journalist have such respect for the freedom of speech - until they really come face to face with it.

OK, you reported it. You made it known you disagree. But why all the contempt?

Watched two of the "reverand's" performances and came away feeling that this man is not a "nut-case" but he is a big Racist, pure and simple. The Press Club performance with his condescending attitude to the questioner (hand-gestures, hand to ear nonsense, mocking the questions) pointed out a person with "bitterness" in his soul. No wonder Michelle Obama had no pride until recently in this country (brainwashing?). As the granddaughter of an immigrant who came to this country as a maid to a family who were involved in the Underground Railroad I take offense to all this racist crap spewing from this pastor.

3:17p -
Fourth, I am not responsible for what someone did hundreds of years ago. My congregation has blacks, hispanics, asians and whites. We love one another and serve the Lord together in love for Him and for each other. I am not a racist. To call me one is simply to tell me that you are."

How can you not be responsible for what someone else did, and at the same time try to hold Obama responsible for something he did not do?? You can't have it both ways

"

Obama simply has too many issues to deal with. I am tired of him. I've lost hope and confidence on him. He can fulfill nothing if he is elected. No matter what, I just don't think that Obama can win the election. Forget about him. And let's vote for Hillary or McCain.

Mocking JFK, good move Obama and "Pastor" Wright....................?

My dear friends......this is not about John McCain and the GOP, this is about Barak Obama's judgement in selecting a bigoted, loud mouthed fool as religious mentor. He just lost the election to John McCain. Not one of you liberals would tolerate this sort of situation if the shoe were on the other foot. Any comparison between Wright and Rev. Hagee is ridiculous. Hagee is not McCain's mentor and friend of 20 years duration.

Don't beat Dana Milbank up. He has been very kind to Obama, and is not a Hillary fan.

It appears that when even a Obama-leaning journalist speaks the truth within a political analysis, then they too are thrown under the Obama bus with grandma, Jesse Jackson, and all the "typical white people."

Harold Ford Jr. has got to be shaking his head. "Not Again!"

Sorry Harold they fall for it everytime. They'ld rather fight a 100 year war and build schools for Iraqi children than vote for a black man.

Martin Luther King Jr. was chastized in the very same way for speaking out against the unjust war in Vietnam and some of this country's discriminatory practices. Wright's words have been taken out of context on more than one occasion so I don't know why I would expect Dana Wilbank to get it right.

Anyone looking to view this with an open mind should listen to the Bill Moyers PBS interview. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html

I actually think this may work out for Obama because he can now aggressively cut this guy loose without the consequences he might have experienced the first time around.

Wait, didn't the media a long time ago bring the issue race to the forefront of this campaign?

I would really like to know why anyone cares about this? Republicans should love Wright because his job involves Jesus. Just because he's not a hillbilly preacher doesn't make him wrong.

I should add that I am looking forward to how Obama groupie Keith Olbermann spins this tonight on "Countdown" where Dana Milbank is a regular guest.

NO, THE PRESS BROUGHT THE ISSUE TO THE FOREFRONT. ESTABLISHMENT MANEUVERING, CONTRARY TO THE INTERESTS OF MOST AMERICANS.

It doesn't matter if what he says is true. It doesn't matter if what he said was someone else's quote, inasmuch as he's adopted those sentiments. The only thing that matters, as far as Obama is concerned, is how it plays. And it plays bad. The general population is not one sympathetic to African-American sympathies. Many white people, as the bulk of these posts make clear, simply want blacks to shut up, go to work, and be happy they are here. The happy slave, if you will. Any double standards in play are of no consequence.

Obama now has to personally rebuke Wright. He has to leave that church. That's the political decision. Wright is forcing him into that step, and thus, taking the blowback he'd get off Obama; anyone understands when someone is left no choice.

The sad part is that the intellectually dishonest will shift to a stance of, he should have done it earlier. But most people will give him credit for the move.

I heard part of his Wright's speech last evening. As far as I was concerned it read like a college thesis report on Black Religion In the World.. Dr. this, said that, Dr this did that.

Long story short I believed that he had been hiding under a rock at the REQUEST OF HUSSEIN. Now I am not so sure. Is this a BLACK STRATEGY MEETING to convince the American Voter that they are Racist IF THEY DO NOT VOTE FOR HUSSEIN.

From the three times we have heard from Wright. One has to wonder WHY HUSSEIN had
him as a mentor... WHY HUSSEIN sat in that PEW for 20 years AND LISTENED TO WRIGHT Black African Religion. Did HUSSEIN SELL HIS SOUL to the Wright's of the world to insure that he had the Black African Vote.

What is so damning for Hussein is that he KNEW THAT THIS would be an ISSUE as early as March of 2007.

He, the DNC, Media, and his backers knew that this was going to be an issue. HOWEVER, NO ONE brought it up until... AFTER HUSSEIN was winning the vote.

Hussein has now been shown up at the POLITICIAN THAT HE IS. Hiding everything, creating his own vision, promising everYthing but DELIVERING NOTHING.

His super delegates should be jumping ship... because HE CAN NOT WIN AGAINST MCCAIN.. NOW.

He needs to RESIGN from the nomination process... NOW and perhaps save some face... and run again AFTER HE CLEANS UP HIS ASSOCIATION WITH AND PERSONAL LIFE.

Perhaps... edwards... can take his spot.

The carping black nationalist that support this guy-in this context-love the very government and "oppressors" they claim to condemn. Stockholm syndrom ? Maybe ..but far more pernicious....Rev. Wright is flat out jealous and in love with his own hate...a warm blanket to perform and bask in all the applause.....he literally cannot concieve of the possibility of a black president....to him and the nationalist the white man IS God. What career would they have without being able to run "the man" racket. This moment, this possibility.....is what our ancestors died for ....what countless lynched and murderd blacks dreamed for and fought for ...indeed the very liscence that allow you to DELIBERATELY sabotage and ruin the aspirations of America and the world.....and for what.....the banal cheers of an ignorant throng of self-loathing fools....the claps of those very "liberation" jack asses who deep down in the sub-concsious recesses--are terrified of LOSING THERE favorite whipping horse...the object of there own self-hate projected back unto its source. I am a little younger than Obama and I certainly dont expect this moment Ever Again in my life time or my childrens life time. THANKS Liberation Fighters for liberating us from our liberation. And what have you unleashed in the process, for your own sick decrepit vanity, narcissistic ego and jealousy.....A NEW REALIGNMENT ....A NEW SOUTHERN STRATEGY.....it is clear that the democratic party will find a way to oust Obama....and that at least 20 % will PERMANENTLY LEAVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARY....Republican Neocon Dreams could not be wetter.....And what does that do to the Democratic party......They will have to compete for the Bubba vote more than ever, no longer able to rely on the Black margin that has carried them for so many years. The 20% will probably split with some going to the Republicans (trying futally to reform them) and the rest left to choose Nothing or the Nationalist Idiot Here Me Vent !!.....Hear me spit fire on the Man !!!! and dont forget to fill the collection plate......and our communities will remain decadent,uninspired and Powerless.

To "Proud Republican" - Puhleeze, you may be proud but you aint no Republican - you're a weird conspiracy theorist.

On Wright and Obama, too bad really, Obama is a smart guy, and Wright obviously is too, but there is a difference between smart and wise, education and foolishness. Both have a lot of smarts and education, but ....

McCain's got my vote. I'd vote for Obama if he even remotely shared my values. The Democratic Party is now America's Leftist Fringe Party.

Obama isn't guilty by virtue of "guilt by association". He is guilty by virtue of helping empower this racist lunatic by belonging to, attending and contributing money to Wright's church.

It's people like Wright -- and Obama -- that are keeping racism alive in this country.

Maybe Wright needs to read Bill Cosby's essay "We can't blame white people".

I have listened to Wright, and my impression is he is stuck back in the 1950's. You could blame a lot on whites then.

But here we are in the 21st century, and people like Wright have become the number one problem to the black community.

Wrights kind of "preaching" may sound good to blacks, but it reminds me of the alcoholic and his bottle of wine ... feels good going down, but it's gonna kill you in the end.

Michelle is a serious "ANGRY BLACK WOMAN"

Kind of scares me to think of her as our first lady--SERIOUSLY

Milbank's characterizations of Wright's comments carry the same level of depth as Hannity's characterization of his sermons.

For those that care about learning about the man and his beliefs, listen to his entire sermons, and this entire press conference, yourself, and make up your own mind both about where he is coming from, and how much coverage of soundbites distorts reality.

Why do whites feel that Wrights comments about the Government are racist towards whites. As far as I can tell he never directed any comments towards whites.

This seems very odd to me. To criticize the government is to hate white people? Are we fascist?

I'm very curious as to how this intellectual leap is made. Will someone please explain or show me where Wright specifically mentioned white people.

Wright is used to "playing" to a packed house of 8000 people. It could not have been easy to be told by Obama and Axelrod to lay low and shutup. Now, he must have decided that he will NOT be told what to do by any man, black or white. After all. Wright is the epitomy of the egocentric ranting racist, and he WILL have his say! Obama was very unwise not to disown AND denounce him from the outset, though that would still have been a hard sell in light of his 20 years of support. When you consider Obama's problems with Wright, Rezko, Auchi, Ayers, Dohrn, Khalidi, et el, and now Evelyn Pringle's 3-part expose' on scoop.com [more parts to follow] on Obama's rise in Chicago politics, it will be a hard sell on the part of Howard Dean to convince all Dems to unite around Obama in November. As Pringle states, a fifth grader could have obtained all of the info she did on Obama, so why didn't the democratic party leaders do their homework before super Tuesday??? Now, if they admit they made a grave mistake that could actually do harm to the country, their political careers will be ruined. But, if they DON'T come forward to denounce Obama, their careers will still be destroyed, when the mainstream media gets ahold of the Pringle articles, or at least FOX NEWS! We democratic voters are going to have to take control of this situation and vote for McCain in November if Hillary is not the nominee. By then, the Rezko trial and all of the corruption in Chicago politics surrounding and including Obama will be front page center for all to see. He is totally unelectable, and we need a Dem in the White House, but I would rather have McCain there, than to allow the Chicago political machine to move their game from the streets of Chicago to the halls of the White House!

Annette Keller,
No matter what Wright says that does not give Hillary pledged delegates or any credible way to win the nomination. Hillary only started being competitive when the Republican nomination was over and Rush Limbaugh sent his idiots out to screw up our election. If the superdelegates overturn the electorate, the Democratic Party is done for.
----------------------------
I agree 100%; and why has the media ignored the fact that Clinton won PA, & OH largely because of Rush Limbaugh's crazy challenge. Also, it was Rush's challenge that gave Clinton the win on popular votes in TX although she didn't win TX, because Obama won the most delegates. Clinton keeps changing the math in an effort to get ahead even though none of it stacks up to a win for her. So we will see how the convention turns out, because it is impossible for her to win at this point without the superdelegates giving it to her. If they do Rush and his crazy followers will Riot and get away with it, because McCain will not prosecute the and Clinton won't get in office to even try. I didn't get asked who I would vote for if the DNC "GAVE" the nomination to Clinton, and if I had my answer would be Mickey Mouse as a write-in.

Dana,

How is it that a great many people continue to ask why has Senator Obama not left his church based on some of the things his pastor has said and yet very few people if any are asking why have Catholics not left their churches based on some of the things their clergy have actually done?

This is not to say that a double standard exist, but it is to say that people need to check themselves when they insist on holding Senator Obama responsible and accountable for what his former pastor has said or done.

Can you imagine the good reverend wright giving the convocation at BO's inauguration? Good bye Mr. Obama. I am a sad white man today. I voted for you and sent money to Hillary right after I read this article.

I believe we have to remember that Rev. Wright is also a politician. He also has a constituency and has to speak with the voice of that group or he would not retain his position. His group is obviously demanding that he speak strongly to their values and, I believe, those values are ones that the most moral of Americans would approve, even if provocative. I believe Obama shares those views, even if he disapproves of the rhetoric. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans may be prejudiced against Obama because they are not sufficiently moral.

Swanieaz writes: "A sorry, sorry day for all of us, and I am a WASP."

Wow....I didn't know Wasps could read, never mind write. I just thought they spent most of thier time stinging people who intrude on thier hives...I guess the Bee Movie with Jerry Seinfeld was onto something...Swanieaz's comment are sure generating a lot of Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz in my office...I guess Obama has now lost the insect vote...oh well

We do not go to church for the sake of a priest or a pastor. A church is a place where people gather to pray.

At least he went to church. Hillary has no religious affiliations. That is why she lives with FEAR and not HOPE. It appears that the majority of American Catholics live with Fear. That is why Hillary is able to get their votes. Spiritual people should live with HOPE and not FEAR if they truely believe in GOD.

Please, stop all of your breathless tabloid reporting for just a moment and take the time to read Elizabeth Edwards clear-eyed op-ed about the media's role in our democracy in yesterday's New York Times. Maybe then you will realize that you are seriously abusing your power and playing an essential role in the perversion of our democracy.

It is YOUR choice whether or not you sacrifice reporting on real issues for the latest bowling scores or remark of somebody a candidate knows. What is needed in this country is an INFORMED electorate, and YOU have the power to help fulfill that need. Please step up to this and stop with this adolescent, gossipy "journalism". It makes you look very small.

ps If you insist on dedicating a large chunk of your political reporting to Rev. Wright, please at least take an honest look at what he said instead of casting it in the most simplified, controversial, and negative light. What you are doing is destructive and dishonest.

Its tragic for the Democratic Party that this whole situation wasn't know in November 2007. Obama wouldn't have won in Iowa...or anywhere else. Not even close.

Now...here we are. Move over Dukakis...make room for Obama.

It's interesting to me that everyone wants to say "I'm not a racist"...but is happy to point the finger of "racist" to someone who speaks uncomfortable truths that no one wants to deal with. Everyone wants to forget slavery, forget segregation, and forget the discriminationg that STILL EXISTS TODAY.

No one wants to look at the history of why some African-American are upset about some of this country's policies. That does not directly translate to "unAmerican" or "racist". This country was founded on the oppression of Native Americans and African Americans alike, but everyone would like for these groups to keep quiet and have no opinion at all. Just look at the anonymous comment to this very article:

"Harold Ford Jr. has got to be shaking his head. "Not Again!"

Sorry Harold they fall for it everytime. They'ld rather fight a 100 year war and build schools for Iraqi children than vote for a black man.

Posted by: | April 28, 2008 3:31 PM"

From a political horserace perspective, I have to agree with the poster gbooksdc -- Obama must leave that church IMMEDIATELY.

Personally, as a Hillary supporter, I hope he doesn't do that. But he has no choice now, really, so expect an announcement within days if not hours -- something about how "shocked" and "betrayed" Barack and Obama are by Wright's comments. Whatever.

The strategy from the Republicans under Karl Rove is to get Hillary beaten and Obama elected so that they can insure their win. It is called reverse psychology and they are good at it!!!

You do not know much about Harold Ford, Jr. He has said many times that this is politics and Obama needs to be able to address such issues head on. Being able to do so is a sign of leadership and strength.

Harold is a southern black man and is a realist... and notably he only lost the Tennessee Senate seat by 3% after being unfairly swift-boated by an ad that played on racism.

Where Obama's problems originate is his own doing... No one needed to swift-boat him with Obama having a close friend and mentor like Wright. And this has more to do with "radicalism" (aka not mainstream) then "race."

Boy, this country dodged a serious bullet coming this close to handing over the WH keys to the follower of a deranged racist lunactic. With nominees like these, it's no wonder the Republicans have cleaned the Dems clock going on almost 40 years. The Democrat Party is DOA come November 2008, and it's about time the media woke up and did its job! McCain will be our next President.

Wright is irrelevant and just grist for MSM bloviators to waste good oxygen babbling about. Obama doesn't have a chance in he// of being elected POTUS...and of course HRC is equally unelectable. Once again, the Dems...with their uncanny ability to pick losers... are handing the White House to the GOP. He//uva job, Dems.

Question: Who actually wrote this piece of partisan tripe anyway? Dana Milbank or Eric Pianin?

And why does that picture of Mr. Milbank remind me of Andy Kaufamn? Wait, I get it now - Pianin is Tony Clifton..cute.

I guess America (white America) just doesn't get it. To bad. Now for a giant step backwards as we nearly taking one forward. I guess next he will be labeled anti semitic because some supporter will denounce Zionism.

I don't usually read Mr. Milbank because he is a little left for my taste. The Reverend has finally pushed it beyond anybody's power to dissemble, rationalize, and exlain. This article was straight reporting. It speaks for itself.

If Obama is the nominee, I see a forty state blow-out victory for McCain.

Doug Santo
Pasadena, CA

PS

The comments on this page confirm that there are some real nuts out there.

"2) If the "super" delegates take the vote away from the people, the Democrats will be destroyed forever."

Not if evidence makes it too obvious that their new savior has become bruised beyond belief...

Here's the bottom line. People aren't stupid enough to think that you can sit in a church for 20 years and listen to this type of theology without having everything you view about the country and world filtered through it. No matter how you sugar-coat it, the fact that Senator Obama "walks" with this man, excludes him from being POTUS!

Well, the world is full of people I don't think are always on target. People like Wright, people like Bush and his "weapons of mass destruction." If Wright was running for President he would not get my vote. Obama is running and I have listened to what he says, as I have Clinton and McCain. I have looked into, as best as possible, how they have lived and the political positions they have taken. My vote went to Obama in the Texas primary, and in the caucus, and I hope I get a chance to vote for him in November.

This development is exactly why it was appropriate for Hillary Clinton to stay in the race. When opponents are only 1% apart in the popular vote (not even counting Florida) any candidate would stay the course because anything can happen to tip the balance. If Obama was on the losing end of a 1% margin he certainly would stay in and he would be right to do so.

The re-emergence of Rev. Wright might have added enormous weight to Obama's inability to connect with white middle class voters, white blue collar voters, Catholics and Latinos.

African-Amercians, if they want to come to Obama's aid, will have to, en masse, reject Jeremiah Wright in no uncertain terms. Even then, Rev. Wright might have just dealt Obama a fatal blow.

This is why Obama should have waited for 2012 or 2016 to run for President. His service in the U.S.Senate would have given him bona fide credentials, and he would have had more time to distance himself from Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko and Ayers/Dohrn.

If Obama loses the nomination or the general election, don't blame the Clinton's. Obama has done all this to himself. If the Clinton's are marginalized by their own party many Democrats (including me) will leave the party for good.

Thank you Wright, for bringing the white racists cockroaches out of the cracks...

Harold Ford at the Playboy Party with white girls.

Obama with Wright the black radical.

Same strategy. Same effect. Based in the same fear.

Great post Roger 3:22 p.m.

I watched Rev. Wright's ENTIRE speech on CNN, guess what, I found that I agreed with many of the things he said, but of course the media will only show snippets and soundbites, because that keeps the stories going and talking heads working. Last I looked OBAMA'S name is on the Ballot not Rev. Wrights, why don't you lavish this much attention of Pastor Hagee's sermons, after John McSame is really happy that he's his advisor and endorsing him! Nope, there's still racisim alive and well in this country, exactly what Rev. Wright is speaking too, unfortunately there are so many pointy headed people in this society that they will live and die by snippets because when all you watch is American Idol instead of reading an entire book or article and base your votes on "snippets" on T.V. we end up with the mess we now have. It's pathetic.

I sincerely hope Reverend Wright continues to speak out on whatever is on his mind, right up to Election Day.

That's the best way to guarantee that Obama will not be President. He's going to be spending the next six months having to deal with Wright's remarks, at every interview, every debate.

And as for those black people who say I will never understand Reverend Wright, I say this: I don't have to understand him. He's not running for office. I do have to understand Obama, because he is asking for my vote. And I'm glad that he will never be President of the United States.

iris writes---Anyone looking to view this with an open mind should listen to the Bill Moyers

Now, you see there's your mistake. An obama supporter is the perfect example of a closed mind.

obama supporters are a hoot. You're real high up on entertainment value alone.
The hildabeast must be in hog-heaven listening to this racist sink obama's campaign.
Operation chaos continues.

Ric
It is too bad. Jeez.

Simply one comment: 12% of the population.

To Proud Republican:

Oh horse hockey! Obama is his own worst conspiracy. If he hadn't maintained a 20-year association with this nut, no one would give two cents what he says.

You, the media is reigniting the issue. Why don't you publish Reverend Wright sermons completely? Why don't you help readers to interpret those sermons? Why do you follow the trends of corporate media?

Wright is bitter - not better after preaching hatemongering for 30 years.

Has Wright apologized for his remarks about Hillary FROM THE PULPIT??

"Hillary ain't never been called a N****r!"

NOOOOO!!!

Today Hillary called on everyone to move on past Wright. I'm glad someone is standing up and trying to unify the party before it explodes!!!

Should the issue of Sen. Obama's 20-year relationship with his pastor and mentor be considered "guilt by indoctrination" ?

What an awful Rohrshach test this column has served to administer to us Americans. I don't know who the respondents are, but the racism (on both sides), the anti-Semitism, and the overall level of strident and viscious intolerance are appalling. Whether the views and opinions of Reverend Wright are newsworthy and are proper subjects to use in assessing Obama are certainly debatable issues that do not warrant this level of diatribe, invective, and outright hatred.

I for one am a huge fan of Obama's and am saddened to see Reverend Wright say things that will, fairly or not, certainly hurt Obama's campaign.

Regardless of who is elected President, this country will be far worse for the race-baiting that is sure to follow. Dialogues like these, with simmering hatreds unveiled in all of their ugliness, are the testiment to what lies under the scab once it is picked off.

We have sacrificed reason and progress for stridency and self-justification.

Sad. Very sad.

Read the transcript, not this blather.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?pagewanted=all

While Wright is actually correct on a few of his observations....his method of delivery will never get people to actually listen to what he has to say....this makes him a grade A idiot...

But..lets not think Mr. Obama does not have a mind of his own...maybe he sees through all the flash and drama of Mr. Wright..

BTW..I don't agree with Wright's position on HIV and a few other outlandish idiotic viewpoints.

He is one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century; that's what I think about him. . . . Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."
----------------------
News flash Rev, no one 'put you in chains'. Get off your cross, someone needs the wood.

I'll just comment here that, we've been told for 32 years, going back to Carter, that we should overlook the shortcomings of [X] and vote for the lesser of two evils.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton threw blacks, as a constituency, under the bus. (That always bothered me because Republicans always take care of THEIR base.) Bill Clinton appointed a huge number of black judges, but that's not the same as taking care of your base; that's rewarding political cronys. Anyway, I digress: except for the Reagan years, things have gotten worse and worse (and if you think Clinton's the reason things were OK in the 90s, read Bill Bradley's book; there were a number of things that Clinton had nothing to do with and that are not likely to recur that boosted the economy).

Point being, I'm going to vote for someone. Not against someone else. The lesser of two evils doesn't fly for me, and Obama's politics were never mine, anyway. It seems to me character has always been the best indicator in a President; it certainly was with Reagan. I always regretted Dukakis' loss; he was a very smart guy and a pretty good Gvernor, he's have been better than Bush I. And Perot was the best man running in both campaigns.

I can find things to like in McCain. He can't be as incompetent as Bush. And don't get it twisted, deep down, McCain and Bush hate each other's guts. McCain slamming Bush over Katrina is an indication of his, and most Republicans, disgust at Bush's incompetence. He has scruples and a level of integrity. Next to Hillary, he's George Washington. He has no use for the Clintons, and he'll work with Dems. So I think he can bring this country together, at a time when we need unity to face our enemies who would destroy us. You may not like what he stands for, but I think you can trust him.

Put up Hillary. Watch her a$$ get dusted, and then, God willing, she'll be relegated to the dustbin of history, and the Dems and America can move on. Because right now, they're holding the party hostage, and Americans really should get to choose between two competent, honorable individuals. (The honorable part lets Clinton out.) The SDs know it, that's why they're still moving towards Obama. But this latest Wright business might remove their political cover.

I will be making another contribution to Obama as will thousands of others.

As Sen Obama says change is not easy and the establishment won't go down without a fight.

Did I hear this right?

Rev. "Goddamn America" has a book coming out later this year?

Well, that's just GREAT!!

And you moonbats think Obama can win in November..

ROTFLMAO!!

Joe wrote---"From a political horserace perspective, I have to agree with the poster gbooksdc -- Obama must leave that church IMMEDIATELY."

Ain't that kinda like shutting the barn door after the horses get out?

I just read a few comments about how close we came to turning over the White House to a racist idiot. Don't some of you realize we have OFTEN given the White House to racists?

Nut case he is. Undoubtedly. Sorry - but what fools.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

D. Milbank, the initial proverb that you quote Reverend Wright as saying, he turned as an insinuation to the media, not himself. Did you actually listen to what he said or are you still looping in a histrionic sound bite? Likewise, "Chickens coming home to roost..." was a quote he was using from someone else. Did you not hear the reference? Reverend Wright's hysteretic (not hysteric) and overdue speech at the NPC was spirited, explanatory, biblically and historically rapt, and, at times, candid and indignant; and, as one might expect from a pastor of 36 years reduced to a 20 second sound bite, it sought to be protective of who he is and what he and his ministry has accomplished. It was a short history lesson of the role The United Church of Christ has played as a faith-based organization for its members and in the broader community through the efforts and successes of its ministries to impact injustice, misfortune, inequality and a host of other issues. It is not unfortunate or reflexive in the context of politics or the Obama Campaign that you and others, mistakenly, want so badly to associate it with, but sadly in the shallow immediacy of news bite infection many of you focus on the bee's sting and not the flower, pollination or fruitfulness of the garden. Others will dissect his speeches and sermons to aid their own agenda and negate the message by attacking or attempting to invalidate the messenger. Reverend Wright continues to define himself (rather than be defined through the trite and trivial) and champions his identity as a pastor who has a broad appeal in his church/community organization and one who will not be silenced by his critics. He is neither a "nut", "loony", or has he "doomed" the Obama campaign. If you would expended more effort correctly informing yourself and thereby (hopefully) offering your readers a balanced perspective there might be less recoiling at sensationalism. But...that's not likely to happen.

Looks like we got another nut case. Concernedaboutdc.

It's time for Obama to distance himself from... the presidential campaign.

I watched the entire speech and Q&A this morning. I don't understand why people refer to Wright as dangerous or a nut.

He is a charismatic speaker, well educated and thoughtful. There was so much truth is what he said. He was particularly correct when he said that people react to his words rather than to the truth.

Anyone who calls Rev. Wright bigoted hasn't listened to him or is reacting to his words but not his message.

Did Wright make odd gestures? Yes. They may have looked condesending to those who have difficulty accepting any kind of sermon or speech other than formal, dry, political speech. Remember, he is a pastor and he explained his background.

Did he say things that are hard to take? Yes, but he also talked about reconciliation. He is a black man in an country that enslaved blacks, lynched blacks, and discriminated against blacks. It's part of his history although so many white people just want to ignore it. Wright talked about how the white people of his church helped slaves and embraced them. There was nothing negative in his words but hopefilled and positive. The truth hurts, though. Face up to instead of crying "nut" and "bigot".

I am shocked (althought I shouldn't be) by the vitriol in these comments. So many narrow minds. It's very depressing. I would guess there are a few racists posting here.

The political fall-out of Wright's racist rants will continue to harm BO. Perhaps not enough to deny him the nomination, but there is no way he will be elected president with this guy so closely tied to him, plus his connections to the terrorist Ayers, plus the Hamaas endorsement, plus his willingness to sit down with every two-bit thug national leader and his connection to another noted racist, Farrakhan. While I have no doubt BO is not a racist himself, such associations and statements show a remarkable lack of judgment from someone who wants to be president.

zzishate wrote---I will be making another contribution to Obama as will thousands of others.
Does the phrase, 'a fool and his money' ring a bell? hahahaha

Hear that sound?......that's Obama's campaign going down in flames.....

Jerry Wright has just put the final nail in the political coffin of Obama....Obama is D--E--A--D as a Presidential candidate....

Rev. Wright is not helping the Obama campaign. I do not know why black people are always in to knock down a fellow black man. Wright has an ego and it would have been better not to serve his ego but serve God instead!

Obama can throw him under the bus now as far as I am concerned!

America: look at the Obama black shirts posting here. This is what David Axelrod pays them to do. They literally harass anyone who speaks up against his criminal candidate. Enough is enough and David Axelrod's brutal tactics - and this harassment of a Washington Post journalist - must be stopped. Democracy has no alternative.

May I just say ... Mr. Obama's camp is looking less and less ready for prime time.

Mr. Dean last week made this very sensible comment:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d03a310-12f7-11dd-8d91-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
"If it's very very close, they [the superdelegates] will do what they want anyway," said Mr Dean.
....
"I do not think in the long run it will come down to the popular vote or anything else.
....
"Politically there will be some feeling at the end of this process that somebody is better than the other person in terms of taking on John
McCain."

you're right geechee. and there are more bigots and racists and muslim converts than in any other cohort.

I absolutely support Obama but I think I'd like to put duct tape over Wright's mouth. Wright's speech on prophetic black faith was intelligent and rational but his answers in the Q&A, by and large, were flip and likely to alienate folks. If nothing else, I think he showed a regrettably inflated self-regard today and an ego of considerable proportions. I think some of his answers were absurd (as I know Obama does.)Aids as biological warfare etc. is not a serious argument and posing it instantly discredits Rev. Wright. Doesn't he want to be taken seriously?

I think he did a grave disservice to Obama and I do not understand his motivations and lack of loyalty. Does he want to reinforce the silly ideas and simplistic portrayal of himself offered up by the shallow whims of the tabloid media in the last month? Does he want to derail the candidacy of the first half-black candidate that has a real shot at the White House? Why?

Maybe Obama does need to cut the cord completely. After Wright's disloyalty, it would not be undeserved. Then again, if Obama can forgive Wright's brazen behavior, it stands as a even greater testament to his character. I know this for sure, Obama's ideas and temperment are wholly untainted by Wright's outlandish mentality.

And an aside to some of the open bigots on this board, you are worse than Wright and you should be ashamed. I believe, as Obama does, in a united and fair America in which your hate has no part. Is that not something we should all strive for? God, I am disappointed by the blindness of some of my fellow citizens right now. I am heartsick at their inability to embrace the ideas of equality and justice that make this a truly great country. I believe that in my core and I know Obama does. How about all the detractors?

Its upsetting to read that many feel Republicans are laughing and enjoying all of this. I'm not. This guy is an embarrassment to all Americans. He can believe what he wants because it is his right but the hate he is spewing will only keep our society from moving forward in terms of race relations. Maybe on some sick level that is what he wants.
I speak to many like minded people and none of us are dancing with joy right now.

haloplayer...

I'm not a fool..but better to be thought a fool than a bigot. Chew on that one for a while.

This should no be surprise anyone. This so called pastor is a racist and does not follow God's words. Obama is his pupil and he should pay for all the racist comments.

Blacks need to learn that they should think independently and select the best candidate possible and not vote or cheer for one candidate in masses.

Hispanics won't vote for Obama in the primaries nor in the general election. Bill Richardson did not get our vote because he was not the best candidate.

Hillary is the best candidate.

Read the transcript, not this blather.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?pagewanted=all

Posted by: gavin930 | April 28, 2008 3:51 PM
____________________________________________

The problem is, 99% won't read the transcript (and many who do, will read it with a closed mind). Everyone else will only know of Wright as it is reported, and it will be reported as Dana reported it.

If the populace were intelligent and capable of critical thinking, Hillary would have carried about eight states and would be an afterthought by now. Many people really ARE stupid, and most people believe what they read, without processing. That's why Bush was elected, twice.

Basically, Obama will be punished because he knows a jerk. My college chaplain was a wino who liked boys (and may God rest his soul, he was a sweet, sweet man, but the truth is the truth). No one will ever assign any moral blame to me for that, or that I, say, didn't alert the college authorities. Again, no one cares about a double standard.

You will go broke, fast, betting on the overall intelligence of the people.

You Know What's Scary About the Washington Post..........

When you read the racist comments to this and other articles. You realize that the people making the racist comments are sitting in offices all over DC.

Now that's institutional racism for you.

Artful tactic: Guilt by association with audience participants.

The Milbank trash talk cites the presence of "Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad," ...

Milbank knows--but hopes you don't--that anyone can attend a National Press Club public event. I went to hear Desmond Tutu a while ago. I just called the Press club for a reservation and showed up!

You guys are master propagandists!
--Impressed me.

If America and the world are to survive, we must allow ourselves to see others who are different and suppress the violent urge to destroy them.

I don't like some of the things Wright says, but I'm not voting for him.

I don't like some of the things McCain says, and I'm not voting for him either.

I don't like some of the things Clinton says, and I'm not voting for her either.

I don't like some of the things Obama says, but I HAVE voted for him. And proudly so.

The world isn't homogeneous and fortunately so.

I was wondering when Mr. Obama would be hoisted on his own petard. It looks like it finally happened.

The whole thing is sad. Rev. Wright can say what he wants, its America after all.

There is a lot of truth to what he is saying from an African American perspective. However, if you have never walked in a man's shoes, how can you begin to understand the path his feet have endured?

There are people in the US, right now, who can still remember what it was like to have fire hoses turned on them, and dogs and lynchings. Yet, you would say to that person, "hey get over it..." or "that was too long ago, so move on..." And if they share with you that they are still hurt and they still feel pain, then they are unpatriotic, because they remember a different America than you.

If anyone would change their vote from Obama to Hillary today, because of Rev. Wright..then I would believe that you were looking for a reason in the first place, or something to that effect.

Rev. Wright is a American hero. Please do yourselves a favor and watch the interview with Bill Moyers. We owe him our gratitude and respect and we cannot squander another election on the clinton dynasty.
Help Senator Obama move our country forward.

And the cynicism go on and on, especially in the media. Wake up America. Think for yourselves. Rev. Wright has a powerful message and we've never had a candidate as good as Obama!

Rev. Wright's recent statements prove, to me at least, that he is NOT Obama's friend. He seems to be intentionally tarnishing Obama's image. Who is financiing this speaking tour, anyway? The timing is certainly curious. Obama needs to face the truth about his so-called friend and defend himself or,at least admit he was bamboozled by Wright who seems to be a egotistical hate-monger preaching evil in a house of prayer. I am a Black American and have attended a Black church all my life. Even in the 60s, our pastors never spoke in such a hateful manner.And there were many more blatant reasons then.Wright should pray for forgiveness. Obama must wake up and fight back.Also,on the charges of elitism:if he has student loans, was raised in a sometimes broken-home, spent some time in the inner-city,etc, he cannot be considered elite. I think some people feel that if we all don't talk and act more like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, or worse yet, like JAY JAY on Good Times, we must be elitists. Hillary's background,upbringing, schooling, adult life is more elite that anyone since Jackie Kennedy.

You saw a very different speech than I saw. Your reporting is biased and flawed. What utter crap.

For those who attack Rev. Wright over his AIDs comments perhaps you should educate yourselves about what governments are capable of, even the American government. Rev. Wright mentioned the Tuskegee Study. Read it and weep.

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/wdc-lib/historical/medical_history/bad_blood/

Don't say it can't be done.

and this is the spiritual advisor of Obama, who listened to him for 20 years.

"But this country's leaders have refused to apologize." (for slavery).

We fought a war...many thousands died to end slavery. Does that mean anything???

It's columnists like Milbank, who can turn a phrase and sees everything as confirming his prejudice (not racial, personal), that will make Wright into a nut case. Keep repeating it and it will be true, right? This WASP found Wright to speak the truth, lust as MLK,Jr. did when he said the same thing in 1968.

The belief that Barrack coulod be a nominee was a long shot, because as we can see its truly a White Mans world, and if true, he does not look like me is more racist than anything Wright has said, it merly shows that though things have changed they are still the same. Good Try Barrack but the US is not ready for you yet or a BLACK lEADER how sad

Obama is Obama not God. Wright is not gonna change what he believes or his rhetoric to help Obama. He'll leave that to the Pat Robertson and TD Jakes of the world.

There are many reasons and occasions to criticize the media collectively and certain members of the media individually, but to blame Dana and the media for the Reverend Wright's remarks in the last few days is preposterous. What do the critics above want is a complete ban on reporting of whatever Wright said and, beyond that, of anything negative about Senator Obama. That would be just as wrong as magnifying Wright and other unwelcome revelations about the Senator of Illinois.
Yes, it is sad that Wright does so much harm to Obama--but that is not the fault of the media. Wright would have been well advised to remain silent.
I doubt that he cost Obama the Democratic nomination but it will cost Obama the presidency.

For those of you claiming to have seen the whole speech and condemning those who focus on the snippets, get a clue: the snippets are of a piece with his whole speech. He condemns America as a terrorist nation, feels 9/11 was justice, thinks the gov capable of introducing AIDS to blacks, implies Obama agrees with him but says something else as a politician, etc. The snippets and the speeches are uniform and describe an anti-American, hate whitey preacher and his acolyte, Obama. Now his views may resonate with the Marxist condemnations of America and may resonate with the lefties on this board but guess what, comrades? They don't resonate with the majority of Americans....so embrace his positions, rant about how bad America is and watch your leftie candidate go down in flames.

Hmmmm. The Wapo has 5 articles up on their home page regarding Rev. Wright., all penned today. When did the Wapo get so obsessed with Rev. Wright?

zzishate, just look at your screen name. You're filled with hate. You're just the kind of person who would support that racist wright.
You're sending money or are you trying to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. Both equally futile efforts.
But, hey, don't be stingy. What ever amount you are going to send - double it.

Hahahahahahaha

Since Obama is half black does that mean he thinks his Pastor is only half Wright.

LKA>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Who is the WE that you are referring to???

To paraphrase a fellow commenter:
"It's the jews that coerced Wright into talking in order to sink his candidacy."

Good grief! Wright is a blessing. Finally someone is opening the door to a really really honest conversation about race, and the institutionalized racism that permeates pockets of african-american culture.
My first exposure was a liberal arts school in an Africana Studies class, when my teacher told me I needed to die if I did not support Pan-Africanism (the idea that african-americans should all immigrate to africa). So much for free thought.
The Black Theology website that Wright weblinks to teaches that "If God doesn't hate whites, then we should kill God." I wonder how Obama's racist grandmother feels about that.

Vote Obama -murder babies, baby murderers-

JESSE JACKSON revisited. Wright is a nightmare. We will never heal racial wounds with a man like this at the helm of any church. Preacher of Victomology. I feel very sad for Obama. Wright is a traitor to the campaign of the first black man in U.S. history to run for President. Shame on him.

Its official. The Democratic Party is now one big lunatic asylum.

Rev. Wright (or is it wrong?), acted like a war hero because he, like millions of other Americans served in the Armed Forces. He belittled Cheney for not having served. HAS OBAMA OR CLINTON SERVED Rev?
McCain is a REAL war hero.

Is Milbank on the Rupert Murdock payroll?

If this country is so evolved. Why is the race card still the most powerful strategy in politics.

Maybe we should stop patting ourselves on the back for how far we've come.

"Coincidentally, it was they [Biblical Jews] who betrayed Jesus to the Romans so he could be crucified."

What a crock of crap. Live with it: Romans, or ITALIANS, killed your Jesus. Jews had nothing to do with it. That was a laughable addition to the bible after the Nicene council in the 4th century, presided over by Constantine, the first Xtian emperor of Rome.

Pontius Pilate was a notorious Jew hater and killer. It is to laugh that he could be influenced by Jewish rioters to kill or not kill another Jew.

Time you learned the history of your own religion. And your anti-Semitism hangs like a dingleberry from your bigotted brain.

I will be very interesting to see how Obama makes Hillary Clinton the villian on this one!
There is no way Obama can become president. I honestly thought he was going to be president a little over a month ago. 45 days later there is no way he could be elected. He has self destructed himself.
One can see why McCain wants to run against him. I am not even addressing his lack of ability to win big industrial swing states and the entire South.

I think Wright should continue to speak out every chance he gets and he has been doing it for a long time. Many people say that he is a nut case and will hurt Obama's chance for the nomination. The opposite is true. The white people who pretend to leave Obama because of Wright are really people who would not have voted for him anyway. Race was always going to be a factor in this election and the more the McCain group tries to hide racism in the flag the more votes Obama will get. The majority of the people state that America is on the wrong track. They recognize many of the things Wright has said as being true. "God damn America, because she thinks she is God", the more people try to justify using this to not vote for Obama, the more people will vote for Obama. There is just too much truth in that statement. Everyone has his or her own opinion as to how we got off the track. I have come up with many of my own, however all together they just do not add up to enough. Then these words keep ringing in my ears, "and the Holy Spirit entered into their hearts, that they would turn their land over to the beast". I bet we take our land back, if you think 2008 is something wait until you get a load of 2012.

The thought of the guest list at future White House affairs should scare the beejuzus out of EVERYONE:

Lil' Kim, Rev. Wright, Will Smith, Kwame Kilpatrick, Marion Barry, Gary Coleman, O.J., Lil' Wayne, Al Sharpton--

HEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!! Somebody HELLLLP~~~

Wrights comments on Isreal, HIV/AIDS, religion, countries ALL scare me. I am Dem. will vote Hillary but if Obama is it Nadar or even Mc Cain as Hilary will have a high place in senate and work well with him and a solid Dem. congress.

Wright is a traitor to the campaign of the first black man in U.S. history to run for President. Shame on him.

Posted by: tara | April 28, 2008 4:06 PM
----------------------
Read a book, he's not the first Black to run, he was just the first who had a chance, now that is over.

http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/obamadvice223

Race hate and vengence seem to be what gets
'em to the black churches on Sunday.

Barack Hussein Obama seemed not to mind this for 20 years. His whole family absorbed the poisonous bile.

Not the makings of an American first family. If America becomes an ObamaNation, I'm outta here.

Fat chance!

I've consistently maintained that it's the Obama camp, if not Obama himself, playing the race card, repeatedly.

Guess they're finally reaping what they sowed all over the Clintons.

Since Dana missed this part too:

"My goddaughter's unit just arrived in Iraq this week, while those who call me unpatriotic have used their positions of privilege to avoid military service, while sending...(APPLAUSE) ... while sending over 4,000 American boys and girls of every race to die over a lie."

I listened to portions of Rev Wright's speech to the NAACP. He speaks is a style that is very dramatic, and so everything he says tends to be amplified. Basically, I found that everything he said is true. Also, he is a very funny guy. I do wish he had some solutions to offer, but then pretty much no body does. Go Obama. Now it's the Guess my Race Game! Guess it.

Not for a minute would anyone who truly loves this country have sat in this man's church. It is NOT a typical black church. Too bad, Obama ... but maybe next time? ... or not? There are several black politicians who will make us a better President; Mayor Nutter especially!

Even with Rev. Wright's comments taken out of context, I still don't see what's so inflammatory. Maybe the government didn't spread AIDS deliberately in the black community, but i sure can see why one would believe that it did. I don't see at all how Zionism is not a racist ideology. I don't see how military occupations are not terroristic. Oh, what, Sandinistas? I see, they were an enemy of the U.S. so we should believe what we were told about them as well. Rev. Wright is only guilty of being a poor politician. Definitely not guilty of glossing over what he sees as truth and justice. I thought that was what religious people were supposed to do - to speak truth to power no matter how unpopular. Does anyone realize that Mr. Obama is a different person than his Reverend? I know they're both black, but "come on people."

Wright makes a good living out of black anger. A black president would undermine that, by going against his narrative that Blacks have no fair shot in America. Therefore Wright is undermining Obama.

The ironic thing is that an Obama presidency would be a great disappointment to US blacks, because Obama would be terrified of seeming to take their side.

There's no doubt in my mind that at the end of Obama's first term, it would be the Blacks, not the Whites, who would be complaining the loudest.

The post by "Proud Republican" about the "Jewish Lobby" crucifying Obama and the "Biblical Jews" betraying Christ is anti-Semitic and should be removed.

3:35 - My dad once told me "If you throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one you hit will holler".

Its the Drama. It is drowning out everything good.

McCain isnt perfect, but we need a solid leader, not someone who's motives we constantly have to wonder about.

Boy this is pathetic, the news media, including WPO, MSNBC, CNN, TIME, NEWSWEEK and on and on all have their blow bags out in force, oh my Rev. Wright is dooming Obamas' campaign, no Dana, that's your phrase and your opinion. It's really sad to see so many people with their own personal opinions and slants on stories making a case for who get's the nomination of our President, but then what do we expect, you all carried the Bush/Cheney BS about Iraq, telling us all about bee afwaid be vewee afwaid, you didn't question it you just put the crap all over the news and here's the really laughable part, it's all come back to bite you in the butts. See all those Pentagon talking heads, former Generals that all of you hired to validate what the WH was telling you, now we find out that they had a special office in the Pentagon where all the BS was reguritated to the good Generals so they could go reguritate it to the public. Listen, I watched the entire Rev. Wright speech and question and answer session, most of which I agreed with and oh my GOD I'm a white grandma from Idaho. Now you will attempt to bury Obama with this crap from Dawn to Dusk day in and day out. How about reporting on Paul vs Clinton, that's not been seen on any television station or story by you water carriers. I must say it probably won't be either, if you think the investigations ended with the end of Clintons term, just vote Hillary in, I guarentee there will be a slew of new ones and rightly so. But keep on carrying her water boys, I guess our country can't go down quickly enough for you. It's truly pathetic.

Goodgrief, you do know who wrights security team was made of? No?
From an article---"American Urban Radio's April Ryan, confirmed that Wright's security was provided by bodyguards from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam."
You wrote---"The Black Theology website that Wright weblinks to teaches that "If God doesn't hate whites, then we should kill God."

It makes sense he would want to kill God.

Which America needs to appologize? Massachusetts? John Adams and many other of the founders were against slavery on moral grounds from the colonial days. What about the decendents of those who fought for the United States against the Confederates and the many lives that were lost? Should they apologize? Or should they be thanked for their sacrifice?

Did you see the same press conference I did? I found Wright to be quite articulate, and not at all as extreme as you paint him in this article. He is a critic of US policy, yes. He also said that religious figures should not be expected to count in political battles, because Jesus condemns all violence against the innocent. He did not praise Farrakhan's anti-Semitic remarks, but he praised the man's community work and influence. You apparently think it is extreme to express anything outside of mainstream status quo unconditional approval of all that the United States has done both to its people and to the people of the world. And I think that a pastor, ANY PASTOR OF ANY RELIGION, should be bound to question those acts and injustices. Reverend Wright is a model in that sense (and just for the record, I am a white woman who does not attend any church.)

Obama's chickens are coming home to roost.

Wow Dana, I bet this one was scary for the poor media folks:

MODERATOR: You just mentioned that Senator Obama hadn't heard many of your sermons. Does that mean he's not much of a churchgoer? Or does he doze off in the pews?

REVEREND WRIGHT: I just wanted to see -- that's your question. That's your question. He goes to church about as much as you do. What did your pastor preach on last week? You don't know? OK.

Rev. Wright is performing an invaluable public service, as is William Ayers. While in and of themselves they could easily be dismissed as the far left nutcases that they are, they have served to unmask Barack Obama's true feelings about his country. Throughout his adult life, beginning in college, Barack Obama has consistently sought out and associated himself with the most radical, America-hating elements that he could find. Despite all of his soothing rhetoric and his lofty speeches that seem to have so many in a swoon, this alone tells me all I need to know about what his true value system is. It's most definitely NOT a value system I want in the White House!

PS I support Obama, but it's idiotic to claim that "everything Wright says is true".

Sure, the Govt is capable of great evil. But they didn't invent AIDS, and to say they did is just ignorant.

What it proves is that the "caring" Wright never bothered to learn the facts about a disease that has killed far too many American Blacks.

The guy is a total fool and a good illustration of why it's smart to stay away from ALL churches. If they're not feeding you rightwing garbage, they're feeding you leftwing garbage.

"Race hate and vengence seem to be what gets
'em to the black churches on Sunday.

"Barack Hussein Obama seemed not to mind this for 20 years. His whole family absorbed the poisonous bile.

Not the makings of an American first family. If America becomes an ObamaNation, I'm outta here".

EXACTLY!! Black, white, red, or green, THIS background is definitely NOT THE MAKINGS OF A FIRST FAMILY--Not by a long shot.

Sure the Tuskegee Study was outrageous... and President Bill Clinton apologized for that in 1997. Yet, Wright ignores that fact.

Barack Hussein Obama was the perfect anti-Hillary missile. He intercepted her trajectory and killed her chances of getting nominated.

Jeremiah Wright is the perfect anti-Obama missile. He intercepted Obama's trajectory and blew his wings off.

Can anyone say President McCain???

Hi libs! Why not run an Obama-Wright ticket? CHANGE! HOPE! HOPE you CHANGE the two losers at top of your ticket before it's to late, huh libs? HA! HA!

Is Truth really True? Are we to embrace the antics of Bill and Hillary? How do we explain the fabrication of Hillary's flying bullets to impressionable teenagers. Is it o.k to lie? Is an acceptable lie predicated upon who the liar is. I cannot understand why the history which Wright exposits is seen as incendiary. Why hasn't someone who knows differently refuted what Wright is saying rather than attacking him, his set of facts, and his untimely or timely presentations? Is there a preferred method of presenting the truth? Is this truth or not? If it isn't true, then why doesn't some one say so? If we are to hide a part of American history, then let's hide all of it! Get rid of our history books and let's start anew. Let us forget about Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the Pilgrims, Etc. Better yet,ask yourselves why Wright's speeches evoke such terrific animus!!

Basically, I found that everything he said is true. Also, he is a very funny guy. I do wish he had some solutions to offer, but then pretty much no body does. Go Obama. Now it's the Guess my Race Game! Guess it.

Posted by: Maireane ni Vera | April 28, 2008 4:13 PM
-----------------------------------
He's a very funny guy?

This idiot just sent race relations back 40 years and you find him funny. I don't know or care what race you are, one thing is clear, you are an idiot.

This is totally stupid judgment on Obama's part. And isn't that his selling point? His "superior" judgment. And I'm black on my mom's side. This Rev.'s living in the past. A black man's finally running for president, and he still feels like no progress has been made. Ridiculous.

"...for treating her citizens as less than human."
Wonder what the preface to this phrase is?
I think rebuking is still in the range of criticism, which is what Rev. Wrights intended message was.
These statements need deeper analysis, particularly when our "citizens" are now facing a crumbling economy, failed healthcare system, and deteriorating infrastructure/school-systems.

"The thought of the guest list at future White House affairs should scare the beejuzus out of EVERYONE:

Lil' Kim, Rev. Wright, Will Smith, Kwame Kilpatrick, Marion Barry, Gary Coleman, O.J., Lil' Wayne, Al Sharpton--"

You must be joking. Look at the CURRENT list of war and corporate criminals visiting the White House: War Criminal George W. Bush; War and corporate criminal, traitor to his country Dick "The Dick" Cheney; Goebbels clone and non-human Karl Rove; Jerry Falwell, former religious garbage, now thankfully dead; Condi "Torture Swami" Rice, they type of Oreo black that the Republicans love to have around so they can pretend they're not the KKK;

Talk about scary! These criminals are ruining this country more everyday.

Maybe you're sniff a little too much fascist butt to see what REAL problems are, doofus.

Thank God for Jeremiah Wright!!!! LOL!! Thanks to him, I no longer have to worry about Obama getting the nomination!!!! LOL!!! BYE, BYE,OBAMA!!! LOL!!!

PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON - 2008!!!!

IF YOU WANT A JOB DONE RIGHT, LET A WOMAN DO IT!!!

It's a giant Negro on Negro conspiracy.

For the record, I did read the whole transcript, and I still found it pretty reprehensible. Given his strong views on Israel and other issues like terrorism, his influence on Obama is a critical issue whether Obama agrees with him or whether Obama does not agree with him. If a Republican had spent 20 years in an organization that advocated the neo-con view on national defense (i.e. the Weekly Standard), it would be relevant whether the candidate followed the neo-con view. Here, we need to know whether Obama follows Rev. Wright's views on, among other things, Israel and Islamic terrorism. I'm sorry, but the questions have to be asked and Obama has to answer them...there is no way around it...

Dana, you poor, hurt little boy. I feel your pain. How often has someone come into D.C. and shown absolutely zero fear of you and your kind?

MODERATOR: You're welcome. And we've got one more question for you. (APPLAUSE)

We're going to end with a joke. Chris Rock joked, "Of course Reverend Wright's an angry 75-year-old black man. All 75-year-old black men are angry." Is that funny? Is that true? Is it unfortunate? What do you think?

REVEREND WRIGHT: I think it's just like the media. I'm not 75.

Snap.

It says something about Obama -- and the growing impression that he doesn't have what it takes -- that he exercises zero power of persuasion with this guy. Obama's going to change the American political culture, bring home the troops, and charm the leadership of Iran, Russia, Venezuela et al. yet he can do nothing to influence his pastor of 20 years. Senator, take four or eight years, do good work in a tough job like Attorney General in Clinton's cabinet, and you'll be ready to be president. But not this year. Set aside, please, let Hillary take it to McCain.

Dana, I hope you will be Olbermann tonight sharing what you said here, but be careful if he wants to send you the the back room with a Obama superdelegate.

HISTORY OF SECRET EXPERIMENTATION

ON UNITED STATES CITIZENS

1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.
1935 The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occured within poverty-striken black populations.
1940 Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.
1942 Chemical Warfare Services begins mustard gas experiments on approximately 4,000 servicemen. The experiments continue until 1945 and made use of Seventh Day Adventists who chose to become human guinea pigs rather than serve on active duty.
1943 In response to Japan's full-scale germ warfare program, the U.S. begins research on biological weapons at Fort Detrick, MD.
1944 U.S. Navy uses human subjects to test gas masks and clothing. Individuals were locked in a gas chamber and exposed to mustard gas and lewisite.
1945 Project Paperclip is initiated. The U.S. State Department, Army intelligence, and the CIA recruit Nazi scientists and offer them immunity and secret identities in exchange for work on top secret government projects in the United States.
1945 "Program F" is implemented by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). This is the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoride, which was the key chemical component in atomic bomb production. One of the most toxic chemicals known to man, fluoride, it is found, causes marked adverse effects to the central nervous system but much of the information is squelched in the name of national security because of fear that lawsuits would undermine full-scale production of atomic bombs.
1946 Patients in VA hospitals are used as guinea pigs for medical experiments. In order to allay suspicions, the order is given to change the word "experiments" to "investigations" or "observations" whenever reporting a medical study performed in one of the nation's veteran's hospitals.
1947 Colonel E.E. Kirkpatrick of the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission issues a secret document (Document 07075001, January 8, 1947) stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses of radioactive substances to human subjects.
1947 The CIA begins its study of LSD as a potential weapon for use by American intelligence. Human subjects (both civilian and military) are used with and without their knowledge.
1950 Department of Defense begins plans to detonate nuclear weapons in desert areas and monitor downwind residents for medical problems and mortality rates.
1950 In an experiment to determine how susceptible an American city would be to biological attack, the U.S. Navy sprays a cloud of bacteria from ships over San Franciso. Monitoring devices are situated throughout the city in order to test the extent of infection. Many residents become ill with pneumonia-like symptoms.
1951 Department of Defense begins open air tests using disease-producing bacteria and viruses. Tests last through 1969 and there is concern that people in the surrounding areas have been exposed.
1953 U.S. military releases clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley in Maryland, and Leesburg, Virginia. Their intent is to determine how efficiently they could disperse chemical agents.
1953 Joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments are conducted in which tens of thousands of people in New York and San Francisco are exposed to the airborne germs Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii.
1953 CIA initiates Project MKULTRA. This is an eleven year research program designed to produce and test drugs and biological agents that would be used for mind control and behavior modification. Six of the subprojects involved testing the agents on unwitting human beings.
1955 The CIA, in an experiment to test its ability to infect human populations with biological agents, releases a bacteria withdrawn from the Army's biological warfare arsenal over Tampa Bay, Fl.
1955 Army Chemical Corps continues LSD research, studying its potential use as a chemical incapacitating agent. More than 1,000 Americans participate in the tests, which continue until 1958.
1956 U.S. military releases mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever over Savannah, Ga and Avon Park, Fl. Following each test, Army agents posing as public health officials test victims for effects.
1958 LSD is tested on 95 volunteers at the Army's Chemical Warfare Laboratories for its effect on intelligence.
1960 The Army Assistant Chief-of-Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorizes field testing of LSD in Europe and the Far East. Testing of the european population is code named Project THIRD CHANCE; testing of the Asian population is code named Project DERBY HAT.
1965 CIA and Department of Defense begin Project MKSEARCH, a program to develop a capability to manipulate human behavior through the use of mind-altering drugs.
1965 Prisoners at the Holmesburg State Prison in Philadelphia are subjected to dioxin, the highly toxic chemical component of Agent Orange used in Viet Nam. The men are later studied for development of cancer, which indicates that Agent Orange had been a suspected carcinogen all along.
1966 CIA initiates Project MKOFTEN, a program to test the toxicological effects of certain drugs on humans and animals.
1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant 'n-word' throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.
1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.
1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.
1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists.
1970 Funding for the synthetic biological agent is obtained under H.R. 15090. The project, under the supervision of the CIA, is carried out by the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the army's top secret biological weapons facility. Speculation is raised that molecular biology techniques are used to produce AIDS-like retroviruses.
1970 United States intensifies its development of "ethnic weapons" (Military Review, Nov., 1970), designed to selectively target and eliminate specific ethnic groups who are susceptible due to genetic differences and variations in DNA.
1975 The virus section of Fort Detrick's Center for Biological Warfare Research is renamed the Fredrick Cancer Research Facilities and placed under the supervision of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) . It is here that a special virus cancer program is initiated by the U.S. Navy, purportedly to develop cancer-causing viruses. It is also here that retrovirologists isolate a virus to which no immunity exists. It is later named HTLV (Human T-cell Leukemia Virus).
1977 Senate hearings on Health and Scientific Research confirm that 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Some of the areas included San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Key West, Panama City, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.
1978 Experimental Hepatitis B vaccine trials, conducted by the CDC, begin in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ads for research subjects specifically ask for promiscuous homosexual men.
1981 First cases of AIDS are confirmed in homosexual men in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, triggering speculation that AIDS may have been introduced via the Hepatitis B vaccine.
1985 According to the journal Science (227:173-177), HTLV and VISNA, a fatal sheep virus, are very similar, indicating a close taxonomic and evolutionary relationship.
1986 According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (83:4007-4011), HIV and VISNA are highly similar and share all structural elements, except for a small segment which is nearly identical to HTLV. This leads to speculation that HTLV and VISNA may have been linked to produce a new retrovirus to which no natural immunity exists.
1986 A report to Congress reveals that the U.S. Government's current generation of biological agents includes: modified viruses, naturally occurring toxins, and agents that are altered through genetic engineering to change immunological character and prevent treatment by all existing vaccines.
1987 Department of Defense admits that, despite a treaty banning research and development of biological agents, it continues to operate research facilities at 127 facilities and universities around the nation.
1990 More than 1500 six-month old black and hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. CDC later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.
1994 With a technique called "gene tracking," Dr. Garth Nicolson at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX discovers that many returning Desert Storm veterans are infected with an altered strain of Mycoplasma incognitus, a microbe commonly used in the production of biological weapons. Incorporated into its molecular structure is 40 percent of the HIV protein coat, indicating that it had been man-made.
1994 Senator John D. Rockefeller issues a report revealing that for at least 50 years the Department of Defense has used hundreds of thousands of military personnel in human experiments and for intentional exposure to dangerous substances. Materials included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals, hallucinogens, and drugs used during the Gulf War.

1995 U.S. Government admits that it had offered Japanese war criminals and scientists who had performed human medical experiments salaries and immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological warfare research.
1995 Dr. Garth Nicolson, uncovers evidence that the biological agents used during the Gulf War had been manufactured in Houston, TX and Boca Raton, Fl and tested on prisoners in the Texas Department of Corrections.
1996 Department of Defense admits that Desert Storm soldiers were exposed to chemical agents.
1997 Eighty-eight members of Congress sign a letter demanding an investigation into bioweapons use & Gulf War Syndrome.
© 1998-2000 Health News

"Is Truth really True? Are we to embrace the antics of Bill and Hillary?"

You seem to embrace the war criminals and liars of the current administration, and apparently you've had no trouble explaining THAT to your kids, so I fail to see your problem.

wright, like so many other black marginally or self described successes like to thump their chests and crow and tell the world how important they are. sad. didn't help one of his sheep with that today. 78% of the population does not want to be run by 12% of the population. who BO's closest male advisor? is he black? so many blacks accuse whites of being racist. ha! what an exclusionary bunch they are. they call each other the n word but nobody else can. they refer to each other as brother but nobody else can. they suffer more than any other. they kill each other more than anybody else can. they can get drunk and goad cops on but nobody else can. they refute evidence in a court of law and let a killer walk among us-but nobody else can. they can be 78 years old and have right to hate another race but nobody else can.

For all of you say Wrights comments about AIDS are ridiculous. What do you think they told the black men they infected with Syphillis?

You're being ridiculous? You're crazy?

Try to understand that the history of blacks and the federal government is not the same as the history of whites and the federal government. If you understand that, than you can begin to understand our differences.

Whites considere Georte Washington a great man. To African Americans he was a slave master who barley fed and clothed our ancestors and paid men to beat and surpress them.

Can we agree that our perceptions of George Washington are different and both based in fact.

Because the African American narritive of the US Government is different doesn't African Americans hate whites.

And the Obama loons tried to paint President Clinton as a racist.

Talk about bad karma.

To the poster who said that Hillary Clinton has no religious affiliations: Have you been under a rock? The Senator is a lifelong, devout Methodist. This is a well-established fact. I have no idea where she attends church now, but when she was First Lady, she and the President attended, pretty regularly, a United Methodist Church here in Washington.

Hi Dana,

This an excellent article. Barack Obama needs to get out of the race for President of the United States.

Those Dumocraps that believe Rev. Wright is a GOP plant are insane. My sides hurt from laughing so hard. You wanted open dialogue, you did not want the same old status quo . . . well welcome to "change we can believe in" (CHUMP CHANGE). You have an idiot running your party and do nothing leadership in the House and Senate . . . what a bunch of morons. The only thing Obama will get out of this election is a comic book deal and/or a movie script. Unfortunately the original Keystone Cops have all passed away. Oh well, make sure you hang out a casting call sign in the House and Senate Chambers as well as Beverly Hills. I am sure you will get plenty of takers . . . LOL . . . LOL . . . LOL.

People join and stay in religious congregations for many reasons. No one contends Catholics should have quit after our church failed to act against child molesters within the priesthood. I didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Whoa!!!!

Hang on Dana... I just went through the entire transcript... I'm not seeing what you saw AT ALL...

I saw another eloquent, intelligent speech. I didn't agree with all of it... but I respect it was someones opinion.

I did not see what you're espousing... also... who the heck was the "Moderator"??? He was baiting Wright... he was fishing for the exact things you mentioned...and I didn't see Wright rise to the bait.

Seriously, Dana... I respected some of your views and disagreed with others, but generally liked what you've written/said.

But this is just plain wrong... You really should go back and rewrite this after rewatching (if you ever did watch it) the speech/sermon...

Just for the point of objective unbiased journalism.

I watched Mr. Wrights speech last night and tried to keep a open mind. Some of his comments had to truth to them but I found his tone and the way he he tried to communicate his message as immature and petty. The one thing I didn't hear out of his speech was solutions. He just kept on saying we're different... it sounded more like a excuse then anything else and that America should just put up with it. I found it quite offensive of him to make fun of the assassinated President Kennedy. I just found that to be in very poor taste. Also, Mr. Wright there is a difference between an accent and poor grammar.

Reverend "Goddamn America" is likely to take down Oblahblah and the whole Democratic Party down with him.

FYI: It is "capisco" - I understand.
And I do. What Obama supporters fail to understand is that Wright continues to make Obama look like a left-wing nut. That upscale/progressive Obama supporters understand Wright and agree with some of his views certainly doesn't help Obama with middle America. The intriguing thing is that Obama is actually more conservative on many issues than Clinton. But who would know that given his most vociferous supporters? Check out Obama's interview with Chris Wallace for the real anti-Democrat/anti-left Obama.

Most of you people are just wrong. It is not about the reverend, it is about Obama. Do people think "hey, does Obama believe this stuff"? If the answer is yes, he won't win!!!!! He'll lose big. You seem to forget it's about winning.

Clinton is an exploiter of BLACKS.
Barak Obama has aRIGHT to say what will be good for America. He wants UNITY.

Rev. WRIGHT is saying HIS words--nothing to do with OBAMA.

When people know the truth they will love OBAMA.

*YAWN* I already saw this movie.

I hold no brief for many of Wright's comments. But, before he is condemned for portraying all criticism as attacks on the Black Church community rather than himself, it might be sensible to note that is exactly the same tactic used by many others, of all political persuasions. Remember "you are with us or you are against us?"

Seems like many of his most recent comments are simply what we should expect when someone whose views are questioned decides to counterattack. The validity of the views do not change the strategy.

The country as a whole would do well to take a look at the underlying basis for his statements, as well as those of the various candidates, the President, and others in public life. In Black/White relations, as in many other things, ther is in fact a lot of grey, and we woudl do well to admit it.

I am a strong supporter of Barack Obama. Obama has reached millions, successfully opening doors of hope past the concept that "race matters" through his intelligence, voice and message. I do not believe that Rev. Wright's speech yesterday offers one iota of support or truth to what Obama's campaign has worked so very hard to accomplish. It's sad. I have no idea if the Obama campaign had any association or lent any support in Rev. Wright's opportunity to speak out...but if they did, I'm surprised at such judgement during such a crucial time in the campaign trail. Near the conclusion of Wright's speech, he makes a gentle (if you could consider it such) plug at "his book coming out" later in the year. How truly, truly disappointing it would be that this poor choice overall to allow this speech to occur, is fueled by endorsement or marketability prospects??!! What's next?? Will Rev. Wright have his own reality show?? In this day and age it wouldn't surprise me one bit! I certainly won't be watching.

Again, I am an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama...but what unfolded yesterday in Wright's speech/appearance saddens me. I truly hope the country is able to separate Obama's solid message and genuine polish from Wright's antics and ignorance.

I don't go to a black church, but if I did, I would decry this idiot Wright for making the "black church" a scape goat for his rants!!

Don't let this ignorant, big mouthed FOOL represent you to the world.

As an Obama supporter I thought the Moyer's interview went ok, the politician comment aside, then came Wright's NAACP speech which was certainly survivable for Obama but this Wright's speech this morning and the Q&A period following were nothing short of a disaster. I felt literally sick after watching, imagining all the work it will take for Obama to repair the political damage. Don't beat up on Dana, he's just the messenger and to all the Obama supporters, like myself, it is time to face the hard fact that Houston we have a problem...

I think all of you need to do a REALITY check and realize that Obama just passed the line of NO ELECTABILITY in November. He would not be able to convince the reast of the Democratic party that is the best suited candidate. Think about the effect this could also have on those that ALREADY VOTED and now regret it. I think that if you vote for Obama you will be throwing the party away to the Republicans.

I am quite certain that the Super Delegates now have more of a reason to wait because this is not over!!!!

Hillary has a meaningful chance to beat these odds against her.

The Obama comments are very funny stuff. Wright is anti white, anti American. That is what Black Liberation Theology is all about. Obama obviously subscribes to liberation theology or he would have left the church.

As Wright has said, "He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American."

Time for Obama supporters to grow up and smell the coffee. Admit the obvious. That most of you who support Obama agree with Wright.

Do the smart thing Barak... if you do not win within the spread in both Indiana and North Carolina and if you continue to lose big in W. VA, KY and PR negotiate a number 2 slot on the ticket sooner than later.

The Obama sycophants of the online left clearly are losing it. Their messiah peaked in February and his inexperience is causing his campaign to disintegrate. He has every advantage except experience--and it is showing. He totally mishandled the Wright controvery by ignoring it for a year and then lying his way though it by implying that he never knew the man was controversial--for 20 years. This will repeat with Rezko and Ayers because he has tried to fool the public with the help of a fawning press. This good man is too inexperienced and has moved past the level of his competence--it's a shame--he had great potential but too much ambition and too little patience.

Can you imagine the good reverend wright giving the convocation at BO's inauguration? Good bye Mr. Obama. I am a sad white man today. I voted for you and sent money to Hillary right after I read this article.

Posted by: vamike | April 28, 2008 3:37 PM
--------------------
Are you the same "sad white man" who ran to the neighbor's house, fell on the floor and cried when the Wright story first broke grieving the monthly installments that you had donated to the Obama campaign. Because if I recall correctly, the only saving grace you had at that time was that you had not actually voted for Obama at the time. You remind me of the candidate that you truely support flip flopping all over the place--I'll bet you have super wrinkles and old man beedy eyes like him too.

YES WE CAN HATE AMERICA!! OBAMA '08!! CHANGE=HATE!!!!

Also.. on the AIDS accusation. If the Federal Government planted this disease... then why did it show up in the Gay community where it killed hundreds of thousands before every being a "serious issue" the straight community? As a gay man I'm offended for this accusation. This disease is bad enough to try and make it racial. It is true our Government screwed up big time but that was more the denial that it existed in a "worthless community" which was the view of the Reagan Administration.

Umm. . Plain as day, I see where the press is going with this. How could a black man be elected President less than a century after they were required to step off the sidewalk when a white person was coming toward them? Obama is no more responsible for what Rev. Wright says than Bush is responsible for what Pat Robertson says. And Pat Robertson sounds like Osama Bin Laden!!! And he is a Bush supporter!!! Why don't you just admit it, you don't want a black man as your President!!!

Agree with a former post.

Black Churches!! Don't let yourselves be led like lambs to the slaughter by fools like this.

Wright is a bufoon and a joke.

I think the only people that will really care about what Mr Wright has to say, will be:

1. Rush Limbaugh
2. Sean Hannity
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Media lusting to fill in air time.

The first two will scream bloody murder about the wright comments using the tried and true tactic of scaring the bejueezuz out of white americans. Knowing their party stands a snowball's chance in November and also knowing how the republican agenda has stuck it to the average working stiff, they really have little choice as far as what they can talk about.

Mrs. Clinton will use the comments as viciously as a Hannity or a Limbaugh would as a matter of survival, truth or no truth, like a cornered animal.

The media? They'll go bonkers over this. These guys will pump up a fabricated war if it means airtime and newspaper sales.

I don't know about all of you, but the last time I checked Rev. Dr. Wright is not running for President. This is all nonsense as John McCain stated about Rev. John Hagee's comments about the Catholic faith. If who Sen. Obamas' pastor is so important to becoming President, then can some one tell me who is John McCains' and Hilary Clintons' pastor?

This is tired, over hyped and ridiculous. Lets get on with focusing on the persons that will be the next President.

This guy is just annoying to listen to and add the arrogance and self-righteous attitude makes him very unlikable. Not my idea of the First Pastor of this country. I now believe Obama is doing long-term damage to the Democrats and that they would push his candidacy.

Pointing the finger now at any reporter is RIDICULOUS when Wright did it all to himself!!!

When month after month the media idolized Obama and now this story surfaces of its own volition, you are so stubborn to point the finger at the media rather than its source. Rather I blame the media for witholding the TRUTH on this ZEALOT to us this long when it could be damaging the chances of the reasonable candidate that we have: HILLARY!!!

The time is still here to retract the damage and vote for Hillary in the remaining 9 states!!!

The Civil War was our apology and penitence for slavery; over 600,000 Americans gave their lives ultimately to abolish slavery, when the US population was far less than today. As for HIV/AIDS, anyone can foil the diabolical plan of the US Govt (yeah, right)--all they need to do is quit using drugs and practicing unsafe sex. Simple, huh? Too bad some idiots in this country (e.g., Wright) can't seem to think of or practice it.

My...my..my...poor America. Anything racial opens so many wounds! It's a pity that so many don't understand, and won't try to understand. Or is it,that most people don't want to hear the truth, or anything even close. Sad!

Bye bye Obambi. Thank you Reverend Wright. Maybe Tony Rezko will sell you a nice piece of land so you can build a bowling alley and practice with Barack. Or plant some arugula.

Rev. Wright's speech convinced me that I am the lowest of the low -- a white person living in an evil, vile, disgusting country with a horrible, racist history.

Oh, THANK YOU Rev. Wright. Thank you for opening my eyes to see what a truly disgusting wretch I am!

Would that I could DO SOMETHING to relieve my GUILT and my sense of guilt for being white in the USA.

What shall I do? WHAT SHALL I DO??!!!!

I know -- I will vote for Barak Obama for President.

That will surely assuage my sense of guilt.

Please forgive me, Rev. Wright, for I have sinned. Dispense your forgiveness to me.

For I have seen how dispicable I am!

(All you other white people, take note. YOU are also guilty, guilty, GUILTY!!!)

After reading all these comments I have only one observation to make.
Barack Obama is a politician and has used all avenues of his life to promote himself for this chance to run as POTUS of the US.
Why do you think he used David Axelrod as his campaign manager - Think back to Duval Patrick as Governor of Massachssets.David Axelrod was his campaign manager also.
He ran on the same campaign HOPE AND CHANGE and Obama stole some of Patrick's speeches. Ask the people of MASS what they think of their Governor now.
POLITICANS ARE ALL THE SAME.

REAL CLEAR POLITICS OBAMA CLINTON
COUNTDOWN TO VICTORY 298 433

TOTAL OBAMA CLINTON
GUAM 4 2 2
NC 115 60 55
IN 72 34 38
WV 28 10 18
OR 52 28 24
KEN 51 22 29
PUERTO RICO 0 55
MONT 16 7 9
SD 15 7 8
TOTAL 408 170 238
SUPERS 239 259
REM SUP 297 150 147
TOTAL 707 320 386
2047 1978
OBAMA
obama wins

I think all of you need to do a REALITY check and realize that Obama just passed the line of NO ELECTABILITY in November. He would not be able to convince the reast of the Democratic party that is the best suited candidate. Think about the effect this could also have on those that ALREADY VOTED and now regret it. I think that if you vote for Obama you will be throwing the party away to the Republicans.

I am quite certain that the Super Delegates now have more of a reason to wait because this is not over!!!!

Hillary has a meaningful chance to beat these odds against her.

Posted by: Hispana | April 28, 2008 4:39 PM

-----------------------------------
Hispana, are you saying that Obama has crossed the line and now stands with Hillary in the NO ELECTABILITY line? Oh well, may as well let the candidate who is winning carry the baton rather than giving it to the one who never took the lead--that is since neither can win it anyway.

I'm a Mexican and I wish to run for President. And to all you racists, I'm not an illegal immigrant and a citizen of the U.S.

A Mexican has every right to President of the United States. A good 1/4 of the country is rightfully Mexico's. The White Americans have always hated Mexicans. Driven by a white theology, white Americans believed in Manifest Destiny and justified their genocide of Native Americans.

The United States stole lands that initially belonged to Mexico including California, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and other Rocky Mountain states. Mexicans demand an apology.

And we will talk back our land by the Reconquista.

I belong to Mecha, we believe in taking back what is ours.

My minister also says, "God Da*n America."

I am also a closet racist, but I temporally uses ideological white liberals to get to White House.

Democrats nominate me, I will bring CHANGE.

If Rev. Right didn't have a basis for some of his claims then this would be an easy way of attacking his character. Obama and Reverend Wright do not automatically have an idealogical link because he attended his services and had him as a friend.

For example, I grew up with my father and he is one of my best friends, but my views and his are far from aligned, and far from being similar.

If you can't manage to believe two completely different people with differing views cannot communicate and call each other friends, then you must be a loner.

Make no mistake, Noone here is voting for Reverend Wright, they are voting for Barack Obama. Its a weak attempt at character assasination.

As a tax-excempt organization, the United Church of Christ is supposed to comply with strict IRS rules prohibiting such organizations from engaging in political activity. However, the UCC has been under IRS investigacion for violating such rules when allowing Obama to take advantage of the church's facilities during his presidential campaign.

http://ucctruths.blogspot.com/

But that is not the main problem. The UCC has been closely linked to a terrorist group called FALN, a Puerto Rican separatist group, which was responsible for more than 120 bomb attacks on U.S. targets between 1974 and 1983, including a takeover of the Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters in 1980.

http://www.ucctruths.com/terrorist.html

That explains why Obama "can't disavow Wright".

"If who Sen. Obamas' pastor is so important to becoming President, then can some one tell me who is John McCains' and Hilary Clintons' pastor?"

If either Sen. Clinton's or Sen. McCain's pastor made hate-America comments, and called upon God to damn America, I am sure we would know who the pastors of McCain and Clinton are.

Obama was both baptized and married by a ranting, raving, hate-filled man, intent on bringing division within our country.

The fact that we do NOT know the names of the pastors of Sen. Mc Cain and Sen. Clinton speaks more to the fact that their pastors are not hate-filled, raving anti-Americans.

For some in the African American community all what Rev. Wright is saying is the truth. Whether or not it effects the Obama in the race for President, it doesn't really matter anymore. This 2008 Presidential race is unfortunatly about RACE period dot.

That is why the media and those haters keep harping on every word that comes out of Rev Wright's mouth. He is not running for President. If Rev Wright never said the things he has said, another issue would have reared itself to prevent Obama from moving forward. If it not RACE, it would been is Obama a Muslim, is Obama patriotic, is Obama ruuning drugs etc.

For Obama to be elected, it would have to be the beginning of the end. I don't think the world is ready for that, let alone the United States of America! It's always one view being observed and that is from the powers that be.

I saw the reverend's speech last night and will only comment to say that I found his mimicking of the style of worship in white churches to be rude. I even hate to use the term "white church" since it sounds racist to me. Regardless, I knew by age 6 that it was rude to mimic someone else.

This will change the democratic party and as a cosnequence the republican party as well.

I will be happy if those in the DNC resign now and take those who promoted Obama with them.

The new democratic party just began today at 10:01 am.

OBAMA WINS IF THE SUPERS

BELIEF IN GUILT BY ASSOCIATION

AND WANT TO LOSE THE GENERAL ELECTION

I'm fascinated by the varied opinions regarding Rev. Wright. I'm a practicing Episcopalian and I thought he was terrific. He told the truth. He's a little harsh for my taste, but I learned a lot about the different streams that make up the black church experience. I think Obama has a better message--to work together to heal this nation and restore our standing in the world. I really don't think Wright's remarks will have any lating effect on Obama's electability.

I've been to many black churches both here in DC and elsewhere-I've NEVER HEARD THE TYPE OF RACIST, HATE-MONGERING DIVISIVE BS THAT WRIGHT IS SO PROUD TO SPEW OUT OF HIS MOUTH-IN FACT, QUITE THE OPPOSITE!

This was Obama's spiritual advisor FOR 20 YEARS, THERE FOR ALL THE IMPORTANT MILESTONES OF HIS LIFE, HE GAVE A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO SUPPORT THIS MAN'S RACIST, DIVISIVE RANTS-AND THIS MAN ABSOLUTELY IS A CENTRAL PART OF BARACK OBAMA'S LIFE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OBAMA SAYS TO THE CONTRARY-SO OBAMA-NUTS, GO TAKE YOUR COKE-SNORTING, UN-CLASSY, ARROGANT CANDIDATE-THIS DEM. AND MILLIONS LIKE ME, WANT NO PART OF THIS NONSENSE!

Go Hillary, we need some SANITY in the White House-let this joke of a candidate Obama be gone! BECAUSE IF OBAMA IS THE DEM. CANDIDATE, DEMS. WON'T BE VOTING FOR HIM-NO, NOT AT ALL.

and for some but hopefully not all the liberal goal posts will now change --- sure he's a bigot, a nut and a divider they will say of the pastor but what's so bad about that? this is a test for my fellow progressives including Senator Obama (whom I voted for) -- write him out of our left community or we are doomed.

All these BLOGGERS are thinking they can sink OBAMA for Clinton by Wright's words.
THEY ARE MISTAKEN.

BARAK OBAMA will overcome ALL critics. People are thinking more than before.

OBAMA 08.

First of I'd like to say that although I am a Clinton supporter I don't blame Obama for the words of Wright or Farrakhan. What troubles me about Obama is his connections with corrupt Chicago and Illinois politicians and his lack of experience. He seems to take credit far too often for other peoples work and although he talks of hope, change and unity he has delivered none of the above nor showed a history of doing so. He does take special interest money and plays politics as usual. Wright is a smokescreen for the real problem with Obama...his campaign was built on a house of cards.

I just want to point out that "proud Republican's" claim that a powerful, secretive Jewish [cabal] called for the "crucifixion" of Obama because they couldn't buy him out is anti-semitic hate speech. That term gets thrown around all the time wrongly, but you take the cake in spreading lies about the Jews. Pure and simple.

Obama 08

It seems that Asians and Latinos, and other non-black minorities have two options. They can either stay in the Democratic party and continue to be ignored by latte liberals, or they can join a party that is for true racial equality.
The Republican Party will not prefer one minority group over another. Also, we will nominate candidates based on merit and not by race.
Martin Luther King advocated a color-blind society. You cannot defeat racism with more racism. it is clear that people of all backgrounds face racism. We will not focus on one group at the expense of others.

We will unite the country by common values of promoting strong families, the American Dream, and the goal of a unified America.

Latinos and Asian Americans abandon the Democratic Party - they have failed you. To us you are all American and are welcome to share in the American Dream

i think Obama and Wright may be trying to set up a phony rift between the two in order to benefit Obama in these last days of the nomination process. The American people are suppose to react by thinking maybe these two are at odds and really don't see eye to eye on these issues after all. The idea is to separate the two as much as possible. I'm running with that theory...seems plausible to me.

Adding to these previous comments I posted, it has occurred to me that the other puzzling possibility about Wright's early morning comments regarding Obama could indicate that nutty Rev Wright, as a 20+ year pastor to Obama, knows A LOT about Mr. Obama.....as if he is taunting him publicly.....very interesting development.

Is Truth really True? Are we to embrace the antics of Bill and Hillary? How do we explain the fabrication of Hillary's flying bullets to impressionable teenagers. Is it o.k to lie? Is an acceptable lie predicated upon who the liar is. I cannot understand why the history which Wright exposits is seen as incendiary. Why hasn't someone who knows differently refuted what Wright is saying rather than attacking him, his set of facts, and his untimely or timely presentations? Is there a preferred method of presenting the truth? Is this truth or not? If it isn't true, then why doesn't some one say so? If we are to hide a part of American history, then let's hide all of it! Get rid of our history books and let's start anew. Let us forget about Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the Pilgrims, Etc. Better yet,ask yourselves why Wright's speeches evoke such terrific animus!!
-----------------------------------------
Sorry, Ann but there is no comparison between Hillary's exxageration in Bosnia and this RACIST, HATEMONGER and DIVISIVE bad imitation of a Priest. Frankly, I shudder at exposing any human being and least of all my children and grandchildren to this FALSE PROPHET that only promotes abusing the good will of people. Many countries have fallen for naive people like you!!! Open your eyes and see it for what it is. Totally Anti-American and Anti-Christian!

REV WRIGHT ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF AND HIS 15 MINUTES OF FAME

ITS ALL ABOUT HIM BEING RIGHT

GO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT OBAMA

KKK killed innocent blacks.
Wright is remembering the DEAD.
BLACK HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL.

TRUTH HURTS.

Last night I was putting my two young children to bed and my husband was 'flipping channels' on the t.v. when I heard Rev. Wright say something about when Obama is elected president it would be the first time a president would be LEGALLY sleeping with a black woman in the White House. Does anyone have the full quote and in what context this quote was made?

Re: "People join and stay in religious congregations for many reasons. No one contends Catholics should have quit after our church failed to act against child molesters within the priesthood. I didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Amen to that idea. It is ridiculous to keep trying to hold Obama accountable for the content of a pastor's sermon (or sermons for that matter).

This is really an example of Obama's openness to the ideas and exchange of ALL those around him. This is the kind of openness it takes to reach across the aisle and bring opposing sides together to achieve real and measurable progress.

Only Hillary and the Religious Right are trying to hold him to Wright's words as if they were his own. The pitiful issue is that there is still no deeper examination of issues and proposed policies from Obama and McCain that are getting this type of attention.

I often subscribe to, and read thoughts from sources I disagree with - it makes me more well-rounded. It doesn't mean I subscribe to the viewpoints. If I don't like someone's comments, or views and am running for public office, I should distance myself from them? I thought that it was okay to disagree in this country, without closing the door to people who think different (See Mac campaign.) Different is not something to be feared or hidden away.

Enough is enough folks. Let's write, read and talk about things that matter to the country as a whole.

Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy. Ronald Reagan had his daughter Patty. G.H. Bush has his ridiculous son G.W.

We are all people who are less than six degrees apart from one another. Everyone knows someone that doesn't follow the mold or fall in public favor. So what? It just doesn't define the people who are somehow associated with them.

This is just more fodder for the opposing candidates, and nay-sayers who think change is something to be afriad of. The louder pandering and opposing voices are the ones to be wary of.

Rev. Wright may be Obama's "Billy Carter", but we are not voting on a package deal (unlike Billary). Buyer beware.

Just think, last year Hillary was assumed the presumptive nominee.How long do you think the GOP has been preparing to go against her in a general election? How long do you think they've researched all the dirty laundry, criminal ties, funders of different libraries and campaigns and misc. baggage. Whereas the only things they are trying to pin on Obama is "guilt by association".So, who is really unelectable?Maybe the GOP is counting on racial controversies to win this election.. What other reason would any Democrat or Independent blue collar or not, would vote against there own better interest or pocket books?

REV WRIGHT

IS FOR MANDATED HEALTH CARE DUEDUCTIONS

BUT HE WANTS TO BE ABLE TO LOBBY CLINTON

Hmmm... so does Dana need to dissaociate himself from comments made by Eric -- ostensibly on Dana's behalf. should Dana Reject and denounce, throw Eric under the bus. I mean we know Dana wasn't here when these remarks were made. Is there any particular passage any of you find particularly aggravating, insulting, angering? Let's repeat those over and over and Dana can explain what came out of Eric's keyboard.

I would be happy to share communion, fellowship, conversation and comfort with Rev. Wright any day of the week. An absolutely brilliant man, who, if persons like Eric and (by extension as this is his blog) Dana would close their mouths and open their ears would learn he is not a "fool" but prophetic.

BILL CLINTON 08 for US PRESIDENT.
Ignore the US CONSTITUTION.

Look at all the anti-semitic posts made by Obama supporters here. Wright is right one one thing: Obama and his supporters haven't disowned Wright, and won't.

The racists are exposed. The only problem I have with Rev. Wright was he tailored his speech to a white audience. We cannot bring about change if we keep censoring our message.
D*mn right we have a right to be angry. Why is it there are more black males incaerated than in college. Why are 1 in 2 black teens infected with STDs. Why is AIDS and HIV so endemic in the black community. Why is Africa the most AIDs-ridden place in the world.
The answer is white America, its racist agenda and its control of global politics.
I also applaud the terrorists for bringing down the real "evil empire." What comes around goes around, and payback is a b*tch. And white America your time is over. It's our time NOW.

Thank god Bill Clinton's radical friends just slept over...and sold secrets to the chinese...

Totally agree, Amy, Obama has one hell of a disingenuous stance-on EVERYTHING-HE'S A GADFLY THAT CAN'T SEEM TO HOLD A JOB, ALL HE'S GOOD FOR IS RHETORICAL SPEECHES THAT ULTIMATELY DON'T COUNT FOR ONE DAMN-IT'S EXPERIENCE THAT COUNTS-AND HE'S GOT NONE OF IT, BECAUSE HE'S TOO RESTLESS TO SPEND TIME GAINING THE NECESSARY EXPERIENCE HE NEEDS TO SHOW THAT HE'S QUALIFIED TO LEAD THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPERPOWER-HE JUST WANTS POWER, THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENCY, WITHOUT PAYING HIS DUES, WITHOUT DOING THE WORK-IN OTHER WORDS, HE EXPECTS THE PRESIDENCY TO BE MORE OR LESS HANDED TO HIM AS AN ENTITLEMENT-JUST LIKE HE'S HAD MOST EVERYTHING IN HIS LIFE HANDED TO HIM.

BUT THE WRIGHT ISSUE IS NOT, BY ANY MEANS, INSIGNFICANT-AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY (GOD FORBID!) WOULD HAVE A HELL OF A LOT MORE WRIGHT PHILOSOPHY INJECTED IN IT, ON MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS, THAN OBAMA AND HIS RACIST WIFE MICHELLE WOULD EVER LET ON AT THIS POINT.

America has done its just share to compenstae african americans.

My brother could not get into a prestigious law school because the quota for white students was already met. There are many such stories. Lets call a spade a spade.

If obama is really against Wright, he can trash him outright, I think that will calm everyone down. Just let him do it. I would vote for him if he does this.

Milbank-

This is ridiculous. What, I wonder, do you consider to be your job? Here, you've cherry-picked the most incendiary parts of Wright's comments (go figure) & left out the parts that help us understand WHY Obama chose to sit in this man's church for 20 years. The Moyers interview & NAACP speech provided lots of compelling evidence in favor of Wright. Yet, this is a re-hash of the most de-contextualized, Rove-friendly hit points. Which brings me back to my original question: What, I wonder, do you consider to be your job?

coming attractions: Obama further idstances himself from wright -- Wright blames it on Obama's Jewish handlers...

Jordan 77:

I have been wondering too if this was another orchestration of Wright and the Obama camp on the good will of the people thinking that we would feel sorry for Obama. Too many coincidences about Clyborn and his statement against Bill Clinton because of the results of the Pennsylvania Primary and Hillary getting momentum. It all smells too ugly of dirty Chicago tactics. I wonder what is the role of Jackson and Sharpton? Look at the situations in New York and Chicago and threats of riots and we could see a connection here.

I think that the threats with riots tactic could backfire because we are all tired of this!!!

Wow. Much worse than the first time around.

Who did put you in chains, Reverand? The answer is no one.

Who made you that color? Your parents.

When was the last time a KKKer wearing a white robe kill someone? Seriously, when? I'm curious if it has happened this century.

And, you believe that your friend, my candidate, just mouths things he doesn't really believe? You say that? You think that?

I thought we were trying for a new kind of politics. Could it be that you're just a pompous dork who says outrageous things that EVERY rational person dismisses, rather than that Obama secretly agrees with you and is only lying to us?

What a piece of work this guy is.

Milbank your comments, just like the government owned and operated news media have completely distorted Rev. Wright's sermon and speeches from the very beginning and he has not created any racial problems, they have been manufactured by the news media via misquoted statementsm, programmed, back-to-back, continuous sound bites of misquoted statements (Wright was quoting someone else's words, but the news media implied that they were his own because it was intentionally taken out of context and immediately misunderstood) and outright lies. He never said "God damn America" in any speech or sermon if you review the complete original texts and transcripts. White Americans do not want to hear the truth about anything, but would prefer to be lied to by your media, Bush, Cheney, paraded military generals on TV, spin artists we call White House Spokespersons and Congress to enable the likes of a Bush or McCain to get re-elected on such nonsense you have manufactured instead of on substantive issues, endless lies, corruption, theft of our tax dollars for Republican benefactors, friends, associates, patrons, lackeys and anyone else they need to buy or payoff - like a Roland Martin or Joe Watkins. Nothing Rev. Wright has said is wrong or incorrect but the truth is always hard for the white slavemasters and their descendants to stomach, thus the backlash that can be guaranteed whenever it is brought to public attention. Such things have always been relegated to backroom discussions in Congress and in closed door, secret meetings and gatherings of the so-called master or donor class in this country. So it is today as you can see when this discussion has gotten unfettered and 24 hour nonstop public discussion and media attention. The truth is uncomfortable for most white people, as I can see it is for you!!!! ANOTHER MEDIA MANUFACTURED, DIVISIVE BUNCH OF LIES AND DISTORTIONS ENGINEERED TO SWAY WHITE VOTERS AWAY FROM VOTING FOR OBAMA - A SERIOUS THREAT TO THE STATUS QUO IN THIS COUNTRY AND TO MCCAIN AND THE DONOR CLASS!!! WAKE UP THE WORKING MAJORITY OF THIS COUNTRY AND WHITE AMERICA YOUR VESTED INTEREST IS NOT WITH THE DONOR CLASS AND WEALTHY, REPUBLICANS WHO ARE BENEFITTING OFF OF YOUR LABOR AND COUNTING ON YOUR IGNORANCE IN FALLING FOR THIS DIVISIVE TACTIC USED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. The master, wealthy class are laughing all the way to the bank while you allow the news media has you squabbling over this nonsense, but are steadily losing your homes and your jobs, can't buy food or pay your basic household expenses or put gas in your car. HOW STUPID CAN YOU PEOPLE BE!!!!

I think Milbanks is spot on here.

The video clips of the Q & A at the Nat'l Press Club are very, very unflattering of Rev. Wright, and by extension, Sen. Obama. Rev. Wright was, in turn, smug, arrogant, mocking, and at times, just plain goofy by dancing around the stage. And the Nation of Islam bodyguards? At the press club? Is that guy that paranoid? rev. Wright seems deranged in a Charlie Manson sort of way.

Even if Sen. Obama distances himself now, I'm not sure it will help. He named his book -which was his launching pad to the presidential race - after a Wright sermon. Further, Sen. Obama has said over and over how much of a spiritual mentor Rev. Wright has been (and Wright mocked that spiritual mentor label). Even in the race speech, he justified the essential positions of Wright and his church.

Anyone who sees those clips - and the transcript does not do the Q & A justice - will wonder, what in the world was Obama doing in that pew for 20 years!

When did HILLARY SAY SHE WAS AGAINST QUOTAS systems?

I know she want to nuke iran.

Obama is toast and Milbanks couldn't be more corrent. Obama's chickens are coming home to roost and as a dem I will never vote for the guy b/c he alcked the character to stand up to Wright. If he can't the heat in his church's kitchen he can't handle the heat in the whitehouse. I think buying Arugula at Whole Foods may be the toughest job Obama ever had. And he really looks like a little girl for refusing to debate Hillary. Come on man.Pathetic.

Delegate Math----I hope you're right because you know what that means?

McCAIN IS PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!
*spit*
We're writing in Duncan Hunter.

Hey, Reverend Wright- from what I know about history, I believe African Muslims did help to put you "in chains" . Not quite the same thing as American Black Muslims, I suppose, but your statement does carry a bit of irony nonetheless. And from what I read, African Muslims are enslaving, killing, and otherwise abusing other Africans right now.

Of course Obama's long association with Wright is relevant.

Suppose a white candidate belonged to a church whose pastor is a vocal and open member of the KKK? Seems it would be reasonable to find such a candidate questionable for the office of President.

I find Wright interesting, reasonable sounding, and intelligent but if you take Wright's words and rhetoric and subsitute a few words around like white or white race for black or black race, he sounds remarkably similar to some of the more reasoned and intelligent sounding KKK types.

I would not be a part of a church with a KKK pastor or a pastor like Wright and wonder why Obama did not long ago openly and actively challenge such divisive rhetoric.

Obama's 25-point lead in North Carolina has collapsed in the last week.

Hillary closed within single digits over the weekend.

Thank you, Omamaloons.. Keep up the good work..

It would be utterly disgusting if a 20 year congregate of this hatemongerer became President.

He didn't accidently title a book after one of Wright sermons....

HAROLD & KUMAR = TRUE AMERICANS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE

Imagine a white candidate with this kind of a close relationship with their pastor who expressed such sentiments against those of a different race. How long would that candidate's political future survive?

The racists are exposed. The only problem I have with Rev. Wright was he tailored his speech to a white audience. We cannot bring about change if we keep censoring our message.
D*mn right we have a right to be angry. Why is it there are more black males incaerated than in college. Why are 1 in 2 black teens infected with STDs. Why is AIDS and HIV so endemic in the black community. Why is Africa the most AIDs-ridden place in the world.
The answer is white America, its racist agenda and its control of global politics.
I also applaud the terrorists for bringing down the real "evil empire." What comes around goes around, and payback is a b*tch. And white America your time is over. It's our time NOW.
-------------------------------------
And who are the RACISTS? Are you so afraid to call one of your community such? The rest of America is too tired of that old chant and it would not work this year. Neither your threat of riots.

The tide has turned and it is time for everyone to EARN a living!!!!

What part of Wright continuously blaming white America of today for the evils of our ancestors 100 or more years ago do you people not get? He espouses Black Liberation Theology, look it up. It's black victimology! He's teaching a whole new generation of young kids in his church, including Obama's two girls, and within the black community to continue to just look at the white race as their oppressors, but refuses to acknowledge exactly how far this country HAS come over the past 50-60 years in particular. Sure we still have racial problems in this country, but at least give us some credit where credit is due. And by all means stop teaching the black children in this country that they have to keep rising up against an oppressor that by and large no longer exists. In other words, how about we look toward the future instead of simply wallowing in the past for crying out loud. This Obama/Wright debacle has set back race relations in this country by about 25 years and as long as Obama remains in this Presidential race I cannot see that getting any better soon. Because guaranteed Wright will be an issue going forward through November, and possibly the legacy of this mess will go on even longer if Obama is the President. Many, many white folks in this great nation were ready and willing to not see Obama as a black man running for President but rather a man running for President who just happens to be black. But no more. Just by showing a total lack in judgment with many of his associations over the past 17-20 years, and not being able to see how those associations may negatively impact his own political ambitions is just plain stupid and naive. Obama has managed over the course of this campaign to separate us now by class, race, culture, and religion - he's running out of ways to divide us all. Obama really should step aside and let the two much more politically experienced candidates close this out.

The racist nut Weight speaks and confirms Obama believes and feels as he does but must lie because he is an politicians and politicians must say whatever is necessary to get elected. If there was any doubt before there is none now Both Obama and his wife are American hating racists in full agreement with the Rev. Nut!

The anonymous posting above about "History of Secret Experimentation...." is copied from various moonbat sites. It's all circular reporting of the same garbage. It's like those emails that promise $15M and use someone's name that you can check that really exists. Moonbats!
Posting this garbage does nothing to prove Rev. Wright's despicable statement that the U.S. Gov't created AIDS to kill Blacks. Rev. Wright got where he was by telling his congregation that it was OK to hate Whitey because Whitey was evil. Don't dare compare him to MLK. MLK had hope because he believed that his fellow man would eventually come around. Rev. Wright never wanted progress. He built a congregation of 8,000 by preaching hate. Let him keep talking, though. The more he talks, the more people will see him when they look at Sen. Obama.

Black preachers have always "had to speak a language defiant enough to hold the high spirited of their flock but neither so inflammatory as to arouse them to battles they could not win nor so ominous as to arouse the ire of ruling powers." While Obama's pastor may have done the latter, he was not the first.

In February, 1899, William James, a philosopher at Harvard, in a letter to the Boston Transcript, wrote: "God damn the U.S. for its vile conduct in the Philippine Isles."

Certainly, both Hillary and Bill represent the ruling powers, specifically the southern oligarchy. They are frightened and angry. Using a populist language shorn of real meaning, the Clintons fight an age old battle, pitting middle income and poor people of color against middle income
and poor people whites, this time using modern and carefully crafted language. This same fight has divided working classes in the United States for centuries. As one historian noted:

"In 1747, Cadwaller Colden, in his 'Address to the Freeholders' attacked the wealthy as tax dodgers unconcerned with the welfare of
others (although he himself was wealthy) and spoke for honesty and dependability of 'the middling rank of mankind' in whom citizens could best trust 'our liberty and Prosperity.'" This was probably the first
time poor white working people were invited to join a new elite that did not represent their best interests. They are being invited to do so, again, by the Clintons.

As such, Hillary represents a huge step backward. Had she real political courage, she would have challenged Bush in 2004. We would all be better off. Her time has passed, but she continues to hog the
limelight, damaging the party and refusing all direction.

Thanks. It's very important that our first black President not be someone who actually knows any angry black people, no matter how this nation treated them when they were younger, and no matter whether that black President shares their anger and their despair.

Wright's speech yesterday just guaranteed that Obama will not win the White House. The Republicans have already rolled out a massive advertising campaign, calling out swing-district Democrat congressmen/women who have endorsed Obama, and claiming that their views are "too out of touch" with mainstream voters.

The Obama campaign obviously knows NOTHING about national politics. They're good-hearted people and well-organized, but McCain would crush Obama in a Dukakis-level blowout. Let's be real.

He's no crazier than Martyn Minns and John Yates who have pledged fealty to the dread Bishop Akinola of Nigeria and dragged the once proudly liberal Anglican church into Homophobia.

I will grateful for the day when all candidates do their best to renounce ALL religion.

Rev. Wright is not divisive. Anyone who has listened to what he has to say would realize that. But we don't listen in this nation. We just do as the media tells, and right now, that is too hate Rev. Wright. The irony of it is that people want to hate Rev. Wright for fabricated "hate" speech.

I just want to point out that Rev. Wright has never wished harm on anyone of any race. He has not encouraged violence. In fact, the statements people criticize him for are criticizing America for hating.

Obama must take swift action and respond without hesitation. If Wright cared about the country and raising the nation up, not only would he not have inflamed emotions, he would not be deliberately sabotaging Obama's candidacy. Sen. Obama, please use your judgement to see how Wright, by sabatoging you, may cost the entire country a chance at a new beginning - just so he can save face. This is not Hope.

It's easy to lose sight of the nature of elected officials in a republic. They are servants of the people. They aren't our saviors. Those who think Obama is a savior approach his candidacy with a religious belief that defies logical evaluation. We need to know what he believes, how he makes decisions, what his values are, in addition to his concrete proposals. Wright may be sabotaging Obama for his own twisted reasons (this would prove whites are evil). If Obama is truly great, he will prove that over time, even if this kills his nomination this time around.

Wow....

This is a disaster for Obama - the end of his campaign.

The question is, of course - WHY is Wright destroying him?

Many blacks think what Rev. Wright is true. That's the sad part. For all the injustices the black community has suffered (and there have been many), it is amazing how the power of mythology captivates so many to believe the bunk he spews out. My chief lament is that group think and the cult of victimization prevail so powerfully in that community. Republicans are, at this stage, the party of justice and equality; the Democrats are now the party of creeping socialism with a soft totalitarian ethic.

good golly miss molly

Rev Wright - shut up go home

I am a total Hillary fan but I have to say that Barak is going to have a h... of a time getting this man to shut up

He is selling his book, everyone else be dammed

Good luck Barak - rev wright makes geraldine look like a sunday school princess

go Hillary (who is ahead in the national polls, anyone wonder why?)

I want Obama to be President more than any of the others. I have contributed to his campaign. But as an African American, I can say that if he doesn't make it because the nation can't face it's history and present. Then so be it. I WON'T SELL OUT FOR A BLACk PRESIDENT. Obama shouldn't. And thank you Rev. Wright for not selling out either.

For me to read this article, and then view the actual transcript from the interview. Demonstrates the capability of the media and reporters to skew or mis-educate readers.

Hopefully, you will take the time to read the transcript, but if not enjoy being controlled by a professional liar.

Dana Milbank stated:

"repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities,

MS. LEINWAND: In your sermon, you said the government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. So I ask you: Do you honestly believe your statement and those words?

REV. WRIGHT: Have you read Horowitz's book "Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola"? Whoever wrote that question, have you read "Medical Apartheid"? You've read it?

REV. WRIGHT: No questions from the floor.

I read different things. As I said to my members, if you haven't read things, then you can't -- and based on the Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything.

In fact, in fact, in fact, one of the -- one of the responses to what Saddam Hussein had in terms of biological warfare was a non- question, because all we had to do was check the sales record. We sold him those biological weapons that he was using against his own people.

So any time a government can put together biological warfare to kill people and then get angry when those people use what we sold them, yes, I believe we are capable.

What is wrong with you? Your piece isn't worth a complete reading. Maybe you lack an ability to see nuance, but in this case its even more than that. Everyone I know who has heard the Reverend speak at any length comes out with only respect. Mr. Milbank, this is too distorted. You need some sort of detox program to start to think analytically and without a Washington bias. Sorry, but this is getting old and stale......as you folks tune into and believe your absurd spin and expect us to continue to read it.

There are lots of logicial answers to your questions that have nothing to do with race, but it's obvious that you don't have the capacity to understand them. For most of them, the answer is "responsibility for one's own actions" but it's much easier to play the victim, isn't it?

What I REALLY want to know is: When does Rev. "Goddamn America" get to host his own show on MSNBC?

Delegate Math----I hope you're right because you know what that means?

McCAIN IS PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!
*spit*
We're writing in Duncan Hunter.

I have hoped that Hillary could win, but If Obama gets the nod, I will likely vote for him.
I watched the speech made last night by Rev wright and found it very interesting. I didn't find it as anti-American as the media is saying this morning. I think we will have a new chapter of disscussing race problems in this country and that will be a good thing. If you listen closely,to last nights speech and the entire press conference, you will see how some people would agree with him.

However, it is likely that this speech will be used against Obama and we shall see how much so, when the IN primary is held.

I got a laugh out of Pastor Wright's imitation of Pres. Johnson and the two Kennedy brothers when he compared so called "Different speech" of Black people to New England speech and Texas speech which is also different, but not incorrect.

Before people critize Pastor Wright too much, they should listen to the entire speech made during the night and the entire press conference and question and answer session.

I wasn't sure how the media would take the whole thing so, I watched closely this morning. i think the media and public took it worse than it really is.

Remember, Black people could not serve with white people during WWII and it wasn't very long at all when sportcasters were questioning whether black people could be quarter backs in the NFL. It took Truman to open up the military in about 1950 when I first entered the military. It was much later ward room workers on Navy ships could bunk with the rest of the crew. I think lot of this stuff was what Wright was talking about.

I attended the state fair in Memphis in 1950 and guess what? Black people couldn't attend on "White" days. It was much later that schools were integrated in states such as Virginia.

So, let Rev. Wright speak. Don't take it so hard.

Wright is speaking the beliefs of Obama -- he's saying exactly what Obama would say if politics allowed him.

Obama is a filthy racist who hates this country -- who hates everything it stands for.

God save us all.

Delegate Math----I hope you're right because you know what that means?

McCAIN IS PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!
*spit*
We're writing in Duncan Hunter.

So odd. It is as if Reverend Wright is angry at Obama to the degree that he would sink his presidential run. What else could he possibly be thinking?

I'm afraid that this, in combination with other Obama associations, has ruined his chances of the Democratic nod...and certainly he could not win the GE against McCain.

So, I guess this is what Obama was talking about when he said CHANGE.

mr. milbank, you & i are both white males. we have no idea what it means to be black - to experience racism first hand.

in rev. wright's own words from today, "... until you know the true story, then you're reacting to my words and not to the truth."

sadly mr. milbank you obviously did not absorb the reverend's speech in its entirety or you would never have posted such a blog of rubbish.

so instead of supporting a path towards reconciliation & real understanding, you have continued the sad & ineffective present course of hate, lies & mistruths. SHAME ON YOU !!!

(and btw the "thought a fool" comment was about the MEDIA not the reverend himself - read the transcript - and after that you should retract your blog posting).

obama & the reverend are on the right track: we need to have a truthful dialogue on race in this country. we need to make things right. from what little i have been able to ascertain in my lifetime i know we have not even come close. and the truth isn't going to be pretty for us whites - but we have to face it.

the entire transcript:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

READ & LEARN FOR YOURSELVES - DON'T BE SPOON-FED MISINFORMATION

Barack is in a rough spot kind of like Jackie. The color of his skin took precedent over his spectactular athletic abilities. Eventually, the thrill of watching him do his thing took precedent over everything else. He was a winner. People will get used to Barack and marvel at his skills as a world leader...if we give him a chance. He is a winner. He has the right temperment for the job...just like Jackie. Think about it and allow it to happen. Think...think...think...do we want more of the same old politics? Ask yourself honestly.

Good thing all of thise came out now. It would have been 1000 times worse if Obama was elected the President and started to nominate judges and justices like Wright.

I still hope that Left wing nutters prevail and Obama is the Democratic Party nomineee. So that McCain could wipe the floor with his worthless oponent.

Just saw Obama taped giving a stump speech today, trying to jump on McCain about the gas tax.

Obama looked beaten down. He had trouble talking and kept stuttering and it looked like he lost his train of thought a couple of times when trying to find simple words.

He's being so publicly humiliated by his own lies about the man, and his cute political posturing, and now he's caught up in the web of maneuvering in trying to use the black church and then pretending he didn't know what Wright was about.

It's always sad when a charming snake oil salesman gets knocked down. While they shouldn't get away with the scams and charades they're trying to market, they're so adorable and empathetic that you feel bad for them when they're exposed.

Moonbat Disputer | April 28, 2008 5:08 PM

Try doing some research. What are you afraid of????????

Wow! I just read this article. Oh this is garbage! Boo to the Washington Post for pushing such garbage onto people. This post is pure spin. For instance, the writer fails to mention that several time Rev. Wright embraced diversity, "diversity is not deficiency." Or that Rev. Wright said that Farrahkan was wrong for hating the Jews. Or that Rev. Wright described have a very diverse church that is only one of mostly white denomination. Or that rev. Wright's mentor is a white man!

Horrible reporting. People watch the press conference for yourselves. I notice the author didn't put a link to the clip on Youtube.

You Obamaloons should have figured this thing was going to go downhill fast when Rev. "Goddamn America" went out of his way to describe Obama as a just another "politician."

It's "capisco" not "capisce".

Give it a rest already. Who cares what Wright says really. I'm voting for Obama, not him.

I watched the whole thing. And the inane questions from the audience, clearly many from the media, were swiftly and deftly deflected by Rev. Wright. What I saw was a media event that proved that our MSM has little or no understanding of religion in America, let alone what Jeremiah Wright has said or what he stands for.

But one of the best responses was to the first question to explain one of the incendiary clips seen on TV, and his previous comment that it was taken out of context. He asked the journalist who asked the question, "Did you see the whole sermon?" Indeed he had to ask twice before being told no! Ipso facto!

In other words, Rev. Wright's comment about being taken out of context, was validated by the question itself and the journalist who never even bothered to look at any context at all, despite that being the criticism.

And there were many more of the same. I think Mr. Milbanks is upset that Rev. Wright so easily pushed back against a totally nonsensical media, and nobody in the media, including Milbanks wants to let that go. I sense some unwarranted revenge in this article.

I once viewed Rev. Wright's comments as a slip of the tongue; religious rhetoric laced with social discontentment. But now I see that this man is truly bitter. I think Rev. Wright feels that Obama slighted him, and now he (Rev. Wright) intends to sink Obama's chance to win the nomination. This is simply pay-back.

J. Wright has a scary contagious disease. And, Obama caught it 20 years ago.

I'm distancing myself from any and all of these buffoons.

Obama's judgement. Insane.

I love it. Nuance. "So any time a government can put together biological warfare to kill people and then get angry when those people use what we sold them, yes, I believe we are capable."

Translation -
1. Hate Whitey because he invented AIDS.
2. Never trust a white man.
3. Ignore any progress in race relations the past 70 years.
4. Continue to hate Whitey for any wrong that your father, grandfather, great-grandfather might have suffered.

Dana Milbank, you truly show that you are biased. Incredible. You are completely twisting what was said. I would imagine someone bribed you. Or are you simply a jerk?

Hispana - Hispanics are new new negroes. And funny how you mention how everyone should have to earn their keep. Blacks have been earning their keeps for hundreds of years. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants keep pouring across the border. Mexicans came here illegally and racist white owners exploit their labor on the cheap. Meanwhile us black folk are left without a job. The white government stand idly by and let you break the law, force blacks out of jobs, and commit crimes in our communities. We don't want you here. Your country is already enough of a hell-hole, don't bring that into our communities. I'm tired of strong black communities infiltrated by barrio wetbacks. Go back to Mexico, and its obvious why you're supporting Clinton. Clinton will stand by and let you break the law and come into this county illegally and destroy black communities. Go vote for her you peon.

Dana Milbank, you are a disappointment. You opened your article by calling the Rev. Wright a fool. You state:
"It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
"Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom."

I'm sorry, but if you actually listened to Rev. Wright and watched his interview with Bill Moyers, you would realise that he has more brains in his little finger than you will ever have in your head. The man was erudite, witty, incisive, honest, charming, and courageous. Why would you want such a man to keep his mouth shut? What did he say that was foolish or untrue?

Look, the man is not running for office, and this is a free country. He has the right to speak his mind. You fools in the media are the ones who insist on tying him to Obama. Give to God what is God's and to Caesar what is Caesar's. Obama is responsible for his own words and Wright is responsible for his. I am glad that I was able to hear the Rev. Wright speak at length instead of 12-second sound bites. He is indeed a man of intelligence and integrity.

Hillary would be way ahead if this was known before super tuesday

http://www.ydito.com/showchannelimages/?PicNumber=29&Channel=DD-FD-PNYK-KH-FE-WW-VO-DEZZ-MM-DV

Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm -Psalm 105: 15

I would not want to be in the number among those ignorantly attacking this man of God. Even if you don't like what he said, can you argue -intelligently- against it's veritas? I love my country but I will never lift it up as a blameless entity. So, what happens when people unjustly vilify and persecute a man of God?

Uh, read your bible stories people.

Particularly the ones re: the Fierce Anger and Wrath of God

If you continuously provoke God into showing you that He is God, eventually He will.

HATE AMERICA!! OBAMA '08!!!! CHANGE TO DIVIDE AMERICA!

I don't understand the point in asking apologies for slavery. You want to be just, then also ask an apology for the african tribes that captured people from other tribes to sell them to europeans. Ask the arabs or bereberes that trived in that commerce too. And if you want to be fair,get a specialist in African history and begin to ask apologies to each tribe and etnic group that practiced slavery until you get to the ancient egypcians. Nobody is saying that slavery was "good". But slavery was common and accepted during many centuries until human advance in the XIX century banned it. Do you want me to apologize for my grand-grandfather bad behavior? Sorry. I wasn't born and was not responsible for his behavior. And slavery wasn't illegal during his life. Oh. And take in consideration many african black people were captured and sold by other african black people to the european traders (which one in the worst rat?) Read more facts and less religious fairy tales.

Wright says he speaks for the Black Church. Fortunately, he does not and I am sure many black pastors will make that clear next Sunday.

Congratulations Reverund Wright, you may have succeeded in sinking the first black Presidential candidate with a serious chance of winning. It is now a self-fulfilling prophesy, blacks can't get ahead because of self-serving hatemongers such as yourself. Again, congratulations, reverund.

So you don't like Obama?

Great, choose McCain or Hillary who both want to nuke Iran.

Did you watch the whole sermon? I'm sorry, I don't have to watch a whole sermon to understand that this man got to where he is by spreading a message of hate. This country is by no means perfect, but any preacher who stands up and screams "God @#$% America" doesn't deserve to have his whole sermon heard by anyone except maybe the Taliban.

As a Zionist who served in the Israeli army and supports Israel and peace, I love hearing Rev Wright preach.

Most of the people who are responding probably have not heard or read a full sermon or speech by him or watched his beautiful preformance on Bill Moyers show. Most are fully content to hate him based on misquotes and soundbites. The truth is that I also thought he was a nut based on seeing a 30 second snippet of a half hour sermon. When I saw the half hour sermon (and a couple more) I started thinking he was a genius.

The more I read or see the more I find Wright to be a phenomenal preacher with a very finely attuned sense of moral outrage.

I also love hearing all the people who never served in the military criticize him for being unpatriotic. Ironic doesn't even begin to cover it.

Sorry, maybe I'm slow, but doesn't this latest burst from the "Reverend" make it EASIER for Obama to distance himself from the church? I mean, let's face it, if Race was an EASY issue, wouldn't we have dealt with it by now? It seems that Rev. Wright is certainly extreme and nasty, but he's hardly alone, and there are plenty of examples on the other side of race hatred.

Why on earth are some Obama supporters hanging their head in defeat? Obama talked about the need for a change from our politics of division and destruction. Didn't we all realize THIS type of nastiness is part and parcel of the old way of doing business? The divisive politics of Clinton (and Wright) are on full display, THIS is what we have to fight against. We wanted change, and now we know (in full ugly detail) what we're fighting against.

Obama's campaign is not solely about him, it's about US. Now when the forces of political division go ugly, now when the dark underside of racial politics reveals itself for the monster it truly is, NOW is the time we stand up, NOW is the time we shine, NOW is the time when we can win.

Go Obama. Go US.

ProudRepublican:

You are neither Republican nor sane, and you certainly should not be proud.

Rev. Wright is a sell-out. He refuses to use the strongest words possible to condemn a racist government.
I am disgusted by this "middle-road" that black leaders are taking. Real black leaders need to condemn Rev. Wright, change does not happen quietly.
It's time for black people to start their own party.

Wright said "...He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

White people made Wright black? I didn't realize we were that powerful. Actually, Wright should blame his beloved god for making him black...since he appears to be angry that he is black.

What a useless human being...and I'm being generous.

Those who use Wright to play the race card ARE racist. Thats just an excuse for people who bring up the subject saying, "I'm not racist but."

In addition to his defense of Farrakhan's anti-Semitism, Rev. Wright exhibited some of his own:

"MODERATOR: What is your motivation for characterizing Senator Obama's response to you as, quote, 'what a politician had to say'? What do you mean by that?

WRIGHT: What I mean is what several of my white friends and several of my white, Jewish friends have written me and said to me. They've said, 'You're a Christian. You understand forgiveness. We both know that, if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.'"

To Rev. Wright, "white Jews" are a different race than "whites."

Sen. Obama needs to completely repudiate Wright as soon as he can. He's too promising a candidate to be dragged down by this hate monger.

This could turn out to be Obama's 'Sister Souljah' moment. Wright has, in effect, given Obama permission to make a complete break with his pastor, and like Clinton in '92, re-make himself in the minds of voters.

My fellow Latino and Asian Americans,
It seems that Asians and Latinos, and other non-black minorities have two options. They can either stay in the Democratic party and continue to be ignored by latte liberals, or they can join a party that is for true racial equality.
The Republican Party will not prefer one minority group over another. Also, we will nominate candidates based on merit and not by race.
Martin Luther King advocated a color-blind society. You cannot defeat racism with more racism. it is clear that people of all backgrounds face racism. We will not focus on one group at the expense of others.

We will unite the country by common values of promoting strong families, the American Dream, and the goal of a unified America.

Latinos and Asian Americans abandon the Democratic Party - they have failed you. To us you are all American and are welcome to share in the American Dream

What is profoundly sad is that everyone is crying out over what this idiot has said and about race relations... But NOONE has said boo about how defammitory and obscene it is when all the MSM, pundits, blogtwats, and obama campaign spew their narrowminded and vile ignorance against Hillary as a WOMAN!!! THAT is a pathology!

The association and celebration with Kwame Kilpatrick is a mystery. Kwame is a taker and abuser of his own consituency.

Is Obama another one of these types like Kwame and Marion Barry? They sound great on the campaign trail and then, once elected, its lock your doors, hide your wallet, and move to the burbs (like so many middle and upper class blacks in PG and AA counties in Maryland).

It is time to move beyond the us against them racist approach that people like Kilpatrick and Barry used so well in the past (and Wright aand Farakhan use today). A relatively few insiders gain but most who vote for such people as Barry and Kilpatrick continue to lose year in and year out.

I would like to see Obama prove he is something different as he is clearly many cuts above Barry and Kilpatrick but his silence on, continued association with, and his supporters' celebration of such people may be more than great campaign speeches can overcome.

PEOPLE!!

IF OBAMA can't stand up to this kind of scrutiny over his choices, he will never make it when the contest starts for REAL, and the Republican attack dogs get their teeth into him!! YOU AINT SEEN NOTHIN' YET!!

Too much drama, too many stupid issues, and we need to focus on our country's future or we will be a third world country shortly.

We are talking about the office of the President here.

BTW - the article subtly and not so subtly mis-represents what Wright said. Its very clearly aimed at pissing people off. Milbank takes the most contraversial sounding qoutes and places them together out of context.

I don't have time to go quote by qoute, but if you are in any way serious about understanding what is goin on here - as opposed to just confirming your prejiduce of what is happening, I think you owe it to yourself to read the full transcript

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/28/transcript-rev-wright-at-the-national-press-club/

Ofcourse sadly, most people won't do that - they will just read the press synopsis and get pissed.

We deserve a third Bush term.

We need more chicanos in Congress. I hate America too - I could be a Senator.

I've gone to a racist church for most of my adult life - hey Democrats nominate me for the White House.

I can bring about real CHANGE. Wink, wink.

Obama supporters are dreaming or on drugs if they think that there is ANYTHING Obama or anyone else can say that can save his career at this point.

Its over.

He's not even going to get re-elected to the Senate.

If Rev. Wright REALLY wanted to do something about racism then he would not preach HATRED. God is about LOVE not HATE.

You don't teach people to HATE in order to combat HATE!

Dana Milbank, You are right, O-Bitter is Doomed!

Now, Who was that that said "DON'T TELL ME WORDS DON'T MATTER!"??? Oh, that's right O-Bitter!

Well, he was right...WORDS DO MATTER AND THEY MATTER ALOT IF THEY ARE FULL WITH HATE!!

Can we Milbank officially cop to being a conservative shill? Good grief.

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this color."

Those words make it sound like Rev. Wright doesn't like being the color he is. If deep down he hates himself, it would explain all the hate he spews.

Did I hear the Looney Toon Theme Music just before he spoke? Obama's mentor? God help us if this empty suit (B Hussein Obama) gets his hands on the nuclear codes. A racist black man filled with hatred and unforgiveness toward non-blacks, and lest we forget, who filled his pockets with his congregation's donations to build himself a mansion many of them could only dream of. Wright is laughing all the way to the bank. Th Th Th Thats all folks.

Many thanks to posters here who provided links to the National Press Club and NAACP speeches. I've now listened to both and am utterly appalled at Mr. Millbank's gross misrepresentation of them. You, sir, have lost my respect. I have no idea what your agenda is, but your statements go beyond an individual "take;" they are an irresponsible, unprincipled hatchet job. You, sir, are the fool about which the prophets warned.

God bless Rev. Wright. He is a man of the cloth and has every right to speak his opionion as it coordinates with scripture. He is not preaching Black superiority or Black seperatism. He is saying let's all get along. And to get along we need to try to understand each other. Zionism isn't a religion, Judiasm is the religion. Zionism is a social agenda. There are many Jewish people that do not support the Zionist movement. That is not anti-semetic. But how could this country have a memorial for the holocaust which did not even happen in this country? And we don't have a Middle Passage memorial. There is an eagerness to brush America's sins under the rug. While we point our fingers at other countries' transgressions. Rev. Wright ENLISTED, he is a patriot. We are functioning as an imperial nation, and we gave weapons to Bin Laden and the Taliban and to Saddam Huessein. Then we are shocked when terrorist show up on our shores.

Until this point, I never thought I would stay home in November. But after watching the way the MSM has lynched - and I use that word intentionally - Rev. Wright, I can honestly say that I am utterly disgusted. I am not religious, nor do I really believe in organized religion, but I do respect an individual's right to his or her faith. And I would NEVER mock or villify a religious leader to get a good story or to score political points.

Against that backdrop, I can honestly say that this latetst attack on Obama through Rev. Wright is not only a mistake, but is a very painful slap in the face to the Black community. While I was fortunate enough to grow up after the horros of jim crow and segregation, I see the lasting in effects in the balck community and even in my own family. All blacks had at that time was church. It was a place where they could go to feel safe, to gain strength through God, and find the courage to face another day of humiliation, shame, and yes, fear that they or a loved one could be murdered, castrated, beaten or jailed at any moment. That a black church and its leader are now being publicly and intentionally caricatured and belittled by the MSM is just plain sick.

I am so deeply saddened by the hatred and lack of understanding that some individuals in this country continue to perpetrate. Blacks have continued to serve and love this country and God depsite the horror and pain of Jim Crow and segregation, Rev. Wright included. When we were attacked by dogs, hosed down in the streets and killed for simply demanding a seat on a public bus, we responded with non-violent protests. Blacks have never done ANYTHING except demand equality and fariness. We haven't lyched whites in droves, hung them from trees and had BBQ's around their dead bodies.

I am sick and tired of having to play happy negro to make whites feel safe. I will just stay home in November...and I'm certain I won't be alone.

- a well-educated, half-black, elitist from SF

Most people went to church, synagogue, mosque, or some other place of sanctity after 9-11 to pray for the dead, the injured, their families, the country. The vast majority of Americans find it galling and disgusting that Rev. Wright took the pulpit to condemn our country in that time of mourning. Its offensive, and when Rev. Wright states that Obama agrees with him on the inside, and is just distancing himself for political ends, we have a right to feel uneasy about the good Senator.

I have no doubt that a good number of Americans agree with what most of what Reverend Wright has to say. For the rest of us - the VAST majority - we are left asking why Senator Obama's JUDGMENT was so lacking when he selected this man as his spiritual advisor for 20 years. Since judgment is all that Obama has given us in support of his candidacy, I must wonder why on earth the VAST majority of folks would vote for him.

The Washington Post, has contributors representing the whole spectrum.
From the very best reporters and editorialists to some like you.

banarew---

Are you really that stupid? Didnt you know this is a "real Republican attack"?

Who the hell do you think McCain and Clinton are in the pockets of? Who do you think make the money off of these wars? The very same people that own the Washington Post and ABC.

OBAMA has quite a bit of red flags around him. Watch him at 2 different speeches in NC, invoking the Rapper, Jay-Z and giving the finger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOFp-RDpvM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw

Wright is a disgrace and a race hustler....This association is pulling Obama back down to the I'm still a victim because of slavery mentality that pervades a good portion of black culture! The perpetuation of victimhood is how guys like this derive their power.

How can it be the voice of doom for Obama?
On the contrary there is a trend emerging from this situation which I do not believe will be a negative thing for Mr. Obama.

For instance, today Mr. King published today an article in the Washinton Post. He claimed that Mr. Ed Rendell ( strong supporter of Mr.and Mrs. Clinton in PA) has been connencted to Louis Farrakhan and the Nations of Islam.

Also we have read in other publications that Rev Marcia Dyson and Shiela Jackson Lee have been connected to Jeremiah Wright for many years. As a mater of fact it appears that the Trinity United Church of Christ paid par of the religious studies of Re. Marcia Dyson.

On the other hand didn't Mr. an Mrs. Clinton invite Rev Jeremiah Wright to the White House diring the impeachment procedures?

So lets keep on digging on this one...I do not believe that at the end of the day Mr. Obama is the one to be negatively affected by this entanglement.

hikaya,

That makes no sense. Why stay home if you think that an injustice is being perpetrated here.

Notwithstanding that, all of what you said doesn't give Rev. Wright license to mock and belittle the black community - AIDS was created by the Government to kill black Americans? US of KKK? If anyone is painting a characature, it is Rev. Wright doing so of himself.

Milbank = Scum

Max: have you noticed that the level of conversation aroung here is considerably higher than the juvenile postings of links that purport to show candidates in the dim light you wish to see them in? Why don't you join the rest of the gang at a considerably higher plane: there's more light up here.

How ABSURD! Reverend Wright is Obama's FORMER PASTOR and is quite witty and so extremely intelligent. If you want to lynch because of his pastor, then you need to lynch HRC for her "Family Fundamental pastors (whoever the hell they are), and do the same with McLame for Parsley and Hagee. Furthermore, while we are at it, lets not forget Rendell who supports HRC as well as the Nation of Islam and Farrikan. If we are going to have "guilt by association", then we NEED to have it across the board! Or GROW UP! As Wright said several times previously and today, he is NOT running for POTUS; Obama is. What is wrong with you racists and bigots -I would be THRILLED to know Wright because he impressed me as being honest, witty and smarter than most of the people I know personally. I believe most people are JEALOUS of Obama [and Wright] because they are true intellectuals! Why are you so AFRAID of Rev. Wright? He hasn't done anything to you and he doesn't want anything from you. It's uneducated people who fear anything different; so educate yourselves and learn something new maybe then you won't be so SCARED!

Do you notice how the commentators, like Mr. Mobank, NEVER mention the theological aspects of his speeches. Rev. Wright talked extentsively this week end about unity. What group of people or religions did he insullt? These politicians(Comentators included) can not separate the real world from the beltway. Think about what Rev. Wright is saying without this being an election year. Mr. Milbank and others could not care less. For those of us who no we need a fresh start in America. Rev. Wright spoke about how we can do that, Dana Milbank, and others of his ilk, are in another world from the rest of us. The above article proves that. in the last

it appears to me that this country is going to get a chance to help each other out because we are about to be brought to our knees economically. the main good thing that may come out of this is people might pick up their bibles and try to find out if wright is speaking Gods truth,which he isn't. they will find out that Jesus told people to deal with their life situations with Gods love for their fellow man and the faith that in the end there will be justice. Gods justice,not rev, wright's justice. the jewish rulers rejected Jesus for the same thing. they wanted a king to fight for them ,but as Jesus told pilate,"my kingdom is not of this world."

Well, he might have invoked JZ the rapper, but unlike Dubya, at least he won't embarass us on an international stage with his dance moves.

Proverbs 17;28 Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace;
When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive. (NKJ Thomas Nelson)

Wright had a better chance at being counted wise when he kept his mouth shut. Now that he has reopened it, he has removed all doubt.

Since Wright likes Proverbs, he ought to try this one on for size:

Prov 26:26 Though his hatred is covered by deceit, His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

Now I would like to see a debate between Obama and Reverend Wright!!
You know what? If this is the kind of stuff that Wright has been preaching, that makes me respect Obama even more! Because, now I wonder: where has Obama learned about healing divisions, and transcending race, and reaching out to all Americans? He obviously did not learn this from Reverend Wright!

Osama Obama should concede the nomination to Hillary now and then resign his Senate seat.

He has caused enough shame on himself and hurt on us.

What about the children?

My fellow liberal democrats stop being condescending to people who do not like what they hear coming out of Rev. Wrights mouth.

I am so tired of race. I am so tired of people being racist if they don't vote for Barack...The Rev is rich. He's lives in a mansion. He went to a very good highschool. I don't care if we own apologies over slavery. I care about how the economy is affecting me. We use to be semi-well off middle class. Now gas and groceries are taking away any expendable income we have. I doubt with the Rev's money, it affecting him much.

I am just having a hard time seeing Michele as our first lady.

She seems so angry and bitter.

Whether or not we agree with Reverend Wright (and I was moved by the power, clarity and intelligence behind his remarks), he has the right, as we all do, to speak his truth. These were not Obama's words, just as Governor Rendell's praising of Farrakhan were not Hillary's words. John McCain's friend and supporter, Rev. John Hagee, is actively working to hasten "armageddon" and indicated that God damned this country by punishing New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina. McCain has said that he is very proud of Rev. Hagee but that "does not mean that I support or endorse or agree with some of the things that Pastor John Hagee might have said or positions that he may have taken on other issues." Sound familiar?

But why is the media working overtime to prove Obama guilty-by-association, while downplaying similar connections of the other candidates? Here's why: Obama is a threat to the status quo - to the influence of the rich and powerful. His record-breaking grassroots campaign donations leave him obligated to nobody but We the People.

Rev. Wright is gonna have a grenade shoved down his throat by Michelle O.....

I haven't had this much fun in........forever!!!!!!!!!!!

Dana-
Thanks so much for telling me what to think about this, I almost forgot that I am too stupid to think for myself.
Maybe if you people would focus on the real issues instead of playing the 'guilt by association' game we might be able to make a reasoned choice regarding our next President, but I guess to you, it's far more important that you join Obama at the hip with Wright than discuss Clinton's lust for starting a nuclear war or consider the implications of electing Bush III. Shame on you, you are the problem, not Rev. Wright

I agree with those who point out that Milibank did do a particularly sensationalist job of cutting and pasting Wright's remarks here. That said, his support of Farrakhan obviously hurts Obama. Obama will clearly have to condemn the Farrakhan remarks if he hopes to retain the Jewish vote in N.Y., Miami, and Chicago come November.
Wright completely blew it by flubbing his lines regarding Farrakhan. Farrakhan did in fact refer to Judaism (not Zionism) as a "dirty" religion. Farrakhan is an anti-semite, pure and simple. Obama will have to get proactive fast or he his campaign will crash. Tis a shame and a pity that we would then have to end up with the likes of Hillary or McCain.

Dang, let me get some of you some WHINE with your cheese...Tissue?!?!

Hatred! Racism! Courtesy of Revs. MANY I mean MANY blacks do not think like LouisF or Rev JeraLIAR or New Black Panthers.. Why do Blacks here on this website NOT adore, respect great people like Bill Cosby, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, JC Watts. Rev Patterson. These people are role models not gimme gimme gimme ones like hateful REV's.

The "Buzzards" not chickens are coming home to roost to destroy the Democratic Party. The Blacks I know say they are AMERICAN 1st, Black 2nd..And do NOT agree with your heroes of Black Panthers-Panzies, Wright, LouisF, ShazazzHate.
I will take hard working, gracious, go get em people of all races THAN the whiney, gimme gimme, lazy, pulling the race card losers ANYDAY! Me and my diverse family will continue to get up everyday and try to make it a better place (like half of AMERICA does), while the others just complain and wait for handouts they THINK is due to them....

Preach it Rev Wright.. FalseHood to Power. You are a DISGRACE. I feel bad/sad for Obama, he had a RACIST HATEFUL LUNATIC for a friend and pastor.

Ohhhh and GOD BLESS AMERICA

Very interesting comments from Obama supporters. Despite Obama's weak protestions, he agree's with Wrights remarks,

It appears that most of Obmam's supporters agree with Wrights remarks. And probably a majority of democrats agree with Rev Wrights remarks that America is at fault for 9/11 and that America has made various transgressions that have resulted in the "chickens comming home to roost.

I am just having a hard time seeing Michele as our first lady.

She seems so angry and bitter.

Posted by: atlanta | April 28, 2008 5:53 PM

And she's a lunatic too! I saw a speech she gave and she was flailing her arms around, picked her nose and about flicked the booger on some poor person in the front row.
It looked as if she was about to "get it on!"
You could tell she was extremely hostile to whitey. I guess we knew that already, but just the look on her face...that sneer when she talks about AmeriKKKa. Really sick.

Obama has at least two problems concerning the Rev. Wright. Both problems have do to, not with the fact that he is Black, but that when he began his campaign he was such an unknown quantity in the eyes of most voters. He has tried mightily not to define himself as a Black candidate and to run an all-inclusive campaign. Wright threatens to undo this. The second thing is a bit more subtle: we have to ask ourselves exactly how Black Obama is. I mean, he is the son of a Kenyan diplomat and a white woman, who grew up in Nebraska and was shipped off to an exclusive boarding school in Hawaii, and wound up as a Star Boy at Harvard Law. Then, having a hunch that he was going to go into politics and needed some street cred as a Black, he realized that he pretty much needed to go to school to learn how to be one. The school he chose was the Rev. Wright's church, and probably this choice did serve him well in the cut-and-thrust of Chicago ward politics. Certainly he acquired the ability to imitate a bit of Wright's sermon delivery when addressing Black audiences, something he seems to be able to switch off and on at will. Depending on context, he can be as Black or as non-Black as he wants. But when he got involved in national politics, his normal savvy deserted him he failed to realize that Wright would now become a liability (he still doesn't seem to get the point). Obama's race per se should of course not be an issue in this campaign, but his involvement with the Rev. Wright raise questions about both his judgment and his authenticity -- questions that ought to trouble Black voters as much as white ones. Blacks need to ask themselves "exactly how much is this guy really one of us, or is this an act he learned at Wright's church, which he can put on when its serves his purpose?"

The Rev Wright is a big drag on Obama. Is this necessary? Obama himself made it a drag by continueing his association with Wright. Obama should have quit the church of Wright, which awarded Farrakhan a life achievement award, many years ago.

Yes, it is sad that our debate has to be about race at this point.

Our Economy is about to be flushed down the loo, bank failures are immenient, gas will soon be seven dollars a gallon, and we are allowing the extremist crap spewed by this Wright buffoon to dictate our political conversation.

Seriously, my advice is to get your financial house in order as best you can. If the lid blows, none of us will be able to count on ANY US govt. to save us.

And finally...just think about this--We have had George Bush at the helm for the last 7 years. He has utterly destroyed our country. BRITNEY SPEARS would be an improvement.

Let's talk about the real issues folks.

This nutball couldn't resist the limelight, so he goes out and spews forth his inane drivel again, thereby doing real damage to Senator Obama's campaign. Look: this is not Obama speaking, it is his pastor; but he provides a convenient excuse for people not to vote for Obama. It is shocking that Wright desires glory so much he is helping destroy this fine young man's chance to win the White House. Shame on him.

Meanwhile, the witch sits up in her mountain castle and sends out her flying monkeys to do her dirty work. We should have known the Clintons would find something to turn things in her favor. It is a disgrace.

There's a voice of doom all right, but it isn't reverend wright. it's the media who has found their swift boat issue. They've doped out the narrative, cast the characters and will proceed to pimp the novel until election day.

Meanwhile, the rubes can't wait to line up and spew it back --witness some of the indefensible, not to mention idiotic, comments about Wright and about Obama on this board.

What does this have to do with the kind of president Obama would make? Nothing. But the media doesn't give a whit about that -- and apparently neither do some of the nitwits on this board.

I am appalled at the lack of real knowledge of history on the part of so many. "More died on the Middle Passage than in the Holocaust", etc. This is what you get when false intellectualism is pandered to in the name of political correctness. There were no where near 6 million slaved taken over the entire period 200 years prior to the Civil War. But, someone having a professor's tenure (and thus immune to firing) can manufacture such inaccuracies in their classes and uncritical students take those revisionists at their word. Unless, we get a better informed populace, we will argue ourselves into irrelevance over minutia.

As for Rev. Wright, he respects no scholarship that is not by a black person. He also commits a sort of reverse eugenics on himself and others of color when he says that they are so different that everyone else in the human race must allow them to have their own sets of standards of behavior, education, medical treatment, etc. He is the racist. I love my friends for being themselves. I like their differences because those differences make them likable. Some are white and some are black. They wouldn't be as much fun or as likable if they were all the same. However, none of my friends think of themselves and their respective races as victims which must have everything slanted toward their view to ostensibly make the playing field level.

. BRITNEY SPEARS would be an improvement.

Let's talk about the real issues folks.

Posted by: Kate | April 28, 2008 5:59 PM

I'd take Brit Brit any day over Obama and his butt ugly wife. She has some nice white booty and puts out like a champ.

I watched the speech this morning and listened to the follow-up questions. My reaction seems to be much different than the Dana's and other media. I saw a very intelligent imperfect Christian man who really made you think. He was provocative, entertaining, and even enlightening. He did not exhibit hate or racism. I did not agree with everything that he said, but he did not say anything that was unreasonable, other than perhaps his view that the govt could be capable of causing Aids. BTW, Dana reported that inaccurately when he wrote "[Wright] repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities," he did not say the govt caused Aids. I have noticed an anti-Obama bias in Dana's reporting recently so not surprised he reported something different from what was said.

In many ways Rev. Wright was more Christ like than any of the media and the many people who are quick to judge him.

For the record, I am a 46 yr old christian white male.

If you listen really closely, I think you can hear the Obama bubble bursting? Can you hear it now?

Wright's comments today are most damaging to Obama b/c they fiercely attacked his biggest ally in the ongoing war against Hillary - - THE LIBERAL MEDIA!!!

What truly amazes me is all of the postings above that defend the deranged Pastor. Are you telling me that you morons really think the U.S. government created AIDS to wipe african-americans from the planet? If so, you need to seek some serious medical help.

This whole episode has made me realize that Obama's "bitter" comments were really describing himself, his wife, and his pastor. They all have this giant chip on their shoulder and they (not small town America) are the ones that are bitter and cling to religion...Think about it.

All of this hype about Obama and Rev. Wright...bitter...you name it...and guess what....He still nets yet another SUPERDELEGATE....hot darn!!! The supers have been moving into his camp consistently even after a 9.2 loss in Pennsylvania...They obviously understand the message that he brings...he is the ONLY candidate that has promised that when he's elected President...he will be reviewing the Bush Adminstration white house years and the possibility of them practicing "abuse of power"...ever since he has promised that the world, media "stuck on stupid" pundits, even the Clinton campaign (wonder what's in their box of secrets...hmmm....)have been trying to put him a choke hold and pin him down until he looses his breath...but baby...If GOD who judges ALL us wants Obama to be the President of the U.S. Then guess what baby....he'll be the next President and nothing that comes his way will harm him. Just look at how he handles all of this vetting and b.s. he just keeps on pummeling through!!! Brushes it off and keeps on going...The Clintons are pissed because they can't believe that this new young fresh off the meat table has out witted the entire Democratic party and the Clinton Machine...You have got to give this man his PROPS!! Stop hating...I just sent another $100.00 to his campaign...Take it all Obama....take it all the way...we got your back!!! Yes WE Can!!!

Nobody cares. Or should care. Wright's opinions, good or bad, will not help the economy or stop the Iraq mess.

I am so tired of the media and their relentless search for gossipy, stupid stories that are meaningless.

Too all you Obama supporters....BUHBYE!!!!

ROTFLMAO......every news station is playing this sheet over and over again.

All us bitter white people with guns and bibles will never, ever vote for racist Hussein and his nasty wife. Wright is Barry's best friend. He said it today, he is going after Obama the day he is elected because

""I said to Barack Obama last year, 'If you get elected, November the 5th I'm coming after you, because you'll be representing a government whose policies grind under people,' Wright said.

Yeah...you all keep bull sh*tting each other that it doesn't matter.....

I agree with Kenn in CA. It's in Wright's financial self-interest to return America to the bad old days of blatant racism. In the process he has rendered Obama toast. I can't stand Hillary, but my attitude is Anybody But Another Republican. Considering our twin defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the economy heading further into the dumper between now and Election Day I think she can beat McCain. If McCain wins---well, I wonder how much it costs to live in Costa Rica.

At this point I can not, in good conscience, continue to support Obama. I will have to grit my teeth and vote for Hillary.

What do the following people have in common?

Rev. Wright
Jimmy Carter
Desmond Tutu
Norman Finkelstein
Tony Judt
Stephen Walt
John Mearsheimer
Arun Gandhi

(I can go on, but you get the idea).

If anyone thinks it's by accident that we are discussing Rev. Wright instead of the economy and the war, you are awfully naive.

The attempts to kill Obama's candidacy started with the email campaign claiming he was a Muslim. Lots of well educated Americans fell for it, but others didn't. Remember, even Jon Stewart did his bit by using Obama's middle name at the Oscars. If you think that was an accident, you are really stupid. When that angle didn't hurt him enough, they tried to arouse racism and now Rev. Wright.

I used to be a Ron Paul supporter. The media totally ignored him even though he raised more money in Dec. than any other candidate. Was that an accident? Not that he would have won, but the point is that the media didn't want him to have airtime to express his views. Don't you ask yourselves why?

I took a look at Obama when I came to realize which group was on his arse.

Conspiracy? Hardly! It's all about the control of America.

Had Dana Milbank an ounce of honesty in his half-bright, corporate soul, he would have suggested that looking back, today might be seen as the day that the press finally took off the gloves and attempted to bury Obama's candidacy. It's hard to imagine a more deceitful and dishonest account. Mr. Milbank imagines, in the opening quote, that Wright was referring to himself, when in fact he was referring to the likes of Mr. Milbank. Mr. Milbank ignores (or perhaps wasn't listening, or perhaps didn't understand) Wright's explanation that he was quoting the Iraqi prime minister when he made comments after 9-11. Mr. Milbank doesn't explain why the comments of a pastor should be able to derail the candidacy of one of the brightest lights to come down the road in some decades. The answer is simple: to him and his comrades, the press creates reality, and the reality they've chosen to create is that Barack Obama was destroyed by Reverend Wright. Remember, they can't say it if it isn't true!

Indeed, when one opens his mouth too much all doubt of foolishness is sometimes removed. Obama's mouth has been open for six months now. Many hot air balloons could have been filled. But can anyone remember anything he said? Just a few words are now legindary:
My grandmother is a typical white person.
Folks across in small towns across America are bitter and cling to antipathy.
We are the ones we have been waiting for.

I find this man named Wright who many in his corner concider him to be a reverend and pastor, to be divisive and depressive person.
It's a shame this man is truly out of control with his emotions and unable to see and consider the damage his words have done to both the white and negroid communities of America.

I'm a self-proclaimed white racist. I embrace Wright as my brother in racism.

He has inspired me to continue to write Senator Clinton. I have invited her to my racist white church, but she's refused to even answer my repeated emails and phone calls. What a wh*re.

Obama '08. He will legalize racism and hate (yes, only actions are illegal), in fact he makes it cool. I believe in hate, and I believe in change. Change through hate, I'm sold.

I do not support Obama because I am admittedly racist. I do not believe my race is better than any other but simply follow my natural inclination to gravitate toward my like kind. Is this a sin? Well if breathing, eating, and sleeping is a sin then I am also a sinner. One of the main freedoms of being an American is having choices. We choose our actions and reactions. Sometimes we choose to not act or react which is what Obama is guilty of. His failure to either rebuke his pastor or leave the church (within the last 20 years) is his problem with the majority of sinners in America. He has made his bed and he will sleep in it just as the rest of America. The biggest difference is the rest of America is NOT running for the highest office in the land so he is held to a higher standard then other Americans. Like it or not it's just the way it is.

i'm really sorry that this individual claims to be a follower of Christ. he is not color blind to the color red, as in the blood that Jesus shed, but he only sees black and a past that no one is proud of, but that happened. the world was different then, get over it. try to do something today to bring all colors together, not continue to tear us apart looking for apologies and focusing on the past. forgeting the past i press on toward the upward call of Christ Jesus. Reverend? Wright...

I don't read for truth.

I don't listen for fact.

I don't analyze for understanding.

I prefer my opinions fed to me in small bites, preferably chewed first, then regurgitated for me by the MSM.

Suggesting I'm not faultless and my country is less than perfect hurts my pride.

I am a voter with poo for brains.

God have mercy on our American Ignorance

I want Obama to be President more than any of the others. I have contributed to his campaign. But as an African American, I can say that if he doesn't make it because the nation can't face it's history and present. Then so be it. I WON'T SELL OUT FOR A BLACk PRESIDENT. Obama shouldn't. And thank you Rev. Wright for not selling out either.
==========================================

I totally agree. The people on this post obviously missed the whole point of his speech that Black people are different from White people, who are different from Hispanics, but that we are all God's children. If Obama disowned Rev. Wright to become president. Then I would lose all respect for Obama. If he can't win the General Election because of this. Then that's just the way it is. He will win Gov. of Illinois by a landslide and live happily ever after.

Wright is really a brilliant guy:

I love this quote:

Dr. Jones, in his book, God in the ghetto, argues quite accurately that one's theology, how I see God, determines one's anthropology, how I see humans, and one's anthropology then determines one's sociology, how I order my society.

Now, the implications from the outside are obvious. If I see God as male, if I see God as white male, if I see God as superior, as God over us and not Immanuel, which means "God with us," if I see God as mean, vengeful, authoritarian, sexist, or misogynist, then I see humans through that lens.

My theological lens shapes my anthropological lens. And as a result, white males are superior; all others are inferior.

And I order my society where I can worship God on Sunday morning wearing a black clergy robe and kill others on Sunday evening wearing a white Klan robe. I can have laws which favor whites over blacks in America or South Africa. I can construct a theology of apartheid in the Africana church (ph) and a theology of white supremacy in the North American or Germanic church.

The implications from the outset are obvious, but then the complicated work is left to be done, as you dig deeper into the constructs, which tradition, habit, and hermeneutics put on your plate.

How can it be WRONG, when it feels so WRIGHT??

Thanks Reverend for destroying this great man's shot at the Presidency. Your brand of devisiveness is more racist than anything I have heard or seen.

I was watching 'Planet of the Apes' the other day and I swear Michelle Obama looks exactly like the doctor ....

Your headline is like fish bate "Wright's Voice Could Spell Doom for Obama".

Each people in America has free speech.

This election race has the flavor of what happen between Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony which started the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1867-69, Our History seen to repeat itself again and again.

The people are speaking and speaking and Hillary hears was she wants to hear "I want to be president". She had planned to return to white house by become senator of New York. The Clinton's went to New York to begin the process for getting back to the white house. Bill moved his office Harlem in an effect to get the Black vote sealed. The Clinton's actions are in this election race is about keeping the chair in the family.

We need conscious change and Hillary and bill do not provide that flavor. They would rather us remain unconscious. We need change that includes leadership that inspire, uplifts, and enfranchises all Americans. Senator Obama is that choice.

Senator Obama giving us the leadership characteristics infused like Abraham Lincoln, Fred Douglas, John Kennedy, Dr. King rolled, and more together for the 21st century.

Wright's not stepping on my foot. He's stepping on his own **** (or, actually, Obama's).

What idiots and racists.

Of course the U.S. GOVERNMENT CREATED AIDS TO kill black people.

Back in the late 60's, the CIA injected a monkey with HIV. Some poor, lonely goat herder had sex with it and contracted the virus.

Can't you see the facts? Wright is obviously an extension of Obama. Obama is an extreme left-winger, as evidenced by his associations with Rezko, Ayers, Wright, and, of course, his wife, who was never proud to be an American until she was rolling in the cash generated by the Obama campaign. If Obama wins I'm going to seriously consider taking my family, my education, my culture and my tax base overseas to a more level-headed society. It's truly appalling to see ~50% of our society, along with the press, follow Obama.

My fellow Latino and Asian Americans,
It seems that Asians and Latinos, and other non-black minorities have two options. They can either stay in the Democratic party and continue to be ignored by latte liberals, or they can join a party that is for true racial equality.
The Republican Party will not prefer one minority group over another. Also, we will nominate candidates based on merit and not by race.
Martin Luther King advocated a color-blind society. You cannot defeat racism with more racism. it is clear that people of all backgrounds face racism. We will not focus on one group at the expense of others.

We will unite the country by common values of promoting strong families, the American Dream, and the goal of a unified America.

Latinos and Asian Americans abandon the Democratic Party - they have failed you. To us you are all American and are welcome to share in the American Dream

African Americans will continue to blame everyone but themselves. Blame the media, the Clintons, the Republicans, the government, white America, historic slavery, yada yada yada. Black students trying to do well in school are taunted by fellow blacks of trying to "act white." Blame guns for black on black murders. And we see how well Africa has done. Oh yeah, blame colonialism. Grow up.

All you delusional Hillary supporters (Milbank included) gleefully forcasting Barack Obama's downfall should read the comments section pertaining to the Chris Wallace-Barack Obama interview in the Fox News website.

seedobecome===your own kind? you mean stupid people? Good. Don't drag the rest of the human race down. We've been trying to evove upward.

HATE WE CAN BELIEVE IN. OBAMA '08. OUR TIME HAS COME!!!!

We democratic voters are going to have to take control of this situation and vote for McCain in November if Hillary is not the nominee. By then, the Rezko trial and all of the corruption in Chicago politics surrounding and including Obama will be front page center for all to see. He is totally unelectable, and we need a Dem in the White House, but I would rather have McCain there, than to allow the Chicago political machine to move their game from the streets of Chicago to the halls of the White House!

Posted by: susan leff | April 28, 2008 3:35 PM
----------------------------------------

You are absolutely correct! In my mind, the whole Chicago political machine mess is far more dangerous to all Americans than a republican win. And isn't that a shame? I never thought I'd even consider voting for a republican! It never entered my mind! But Mr. Obama has shown himself to be a dirty politician, as well as a poor judge of character. He's a user, period.

GO HILLARY!!!

It appears that Dana Milbank and a lot of other journalists never bothered to open their ears and hear what was actually being said about all god's children, reconciliation and positive good works to uplift the community.

The Asian American community should rise up with one big race riot. We should burn turn major U.S. cities. Maybe then people will pay attention to Asian American issues. This model minority sh*t is obviously not working. The path to acceptance is not working hard, but hating America.

Hate America and hate white people. Drop out of school, hate white people. Blame whitey.

Then, we'll have real CHANGE.

Put a Mexican in the White House or Latinos will leave the Democratic Party.

DO IT NOW!

Ignorance is the biggest enemy of democracy. For crying out loud, why would Barack's past relationship with Jeremiah Wright affect his candidacy and not the Clintons' past relationship with the reverend? Have people already forgoten that when Bill Clinton finally admitted to Hillary that he indeed had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, they both invited their friend, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to bless their faultering marriage? It is Rev. Wright who worked with the Clintons over time to save their marriage. Why is this not an issue for Hilary?

The US constitution gurantees every citizen the right to freedom of expression. Rev. Wright is exercising his right. You may agree or disagree with what he says but do not blame Obama or Hillary for the Reverend's opinions. If you disagree with his opinions then engage him, not Obama.

Unless you have never lived in the US or your memory is the shortest on earth, most of what Rev. Wright has been saying is factually correct. If you are serious about solving the racial problems that divide America, you must acknowledge and begin with the harsh reality of those facts, not hide them under the carpet.

Of the three presidential candidates left, only Obama appears to grasp the historical essence of these facts. More importantly, his prescription for solving the racial problems seems to be diametrically opposed to those of Hillary, McCain and Rev. Wright.

I agree with Kenn in CA. It's in Wright's financial self-interest to return America to the bad old days of blatant racism. In the process he has rendered Obama toast. I can't stand Hillary, but my attitude is Anybody But Another Republican. Considering our twin defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the economy heading further into the dumper between now and Election Day I think she can beat McCain. If McCain wins---well, I wonder how much it costs to live in Costa Rica.

Posted by: Larry in CA | April 28, 2008 6:05 PM
___________________________________________

Hillary won't beat McCain. Blacks will sit this one out. Besides, don't think the GOP hasn't got a nuke for Hillary; that's why they're running anti-Obama (which amount to pro-Hillary) ads now. And Hill's negatives are just too high for her to win. She's backing off now, but it's too little, too late. In any event, McCain won't put out as incompetent an administration as Bush, because he won't be promoting the religious right like Bush did. It'll be Ivy-league conservatives, not Patrick Henry/Liberty U. conservatives.

You don't want to go to Costa Rica. It's cheap, but it's jungle. Big bugs and snakes and stuff. You get what you pay for, so I'd look at Canada and Europe (most everyone over there speaks English, anyway).

The drumbeat call for "change" coming from the campaign of presidential candidate Barack Obama is generating "legitimate concern over the zeitgeist around the campaign," the head of American Jewry's primary umbrella group reportedly said Tuesday.

At a Jerusalem press conference, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations, voiced worry over the mantra of "change" that he said characterized the presidential race, terming the word's lack of definition "an opening for all kinds of mischief."

http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c36_a4483/News/New_York.html

This is the thing.

Obama is a smart man, he has just made many choices in his life to associate himself with some questionable people and philosophy along the way.

When running for the office of the President of the US, these things are of course going to be questioned, and put under a microscope. What is happening now, is that they are adding up, and the average American voter that started out liking the guy, is now starting to wonder....hmmmmm, maybe this is starting to add up...

It's the wondering that will take him down, because it truly is adding up.

Remember that game we played as children? You whispered a secret to someone and they were supposed to whisper it to the next and so on down the line. The last person was supposed to repeat the secret and everyone could see how much the message had changed.

That's what people are doing with Rev. Wright's sermons and speeches here. Passing on little snippets and without hearing he whole thing.

Yes, you do need to hear him speak in its entirety. You cannot listen to only outtakes and understand what he is saying.

Rev. Wright is erudite, witty, and brillantly deflected the silly questions designed to trap him. He is educated and interesting. He was a Marine and he can take the heat from small minds.

Those who are offended need to shake off their prejudices and listen to him. Those who hate Obama or are bigots, well, you're screwed.

Rev Wright could learn from Jesus who he professes to follow. Jesus taught that all people were equal and brothers. Jesus never taught that whites are holding blacks down. Rev Wright had the chance to make a real Christian church out of his church. Instead, he awarded anti-american activists, said things like America gave blacks AIDS, etc. All this time, 20 years, Barack Obama sat in the pew and heard nothing.

African Americans will continue to blame everyone but themselves. Blame the media, the Clintons, the Republicans, the government, white America, historic slavery, yada yada yada. Black students trying to do well in school are taunted by fellow blacks of trying to "act white." Blame guns for black on black murders. And we see how well Africa has done. Oh yeah, blame colonialism. Grow up.

Posted by: RichardS | April 28, 2008 6:16 PM

Do NOT blame black Americans for Rev. Wright Or Mr. Obama's lack of judgement. That's truly very racist of you. They are individuals and do not represent all of black America, not by a long shot.

If Clinton seeks to exploit Rev. Wright's rants, we need look no further than Bill Clinton's special relationship with race-hustler extraordinaire, Jesse Jackson for whom he signed clemency/pardon papers for three of Jackson's associates during the final days of the Clinton admin. McCain, likewise, has hate-mongering evangelist Hagee in his pack. Point one finger at another, there are three more pointing back at you.

As a black male, I am extremely disappointed with the Reverend's statements. The time is ripe for change, and Mr. Wright has chosen to sell-out black America.
There are two Americas and its time for black America to take its place. The movement's strategy toward reconciliation is not working. We need to take a more militant approach.
It wasn't until the SNCC and CORE kicked out its white members and spoke black power that real change happened.
People speak of love as the universal language, thats bullsh*t. Black people did not get their long overdue rights until we spoke in a language you understand - violence. After hundreds of years of violence to blacks, its understandable why white America only understand violence (look at Iraq). A white man will definitely recognize his house burning or a punch in the face.
It's time that we demand our proper place in America. Mr. Wright I know why you took the softer approach, but is not working anymore.
Our time has come.

Back in the late 60's, the CIA injected a monkey with HIV. Some poor, lonely goat herder had sex with it and contracted the virus.
==========================================

Yeah. That makes more sense than the FACT that we had doctors in Central Africa using monkey kidneys to form a Hep. B vaccine. They used the navtive people to test the vaccine. This is where AIDS came from. Sex with a monkey. Get real.

Also, did we or did we not sell Saddam the gas that he used on his own people. Then tried him for war crimes for using it. Didn't we train Bin Laden's Mujihadeen in Afganistan. Then we were suprised when the nut job turned on us.

My point is. If you sponsor terrorist. You are a terrorist. It's like accessory to murder.

Even if Obama dishoned, distance himself from Rev. Wright, etc., he's done as a candidate for the nomination. Please Mr. Obama do yourself a favor and this country and step aside from this race.

I am not going to vote for Jeremiah Wright. Last time I checked, he was not running for president. I am going to vote for Barack Obama and I hope you will too.

The " anti-American " Wright spent six years in the service.Cheney had other priorities.But we know who the mainstream media will attack as being unpatriotic.

What does Cheney have to do with anything. McCain is running for Prez and he spent 5 1/2 in a POW camp.

Some assinine idiots on this blog has been stated some really stupid ish....and I can't stop laughing....because these are some very bitter gun toting johnny walker racist fools with very little education...why are you guys so fearful of the blacks???? What the governement has done to the Tuskeegee airman was horrible and inhumane...The governement also sold weapons of mass destruction to Sadam Hussein to kill off his own people and when he turned on them went into Iraq and destroyed the entire country and have put Americans and our economy in debt forever to Iraq. Those real nice ignorant rural jack a** that voted for Bush in 04 because they were afraid of the gays, hated abortion, was afraid of the uprisal of blacks....and those idiots voted based on ignorance instead of common sense...The sad thing is they are the real intelligent jacka** that are suffering the most by a ucked up economy!!! That's your problem you are so afraid of the intelligent, well educated and articulate God fearing black man. You guys are slaves to your own ignorance and when you waddle in your own ignorance....you get what you deserve...why are you guys so upset with Blacks and immigrants...you guys are some hateful folks....I guess you hate that image in the mirror....I can understand...I'd hate to peep in that mirror with cha!! LMAO....Stuck on Stupid...

J. House,
What would you propose? Race riots?

Threatening white people isn't going to get you anywhere. I think you need some counseling. You're awfully disturbed.

Do birds of a feather flock together?

Read an article that explains how the psychological theory of "cross-race recognition deficit" may be exacerbating the indelible linkage of Jeremiah Wright's views to Barack Obama...here:
www.thoughttheater.com

I disagree with all you doomsdayers. Barack Obama needs to defend his association with Jeremiah Wright. Did any of you guys lsiten to Wright's speech to the NAACP or to the National Press Club? Yes, God damn America, in just the same way as the prophets of Israel, like Isaiah, and yes Jeremiah, denounced and condemned Israel for its sins. I know everyone believes in "American exceptionalism," but . . . There are damnable things America and Americans have done in the last 60 years. Take the bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed 100,000 innocents in each city. Would God bless America for this, or would the God of the prophets damn America? And how about the War in Iraq? Yes, Rev. Wright is the level headed one. The critics of Wright probably never heard him speak.

Roberto Antonio in Utah

w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m 13/02/2008
Hoenlein: Obama's spirit of change could
harm Israel
By Anshel Pfeffer

The U.S. Jewish leader warned the American presidential campaign could signal a shift toward declining U.S. support for Israel.

"Support for Israel is at an all-time high, [but] our polling suggests that as broad as the support is, it is also thin, and most Americans see Israel as a dark and militaristic place," he said.

He termed the current election season "transitional" and said that it "could bring about a shift in the political life."

Hoenlein said that Israel's supporters should be worried by "the
heightening of the bar and the greater tolerance of anti-Israel
statements that wouldn't have been allowed in the past."

He singled out the book by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer on the Israel lobby, which "has become a bestseller and a college textbook," and said that there "is a steady poisoning of the elites, mainly on campuses, that could trickle down."

He also mentioned Republican candidate Ron Paul, saying "he is
openly anti-Israel and managed to raise $15 million in two days and is the second preferred candidate of many young voters - that is very worrying." Hoenlein said that the fact that little space in the candidates' debates had been devoted to foreign policy and the Iranian issue was also a source of worry.

Jay,
I think the comment about the CIA going to Africa and injecting a monkey with HIV, and a lonely African goat herder having sex with it and contracting the HIV virus as the origin of the AIDS epidemic was satire.
The CIA did overthrow a lot of leftist-leaning regimes though and installed a far number of unscrupulous leaders.

I would say Wright is on Hillary's payroll but then I would have to say the same about Sharpton, Shabazz, Farrakhan and many others. All these people are DONE if Obama gets the nomination, much less becomes President, and they know they are a lot more deserving and important than Obama. Isn't there a long history of this in the African-American community?

I can't imagine the glee in the Hillary camp this morning. And poor Barack, his interview on Fox was a winner. He was on the brink of a comeback. He can kiss that goodnight.

Its also fascinating to see some of the Wright defenders on here unironically using the language of 90s era post-modern academia. Do they have any idea how OVER that stuff is? The Obama supporting academics who read/hear that stuff coming from Wright must wince out of sheer embarrassment if nothing else.

And to think for a moment there Barack really had a shot. And now the party goes back to the Clintons. That's not good for anybody; not for the party, not for America.

Here's the skinny...

B.O. was born a Muslim therefore he IS a Muslim...

B.O. associates freely with and receives support ($ and otherwise) from the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers (hell, put a bow tie and horn rimmed glasses on B.O. and you got Malcomn X)...

Muslims and The Nation of Islam are very interested in seeing another 6 million Jews die (Israel)...

Hence, B.O. as Commander in Chief, will ensure that Iran builds their nukes, delivers them, and does nothing in response.

Retaliation by Israel? Sure, but Iran has already said they are completely happy with martyrdom to achieve this goal.

Will BO be punished? Sure, but only in this world; remember Muslims LOVE martyrdom...

B.O. has been groomed since childhood by the Nation of Islam to provide that Final Solution their other hero didn't finish...

Are Obama supporters actaully blaming....the media??

That's rich.

The American MSM has bent over backwards for Obama since Iowa. Obama has received the benefit of the doubt about many aspects of his character and his past at nearly every turn.

But no one can hide this.

No one sunk Obama except Obama. If he wants to know why he can't win the Presidency now...he needs to look in the mirror.

I will this election out. I hate Clinton because she's a woman. I call her man-pants and I bought a Hillary Clinton nut-cracker.

Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks ("God damn America") and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.

Wright said one true thing:

"Obama 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."

Well, If Wright is right, which he no doubt is, Obama is not really a politician in the usual sense. He may be a Chicago Church of Wright politician, which is something else again.

Americans should be thanked for liberating blacks with their blood. Hundreds of thousands died so this whiter than white, black preacher could have his life of privelege. Instead he surrounds himself with hate mongers that few take seriously. Blacks have progressed much farther here than in Africa. Barrack own Dad came here for a wonderful education. Many blacks and europeans have come here since emancipation. They are happy for the opportunity. They felt good about us long before Obama's wife did, due to the reverends hate preach.

Obama has BO. He's stinking up America. Say no to BO and use deodorant so you don't catch BO.

I have just been told that the Democratic Party is going to have to drag Hillary out off the campaign trail by her toenails!!! LMAO....she has now stooped to wearing a confederate flag scarve across her neck, knocked out her two front teeth, giving campaign rallies on the flat of a red pick up truck with a rope hanging from one of the doors...She is smoking Pale Male cigs. with a gun in the holster and a bible in the other hand...she has just challenged Barak to a duel!!! Oh my gosh, she has just went crazy...Please folks get your candidate....She might start giving out sex favors if she doesn't clench that nomination...Got to be more careful!

I go to a church that preaches hate to white people too.

I'm of Mexican descent. Democrats nominate me for the White House.

What does it take for the media to actually report responsibly on this story, rather than pretend the race for US President is the equivalent of the God-Damned Superbowl, complete with armchair quarter-backing and inane commentary on strategy all around? Furthermore, I beg of you: someone please tell me what Barack Obama can POSSIBLY do to get the "press" to stop beating this worthless story to death, yet still maintain his essential character and dignity? NOTHING. So if there is nothing he can do, and they won't stop the noise, then it's time to boycott mainstream media's cacophony of idiotic smugness.

Yes, Rev. Wright's speeches can be pretty full of activist rhetoric and hyperbole, and yet no one can deny that he has done a hell of a lot more good in his lifetime than most of us--because of his solid, Christian belief system. He's a sinner, not a saint, we have heard the story. But at what point does the media going to draw the line on evaluating the religious theology of our political candidates or their churches? Just to be fair, please, could someone run the tapes of the freakazoid ravings of Pastor John "use the Jews start World War III so our kind of Christians can get to Heaven" Hagee!!!! Then beat John McCain about the head and shoulders with his words from here to election day, just because you can.

This is why religious tests are banned in the constitution, folks, and why we need to back WAY, WAY off trying to make political arguments over religious beliefs.

John....White European Americans killed the indians, stole their land, raped their woman killed their families and stuck an American Flag in the ground and stole the land....So when you start telling folks to be happy for what America has provided them and it's better than Africa....Europeans should also be happy that they stole the land because Europeans prior to stealing the country from the Indians were nasty, disease ridden, dirty, barbaric and brought all of their diseases to America and passed those horrible diseases to their slaves that were captured. So you should be equally happy that you were able to plant your a** in the U.S. also. We love America...this land is OUR land!!

Dana:
After reading your neo-con NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming), hysterical, racist, hit piece on Obama, I took a good look at your picture. My friend you look just like you think. Blood shot eyes, Cheney smile. You look manic. Did you have a stroke? Because your article makes me think you have only half a brain. Keep shilling for the Corporate OverLoads boy. And I mean boy as in towel boy of big boys.

This is one of the most biased and ill-reported articles I have ever read. I am ashamed that I wasted my time reading such garbage. Mr. Milbank please report the whole story not just your opinion.

The Reverend Wright is my fellow racist in arms. Racists everywhere should unite and embrace this man. It's fine to be racist and hate people.

The Reverend Wright has inspired me to continue to write Senator Clinton. She still refuses to return my emails and phone calls. She has also rejected to attend my KKK church. What a sleazy wh*re.

If you believe in hate, vote Obama. Together we can divide America.

OBAMA '08!!

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!!

*and now we know what he means when he says change.

and I think I know who he's referring to when he says "Our" time has come.

YES WE CAN DIVIDE AMERICA! OBAMA '08.

I watched both of Wright's speeches, and they were filled with mockery of European-Americans, he put on "white face" and mocked the way white people talked, worshipped, danced, and listened to music. It was hilarious to the black crowd, and it was disgusting. It is always great to see 11,000 black people laughing at white people. Can you imagine the opposite happening and the media not being furious?

I beg to ask Obama supporters -- does he intend to change our country to what he "changed" in Illinois and Chicago? Corruption, governor in jail, another on the way, terrorists as educators, racists as preachers, and now they have military law to deal with the gangs stoked by this kind of surrounding. Obama brings this kind of left-wing, academia 1960s radical, Bill Daley type of failed politics.

What has Obama accomplished in Illinois as a state legislator or as a senator?

seedobecome===your own kind? you mean stupid people? Good. Don't drag the rest of the human race down. We've been trying to evove upward.

Posted by: LetthemdrinkCrownRoyal | April 28, 2008 6:16 PM
-------------------------------------------
No I am not stupid and I do not wish to "drag the rest of the human race down". Most humans are simply too afraid to admit they fit the mold. Given Obamas' aspirations he failed to act concerning the pastor issue. Period.

Is Truth really True? Are we to embrace the antics of Bill and Hillary? How do we explain the fabrication of Hillary's flying bullets to impressionable teenagers. Is it o.k to lie? Is an acceptable lie predicated upon who the liar is. I cannot understand why the history which Wright exposits is seen as incendiary. Why hasn't someone who knows differently refuted what Wright is saying rather than attacking him, his set of facts, and his untimely or timely presentations? Is there a preferred method of presenting the truth? Is this truth or not? If it isn't true, then why doesn't some one say so? If we are to hide a part of American history, then let's hide all of it! Get rid of our history books and let's start anew. Let us forget about Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the Pilgrims, Etc. Better yet,ask yourselves why Wright's speeches evoke such terrific animus!!

-------------------------------------------
Hillary was undoubtedly not only wrong but badly damaged. However, she has bravely and squarly owned up to and apologized for continuing to mistell the lie of Bosnia.

Now for a more complex weaving of fact and fantasy from Obama's unexplained, unapologetic continually shifting stories on Rev. Wright :

Obama said initially, about Rev. Wright, that he had only lately come to realize what a controversial church he had been a member of for 20 years. That was despite having agreed to distance himself from his pastor's radical views, for political reasons, at the start of the primary season -- over a year ago. And then inexplicably bringing the Rev on board as a spiritual advisor to the
campaign.

And then trying to bury deep in an artfully spun speech said that he had heard the inflammatory sermons and that he was aware of these views, but that Wright was like family he could no more disown than his "typically white grandmother" who felt uncomfortable walking alone in a black neighborhood. Then Obama settled again on the story that he hadn't heard the infamous remarks. Then he said that Wright had apologized. Then he said that he never claimed Wright as his "spiritual mentor"....if he ever gets the nomination we're all still waiting for the latest installment.

Black people need to form their own party. It's obvious that the Democratic Party is full of racist white people. Right now its cool to support a black candidate. See how fast they turn away from us. And what will happen when its no longer cool to support a black candidate.
Black people needs to see white America for the snake that it is. White America is a country built by white Americans and for white Americans. Non-white were supposed to be the burden-bearers for the real citizens of this nation.
It's time that we take what's ours. And yes typicalwhitedude, if it takes race riots, we'll do it. Your right on "dude." Real change didn't happen until Watts burned to ground, Detroit burned to the ground, etc. And change isn't going to happen until we stick it to these white snakes.
It should be clear now that there is a white America and a black America. And its time for us to take what is ours. Your time is done. Its our time now. Move over b*tch.

Hurrah! CONTROVERSY OVER!

So here's the real story:

The person who was supposed to be dangerously buddy-buddy with Obama just went on a 3 day, high-profile media tour criticizing Obama, angering Obama's campaign staff.

It turns out that Obama isn't dangerously close to Rev. Wright after all.

Bye-bye, manufactured Washington controversy.

Can we talk now about Clinton's Cold War style plan for a nuclear umbrella / NATO-style agreement with US allies in the Middle East. How much will it cost? Will it raise tensions in the region? Will it still allow the US to leave Iraq, as Clinton has promised? What do foreign policy experts think about this?

Please, WaPo, enough with the scandal-chasing gotchya games; MORE, MORE, MORE with substantive information and analysis.

You helped lead this country blindly into Iraq only five years ago; I'll personally be peeved if you now help to lead the US into an economy crushing, 50 year Cold War with Middle-eastern and African nations, as Hillary Clinton appears to recommend.

Where are all the supposedly "tough" questions?

God and Patriotism

God of the Christian Slave and the Slave-owning Christian
God of suffering Poland and forgiving God of Hitler's minions
God of the cluster-bomb pilot, God of the pre-teen amputee
God of the Klan and yes, God who loves Farrakhan
God who knows when our deepest secret discomfort is hypocrisy

Patriotism that deferred when called to service
Acting like truth and fiction are the same
Renting Generals for the public to be deceived
Feeding the hate that makes us fear

Patriotism that served with honor in times of prejudice
Questioning the things done in our name
Comforting our wounded and bereaved
Saying the things we dare not hear

So?

Divisive or Descriptive?
Controversial or Coherent?
Intelligent or Insensitive?
Opinionated or Offensive?

Hewing gold-plated flag-pins into ears of tin
The noise of reason, drowned by the good intentions of sin
The painful, bifurcated truth of a haunted past
The stunted bicentennial youth of a connected cast
Sowing the seeds of division or Searching for a more perfect Union?

Has America become greater than God?
Let us all bow in prayer, and genuflect to the media's Opinion.

I just love this and I am cracking my a** off......LMAO!!! The entire world is watching racist a** America and what they do to their minorities....and they are shaking their heads in disgust and are saying to one another..."IS THIS THE SAME COUNTRY THAT WENT INTO IRAQ TO HELP THEM GAIN DEMOCRACY?" They are waiting to see what America does to Barak and our ratings and image throughout the world will be worst than it is currently...They will laugh and point their fingers at us and call us a bunch of lying a** hypocrites who treats our own fellow Americans like ish...they are going to once again comment about how stupid half of the country is....I can't wait....C'mom on America keep showing your racist a** bigotry...This is going to be hilarious!

Wright said during Bill Moyers interview that he and Obama never discussed politics. Now he is saying that he told Obama last year if he is elected he is coming after him on american policy. huh?
So the great pastor is not speaking the truth.

Or Obama also was not speaking the truth. "He's just my paster" & "He's like an crazy uncle" (...that I discuss politic with...oops!) -Barack Obama

Bring it on, J. House! Install this racist Muslim as Commander in Chief and that's just what you'll get...

Remember, though; you're outnumbered and outgunned..

Latinos and Asians Americansstop assimilating into America. Do not work hard and live the American Dream. You will be ignored.

Hate America. Blame whitey.

That is the path to acceptance.

They continue to make fun of you, taunt you, refuse to interact with you, and yet you still continue to work hard.

Hate them instead. Whites only respond to hate. Hate not love.

Lesbians for Hillary...you go girl we got your back! Bulldaggers and all we are here for you...

Posted by: JimW

Wow....

This is a disaster for Obama - the end of his campaign.

The question is, of course - WHY is Wright destroying him?
--------------------------------

One theory is that if indeed a black man were elected president the Victicrats would be out of business! No more blackmailing for the likes of Sharpton and Jackson and Wright...

How sad that for 20 years Barack, who has been mostly happy with his pastor all these years, suddenly has to hear for the first time such racist extremist remarks.

There is no difference between Wright and David Duke. Wright is nothing more than a bigot, anti-American, anti-Jew racist.

HUSSEIN Obama is nothing more than a racist. He should cease his campaign ASAP.

If HUSSEIN Obama is the Dem nominee, this Democrat and my family will be voting for John McCain, a war hero and a mdoerate.

Odrady,
Outnumbered and outgunned by who. While stupid white kids are degenerate listening to emo music and pretending to act black, young black men are coming up. And you know what, we're raised by strong black communities.
Look at Obama, some think he's the whitest black dude ever, and corny, but he knows his roots. You think we let our youth buy into your bs. In our communities we preach the truth and we follow it.
You may have more people, but we have more people who know the truth and will fight for it.
Be upset Odrady, and you know that right now your trembling inside. You know the "legacy" of white America. And you know that payback and retribution is coming. White America no longer believes in itself, and change is coming.
Your time is over. You may think the enemys are abroad, but white America has made plenty of enemies here.

"There comes a time when the master become the slave, and the slaves become the masters."

Judgment day is coming, and you best be scared.

Obama's main problem with Rev. Wright is that Obama brought his children there time after time.

There really is no way around that.

One has to ask, and reasonably, how much of the Rev. Wright's crap does Obama really believe?

The level of misogyny and sexism in this country is astounding. Women should revolt, and demand change. I think a sex riot is appropriate.
Imagine women in the street rolling over police cars, lighting trash cans on fire, and beating up random people.
Thats America.

News Flash.....

It has just been reported that Barak Obama and Michell Obama has just went to the corner store...What controversial figures...Why would they go to the black store and not the white store? There was a newspaper on the ground that said "black"...nothing more nothing less...just "blacks!" Oh my God, America we are in trouble they are using the race card...they are holding hands and talking about something that has to do with "Black!" Oh no, there goes that word again, "Black"...There is a conspiracy for the Blacks to take over...Oh my God, let's kill them...kill them all!!! LMAO.....Talk about white folk's paranoia when comes down to black folks..What cha scared of?

Obama's daughters have a crush on Justin Timberlake.

He's not racist.

Silly people

Obama will put white people into concentration camps. He will force Christians to become Muslims, like himself.

Obama is scary, very scary.

As a black male, I am extremely disappointed with the Reverend's statements. The time is ripe for change, and Mr. Wright has chosen to sell-out black America.
There are two Americas and its time for black America to take its place. The movement's strategy toward reconciliation is not working. We need to take a more militant approach.
It wasn't until the SNCC and CORE kicked out its white members and spoke black power that real change happened.
People speak of love as the universal language, thats bullsh*t. Black people did not get their long overdue rights until we spoke in a language you understand - violence. After hundreds of years of violence to blacks, its understandable why white America only understand violence (look at Iraq). A white man will definitely recognize his house burning or a punch in the face.
It's time that we demand our proper place in America. Mr. Wright I know why you took the softer approach, but is not working anymore.
Our time has come.

Posted by: J. House | April 28, 2008 6:26 PM
------------------------------
When your time comes to enter the Graybar Hotel perhaps you will rethink your freedom of choice to act or react. Good luck with the violence.

Latinos while white people are too busy ignoring Latinos, we should rise up and take back our country. California belongs to us. Texas belongs to us. New Mexico is also ours - it even has Mexico in the name.

We should kick all the Mormons out of the Rocky Mountain States and take back our land.

WHITE PEOPLE STOP IGNORING LATINOS AND ASIAN AMERICANS.

Since Obama is living in the slave days as he suggested during his Philadelphia speech, he could have studied the Treaty of Utrecht. It was sighed on July 13, 1713, and provided for the transport of slaves to the New World. The Treaty gave commercial slave trading rights to various British and French (mostly British) firms. So Obama has his bitterness target misplaced; he should direct it across the Atlantic.

Lesbians for Hillary...We Love you Hillary....Once you are elected....you can come on out of the closet!! We'll be here for you and you can pass all of the lesbians and gay laws!!! We bulldaggers love you!! We hate men, epsecially black men...we just like to sleep with them!

An earlier poster said no one here had disputed the substance of Wright's remarks. Allow me to dispute only a couple of points:

I know of NO evidence that the U.S. government developed AIDS in order to decimate the black population of America.
If anyone has scientific, peer-reviewed information to the contrary, please post it.

Awful as the death toll from Hiroshima and Nagasaki were (though the fire-bombing of Dresden killed even more civilians), it seems to me that a military strike in a war the U.S. didn't start--a military strike to prevent a land war in Japan which would likely have resulted in even more deaths than the bombing--is scarcely to be compared to 9/11. "Terrorism" in a years'-long war begun by Germany, Japan and Italy?

As Wright says, "Gawd Damn Amurrica"!

Wright is entitled to his own opinions. But--as someone much wiser once said--he is NOT entitled to his own facts.

It seems all the real wackos are writing on this blog. The frenzy to trash Obama is amazing. People who are real sleeze do this sort of thing. I have read Clinton supporters criticizing Obama supporters saying they are rude etc.....well, look at some of these blogs. These people are out for "blood." Yes, Wright will continue to come up, so what....it's becoming old news and the Republicans will try to make it an issue and fail in the fall. Go OBAMA!

J. House, wow, you got me there; I'm shaking in my shoes!

We had Civil War I to put a stop to that racist/bigot crap and we'll have Civil War II to end this latest form of racist/bigot crap, i.e. YOU.

I have it on good authority that radicals within the powerful rightwing Jewish Lobby including [AIPAC] American Israel Public Affairs Committee are vexed, frustrated and displeased with Barack Obama's refusal to accept special interest money and consequentially seek his crucifixion. The concern is that the Senator's policy prevents them from exerting influence or extracting favor from his administration should he become the next President in these United States. In an effort to allay their fears, Senator Obama offered his assurance that if elected, an Obama administration would not be a foe. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be enough to halt their resistance to his candidacy. Reportedly, Senator Clinton's campaign saw an opening to exploit the Jewish community's apprehension and began stoking the anti-Obama fire behind the scene.

In collaboration with the Clintons, they [the Jewish Lobby] dispatched a number of "candidacy assassinators" including; former Clinton special counsel, Lanny Davis, Florida congress woman, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, California congress man, Brad Sherman, CNN news anchor, Wolf Blitzer [vis-a-vis Lou Dobbs], Independent Senator, Joseph Lieberman, the neocon crippled Washington Post Journalist, Charles Krauthammer, the NY homosexual fashion designer, Doron Braunshtein and others to torpedo Obama's nomination bid. The above mentioned Jews were mandated to fan the flames of hateful passion against the Illinois Senator using demagoguery and nefarious spin of the Reverend Wright issue to toxify the American voters. Their mission is to convince the public that Obama would be unelectable in November due to his optics and alleged third party association to Rev. Farrakhan. This while simultaneously promoting Hillary as the only friend of Israel. It is also reliably reported that Democratic Jews are being counseled to vote for John McCain as a penultimate option should Senator Clinton not get the nomination.

Take a look at the YouTube video where Rachel Maddow from Air America recently discussed the topic on her show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdYzGzvXO0U

African American Leaders dub the Jewish and Clinton's anti Obama campaign, "mean spirited" but so far have opted to remain restrainedly tentative. They however suggest hypocrisy when Governor Rendell [who happens to be a Jew] is able to extol the virtues of Minister Farrakhan by praising his "goodness" and still remains an embraced surrogate of Senator Clinton. Elected Democrats have also taken note and are increasingly frustrated with the Clinton's controversial tactics of infusing racial divide into the electoral process. Appalling is how they describe her alliance to hawkish groups including John McCain to annihilate a democratic colleague and worry that it provides damaging ammunition to their nemesis [the republicans] that could derail Obama's candidacy should he become the nominee. Some are even calling her conduct treacherous and privately accuse her of deliberately trying to sabotage the Democratic Party because of the unlikely odds of her fairly winning the nomination. Mrs. Clinton has also been criticized for taken the low road by exploiting the gender card to foster disharmony amongst the sexes. But who is willing to bell the Cat? After-all, the Clinton's wield influential power within the party and super delegates worry about political reprisals should they offer public criticism.

Additionally, the Jewish Lobby has tremendous financial reach and political clout. For decades they have been able to effectively manipulate the Holocaust to keep politicians beholden to their agenda. Those who resist or oppose are targeted with the anti-Semitic or Bigoted label [as evidenced by President Carter] in order to gain compliance. Some feel they run the risk of overplaying their hands in this instance though. Their chief Obama "Hit-Man", Lanny Davis is causing tremendous concern at the great lengths he goes to decapitate the Illinois Senator's chances of ever ascending to the Presidency and his conduct is described as vilely snake-like. The argument is that public opinion can boomerang if blacks are able to expose hypocrisy in what many now view to be a Jewish lynching of Senator Obama. Some posit that Jews have a historical pension for betraying visionary men who promise sweeping changes to the status quo. Coincidentally, it was they [Biblical Jews] who betrayed Jesus to the Romans so he could be crucified.

If you don't vote for Obama, the blacks will rise up and murder the non-Obama voters.

Now that's the change Obama is preaching.

seedtobecome,
Keep laughing whiteboy. What's your seed becoming, huh? How's your son? Probably listening to rap and hip hop, wishing he was black. What's your daughter doing, probably banging a black dude. Haha. Its white fools like you who are "bitter." Your bitter that the world is changing, and we're taking this over.
The sheer irony of this is just pure comical. Government-sponsored racism introduced crack into the ghetto and sought the genocide of African Americans via HIV. Now, thanks to glamourization of hip hop, we got black dudes banging white girls (and we dont' even need to rape them now), and we're giving it right back to you. Just wait 'til we get to David Duke's grandaughter. I told you payback's a b*tch, and what comes around goes around.
White people lack the will to rule anymore. They know that the bs fed to them is wrong.

"There comes a time when the masters become the slaves and the slaves become the masters."

Your time is up whiteboy. It's our time now. And keep being sarcastic (and keep up the denial boy) - you know its true.

The media has a chance to be professional and force a REAL DEBATE, and we are still stuck on nonsense while our country sinks.
Ironically, whatever, the outcome of the election, Rev. Wright will probably continue to have a powerful impact on saving taxpayers money by keeping young folks on the straight and narrow roads.

Furthermore, from what I hear, Rev. Wright is booked for years to come to speak at various events attended by a variety of races.

See, J. House represents everything B.O. supporters hold dear.

Rev. Wright is a selfish man. Now he can go around talking big saying, "I told it like it was." Congratulations, "Reverend." That was mighty Christian of you. Oh, I know. You don't DO politics. That's why you picked the perfect time to sabotage your black brother. If he loses North Carolina and Indiana and the nomination we can thank you for giving us the choice between Hillary "Dodging Sniper Fire, We will Annihilate Iran" Clinton and John "I Don't Understand Economics, Bomb, Bomb Iran" McCain.

>Wright defended it: "Jesus said, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic divisive principles."

Hate to say it Mr. Wright, but Jesus was not speaking of governments. Jesus never gave advice for governments. He only gave advice for individuals. His teaching was personal. He taught how individuals should live. As a pastor you should know that.

If fact, if you had confined your sermons to the teachings of Jesus rather than launch a political movement that fit your prejudices, Obama would not be in the trouble he is now in.

Everyone who is truly interested in good government should take some time and put a little effort into looking into the background of the people they support for public office. I have lived in Illinoi all my life and have been a democrat since I was old enough to vote. I think that everyone will eventually discover that Senator Obama is not the voice of a new age but just another Chicago Democrat. Illinois Senate President Emil Jones has pulled Obama's strings and helped to groom him for the US Senate and now Presidential Candidate. Obama has close ties with not only Jones but also Gov. Rod B. who will probably be Indicted along with Tony Rezco. Nearly nothing was said about the Obama-Rezko association or the real estate deal they were involved in. Senator Obama fives a great speech but I am afraid that about all that he is capable of is talk. It would also be a good idea to look at his voting record both in the Illinois and the US Senate why would someone want to vote for a candidate that cannot take a stand and vote yes or no. Present is the vote to attemt to keep either side of the issue from getting upset over your vote.

the entireworldiswatching,do you mean the part of the muslim world who still own blacks,or the part of the communist world that murdered 1000000000 people in the last hundred years,or the part of the world that smuggles drugs and kills cops or the part that cuts people's heads off for not being like them?

So Obama hate Jewish people now too. Interesting, I wonder what's his stance toward Cubans, or Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans.

This man has so much hate, he spreads it all around. What an amazing guy. Hate is the new kool-aid.

A long time Democrat, I left the party in 2000 because of its drift to the left- I see now that the drift has become a tidal wave. Democrat Senators call US troops in Iraq Nazis and their mission in Iraq exclusively one for oil, Democrats treating terrorism as a police problem and cutting off the FISA interception of terror calls, and now Mr. Wright and his focus on slavery which in fact ended in 1865. The Democrat Party is headed by Howard Dean who says, "I hate Republicans!" Their leading candidate speaks of racial conciliation yet belonged to the church of a hate-filled, anti-White minister who has a screw loose. What has happened to the Party of FDR, of Truman and Kennedy? Crackpots are now in charge of it.

By the way, J House is a white Rush Limbaugh ditto head. This thread is infested with them.

I hereby nominate J. House as Obama's new spokespunk. Come on out, followers; show your true colors like the esteemed Mr/Miss House..

What does Wright mean when he says he'll be coming after Obama on Nov. 5th, when Obama is President? Does he expect some kind of payback? What's with all these threats and intimidating tactics? Two days ago the Post ran an article about how the black community would revolt if Obama didn't get the nomination. Why is race becoming the dominant theme of the democratic race? Why is the race card being played at all? The Democrats are doomed. They will be damned if they do and damned if they don't. Obama has put the party in a pickle.