The Clintons used a man of God as a political tool. It is unforgivable. Words from her campaign. [View All]

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The media is unbearable to watch right now, but her campaign started the furor. I suspect they have been feeding it. I expect it of the media unfortunately, but I do not expect it of a Democratic former first family.

Here are words from her campaign leaders offering proof there were using the issue.

From Terry McAuliffe:

McAuliffe on Fox News

..."HANNITY: No, it's clear everybody wants this to go on. I — because I have less than two minutes. I want to go issue by issue.

The Reverend Wright issue, in your opinion, is a legitimate issue, correct?

MCAULIFFE: I agree with Speaker Gingrich. Anything that's been out in the public is fair game.

HANNITY: All right.

MCAULIFFE: Are you kidding me? Wait until the general election, Sean.

HANNITY: Wait until — yes, well, the Bill Ayers issue which we were on — just like the Wright issue.

MCAULIFFE: Yes.

HANNITY: ...we were on way ahead of anybody. You think that's a legitimate issue?

MCAULIFFE: I think everything is a legitimate issue. Hillary Clinton nothing's ever been taken off the table for her."

From Harold Ickes, a major campaign person:

Ickes: Jeremiah Wright a key topic in discussions with superdelegates

"In an interview with me this morning, senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes confirmed that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a key topic in discussions with uncommitted super-delegates over whether Obama is electable in a general election.

The comments from Ickes, who is Hillary's chief delegate hunter, are to my knowledge the first on-the-record confirmation from a Hillary adviser that the Wright controversy is a subject in conversations between the Hillary campaign and the super-delegates her advisers are trying to win over to Hillary's side.

From Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida co-chair of the Clinton campaign, one of the leaders in attacking the DNC over the delegates.

Wasserman Schultz speaks out on Wright.

"Especially in some of the states that have yet to vote, the Wright affair “is a big vulnerability,” said Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a Clinton superdelegate. And “all of this delegate stuff is artificial,” she added, alongside the reality that the party’s nominee must be able to carry big states like hers, where Mrs. Clinton won a disputed victory; Ohio, where she triumphed last month; and Pennsylvania, where she leads in polls.

Remember when Hillary Clinton announced that she would have resigned from Wright's church over his remarks?

Clinton: Wright 'would not have been my pastor'

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

Obama's lead in national polls had slipped since clips of the retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright began being played on national news programs, but he has since rebounded, according to a Gallup poll. The uproar prompted Obama to give a major speech on race in America last week. His campaign accused Clinton of exploiting the controversy.

When this campaign started, I had no favorite. Neither did my husband. This is not as some so love to say here, a "hate" post. It just is not.

It is a post reflecting my deep disillusionment in the former first family. I supported him during his days under attack because of Monica Lewinsky.

It was not easy to do that in this conservative area. But I did.

I think the media is doing what they do, and it is sickening. I turned off Countdown tonight, because I refuse to listen anymore to insults toward that man. However I think the Clinton campaign has been stoking the flames of this issue.

I think they owe the party an apology for using a man of God, a pastor, as a political tool against a fellow Democrat. It is inexcusable. This is not just a hit on Obama, but a hit on the character of Jeremiah Wright and the nature of black churches.

I am white, and I am a former Baptist. I heard truth from Wright's mouth in a few speeches that I never heard in my former church.

The Clintons hit a new low. They should apologize.