Wright's curious mission - Chicago Tribune

[GoldieAZ49]

Wright is nothing more than a sound bite. He claims "these attacks" are against the black church. That is a lie. Unity is a predominantly white church. Black pastors and ministers across the country have said Wright does not speak for him.

Wright now makes the same charge against Obama as some here did against fellow DU's, You didn't listen to the whole sermon!!

Seeing him feed his ego before the cameras there is no denying this guy is a joke. There was no "context" to put the sound bites into.

This is who Obama seeks spiritual and political advise from (see journal entry for details)

Wtight has let America know that Obama and he are tight, but Obama has to say what he needs to for a political win.

Obama was the 'pastor-baiter' with all his religious rhetoric campaigning and it backfired. (see journal for more info)

Obama is done as a presidential candidate. If it doesn't wash in Chicago, it isn't going anywhere nationally.

For a man who so resents being summed up in sound bites, Rev. Jeremiah Wright was a veritable fountain of them on Monday in a speech before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Before an audience stacked with raucous supporters, Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual-adviser-turned-worst-nightmare smirked, mugged, mocked reporters' questions and appeared to enjoy himself immensely, simultaneously defending his inflammatory pearls and insisting they'd been taken out of context.

When he was finished clarifying things, it was all much the same as before: The U.S. government unleashed the AIDS virus on minorities, the 9/11 attacks were provoked by American terrorist acts, and Louis Farrakhan is not a bad guy. "God damn America"? He meant that too.

But he's still smarting from the public backlash over this weeks-old controversy. Anyone who listened to the complete sermons of Jeremiah Wright instead of the snippets quoted by reporters would reach the same conclusions, he seems to believe.

"This is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright," he insists. "It is an attack on the black church."

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"He does not speak for me. He does not speak for the campaign."

That's not going to be a sufficient answer for Obama. Wright suggests Obama has acted only out of expediency. "He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was un-American."

Wright couldn't resist adding that Obama obviously hadn't listened to the complete sermons, either. And when a reporter asked if Obama was a regular churchgoer, Wright retorted, "He goes to church about as much as you do."

Obama, just another pol. And maybe not much of a churchgoing one. By the end of Wright's performance, you had to wonder if he was trying to torpedo Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. He surely didn't seem troubled by that possibility. "Nothing can get in the way if God wants Obama to be president," Wright said. Maybe not. But the pastor seemed interested in testing the theory.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0429edit1apr29,0,360729.story

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Wright Is Smart, And Correct

But he's not helping anyone at this point. If he could wait seven months, he'd gain a lot.

[GoldieAZ49]

2. he is a freakin idiot

he does not speak for the black church

There was a minister on this morning that said black theology was racist and not Christianity.

[barb162]

3. He's an idiot and don't know where he gets that he speaks

for "the" black church as if it is some monolithic entity. Who appointed him as the main spokesperson for "the" black church. What an ego.

[barb162]

4. He's smart but I don't see how he is correct.