Sorensen tells his story of JFK years (quote "that's what Obama should say about Reverend Wright")

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10327122

Published Monday | May 5, 2008
Sorensen tells his story of JFK years

NEW YORK (AP) — As he watched the breach and then the break between Sen. Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former White House speechwriter Ted Sorensen was reminded, as he is so often, of his years with John F. Kennedy.

It was September 1960: Kennedy was addressing a gathering of ministers in Houston, responding to concerns about a Catholic becoming president — a major obstacle then for Kennedy's campaign.

"All of those conservative Protestants were glaring at him in the audience," recalls the Lincoln native, speaking from his apartment overlooking Central Park.

"And he referred to the fact that a lot of these pamphlets quoting popes and priests and prelates from the Catholic church were from other countries, and sometimes other centuries, and then he said, 'I do not consider these other quotations binding upon my public acts. Why should you?'"

"And I've always felt that that's what Obama should say about Reverend Wright," Sorensen said of Obama's former pastor, whom the candidate denounced after Wright suggested that the U.S. government invented the AIDS virus to destroy blacks and made other inflammatory remarks.

Few people were affected more profoundly by the life, and death, of Kennedy than Sorensen, the studious young aide whose liberal ideas and poetic turns of phrase became so entwined with Kennedy's that the president called him his "intellectual blood bank."

Sorensen turns 80 this spring, but over the decades he has changed little in appearance — fit and slender in a blue polo shirt and tan slacks, grayish hair brushed back — and in his ideals and adoration for his former boss.

FULL story at link.

[niyad]

1. had peter barack obama said, "you know, this IS what is being said in the black churches, this IS

a reality of viewpoint in the black community--go into any inner city and see the reality for yourself. " had he done something like that, I would have had respect for him. but throwing rev wright under the bus, and expecting us to believe absurdities (he had no idea what his pastor was preaching for 20 years)was the final straw for me.

[Pirate Smile]

2. What is with the "peter"?

[Omaha Steve]

3. I was wondering that too

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