Stumble ThisIt's an echo of Obama's speech on race. Well worth taking the time to listen to.
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I especially like that Obama sees his main ideological difference between Wright and himself is that Obama sees a hope for change for the better -- if you watched this to the end, it appears Obama's won his pastor over to his way of thinking.
The side of me that is more cynical loved watching the infamous Fox crawl as they struggled to come up with a damning summary of Wright's comments, with little success (my guess is "I'm running for Jesus" might be the new soundbite).
I think this is perfect strategy for Wright & Obama, have Wright flood the airwaves with his real message, so it's harder for those clips to play on people's fear of the unknown. In a way, Fox discredited much of their own smear campaign by airing this speech from Wright.
Good game Fox, you still managed to find an angle there somewhere. Maybe those people that tuned in late and didn't hear anything of what he said will still think he's a bigot.
the NYT on the wright speech:
And he went deep into context — a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics. Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, was cocky, defiant, declamatory, inflammatory and mischievous, but most of all, he was all over the place, performing a television triathlon of interview, lecture and live news conference that pushed Mr. Obama aside and placed himself front and center in the presidential election campaign.
from http://blog.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2008/04/obamas_pastor_reignites_race_c.html
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.
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. It was then that Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered - and added lighter fuel.
Can't say I enjoy sifting this. I'm sure this will hurt someone.
http://politics.videosift.com/video/Reverend-Wright-Probably-Shouldnt-Be-On-TV
I thought so.
Is it too cynical to think Obama asked Wright to say something so outlandish so as to justify his disowning of him and move on beyond the petty "gotcha" politicking that Clinton is feeding to the Media?
I thought so.
If he did, it was the stupidest thing he could've done.
the man CHOSE to go to war with the marines, instead of deferring, and later served on the presidential medical team in the navy (not necessarily for only presidents but look it up)... was he a corpsman?
no mattter what he says, he is a patriot first. never forget that.
what have you done for your country?
WRIGHT FOR PRESIDENT.
I AM WHITE.