He is just a politician using any group that can advance his agenda. A politician will tell you anything you would like to hear, make a promise to help you and when he is in office, drop you like a hot rock .
Obama has caused me, (a democrat) to start looking at McCain because I can't stand Hillary and Obama just commited political suicide.

Good god, I hope Obama doesn't go after them to hard. I mean there are other things that need to take precedence and bringing this up on the Clinton's could take years...

I mean really where does one start...

Rezco ties themselves, pushing thru NAFTA for WalMart, destroying the environment with Lafarge, Yucaipa, Outsourcng jobs with Tata Consultancy Services, blood diamonds investmants with DeBeers, and taking money from Gupta/infoUSA swindling the elderly out of their savings, campaign finance fraud with Hsu, Peter Paul, and a long list of others, being on the take with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon on 360 earmarks, worth a combined $2.2 billion from 2002 to 2006, projects not requested by the Pentagon.. Hillary's Senior Adviser Huma Abedin's family being financed by the financiers and founders of al-Qaeda "Abdullah Omar Naseef". 3.9 million from executive donors and $854,462 in campaign funding from the health care industry companies,

Wake Up.

And then Bill was paid $750,000 to advise top United Arab Emirates officials on how to sidestep and address growing U.S. concerns over the acquisition of the security contract for America's ports....

Good god, I hope Obama doesn't go after them to hard. I mean there are other things that need to take precedence and bringing this up on the Clinton's could take years...

I mean really where does one start...

With Hsu, Rezco ties, pushing thru NAFTA for WalMart, destroying the environment with Lafarge, Yucaipa, Tata, blood diamonds investmants with DeBeers, and taking money from Gupta/infoUSA swindling the elderly out of their savings, campaign finance fraud with Hsu, Peter Paul, and a lon list of others, being on the take with Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon on 360 earmarks, worth a combined $2.2 billion from 2002 to 2006, projects not requested by the Pentagon.. Hillary Senior Adviser Huma Abedin's family being financed by the financiers and founders of al-Qaeda "Abdullah Omar Naseef". 3.9 million from executiv donors and $854,462 in campaign funding from the health care industry companies, Outsourcng jobs with Tata Consultancy Services...

Wake Up.

And then Bill was paid $750,000 to advise top United Arab Emirates officials on how to sidestep and address growing U.S. concerns over the acquisition of the security contract for America's ports....

Why all the fuss about Obama's "preacher" spouting this hateful & grossly absurd fantasies ? This used to be the God given right of the wealthy white "evangelical" southern Taliban.Bent on forcing their brand of religious belief's and sexist,and racial bias, on all of us who believe differently. The ones responsible for the Bush regime.The ones behind the scandals,lies,and policies that have successfully eroded American democracy,and civil liberties,and raising the level of incompetence to obscene disbelief.

This is the major reason that I voted and caucus for Hillary. One of my co-workers who is also AA, husbands family belong to Church of God Christ. She told me all about that religion and their issues. After 20 plus years of marriage it was the main reason for her in-laws divorce. Then she told me that Obama was a member. I did research on the Rev and after learning about his statements I knew that I could not support Obama. I'm surprised it took this long to unfold. I just can't believe you attend a church for 20 years and now that you are running for president you want to denounce your pastor's beliefs and comments.

I don't think this is really as bad as Gerry's comments!! Yes Obama does have a relationship with this man and I really can't imagine him or his wife just sitting down at church while this is being said and do nothing because I know I wouldn't. This Pastor travels EVERYWHERE without Obama at his side so why should Obama be responsible for this mans words?

Gerry on the other hand spoke DIRECTLY ABOUT OBAMA and will not apologize for her opinions about Obama and has said the same views over the past 20 years!

This is just dirty polotics! First McCains affair, then Hillary and now Obama.

I am on the fence about this issue. My family attends a church where the Pastor (and in fact most of the church) strongly believes that homosexually is a sin and that Gays have no place in the pulpit. I disagree with this homophobic position. The Pastor has given sermons against homosexuality. However, when my husband and I visit my family, I do attend this church regularly and have in the past asked the Pastor to "pray" for me and for spiritual guidance.

I agree with many of his other scriptural teachings. Should I be held accountable for this person"s teachings? I don"t know. The reason why I have not distanced myself from my family"s church is because for me the pastor is not the church. I go to church to fellowship with other Christians and other family members and to take time out to focus on the Lord. I am also able to separate out those teachings which I believe are scriptural based and which are not.

When I was younger I was raised in the Catholic Church. I remember during the Easter season the church would read the Passion of Christ (which is the series of events leading up to Christ"s crucifixion). However, the version of the Passion which the Catholic Church used back then was in retrospect, entirely anti-Jewish and in fact seemed to blame Jews for Christ"s death. I stayed Catholic for a long time after making this discovery even though I disagreed with what could be viewed as an anti-Semitic interpretation of Christ"s death. I could leave my family's church. But I would be leaving a lot of things I love - such as the families and parishoners I've known for years, the fellowship and the good work the church does in the community, etc. I tell myself that I can separate the church from the pastor, but I don't know if that is the right position to take.

Even after the Catholic church had its priest scandal, I continued to go to Catholic Church for a while. Partly because I was able to separate the priest from the parish. But even there I am not sure I did the right thing. I would hope that if someone where to look back over my life they would judge me by my views and statements and not by those of my church"s religious leaders

Dear Senator Obama:
I am so proud of the millions of Americans who have come forward to support you, to volunteer, to canvass, to phonebank, to contribute in what ever way they can, and of those strong leaders who have endorsed you. We have met you, and we know your integrity, your brilliance, your competence and your heart! Most certainly we know that no-one is guilty by association, and we won't be influenced by such nonsense. We believe in you, and we will continue to support you all the way to the White House because "we are the change we have been waiting for."

Why did this old story come out now, in regards to Obama's Pastor making some interesting statements in church ? This is really old news, nothing that happened in the last month or so, concerning the Obama campaign. Very fishy why this is hitting the news right now.

You know the Clinton's brought this out now, because they were going to be trashed on this weekends news shows for the Ferraro racist comments. Hillary Clinton would have had a very tough time if she was the only thing on the news this weekend, and the momemtum was shifting towards Obama this week after his two recent wins, and more super delegates going for him.

I think this is something the Clinton campaign had in the vault for a tough time like this, and they brought it out now to get the heat off them. This is not news like the Ferraro comment really is big news.

Why did this 3 month old story come out now ? This is really old news, nothing that happened in the last month or so, concerning the Obama campaign. Very fishy why this is hitting the news right now.

You know the Clinton's brought this out now, because they were going to be trashed on this weekends news shows for the Ferraro racist comments. Hillary Clinton would have had a very tough time if she was the only thing on the news this weekend, and the momemtum was shifting towards Obama this week after his two recent wins, and more super delegates going for him.

I think this is something the Clinton campaign had in the vault for a tough time like this, and they brought it out now to get the heat off them.

Greetings Senator Obama,

First I must say that I am confident that you will be the President of the United States - my President. I am a young black man and believe that you are the man to help us heal from the generation of our fathers and grandfathers who were so hurt by racism and slavery. I understand the pain that Pastor Wright and his generation went through but we as a nation must crossover into a new day. Blacks, Whites, Hispanics and people from all races, we must go beyond this point in our national politics so that we can heal. Please Senator Obama, right now you have the attention of America. Show us that you can bring us together. Show us that you are a uniter. This is the 21st Century and our country needs to heal from the pain of the past 400 years.

Please make a nation speech on your personal faith and values and also take the time to inspire us to talk to our neighbors so that we can heal. Even if it means buying time on prime time shows, please make a speech and appeal to Americans, from all walks of life and races, to shed bigotry, racism, and all those silly things we do that divide us. Talk to us about unity Barack. Please talk to us about unity. I have personally been in so much pain all day since this news came out. I have also been in Churches where statements have been made that left me wondering whether I heard them right. I don't think you should be judged by the statements that your Pastor made in the past. Help us all to heal from our pain Barack. Talk to America, from your heart, about this issues and bring closure to this.

In your speech please address the fact that they once tried to smear you by saying that you are a Muslim and now that they discovered that your pastor is a little "on the edge of social discourse" they want to pounce on it. Please address this on National TV. I am in prayer for you and for America.

while we're at it lets hold Obama responsible for all that anti-gay stuff in the Bible and the crucifixions and the..but wait there's no video to post on Utube

I've been following Senator Obama for over a year now, and he has said in this past year of his preacher that he doesn't agree with all his world views, but that he did like him a lot. He did fire him as a result of the comments he made. I'm a 46 year old caucasian woman and I was just recently called a n****r by a caucasian in a pick up truck after I started sporting a Barack Obama sticker on my car. I also was swerved at and had someone act like they were going to run into my bumper by 2 other caucasian pick up truck drivers one complete with a Confederate flag. I don't know how you can live in this in country and not recognize that racism is predominately cast toward African Americans. I do sympathize with people who have been victims and still continue to be victims of racism. I understand Wright's need to speak out about how he feels about this country, but as a representative of the Obama campaign, he should know that what he says can be used against Obama, and should not have taken the job. My sister is a Republican, and I don't share her views, but I still love her.

From Reader EM on talkingpointsmemo -


"What drives me crazy is how this could have been avoided so easily if Wright was the slightest bit media-savvy. Had he merely controlled his tongue and limited himself to advocating an attack on Iran to encourage massive worldwide Muslim attacks leading to a fulfillment of the biblical prophecy of end-times and bringing about Armageddon and the summary slaughter of every Jew, Muslim, Catholic, and non-believer on the planet while rapturing him and his flock up to heaven, then followed it up by denouncing Catholics as cult members and blaming Hurricane Katrina on gay people, this story wouldn't be metastasizing like this. One five minute milquetoast repudiation by Obama and it would all be behind him.

But what does Wright do instead? He spews this vile "God damn America" bile. What a psycho."


- LMFAO

Obama's days are numbered. The truth is coming out, and it's not pretty. For Obama to say he never heard these sermon's is ridiculous. Where are the tapes of the sermon's Obama said he heard? There aren't any. Bye, bye Obama.