Poll: Majority Doesn't Believe Obama Shares Wright's Views

Election Central:

A new poll from Fox News, the first major poll taken since Barack Obama's big speech on race relations, shows that the effect of the Jeremiah Wright flap might not be so bad after all.

By a 57%-24% margin, registered votes do not believe that Obama shares Wright's controversial views. The internals show only 17% of Democrats saying Obama shares Wright's ideas, along with 20% of independents and 36% of Republicans.

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[mix2007]

10:11 PM on 03/21/2008

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bOOL3BYaIEQ

"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God. Men will beat their swords into plowshafts and their spears into pruning hooks, and nations shall not rise up against nations, neither shall they study war anymore." I don't know about you, I ain't going to study war anymore."

Martin Luther King Jr.
Address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1967-08-16)

[idileru21]

03:37 PM on 03/21/2008

I dont believe that Obama shares the views with Rev wright .I hope Fox news will focus on what is much more important to the middle class american, instead of working for one party interest .

[Charmed]

03:36 PM on 03/21/2008

I will be so glad when they get this story right. Rev. Wright was repeating something someone said on fox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

[ndolomar]

04:32 PM on 03/21/2008

i'm right there with you in trying to get this more attention, but unfortunately, the truth just isn't as sexy as great media fodder. "more chum for the publc."

[elainebarili]

05:16 PM on 03/21/2008

which time? the man said so many awful things at so many different times that I cant see where you can really believe that its all Foxs fault. Let the idiot take responsibilty for his own mistakes for once.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

08:49 PM on 03/21/2008

He said nothing awful if you listen to the sermons in their entirety instead of taking them out of context, and replaying something on a loop, like it is representative of his life's work - which it is NOT.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IT7LxAKgYeI&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wo6x_iIBcbo&feature=related

And only the most ignorant and uneducated people would think that FOX is an unbiased news source. They are doing every single thing they can to discredit Senator Obama, however, there are honest conservatives and patriotic Americans who are standing up and rejecting this kind of vilification of a decent, intelligent and talented candidate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/this-good-friday-let-us-_b_92645.html

[Jazz42]

03:14 PM on 03/21/2008

When I hear that fox News has something to say positive about the Democratic party. I become very suspicious.

[LeftLeaner]

03:13 PM on 03/21/2008

Did they take a poll about his wife, Michelle?

Remember: She was really proud of her country for the first time

[Najam]

03:03 PM on 03/21/2008

Yes, he does not share his pastor's views, his own deplorable comments speak a volume. Here are some excerpts from Barack Obama’s book; “Dreams from my Father”;
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
“The emotion between the races could never be pure..... The other race (white) would always remain just that: Menacing, alien and apart.”
“Never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, the son of Africa, that I’d picked all the attributes I sought in myself.”
In the above excerpts the irony is that 12-13 years old, Obama was fully benefitting from his “white” grand mother and other relatives. All this nonsense and calculated anger is displayed in a book that he wrote at “maturity and success.” This is also to knowingly entice and incite divisiveness, polarize people, portray and be accepted as a leader. Surely the twenty years of sermons and close association left deeper impression on the very soul or may I say “fueled the fire”, now the followers need to realize that before it is too late.
Can anybody say that he does not know or not there when Michelle Obama uttered famous "first time really proud of America" sermon." There are no comments or condemnation because the media has not cornered him yet.
In July 2007, talking to the reporters Barack Hussain Obama said; “I would overcome Hillary’s lead in the polls because to know me is to love me.”
In January at a gathering he said that by the time he was done speaking "a light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you," he continued. "You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it."
A few months later, he said, "Every place is Barack Obama country once Barack Obama's been there."
His wife, Michelle said: "Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics," his wife said a few weeks ago, adding that Americans will get only one chance to elect him.”
What a sense of entitlement or the “stuff” that he use to “puff on”, he can’t say “I didn’t inhale it.”
Same is the case with the Farrakhan’s endorsement of Obama, he didn't condemn him until got cornered.
People are by nature good and I give benefit of the doubt to the blinded by the color and charisma followers may not know that his “spiritual advisor” went to Libya with Louis Farrakhan to see Muammar Qaddafi and his church gave Farrakhan a “lifetime achievement award.”
Obama's press spokesman Bill Burton said, "Sen. Obama has said repeatedly that personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics, whether they're offered from a platform at a rally or the pulpit of a church. Sen. Obama does not think of the pastor of his church in political terms. Like a member of his family, there are things he says with which Sen. Obama deeply disagrees. But now that he is retired, that doesn't detract from Sen. Obama's affection for Rev. Wright or his appreciation for the good works he has done." (end quote)
When Obama says that America need to offer deeds, the only thing acceptable and meant for him and his that we Americans embrace Wright and Farrakhan as both are retired and elect Obama. By the way, it is only a coincidence that Barrack Hussain Obama is linked to two of the America’s most influential pastors who linked to each other in more ways than just speech.
So it is not about the "pastor's words" it is about the pattern of deception, crying wolf and keep giving, and vote him in.
As students of law, both Obama and I know the difference between the "freedom of speech" and "hateful speech." It is the arrogant followers who need to see the difference.
Thank you.

[Jazz42]

03:22 PM on 03/21/2008

I love when these holy than thou people come on here, and tell what one is thinking. It is mind boggling to me. How sad.

[ndolomar]

04:35 PM on 03/21/2008

there's no "hate" in his speeches, which i have a sneaking suspicion you've never attended). not to mention nearly a third of the evidence you've quoted or referenced never happened in the first place. why are you lyin g? you're not forced to vote for him, but you don't have to post made-up statements and events.

[GypsyGirl]

02:55 PM on 03/21/2008

And I'll venture a guess that even a percentage of the responders that said they do believe aren't telling the truth.

How could anyone, who listens to obama, who knows anything about his life, who truly listened to his speech Tuesday morning, who saw he was speaking from his heart, could have possibly not believed every word he said.

To Hillary Clinton: Stop it. If you are telling the truth when you say you love your country and you love the Democratic party, you know what the right thing is for you, at this moment. Just stop. PLEASE

[TheRealMacDaddy]

02:38 PM on 03/21/2008

Maybe Americans SHOULD think Obama shares Rev. Wright's views...

Here is the unedited, unparsed video. I know it has been posted in several other comments but I will include the link for ease of access.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

We as Americans need to expose and debunk these character assasinations for what they are...unadulterated Bull Shit. No different then when Fox so ameturishly edited Michelle Obama's statement by cutting out the "REALLY" that she had said in her statement regarding her Pride in America or the remainder of her statement that said it was due to NOT HER HUSBAND RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT but because so many people wanted a change in the direction the country was moving.

I urge everyone to watch the entire Sermon! And then I urge you to help stop this assasination of Sen. Obama by spreading the truth!

[jhoffman]

02:24 PM on 03/21/2008

It's good to hear that despite the fact the MSM has taken MOST of Reverend Wright's sermons out of context, that most Americans understand the difference between a candidate and his pastor. Nonetheless, the constant airing of 10 seconds of the reverend's statements amounts to nothing more than pure character assassination. Please view the following two sermons which provide context for the reverend's 9/11 and "God D*** America" sermons.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RvMbeVQj6Lw&feature=related

If you want to pass judgement then I believe you must watch the comments in full.

[1dogs2]

02:13 PM on 03/21/2008

At last, a poll result that vindicates my belief that Americans will not let themselves be manipulated by swift-boat attacks again. Not this time.

Now, if only the 24% who are prepared to believe the preposterous would find another site on which to post their paranoid, fear- and hate-mongring comments, perhaps the rest of us could enjoy some interesting, thought-provoking, informative conversations on the crucial issues in this campaign.

[soot]

02:07 PM on 03/21/2008

Do that many people really think such a thing to be true? I wish people would respond to these polls with their gut feelings instead of reading every question as "WHICH CANDIDATE DO YOU LIKE MORE???"

[LeftLeaner]

01:53 PM on 03/21/2008

is that based on "FAITH"

[DwH]

01:42 PM on 03/21/2008

Why not ask if Bush ever believed in a word that comes from the pulpit? That pious dry drunk couldn't quote scripture without a teleprompter.

If rightwingers are going to force religious litmus tests on Democratic candidates, they'd best start answering up for their own distinctly non-Christian actions on the world and domestic stages.

Pay attention to McCain and his buddy Hagee, a true piece of work. He stood on stage and took this guy's endorsement, and Hagee's views are not hypotheticals taken out of context: he preaches hatred.

Separate church and state, the way the Founders intended. Please God if you exist, put some Democratic adults in the White House.