Jeremiah Wright On Obama: 'I Have Not Stopped Loving Him'

Rev. Jeremiah Wright is over the whole Obama controversy -- or so he said in an interview with the Washington Post.

In the interview Wright defended the president and spoke about what he sees is a continuing trend of media attacks against the President.

"It is unrealistic to think that one person can change the mess that this country has gotten into, but to pick on him is like picking on one of my kids," Wright told the Post.

In the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, then-candidate Obama drew heavy fire for his connection to Wright after some of the reverend's passionate and unrestrained sermons were picked up by the media. Obama was eventually forced to cut ties with his pastor in what became a very public schism.

But Wright said he isn't holding a grudge.

"I have not stopped loving him because of what the press did, and to see him beat up on because of things he is not responsible for is painful," Wright said, according to the interview.

Despite his defense of and affection for Obama, Wright admitted that he didn't expect to see the President again until "he is out of the White House."

Comments

[manofwar]

12:14 PM on 03/15/2010

Is this the "Mantra" of today 'America has a New Person to Blame for all its Shame!!'

Forget what he said about 'Americe's' Sins'

(being that is what he was addressing)

[Martin Chuzzlewit]

11:42 AM on 03/15/2010

Of course you still love Barry........because he still shares your sick beliefs about the United States.

[canobserv]

11:52 AM on 03/15/2010

if the Rev REALLY h8ted the U.S. that much why did he serve ...with honor...in the American Military??..........maybe because he loves the U.S. as much as you and is sad about the way it is going........maybe the ones with the "sick beliefs" are the ones that would give the corporations "person" status..........maybe it's "sick" that there are SO many that are d i e ing each yaer from lack of health care....maybe it's "sick" that 47% of the national budget is spent on "defense.........I am sure you can find something worthwhile to be "sick" about

[Martin Chuzzlewit]

12:22 PM on 03/15/2010

47% on dfense....LOL (!)

Spending too much time on the internet reading talking points are you?

It's 47% after all of the massive "mandated" entitlements (Still growing under Barry) are subtracted.....and that doesn't leave much.

How much would you spend on defense, Agamemnon?

[Papasito]

08:54 AM on 03/15/2010

I can't believe so many people defending this racist... oh wait, I forgot that according to Huffers, blacks can't be racist.

[canobserv]

11:52 AM on 03/15/2010

you have 22 fans....you're posting here......doesn't that make YOU a "huffer"

[Papasito]

08:53 AM on 03/15/2010

"...some of the reverend's passionate and unrestrained sermons were picked up by the media"

Those are quite the euphemisms for what in fact were anti-white, anti-country revelations.

[IDIOTA]

12:30 AM on 03/15/2010

Because of the press' misinformed obsession with Wright, Obama gave one of the greatest speeches on race that I have ever heard from a politician.

[Papasito]

08:51 AM on 03/15/2010

I yawned through the part I watched. I can only take so much race baiting.

[Julie Zhou]

09:10 AM on 03/15/2010

My ten-year old son would say that is only your opinion about the speech, not a fact about the speech.

[roger37]

11:50 PM on 03/14/2010

The whole Rev. Wright thing was not about Obama or Jews or America. It was about the good Reverend's huge ego. That much was clear in his public utterances after the "sermon." Wright is a narcissistic sch.muck.

[onlinesavant]

10:50 AM on 03/15/2010

But he tells the truth. All that matters. "Some people ask why the press has given me the moniker of "Give Em' Hell Harry. I say, I don't "Give people hell." I just tell the truth, and some think it's hell." President Harry S. Truman.

[ChicagoBlackRainbowWomen]

11:27 PM on 03/14/2010

The good Rev. spoke fact, nothing he said was fictional and any indications of enlighten for whites world-wide will take far more than one Black President. If this is how "they" act then "they" are sure to have an emotional epileptic fit in the future. The greatest secret has been that Pesident Obama is one of many to come.

African Americans have centuries of sacrafice behind and ahead of them, know more about freedom then any teabagger ever could and speak truth to power without batting an eye, particularlly when it comes to "racsim. White Americans have always been struggling with their souls and many have yet to gain a moral backbone. The history books narrowly say a word about the one man who did, Jim Brown, guess "they" figured that others might get the wrong ideas about "US"

[BillyTugbutter]

11:34 PM on 03/14/2010

You need to get over your preoccupation with skin color. Most people have. There's more to life; move on.

[davidariley]

11:55 PM on 03/14/2010

sadly, most people haven't. it would be nice, but that's not the case.

[ChicagoBlackRainbowWomen]

12:40 AM on 03/15/2010

"White Americans have always been struggling with their souls and many have yet to gain a moral backbone."

[ohnoforgotmyusername]

11:44 PM on 03/14/2010

wright said that FDR knew the japanese were gonna bomb pearl harbor in advance and so in a sense, murdered thousands of american boys - was that true?

how about wrights preaching that aids was "invented" to kill people of color? huh?

wright is a disgrace and obamas campaign should have ended when we found out about just what kind of hatefilled race baiting diatribes he sat through all those years without complaint.

audacity indeed.

[davidariley]

11:59 PM on 03/14/2010

have you ever heard of the tuskegee experiment? if so, you'd know why some people wouldn't have a hard time believing aid was developed to target a certain population.

[ManUTd1989]

02:41 AM on 03/15/2010

I hate Wright, i personally think he's a disgrace as well.

however, i do believe FDR knew about Pearl Harbor. I've heard (from a man who was on the USS West Virginia during the attack) that all 3 U.S. carriers left port together before the attack. he said that NEVER happened since he had been there (one year).

my guess is we heard something by reading Germany's codes that we'd broken by mid 1941. By thwarting the attack, we ran the risk of alerting the Germans to our success in reading their code, which would have jeopardized the entire war effort before it really began.

that, and the U.S. desperately needed to get into the war so they could send more supplies to Britain before she fell to the Germans.

[Grim Truth]

08:41 PM on 03/14/2010

Look who's peeking out from under the bus.

[RockyMissouri]

06:25 PM on 03/14/2010

I would have preferred a dialogue about his statements about America and our racist past---which is the absolute
truth......but everyone is afraid of honest discussion..we cannot progress until we do this, I feel.

[supergenius02]

05:50 PM on 03/14/2010

I still see on Rev. Wrights's head the tire tracks from the bus that Obama threw him under. Rev. Wright is a horrible human being who preaches against America. Anyone who went to his church to hear the word of God would be led down a horrible horrible path.

[HAWKEYEHORNET]

02:00 PM on 03/14/2010

Right on Rev. Speak truth to the haters,birthers,tea party,republicans,pundients and gutless democrats.

[rain33]

03:44 PM on 03/14/2010

he can speak his mind which i don't have a problem with.

[manofwar]

01:37 PM on 03/14/2010

These comments reflect that RACISM is still a part of America.

To avoid what Mr. Wright actually said and inject what you felt he meant surely shows the mindset of the writers!

[hallowellboy]

10:03 AM on 03/14/2010

Obama and Wright are still friends even though Wright preaches intolerence for others. Shameful. Next thing it'll turn out to be an alterboy/pastor thing.

[upbeatdem]

08:58 PM on 03/14/2010

On what basis do you conclude that they are still friends? Are you basing that on Wright's declaration that he still" loves" Pres. Obama? We saw what that "love" did to him during the election. He doesn't need it. Also, did you skip over the part where Wright said that they have not talked? I imagine that will be a permanent thing.

[davidariley]

12:02 AM on 03/15/2010

would you please point to some SPECIFIC instances of "intolerance for others" from rev. wright's sermons?

[iswideopen]

12:30 AM on 03/14/2010

As the media loves themselves so much, they brag about how they can "make or break" any politician. The one thing that you will never take away from President Obama is that he is the very first African American president of the United States of America, period. Slander, lie, and belittle him all you want, that is fact. That will be his legacy. Because he has to deal with southern Democrats who harbor certain "feelings" about minorities, no matter how they attempt to deny it, is so not his fault. He can become brutal, however, it is not his style. I like him just as the MAN HE IS. And off topic; as for Dee Dee Myers about President Obama needing to be more like Bill Clinton, stick that you know where. I know he feels the economic painof the American people, otherwise, he would not have had unemployment benefits and cobra extended to give the little people a safety net. I have a feeling the November 2010 elections will not turn out as the Republicans thought, as long as we Democrats stick together/ You can stop wondering why they beat us all of the time; IT IS THEIR UNITY IN PUBLIC. That does not mean you can not critisize President Obama. WE MUST HAVE HIS BACK AT ALL TIMES. Rev. Wright spoke truth, although he should have said it a different way. He made some white Americas look at themselves, and they didn't like the truth they saw.

[USAFVET76]

04:47 AM on 03/14/2010

Wright spoke lies and hatred.
Obama ignored or supported Wright's views for 20 years.

[47th]

08:07 PM on 03/14/2010

Name one lie that Wright said?

[Salty 2]

08:12 AM on 03/14/2010

It's a real shame that Obama will make history based solely on the fact that he is black. The same man in white skin would never have gotten elected.

[Jay Haney]

11:14 AM on 03/14/2010

Obama has fairly white skin, in case you missed it...and a man with authentic white skin would not have been the same man.

[hellzapopper]

11:38 PM on 03/13/2010

Wright has girl friends, and a multi-million dollar house in the suburbs (part of his "retirement" from the church).

Keep trying to vindicate/validate this guy, but he's a fraud who BHO used as a political stepping stone (the Chicago way, of course). BHO used him, and when Wright wanted something in return he got thrown under the bus because he polled badly.

Hope and change Chicago style (if you don't believe, explain Axel and Rahm).

[Dupree]

11:48 PM on 03/13/2010

Damned if he do or damned if he don't. You seek to malign Obama by any means necessary. Instead of scrutinizing everyone's else lives.....pay attention to your own. I am sure you have a few skeletons in your own closet that should keep you busy trying to pretend you don't.

This man that you so recklessly claims is a fraud is a former United States Marine that fought for your right to speak freely in a era where he himself was not allowed to be free. This is a man that fought for freedoms that he himself was denied and you think you have the right to dictate how he, a recipient of racism and segregation should feel about his legitimate experiences in this country.....a man of color in a world that continually denied his pursuit of equality. You think that a man that fought on the battle field and returned home to be told to sit on the back of the bus as he watched his "colored" fellow soldiers die defending a country that did not give him the least bit of respect on its soil. He should feel the exact same way as those that never experienced this hands on? It is insensitive and totally in denial of real life concrete accumulation of life experiences that DO shape our views and ultimately provoke our speech vernacular.

[hellzapopper]

12:03 AM on 03/14/2010

I know Wright was a marine. So were millions of others. Should we canonize all ex-marines?

Why does he "damn" his country?

Why does he lead the double life of a country-club millionaire?

I don't malign BHO by all means available. I just recite the historical truths.

Can you cite one false fact in what I said?

[USAFVET76]

04:45 AM on 03/14/2010

Well said. And 100% accurate.
Wright is a scam artist.
And BHO found him useful for 20 years, until.....................................
Sad state of affairs these two are given a pass by many in the media and their voting block, because they happen to be black.