Clinton: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor"

No, Mrs. Clinton, you don't choose your family, but you do choose what man you want to stay married to. I don't find Bill's adulterous affairs "proof" that Hillary is an adulteress. Or, any of Bill's proven-by-a-grand-jury lies proof that she is a liar. Yet she wants us to believe that Obama is a bigot and anti-American because of a few unfortunate sound bites from Obama's retired pastor. Catholics, hold onto your hats if Hillary ever gets you in her sites -- Based on this logic, I'm sure you'll all be painted as pedophiles.

Mostly I find it disgusting that she is throwing so many rocks from her glass house.

>>"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

I must admit, the media is doing a better job this week of not playing the Rev. Wright language. While they continually show it, they have not been playing the are rarely playing the audio.

What about Hillary's membership of the 'Family'?

This article by Barbara Ehrenreich may be a little sensationalist but its interesting this hasn't been made an issue by the GOP, although I'm sure there is potential in the general by 502s...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-ehrenreich/hillarys-nasty-pastorate_b_92361.html

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

Are people actually considering voting for someone who doesn't understand the First Amendment? First it was the flag burning bill, now this.

Hilllary is a bitter woman who seems to feel America owes her the presidency for putting up with Bill's philandering throughout their marriage. As for experience, Coattails Clinton would be nowhere if she weren't married to a governor and ex-president. Look at her apology for misspeaking, or lying, to call a spade a spade. Bitter, angry, sarcastic--just what I want in a president!

Mrs. Clinton is being untruthful. You DO , in fact choose your family, at least in the case of your spouse. Mrs. Clinton made the judgment, the choice, to remain married to a man who, after repeated, corroborated accusations of infidelity surfaced in the most public way, then cheated on her in the Oval Office, was caught, lied about it on national television, and was caught in the lie. For me, that is irrelevant to her candidacy. By the same token, I do not feel that Mr. Obama's decision to remain in the congregation of the pastor who brought him to Christianity, despite some repellent speech by that pastor, is relevant to his candidacy. Senator Clinton should have responded honorably: "I will not comment on the religious affiliation of another candidate." If you accept her oblique attack "He would not have been my pastor," then you, in fairness, must ask yourself of Mrs. Clinton's marriage to serial philanderer Bill Clinton, "Would he have been my spouse?" If you accept Chelsea Clinton's statement Mrs. Clinton's credibility re Bill's scandals is "none of your business," then Senator Obama's relationship with his pastor deserves the same respect.

After being 'transformed' by seeing MLK in 1963 Hillary became a Goldwater Girl in 1964, Barry Goldwater the anti-MLK.

"Speaking at Selma's First Baptist Church on the 42nd anniversary of the bloody "Sunday" freedom march there, Sen. Clinton declared: "As a young girl [age 16], I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963. My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold January night to hear [King]. . . . And he called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union."

Young Hillary Rodham answered that challenge the next year as the 17-year-old class president at Maine East High School in the Chicago suburbs. She described herself in her memoirs as "an active Young Republican" and "a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit." As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King."

A strange story indeed.

So Hillary would certainly leave her church or speak up if she heard offensive comments? How about when she worked as a corporate attorney at Walmart? Did she speak up or leave her high paying job when she was in meeting with Walmart when they discussed disallowing employees the right to form unions?
Where was her courage then?

This is just another example of how the Clinton camp responds to every thing. A day late, a dollar short and completely inappropriately. I was a Clinton supporter until last week and now with this on top of what was going on last week with them....well, now I'm sure I made the right decision to change candidates.

Let's remember the facts. It was Hillary who wanted and started the negative campaigning. Remember the kitchen sink theory? So Hillary's supporters can not complain about the reaction to her negativism. That is what Hillary wanted, that's what Hillary did, and that is what Hillary looked for. And what is good for her, is good for the rest of us. We are all entitled to react to Hillary's negativism. Now the contest is not against McCain, which will come later. Now the aim is to finish the bich. And the Hillary camp cannot and should not disenfranchise her critics.

Hillary Clinton is a political whore.

The huge distortion with the Rev Wright. story is that he WAS lashing out against the American government.... (with correct and not so correct accusations) but NOT against other races. I am now hearing that he is anti-racist.... we can say he is, anti-government (well this one anyway) but nothing in his "blips" was anti-racist. It seems we are allowing ourselves to be led around by whatever agenda the media pushes at us. We are so passionate about this presidential candidacy but yet, not willing to take the time to ascertain information correctly. If we are going to use this Rev Wright situation to vote against Obama, then I feel we should at the very least, listen to the entire sermon of Rev. Wright. It puts it into a completely different context than what Fox News has been pushing at us.

I hope that as Americans, we can still be clear sighted enough to determine when our Government has erred gravely. For instance, George Bush has made the bone-head move of the century by invading Iraq. If we lose our focus of what our government is doing then they will continue to lie, cheat and not give a hoot about the will of the people, as Dick Cheney has just indicated...

whether Rev Wright was correct in his declarations is questionable, the fact that he screamed it out as clear as day, is each and every American's obligation to hold our Government accountable...

Has anyone seen the USA Today poll, 28 Percent of Hillary supporters will not vote for Barry (Obama) and will switch to McCain. Keep up the Hillary attacks Obama Post, have you heard of unintended consequences.

Whew! Bosnia off the front page yet? :)

I noticed the surrogates are out in force today. Dick Morris is going to give himself a heart attack if he doesn't get over his resentment of the Clintons.

What a bunch of nonsense. Hillary is a Liar so why should we believe she was asked the question

about how she would have handled the Rev. Wright situation?

We shouldn't believe her. She was trying to deflect the news about her LIAR STATUS.

After reading several Pennsylvania newspapers, she has lost many voters.

Hillary lied to Ohio voters.

I wonder how they feel today about her?

At least Pennsylvania voters have the truth before voting and my bet is she will win by a

snippet or lose big. We have had a liar in the White House and are not ready for another.

And that "IS" a fact.

By explicitly linking Rev Wright's remarks with those of Don Imus' and describing them as a form of hate speech, and the fact that Obama has criticized but not rejected his pastor and the black community, Clinton is implying that the latter are hate mongers. Obama is black, therefore he is a hate monger. But not only this, Imus was described as both racist and mysogynistic, so by linking Obama to him through Wright, and in light of what Steinhem, Ferraro and others have said recently, one can see how Senator Clinton has revisted this issue in the most vilely conceivable way.

Didn't Obama drag the Clintons into this last week? With that SILLY photo of Bill with Wright?

She was asked a question and answered it. I really still have a problem with Obama listening to this pastor for 20 years. I am certain as a member of the church he gets their magazine, the Trumpet.
This apparently is a snippet of an article posted in the Nov/ Dec 07 issue.
It stated:
"(Jesus') enemies had their opinion about Him," Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. "The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans. " More things apparently stated in the article.
So knowing of the very large Italian populations in the Northeast and parts of California-this should play well-these are the "gifts" that keep on giving.
Sorry folks-but these statements are pathetic.

I wonder if Hillary will make a comment about her old Minister, Rev. Snyder and what he said about Rev Wright ? He said he agrees with Mr. Wrights speech, read it on the other site.He ws her pastor in Washington.

Hillary, go back to your radical right prayer breakfasts.

She is simply trying to suggest that Barack Obama is "just another black person."

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/24/7867/

Why would hillary, a GOLDWATER GIRL, an eager supporter of the ANTI-CIVIL RIGHTS Arizona senator, find it necessary to say that Rev. Wright would not have been her preacher? Of course hillary would never have attended Rev. Wright's church. To have done so, hillary would have defied her REPUBLICAN PARTY roots.

Hillary, if you continue like this, even if you do get the nomination, you won't get the votes of the democrats that you are hurting now.