Obama Wright Speech

Jason Linkins

Kerry Rips MSNBC On Wright: 'You People Need To Let Go Of This'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Today, John Kerry officially became the 87,436th person to receive one of the three or four versions of the same Reverend Wright question MSNBC has be...

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Jason Linkins

Colbert Lampoons Media's Wright Obsession

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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This game of renunciation and denunciation is proving to be a difficult one to navigate, both for the candidates and the observers. In the first plac...

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Jason Linkins

The Morning After: Obama Aide Still Pressed On Wright

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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What's a campaign to do when there's a need to put a controversy behind them? If you're the Obama camp, and you want to maybe have a conversation thi...

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Obama and Wright - The Real Lesson

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

As Rev. Wright staggers around the country defending himself, posturing and trying to look relevant, he should know that ministers never look so sadly irrelevant as when they are trying to be relevant.

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So, You Want a Theocracy Now?

Jane Smiley | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Jane Smiley

Obama wouldn't have this Reverend Wright problem if Americans didn't have the idea that their president has to be a man of faith.

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Obama's Reverend Wright Press Conference (VIDEO)

Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Excerpts From Barack Obama's press conference on Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Scroll down for video and read updates from AP here: I'm outraged by the c...

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I'm Wright and You're Not: Is He One of the Pharisees Who Will Not Abide the Popularity of the Upstart?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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Blake Fleetwood

Tune in today to the Latest Talking Head. Obama and the media, particularly those who welcome his new low impact politics, could (and should) be appl...

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Obama's 'Sister Souljah Moment'

Catherine Crier | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Catherine Crier

Obama showed personal integrity by not 'throwing Wright under a bus', but is now a victim of that very maneuver. He should recognize the opportunity Wright has given him.

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Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?

Manisha Sinha | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

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Manisha Sinha

The Democratic presidential nomination bears some startling similarities to the 1860 Republican race between Abraham Lincoln of Illinois and William Henry Seward of New York.

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Email to a Rabbi: Wrong or Wright?

Howard Gutman | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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Howard Gutman

For Jewish leaders to find fault in a speech, in a man, and in a candidacy that has done so much on the issue of race means that we have chosen to divide when the opportunity to unite has never been closer.

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What's Clinton's Story?

Sunil Garg | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Sunil Garg

Clinton should give a formal address grounded in deeply personal stories that addresses the difficult issues that raise doubt about her motivations and reveals to voters why she continues her fight.

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Beyond Jeremiah: A New Kind of Media for Obama's New Kind of Politics

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Shaun Jacob Halper

The lesson of Jeremiah-gate: without a new kind of mainstream television media, Obama will never cultivate a new kind of politics.

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Reverend Wright: Raw and Un-Cut

Steven Weber | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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Steven Weber

Fox and CNN's co-opting of Rev. Wright's incendiary text is as much a reason to lose faith in the democratic process as tampering with vote tallies in a national election.

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Jason Linkins

Video Disputes "Black Separatist" Tag On Obama's Church

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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In the wake of the Jeremiah Wright flap, the church that presidential hopeful Barack Obama attends -- Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago -- ha...

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Obama is Nietzschean

Ali Eteraz | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

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Ali Eteraz

People who read Obama's books see in them a man who doesn't think of himself as a finished product, but as someone who views himself as a canvas upon which life is constantly drawing new lines.

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Hitchens: Obama Sold Out His Grandmother

Slate | Christpher Hitchens | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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It's been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But n...

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Curb Your Enthusiasm Meets Barack Obama

Michael Smerconish | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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Michael Smerconish

I exited Obama's speech last week thinking that if I ultimately do not vote for Obama, it will be for reasons other than his minister.

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A Letter to Howard

Henry Bean | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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Henry Bean

In the evident terror from both the GOP and the Clinton campaign that they are up against a potentially great man who must, therefore, be destroyed, we encounter again, the politics of hate.

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Obama's Real Challenge: Shifting the Collective Consciousness

Pamela Gerloff | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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Pamela Gerloff

Obama's speech revealed that he is the only candidate in this election who even comes close to understanding the underlying mechanics of societal change.

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Barack Obama's Test...And Ours

Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes

The controversy with Rev. Wright, for better or worse politically, strips away the fantasy some voters may have entertained that Barack Obama was just a white man in blackface, utterly isolated and insulated from the racial struggles of the nation where he spent most of his life.

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My Take

Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics

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Rebecca Walker

I read Obama's speech because I couldn't bear to watch pundits rip it to shreds. I still have no idea how it's being spun, but if he spoke what I read, he showed up for the show down, and won.

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

Election Central | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

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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 f...

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Placing Reverend Wright's Sermons In Context

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Lonnee Hamilton

Our media is in a terrible state when ordinary citizens doing a Google search can do a better job than some of the highest paid "journalists" in the country.

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TV Media's Willful Misunderstanding of Barack Obama's Race Speech

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

The very first thing that the controversy over Barack Obama's association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright highlights is the failure of the national, and still largely white, media to interest themselves in the black church.

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The Good Radical Within

Bill Parent | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home

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Bill Parent

One of the most interesting things to me about a Barak Obama presidency is that he would bring with him, as an African American, an internalized awareness of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's indignation and anger.

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