Between the Bill Moyers interview and this, I feel like I'm not only getting a better understanding of Rev. Wright, but of Obama as well. I hear in what Wright says much of what has struck a chord in me about Obama.

I especially like that Obama sees his main ideological difference between Wright and himself is that Obama sees a hope for change for the better -- if you watched this to the end, it appears Obama's won his pastor over to his way of thinking.

The side of me that is more cynical loved watching the infamous Fox crawl as they struggled to come up with a damning summary of Wright's comments, with little success (my guess is "I'm running for Jesus" might be the new soundbite).

I think this is perfect strategy for Wright & Obama, have Wright flood the airwaves with his real message, so it's harder for those clips to play on people's fear of the unknown. In a way, Fox discredited much of their own smear campaign by airing this speech from Wright.

"He began his speech calmly... ending with a vengence..."

Good game Fox, you still managed to find an angle there somewhere. Maybe those people that tuned in late and didn't hear anything of what he said will still think he's a bigot.

I love you guys, I know you've voted 4 my stuff, but whether or not Reverend Wright is actually, deeply a non-hateful person is only secondary importance to the fact that he's identified as a source of hate speech. The facts of the matter are of secondary importance to Reverend Wrights VERY VERY compromised integrity. And he's not helping our fair-haired boy, that is, Obama. Obama should have rejected anyone tinged with racism and hate speech completely. Instead, Obama's left himself open to this crap.

the NYT on the wright speech:
And he went deep into context — a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics. Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, was cocky, defiant, declamatory, inflammatory and mischievous, but most of all, he was all over the place, performing a television triathlon of interview, lecture and live news conference that pushed Mr. Obama aside and placed himself front and center in the presidential election campaign.

I dont care what washingtonpost says, but i expect others may:
from http://blog.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2008/04/obamas_pastor_reignites_race_c.html


The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, explaining this morning why he had waited so long before breaking his silence about his incendiary sermons, offered a paraphrase from Proverbs: "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Barack Obama's pastor would have been wise to continue to heed that wisdom.

Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama's longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered - and added lighter fuel.

I hope you all watched his fine NAACP speech. but that's not making the news like his national press club speech. I have put it in a playlist in the hope of getting this sifted

Can't say I enjoy sifting this. I'm sure this will hurt someone.

http://politics.videosift.com/video/Reverend-Wright-Probably-Shouldnt-Be-On-TV

Moving this video to NetRunner's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

Is it too cynical to think Obama asked Wright to say something so outlandish so as to justify his disowning of him to enable him to move on beyond the petty "gotcha" politicking that Clinton is feeding to the Media on such a regular basis?

I thought so.

>> ^Trancecoach:
Is it too cynical to think Obama asked Wright to say something so outlandish so as to justify his disowning of him and move on beyond the petty "gotcha" politicking that Clinton is feeding to the Media?
I thought so.


If he did, it was the stupidest thing he could've done.

what you all fail to mention, and its the only thing relevant:

the man CHOSE to go to war with the marines, instead of deferring, and later served on the presidential medical team in the navy (not necessarily for only presidents but look it up)... was he a corpsman?

no mattter what he says, he is a patriot first. never forget that.

what have you done for your country?

WRIGHT FOR PRESIDENT.

I AM WHITE.

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Also available here: http://fora.tv/2008/04/27/Jeremiah_Wright_Addresses_the_NAACP

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