Obama Speech Only Starts Process - Many Issues Remain
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to stem damage from divisive comments delivered by his pastor, while bluntly addressing anger between races. Barack Obama said he could not “disown” Rev. Jeremiah Wright any more than the black community or his white grandmother. He said “these people are part of me.”
Obama said Wright’s comments are over a frustration of what he called a stagnant society incapable of changing and said Wright was being made “caricatures being peddled by some commentators.”
He insisted that he dislikes divisiveness and does not support racism. Obama sought to explain why he continued to attend the church and his relationship with Rev. Wright.
Obama’s statement that “The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning” was immediately passed over by most commenters but will be scrutinized.
Obama’s speech began but certainly did not lay to rest rising concerns about his judgment, forthrightness and core philosophy all of which are illuminating the question of whether or not he is fit to be President.
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