Wright’s Rants Wrecking Obama
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Barack Obama said Tuesday that his relationship with REV JEREMIAH WRIGHT has changed because of what Wright said contradicts much of what Obama stands for has done and is trying to do. Obama said yesterday’s “performance” by Wright was a “bunch of rants.” Obama said what Wright said contradicts his fundamental convictions; was a:show of disrespect to me” and an “insult to what we have been trying to do in this campaign.” Obama said nothing Wright said yesterday was constructive and Wright “caricatured” himself. Obama said he made clear to Wright that his “sound bites” was inexcusable when he spoke with him before his Philadelphia speech.
Obama said Wright was never his spiritual mentor nor advisor but his pastor. That parses the words “mentor” and “advisor” when compared with what Obama described in his book. Obama has been sent reeling by Rev. Wright’s radicalism. Obama said it was only yesterday that he realized the tone and impact of Wright. Main stream media is filled with denunciation of Wright.
NEWT GINGRICH said yesterday and on Tuesday’s ABC SHOW the VIEW that Wright appears is trying to harm Obama. Observation and polls appear to prove that if that is correct Wright is succeeding.
Wright’s comments have raised Obama’s already majority unfavorability ratings even higher with 41% saying he hurts their opinion of Obama.
Comment by david on 1 May 2008:
Imagine Obama saying to Rev. Wright that, despite the Philadelphia speech, this is not going away. So I must denounce you more forcefully (of course you and I both know that the denunciation will be for purely political purposes). But since the denunciation needs to be based on something new since the Philadelphia speech — it can’t be based on old “sound bites” that were known to me then, else I should have denounced you then. So it would be really really helpful to me if you would go on a weekend media blitzkreig and say some truly outrageous things that are clearly more than “old sound bites” which can be the basis of a more forceful rejection.