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Home Front: Politix
B.O. camp: Clinton trying to 'distract attention'
2008-03-27
As Sen. Barack Obama returns from his Caribbean vacation, he and his campaign pick up where they left off -- wrapped up in the controversy surrounding his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Sen. Barack Obama resumes campaigning Wednesday following his Caribbean vacation.

The issue returned to the spotlight Tuesday when Sen. Hillary Clinton responded to a reporter's question about what she would have done if she were a member of Wright's church. "I think given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor," Clinton said at a news conference in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Obama on Wednesday again condemned the remarks Wright made but implied the sermons were taken out of context. "They found five or six of the most offensive statements, and boiled it down into a half an hour sound clip or a half-minute sound clip, and just played it over and over and over again," Obama said while campaigning in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Some of Wright's past sermons came under scrutiny nearly two weeks ago when a news report highlighted ones that included racially charged remarks.
Posted by:Fred

#4  garlic noses?
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-03-27 23:02  

#3  Typical BO response.

So what was it, a half minute (which I don't think is nearly long enough) or a half hour (which is a lot of time; lots of quotes).

"They found five or six of the most offensive statements"
Out of how many?

What about all the moderately offensive statements? How long would it take to show those clips? Slightly offensive clips? Looking down their garlic noses as they crucified Christ - what a load of bull. Next he'll tell us Cleopatra was not the decendants of macedonians but a beautiful nubian woman tryin to fight the man.

I wish I could just take off to the Caribbean every time the goin got tough.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-03-27 22:30  

#2  Why, I do believe we are all judged by the WORST things we do and say.

The double standard being applied is morally reprehensible.
Posted by: Ptah   2008-03-27 21:41  

#1  "They found five or six of the most offensive statements, and boiled it down into a half an hour sound clip or a half-minute sound clip, and just played it over and over and over again," Obama said while campaigning in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Yeah, but to find them, they didn't have to work to hard. All of this was in the 'Jeremiah's Greatest Hits' DVD that was for sale in the church lobby.
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Tholuck3545   2008-03-27 08:33  

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