Reply #146: Oh for the love of god - try to be honest [View All]

[merh]

and try to use some common sense.

I'll repeat what I wrote in another thread about this, guess I should be sure to keep a copy of this so I can repeat each time someone whats to twist words. - BTW, I'm watching the interview to see if this is all he had to say, it seems that his comments are cut off in the article.

I'll listen to the hypothetical posed and his response in their proper context, then I will decide.

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Relative to his interview, Obama said he would not have been comfortable staying at the church if Wright had not retired and had "he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate" - what's wrong with that? He never said he would have left, even the article you linked to doesn't go as far as you have gone. It properly depicts his words -- "he suggests" and what was he supposed to do? It was an answer based on a hypothetical question -- we know that Wright retired. His response was not based solely on "if he hadn't retired", it included acknowledging that the words did offend some.

If he had said in the interview that he would have stayed you would have been all over that. There is nothing he can say that will make you happy.
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