Obama is taking on Wright! right now!

[RememberWellstone]

He is going against him head up, I wonder if Wright will respond? Good for Obama to do this.

MSNBC right now!

[msallied]

1. Where? At a rally?

[RememberWellstone]

4. On MSNBC right now.

n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. What a total mess.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Yep

[formernaderite]

7. I don't know what else he could do

wright turned this into a mess...he could have just kept quiet until Nov 5th...and then run his mouth. I hope this is the end...geez

[NNN0LHI]

12. I am not that smart and I will tell you what I would have done

As soon as I realized I was going to become a presidential candidate (A year or two ago) I would have quietly changed churches. The safe church for presidential candidates is Methodist. No one says anything bad about Methodists. They are kind of low key apparently.

And I am not trying to drum up business for Methodists either as I don't belong to any organized religion.

Don

[formernaderite]

19. no i see your point

but I also think Obama was counting on the supportof the black church community...and at this point I doubt if he will lose their support. It was painful to watch today :(

[Mezzo]

3. I'm glad to see him fight for a change.

[BobRossi]

5. About time.

Wright is just wrong.

[2rth2pwr]

8. I don't think Wright will take this laying down.

[papau]

13. Wright said "Oh - that is just what Obama had to say to get elected"

[jasmine621]

9. Remember, Obama will say what "politicians" say. Wright told us this.

And it is true.

[2rth2pwr]

10. good reminder!

[JuniperLea]

16. You are right... see my post #11

Wright is a good man, and he's not Obama... nor should he share any views. Why can't we just let them be different?

[JuniperLea]

11. I think this is disgusting

They are both good men, different men, but both good. One does NOT define the other.

I can sympathize with Wright... he is obviously trying to defend his church against death and bomb threats. I don't blame him for trying to distance himself... there are lives at stake here. If he were to turn down all the interviews, the stories would go on without him anyway, so why not speak the truth?

I love Rev. Wright. I don't think people are actually paying attention to what he is saying, or they wouldn't be thinking this was such a bad thing for Obama... only the GOP wants us to think this is so, so, naturally, we swallow their Kool Aid in massive gulps.

Obama will survive this just fine, as long as he doesn't completely throw Wright under the bus. He needs to stick with his original words... they are different men doing different jobs... what is right for one isn't necessarily right for the other.

[NNN0LHI]

14. Let it go even Barack says Wright is a dip shit

Lets drop it now.

Don

[JuniperLea]

15. Barack is full of shit

Wright is a decent man who has done a lot of good for a lot of people. Barack is the one doing the posturing... he's the one who should have dropped it. This will not be good.

[leftynyc]

17. Do you think this will hurt Sen Obama

with African Americans? Will they see it as some sort of betrayal?

[JuniperLea]

18. I couldn't speak for them...

But as a pasty Irish chick raised in a church of a similar denomination, I'm furious on their behalf. And if I were one of the multitudes who have been helped by Wright and his ministry, I'd be freaking incensed.

[walldude]

20. Good for Obama to do this.?

You think so? Good that the GOP tactic of divide and conquer is working so well that Obama had to decry his pastor? Good that there is now a religious litmus test for Democrats as well as Republicans? Yeah this is really exciting, watching the party shit all over itself. I wonder what will happen next.