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Obama's preacher problem

Monday, 28th April 2008

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The last thing that Obama wants right now is Reverend Wright to be front and centre. So, Wright’s media tour with a sit down interview on PBS, a speech broadcast on CNN and a National Press Club breakfast must be causing some heart-burn in Chicago. 

Having watched the Wright interview on PBS, one gets a better idea of where he is coming from. But many of his views are still noxious. The sound-bites are also just awful, take today’s latest:

You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you. Those are biblical principles, not Jeremiah Wright bombastic divisive principles.
The problem for Obama is this is someone whose church he attended for two decades, who married him, baptised his children and prayed with him the morning he announced his run for the presidency. Obama can not simply denounce him, nor can he effectively distance himself from him.


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Ian C

April 29th, 2008 4:06pm

Heartburn? This is curtains for Obama, even if he is selected.

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