If it was good enough for Romney to answer for his faith, so should Barack.

But, but, but he has more and better excuses tonight than he had this afternoon. I cracked up watching his covey of clowns try to defend him. If brains were dynamite the entire crowd of Hussein supporters wouldn't have enough to make a flea sneeze.

So far, I've seen folks bring this up as a judgement issue.

Not a leadership one.

If Sen. Obama is such a great hope for the future, why could he not have dealt with this more effectively? Told the guy to tone it down? Stop funding him?

Do we really want a leader who can not say to his friend and mentor "Cut it out, I'm running for office" or "Yeesh, put the quietus on the loony stuff"?

Seems like just another mouse with a megaphone.

Scrapiron,

You have to say they wouldn't have enough powder to make a flea sneeze. It loses something if you only use one term.

The biggest problem with Obama is that he constantly sticks his foot in his mouth and somehow expects a "do-over" with a willing media obliging.

Sorry Barack, but in the real world, you don't get as many second chances as you do.

You watch Her Highness, and you watch Obama...

And these are supposed to be the BEST the Democratic Party has to offer?

Move the Whigs over - we're gonna need room for the Democratic Party before this year is over.

This is a good summary of Obama 's Clintonequese response (he was caught in some untruth already)

Dems should hope and pray that Hillary gets the nod. Obama's performance tonight was more than worrisome.

This guy is not ready for Prime Time. His interview on FOX reeked of desperation. That deer in the headlights look, frankly, made Dan Quayle look presidential. Scary. He was getting softballs, not the sort of high inside killers that a Lloyd Benson type would pitch (and the GOP has plenty of those types lined up).

Toast, toast, toast.

I thought Major G. did a great job leading him slowly and kindly down the path to obscurity.

I learned from that flap that Barack Obama understands how to address smears and attacks effectively, intelligently, decisively, AND remain dignified the whole time. I see a good, Christian, man in Barack Obama who will work hard as President of the United States of America.

"Does Obama share Wright's views that America created the AIDS virus for the purpose of killing off certain minority groups? Does he believe America deserved the attacks on 9/11?"

I have a feeling a number of the Sunday political shows won't be as bashful as they have been in the past. It will be interesting to see if he avoids Tim Russert. While Tim is a liberal, he likes to get his digs in.

Sunday morning will be high drama. This isn't over.

I learned from that flap that Barack Obama can handle smears and attacks effectively, intelligently, decisively AND remain dignified the entire time.

I see a good, Christian, man: Barack Obama.

"When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments."

That can't be true, or Wright wouldn't have been an adviser until this week.

I agree with so many people I speak to. Obama tries to explain things that just don't make sense and raises some serious issues. He can't continue and think he's going to get into the Presidency and make his past lily white. You can fool some people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time. He needs to tell the truth, including the truth about his past relationships, and not just say what everyone wants to hear.

Maybe we were not watching the same TV program. I watched Obama in Hannity & Colmes. He was stilted, stuttered and looked truly uncomfortable. It made me sad to watch him. We have been baising our faith on a man that preaches faith and change, yet his pastor AND advisor preaches bigotry and hate against the nation and white people. This is not preaching change. This is preaching separation and guilt by color. I have been stupid. I regret voting for Obama. I can not call myself an American and support Obama. Nor am I his enemy because I am white. I am sad and hurt. Really hurting.

i feel so sorrry for america if this is what obama will use for spirtual guidance if he becomes president
god help america!!!

But if we are going to make Obama Reject religious supporters and advisors lets hold Mc Cain to the same standard

Mc Cain got the support of the Falwells. Let's Recall

Jerry Falwell said God may have allowed what the nation deserved because of moral decay and said Americans should have an attitude of repentance before God and asking for God's protection. He specifically listed the ACLU, abortionists, feminists, gays, and the People For the American way as sharing in the blame. Pat Robertson responded with agreement

SO TELL ME WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REV WRIGHTS SAYING 9/11 WAS TO BLAME FOR OUR FOREIGN POLICY AND FALWELL ON OUR DOMESTIC POLICY??? ARE YOU SCARED OF ANY WHITES THAT GO TO FALWELL'S CHURCH LISTEN TO HIS SERMONS?? COME ON PEOPLE!!!!

McCain Reconnects With Liberty University
Senator May Have an Eye Toward 2008 as He Reaches Out to Religious Conservatives

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 14, 2006; Page A04

ALSO:

"McCain spiritual adviser: 'Allah was a demon spirit.'"
Excerpting from Parsley's 2005 book, Silent No More:

In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.

Parsley has also called Allah a "demon spirit" and said that explorer Christopher Columbus's dream was to "defeat Islam

I keep reading people here are scared about OBAMA now tell me that there is equitable evidence of supporters of Mc Cain being out in left field are you SCARED OF MC CAIN????

I mean are you scared of the religion and ethic background of the men that bomb OKC? NO
SO DONT BE SCARED OF THOSE WHO LOOK LIKE THE ONES THAT ATTACK US ON 9/11

Isaiah 54:4-5 says, "Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood. For your Maker is your husband - the LORD Almighty is his name - the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth

RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!
CAN BE HE BROUGHT UP ON HATE CHARGES??

LOVE IT......DO I HEAR THE AIR COMING OUT OF OBAMAS CAMPAIGN??
thank god!!
go hill!

lol now i know who writes obama's speeches!!!!

Whenever Barack Obama is interviewed about the crazy pastor's rantings, it is worth noting that Barack always says "I never heard (these things) when I was sitting in the pew."

Come on -- are we to believe the pastor only talks crazy from the podium? If Barack has known the man 20 years, it's reasonable to assume he would have heard the looney guy saying all the same things in other settings.

What a great country...if you are a minority, it's ok to be racist!!!!!

lol i smell burnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn for obama
campaign going down faster then lewisnky did!!

Look at CNN's bias! This story isn't even mentioned on their main page, but it is NUMBER TWO in their top stories list. Is CNN so worried that american people will see Obama's for who he really is?

Media still playing favorites.Obama was not raked through the coals as Hillary was.He has not apologized to the White population as Hillary had to apologize to the Black population for Ferraro's remarks. Mind you Ferraro's remarks did not blame an entire race,whereas Pastor Wright's sermon did.Also, a man who went to tony schools,and lives in a mansion is not considered underpriviliged.Additionally,Obama had a father,a mother,a stepfather,a halfsister,and he was ultimately raised by his maternal grandparents.I do not consider this to be a single parent household.

I don't think that all the things the pastor said were wrong. Actually alot of it is true.
America has done alot of wrong in the world and does not own up to it. I'm sorry for Barack, but I expected he would be done in somehow from the race. And I don't understand how America expects an entire race that was enslaved, tortured and abused for hundreds of years to feel patriotic about this country!

ladies and gentleman....the president of the united states of america.....hillary clinton!
thanks obama!

This stuff, which is only made worse by lame denial - the church isn't one Obama was raised in, he CHOSE it, and BECAUSE of Wright, and even quotes some of Wright's anti-white rhetoric in the account of his joining the church he put in his book - combined with the news that Obama has misrepresented the extent both of his relationship with Tony Rezko and the amounts Rezko raised for his campaigns, will spell the end of the Obama Crusade.

Not ready for prime time . . .

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mary ~

And I don't understand how America expects an entire race that was enslaved, tortured and abused for hundreds of years to feel patriotic about this country!

Well, Rev. Wright and the Obamas seem to have done well enough for themselves.

Let's get mature, especially intellectually. Rev. wright expressed his opinions, which most of us, including senator Obama, do not approve of. Come on! Was Senator Hillary responsible for Ferraro Geraldine's opinion about senator Obama? Similarly, was senator Obama responsible for Samantha Power's opinion about senator Hillary? Why then should senator Obama be held responsible for Rev. Wright's opinion about either Senator Hillary or the American political system? Who, among us, goes to church in order to do whatever thing(s), either moral or immoral, that the pastor or priest does? If people ought to be judged according to the behaviour of their leaders, then let's start the judgement process:
First, all democrats are adulterous, because their leader Bill Clinton is an adulterous.
Second, all residents of New York state, including Hillary, are adulterous, because their governor Spitzer has just proved to be one. Third, all republicans are liars, because their leader George Bush lied that Saddam Hussein had the weapons of mass destruction. Fourth, insofar a country's government represents the country's inhabitants to the international arenas, should it be charged that all Americans are aggressive, simply because their successive governments have always preferred the military approach to alternatives? Fifth, etc...
What does senator Obama have to do with Rev. Wright's opinion? If a biological parent cannot be held responsible for his/her mature child's behaviour, how illogical, grotesque, and biased it is to attempt holding senator Obama responsible for Rev. Wright's opinion? Not only is the enemy No. 1 of the United States, Mr. Osama bin Laden, from Saudi Arabia, but also he is from that country's royal family. Why have the American government not yet halted their diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia? Isn't that the Saudi Arabia's prince was received with all due honour in the United States after September 11? Do you still need to be told why? The answer lays in the fact that, in a democratic world, nobody is responsible for anybody else's acts, unless that somebody else is a dependent of that somebody. This begs the question as to whether Rev. Wright is Mr. Obama's dependent. In short, Rev. Wright's comments may seem racist, but attempting to hold senator Obama responsible for them is even more racist.

Senator Obama is running for president to fright for the African American people. That is good but not if the fight becomes against the rest of us. Everyone should
READ HIS SPEECH
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/obamas_selma_speech_text_as_de.html

its over for obama
he can't shake this one!
no present like he did in the senate!
go hill!!

I have listened to CNN repeat the same comments of Rev. Wright over and over again. Although I don't agree with the stage and audience of his presentation and am quite sure that Obama doesn't agree or relate to the comments because he hasn't had the background of which the statements are related, the facts of the matter are true!

White America seems to have a guilt factor trying to down play what they know is the truth! RACISM HAS EXITED AND STILL EXISTS IN AMERICA. Those of you who are writing that the "air coming out" or "Racist" are evidence. The new generation has moved on but many still remain in the same state of mind.

Most of what I have seen during this campaign on the media's part and the Clinton's are racially motivated. She isn't winning with the untruths (35 years of experience) therefore, she has to "fight" by any means necessary with the HELP of the media. Let's get real. A 60 year old person has 35 years of relevant experience. That means that she started her experience for the Presidency at 25 years old. Doing What? Being a lawyer (8), governor's first lady (8), being the first lady of the President (8), Senator (7), children defense fund (-1), taking the bar exam and failing (1)? What?

Obama is winning without being negative, and some in white america cannot stand it. Many white american have moved beyond race. Obama, because of his upbringing, simply knows very little about racism as Rev. Wright talks about.

He 'doesn't' fit the mold that most of white america has put blacks into. The fact that he attends a church where the minister's views do not line up to white america is NO reason to penalize Obama. White America does not want to confront the evils inflicted on generations of blacks which does continue today.

Those of you who are spending so much time discussing this matter, ask yourself why? Are you racially motivated? Are you somehow afraid that this country is or has changed from race to economics? Are you trying to wake up the Whites who are not allowing race to cloud their minds?

There have been many whites, both ministers and citizens alike, that have openly been racial and during my 56 years I have never heard as much about it from the television news media as I have now.

YOU ARE PROMOTING RACISM -- NOT EXPLORING ISSUES. ASK YOURSELF IF BEING BLACK HAS BEEN AN ADVANTAGE IN AMERICA AND WOULD YOU WANT TO TRADE PLACES WITH A BLACK MAN IN AMERICA.

LET IT GO!!!AMERICA WILL BE BETTER FOR IT!

I told people for months that I did not trust this man (obama). He just gets caught in so many lies. Go back and watch the debates and you see what I'm talking about. He would repeat whatever Hillary said. Hillary was the one who always had to answer the questions first. The news media was afraid that he would mess it up. Everybody says ummm when they talk. Go back and look how many times he says ummmm during the debates. He is pathetic to think he is going to be President. There is so many bad things about him: Resko, Wright is not right,lies about Hillary (he said Hillary voted yes for Iraq but he does not include the fact she was mislead and not informed about Iraq. Now we know Saddam Hussein was not tied to Bin Laden. America wake up!!!!Hillary 08
Now we know who our nominee is. Yessssssssss!!!!

its over for obama!!!!
when you have this nutcase for a preacher and spirtual guidance ....and now distance yourself from him after knowing him for 20 years and calling him an uncle.....what does that say for obama?
he knew all along as any family memember would know about their uncles beliefs and ideas
ya excatly.....
but finally it starts to show obamas life instead of just the video clips of "change,change,change"
and when a pastor says "GOD DAM AMERICA"
he can always leave...but i notice he stays in america cause he and obama have a good life here.....
itsnot about race...but what you believe in
and now this shows what obama believes in!!

This attack against Obama is SO ricidulous! First he was tied to being a Muslim, now he is tied to his church that according to society promotes hatred for white America.

Is he responsible for his father being who he is? Is he responsible for what is Pastors says?

Many of you who are non-black need to visit a black church on any given Sunday and here how the Pastor refer to white America not in touch with the struggles of the black community.

My church refers to how homsexuality is evil and those who engage are eternally damned..though I'm not gay, I support gay rights despite my church. But according to society and the treatment of Ba