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Barack Obama Has Had Enough Jeremiads


Back in March when he delivered his speech on race, Barack Obama had this to say about his controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright: "He contains within him the contradictions—the good and the bad—of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother..."

But, you know, business is business, and after yesterday's National Press Club nightmare you do what you have to do. Expect plenty of jokes about how first Obama threw his grandmother under a bus and now he's throwing his pastor under a bus. But, as we saw in the Samantha Power incident, once you're hurting the campaign, you're out. Who might Obama disown next? It's too soon to tell. But watch your back, black community: he's all out of pastors and grandmas.

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I realize the pressure to post with attitude is sometimes irresistible, but you really should resist this one; you seem to be on the side of a crazy racist preacher.

You'd rather he keep people around who are hurting his campaign?

Posted by: nogoatee on April 29, 2008 6:28 PM

Why shouldn't he disown him? What are you trying to say? That Obama shouldn't disown someone who is spraying hate speach all over the place? How could he NOT disown this nut?! More importantly how could YOU attack him for disowning the pastor! Do you support what Pastor Wright was saying? Its easy to go on the attack, how about you try defending your point!

Posted by: Lee Harvey on April 29, 2008 7:07 PM

well America, you COULD have had your first black (actually half-black, i.e., mulatto) president, had this guy changed his name to Brock O'bama and went to your basic Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or Catholic or Jewish or Mormon church.

Posted by: jerrymullins on June 15, 2008 3:36 AM

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