So - do you think Olbermann will do a special comment about Rev Wright

[jillan]

playing the race card?

I want to make sure you all have seen this -
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Wrights_committee.html

[DURHAM D]

1. No.

Unless he can figure out a way to blame Hillary for Rev. Wright's sermons.

[jillan]

3. We have a DUer doing that right now - or should I say

Wright now? okay ---- I know --- that was bad :)

[rodeodance]

17. many obama folk are doing that right now. damm!!

[saracat]

2. Absolutely not.He never to my knowledge apologized for being wrong about his Canada story.

All Obama, all the time but this is gonna hurt .

[jillan]

4. This one is going to hurt.

You know - the reason I never liked Obama was because he reminds me of a preacher.
The way he talks, it drives me nuts. When I watch his campaign events on c-span, I walk around the the house saying "hallelujah".

Now I know where it's coming from.

As one of my favorite Bidenites called him - Popebama.

[judaspriestess]

5. not a snowballs chance in hell

n-e-v-e-r

[Qanisqineq]

6. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA

Ha-ha-ha-ha! The Obama supporters seem to think that Wright is BRILLIANT so of course not.

[maddiejoan]

7. I've already heard

Bamabots refer to Wright as another MLK and Langston Hughes.

[Qanisqineq]

8. oh you're kidding

I could be wrong as I wasn't alive back then, but I don't recall MLK calling white people his enemies and using such hateful rhetoric.

Wright fits right in with Obama's campaign of "unity" and "hope". :eyes:

[maddiejoan]

9. I mean here

tonight on DU.

Obama supporters saying Wright is just like MLK and Langston Hughes --I had to take a shower after I read that

[Qanisqineq]

10. sorry if I was vague

I know what you meant. Sometimes in my attempts at writing short posts, I lose what I was really trying to say! I'm just a lazy typer (typist?). :silly:

Was this in the Wright Fan Club thread? If not, have you read that thread?

[maddiejoan]

11. There have been several puff theads on Wright

Hard to keep track.

I don't even have a particular problem with Wright's comments --accept that I don't think it appropriate for a preacher to sermonize about a political candidate in support.
I do wonder at how Obama could listen to this man for 20 years without fundamentally agreeing with him.

I had a Rabbi once who was that divisive --and I quit that temple after a month.

[Qanisqineq]

12. there probably have been a number of them

I stay out of GDP unless a link is posted here or elsewhere. I'm too chicken to go in there.

I would agree with some of Wright's comments but I really think he goes overboard. I don't like the use of the word "enemy" at all. Especially in a sermon. I guess the church I was raised in was so completely different that such hateful sounding speech seems very wrong to me. I was raised Evangelical Lutheran, which is nothing like "the evangelicals". Sermons consisted of Norwegian jokes (because most of us were at least part Norwegian) and feel good stories and lots of laughs. If it was the fall, church let out early so everyone could get home to watch the Minnesota Vikings.

My church was very "live and let live." It's in a small town in ND and if someone died and didn't belong to a church or if Catholic was marrying a non-Catholic (for example), our church would do the funeral or the wedding or whatever. As my mom says of her church, "It doesn't matter if you are Presbyterian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, or pagan. We'll bury you." LOL! That sounds rather morbid.

[Catchawave]

13. If Keith is truly fair and balanced, he will.

MSNBC's been talking about it all morning, and nobody's defending Wright.

[durrrty libby]

14. I sent several emails to him and MSNBC with links challanging him

to do it

[elixir]

16. DL, what's his email address?

[durrrty libby]

19. [e-mail]

[elixir]

15. I just emailed MSNBC about this (since I couldn't find KOs email address)

Maybe if we all push for it, he'll do it.

[rodeodance]

18. "The Obama campaign couldn't immediately say whether he'd remain on the committee."

i knew he was on the committee---telling the the o. camp would not respond one way or another.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=334&topic_id=6730&mesg_id=6858

March 13, 2008





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Wright's committee

Jeremiah Wright, in the news today because video of a sermon (parts of which had been reported, and disavowed, before) adds some heat to the discussion of his relationship with Obama, has generally been described as connected to Obama only informally — a religious figure with whom Obama has said he disagrees at times, a kind of cranky uncle.

But he also has a formal role on the campaign.

Wright is a member of Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee — the sort of largely honorary, advisory body that in recent days has recently been used mostly to throw people off who say controversial things.

The Obama campaign couldn't immediately say whether he'd remain on the committee.