(CNN) -- A Chicago minister who delivered a fiery sermon about Sen. Hillary Clinton having an advantage over Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential race because she is white is no longer a part of the Obama campaign. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no longer serving on the African American Religious Leadership Committee, campaign sources told CNN. In another sermon, Wright had said America had brought the September 11 attacks upon itself. Obama denounced some of Wright's sermons on Friday, telling CNN's Anderson Cooper: "These are a series of incendiary statements that I can't object to strongly enough." Earlier Friday, before the announcement of Wright's departure from the Obama camp, the Illinois senator denounced some of the ministers's sermons, calling them "inflammatory and appalling."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/14/obama.minister/index.html
2 comments:
This may end up being the story that haunts BO into the fall campaign. It represents just the type of racist and anti-American language that will cause many to reconsider their lemming-like flocking to the Illinois senator.
Not only will BO have to "renounce" these comments multiple times, but he will be forced to say what he does believe in. Kind of hard to believe BO belonged to that church for 20 years - and never heard anything like this before.
That's exactly what I was thinking. "Denouncing" these statements now, when they are in the public eye means nothing. If he truly didn't agree with this mentality, wouldn't he have denounced it long before now? Like YEARS before now?
This is very transparent, yet many Obama supporters (of all races) are completely ok with the "crazy uncle" explanation.
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