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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
“No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching.”
Rev. Otis Moss, Trinity United Church of Christ, March 23, 2008
“The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago,” he said. “His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately the perspective of the black church.”
“They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs,” he said.
“If Reverend Wright thinks that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well and based on his remarks yesterday, I may not know him as well as I thought either.”
“I gave him the benefit of the doubt in my speech in Philadelphia, explaining that he has done enormous good in the church,” he said. “But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS; when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century; when he equates the U.S. wartime efforts with terrorism – then there are no excuses. They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. And they should be denounced, and that’s what I’m doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.”
Barack Obama, Winston-Salem, NC, April 29, 2008
Ace pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter, if in language a bit more colorful than I typically use.
Too little, too dishonest, and too late. Obama cuts into Wright for being precisely the man he has been for the past 20 years.
Wright has been consistent, and Obama has proven to be precisely what everyone feared — just another cheap empty suit, willing to say or do anything according to the requirements of the polls.
Far from being the Messiah, he makes for even a shoddy secondhand Brian.