Obama's Statement at Huffington Post
Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:58:32 pm PDT
Barack Obama chose the radical hub of left-wing hatred on the web to post a response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy: Barack Obama: On My Faith and My Church - Politics on The Huffington Post.
He denies ever having heard Wright say anything outrageous. Excuse me while I guffaw. He also denies that Wright was his “political mentor,” even though he has previously said he consulted with Wright before deciding to run for President.
UPDATE at 3/14/08 5:13:58 pm:
Obama is, quite simply, lying when he says he never heard Wright say these kinds of things. From the New York Times:
In Monday’s interview, Mr. Wright expressed disappointment but no surprise that Mr. Obama might try to play down their connection.
“When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Wright recalled, “with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.” Mr. Wright added that his trip implied no endorsement of either Louis Farrakhan’s views or Qaddafi’s.
Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”
