Here is what Obama says about his mentor/pastor when not under the political gun

[jackson_dem]

Run time: 00:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_122s82Cco   Posted on YouTube: March 16, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 17, 2008 By DU Member: jackson_dem Views on DU: 2905

 
"Great leader"? :puke:

[BeatleBoot]

1. This thing was over before it began

Some just don't recognize it yet.

Devastating video.

Devastating.

[Hissyspit]

7. Oh, please...

He LIKES his pastor. Shocking!

He never said he didn't.

[rodeodance]

23. yeah--too bad BO still is stuck to him.

[AmericanUnity]

27. In his own words

Obama has repudiated the comments by Rev. Wright. He said this week that if he'd heard that kind of talk while he was there he'd have left the church.

[ryanmuegge]

34. This stuff is going to be his Willie Horton and lock it up for McCain.

The media is going to use this race-baiting story to paint Obama as an anti-Semite Muslim (yes, I know it's a Christian church, but the truth doesn't matter to the tabloid media) and scare the shit out of White people. You watch.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Not one word about "Uncle".

[Pharaoh]

3. You know

Most of the things his pastor said about the corruption in our nation are quite true. What exactly is it that people find so offensive?

[myhawgoff]

39. What exactly is it that people find so offensive?

What exactly is it that people find so offensive?

Well for starters how about white scientists created the HIV virus to commit genocide against the black race?

Look if folks really believe this stuff they might as well not even vote at all. If the Man can do all the things that the Rev. has accused them of, rigging an election would be child's play.

[Pharaoh]

43. And Gays caused 911

and Katrina...............Lol

Friggin preachers say nutty shit all the time!

[Rageneau]

4. So what? Everybody already knows everything 'revealed' in this video.

[Saturday]

5. That must have been before he threw him under the bus. nt

[Mags]

6. Will the real BO please stand up.

[rodeodance]

21. so confusing--with so many BO's walking around

[indimuse]

28. please stand up

please stand up.. will the real eminem ;0)

[rodeodance]

18. nah--BO just said some of his words were nasty (and he was not in the pew)

[Digit]

8. Whoa

and Whoops!

Very telling.

[theredpen]

9. Yes. Great leader

I know that those negros are awfully scary when they're uppity, but every now any then one of them gets the crazy idea that they should stand up for themselves. Oh what to do...
:sarcasm:

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[theredpen]

11. I suggest you add a "sarcasm" tag to posts like these

Considering the misunderstandings that are going around.

[rodeodance]

20. Your post is crude at best.

[rusty quoin]

12. I don't get what you mean? Obama is a politician and if he said this,

it would be held against him. If he said that...you vomit. I have no problem with what his pastor said, but Obama had to go on t.v. and reply to what with he disagrees. Can't you think of a better reason to vomit?

[rodeodance]

16. vomit away~~~~~~

[jackson_dem]

19. He "disagreed" with his "great leader" for two decades

Oh wait. He only did so when forced to do so politically. Do you think Wright won't be a regular visitor to the White House if Obama wins? Wright himself said, a year ago (Obama lies and says he didn't know Wright was "controversial" then), that Obama may distance himself from him if he made it to the general election. Notice he didn't say Obama would distance himself from him forever...

[malik flavors]

24. Dude, he has openly stated that Wright sometimes made controversial statements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk3Rra3CgMA

1 minute 41 seconds

[shayes51]

31. exactly

[ksquire]

42. so we might have a black man in the white house? oh shit.

if it turns out that Obama has black children, we're screwed.

[Hutzpa]

13. Why don't you try

answering these questions for Hillary;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5114957&mesg_id=5114957

[rodeodance]

14. go ahead. make up something. I am sure you folks will anyway

[rodeodance]

15. OFF to the GREATEST

[izzybeans]

17. ,

:rofl:

[singilarpoint]

22. Confused

I saw a blurry video of Sen. Obama giving a shout out..
What am I supposed to be seeing here? There is no there there.
But I will SAY that this an example of how desperate some people have become to
try to get something ANYTHING to stick to Obama. But take this warning. We are only beginning to see the vile garbage that these "people" are going to keep flinging at Obama. They will NOT stop until
McCain is swearing in to the White House....
1. Lied about his religion.
2. Tried to scare people with his last name.
3. Stupid photos of him in African garb.
4. Lied about the Canada/NAFTA garbage.
5. Now they are trying the guilt by association shtick with his pastor.
These people care nothing of the country, or even themselves, power is the ONLY thing that they have on their minds. And they have no shame in that at all!!!!

[TML]

25. Give it up

If you're trying to be a troll around here, you're not that good at it.

[Quixote1818]

26. This one will nail Obama even worse!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJPwhQtkNQ

[pedo]

29. OMG!

YOU MEAN OBAMA ONCE STATED THAT HIS PASTOR FOR 20 YEARS WAS A FRIEND AND A GREAT LEADER??? HOLY CRAP THIS IS SHOCKING! HIS CAMPAIGN IS OVER! HE SHOULD JUST QUIT NOW!!!!!LSKJFLKLASKDJFL;SKJF HILLARY (OR JOHN MCCAIN) FOR PREZZZZZ

/sarcasm

seriously though, there is more anti-obama AND anti-clinton crap here on DU than there is on the right wing sites. its really sad.

[shayes51]

30. "Where is he AT?"

I hate it when politicians talk down to their crowds. I bet that kind of grammar is not used in his own home.

[Quantess]

46. I know! If he were speaking Black Vernacular,

he would have said "Where he at?"

However if he were G.W. Bush, he would have impressed us with scholarly erudition. :eyes:

And, I'm sorry, I haven't listened to McCain, but is he all that articulate, through all his crazy talk?

Hillary Clinton is a great speaker, but so is Barack Obama.

[FreeStateofWinston]

32. OLD NEWS

If you Hillary supporters want to continue to throw up these kinds of smoke screens to keep the campaign off of the real issues, at least come up with some new material to keep things from getting boring. The sad truth of the matter is that no matter what you guys throw against the wall to see if it will stick against Obama, in the end he will still wind up with the most pledged delegates and popular votes. So your only hope is that the Clinton's will be successful with some shady back room deals in order to sway the remaining uncommitted super delegates. The better course of action going forward in order to help unite our party and bring about real CHANGE in this country would be to talk about where your candidate stands on the issues versus their opponents. After all that is what a campaign is supposed to really be about anyway. The mud throwing serves no purpose, other than to further divide the democratic party and the country!!! Please consider taking the high road from here forward and leave the swift boating and gutter politics to the Republicans.
:patriot:

[lefty from jersey]

36. Toast

My wife and I saw this and other video of Obama and the repulsive Dr. Wright over the past few days. We will not support Obama. I spent Saturday afternoon removing the Obama bumper stickers from our cars and the sign from our front lawn. There is NO excuse or explanation to associate with the likes of Dr. Wright. Dr. Wright is not a supporter of Obama, rather Obama is a supporter of the hate speech of Dr. Wright. Case closed for me and my family.

Bring on a brokered convention and Hillary and Obama need to be put out to pasture. This country is faced with enormous problems as well as opportunity and these two mental midgets are arguing over nothing of importance. Shameful, shameful...

[FreeStateofWinston]

40. Sorry to hear you feel that way.

I believe that Mr.Obama has made it crystal clear that he does not agree with the most recently highly publicized comments that his former minister is responsible for making. I personally have never heard anything close to resembling these type of remarks coming from Barack. That is not what he is about at all. As I have said in the past, we would all be in trouble if people were to always judge us by the words and actions of our friends, relatives and associates. I always try to judge others by their own words and actions, and hope that they would judge me in the same manner. The fact that you have decided to throw Mr. Obama under the bus due words spoken by his former minister, even after he has publicly condemned them on just about every national media outlet available, tells me that Barack never truly had your full support in the first place. Otherwise you would give him the benefit of the doubt and take him at his word. I would finish by quoting the great Coach Paul Bear Bryant, "Push, pull, or get off the wagon!!! Looks like you have chosen to do the latter. But regardless the OBAMA movement will move onward and upward. May God Bless you and your family, and may the best candidate win!!!
:patriot:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

33. Barack "Sybil" Obama

[haymakeragain]

35. Weak-assed attempt, as per usual.

Wright has said a lot of things in the last 20 years, how many are you whining about?

[dbonds]

37. Dead horse. Stop beating it.

[Dookiestix]

38. Who cares?

Every political candidate has aligned themselves with individuals who at one point or another have said things that will embarrass them in the political arena, especially during this primary season and general election cycle. Obama has distanced himself from some of the pastor's comments, while at the same time recognizing his long relationship he's had with both him and his church.

No doubt this video will show up on Fox Noise and other anti-Obama networks in the hopes of smearing him because they fear him more than Hillary in the general election. Based on this rational, Obama would seem to have the best chance of beating McCain in the Fall.

A vote for Hillary is really a vote for McCain. Why do y'all think Republicans are voting for her in the open primaries? This pastor uproar PALES in comparison to the many skeleton's in Clinton's closet which Republicans will undoubtedly exploit to it's fullest political advantage.

[bow-tie]

41. Obama-Hillary

I stood up for Hillary a year ago on this forum because I thought she was being treated unfair and I didn't like the dems on dems thing that was going on. Since the campaign I've come to learn how wrong I was to support Hillary. This was even before Obama was in the picture.
Hillary has shown me her mettle in this campaign, and I don't like it. And I was so, so wrong about her.
The timing was terrible about the Wright statements, but this nation has done some hideous things, to be "owning" the "high" ground of "morality".
My vote will be for Obama. Experience means nothing, if ever there was an OJT job, parenting and the presidency would be at the top.

[juajen]

44. When you were here before "standing up for Hillary" what

was your user name? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Swede]

45. Remember those good old days way back on March 16,2008.

It seems just like earlier this week.