Now, I realize Obama was going around Mississippi repeating an uncorroborated Drudge Report smear against Hillary.  But I nevertheless will not consider Newsmax a reliable source, ever.

" The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. "

- That statement would not only keep the story alive but it would come back and hunt Obama.

It is just not a credible statement and when he made it he just made matters worse for himself .

Nobody is going to believe that.

I can bet you the RNC , Fox , Rush Limbaugh etc are going to try and prove that statement wrong.

I won't be shocked if that statement is proven wrong by early next week , then he would have lost all credibility.

Here is an excerpt :

Both the title of Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope, and the theme for his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 come from Wright's sermons. "If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhetoric from," says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, "just look at Jeremiah Wright."

Obama wasn't born into Wright's world. His parents were atheists, an African bureaucrat and a white grad student, Jerry Falwell's nightmare vision of secular liberals come to life. Obama could have picked any church -- the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome pomp and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black memory and history moving through Wright, and "felt for the first time how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/sto ry/13390609/campaign_08_the_radical_root s_of_barack_obama/3

Plus those statements are not the ones causing the controversy so really he is not being caught in a lie with this one. Sorry!

I watched Barack on Anderson Cooper last night, and Anderson played the clip when Wright says those hateful comments about Hillary.  Barack showed no outrage, no feeling.  He just mouthed words that you could tell he didn't mean.  20 years is a long time, as an adult, to go to a church.  He and Wright have been plotting and playing fast and loose for a long time with all of this.  At least we know that Hillary is a proud American.

Obama has challenged the news media to  place him in a pew during one of Wright's controversial sermons. I don't know if the article you link to does that.

My sense is that evidence will come out to prove that Obama was in church while Wright made some of these statements. I am not sure where the evidence will come from but I am fairly certain it exists. When it surfaces it will make Obama look very bad. VERY.

it doesn't matter, it's a red  herring. Like with Tony, it's not that we necessarily don't believe him when he denies knowing something, it's hard to believe, but that isn't the point. It's that he should know, since he's running for president with no practical qualifications on his great judgment.  That's what has brought him down, he lacks judgement.  

The United States of White America!! Scary!

Dude. This is the United States of White America. Do you not notice that white people own everything and run the damn country and have for 400 years? And we white folks have been pretty damn arrogant about it too. What's so controversial about that?

Good lord. This is getting creepily thought police-y. Geez louise.

America is a racist country run by white people. You're still allowed to say that, cuz it's true. Duh.

Fox News is recycling an interview that Hannity had with Rev. Wright in early 2007 (Feb/March time frame). In the interview, Hannity asked Wright about some of Trinity United Church of Christ's precepts. Did Hannity make a fair point? If you replace "Black" with the word "White" would it be considered racist?

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God
   
2. Commitment to the Black Community
   
3. Commitment to the Black Family
   
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
   
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
   
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
   
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
   
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
   
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
   
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
    
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
    
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.

Here are a few questions for Sen. Obama:

1. As a member of TUCC, was Obama aware of TUCC's precepts?
   
2. Does Obama think these statements are race-based? Does he think they are divisive?
   
3. Why were the precepts removed from TUCC's website in March 2007?

It's about time he came down from the mount and did some good old-fashioned truth-tellin. Thanks for un-bamboozling us, truthteller. (And now BO tells us he did not know what his pastor believed. And this is after attending this church for 20 years??!!) Hoodwinked, I tell you...hoodwinked. PLEASE folks...Hillary is the change America really needs!!!!!!!!

Obama's ridiculuous attempts to distance himself from Wright's hateful rhetoric is basically a "dog ate my homework" defense. He knows damn well that no one believes him, but he (and more importantly Axelrod) believes that the MSM will move past it (citing the sudden need to not engage in negative politics as they'd call it), and that his diehard supporters will not care.

You have to remember, "Hope and Unity" is a brand that Axelrod has trotted out before with other candidates; It's his canned candidate template. Problems arise when the brand runs into reality, and is exposed to be part of an extremist mindset of hate and division. Obama cannot claim that he is not an active and contributing member of that church. The new pastor is seen dancing and clapping wildly behind Wright during his most vile sermons. Wright's sentiments are not rantings of an old foolish uncle -- his parish and his church elders are standing trancelike yelling and clapping while he speaks. This is the dogma of a church that Obama has closely associated with for 20 years. I have yet to see an obama supporter explain the "Audacity of Hope" title, taken from one of Wright's Sermons.  Does Obama do anything original? A speech here.. a title there...

Obama's campaign and his church can pull all the Youtube videos as fast as they can, but the damage has been done.  Wright is not a "crazy uncle" as he told Jewish Voters concerned about Wright's anti-semitic tirades.  We do not choose our uncles.

The truth is we are seeing what happens when the MSM refuses to examine a candidate before hoisting him onto a pedestal.  The truth comes out eventually.  We are seeing what's inside Axelrod's latest product, and it's apparently a violation of the Truth in Advertising Act.