was sighing when he said of Obama and Wright 'it's his Iraq'

the last thing poor Obama needed was more verbiage vomiting forth from Rev. Wright's mouth.  When it rains, it pours.

TD, do you ever stop spinning?  Matthews has repeatedly said Hillary is winning the "regular Americans" as opposed to "college graduates and African-Americans" (who are, apparently, irregular Americans) and was also the one who hammered the Obama surrogate while not asking the Clinton surrogate a single question.  He has one love, and its not Obama---or Hillary---its John McCain, about whom he noted, "We in the press love McCain...we're his base."  

I also find it funny that Hillary supporters stop finding Matthews horrible as soon as he slams Obama.  I find him horrible all the time.

Who is he mad at? Wright for saying that Obama is a politician? Or Wright for appearing on the television and embarrassing Obama?

I fail to see the controversy in this interview other than the fact that Wright is on TV.

He said he doesn't talk politics with Obama and that Obama has never said he agrees with Wright on his politics. When he said, "He's a politician and he does what politicians have to do," he was clearly referencing the fact that the short, incendiary snippets were played over and over again and that Obama - politically - HAD to say something in response. If Obama didn't do that, he wouldn't be a very good politician. But Wright was asked if all this bothered him and he just dusted it off to the reality of politics.

Nowhere does he suggest - as some seem to imply - that Obama actually agreed with Wright's views but that Obama was lying in his speech.

So what is Matthews so upset about?

51,561st diary here on Rev Wright.......

Obama's best long term road to the white house is to lose in the primary.

He can't win without the crossover Reagan Democrats and they love Hillary this cycle.

As this becomes clear expect a series of unfortunate events that seem to hurt Obama.

Followed by Obama and Hillary making up.

Followed by Clinton/Obama 2008

Followed by MASSIVE positive talk about Obama from Hillary selling him from 2008 to 2016.

Politics isn't always a zero sum game.

I stop watching MSNBC Hardball ever since Chris Matthews started kissing Obama's behind as if he is already the President; and I am surprised at his comments about Hillary.

Hmnn, I still don't trust him.

How many diaries do we need about Wright?

leave it to texas darlin to bring up wright again, despite his sometimes outrageous claims, wrights central message is pretty much dead on: america isnt as great as it claims to be

Did you hear Obama's response and comments? I can't believe what he said...oh wait, Obama didn't say anything. Maybe this is really Wright's Bosnia.

- Clinton lies about bullets flying over her head in Bosnia.

- Clinton breaks a pledge about MI & FL kinda like Bush broke his pledge to protect the Constitution.

These are direct lies.

Wright says ten words in three-2 hour sermons. Guilt by association. People are getting smaller about these things.

As for the race:

- Clinton could have won some of those caucuses if she worked for it.

- Clinton could have won some of the smaller state primaries, if she took them seriously.

- Clinton spent so much of her money early on and ruined her financial position.

You are working so hard to hate Obama for no real reason. You are falling for the Republican plan to break us up. Why are you letting this happening to us? This is the most important race in our lifetime.

What is with the obsession about Wright on this site?

Amazing.  It's almost like the Rev is daring Obama to have to cut all ties with him now.  He just embarrassed B O, claiming he says what he has to say, while Obama is still protecting his relationship.  

The Rev knows he helped shape Obama's speaking/preaching skills and his words have been used by Obama.  Is he saying "I made you" I dare you to talk against me.???

I continue to say that Rev. Wright is a good man.  Nearly the entire religious and theological community is standing by him, because they knew him before the media "30 secondfied" him.

Stop this crap! Does anybody have reading comprehension skills. Did anybody listen to the remarks before the "does what a politician has to do" line?

Let me lay it out for you.

1. Moyers asked Wright what he thought of the whole affair.

2. Wright said it was unfair because they played little snippets over and over again. And they were out of context and made Wright look like an un-American lunatic.
   
3. Moyers asked Wright if the Philly speech bothered him.
   
4. Wright said that the snippets played over and over and out of context obviously created a political problem for Obama so he had to say something about. Since Obama is a politician he - like any good politician - was forced to say something publicly to denounce the comments, even though he knew they were taken out of context. This was the "he's a politician and he has to do what politicians do" line.
   
5. Moyers asked if he ever talked politics with Obama and if Obama ever echoed Wright's political views over the years.
   
6. Wright emphatically say, "No." They never discussed politics. Obama is a politician and Wright is a pastor. That is their relationship.

See? That isn't very hard, is it?

But the MyGOP concern trolls are trying to make it seem as if Obama really did believe all the political things Wright said and that "being a politician" meant lying about it.  But that isn't what Wright said.

Fine but imho Wright should keep a low profile and stay off th air.  His just doing an interview like this is not helpful.

daivd

or leg sensations or whatever. Unlike Obama.

Maybe Wright should have his own show with a panel of pundits who can analyze every scratch, belch, and fart.

Maybe it could be a reality show, like Big Brother. Jerome and Alegre could be his roommates. Parris Hilton could host.

Te worst thing that can happen for Hillary and McCain is for the public to get sick of Reverend Wright and see him as a buffoon, because Obama can just say "Yep, he's a bit silly all right."

I always thought it was a shame that Obama had to renounced Wright's remarks.  If you watch the whole Wright video, you understand that they are not what the media is making them out to be, and that Obama knows that, as well.  

It was quite a sermon, and his remarks in context require no renouncement.  But if all people listen to are soundbites - most of the tv-viewing public - there was almost no choice for Obama but to renounce the remarks, because the soundbites to follow would be that "he agreed with those hateful remarks; he hates America."  That's what Wright was getting at in this latest interview - he's a politician, he had to say what he said regardless of what he really believed because that's how politics works.