I am deeply offended by MSNBC's coverage of Obama's minister.  When does MSNBC plan to cover in detail Clinton and McCain's churches and ministers?  Since when is there a religious litmus test for President? Have you read the First Amendment lately?  As far as I'm concerned your coverage of Obama's minister is meant to drum up fear and prejudice of the worst kind.

Is Obama trying to say that he has known this man for 20+ years, this guy was an inspiration to him, his spiritual mentor, but he has no clue on the guys views?

Or is Obama just saying it isn't important.

Why is hate speech against a racial group by the church, and close associate of a presidential candidate not important?  When is such a thing important.

As an African American, who by the way is married to a White American and proud of it.  Those were in no way racist statements.  I understand that they have been interpreted by white americans as being racist and anti-american, but if you had gone through what black americans have gone through, you would understand the real message.  We have been enslaved, lynched, discriminated against, and it is not due to any fault of ours, but due to the choices of the people who have been running this country, who happen to be rich white people.  I completely understand his message, but I am nowhere near being a racist.  I guess this is a black thing.  We do not hate white people, we just want to be thought of as equals.  And in order to reach that goal, we have to understand how, why, and where the problem began.  We, black people have a hidden feeling of inferiorty, whether we want to admit to it or not, because of our experiences in this country.  Mr. Wright was simply trying to uplift his congregation by telling them that the way they feel or think is not because they are inferior, but because of the mistreatments that they have endured.  We know that most white americans don't feel this way anymore, but we are continuing to suffer from the effects of it and we have been unknowingly passing that on to our children.  Please try and understand.

Of course he wasn't present at those two sermons, he only went to the hope and change ones.

I find it a tad disturbing that this man is anyone's advisor, spiritual or otherwise, let alone the spiritual advisor to one of the potential democratic nominees for president.

The People deserve better!

Although everything I’m hearing out of Pastor Wright’s mouth is true about America and Senator Clinton, I don’t believe we need to focus on the controversies of any the candidates’ supporters.  Forget about Geraldine Ferraro, Pastor Wright, Reverend Hagge, and the media’s yellow, salacious coverage. At the end of the day, this campaign is about the issues and the candidates’ stands on the issues. The People deserve better!

Once the media stops focusing on all the boogie men and women out there and start asking the right questions, the People will be better served. This election is about the economy, the Constitution, the war, the characters of the candidates, and change.  Mostly, it’s about which of these candidates can deliver. Once we have two candidates discussing these issues, the People will choose Barack Obama!

Barack Obama's pastor's saying that the U.S. invited the September 11 attacks....Ron Paul said the same thing and got large applause for having the courage to speak the truth. Oh that's right he's white.
Take a look again at George W's eyes when he's in that elementary scool class and gets told about the towers. He wasn't surprised.
God Bless us all, the truth will set us free.

Obama punks the voters again.I will do what I please and all of you be damned.No apologies needed.

It does not matter if he steps down or not.  The Obama fad is over.  He is done.  Over, finished.  He should drop out now while he still has some dignity(some).  He and his wife can go back to church and get back to America hating, white hating, jew hating.

And I was really proud this morning when Mr.Joe tried to get McCain's guy and Peggy Noonan to go against Obama and the pastor, and lo and behold, they said they would not, that McCain would fight a civil battle for president. Thank you Charlie Black and thank you Peggy Noonan!! Seems like calmer heads are prevailing, Joe!

A few crazy sermons out of thousands upon thousands over 40 years...

Really, I mean, how "accountable" do we want to keep holding our candidates?  I think it's more important that we talk about the issues.  As long as Obama does not agree with the few controversial statements that have been found, then I don't see what the big deal is.  Obama has forcefully and public denounced White's statements and said that he doesn't agree with them.  BOTH campaigns would have -very- small staffs if every little thing got magnified all the time.  

And why is there all this controversy over Obama's pastor, but not the crazy religious zealots that are endorsing McCain at the moment?

that sounds a lot like when al gore said he wasn't in the room when the illegal fundraising was going on in the clinton white house.  i think he said he was drinking too much iced tea and was in the loo.  you can not be the post-racial candidate and belong to a church like this.

A lot of us who vote admire Jeremiah Wright.

He would not make a suitable presidential candidate because he represents a part of the greater American reality which is anathema to the right who ride in the American limo and think of themselves as privileged because they pay for the gas.

Wright just calls it like he sees it... and he sees right through that little American fantasy.

He is a Christian pastor who is not dreaming of a White Christmas... not dreaming at all...

and in the land of the free, that can get you killed.

Obama admires Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan.  He even admires Bill Clinton.

Maybe he admires Wright too, or maybe he just tolerates him for the sake of diversity... at any rate, Obama is no George W Bush, no Dick Cheney and no Karl Rove...

Obama is the face of America.

I like his face and so do most passionate and true American patriots.

God bless us all, even Hillary.

It's a non-issue.

Why did'nt FOX, ABC and MSNBC cover Mitt's Mormon Church with the same ruthlesness that they attack Obama.  Go figure!  Do you guys hate him that much you want to destry the man that trying to bring us together.

"Now WE ARE GENEROUS WITH THE NEGRO. WE ARE WILLING that the Negro have the highest kind of education. I WOULD BE WILLING to LET every Negro DRIVE A CADILLAC IF THEY COULD AFFORD IT. I WOULD BE WILLING that they have all the advantages they can get out of life in the world. BUT LET THEM ENJOY THESE THINGS AMONG THEMSELVES." LDS "Apostle" Mark E. Petersen, "Race Problems - As They Affect the Church," Address delivered at Brigham Young University, August 27, 1954, as quoted in Jerald and Sandra Tanner's book entitled, "The Changing World of Mormonism," p. 307, emphasis added.
 
  LDS - "Those who were LESS VALIANT IN PRE-EXISTENCE and who thereby had certain spiritual restrictions imposed upon them during mortality are known to us as the NEGROES." LDS "Apostle" Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 527, 1966 edition, emphasis added.
 
  LDS - "THE NEGROES ARE NOT EQUAL WITH OTHER RACES where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned, ...but this inequality is not of man's origin. IT IS THE LORD'S DOING, is based on his eternal laws of justice, and grows out of the LACK OF SPIRITUAL VALIANCE OF THOSE CONCERNED IN THEIR FIRST ESTATE [the Mormon pre-existence]." LDS "Apostle" Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 527 - 528, 1966 edition, emphasis added.
 
  LDS - "...[T]hrough their INDIFFERENCE or LACK OF INTEGRITY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, [blacks] rendered themselves UNWORTHY of the Priesthood and its powers...." LDS "Historian" B. H. Roberts, The Contributor, vol. 6, pp. 296-297, as quoted in Jerald and Sandra Tanner's book entitled "The Changing World of Mormonism," p. 293, emphasis added.

So which is?  Is Obama a Muslim or Anti-Christ, or Radical Black Anti-American Christian?

Well, one thing's for sure, each of these attacks can counteract the other.  I'm waiting for someone to come up with maybe he's an atheist, or a member of the KKK  or some other failed claim.

People make up your mind. He can't be all of these things at once.  Get a clue.  The kitchen sink isn't working.

A lot of us who vote admire Jeremiah Wright.

He would not make a suitable presidential candidate because he represents a part of the greater American reality which is anathema to the right who ride in the American limo and think of themselves as privileged because they pay for the gas.

Wright just calls it like he sees it... and he sees right through that little American fantasy.

He is a Christian pastor who is not dreaming of a White Christmas... not dreaming at all...

and in the land of the free, that can get you killed.

Obama admires Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan.  He even admires Bill Clinton.

Maybe he admires Wright too, or maybe he just tolerates him for the sake of diversity... at any rate, Obama is no George W Bush, no Dick Cheney and no Karl Rove...

Obama is the face of America.

I like his face and so do most passionate and true American patriots.

God bless us all, even Hillary.

If the Catholic Church says homosexuality is a sin and a priest delivers a sermon in which he says all homosexuals are going to hell does it make you a gay-basher if you're in the congregation?

Rev. Billy Graham made controversial statements about Jews running the media.  He's on tapes of President Nixon saying, "They don't know how I really feel about what they're doing to this country."  He also made a controversial statement about AIDS saying, "Is AIDS a judgment of God?  I could not say for sure, but I think so."  Yet, no president has ever been told to distance himself from Graham.

Do you agree with everything you hear your priest or pastor say?  I doubt it.  The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany long disagreed with the idea of women being ordained yet it does not change the respect and admiration I have for the man.

Can you guarantee that Senator McCain or Senator Clinton have never attended a service in which someone said something controversial?  I doubt it...the difference being those services are not available on DVD.

Until you show me Senator Obama "amening" and "hallelujahing" Rev. Wright's 9/11 sermon and his Christmas sermon, I'm not going to concern myself with either.

Much ado about absolutely nothing.  Prominent leaders of the Christian community have certainly said worse (9-11 was caused by gays and pagans, Mr. Falwell??) and have still been welcomed by politicians in this nation.  Not only that, but Wright's said nothing worse than some supporters of McCain's campaign.

In other words, if Wright is a big deal, why isn't McCain's anti-semitic preacher being covered with the same scrutiny?  Oh, wait - nevermind, that answer is obvious.  It's because McCain is a Republican.

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