Confirmed: Obama didn’t mean to suggest that Wright had apologized
posted at 5:40 pm on March 28, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“Sen. Obama was clearly saying that were Rev. Wright not retiring, he would need to be assured that the reverend understood why what he had said had deeply offended people and mischaracterized the greatness of this country,” says spox Bill Burton.
Okay, except Obama wasn’t “clearly” saying that at all.
Here’s a clear way to say that: ‘Had the reverend not retired I would have confronted him about his remarks. If after that Wright still refused to acknowledge that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I think is the great character of this country — for all its flaws — then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying there at the church.’
For an eloquent man, not his most eloquent moment.
It was clear enough to me, dude, and I’m not even gay 4 Obama. Now, weigh this gold nugget from Tuesday night first mined by Byron York and recovered from the memory hole this afternoon by Ed Driscoll. Here we find Clinton lackey Lanny Davis eager to inform the audience of just what it was that Wright said that landed Obama in hot water. That’s not the first time a Clinton associate has gotten conspicuously specific on television: Mark Penn famously started mumbling about cocaine on Hardball back in December and was called on it by Obama’s and Edwards’s campaign managers. Davis is called onto the carpet here, too, but not by anyone on Obama’s team — or rather, not anyone officially on Obama’s team. It’s Joe Klein and Anderson Cooper, acting in their duly appointed roles as The Deciders in deciding that America’s heard quite enough of that “chickens coming home to roost” line, thanks, and any further repetition of it shall be deemed foul play. Aren’t you glad they’re around to help steer you right? Exit question challenge: Name one political issue unfavorable to Obama that doesn’t constitute a “distraction.”
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Dang, they are better than the Clintons at spin. Believe it!
Entelechy on March 28, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Considering the rhetorical rabbits and mirrors he used in that “Race Speech”, he’s the last one who should be talking about distractions.
ninjapirate on March 28, 2008 at 5:48 PM
I thought he said his pastor apologized first time I heard that too, but I guess it doesn’t necessarily mean that on closer inspection.
frankj on March 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Purposely ambivalent?
FACT: If you hear somthing for the first time, its the one that generaly sticks in your brain… you can “deprogram” it, but it takes effort.
It initialy sounded like he said Wright appologised… which he has not… and thats what most people will hear, and remember…
Romeo13 on March 28, 2008 at 5:52 PM
This is all a distraction from the primary issue facing America:
Do we really want to elect someone who willingly appears on The View?
Exurban Jon on March 28, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Obama loves insulting the intelligence of his supporters.
Why shouldn’t he; it works.
RobCon on March 28, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Why are they saying that “whites not voting for him”, the Wright stuff should be rejected by everyone! sheesh..
Chakra Hammer on March 28, 2008 at 5:59 PM
The View. All but one of those women are utter dingbad pukeheads. If that is the toughest crowd Obama can face, he will be bludgend by world leaders. Who is going to pick him up when he falls to his knees in a pool of Pl$$ the first time an evil world leader says Boo?
What a sad state of presidential affairs.
saiga on March 28, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Are they saying that Obama is not articulate???
And it will be foul play when the first 527 ad links -
“We are all Americans”
Le Monde
September 12, 2001
with
“America’s chickens are coming home to roost”
Obama pastor
September 17, 2001.
rw on March 28, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Hypothetically, he would have left if Wright had not been sorry that people had stupidly been offended, assuming he hypothetically was continuing as pastor.
Mikey won’t say he’s sorry, ’cause he’s not.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on March 28, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Which was exactly the point of the verbal ju-jitsu.
Clear to thee, AP, but not to 90+% of the public that reads no further than the headline or first graph.
Nichevo on March 28, 2008 at 6:12 PM
I heard it like AP. Don’t know what it means that we both follow Obama’s line of thought…
mikeyboss on March 28, 2008 at 6:14 PM
23 years of of listening and agreeing with that racist, anti-Semite Wright makes Obama a racist/anit-Semite, plain and simple. Anyone who doesn’t get that is in denial.
Mojave Mark on March 28, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Yeah, good for you. But you have to admit that you start every single Obama story — except his most egregious outright lies — giving him the most liberal benefit of the doubt (if I may use that expression).
I don’t think it is unfair to suggest that you were so pissed off at Obama’s lie-saturated speech because you felt betrayed and let down by his holiness. After all, this was supposed to be change we could believe in…
Jaibones on March 28, 2008 at 6:22 PM
You could have saved me from commenting at all. Bingo.
Jaibones on March 28, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Facts, let’s not repeat and spread facts. For heavens sake, we’ve heard about the facts enough, it’s like spreading poison. Don’t confuse me with facts.
Kini on March 28, 2008 at 6:26 PM
When did it become a journalistic rule that you don’t repeat controversial comments because it’s just “airing the poison”? I don’t remember that rule being followed when people didn’t like what Falwell or Robertson had to say, or even during the Mel Gibson DUI arrest or the Michael Richards video. This seems to be a new Obama-protection rule.
Spolitics on March 28, 2008 at 6:30 PM
I am sorry about this. Really, really sorry.
davidk on March 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM
I can’t believe they did it, but the Dems are close to nominating someone worse than John Kerry.
HA HA HA HA HA HA
They are dead meat come November.
faraway on March 28, 2008 at 6:41 PM
This Hussein guy is another piece of Washington D.C. garbage.
I wrote about it long time ago since the spring of last year, and posted it, but not here.
How I knew it before everyone else?
Because I removed the Media sensationalism from him.
I looked and read his stomp speeches, I analyzed and watched his behavior.
I know, it’s not an easy job for the regular voter to spend some time studying a candidate.
But I wanted to see what this guy is all about and I found out without a doubt that he was an empty-suit, a balloon inflated by the Media.
I wrote about it. Nobody believed me at that time. And it amazed me how even some on the Right were and still are rooting for him.
But in America we love sensationalism, we love what’s new especially if it’s Black. And White people want to send a message that they are not racists, we love the image, the looks. We are a shallow nation with idiot, politically correct, hypocrite voters.
We are not honest with ourselves.
We are voting for the look, not the substance.
We are voting to send a message not to send a qualified person to the White House.
Let me paste here what I wrote somewhere else on this website.
This election just proved how the American people, especially those Whites on the Left are Fake, Hypocrites, Politically Correct and Liars.
Do you really think the Whites on the Left are voting for Hussein because his “qualifications?”
Do you really think the Blacks on the Left are voting for Hussein because his “qualifications?”
Both groups are voting for Hussein because he’s BLACK.
The Blacks are voting for him because he’s one of them.
The Lefty Whites are voting for him because they want to send a message that they are not racists.
This is the Truth.
But unfortunately nobody can say it in public, on TV, on the Radio or in the papers because we are a nation of Hypocrites, of Liars, of Fakes, of Cowards, of Politically Correct idiots.
Indy Conservative on March 28, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Obama practices rhetorical waterboarding. He should stop torturing the English language and just tell the simple truth.
Terrie on March 28, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Uh . . . .
It helps that the MSM has been so very unwilling to actually question Obama about issues that might reflect unfavorably on him, doesn’t it? I wonder why Anderson Cooper or Chris Matthews or one of those other Gay 4 Obama types never ask him about issues such as Obama’s sponsorship of the $1 Trillion U.S. taxpayer give-away to the United Nations that he is sponsoring in the Senate? I’m curious to know how he would justify that to the American voting public, especially when our economy is holding on by its fingernails, and our giant entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid are facing bankruptcy in a few years. Or how about asking Obama to explain his continued support for more Affirmative Action and Racial Preference programs? Given his recent admission in his “Race” speech that such programs breed racial resentment, I’m sure the voters would like to know why he thinks having more of such programs would be a good idea.
AZCoyote on March 28, 2008 at 7:51 PM
And we laughed at Clinton when he said, “it depends what you mean by….”
This is making me sicker by the minute. The more Obama and his wife speak, the worse they sound. He is not eloquent, he is nothing at this point, but it all points back to his pastor, the man he admired and went to for 20 years or so.
Isn’t it obvious that he was in agreement with him? Wasn’t it obvious when you looked at the church’s website that it was a racist and divisive church, wasn’t it obvious that his wife has a problem with America and her thesis was on black vs white, which was forefront in her mind??
Why must we be punished by hearing any more of this? It’s like the old tangled web of lies. He needs to stay quiet. I saw this and I’m sure others saw it months ago also. I really don’t want to hear or see any more of him or his wife. Even Hillary with her lies at this point, doesn’t annoy me as much as he does, now I know that sounds crazy, but that’s how I feel.
Conservatives R Us on March 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Any thing that takes the shine of light that is the Obama vision, obscure and vauge as it may be is a distraction from those who prefer to be spoon fed like the children they obviously are.
Hog Wild on March 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Obama never fooled me.
Domino on March 28, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Why doesn’t davis call out those two butt pirates for the same reason? “Anderson, who are you to decide the story is fading?” “Joe, you call yourself a journalist but you want to bury an issue that speaks to the basic character of a major presidential contender?”
And then call them a couple of butt boys also.
peacenprosperity on March 29, 2008 at 12:03 AM
The Obamas are more Clintonesque than the Clintons.
Entelechy on March 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM
But I thought Obama could no more renounce Wright than he could renounce the African American community … Is that not what he said in his now famous speech ?
What about granny, is he now going to back the bus over her a couple of times unless she apologizes ?
Racist anti-American - that label fits Wright and until Obama truely renounces the man it fits him as well …
jcarl4283 on March 29, 2008 at 2:40 AM
The stupid American people are not listening to what he says. They just hear how he says things, then nod and drool their approval. No one wants to take the time to really listen to him. Of course when you really listen things get very scary.
A few days ago he said something like “When I become the Commander in Chief” and upon hearing this my stomach actually turned over. The thought of him as Commander in Chief makes me physically ill.
UnEasyRider on March 29, 2008 at 1:33 PM
ALLAH P! Why do you hate HOPE?
ronsfi on March 29, 2008 at 1:40 PM