What I heard was "don't blame Jeremiah Wright, he lived through the racial times prior to civil rights laws and that's his experience so he talks about it in his sermons."
What Obama said was that the problem with Jeremiah Wright's sermons is not what he said, but that he spoke as if culture was static. Obama NEVER outright rejected what Jeremiah Wright said.
Anyone else hear anything else?
It was hard not to start agreeing with him. "This man is like family." But then I remembered that people have "divorced" their family and created a new "family of choice" over situations which would parallel his.
If Obama wants to be taken seriously after this speech, he will remove Jeremiah Wright from his guest list, change churches and find a more "main stream" Protestant church OR go back to his roots of Islam.
Obama still harbors Jeremiah Wright as a family member. There's no way this doesn't translate into accepting, at least in part, some of Jeremiah Wright's attitude and beliefs. And there's no way that a person sits under this inflammatory speech for fifteen or twenty years and doesn't absorb it. Wright has the first amendment right to speak out, but not to inflame his audience to commit a crime or break the law.
Obama attempted to make Jeremiah Wright a victim of his times. Didn't work as far as I'm concerned. It's just another piece of Obama's fabric becoming unraveled.
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