Exactly. Those are the comments Obama spoke out against yesterday. He watched a videotape of what Wright said on Monday and almost immediately gathered up the press corps who were with him and made a statement. You can tell he was really PO-ed. Probably more so for have stood by Wright, more or less, until then, to his own detriment.

I don't blame Obama at all for the way he handled the whole thing. He didn't s**tcan Wright two seconds after he said something unpopular, as Hillary would have done (as most politicians would have done), but when Wright went way over the line Obama had heard enough. Good for him.

>You don't find it disturbing that he says AIDs was created by the government as an instrument of genocide against 'people of color' or the right-brain left-brain dichotomy based on race? Forget racism, this is so intellectually insulting I find it disturbing not only that people would respect him but that they would not openly ridicule him. The Bell Curve and Jimmy the Greeks racial observations are certainly mild by comparison.
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>>>I watched the interviews with Reverend Wright (over the past couple of weeks) and I was dissappointed in what he had to say. I watched his entire sermon and I agree that some of the quotes publicized in the past were taken out of context, but in context they were still highly inflammatory and IMHO, very anti-american and racist.
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>>Interesting. I didn't see much of the speeches over the weekend, but I did watch the full Moyers program on Friday night. My take was that much of what we've seen as soundbites was hyperbolic, typical of an exhortative preaching style. Wright came across in the interview as bright, sarcastic and committed.
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>>The show also made it clear that the church is and has been doing a tremendous amount of good work in the community.
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>>Also, for full disclosure, I've learned that I knew Wright's mother in my teens. She was the vice principal of my high school. She was well-regarded, and a tough cookie, but fair. (She was the disciplinarian, among other roles.)
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>>Tamar