So Obama and his campaign staff knew as far back as February 9th of
2007 that his association with Rev. Wright would be a problem. And my problem with this is that it took Obama a whole year more to come clean with Wright's sermons. I guess it was more important to Obama to come across to Americans as a devout Christian in order to balance his dad and half-brother being a Muslim. As an atheist, I don't care what religion he follows.
Otherwise, I am also disappointed that Obama was a cigarette smoker until recently when his wife made him quit. I have very little respect for people my age that smoke cigarettes. I knew back in grade school that smoking was a nasty and addictive habit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us...s/06obama.html
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Disinvitation by Obama Is Criticized
By JODI KANTOR Published: March 6, 2007
CHICAGO, March 5 — The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the popular Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and spiritual mentor to Senator Barack Obama, thought he knew what he would be doing on Feb. 10, the day of Senator Obama’s presidential announcement.
After all, back in January, Mr. Obama had asked Mr. Wright if he would begin the event by delivering a public invocation.
But Mr. Wright said Mr. Obama called him the night before the Feb. 10 announcement and rescinded the invitation to give the invocation.
“Fifteen minutes before Shabbos I get a call from Barack,” Mr. Wright said in an interview on Monday, recalling that he was at an interfaith conference at the time. “One of his members had talked him into uninviting me,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Mr. Obama’s campaign advisers.
Some black leaders are questioning Mr. Obama’s decision to distance his campaign from Mr. Wright because of the campaign’s apparent fear of criticism over Mr. Wright’s teachings, which some say are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.
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