Barack Obama,  Jeremiah Wright,  President 2008

Barack Obama Watch: Defending Jeremiah Wright on “The View”

Michael Ramirez on Rip Van Obama

Barack Obama defends his Pastor of over twenty years Jeremiah Wright in an appearance to be broadcast tomorrow on “The View.”

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  • “I never heard him say some of the things that have people upset,” Obama said on the show.
  • “I’m not vetting my pastor,” Obama told “The View”, “I didn’t have a research team during the course of 20 years to go pull every sermon he’s given and see if there’s something offensive that he’s said.”
  • Obama described Wright as a “brilliant man who was still stuck in a time warp.”
  • The candidate explained, “Part of what my role in my politics is to get people who don’t normally listen to each other to talk to each other, who [say] crazy things, who are offended by each other, for me to understand them and to maybe help them understand each other.”
  • “I think he’s saddened by what’s happened, and I told him I feel badly that he has been characterized just in this one way, and people haven’t seen this broader aspect of him,” Obama said.

More fodder for the conservative 527’s who will run the Swift-Boat type ads featuring Reverend Wright after Labor Day and the GOP Convention.

Much of the damage has already been done, hence the ten point lead McCain has over the Democrats in the national polls (Rasmussen) and who knows lightening may strike and Hillary Clinton may be the Democrat nominee.

The Obama – Jeremiah Wright Flap is on hiatus but will come to life again to a television screen near you soon.

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