Comments for "Reverend Wright Probably Shouldn't Be On TV" Video at VideoSift.com

By marinara

marinara (http://www.videosift.com/member/marinara) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:49:20 -0700

Some excerpts from his appearance today:

_ "I stand before you to open up this two-day symposium with the hope that this most recent attack on the black church is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright; it is an attack on the black church. ... The most recent attack on the black church, it is our hope that this just might mean that the reality of the African-American church will no longer be invisible."

_ On Obama's denunciation of some of his past remarks:

"Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever's doing the polls. Preachers say what they say because they're pastors. They have a different person to whom they're accountable. As I said, whether he gets elected or not, I'm still going to have to be answerable to God November 5 and January 21. That's what I mean. I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do. I am not running for office. I am hoping to be vice president. ...

"He didn't distance himself. He had to distance himself because he's a politician. From what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American. He said I didn't offer any words of hope. How would he know? He never heard the rest of the sermon. You never heard it. I offered words of hope. I offered reconciliation, I offered restoration in that sermon, but nobody heard the sermon. They just heard this little sound bite of a sermon."

_ On whether he should apologize for shouting in a sermon "God damn America" for its treatment of minorities:

"God doesn't bless everything. God condemns some things. And dem, D-E-M, is where we get the word damn. God damns some practices and there's no excuse for the things that the government, not the American people, have done. That doesn't make me not like America or unpatriotic."

_ On anyone who says he's unpatriotic:

"I feel that those citizens who say that have never heard my sermons, nor do they know me. They are unfair accusations taken from sound bites and that which is looped over and over on certain channels. I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?"

By marinara

marinara (http://www.videosift.com/member/marinara) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:23:40 -0700

this just in: obama criticizes wright::

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/us/politics/29text-obama.html?pagewanted=all

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:53:02 -0700

Moving this video to marinara's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

By jwray

jwray (http://jwray.videosift.com) — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:40:33 -0700

He seems far more reasonable than Hagee.

By choggie

choggie (http://www.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:35:30 -0700

Whaddya mean he don't need to be on TV??..TV sucks balls, rantin' motherfuckers lighten the load, he needs his own TV Staaaation!!!.....and Obabma,???...He requests more money, more pussy(white, preferably), and more power to wield than he knows what to do with, or ever dreamed posssible, until now....Yeah., Make THAT cunt president, and keep the place just as it has always been.....hook, line, sinker, and stringer, you fishies are simply put, feeding on what plops into the pond.....
Carry onward to yer own and 300 million others, untimely demise....