The White Lily Blog

Barack Obama, distancing himself from his twenty year pastor,  gave a great speech — about race. Our interest, however, in the comments of Reverend Wright have nothing to do with race, nothing to do with how bitter, or how sweet, the experience of the black community has been in the United States, and how that experience might be used to excuse his teachings. Our interest has to do with the content of those teachings, not the context.

Barack says he repudiates the most extreme comments. On what grounds? To what, if not to America’s conduct, does Barack attribute the attacks of 9/11 if not to those mentioned by his pastor?

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