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The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is like the gift that keeps on giving for Hillary Clinton and if Obama keeps rolling towards November he will likely keep giving for Republican presumptive nominee Johan McCain. Wright is back for more, and he is demanding attention and trying to put his spin on the comments he made that many Americans were furious with and his rants from the pulpit nearly derailed Barack Obama.
Now he wants more. Wright played the victim card this week in a PBS interview. " I felt it was unfair. I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt that those who were doing that were doing it for some devious reasons." Did it work? Obama was asked the question by Fox News host Chris Wallace. *** "Do you think that Reverend Wright is just the victim here," Wallace asked Obama. He answered, "No. I think that people were legitimately offended by some of the comments that he had made in the past. The fact he's my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue. So I understand that." Obama then complained. "I think that it is also true that to run a snippet of 30-second sound bites, selecting out of a 30-year career, simplified and caricatured him and caricatured the church. And I think that was done in a fairly deliberate way, and that is unfortunate, because as I've said before, I have strongly denounced those comments that were the subject of so much attention. I wasn't in church when he made them." *** Obama still seems very confused on what to say and how to answer. He refuses to denounce Jeremiah Wright, and even though he says he disagrees with what he says, he seems to beleive he must remain loyal to Wright. That is really a tough sell to working class voters, both Democrat and Republican. And with Jeremiah Wright looking to cash in on the publicity and raise his profile, this will get far worse before it gets better.
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