Obama denounces Wright
Obama responds to four days of outrageous behavior by Reverend Wright.
“They certainly don’t portray accurately my values and beliefs,” he said.
“If Reverend Wright thinks that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well and based on his remarks yesterday, I may not know him as well as I thought either.”
I found this story interesting from Marc Ambinder:
EARLY THIS MORNING, after a long day of campaigning, aides showed Barack Obama extended excerpts from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s jaunty and freewheeling press conference in Washington. Obama, the aides said, was deeply, visibly angry. Two said he “insisted” that he hold a second press conference today to unequivocally denounce Rev. Wright’s conduct and sever himself from Wright’s fulminations. Obama did not want to let Wright hijack his campaign any longer. Five days was enough.
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I think that with yesterday’s press conference I learned (or reaffirmed) some of Obama’s qualities.
Here is the short list:
1. He has smarts.
2. He has balls.
3. He can be hurt.
I knew he was smart. He is brilliant in fact. I knew he had balls too, as he has shown time and time again. For instance when he gave the speech in Philadelphia it was brilliant. Doing it without clearing the content with his advisers took balls. When he agreed to the ABC Ambush debate, he’s smart enough that he knew what he would be facing, yet he went anyway, and despite what the media said, I think handled it brilliantly.
But yesterday when he dispensed with prepared statements and tackled the land mine that is the Wright situation head on with an off the cuff Q&A, that took brass balls.
What I saw for the first time, was a man hurt. Not hurt politically, though there is no doubt Wright has hurt him politically; that isn’t what I mean. I saw a man hurt by the betrayal of a friend. Someone who was shocked to see a rather nasty side to someone he held in high esteem. I saw a man who was what he said he was, saddened and disappointed.
So yes, Obama can be hurt.
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Yes. I don’t know how this’ll play for him, but it showed he can wear his heart on his sleeve just as well as he can talk like his head’s in the clouds.
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Positive sign: I turn on Fox News in the morning as I’m getting ready for work. This morning was the first time in almost a week that they weren’t blathering about Wright. Instead, they were back to debating whether we’re in a recession. (Are we? Are we? Coming up next: does the Earth orbit the sun? Does it? Does it?)
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