On Friday, Sen. Barack Obama appeared on The View to address (yet again!) the controversial remarks of Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor of 20 years.
“I never heard him say some of the things that have people upset,” Obama said on the show.
Obama described Wright as a “brilliant man who was still stuck in a time warp,” and said he spoke with him after the controversy erupted.
“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.
You can view the senator’s visit with The View if you missed Friday’s show or want to see it again. PE11201 has also uploaded the videos on YouTube.
On Saturday, Obama was in Pennsylvania and dropped by the Pleasant Valley Recreation Center for more low-key, face-to-face campaigning before the April 22 primary. Check out the video of the senator bowling.
“My economic plan is better than my bowling,” Obama told fellow bowlers.
HILLARY’S NO QUITTER
Sen. Hillary Clinton rejected calls by supporters of Sen. Barack Obama that she quit the Democratic presidential race. Obama added she should remain in the race “as long as she wants.”
“She is a fierce and formidable competitor, and she obviously believes that she would make the best nominee and the best president,” the Illinois senator told reporters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. “I think that she should be able to compete, and her supporters should be able to support her for as long as they are willing or able.”
The former first lady, campaigning at a rally in Indiana on Saturday, said:
“There are some folks saying we ought to stop these elections. I didn’t think we believed that in America. I thought we of all people knew how important it was to give everyone a chance to have their voices heard and their votes counted.”
On Friday, Sens. Christopher Dodd and Patrick Leahy, supporters of Obama, said Clinton should consider stepping aside.
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he wants the fighting between the two campaigns to end before the national convention in August. Party leaders, he said, have talked with both camps about cooling down their rhetoric.
CONDI FOR VP?
( Photo: U.S. Department of State )According to Newsmax, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed interest in running for vice president if asked when Rudy Giuliani was running for president and, more recently, within top Republican circles, presumably including John McCain’s camp.
Rice has said, regarding questions about her future, that she plans to teach at Stanford and write a book.
Additionally, an aide to Rice said it was “not true” that she had expressed interest in running.
“No one can accurately say she was encouraging it or that she expressed interest, as your two sources apparently told you,” the aide said. “That is wrong. Her answer [about being interested in running for vice president] was clearly and unambiguously negative.”
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THIS IS THE ONLY BLOG I COME TOO!!!!
SOME OF THESE OTHER BLOGS WOULD HAVE ME REPENTING 24/7 JUST FROM THEIR PICS AND LIES AND THE ABUSE TOWARDS WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON SOME IS INSANE.ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
Wow I missed it…Obama on The View with these controversial ladies
Let me go youtube it
It’s hard for me to watch the show without me wanting to smack one of them by the end of it.
All Hilary does is whine!!! she is so annoying
Obama has a strategy behind talking about Jeremiah Wright, but I don’t think too many of us know what it is. He realizes that he has so much support right now, that he can discuss anything that he wants to — Wright, Oil, Education, or anything random like ‘parenting skills’. Obama is using his spotlight, to highlight some key issues in America that have no been discussed, and will not be discussed. Essentially, the burden’s of race and racism in America, that are still felt and prevalent today.
Wright is no different from the majority of progressive black preachers. No different from Rev. Dr. King. No different from Rev. Jesse Jackson. No different from Rev. Cornel West. These preachers effectively use Christian principles to serve the downtrodden – to serve people who are disproportionately disadvantaged, un-privileged and underserved.
Those people are specifically, descendents of African slaves found in the US. This population does NOT include whites, neither does it include colored immigrants. I appreciate that fact that even Dr. Rice addressed this populations presence last week…
http://www.washingtontime...28/FOREIGN/746301768/1001
Herein, there is something notable about this population: specifically that they are OWED. Obama and Rice set up a very convincing case for reparations of different sorts, if they can convince America that the current descendants of African slaves in this country ARE OWED back payments (that may come in different forms) for the injustices served to them over the past 400 years!!!!
Dr. Rice hit the nail on the head, without any fear or trepidation.
She told the truth, and restless white people who are still having problems grappling with their guilt of being the descendants of slave owners, are to this day, fearful of a Black uprise against them… and fearful of the backlash that may occur globally, wherein such a backlash may threaten white [male] dominance throughout the world.
Just as much as we, as Black people, are fighting for a place in society, they fight (with guns, words, bioterrorism, and with trillion dollar corporations, etc) to defend their number 1 ranking in society.
Now read ‘the privilege of whiteness’ (not whitness – though the spelling error makes the file easy to find on google
)
http://monkeyfist.com/pip...-Mon-20010625/000194.html
Remember to stand for justice — you don’t have to do it by yelling and screaming and protesting. Civilly and subtly, you can merely stand, and people WILL see you.
I agree with oldschooler. Sometimes I make comments and some of the bloggers don’t agree, but for the most part these are young people commenting and we all don’t see things the same way and young people get so excited about things that are mundane to us everything ith them is fab or they hate no middle of the road extremist.
I have a daughter who is in college and shopping is always a chore, I ‘ll be gald when she graduates and has her own money to shop.Because what she thinks is hot, I am so embarrassed sometimes.
This is the only log I go to and the only one I encourage my daughter to come too, but I know she is hitting the trash sites.
I had to work and missed this on the view and I didn’t even tivo it so thanks you for this concreteloop crew. God bless you pecious children. Stay positive, stay balanced and always remember to treat others the way you wan to be treated its a God thing. ( a good thing)
Obama for president.
I like Obama.
HMMMM
#2 and 4. TaKE a BOW!I AGREE.AMEN
OBAMA represented WELL on the VIEW. I was proud. Meredith tried to stump him but Joy had is back all the way.
***Sherri said due to meeting him on the view she switched from Hillary to Obama. I know others did as well.
***Condi: That would be wonderful but do you think they are going to let 2 of us in there????? hell to the no. It would be nice if they did.
CONDI FOR VP!!!! Hiullary should drop out now. She is only hurting her party by staying in. She has no way of winning this contest.
Like said before: I am an American but does that mean I believe everything that Bush says or does???? No so why do they think Obama believes everything that his preacher says or does????? I don’t believe in everything my Pastor believes in. He is human just like Wright is human. Obama cleared his point up on the View.
I believe what’s going to happen is, everything looks all peachy now and then he doesn’t end up winning. Because that’s what happened with Kerry, I was so excited about him winning, and I really thought he had it and out of no where Bush won. Politics is too corrupt, i don’t really care for it now that I think about it.
Oh my Obama is still defending himself against something he didn’t say?
There is a lot of Bitchassness (I had to get it in ) towards Mr. Obama he will be the next president so the haters need to fall back.
THEY STILL TALKING BOUT THIS SHIT DAMN! AND THAT BITCH ELISABETH GET ON MY NERVES SHE JUST KEPT ON TALKING BOUT THE SHIT AND SOUNDING STUPID, HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT?!
I hear you #4. Obama is a very smart man.
#15 Juju
Elisabeth is hella stupid!!! She even brought up Jeffery Dumar (sp?), the guy who ate people, during the show when they were discussing Rev. Wright. Whoopi and the others were like, WHAT THE HELL?!!?!! HOW CAN YOU COMPARE THAT TO REV. WRIGHT?!!! I was surprised how Joy kept Elisabitch in check during the show.
Interesting. Thanks for the update J. Dakar. I hope Ms. Rice decides to go back to Stanford. I don’t want anything or anybody that deals w/ George Bush’s camp anywhere near the White House.
I must youtube that view episode to see what it is all about.
Hillary sit down! Obama 08!
Hillary do you, she is the kind of president I want, a fighter. I am with her all the way nomination or not. Just like someone mentioned before about John Kerry, it looked peachy and then he lost in the end to Bush. After all of Bushes negatives, Kerry still couldn’t close the deal back in 2004. Bush didn’t cheat with him like he did Al Gore. If Obama gets the nod the same exact thing will happen. We will be stuck with another republican for another 4 years because the dems yet again nominated the weakest nominee.
@#10
…..uuhhh Meredith left the show like…last year…lol.
But anywhoooo I believe that it will be interesting to see who comes up with the nomination {Barack}, not saying {Barack} that I know who will win {Barack} but I have a good feeling that Obama will take the nomination {Barack}.
Read your bible , the scriptures says the Lord “sets” in office. He already “set” Bill & Hillary in office (they two are one flesh), he dishonored that God given position, so those of you who are decieved and do not know that God is not mocked and that whatsover a man soweth that too shall he reach, and please know spirituall Obama is here at this time for such a time as this, his running is not something that just happened or something he planned in 1992 and then told people for years he was not going to run.I don’t know how the Lord is going to do it, but Bill and Hillary (Annias and Sapphira) are not moving back in the white house.This is a husband and wife in the new testament who bought sought to lie, for their own gain….I am not going to say what happened to them. There are many parallels to what is happening today that are scriptural, but you must know the word to determine…and as far as experience and Obam and McCain or Hillary goes David had none but the Lord said I don’t chose or judge like man I lookt at the heart. You all better get a revelation and another thing Jesus said you don’t put new wine in old wine skins………man has a strategy and God has a plan and they need to stop talking about Rev.Wright and leave him in the Lords hands talking about Obamas judgement he has better judgement than most folk no to touch Gods anointed like David.
Rev.Wright was talking about Gov. and I don’t know what planet she is living on but this country has done a lot of wicked stuff..a whole lot!!!!
She mentioned forgiveness well that is what Obama did forgave the man though he does not agree…she needs to give it a rest…Sherry needs to teach her religious butt some stuff scripturally about judging people…that part in her bible msu be glued together.
there is a lot of ghettoassness in the Obama campaign…. so……..
Hillary for 08′.. unless something changes…
He sets in office,He already set Bill & Hillary (they are one flesh). They dishonored God, the people and the office…….not getting back in. The Lord makes all things new…and you don’t put new wine in old wine skins…get a revelation, this earth belongs to the Lord and the fullness their of and they that dwell in it!!!!!!
God is not mocked whatsoever a man soweth that too shall we reap and just because people are supporting them they do err because the blind leadeth the blind.
This is all the Word.
You not going to believe this but we talked about this today in Sunday School (church school) class this morning talking about authority and about how the Lord sets in office and it is to be honored, my teacher talked about deception and pointed out just because people support something does not mean its God she said a leaders actions while in office are to honor God and bless the people, she even talked about pride, it really gave me something to think abou tand many have been decieved and are being by the Clintons, she pointed out people think God is winking at the sin our leaders committ and because Bill got away with it he and Hillary are so full of pride they can’t see any wrong they have done to each other the country or the people, They shamed and disgraced this country and dishonored God, He forgave but like David the Lord said you have sinned and he could no longer do the work, he could provide resources but he was no longer King.
Great lesson and you are right on key. Thanks for the confirmation.
Everyone pray for this country and all the candidates.
Good interview, I loved President Elect Obamas responses.
OBAMA 2008
@# 20 RKJ
THANKS FOR THE CORRECTION, CAUSE I WAS JUST ABOUT SAY SOMETHING W/ MY SCREW FACE ON, LOL.
As an Obama supporter I cannot understand the logic behind those who have decided they are now undecided about who to vote for because of Rev. Wright’s comments. People are actually considering not voting for Obama or have already decided that they are NOT going to vote for him based off of the comments of someone else. As a Christian woman there have been several occasions on which I have disagreed and/or vehemently disagreed with my pastor, but for the most part I agree with him or understand where he is coming from and try to meld his POV with my POV. People are idiots if they’re using this as a reason not to vote for him. Be honest with yourself, you just see it as a cop out because you’re just not ready to vote for a black man. I can only hope that people come to their senses soon enough.
As for Clinton not withdrawing. The longer this democratic election drags out the more time McCain has to draw a larger and larger following and the more arsenal you’re fueling him when it comes to the mudslinging and attack season for the actual presidential election.
@ 13. Trouble
Ohhh knowww!!! You have a point. Kerry had so much momentum, but when it came down to it, this country is still disgustingly uber conservative and ultra hick/ inarticulate Bush won. This saddens me…
Hillary staying in the race when she has no chance of winning the nomination is a bad and selfish move. It’s the equivalent of an football team preparing for the super bowl, and the coach makes the team go so hard at each other in practice that they injure one another and weaken the team – so that when they play the championship game, they are at a disadvantage – the TEAM loses. If she were considering this from a Democratic vs. her selfish motive, she might reconsider her decision.
But then again, she is who she is… this may be just another look at what she is really about.
The de The Democrats are acting like Negroes and b!tches…..If we don’t come
together with a winning plan……we gonna lose in November
I was watching Real Time w/ Bill Mahar, and Tavis Smiley was one of the panelist and he made a very true real statement about Pastor Wright that said basically, whether it was PC or not sometimes some shit is said that needs to be said because it is real, face it, America is racist at the crux of it all, they are perveyors of war we may not like how he packages his shit, but it no less makes it real. Dr King spoke out against the Vietnam war and was disinvited to the White House (according to Mr. Smiley) if they turned against Dr. King who is Jeremiah Wright and lets keep it real, it would not have been and issue if the next President of the United States a black man was not a member of his church. This shit is not new that Rev, Wright has been saying, its just a weapon they hope to use against Obama, cause they ain’t got shit else!!!
OBAMA 08, whether they like it or not!!!
Obama 08. Time for change!!!!
Leonard on Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iSkESu4bUY
People can keep bringing up Rev. Wright but it’s losing steam. It’s like they’re beating a dead horse.
This is why I stopped keeping up with this election after my state’s primary. After about February or so it just goes into this huge whirlpool of insignificant politics and people loose sight of the REALLY IMPORTANT details behind both of these candidates!
Im so glad Hill decided to stay in even though Im not supporting her. I want these two to duke it out for as long as possible because it will mean better results for US! If we dont stop thinking about the past and things that will not even matter in White House then America will not be getting the most out of it’s government.
OBAMA ’08!
#1….u may have a seat now
Yaya264,
Yep, as much as we would like Obama to win, I don’t think he is going too.
I watched this on Friday it seemed like the hour went by so fast. Elisabeth she sux I can’t stand her because she brings up old stuff all the time. I know there should be conflict on the show and everything can’t be all good but she is like Bill O Reilly. On Friday I wished the show was on more than an hour though it was good. I really don’t find anything wrong with Pastor Wright’s comments. America is racist. Just about every race hates on black people and black people hate on black people to. I think we need to unify just as Hillary should bow out because John Mc Cain doesn’t have to worry about trying to find things on Barack because she is doing it for him.
Obama for change!
McCain is already playing the patriotism card against Obama and that is why right wing commentators want to keep it in the news… I don’t think that kind of politics will work this time b/c IT”S THE ECONOMY this time. They pulled the same patriotism card with Bill Clinton in 1992 and it did not work b/c people were focused on the economy.
J.Dakar for president!!!
@4 i disagree with the whole reparation thing. we aren’t the ones who went through slavery our great great greats did. why should we get money when it was our ancestors backs that were whipped, seperated from their families, and so forth. a lot you are not going to agree with me. some might say that we still have the effects of slavery now. i think that there is injustice out there in this world that have to do with skin color. but throwing money at the problem is not going to solve it. in fact i’m some what offended by the fact that money should make me happy. look it just my opionion and you don’t have to like it, just respect it, like i respect yours.
For No Drama Vote Obama! Gracias
testing 123
Appearing on the view was a smart move,cut into Hillary’s support base.@40 did you know that from the time of emancipation(1865)to the signing of the civil rights act of 1965 that it was legal to discriminate against black people?Reparations are due,and can take on many forms other than handing out money.Debt forgiveness,free education,tax exemptions,would help.You are right when you say that we didn’t feel the sting of the whip,but our people never got our forty acres either,it makes you wonder how different our lives would be if the 34million black people in America all owned property?
I loved him on the View Friday!!! The best part was his slick comment to Elizabeth! “What if someone made a video of the top 5 stupidist things you have ever said.” She would not shut up that entire show!!! I wish they would give her the boot so I can start watching it again.
Why was Elisabeth Hasselback badgering him like that? She wants him to apologize and take responsibility for what his pastor said. But he handled her questions very well. Am I worng or did she agree with Cheri when she said she initially voted for Hilary but then changed her vote to Obama?
glad to see both democratic candidates get equal play on this blog.
@43 i don’t care how you cut it colehouse, it’s still a hand out. if our goverment was to do this for every race they had wronged they wouldn’t have any money to give us. Native Americans (and don’t give me that they got the casinos because i’ve seen the reservations that they live on and it’s saddens me.) The Mexicans for taken some of there land. Even the Irish Americans and they faced a lot of persecution as well. Hiroshima and Njawaski ……..need i say more…….and right now the Iraqi civilians. you see we can’t look at just ourselves and say we need a handout when the other races have just cause as well. please don’t take offense to this cause i’m not trying to be nasty. all i’m saying is that happened to ancestors(Not Us) was treated extremely wrong and they(Not Us) most certainly deserve retribution but not us. some the problems our community is dealing with is self afflicted. in all i’m just saying that getting reparations to every descendant of african slaves is not going to solve anything. the frustration, the pain and the anger that slavery has caused is still going to be there. the only it going to do is give the government( AND SOME WHITE PEOPLE) something to dangle in our face. “LOOK WE PAID YOU NOW GET OVER IT” my opionion is that reparation of any kind is not going to solve anything.
@43 i’m not trying to start a debate with you but isn’t written in the United States Constitution that “every man” was to be treated as equals notice color is never metioned. now if a law was that made that went against the constitution, wouldn’t the law in a sense be invalid? i’m just saying. and while i’m own the Constitution it is mind boogling that it’s written that every man was to be treated as equals and yet discrimination lives. SMH
@47 I don’t know how old you are,but I know some older member of your family remembers the Jim Crow laws,and during that time our people couldn’t go to a nice restaurant to eat a meal,shop at a store,go to a movie,swim in a public pool unless it was in a black neighborhood.We are not talking 1860,but 1960,and when the U.S. Constitution was written our people were in bondage,so every man wasn’t equal.Your right to vote as a black person is not a law but an act that gets renewed every 25 years or so,meanwhile a white person born somewhere else can over here, obtain citizenship and have more rights than you or I.Did you know that there are businesses that were started during the slave trade that exist today.I know that the whiteman will never right the wrongs of the American Slave Trade with reparations,and as I said before it can take on many forms,like building better schools,provide free health-care,etc.But the whiteman will ALWAYS be willing to build a new jail to put black and brown people in.
@ 49 like i said yesterday: getting reparations(in any form) to every descendant of african slaves is not going to solve anything. the frustration, the pain and the anger that slavery has caused is still going to be there. and i do have members of my family who do remember the Jim Crows laws and they were frustrated and anger by it. but you know what my grandmother didn’t let happen in past keep her down or bitter she moved on and i think that’s what we all need to do……move on and try to overcome the obstacle. if we keep looking at the white man has done to us, how we ever going to move foward. i wish nothing but the best for you.
@50 You never once heard me say that reparations would be a cure-all ,for the problems that black people face.That is a problem that only GOD can fix,and I agree with you that not even The American Slave Trade was worst than what The American Indians went through,but what you saw at that reservation saddened you.I don’t feel that way because the ones that are left, have their own land within the reservation,and have the ability to buy land out side of it, through the proceeds of the casino revenue.The Irish were the ones who’s hand was on the whip that tore the flesh off our ancestors backs,because they were the poorest of white people and were given the task of being the Overseer,why would you feel any compassion for the oppressor?NAFTA meanwhile,has boosted Mexico’s economy tenfold.During World War II the Japanese drew first blood on America,yet the whiteman rebuilt that country back up,and look at where they are now,they second only America in global wealth! There were Japanese Americans who were placed in Detainment Camps for a period of eighteen months,but they were compensated with 20k.CW do you really think that the whiteman will rebuild the ninth ward in New Orleans before he rebuilds Nasara,Iraq.Reparations was an issue that compelled the late Johnnie Cockran to leave his practice in L.A. in flavor of D.C. It took money to bring us over here and make our people slaves and it will take money among other things to make our people UNLEARN the slavery that still exist within our people! I return the wish of wellness to you.
I just realized that I made a mistake in calling you CW,no disrespect I meant JW.
@COLEHOUSE or JONES whichever one you are going by…………..do you really know how much the native americans are getting?Did you know that a third of Native Americans are “BELOW” the poverty line.A lot of them are moving off the reservations to the citites so that they can support their families. So they’re not getting that much because they have to split that money even with so many different families and there’s taxes invole as well.With the Irish American i was being sarcastic i should have typed that. my bad LOLOLO i forgot i typred that in there. Mexico economy is trying to recover NOW!! The Peso isn’t hardly worth anything. If the economy was so great why in the world would they risk their lives to cross the border, just to get a job on califonia ranch picking fruits and vegetables for $3.00 an hour? The United Kingdom is second to the U.S. not Japan. The only reason the U.S. rebuild Njwaski and Hiroshima was for strategic reasons. They know that if war was to break out in the Pacific region they would only have Hawaii for support they need a better defense. That’s why the went in to Korea, and Vitenam. But in Japans defense they only attacked a harbor, the U.S. attacked half a country and killed about over a million people. Plus Hawaii wasn’t even a state then now that I think about it. Like i said before it was all about strategic locations, “island hopping”. Those people who survived the nuclear bombing didn’t recieve any money if i’m not wrong. Notice you said the “JAPNESE AMERICAN DETAINEES” were monetarily compenstated not their descendants. Now New Orleans i don’t know about that one i’m not even going to touch that one LOLOLOLO!!! you might got me on that but time will tell………. money and among other things as you said, will not make us unlearn what slavery did. Is there injustice in this world that’s due to race? Aboslutely, but by the government givng money,paying for college tuitions,(etc) isn’t going to make that go away. Plus we now can speak on these injustices and might find some justice due to the Civil Rights Movement. i think, and this might piss you off, we need forgive those slave masters and what they’ve done to our ancestors and just move on with our lives and move forward……again wish you nothing but the best
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@ JW Colehouse Walker is a new for me because there is someone new, who calls himself Jones who likes to drop the N-WORD,thus Colehouse Walker.I think that for the most part we agree that there is a lot of stink,with regards to Whites treatment of Non-Whites on a Global Scale,but some of your info is wrong.I do respect your passion toward forgiving and moving on.BTW Colehouse Walker was a brotha in a movie called Ragtime made back in 1981,you should check it out,one of the best films ever made.I saw it again recently and thought it would be a good name to call myself but after rappin a taste with you, I realized that I should keep what I started with.I sense that you come from a strong family,your Grandmother is a very strong woman and has taught you some good qualities,but I will end this debate by saying that I respect your opinion and hope you’ll reciprocate.
I most definitely respect your opinion. It’s good to know that there’s someone on this blog you can debate with and not get nasty or personal. You seem to be a smart indivdual, we need more people like that in this world. If we did, we wouldn’t had this discussion right now. That’s weird the other day Ragtime was on and I didn’t watch it, now I will.
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