(CNN) — Barack Obama's Chicago minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is under fresh scrutiny, after an ABC News report Thursday shed light on some of his controversial sermons.
In one delivered last December, Wright argues Hillary Clinton's road to the White House is considerably easier than Barack Obama's because of his skin color.
"Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home. Barack was," Wright says in a video of the sermon posted on YouTube.
"Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary! Hillary ain't never been called a 'nigger!' Hillary has never had her people defined as a non-person," a fiery Wright also says.
Wright, who retired from his post earlier this year, also is seen saying in the video, "Who cares about what a poor black man has to face every day in a country and in a culture controlled by rich white people?"
Wright's sermon shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorism attacks is also under scrutiny, during which he said America had brought on the attacks with its own practice of terrorism.
"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," he says. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant. Because the stuff we have done overseas has now brought right back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."
Obama and Wright have long been close. Obama has been a member of Wright's church since his days in law school, and Obama's bestselling book, The Audacity of Hope, takes its title from one of Wright's sermons. Wright also married the Obamas and baptized their two children.
But Obama has long maintained he is at odds with some of Wright's sermons, and has likened him to an "old uncle" who sometimes will say things he doesn't agree with. He has also specifically denounced Wright's 9/11 comments.
An Obama campaign spokesman also said Thursday the Illinois senator "deplores divisive statements whether they come from his supporters, the supporters of his opponent, talk radio, or anywhere else."
UPDATE: Speaking with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Obama said, "I profoundly disagree with some of these statements."
"Here is what happens when you just cherry-pick statements from a guy who had a 40-year career as a pastor. There are times when people say things that are just wrong. But I think it's important to judge me on what I've said in the past and what I believe," he also said.
so i'll post alot about obama usually because he is definitely who i want to be pres =D . anyway i hate how people are judging him on what his pastor said not what he believes. its not fair to him. why should it even matter in the first place. anyway let me know your thoughts =D
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Mr. C - This is a make-up post.
While someone is on the campaign trail, everything they do, and everyone they associate with is scrutinized. The media has the right to free speech, but is taking something like some of Reverend Wright's more outspoken comments out of context really defensible? It sounds more like slander that free speech. - Allen Smith, esq.
Hellen speaking again............... I really like this post because it shows once again what epople do to make people look bad in our scoiety. Creating drama out of something another man said, but just because he is Obamas pastor and he sees him like an uncle, automatically any wrong doing of him or his family or close epople will always fall back on him. that is just how America workd and its allllllllllll BOLOGNA!!!!!!!!!! its so annoying to me because well yea maybe some of the things he said were wrong, but maybe he wasnt having a good day or something and why does it even matter, if this happen with another pastor, no one in the country would even know about it! in fact, im sure that other pastors have said things maybe not even good things about politics. That just how things go but how the... I mean why the heck would it go back to him. Thats what politics needs to stop now and days what "others" state! its not who is running for president! Overall i think the update that Obama answered back with was the best thing to say because its ridiculous how he even has to defend himself when an occurence wasnt even by him, but by another. everyone has different opinions, and by this blog you can see that even though Obama and his pastor are so colse, they both have different views on things. I mean they agree on their god, but not on all things because i mean... they are two completely differnt people.
Even though that Rev. Jereimiah Wright is a good friend of Obamas and Barack thinks of him as an "old uncle" still doesn't give Wright the right to say those things about him and be so blunt about it. Now, if Barack had approved what he was saying, then it would not have mattered as much and been so in the public news. But barack did not authorize this and that could really hurt baracks campaign. Rev. Wright should have known that he should not be making these statements about him and putting him down. This could get Re. Wright in trouble and he should really watch what he says to the public because it could really hurt people in the end.
- Maggie Caetano Per. 4 =)
Hi! I read Hellen and Maggies comments and i agree with both. Just because Rev is so "close" to Obama doesn't give him the right to say racial things about Hillary in his sermon..Even if Obama grew up in a different of harder lifestyle than Hillary, it isnt her fault and it certainly doesnt make Obama more qualified to win the race than Hillary. Anyway thats too bad for Obama that his Reverand slash "old uncle" figure talked crap about hillary and then we all expect Obama to apoligize for it, the rev should have written another sermon or something apologizing or i dont know haha but I hope the rev didnt ruin Obamas chance for pres just because of his little mess up.
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