Sen. Barack Obama said he is "outraged" by comments his former minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, made Monday at the National Press Club and "saddened by the spectacle."
Obama said he is outraged by Wright's remarks that seemed to suggest the U.S. government might be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community, and his equation of some American wartime efforts with terrorism.
"What particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing," said Obama, who added that Wright had shown "little regard for me" and seemed more concerned with "taking center stage."
Obama said Wright's comments were not only "divisive and destructive," but they also "end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate."
You see, that's how you properly bullshit people. Had Obama said these words during his "race speech", he might have convinced a lot more people then he had previously. Now it just looks like he's seeing the damage and is just trying to control the furor over what's going on.
Obama does speak well publicly, and he gives a good line of bullshit, but when you delve deeper into what he's accomplished, you see that it isn't much. While I want to believe that there's someone who can inspire everyone around him, including foreign nation leaders towards a favorable attitude to the United States, regardless of political ideology, I keep coming to the same conclusions over and over: He's a bullshit artist.
Travis
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