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Originally Posted by Bronko
He made the speech because he had too. This speech was immediately scheduled once his advisors realized that conservative pundits were not going to let this die. He didn't do the brave thing, he did the smart thing. The brave thing would have been to stand in front of that racist pig years ago and tell him unless he can open his mind and embrace HOPE and CHANGE, then he was going to take his family and his tens of thousands of dollars in donation and find somebody that will.
The ironic thing about this is that the liberals are caught up in defending a man of the cloth and praising the congregation and the conservatives are attacking the man of the cloth and trying to divide the congregation. NOW I have seen it all.
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Fair point - he had to make the speech because Hillary and the conservative pundits were hitting him petty hard on this. Passing on fourth and fifty is not so brave if you have no other choice. However he took the issue head on and did not go for the easy way out of saying I will never talk to this guy etc. Instead he spoke honestly about the concerns of both blacks and whites and did not try to gloss over the issues with generalities or feel good statements.
Leaving your church I think is a pretty big step and what Obama said was he knows a lot about this guy and he has done a lot of good for his parish. I can not argue with that one way or another. I do know that As a Catholic I have serious disagreements about what the Church has done with respect to certain issues outside the realm of religion. However I have not left the church because I believe you can separate the religious dogma from the actions of the organized body. I am not sure yet if I would vote for Obama but i think today showed me a lot about his willingness to take on one of the difficult issues that is facing this country.
Last point is before you judge Obama harshly for his association with Rev. Wright how upset were you when President Bush and former President Reagan spoke and gave their support to Bob Jones University a school that makes inter-racial dating grounds for to be expelled?