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Wright: 'Them Jews' Won't Let Me Talk to Obama

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 10, 2009 2:07 PM CDT
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(Newser) – The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has no hard feelings against President Obama and will speak to him again when able, the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press reports. Wright, at a ministers conference, said, “them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in 5 years when he’s a lame duck, or in 8 years when he’s out of office.”

Wright also bears no ill will toward the president who distanced himself during the campaign. “Of course I voted for him,” Wright said. “He’s my son. I’m proud of him. I’ve got five biological kids. They all make mistakes and bad choices. I haven’t stopped loving any of them.” Wright boiled down their difference simply. “He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do.”

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks at the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Selma, Ala., in March.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright speaks at the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Selma, Ala., in March.   (AP Photo)
Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama with then-pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama with then-pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.   (AP Photo)
Barack Obama on the campaign trail.
Barack Obama on the campaign trail.   (AP Photo)
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Shannonals
Jun 12, 2009 4:31 AM CDT
Giving attention to people like Wright and Ayers is idiotic
riffran
Jun 11, 2009 12:54 PM CDT
gee a black liberation radical, complaining about Jews.....well if he dont like it leave it didn't he spell America as AmeriKKKa?.....dont let the door hit ya on the ass
brawne
Jun 11, 2009 12:36 PM CDT
I'm writing this from a very low limb so the fall won't be so painful. I think we must remember that he's talking about Chicago. Sorta like, come on Jake it's Chinatown. When he says, "them Jews" he's referring not to the ethnicity of millions of innocent people, but to the Machine that snarked Obama years ago, and has nothing to do with religion or ethnicity. I wasn't fond of Obama's tossing his gear into that mess, but I was content with his obvious intelligence and I have little problem with how the little engine that could--did. But it would be a tad cold to belittle the words from a rung that still remembers the foot that rested there until the next rung was available. There's nothing wrong with the climb, on the contrary, it is how things work. But some steps begrudge the foot more than others.
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Christianity • Jews • religion • Election 2008 • Trinity United Church of Christ • Rev. Jeremiah Wright • President Obama

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