Wright Removed From Obama Advisory Committee

As of today, according to an Obama campaign official, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is no longer serving on the campaign's African American Religious Leadership Committee. Earlier today, the campaign said they did not envision a scenario where Wright would leave that committee. Now he is gone.

In two days, a spasm of right-wing media attention has completed the circle on Rev. Wright, helping Obama with some housecleaning ahead of the general election, but potentially, serving to warn the campaign as well of what they'll face in the fall.

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by the end of race it will just be OBAMA/HILLARY standing. Maybe that's what the campaign was meant to be, but the media wants to make it about everything else because of advertisers....

Posted by THINK | March 14, 2008 7:54 PM

by the end of race it will just be OBAMA/HILLARY standing. Maybe that's what the campaign was meant to be, but the media wants to make it about everything else because of advertisers....

Posted by THINK | March 14, 2008 7:54 PM

by the end of race it will just be OBAMA/HILLARY standing. Maybe that's what the campaign was meant to be, but the media wants to make it about everything else because of advertisers....

Posted by THINK | March 14, 2008 7:54 PM

by the end of this race it will just be OBAMA/HILLARY standing. Maybe that's what the campaign was meant to be, but the media wants to make it about everything else because of advertisers and revenue.

Posted by THINK | March 14, 2008 7:55 PM

by the end of this race it will just be OBAMA/HILLARY standing. Maybe that's what the campaign was meant to be, but the media wants to make it about everything else because of advertisers and revenue.

Posted by THINK | March 14, 2008 7:55 PM

by the end of this race it will just be OBAMA/HILLARY standing. Maybe that's what the campaign was meant to be, but the media wants to make it about everything else because of advertisers and revenue.

Posted by THINK | March 14, 2008 7:55 PM

ya think?

Posted by bjd | March 14, 2008 8:23 PM

One wonders, after the "anal" exam of the Mormon religion why only the "right wing" press seems interested in Obama's religion.

Posted by Kate | March 14, 2008 8:53 PM

So apparently ABC News is now a "right-wing" media organization? And this actually helps Obama by allowing him to do some "housekeeping"? And you're now so sure that Obama will beat Clinton that you assume he's headed to the general election?

Spin, Marc, spin!

Posted by Bobby | March 14, 2008 9:00 PM

"helping Obama with some housecleaning"

You liberals are funny. Yep, this whole thing has been a huge help to the Obama campaign. Folks, this is Willie Horton times ten.

Posted by Mitch | March 14, 2008 9:04 PM

Where was the fuss when McCain called Washington D.C the 'city of Satan' which he did a week ago. Not a word of it has been discussed. He gets a free pass from the media and Obama is smared with association by a ranting pastor.

Posted by Kelly Pierce | March 14, 2008 9:04 PM

"March Madness" comes to those basketball afficionados over at the Cult Compound. LOL, better late than never. Can't wait to see what Mad March Hare pops out of "The Big Hat" next.

Posted by robert ethan | March 14, 2008 9:25 PM

Amblinders, how about "a spasm of WRIGHT-WINGNUT media attention"? Bit closer to being accurate, I think.

Posted by robert ethan | March 14, 2008 9:28 PM

The latest poll from Ohio today shows McCain in a very strong position against both Democrats, leading them by 6%.

McCain is starting to enjoy quite an impressing string of polls. Democrats better find a way to counter this fast.

Posted by Daniel | March 14, 2008 9:45 PM

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So the right wingers will focus all their energy on Obama and his Wright connection. Forgeting their own troubled religious leaders. None of these guys said anyting about Bob Jones, Bill Grahmn, Pat Roberston and Jerry Fallwell. Nor did they bring up the mormon beliefs about blacks. I'm glad this came out now, because they can repeat this over and over again and it will lose its point and help dispel those muslim rumours.

I am an Obama supporter and am glad he condemned the sin but not the sinner.

Posted by sonya | March 14, 2008 9:53 PM

Bobby,

Yeah, ABC has some biased... no one said its right wing. Bob Iger is a Clinton Supporter... Just as Murdock's hands are all over Fox, Iger has given word for ABC news to go after Obama and lay off Hillary. Its just fact.

Posted by Michael | March 14, 2008 10:27 PM

Wright isn't saying anything that college teachers all over America haven't been saying for decades, at least he's not asking for a 10-page paper substantiating his points. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has even had books written about her spiritual life, yet neither she nor Bill Clinton ever attend church. Barack Obama, why not let him tell us in his own words what he believes? Some folks just take longer than others to wise up; the Clintons, both of them, are kryptonite: http://theseedsof9-11.com

Posted by Peggy McGilligan | March 14, 2008 10:27 PM

Helps them with "housekeeping"? Yeah, because we all know the right won't mention that Wright was Obama's spiritual guidance counselor, and was responsible for the title of Obama's book.

Kelly Pierce, probably because most American taxpayers have said the same.

Posted by Benson | March 14, 2008 10:38 PM

The sanctimonious, self-righteous, holier-than-thou right wing media is smirking with judgemental joy over the Wright message. The "my Christianity is better than your Christianity" right winger Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was on CNN tonight helpfully preaching to us that the Scriptures instruct us all to revere our government and obey it's laws and not tear it down and mock it (and I am paraphrasing) like the America-hating Wright. Yeah, the right wing "Christians" excoriate Wright for his condemnation of the U.S. government yet have no problem blaming feminists, gays, and lesbians for the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The hypocrisy is infuriating but expected. I support Obama, but I liked him better as an athiest. Too bad it took Christianity to teach him about hope and rising above; I just wish he could have "found religion" without "religion." You can't win with Jesus or without him in politics these days. But you better make sure your version of Jesus is more like Tony Perkins, or Pat Robertson's, or Mike Huckabee's or even McCain's spiritual guru the good Rev. Hagee or you'll wind up like Mitt.

Posted by SMN | March 14, 2008 10:45 PM

I have to say, the entire conversation about Reverend Wright and Trinity Church is alarming to me, and probably a lot of others in Chicago who actually know first hand of what we speak.

While Rev. Wright may use rhetoric and even hold some views that don't completely agree with many others (his congregants included, definitely), he and his congregation and church have done more for progressive causes and social justice than all of the thumb-twiddling bloggers from the Atlantic and a hundred other websites and magazines put together.

Whether it was standing up for community benefits agreements before letting Wal-Mart set foot in our city, standing with workers of every possible color, race, or religion in fights for justice on the job, or the simple act of being an "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian" church that works across racial and interfaith lines in many of our movements for social justice, the Pastoral staff and members of Trinity have always been there for us. Why can't the spineless Democrats and lily-white bloggers do a little research before throwing our own people over the side?

And to think that Reverend Wright's name can be used in the same sentence as an unapologetic hate-monger like Hagee is an insult to people of faith everywhere. You may disagree with the Reverend. I know I do, on many points. But try to check your facts before spitting in the face of not only the thousands of members of Trinity, but one of the hubs of social progress in Chicago.

Posted by a | March 14, 2008 10:51 PM

And to think that Reverend Wright's name can be used in the same sentence as an unapologetic hate-monger like Hagee is an insult to people of faith everywhere

We're talking about the same Wright that blames America for AIDS, says we're all racist white supremacists, and says we had 9/11 coming? And you're objecting to his name being mentioned with Hagee?

Posted by Benson | March 14, 2008 11:02 PM

"We're talking about the same Wright that blames America for AIDS, says we're all racist white supremacists, and says we had 9/11 coming? And you're objecting to his name being mentioned with Hagee?"

Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer: Yes. Because there is (at the very least) a morsel of truth in most of what I've heard Rev. Wright say. Including all three of the items you've mentioned. And I have heard Rev. Wright speak more than the soundbites you may have seen on cable news or youtube.

What has Hagee done that has advanced the lives of people, or advanced the cause of justice? Rev. Wright has an entire career filled with not only colorful and over-blown rhetoric, but actual support for and involvement in action that has improved the lives of working people and communities in Chicago.

I understand many will disagree with me. And I will say that to me that speaks to the amazing amount of denial that many white people (especially white liberals) must have to live with constantly. And really, that's sad. But when people in your community are dying every day because of the deliberate actions of the powerful, sometimes, come Sunday morning, things get a little overheated. I'm just sayin'.

Posted by a | March 14, 2008 11:17 PM

has Obama himself ever given voice to any hatred of any kind? Has he ever acted in such a way as to suggest that he harbors such antipathies? Not that I am aware of. He has only spoken to reconciliation, to a durable optimism that might at least allow us to begin to approach the ideals we espouse. How many of us maintain friendships with those who have expressed racially inflected views, and yet admire and love these friends nonetheless? And lastly, do we really pretend that the anger and frustration that Reverend Wright gives voice to does not derive from a troubled past for which generations were culpable and the pain from which is not simply extinguished because we wish it were so?

Posted by B | March 14, 2008 11:17 PM

Posted by alison | March 15, 2008 1:05 AM

Posted by alison | March 15, 2008 1:05 AM

"Right wing"?

Posted by Cal | March 15, 2008 1:11 AM

First, I agree with Marc that this would have surfaced as Hannity, Ingraham (loyal Romney fans of all things) and company have been salivating over this for a while. Better now than later.

Second, thank you a...you have expressed well what I've been wondering all day. If you know more folks familiar with Wright, please have them start plastering their experiences all over the web. Not for Obama necessarily, but for the cause of ridding ourselves of these instant, kneejerk reactions in our politics.

All they can come up with in Wright's 35 years of preaching are 3 crazy moments?

We're willing to assume that's all Wright is made of off of 3 freakin' 30 second snippets?

That says way more about US than it does about Wright or Obama.

All those of you that call yourselves journalists, do the dang research. What is this church and Reverend Wright all about those other 1000's of soundbites we haven't seen on Sean Hannity.

Good grief.

Posted by G Davis | March 15, 2008 2:34 AM

So, he was part of his campaign!! LOL Yesterday, Marc was comparing him with... Falwell!

Wright is not only Obama's spiritual guide but also a political mentor!

Michelle Obama, Samantha Power, Wright, Rezko - this is the kind of guys that Obama have around him.

And why only today he fired Wright?? Yesterday, it was only a "crazy uncle" thing. Now, it has become so serious!

Posted by as | March 15, 2008 8:18 AM

Let's not forget this!

""Presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday that he got more political money from indicted Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko than he has previously acknowledged.""

Posted by Mary Anderson | March 15, 2008 8:21 AM

I have heard Reverend Wright criticized for making 'bigoted' remarks. From the clips I have seen thus far his principal 'racial' comments seem to have been to notice forcefully that America is controlled by 'rich white people.' Is this a controversial statement? Would it be more accurate to say that America is controlled by 'poor white people', 'rich black men' or 'lower middle class latinos'? If he had simply noted that America is controlled by 'rich people' would that just be a 'classist' statement that was unfairly inciting his congregation to class warfare? Are African Americans not permitted to note that, in general, they do not wield as much power as economically powerful whites? Are Hillary's supporters not permitted to note that women do not wield as much power as economically powerful white men? Are white working class men not permitted to note that they do not wield as much power as economically powerful white men? If not, then let's have a tea party and forget serious politics. That said, for those not familiar with black preaching style (and that's lots of folks), the stylistics will be off-putting. Obama is starting to address the impact of the clips, but has more work to do.

Posted by leif lessons | March 15, 2008 9:37 AM

He gets through this is by making several brilliant speeches about race, religion, his own journey etc. He has to go straight into the heart of it.

I have to say though, that all of this stuff is depressing. This country is really in a wretched, wretched state: the dollar is collapsing, the war is costing trillions of dollars, thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands with life changing injuries, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and no end in sight.

The phony patriotism in some of these posts is truly loathsome. I don't think America can afford not to have an Obama Presidency. The country is going deep into the valley and the only way it comes through it is united. The other two candidates rely on division and fragmentation (especially Clinton) Obama is the only one who has been able to bridge divides in race, income, generation, and politics. Have any of you ever heard Obama say anything remotely like the words of Wright? NEVER! Does anyone seriously believe that Obama has crafted a wily uniting message so he can get to the White and then rule as a black supremacist? Like I said he needs to spend a solid week or two transforming this into something positive, he has the mind and language to do it. America can be wonderful, dynamic, and transformative, but for the past eight years it has been frightened and stupid, and it's the fear and stupidity he has to cut through.

Posted by h1000 | March 15, 2008 11:46 AM

Wright may have left the Obama campaign but Obama has not left Wright's church.

His continued membership and support of a church founded by a man who preaches such vile hatred of America is not acceptable for a presidential candidate.

Posted by ken | March 15, 2008 12:08 PM

Jeremiah Wright is a sick man whom Obama should be ashamed of having any ties to. Why blame his resignation on the right wing media? I think ABC was one of the first to report on it Thursday morning. By seeing Wright's sermons, we now have a view of the real Obama and his disgusting and repealling ideology. This man is such a fraud and I don't know why he puts the word "hope" into so many of his speeches if his spiritual advisor says "God damn America".

Posted by Carter | March 15, 2008 12:28 PM

I have always believed that Barack will break the election wide open when he took the racial bull by the horns and made America a promise of change in this area. This is his crisis and his opportunity.

Johnson said that if he signed the Civil Rights Act that no Democrat would win the South from that day on. Such is the power of race and that power, if harnessed authentically, would be unstoppable.

As a black man who missed the 60s but has managed to gain substantially from the blood of others, I can see the truth of Wrights comments and the corresponding anger. Every black man knows about Tuskegee, Chicago jails and has clear images of young men twisting in the wind under fine Southern trees. Rev. Wright could probably name the trees and the men whom took their last breath under them. No real rocket science here.

Barack has positioned himself as a political healer but his success will be defined by his ability to heal racial and religous divides given his unique biracial heritage. If Barack chooses to redirect the sociology of racial relations in America he will do something so much more important than run Casa Blanca for the short side of a decade. Hillary can do that just fine but there is no way on earth that she can transform racial relations in America.

From crisis springs opportunity. Let's see what Barack is made of.

Posted by Reginald Avery Wilkins, Ph.D. | March 15, 2008 12:37 PM

Reginald,

As a white liberal who battled against racial prejudice in the 60's 70's and beyond, I will say that if Obama wanted to heal the racial divide in this country he would have found another Christian church to attend.

Black racism is vile and disgusting and only makes it that much harder for people like me to convince others that we still have a need for affirmative action, jobs programs directed at minorities, preferential admission to universities, law schools and colleges, etc.

I will never support Obama and I will encourage everyone I know to reject him as well. I didn't fight the battles to make a black man's candidate possible only to be made a fool of by a black man finally fullfilling that dream.

Posted by ken | March 15, 2008 12:51 PM

Too bad Ken that you, a self-described white liberal, don't like the "black man's" candidate you fought so many "battles" for. Too bad that candidate and the blacks that support him aren't showing you the appropriate level of gratitude you believe you deserve for fighting thier battles. I guess the slaves turned against the master and the hand that fed them.

Posted by S | March 15, 2008 12:59 PM

It's very sad reading some of these posts. It seems that a lot of people are deciding that Obama is finished.

Reginald Avery Wilkins lays out the only powerful way through this for Obama. If he can't do it then America is looking at President McCain. If McCain picks a brilliant technocrat as VP, someone who will instantly inspire confidence about the economy then he will most likely be President. I suppose there is a way for the Clintons to crawl their way back in to the White House but I can't see it right now. She's too hated.

I really hope Obama can dig deep and take this on. I agree with the Reverend, if he can do it then he really will be a force to be reckoned with. If he can't then I think this country is really in trouble. A crashing dollar, soaring oil prices, a three trillion dollar war that rages on and on and a world that has lost all respect for America.

Posted by h1000 | March 15, 2008 2:01 PM

Hillary needs to keep fighting. It's apparent now more than ever that a brokered convention producing a Gore/Obama ticket is the party's best shot in November. I hope superdelegates keep this thing alive.

Posted by Justin | March 15, 2008 2:04 PM

S,

Neither Condi Rice nor Colin Powell represent political idealogies I support. But both of their ideologies are within the mainstream.

Obama embraces a church that preaches resentment against white people and black victimhood. This is not mainstream but is vile and disgusting.

The battles we white liberals fought for are the battles that gave us Rice, Powell and Obama. Of the three I find Obama repulsive, even though he is a liberal and the other two are conservatives. I may disagree with Powell and Rice but I respect them and I believe they would never associate themselves with a church that demeans white people.

Posted by ken | March 15, 2008 4:32 PM

S,

Neither Condi Rice nor Colin Powell represent political idealogies I support. But both of their ideologies are within the mainstream.

Obama embraces a church that preaches resentment against white people and black victimhood. This is not mainstream but is vile and disgusting.

The battles we white liberals fought for are the battles that gave us Rice, Powell and Obama. Of the three I find Obama repulsive, even though he is a liberal and the other two are conservatives. I may disagree with Powell and Rice but I respect them and I believe they would never associate themselves with a church that demeans white people.

Posted by ken | March 15, 2008 4:33 PM

This is really a very whiny statement:
"And I will say that to me that speaks to the amazing amount of denial that many white people (especially white liberals) must have to live with constantly."

Interesting that Barack Obama is the one who attracts white liberals, and Hillary Clinton attracts blue-collar workers who make less than $50,000. Many have a theory that rich white liberals are backing Obama out of guilt. Are you echoing that sentiment?

Why is it not obvious to black people that the problem in America has to do with poor people, not with black people?

If Jeremiah Wright ever plans to talk like someone filled with love, he needs to get over blaming white people as a blanket indictment. That's racist.

If he wants to blame rich people, he might be closer to the truth. But to blame white people is out-and-out racist, and if black Obama supporters don't recognize that, they will soon be in the corner whining all by themselves.

Jeremiah Wright's message to America is nothing but pure reverse-racial hatred, compared to the message to America of care and compassion offered by rich white person John Edwards.

If you don't see THAT, you have an amazing amount of self-denial going on yourself.

We will be seeing these hate-filled sermons on youtube over and over and over again.

If they make black people proud of themselves when they watch them, so be it.

Posted by Jan | March 15, 2008 5:22 PM

This moment of strife is actually an opportunity for Senator Obama to demonstrate leadership:

http://acropolisreview.com/2008/03/barack-obama-condemns-reverend-jeremiah.html

Posted by TC | March 15, 2008 5:34 PM

I met James Baldwin after a speech he gave at the University of California at Santa Barbara back in 85 I believe. As a young idealist, fresh from so many sit-ins at the Chancellor's office and so many marches to end UC funding of Apartheid, it was such an honor to actually see a black man who lived by letters and who actually witnessed my wistful image of pre and post civil rights America, the Vietnam era and the glory of the Gipper years.

What I'll never forget about his speech was the assertion that, yes indeed, America was once again the future of the world - not in some state department bureaucrat's idea of the end of history - but in how people who look, think and experience reality in such vastly different manners might just manage to work together to craft the best of what humanity can offer.

In short, Baldwin told us that if America could pull it off, this mutt of a nation, then we would show the world that a future short of casual genocide puctuated by mindless wars is not the sure destiny of this vast holocene tribe.

I am not so sanguine some two decades later but I have not entirely lost faith in the experiment, and I doubt Baldwin would have either if he were here to witness the movement that Barack has kindled in this damned dear country.

Folks like me who have never done anything more than vote for a president are knocking on doors, calling strangers, giving way too much money and twisting the arms of all sorts of family members because we believe in the dream of a better America and for whatever reason, this man with the crazy name that mocks our fears has been chosen as our agent.

I submit that only the fulfillment of this dream of a better America will end the nightmare that defines the real experience of the Reverend, and that in that experience he is not alone. This nightmare fuels so much fear, guilt and wasted human energy that should be devoted to solving our pressing problems of global disease, climate change, and catastrophic weaponry to name just a few on this fine Saturday.

About 25 years ago, the morning after a rather crazy hike down Botcher's Gap in the Ventana wilderness south of Monterey, we found ourselves quite cold and down to one match. All of the wood was wet and had refused all entrieties to behave. The match wasn't perfect, as I recall, but it was our only chance of both eating and getting our body temps above shivering. It was kinda neat to have everything so clear and unambiguous.

As imperfect as he may be, what if Barack Hussein Obama is that match.

A

Posted by Reginald Avery Wilkins, Ph.D. | March 15, 2008 6:21 PM

I don't think most of the people talking about differences of opinion with Wright have heard the audio clips of some of his more bombastic sermons. Give them a listen, and you'll see this isn't a simple matter of disagreeing with your preacher. The man is positively enraged in some of the clips, and says some pretty jaw-dropping things. We're not talking about principled disagreements on policy; we're talking about blind bigotry. The guy's a crazy, bottom line.

Even if this weren't true (though it is), you still have a Pastor taking angry, controversial political stands from the pulpit. You can't downplay Wright as simply a "spiritual advisor" when his sermons are not similarly restricted. That's the whole point: that he has not been content to advise simply on spiritual matters. He injects political rhetoric into his sermons.

Posted by Punditish | March 15, 2008 7:21 PM

The faux outrage from white soi-disant liberals is pretty rich. Guess what they're saying is that they have no problem with black folks as long as they know their place and gratefully accept condescending pats on the head from their white liberal betters.

Posted by Steve LaBonne | March 15, 2008 8:09 PM

Or that they don't like people who have angry, conspiracy-theorist bigots for mentors. Could be that.

Posted by Punditish | March 15, 2008 9:36 PM

Only, it isn't.

Posted by Steve LaBonne | March 15, 2008 9:45 PM

P.S. If a few carefully selected snippets from decades of sermons (Fox and ABC bought the whole set- you can bet if they'd found more nuggets they'd have run them) give you the vapors, please don't ever accidentally tune in to a black talk-radio station. You'll have a massive coronary on the spot.
As annoying as you are, I wouldn't wish that on you.

Posted by Steve LaBonne | March 15, 2008 9:50 PM

The total state of denial that you Obama-ites
live in should be a wake-up call to the electorate...you guys are lock-step loons
trying to rationalize your candidate's lack
of gravitas as a ...virtue? Can you imagine
what his Cabinet would look like? It doesn't bother you that people like the Rev. Wright
would be giving him input as to how to run the
USA? I have a visceral dislike of the Clintons,
but you true believers better get ready for
the day your Democrat elders drop the axe on
your idol. Hillary will prevail...you know it..
I know it...the MSM knows it....how is it that
YOU don't!!!!

Posted by interferon | March 15, 2008 11:40 PM

You Dems have already given us one man
from "HOPE"...and look what he did in and around
the oval office. Even Wright knows that
Bill was doing the "NASTY" to Monica...and the rest of America. The irony is that the Democrat
hierarchy will soon be doing the "NASTY" to
you upstart backers of anyone not named Clinton.
Deal with it!

Posted by interferon | March 16, 2008 12:01 AM

I just read the text of Wright's "Audacity of Hope" speech that inspired the title of Obama's book. It contains none of the vitriol we see in the video clips now on Youtube, and it shows a decency and depth of thinking that helps explain Obama's attraction to Wright. Nice to have a less cartoonish image of the pastor, one that might help us all understand why Obama stayed with him through the years. People should read it for perspective on the current firestorm.

No doubt, Obama should have distanced himself long ago. But as is always the case, the reality is more complex, and the human dynamics more understandable, than the media's frenzied narrative suggests.

Posted by Stephen | March 16, 2008 11:48 AM

Getting yourself pastored by a radical hater shows bad judgment. Lying about it when asked by the media shows dishonesty. Request for presidency denied.
The reason why a whore is more ethical than a politician is: a whore never knowingly promises what she cannot deliver.

--klqtzz

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Posted by winstonsmith | March 18, 2008 5:35 PM

What was scary was the Nation of Islam body guards around Rev. Wright at the Press Club. I thought these goons had already left society. I knew Farrakan was sick and I thought they had gone underground. But no, Barack Obama, the "one" has brought everyone back to life: the SDS, Weathermen, Nation of Islam, Farrakan. Terrific, just what we need. This country isn't in enough trouble.

Posted by Kathy | May 4, 2008 1:29 PM