Obama’s Pastor: He Says What He Has to Say as a Politician

Posted on April 24, 2008

This will be the buzz soon enough, so I better weigh in before I’m the last to do so. One would have thought that Obama and his pastor would have come to an agreement after all the controversy his pastor caused. One would think that Obama would have told him to be on the “down-low” till the election is over. Perhaps the bright lights of fame and attention were too much to ignore, cuz now he went out and did an interview.…the end product which only digs the hole deeper. Michelle Malkin says Rev. Wright is the gift that keeps on giving. It is starting to look that way.

New controversy: Is his pastor saying Obama’s denunciation of his words were insincere?

Mr. Wright, who has acted as Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor and retired in February as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said that he has never heard Mr. Obama repeat any of his controversial statements.
“Absolutely not,” Mr. Wright said. “I don’t talk to him about politics. And so he had a political event, he goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician. I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God.”
Mr. Obama publicly denounced Mr. Wright’s remarks, a reaction Mr. Wright said “went down very simply.”
“He’s a politician, I’m a pastor,” he said. “We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they’re two different worlds.”
He added, “I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician.”

Ace:

A pastor says what he needs to say to inspire. A politician says what he needs to say to get elected. Seems Wright meant precisely what he seems to have meant.

MacRanger: