Can someone close to Rev. Jeremiah Wright let him know that it’s time for him to take a step back from the stage and embrace silence. Here, Wright is making a comment about being able to talk to President Obama.
WRIGHT: Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office,” he said to the Daily Press of Newport News following a Tuesday night sermon at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference.
“They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. … I said from the beginning: He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do.”
That’s a horrible statement, and it just doesn’t make any sense.
Wright did apologize for it.
WRIGHT: I apologize for the way I framed my comments. I mis-spoke and I sincerely meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama administration. I have great respect for the Jewish faith and the foundational (and central) part of our Judeo-Christian tradition.
OK, the apology is sort of nice, but how about not saying that kind of inflammatory stuff in the first place? You’d think Wright would have learned by now.
Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/rev-wright-no-hard-feelin_n_213768.html
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