Speaking from Winston-Salem, Barack Obam denounces Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s comments during yesrerday’s speech before the National Press Club.
Sound bites:
“When you start focusing so much on the plight of the historically oppressed, you lose sight of what we have in common, that it overrides everything else, that we’re not concerned about the struggles of others because we’re looking at things only through a particular lens….
Yesterday, I think he caricatured himself, and that made me angry but it also made me sad…..There’s been great damage. It may have been unintentional on his part, uh, I do not see that relationship being the same after this…..I’m disappointed.
Winston-Salem, the center of political news today.
Update Press conference transcript:
But when (Wright) states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions as the U.S. government somehow being involved in AIDS; when he suggests that Minister Farrakhan somehow represents one of the greatest voices of the 20th and 21st century; when he equates the United States’ wartime efforts with terrorism, then there are no excuses. They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.
