[taylormarsh.com]
As blogger Taylor Marsh notes, Barack Obama gave the GOP carte blanche to have at it on the Reverend Wright issue through his appearance on Fox on Sunday:
“In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Obama said that while he believes Wright and his church have been treated unfairly in the controversy, he expects the minister to be a part of the political debate.
"I think that people were legitimately offended by some of the comments that he had made in the past," Obama said. "The fact that he is my former pastor I think makes it a legitimate political issue. So I understand that."
“McCain, who has said little about the Wright controversy and has asked the North Carolina Republican Party not to air an ad critical of Wright and Obama set to run today, seized on Obama's comments during a news conference in Florida.
"Senator Obama himself says it's a legitimate political issue, so I would imagine that many other people will share that view and it will be in the arena," McCain said, according to Reuters wire service.”
Moreover, as if the Reverend Wrights comments at the National Press Club today—praising Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, reiterating his claim that America brought the 9/11 attacks on itself, and defending his “God damn America” sermon— were not bad enough, Wright spoke mockingly of civil rights icon John Fitzgerald Kennedy at the NAACP dinner (Wright was the keynote speaker) in Detroit:
"Nobody in Detroit speaks English. We all speak different varieties of American. ... .. John Kennedy could stand at the inauguration in January and say, (mocking Kennedy's Boston accent) "Eee-ask not what your country can do for you. Eee-ask rather what you can do for your
country." How do you spell eee-ask? Nobody ever said to John Kennedy, 'That's not English. Ee-ask. What's ee-ask? Only to a black child was it said, "You speak bad English." Kennedy got killed. Johnson stepped up to the podium in Love Field -- we just left Love Field -- and Johnson said (mocking of Johnson's southern accent follows, as the speech continues.)... “
Video excerpts of Wright mocking JFK can be seen in the above You Tube video.
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