Barack Obama blasts pro-Hamas Op-Ed

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By RON KAMPEAS/ JTA
WASHINGTON

Sen. Barack Obama says that a pro-Hamas op-ed printed in his church's bulletin was "outrageously wrong."

In an issue dated July 22, 2007, in a section titled "Pastor's Page," the Trinity United Church in Chicago reprinted an article by Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzook. The article, which originally appeared as an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, justifies the Palestinian terrorist group's denial of Israel's right to exist.

The church's pastor, Jeremiah Wright Jr., who retired this year, has stirred controversy for Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with statements likening Israel to colonialists and blaming attacks on the United States in part on its support for Israel.

In slamming the Hamas piece, Obama noted that he strongly rejects some of his longtime pastor's views...

[usrbs]

1. Very delayed reaction...

[Vegasaurus]

2. It;s about time

Affiliation with this type of nutter will cost Obama. He needs to separate himself from terrorist apologists like this pastor.

[subsuelo]

3. Translation: He needs to stop supporting Palestinian human rights

Where did the nutter Reverend get the foul idea that people might favor fair treatment towards both sides?

[azurnoir]

4. If some of people I talked to over the weekend

are a barometer, Barak has separated himself from a lot more than his Pastor, and Hamas or the I/P conflict has very little to do with it

[stranger81]

5. Que?

what have you been observing?

[azurnoir]

6. His speech about his Pastor/civil rights in America

may not as been as "well received" as the media would have you believe, at least in some sectors.

[stranger81]

7. gotcha.

I've been working too much the past week and haven't had enough time to pay attention to how the speech went over.

[MaryCeleste]

8. Predisposition ruled the day on it

If you support Obama it was world class. If you don't is was somewhere between ho hum or a downer.