Interesting letter to NYT, written one year ago by Rev. Wright, regarding Barack Obama.

[gauguin57]

This is on Time's politics page Saturday, March 29, about an interview the Times did with him regarding Obama (I've included the first four paragraphs):

http://thepage.time.com/text-of-letter-from-wright-to-the-new-york-times/

Text of Letter from Wright to the New York Times

March 11, 2007

Jodi Kantor
The New York Times

Dear Jodi:

Thank you for engaging in one of the biggest misrepresentations of the
truth I have ever seen in sixty-five years. You sat and shared with me
for two hours. You told me you were doing a “Spiritual Biography” of
Senator Barack Obama. For two hours, I shared with you how I thought he
was the most principled individual in public service that I have ever met.

For two hours, I talked with you about how idealistic he was. For two
hours I shared with you what a genuine human being he was. I told you
how incredible he was as a man who was an African American in public
service, and as a man who refused to announce his candidacy for
President until Carol Moseley Braun indicated one way or the other
whether or not she was going to run.

I told you what a dreamer he was. I told you how idealistic he was. We
talked about how refreshing it would be for someone who knew about Islam
to be in the Oval Office. Your own question to me was, Didn’t I think it
would be incredible to have somebody in the Oval Office who not only
knew about Muslims, but had living and breathing Muslims in his own
family? I told you how important it would be to have a man who not only
knew the difference between Shiites and Sunnis prior to 9/11/01 in the
Oval Office, but also how important it would be to have a man who knew
what Sufism was; a man who understood that there were different branches
of Judaism; a man who knew the difference between Hasidic Jews, Orthodox
Jews, Conservative Jews and Reformed Jews; and a man who was a devout
Christian, but who did not prejudge others because they believed
something other than what he believed.

I talked about how rare it was to meet a man whose Christianity was not
just “in word only.” I talked about Barack being a person who lived his
faith and did not argue his faith. I talked about Barack as a person
who did not draw doctrinal lines in the sand nor consign other people to
hell if they did not believe what he believed. ....

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[Lone_Star_Dem]

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[gauguin57]

2. Here is the link to Jodi's story ... the one Wright is complaining about.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/us/politics/06obama.html?pagewanted=print

[mkultra]

4. if you search her on the times website

you ll see a clear bias.

[housewolf]

3. Wow.

That's all. Just WOW. I'm speechless.

[silverweb]

6. You took the word right out of my mouth.

WOW!

That's all I can say. Bravo to Rev. Wright for laying it out so clearly and bluntly.

The clear, unvarnished, un-sugar-coated truth. How refreshing!

Now let's see what it takes for our citizens to deal with it.

Bravo, Rev. Wright! :applause:

[Beacool]

7. Ahhhh, once a panderer, always a panderer.

That's how Obama got to where he is, by not making waves and kissing up to party leaders.

Didn't seem to want stand up for his "uncle" at the time, nice friend.

What, no race speech to defend his pastor?

Mr. Wright said that in the phone conversation in which Mr. Obama disinvited him from a role in the announcement, Mr. Obama cited an article in Rolling Stone, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”

According to the pastor, Mr. Obama then told him, “You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.”