Hillary Comments on Rev. Wright

Posted on March 25, 2008

In an interview today, Hillary Clinton was asked by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board what she would do if her pastor made the kind of remarks that Obama's former pastor Wright had made.

CBS News reports that Clinton said, "He would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."

She also aid, "You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that. I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving."

Her response was very measured, and appropriate. It also cuts to the essential point that was lost during Senator Obama's word blizzard of a speech in which he talked and talked and talked, but never gave a good explanation as to why he would let his little girls grow up in a church where the pastor preached hate speech.

Reverend Wright's statements can't be explained away to mainstream voters with platitudes. Wright spews vile, disgusting, racist Anti-Americanism propaganda and is a conspiracy nut, to boot. He actually "preaches" that the U.S. government created the AIDS virus to exterminate black people. And Obama thinks somehow it's sufficient simply to say that he "disagrees" with that statement. It's not.