Obama Throws Wright Under the Campaign Bus

Posted on April 29, 2008

After a mild rejection of Reverend Wrights' comments yesterday at an impromptu press conference, Barack Obama has now held a full formal press conference today to try to do damage control over his former pastor's recent speeches. Obama threw Wright under the campaign bus, then backed up and rolled over him a few times, just to be sure.

But isn't this all too little, too late? To say that this is not the man Obama knew for twenty years is ridiculous. Wright's act is a very polished, perfected one that he's been preaching for years. How could Obama not know what Wright was all about, when the rest of America knew after seeing his sermons? Here's the video of the press conference:

And here's the video of the Q and A: