Obama Defends Wright's Reputation, Not Words


	Obama Defends Wright's Reputation, Not Words

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3-27-2008 7:42 PM

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"If all I saw of Rev. Wright …  were the 30-second or one-minute clips that have been looped over the last two weeks again and again as opposed to the body of work for 30 years that he engaged in in building a church that is a pillar of the community on the South Side [of Chicago]," Obama told ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, referring to the <A target="external" href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1">controversy that erupted over incendiary remarks by his pastor of 20 years</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Vote2008/story?id=4535600&page=1"><P>
"It's as if we took the five dumbest things that I ever said or you ever said … in our lives and compressed them, and put them out there, you know, I think that people's reaction would be understandably upset."
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"There have been times in his sermons where his indictment of racism or institutional barriers to African-American freedom in this country struck me as stuck in the '60s; not having acknowledged, you know, that today's America is very different from the America that he grew up in," Obama said.
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