I want to make absolutely clear that I do not subscribe to the views that he expressed. I believe they are wrong. I think they are destructi...
When I say I find these comments appalling, I mean it. It contradicts everything that I'm about and who I am.
If what somebody says contradicts what you believe so fundamentally, and then he questions whether or not you believe it in front of the Nat...
There's been great damage. You know, it may have been unintentional on his part but, you know, I do not see that relationship being the same...
I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday.
I have known Reverend Wright for almost 20 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.
Reverend Wright does not speak for me; he does not speak for our campaign.
I've known Reverend Wright for almost 20 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.
I do not see that relationship being the same after this.
When I say I find these comments appalling I mean it. It contradicts everything that I'm about; and who I am.
Now is the time for us not to get distracted. Now is the time for us to pull together.
What I think particularly angered me was his suggestion, somehow, that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political postur...
He doesn't know me very well. And based on his remarks yesterday, well I may not know him as well as I thought either.
But he was somebody who was my pastor and married Michelle and I, and baptized my children, and prayed with us when we announced this race. ...
Barack Obama strikes out, saying his former pastor has fallen from grace in his interview -- in his view.
And the fact that Reverend Wright would think that somehow it was appropriate to command the stage for three or four consecutive days in the...
But he was somebody who was my pastor, and he married Michelle and I, and baptized my children, and prayed with us when we announced this ra...
And, so, you want to know who I am? You want to know what's in me? It's a love for this country that made my life possible.
