I have known Reverend Wright for almost 20 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago.

I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday.

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.

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 race, and, so -- so, I'm disappointed.

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 midst of this major debate is something that not only makes me angry but also saddens me.

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 posturing.

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.