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Title: Buried in Eloquence, Obama Contradictions About Pastor
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ABC
URL Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4480868&page=1
Published: Mar 19, 2008
Author: BRIAN ROSS
Post Date: 2008-03-19 17:05:39 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 148
Comments: 8
By BRIAN ROSS and AVNI PATEL March 19, 2008 Buried in his eloquent, highly praised speech on America's racial divide, Sen. Barack Obama contradicted more than a year of denials and spin from him and his staff about his knowledge of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial sermons. Similarly, Obama also has only recently given a much fuller accounting of his relationship with indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a longtime friend, who his campaign once described as just one of "thousands of donors." Until yesterday, Obama said the only thing controversial he knew about Rev. Wright was his stand on issues relating to Africa, abortion and gay marriage. "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial," Obama said at a community meeting in Nelsonville, Ohio, earlier this month. "He has said some things that are considered controversial because he's considered that part of his social gospel; so he was one of the leaders in calling for divestment from South Africa and some other issues like that," Obama said on March 2. His initial reaction to the initial ABC News broadcast of Rev. Wright's sermons denouncing the U.S. was that he had never heard his pastor of 20 years make any comments that were anti-U.S. until the tape was played on air. But yesterday, he told a different story.
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Like Hayek said, the quickest way to render a word meaningless is to qualify it with "social."
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