{"id":196900,"date":"2008-03-15T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/15\/i-hope-that-obama-is-handling-this-problem-the-wright-way\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:27:00","slug":"i-hope-that-obama-is-handling-this-problem-the-wright-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/15\/i-hope-that-obama-is-handling-this-problem-the-wright-way\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hope That Obama is Handling this Problem the Wright Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/barack-obama\/on-my-faith-and-my-church_b_91623.html\">has disavowed incindiary statements made by his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright<\/a>, and he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=aktQHpFJxzsM&amp;refer=home\">been removed<\/a> from his campaign&#8217;s African American Religious Leadership Committee.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not been a fan of Obama, but this should be enough.  For all intents and purposes, except for literal genetics, this guy is his <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">family<\/span>.  He was married by him, his daughters were baptized by him.<\/p>\n<p>His statement about him sometimes being like an uncle who makes statements that you disagree with is in my assessment 100% true.<\/p>\n<p>In any sane world, this should close the matter.  In fact, it should also remove the whole &#8220;Obama as Muslim&#8221; slime too.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> a Muslim, and he has a nutty pastor to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the world of a presidential campaign is not &#8220;sane&#8221; by any measure.<\/p>\n<p>This sucks.<\/p>\n<p>The only bright spot is that I think that he has handled it well, which bodes well for him if he gets the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has has disavowed incindiary statements made by his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and he has been removed from his campaign&#8217;s African American Religious Leadership Committee. I&#8217;ve not been a fan of Obama, but this should be enough. For all intents and purposes, except for literal genetics, this guy is his family. He was married &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[977,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-campaign","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}