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Originally Posted by sabang  All of this talk about the Rev. Wright seems to have He's certainly done a lot more with his career than your average suburban Pastor. I don't agree with all that he has said on the pulpit, but his contributions in a social sense vastly outweigh that. | I am not one that thinks a persons good works should allow folks to overlook their bad works/words. The reverend might have done lots of good, but that in no fashion excuses him for making many of the questionable comments. It is not Obama’s association with the reverend that makes me not want to vote for him – it is his platform. And hopeful most voters (but probably not the case) will also make their voting decision based upon platform and not associations. That being said I don’t have a huge problem with his association with Obama, and I think the speech Obama made following this whole things blowing up was actually a decent speech. Sure it will be consider divisive by some on both side but lets face it most of the folks that consider that speech divisive weren’t likely to vote for him anyway. I think he speech was effective at reaching the market that it was target at. I also doubt that we have seen the end of this by a long shot. The red team will certainly make more of this later should Obama end up with the nod to run for the top spot in the land by the blue team.
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