Word: reverend
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Reverend was outrageous, even on Moyers. He stood by what he had preached after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: that this was a case of America's "chickens coming home to roost." He tried to say he was merely quoting U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck-but Wright chose to interpret those "chickens" not as the decision to place U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, which was Osama bin Laden's casus belli, but as the ancient sins of slavery, the eradication of Native Americans, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It would have been nice if Moyers had asked Wright...
...wonder how Moyers reacted when he saw the Reverend's smug, disdainful, outrageous-Obama's word-performance a few days later at the National Press Club. Wright refused to back away from his contention that AIDS was a government conspiracy, said that attacking him was an attack on the black church, refused to step away from Louis Farrakhan and again said of Sept. 11, "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you." Twenty years ago, the response of too many Moyers-era liberals would have been to try to understand Wright...
...launched a series of provocative remarks over the weekend and on Monday. On Tuesday afternoon, Obama denounced Wright, saying "His comments were not only divisive... but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate." The candidate added, "Whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed as a consequence of this." Whether that is enough to quell the controversy is one thing. But it also continues to raise the question about the preacher at the center of the controversy: What exactly does he believe...
...last week's Pennsylvania primary. In particular, they overshadowed campaign events that were aimed at connecting better with senior citizens and blue-collar whites, two groups that Obama has been losing to Clinton. "It's harder to break through if you're spending a lot of time on Reverend Wright," lamented one of Obama's top strategists...
...Rove denounced Obama’s response to the comments made by his pastor, saying that Obama “threw his grandmother under the bus” in his speech when he equated her “fear of black men” with the comments of his reverend...