Obama on Wright
“I have talked to him.”
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by Shushannah Walshe
He admitted to speaking to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright since the controversy surrounding some of Wright’s more inflammatory preachings came to light, “I have talked to him. I have not asked him to do anything.” He also responded to President Clinton’s comments earlier today when he said that “If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office. “ He agreed with the former President saying it is a “tough business,” but added that he is “proud” of how he has acted during the campaign referring to personal attacks and that he wants to “maintain” that “tone” throughout the campaign:
“I’ve been trying to do in this campaign is to see if we can change the tenor a little bit so that it’s more productive. I have no problem with having pretty fierce arguments about policy. President Clinton was the one who I think is the one that decried the politics of personal destruction, so obviously he recognizes that there is a line that can be crossed. I’m not suggesting it’s been crossed in this campaign but a line can be crossed when you stop focusing on the American people’s business, and it becomes just sport. It all becomes about winning as opposed to getting stuff done. And that’s part of the political culture I’d like to change. I’m not naive to think that it changes is entirely.” Obama told reporters on the flight from Greensboro, N.C. to New York City, “And as much as possible I want to maintain that tone not just through the primary but if I’m fortunate enough though the general election.”
Before returning to the front of the plane he told the reporters that he didn’t watch any television in the Virgin Islands and therefore didn’t catch the footage of Hillary Clinton landing in Bosnia as First Lady which discredited her earlier statements saying she ran from the plane while “under sniper fire.” Clinton has since said that she misspoke.
