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I guess you can take the man out of reverend wrights church but you cant take jeremiah wrights mind-set sometimes out of the man. all the polish and smooth talk and side jokes obama still cant see that there are substantive reasons why not everyone loves him. maybe not as much as beyonce and jay z do. thats the angle. here direct, victor david hanson. howard kurtz, host of "media buzz." austan goolsbee, former economic advisor to president obama. victor, why does president obama feel he always h...

I guess you can take the man out of reverend wrights church but you cant take jeremiah wrights mind-set sometimes out of the man. all the polish and smooth talk and side jokes obama still cant see that there are substantive reasons why not everyone loves him. maybe not as much as beyonce and jay z do. thats the angle. here direct, victor david hanson. howard kurtz, host of "media buzz." austan goolsbee, former economic advisor to president obama. victor, why does president obama feel he always h...

To vote. not necessarily african american, but people came out to vote, particularly young people, that never had before because they were motivated by his candidacy. >> you declined to raise the reverend wright issue, if i recall. >> you have to look back on things and be proud of them. if i had attacked him over reverend wright and some of that stuff, that would not have been a campaign that i would have been proud of. >> that historys been wrand think its accurate, that days before the announ...

About to let that kind of attack go unanswered. even if it was on his opponent. and i can tell you during the campaign there are a number of times when consultants and advisers suggested that john should do ads criticizing president -- then senator obama about his relationship with reverend wright and john mccain flat out refused. he said he didnt want to see ads like that, that people are talking about that his job was to win but if he couldnt win reaching out to the better angels of our nature...

Attack go unanswered. even if it was on his opponent. and i can tell you during the campaign there are a number of times when consultants and advisers suggested that john should do ads criticizing president -- then senator obama about his relationship with reverend wright and john mccain flat out refused. he said he didnt want to see ads like that, that people are talking about that his job was to win but if he couldnt win reaching out to the better angels of our nature, he would rather lose. an...

New polls say barack obama is taking a big hit because of his pastor. >> the government gives them the drugs, bigger prisons, and then wants us to sing god bless america. no, no. god damn america. >> here you have the scary black preacher saying things that are clearly anti-american. it had the potential to derail his candidacy. >> that reverend looks like a raging maniac. >> im fearful that obama feels the same way. >> this is going to scare the hell out of white people. >> its designed to atte...

Fear of black men who passed her by on the street. these people are part of me. and they are part of america. this country that i love. >> i thought it was taking a moment that is normally responded to by a politician with denials and avoidance. were not going to comment any further and instead he made something useful out of it. >> the profound mistake of reverend wrights sermons is not that he spoke about race in our society. its as if he spoke about our society is static. what we know is that...

You can go up to a pastor and say this is wrong. >> he went on cable tv and got pummelled. >> do you repudiate the man or comments? >> he called me and said i want to make a speech on race. >> barack obama was working on this speech until early this morning. hes hoping not only to diffuse the controversy. >> in the green room, senator obama turned to me and said i know everybody is nervous; but im going to give this speech and maybe people wont accept it and then i wont be president of the unite...

>> uncles are blood relatives that youre stuck with even when they say outrageous things. you can walk out of a church. you can go up to a pastor and say this is wrong. >> he went on cable tv and got pummelled. >> do you repudiate the man or comments? >> he called me and said i want to make a speech on race. >> barack obama was working on this speech until early this morning. hes hoping not only to diffuse the controversy. >> in the green room, senator obama turned to me and said i know everybod...

New polls say barack obamas taking a big hit because of his pastor. >> the government gives the drugs, builds bigger prisons and then wants us to sing god bless america, no, no, no. not god bless america, goddamn america. >> here you have the scary black preacher saying things that are anti-american. it had the potential to derail his capped d.c. >> that reverend look like a maniac. >> im scared obama is going to feel the same way. >> reverend wright is someone whos like an uncle or family