Clinton breaks the silence on Obama's pastor problem
Perhaps in an attempt to diffuse the media attention off of her Bosnia trip, Sen. Hillary Clinton began speaking out about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial pastor of 20 years. In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Clinton said, "[Wright] would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
She continued, "You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that," Clinton said. "I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving."
For the record, both Clinton and Obama spoke out against Imus, who made racially-charged comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. But Clinton underlines a point that many have made, i.e. the fact that Obama sat through 20 years of hateful, and sometimes unpatriotic and nonsensical speech from Wright. This fact was not addressed by Obama, and will continue to haunt him if he makes it to the general election.
Among other topics, Clinton also talked about super-delegates and her Bosnia trip.
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Really interesting that Hillary brings up radio host Don Imus considering that Bill Clinton went on Rush Limbaugh's radio show before the Texas and Ohio primaries. This is the same Rush Limbaugh who called a 13 year-old Chelsea Clinton a "dog." Source: http://tinyurl.com/345r27
If Imus' show was still considered politically relevant, I wonder how long it would take one of the Clinton's to appear on that show and accept Imus' apology.