PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday decried "the forces of division" over race that he said are intruding into the Democratic presidential nomination contest.
"We have to come together," he told a town-hall meeting at a high school.
He cited videos of inflammatory sermons given by his pastor that are now being used as political ammunition against him — remarks that Obama has denounced.
"If all I knew were those statements I saw on television, I would be shocked," Obama said.
Obama suggested that more and more is being made of racial divisions as his contest with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton heats up.
"I noticed over the last several weeks that the forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again. And I'm not here to cast blame or point fingers because everybody, you know, senses that there's been this shift," Obama said.
"It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. ... This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things."
No kidding.
Obama's pal Jeremiah Wright is the personification of bitterness and anger.
This country does want to move beyond these kinds of things.
That's why we're so disgusted that Obama has chosen a pastor spewing such divisive, poisonous rhetoric to be his spiritual mentor.
How hypocritical of Obama to say that the "forces of division have started to raise their ugly heads again"!
Obama and his family attend a church immersed in division and hate!
His campaign fostered forces of division by having Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. serve on Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee.
It's such political BS for Obama to try to twist his scandal into a condemnation of others.
The forces of division over race that Obama decries are forces that he embraces.
The vitriol preached by Obama's spiritual mentor needed to be exposed. It's completely appropriate for Wright and Obama's relationship to be explored. The fact that he financially supports a church as divisive as the Trinity United Church of Christ is something that voters should know about it.
Obama is right. We have to come together.
People like Wright and his congregation are obstacles to unity.
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