MB Civic

By David Broder | Thursday, May 1, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…In his achingly slow steps toward repudiating the repugnant words of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama has run the risk of serious political damage by leaving vague what it was that attracted him to this outspoken critic of American society.

In the rational part of Wright’s appearance Monday at the National Press Club, before he got to the self-justification and the denunciations of our government and the nation’s values, Wright offered clues to the answer to that question. They came in the form of his succinct interpretation of the historic goals of the black church.

These can be boiled down, he said, to three words: liberation, transformation and reconciliation….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003252_pf.html