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Obama's Former Pastor Says Jews, AIPAC Have Too Much Influence Over President

By Howard M. Friedman

The Newport News (VA) Daily Press yesterday reported on a short, but controversial, interview by one of its reporters with Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama publicly broke with Wright and his Trinity United Church Of Christ in May 2008 after he earlier criticized remarks made by Wright. Asked yesterday if he had spoken with Obama since the election, Wright said: " Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ..." Wright also blamed Jews and AIPAC for Obama's decision not to send a delegate to the Durban Review Conference, and called Israel's actions in Gaza "ethnic cleansing."

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 11, 2009 (boomark / email).