Timeline of Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright

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Key dates in the relationship between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright:

1972 — Wright becomes pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.

1985 — Obama begins working as a community organizer in Chicago; meets Wright.

1988 — Obama embraces Christianity after hearing a Wright sermon on hope.

1992 — Obama joins Trinity United Church; Wright officiates at Obama's wedding.

Feb. 10, 2007 — Obama decides not to have Wright deliver the invocation at the launch of his presidential campaign.

Feb. 22, 2007 — Rolling Stone magazine publishes a profile of Obama that includes Wright using profanity to condemn American racism.

March 13, 2008 — ABC News airs a report on some of Wright's inflammatory remarks. Clips from his sermons begin circulating on TV and the Internet.

March 14, 2008 — Obama calls Wright's remarks "completely unacceptable and inexcusable;" says the reverend had stepped down from a campaign advisory committee.

March 18, 2008 — Obama delivers speech on race; criticizes Wright but says he can't "disown" him.

April 28, 2008 — Capping a media blitz after weeks of silence, Wright says criticism of his sermons amounts to criticism of black churches in general.

April 29, 2008 — Obama says he is "outraged" by Wright's "divisive and destructive" comments and their relationship has been permanently damaged.

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{"commentId":1748883,"authorDomain":"caroaber"}

The header is deceptive; this timeline should have begun at least 13 years later. Mr. Obama had no connection to this pastor in '72, and didn't join this church until '92. Who edited this piece? It's not even objective.

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Reply#1 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:39 PM EDT
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George Stephanopoulos

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#1.1 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:19 PM EDT
{"commentId":1749449,"authorDomain":"abowhite45"}

I don't know but they sure can't count, but I can...let's take a look at Hillary Clinton Time Line as to when she should have left Bill accused womaniser.

Hillary should have left Billy 29 years ago after his long list of sexual assaults on WOMEN like Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas nursing home operator, told NBC's Lisa Myers she was raped by Clinton.

How about we just run down the list; From 1978-1980, during Clinton's first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor were aware of at least seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was "who's next?". One former state trooper said other troopers would often escort women to the governor's hotel room after political events, often more than one an evening;

Carolyn Moffet, a legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to meet the governor in his hotel room. "I was escorted there by a state trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn't even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room."

Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen (from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her. Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the case with Jones recently with an $850,000 cash payment.

Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation's capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. Miss James has since married and left Washington. Reached at her home last week, the former Miss James said she later learned that other women suffered the same fate at Clinton's hands when he was in Washington during his Presidential run.

Christy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton's leased campaign plane in 1992, says Presidential candidate Clinton exposed himself to her, grabbed her breasts and made explicit remarks about oral sex. A video shot on board the plane by ABC News shows an obviously inebriated Clinton with his hand between another young flight attendant's legs. Zercher said later in an interview that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going public about the assault.

Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a 60 Minutes interview, became a target of a White House-directed smear campaign after she went public.

Is this anyway to show respect to your wife and daughter, not to mention respect for women in general.

Hillary says it's not Bill's fault because he watch his grandmother and his mother argue in front of him. No accountablity, no loyality, no marrage but a business arrangement.

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    #1.2 - Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:57 AM EDT
    {"commentId":1752827,"authorDomain":"sirmonkey"}
    1972-- Wright becomes pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.

    This makes it evident that Wright shapes TUCC significantly, perhaps defines it. Is this disputed? When did TUCC itself start, BTW?

    It would also be good to add the date on which Wright stepped down from that role. One might like to know dates of various provocative statements and publication, such as 9/11 explanation, God damn America, etc.

    One could add other ceremonial dates which are said to have been involved with Obama's family. Or perhaps Wrights trip to Libya with Farrakhan could be noted in 84, right? He went to help free a downed American pilot, or is that not the case? And which date did TUCC honor Farrakhan? December 2007 right?

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      #1.3 - Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:29 PM EDT
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      {"commentId":1749049,"authorDomain":"burnallwhodeny"}

      Well, this interesting. But it's a little irrelevant. I mean Obama isn't his pastor. I find that this divergion from what really matters to be annoying. Here are more issues that matter that I have yet to hear addressed; Fixing roads, How to limit the power of federal agents, Electric cars[ I want to hear more on alternative fuels]. I really like Barack alot but he really has broad sweep of things. I wish he could spend one speech focusing on one issue. The issue that's most important to him besides family, or money or other common basic issues. I want him to touch on the issues that are important but rarely touched on.

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      Reply#2 - Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:35 PM EDT
      {"commentId":3423897,"authorDomain":"cricketticket"}

      If Wright were white and ate four meals a day he coulda been Jerry Farwell.

      Actually Wright is no different than the masses of white Americans who claim the U.S is turnig socialist or who hate black men...or those who preach love and hate gays.

      Wright also has survived years of civil rights protests and grew up in world full of hate for him and his community based on his skin color- at one point negroes were not allowed to use water fountains- is he allowed to be paranoid and have feelings of ill towards man?

      Yes.

      He wouldn't be human if he wasn't.  Why should he have divine understanding maybe the teacher needs to learn. So go to hell to every person who needs an excuse to mask their fear and project their inner hated back on its victim. And for the record, Jesus wasn't Christian he was from the mid-east. Again you ignorant unlearned hypocrites Jesus was from the mid-east. You were taught to not cast stones and love thy neighbor-

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        Reply#3 - Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:46 PM EDT
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