and there was not a mike jeremiah wright. he was king in vernacular. king backstage teaching to black people. leader of the nationals. levinson understood that the white audience was comforted by king. it's not that they did not respond to his moral appeal, but their ability to respond to the moral appeal was in his gentility. he knew how to ease them through logic. and so he often plays the role with whites at the start her. i am sure you would all agree with me that, you know, prejudice is a sin as defined as the decorating of the human personality and does not racism degrades human personality. therefore, walk with me brothers and sisters. racism is sinful. for established the good samaritan. and remember, the samaritan, a very important point. the presbyterian church brad drake gave king his rendering as another race and tried. so king would remind his audience. you know, i am sure if i was in germany i would not want to sit on the sidelines when my jewish brothers were suffering. and he was a therefore you should not sit on the sideline for us. we

lehman brothers collapsed and it said that talking about jeremiah wright in that climate wouldn't helphem. i think there's always a concern that republicans would use race-freighted issues to try to peel away white working class votes. they couldn't do it in 2008 and right now, given the state of the economy and the way the whole thing has been flipped on its head, i think it will be irresistible. >> for exactly the reason you said, economy is in the tank they don't need to. what's the point of doing that? they can run against him on the economy. chris: i wonder whether the big institutions, the major networks, for example, will try to fight this if the this -- if they smell it? >> i think that's true. we're talking about it today. if you go back four years and said, you know what we just elected our first black president. four years from now, the opposition is still going to run on the idea that he's the other that he's unfamiliar. we'd all say, my god by that time he would have been president for four years, he would have been so familiar, it's unusual that this still resonates and t

remember when reverend jeremiah wright dominated the news circle and the question persisted if president obama was too black to garner white votes, and later he was charged to be a non-citizen, a muslim, and a terrorist, but no matter what the media cycle said about him, president obama always identifies as a black american. president obama's self-identification, his public recognition of the role of black people in american history, his embrace of black culture all are readily identifiable aspects of solidarity. today, the president on the tom joyner radio show, many viewers may not know who joyner is, but in some ways joyner eclipsed the urban lead as a primary mobilizing agent among african-americans. if you want to talk to black folks, joyner's show is a good place to do it, and today while talking with joyner, the president discussed how he personally draws strength from the history of racial struggle in america. >> that famous norman rockwell painting right outside the oval office of ruby bridges walking to school, and we pass that every single day, you know, little 6-year-old girl

and i mean, not to quote jeremiah wright. home to roost for both parties right now. if you were to take 100% of the income of people making $250,000 or more. the budget deficit is $1.6 trillion. unless we go after the middle class and find money there, we're going to have to make cuts. if we're not going to make them now because it will hurt the economy, are we going to rebound bill clinton's chief of economic council, laura thompton because washington can't get its act together one way or another. >> you're going to quote a clinton economic adviser. i'm going to quote a reagan economic adviser. ronald reagan would do today what he did back then and raise revenues. you cannot get to -- you cannot get at this problem without raising revenues. >> david stockton? >> you cannot cut this problem away. >> ronald reagan would have raised the debt ceiling, too. >> erick, do you believe ronald reagan would have raised revenues? >> i don't think he would have raised taxes in a six like this. he jump-started the economy in '84, by the b

remember reverend jeremiah wright in 2008. date obama was forced to explain his association with the controversial preacher. >> reverend wright's comments were not only wrong, but divisive. divisive at a time when we need unity, racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems. >> still, christian, jewish, mormon, atheist, what does it matter? this is america where we celebrate the freedom to believe what we choose. the talk back question this morning, should a candidate's religion matter? facebook.com/americanmorning. facebook.com/americanmorning. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> can't wait for those. >> such a good question. very excited about that. >> a former vice president dick cheney taking aim at some of his bush white house colleagues in his new memoir. cheney accusing colin powell of undermining the president on the iraq war and questioning whether condoleezza rice was a competent secretary of state. in an nbc interview, cheney was asked about events on the eve o

jeremiah wright's church is a member of the network of the united church of christ.so what is at the heart of this liberal protestant movement that gathers momentum to the 19th century as part of the social gospel in the early 20th century notion that there is something about beneath serious christian that should lead one towards an engagement with one's breath therein. and that is a vision that obama sees as consistent with his view of an egalitarian democratic product in america. what is distinctive about it than helpful that steve made the point about the difference that the protestant even fundamentalist view is this liberal protestantism as it emerges writings of a number of thinkers in the late 19th century is continuous with the variable ancient tradition of skepticism, which is rooted in the gospels really. it is brought to life from time to time in the last two millennia is very much out of fashion with many americans today and it is the notion that the ideals of christianity here. check to, but we don't know really exactly how to translate them into particu

they delayed for a year stories about his relationship with the reverend jeremiah wright. abc news had a video of wright and after that a chicago reporter wrote what she should have been writing from the get-go about what wright was all about. they also allowed obama to get away with minimizing his relationship with the former terrorist, and he was said it was somebody he knew from the neighborhood. they had a relationship over ten years in several different venues and foundations. they were closer. i would like to switch now to immigration and just look at just how much imgracious has been seen as a state of plea. there's real amazing article that said it seems when you look at mass imgages, it's reverted to a policy of mass immigration without ever making a decision to do so. i don't have this in the book, but i did do a paper on it about the 1965 immigration reform agents lifting the racialistic national origin quotas. at the time both the democratic party and the times said it would not swell the roles of immigrant -- wouldn't change the demographic character of the co

they delayed for a year stories about his relationship with the reverend jeremiah wright. abc news had a video of wright and after that a chicago reporter wrote what she should have been writing from the get-go about what wright was all about. they also allowed obama to get away with minimizing his relationship with the former terrorist, and he was said it was somebody he knew from the neighborhood. they had a relationship over ten years in several different venues and foundations. they were closer. i would like to switch now to immigration and just look at just how much imgracious has been seen as a state of plea. there's real amazing article that said it seems when you look at mass imgages, it's reverted to a policy of mass immigration without ever making a decision to do so. i don't have this in the book, but i did do a paper on it about the 1965 immigration reform agents lifting the racialistic national origin quotas. at the time both the democratic party and the times said it would not swell the roles of immigrant -- wouldn't change the demographic character of the co

they delayed for a year stories about his relationship with the reverend jeremiah wright.news had a video of wright and after that a chicago reporter wrote what she should have been writing from the get-go about what wright was all about. they also allowed obama to get away with minimizing his relationship with the former terrorist, and he was said it was somebody he knew from the neighborhood. they had a relationship over ten years in several different venues and foundations. they were closer. i would like to switch now to immigration and just look at just how much imgracious has been seen as a state of plea. there's real amazing article that said it seems when you look at mass imgages, it's reverted to a policy of mass immigration without ever making a decision to do so. i don't have this in the book, but i did do a paper on it about the 1965 immigration reform agents lifting the racialistic national origin quotas. at the time both the democratic party and the times said it would not swell the roles of immigrant -- wouldn't change the demographic character of the country

this is a man who will, once you are no longer going to be able to help him -- we could point to jeremiah wright, among others -- you are gone. his counsel, who was an early supporter, had been a clinton- and took the risk of becoming an obama guy by becoming part of the council. he was cut loose without a second of to the horror of a lot of people in the white house. he is a man that actually has a lot of steel in his skeleton. how else could a black man get to the place where he is without that? >> and perhaps we are seeing that in the campaign against the osama bin laden. >> how can you truly be funny the night before at the white house correspondents' dinner? his timing was amazing. he was nailing joke after joke knowing that the next day could be the most fateful moment -- fateful moment of his presidency. >> we have another question. let us go down here. thank you. >> national director of the rules about campus network. i graduated in 2008. thousands of young people in our network worked hard to elect barack obama. i think a lot of us believed we were working for a movement. in a lot of wa