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Obama Campaign Denies Asking Rev. Wright for Help ‘Getting Out the Vote’: ‘It is Not True’

Oct. 22, 2012 8:41am Billy Hallowell

On Sunday night, reports circulated that President Barack Obama is, once again, speaking with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, about electoral outreach to the African American community. In a San Francisco Chronicle article on Saturday, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown claimed that the president recently held a conference call with black clergy, including Wright, to discuss some get-out-the-vote measures. Now, the campaign is flatly denying that the conversation with Wright took place.

Obama Campaign Denies Asking Rev. Jeremiah Wright for Campaign Outreach Help

President Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Photo Credit: FILE)

“If Obama looks as if he’s going black, he could turn off white people. So he’s largely been lying low on the race issues — visibly pushing for the Latino vote, the gay vote, the women’s vote, but not the black vote,” Brown wrote. “But last weekend, he held a conference call with a collection of black preachers that included his old pastor, Jeremiah Wright. He wanted to talk to them about getting out the vote.”

According to BuzzFeed, the Obama campaign is dismissing the claim presented in Brown’s article — that Wright was involved with the aforementioned call. Spokeswoman Lis Smith told the outlet that the “report is false.” In an e-mail exchange with The Daily Caller, Smith doubled down, saying, “It is not true” and that Wright has not participated in any campaign activity over the past few months.

Photo Credit: AP

While Brown didn’t share any details about the conference call in his article, the mention of Wright as a participant, especially considering the furor that surrounded the fiery preacher in 2008, is somewhat odd. Taking Wright out of the equation, though, it would not be out of the question for Obama to be speaking with black pastors.

In fact, there has been some evidence that the president’s stance on gay marriage has negatively impacted him among African Americans, particularly those in the faith community (here’s one pastor’s stance against the president, as captured through a controversial video proclamation). Obama’s gay marriage endorsement even spawned a coalition of black preachers to come out against him.

In an election cycle in which every vote counts, it’s likely that Obama is, indeed, courting these faith leaders. Whether Wright was truly on a conference call with the president — well, that’s clearly a contested point at this juncture.

Read TheBlaze’s full biographical report on Wright.

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Comments (24)

anothercomment
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 2:22pm
Yeaaa, riiiiight. As if either one of these persons was a great bastion of TRUTH.

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Female
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:55pm
RRRRRoom, splat,

there goes that bus backwards over spiritpop Wright!

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Budrow
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 1:11pm
READ THIS! This will tell you if Obama has asked “The Preacher” for help or not. I would say he has – based on this information:
http://sohereandnow.wordpress.com/?s=don+fredrick

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ThriCeSLewis
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:07pm
RunawaySlaveMovie.com. My family just watched this last night. If you have not yet seen it, its available on itunes. Eyes need to be opened. Ours were…

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WTFHappenedToTheUSA
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:06pm
If the Obama stated the sky was blue, I would have to look for myself.

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hi
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:08am
Read WND’s article about the “Down Low.” Rev Wright was in the business of finding lovers for gay men in his church. He’d set them up with a wife no one would marry so gays could live a “normal” life while still having gay interactions on the side. Black gays don’t want to be associated with the girly white gay life.

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- JRook
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 11:24am
  So let’s drop Wright’s name to fire up the base. Bottom line is anyone who truly believes in democracy wants everyone eligible to vote. Any activity, even those couched under the guise of preventing voter fraud, that have the effect of inhibiting or deterring the vote is blatantly anti-democratic.
  
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RightThinking1
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:34am
Rule of Thumb: When any Dem says, “It isn’t true”, the odds are that it IS true, the converse also applies. Of course, we then have to consider what the meaning of “is” is.

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AJAYW
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:19am
Another lie fron the known liar.

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jackact
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:19am
Didn’t take that long (less than one presidential term in fact) but the anti-white & anti-jewish race baitor from Trinity ‘Church’ was right……………..
“The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost”!!!
:) :) :) :) :) :)

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mgamga022889
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 10:08am
Their CHICKENS have come home to roost…. GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS AMERICA

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HKS
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:43am
Obama has it figured out, it’s like a good football play, it works every-time so keep running it until they figure out how to stop it.

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SREGN
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:34am
The Truth is not in them.

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cja23
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:34am
GD America Obama can’t tell the truth about anything. He is not to be trusted.

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BlackCrow
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:26am
Not to worry, Rahm will make sure that every Chicago resident who has died in the last fifty years gets out to vote a straight Communist ticket.

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woodyee
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:23am
Obammy is beckoning his “black liberal theology” pals to sing out from the top of the minarets and call their minions to the polls.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:18am
He is denying it so its true.

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Tri-ox
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:02am
LOL – of course it IS TRUE – and of course ‘team obama’ is going to LIE about it.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:01am
‘IT IS NOT TRUE’ Hmmm, sounds familiar to me. Oh yeah, I heard 0bama say this a number of times in the last debate, and especially when he told lies about Benghazi, and all backed up by Crowley.

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HKS
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:00am
Amazing how the American people have allowed Obama to distance himself from this mess. More amazing is that he’s still doing it and their still buying it.

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starman70
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:49am
If the Democrats and the Obama campaign deny it – - – it really happened!

REMEMBER LIBYA!!!!

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- barber2
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:02am
  Wouldn’t you love to know who was behind all of that video farce ?? Am sure the truth is buried as deep as Obama’s school records. ( why wouldn’t he want the public to see his school records ?? Just another one of those ” historic” firsts for Mr. Soetoro/ Obama )
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on October 22, 2012 at 8:48am
Muslims are allowed to lie to further their agenda….oops wrong news piece. LAMO

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- barber2
  Posted on October 22, 2012 at 9:00am
  Yes. They share that lie business with another group of agenda- driven fanatics who organize themselves in groups known as “cells. ” Isn’t it odd that we are now witnessing the return of those Bill Ayers types at the same time the world is being ” occupied” by the Islamic fanatics. Hope our scammed young people WAKE UP to what the Far Left Democrats are really peddling under all of the Smoke and Mirrors and PC deceit….
  
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