Islam Nation

Obama took care to zero in and smash specific claims Wright had made, among them: that the U.S. government created AIDS in an effort to kill black people, that Islam Nation leader Louis Farrakhan was among the most important speakers of the 20th century, that America was a terrorist nation and that he, Obama, was just posing and secretly agreed with Wright.

Barack knocks Rev. Wright's remarks out of the ballpark 2008