I read Classical Values because I think there's value in listening to smart, opinionated people who disagree with my views.

So please, don't insult your readers' intelligence. As you could have found out by googling any phrase from this clip--in fact, as you probably knew when you posted it--this is Obama READING ALOUD from a description of a Jeremiah Wright sermon in Dreams from My Father. Which, I grant you, also doesn't reflect especially well on him, but it's a far cry from his actually saying these things in a speech.

I'd expect better from you.

Danny,

Did some one make Obama put the sermon in his book or read it aloud?

Did Obama disapprove of this attitude? Did he denounce it when he heard the speech and then leave the church because of such speech?

We have no record of it.

We do have a record of Obama throwing his minister under the bus when he became inconvenient. Hardly convincing.

Hi there,
I haven't read the book; if you have, I'd welcome any context you can provide. Saying that "we have no record," though, doesn't strike me as totally accurate--though I'll certainly admit I'm unfamiliar with that record, as you too appear to be.
Certainly he didn't leave the church, and in retrospect I don't disagree that he should have (though perhaps there's some merit in not jumping ship when his minister--the man who had married him to his wife and baptized his daughters--pushed some boundaries too far). Certainly it was a politically unwise decision to stay at Wright's church, but I'm not sure whether that's the right barometer for us to be using...
More importantly, though, my point was this: it is disingenuous, insulting, and deeply disappointing to see this posted as Obama's own statement. Disagree with the man on his actual principles, and I won't say a word against you. I object to fear-mongering on principles of honesty, not of politics.

So he heard this in his ministers church. He put it in his book. Does he come out in his book and say that this is wrong? No.

If I put something like that in a book I wrote, you know what would be in the very next paragraph? I quit the church and told the minister that such hate filled preaching was wrong.

If Obama didn't agree with those words he should have said so. Now he is stuck with them.