The pastor whom Barack Obama calls his spiritual guide and mentor took a stunning shot at Bill Clinton this week, saying the ex-president did the same thing to black voters that “he did to Monica Lewinsky.”
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright made the remarks in a sermon to his flock at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
Some say black voters should support Hillary Rodham Clinton “because her husband was good to us,” he said, according to The Baltimore Sun. “That’s not true. He did the same thing to us that he did to Monica Lewinsky.”
Obama (inset) put out a statement denouncing the comments.
“As I’ve told Reverend Wright, personal attacks such as this have no place in this campaign or our politics,” Obama said.
“Like a member of my own family, there are things he says at times with which I deeply disagree,” he said, but added that it doesn’t “detract from my affection” for him.