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Presidential candidate Barack Obama responded to the "objectionable and offensive" comments made by his pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright earlier this week at the National Press Club. Obama said he was "appalled" by the Reverend's statements and that he "had enough" of the minister who acted "disrespectfully" toward him by not only making incendiary, hateful comments, but by claiming that the Senator's opposition to them was just "political posturing," as well.

Obama fully rejected everything the Reverend said, and claimed Wright had become someone the Senator claimed he had not seen during his time at Wright's church. Obama said the relationship between himself and the Reverend was now "severely strained," and that he was "saddened and disappointed" by the pastor who married him and his wife and baptized his children. Obama delivered an emotional speech, doing everything in his power to condemn and distance himself from the "ridiculous" Reverend.

Obama said Wright's comments were an "insult" to his campaign. Also, Obama said that the people of Wright's church were "good people," and that the impact of the Reverend's comments will ultimately be decided by the results of the fast approaching Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

Obama's outright denouncement of the pastor was passionate, and occasionally anger filled. The Senator was noticeably hurt by Wright's comments, as he did everything in his power to explain that he now fully opposes the Reverend, a much more emphatic cry of disapproval than Obama gave in Philadelphia following Wright's initial incendiary remarks.