Jeremiah Wright

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. was the pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, a large Chicago church with a black congregation. This was the home church of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Wright married Obama and his wife, and had been a close spiritual adviser to Obama. Wright even inspired the title of Obama's book The Audacity of Hope. Wright came under fire for some anti-American statements he has made, and for implying that the AIDS virus was spread by the United States government to wipe out the black population and that the United States got what it deserved on 9/11.

Wright's comments were widely criticized across the political spectrum, including by Obama himself, but Wright was defended by some.

In response to the controversy, Mike Huckabee called the statements outrageous, and said "nobody can defend the content of them". [1]