Gibson asks Obama what Wright had said that caused him to disinvite him from the kickoff event of his campaign.

“I hadn’t seen the remarks that were on YouTube,” Obama said. He said it was in response to “remarks in Rolling Stone magazine.”

Obama again complains that Wright’s 30 years of work were not represented in “snippets.”

Gibson asks Hillary about her “he would not have been my pastor.” He asks her if the 8,000 members of that church should have gotten up.

Wow. She describes Wright, “in his first sermon after 9/11, to blame America for the attacks, would have been unacceptable to me… You get to choose your pastor, you don’t get to choose your family, but you get to choose your pastor.” Zing.

Obama: “Obviously, many of these remarks were objectionable.” Objectionable? Wow, way to go with the milquetoast adjective there, Senator.

UPDATE: I’m told that ABC’s focus group response plummeted in reaction to Obama’s answer. They didn’t like it.

UPDATE He just said he disowned him?

Stephanopolous has the same reaction I do, and then Obama clarifies he disowned the statement.

Because a big theme of Obama’s speech was “I can no more disown him than he can disown his own grandmother”!

Sounds like the focus group didn’t like him backing away from the “I disown him,” either.