The Never-ending Reverend

Fri, March 21, 2008 - 10:33 AM

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his controversial statements and all, may have been a longtime spiritual mentor for Barack Obama, but he apparently held enough esteem in the Clinton circle to be invited to a White House breakfast in honor of religious leaders in 1998.

The New York Times has obtained a photo of Bill Clinton with Wright at the event.

The Times account of President Clinton’s speech that day recalled Clinton delivering an emotional confession to the gathered clerics in the hours before the Starr Report became public and detailed his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign dismissed the photo, saying the former president was photographed with literally tens of thousands of people during his time in office.

--Neil Simon