Obama disagreed with Wright's most inflammatory and indefensible remarks, which represented "a profoundly distorted view of this country".
It is a pattern her current and former aides know well — her tendency to let her passion for an issue overwhelm a sober look at the facts, resulting in indefensible remarks that, in a presidential primary race, are raising questions about her judgment and maturity.
Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa)., long a critic of his party's presidential nominee, has ramped up his criticism, calling Donald Trump's recent clutch of lewd remarks "indefensible," and urging his party to make "protecting our congressional majorities" a priority.
The peer wrote that she was setting out "precisely why his remarks are indefensible" and said the phrases he used signalled something else.
It's only when a candidate says something indefensible — such as Gerald Ford remarking, in 1976, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" — or suffers a public brain malfunction — think Admiral James Stockdale, in 1992, or Governor Rick Perry, in 2011 — that the consequences are severe.
Writing in the Guardian, Baroness Warsi said Mr Johnson's remarks were "indefensible" and "have no place in the modern Conservative Party".
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, called the remarks "morally indefensible" and "inflammatory".
Cooper, as he did throughout the interview with Lord, interjected, saying the 2012 conversation did not trigger an investigation by the FBI or calls for a special prosecutor and that Trump's remarks to Russian officials were indefensible.
"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them," McCain said.
