After weeks of silence and a lot of questions answered with “you’ll have to ask Senator Obama about that” Hillary Clinton has decided to speak up on the Rev Wright controversy — telling the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “He would not have been my pastor.”

In a wide ranging interview, Clinton told the paper’s editors “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” She called anti-American remarks by Sen Barack Obama’s pastor “hate speech,” saying “I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”

Obama spokesman Bill Burton responds “If Senator Clinton has decided that she now wants to play politics with this issue, that’s her disappointing choice, but it won’t do anything to help us solve the larger challenges facing this country.”

UPDATE: HRC came prepared to a media avail following her Greenburg, PA event on Social Security — reading from a paper statement when asked about her Wright comments.

“I’m just speaking for myself, and I was answering a question that was posed to me,” she said, “but i think given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor.”

She refused to answer any questions about what Obama should have done, or whether her comments meant that she would make a similar case to superdelegates, saying only that she was answering a question on what she would have done in similar circumstances.