Letters to the Editor
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Who cares what the pastor says, as long as Obama doesn't believe it?
This is from clbrune a few pages ago:
"The telling thing is that he now admits he was fully aware of his Pastor's attitudes. Yet he stayed in the same church for 20 year, let the pastor perform his wedding and baptize his children.
"A real leader would have chosen a church more consistent with the teachings of Jesus, instead of giving this fanatic a wink and a nod."
OK, what's the conclusion we are supposed to draw from this? That Obama can't lead his country because his pastor said some nasty things and Obama didn't immediately switch churches? That is absurd. We all know people who say offensive things on occasion, and yet have a lot to offer 99.9% of the time. Are we supposed to disown them? It is not as if Wright spewed this vitriol every Sunday and Obama meekly listened for 20 years, nodding his head in agreement.
Wright was letting his anger get away with him. If you haven't occasionally thought to yourself, "damn the USA," then you think only very occasionally. I admire Obama for staying in a congregation where different and radical ideas, even crazy ones, are at least aired and discussed. Would you rather your president be incurious and easily fooled (by, for instance, his monster vice president), or would you rather that he have the courage, curiosity and intellect to listen to all ideas and make up his own mind?