In this case, I agree with Ari Fleischer:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987667/posts

But on Sunday, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer said the pastor's comments were still a cause for concern.

"The statements that your clergy make when you join give a little bit of an indication of your own sense of right and wrong, and you cannot just divorce from that," Fleischer said during a plenary session of the United Jewish Communities' Washington 15, a gathering of more than 1,000 donors younger than 45 who are active in the Jewish federation system.

"If my rabbi had made those statements, I would have left the synagogue immediately," said Fleischer, an active board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition. "It really troubles me that Barack Obama only waited until now to speak out about this issue.


>>He is intelligent and educated. Yet he chose to attend a church where the sermons were clearly divisive, anti-white and bigoted. Not once, but over and over again. I hardly think that if a Republican candidate spent years and years attending a church with a bigoted paster and it became public that it would be a non-issue. Some senior senators were forgiven views in the past but to my knowledge, anyone currently demonstrating an acceptance of bigotry or anti-racial views is immediately denounced today. The candidate's campaign would immediately be over.
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>I don't think we have a clue what the sermons were week after week. We know the guy said some inflammatory things some of the time, but we don't know what the overall message was. Only those attending week after week do.
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>FWIW, Obama also said that he'd never heard Wright refer to anyone using racial slurs or treat someone poorly based on their race. IOW, he used rhetoric that we can abhor, but didn't behave in the same way.
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>As I said elsewhere in the thread, you choose your church (or synagogue or mosque or fellowship or ...) based on a lot of factors, not just the preacher.
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>Tamar