I dunno, Tamar. Obama was an active member of that church and had his kids baptised there. It's not like he was a passive member of the audience when, repeatedly, Wright went off half-cocked.

What amazes me is that if McCain had belonged to a white supremicist church for 20 years he would be politically hung from the nearest yardarm. Why are there different standards here and why look for an excuse for Obama when logic dictates he is what he is?

I thought Obama was supposed to be "post-racial"....so why apply different standards?

>>So a couple of weeks ago for the first time in 20 years he had a problem with it ? <s> I honestly think he doesn't think the rantings of any preacher are important enough to get worked up over - just the kind of thing that people who cling to guns and religion take seriously.
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>Charles - have you ever belonged to a church? I've belonged to the same synagogue for nearly 30 years, and I can assure you that there have been many times that I haven't agreed with the rabbi's message from the pulpit. Was any of it as extreme as Wright's stuff? No, but plenty of it, especially in political areas, was absolutely on the other side of an issue from what I believe.
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>So why did I stay in that synagogue. Because belonging to a congregation is about far more than the words of sermons. It's about community, about what the institution does as a whole, and so forth.
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>Tamar