I'm shocked -- not "shocked, shocked," but genuinely shocked --
at how many people are willing to give Obama a pass on his
association with Wright. As is often the case, it's instructive to
shift the races around. Let's say that a white candidate attended a
church that preached that America was damned by the scourge of
black people. Would it matter why he was attracted to such
a church? For goodness sake, Obama's given tens of thousands of
dollars to Wright's church -- which means that if Obama isn't an
unpatriotic bigot himself, he's unquestionably a patron of
unpatriotic bigotry. Shouldn't that be pretty much
career-ending?