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?
