On Obama’s Pastor
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I got the sense today that some of the anti-Obama people have been dying for a story like the one about his pastor to come out, so they can have a legitimate, politically correct reason to despise him. Previously, they would just hem and haw and say things like, “Well, I don’t know… he doesn’t have much experience, does he?” Now they are all buzzing around like, “Did you hear what that pastor said? He’s a raving lunatic! I knew there was something about that Obama that wasn’t quite right!”
Obviously I don’t agree with the things Pastor Wright said. (Something about killing whitey, right? Just kidding.) But there is a leap of logic here that doesn’t make much sense to me, namely that one pastor’s 5 second sound bites should somehow reflect the entire worldview of one member of his congregation. That’s not to say Obama shouldn’t be in political trouble over this - you’d think he might have anticipated people recording his… let’s say “enthusiastic” pastor’s sermons.
But still I hate to think that we’ve come to the place in society where we are judged not on what we say, but on what people say around us. You don’t even have to be the one to say “macaca” any more, in other words. Presidents of the future will have to isolate themselves in sensory deprivation chambers in order to pass that kind of test.
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