In response to the Jeremiah Wright scandal, Senator Obama released a statement on the Huffington Post friday afternoon. In it he denounces the hateful comments from his longtime pastor. As I have stated before, I believe that he does not share the same, paranoid views of his pastor. I will give him the benefit of the doubt. However, his choice to align himself for over 20 years with someone who calls the United States the "U-S-K-K-K" is a major problem. Sen. Obama has often described his relationship with Rev. Wright as like "an uncle who says things I don't always agree with". The problem with that analogy is that in life we don't pick our uncles but we do choose where we go to church for nearly 20 years.
It is Jeremiah Wright who inspired the title of Obama's bestseller "The Audacity of Hope." As columnist Mark Steyn writes, "Did Obama consider God Damn America as a title for his book but it didn't focus-group so well?"
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