Mark Steyn notes the real issue vis a vis Obama and his pastor:

The Senator has said he missed Jeremiah Wright's post-9/11 sermon. How many other Sundays did he decide to sleep in? Did he also miss the one where the Reverend Wright referred to "the US of KKKA"? How about the one where the pastor said "the government lied about Pearl Harbor. They knew the Japanese were about to attack"?

Out of town that morning? Well, what about the one where he said "the government lied about inventing HIV as a means of genocide against people of color"? Alarm clock out of batteries that Sunday, too?...

...Obama listened to Wright's bilge week in, week out his entire adult life and by the end was giving this huckster over 20 grand a year to keep him in business. It seems reasonable to assume, given some of her observations on the hustings, that Mrs Obama agrees with the broad thrust of Jeremiah Wright's "theology". Does her husband?

Derb wondered the other day whether the Obama campaign was a massive "con job". But it's worse than that. If he were a con artist, he'd be like every other opportunist pol contemplating a run for the presidency: he'd be slick enough to know from the get-go that the Reverend Wright was a guy he needed to keep at way beyond arm's length; instead, he named his big pre-campaign hey-world-here-I-am book after one of his sermons. That suggests Obama didn't even appreciate Wright was a potential problem. Which, in turn, suggests a candidate as disconnected from reality as his pastor is.

I noted this sort of thing back in 2004 - the way our leftwing friends are divorced from reality and don't even realise how downright bizarre they sound at times.

From what I can tell from afar, Senator Obama seems like a pretty nice guy; I'd probably have a fine time hanging out with him - but the fact that he did, indeed, sit for year after year at the feet of Wright and never once said, "this man is 'round the bend kookoo", shows that for all of Obama's accomplishments, he's spent his life in the cramped and bigoted intellectual atmosphere of the left. I doubt that Obama - like most leftists - has ever really sat down and talked to a conservative; or read a conservative book. For Obama, Wright's ignorant diatribes seemed rational because Obama has never, it would seem, exposed himself to a contrary point of view.

It is to be hoped that a man of Obama's intelligence will, one day, challenge himself intellectually and immerse himself for a while in conservative thought. The result, I believe, would be startling - not least to those on the left who currently support him. The problem, as usual, is to actually get a leftist to listen to dissenting points of view. From our own experience here on the blog, we can see that leftists tend to run screaming from anything which calls into question their worldview - followed by the immediate attempt to change the subject.

Meanwhile, all we can do is keep fighting them - we daren't let them get too much power, because people as off base as modern American leftists will cause catastrophe if they gain the power they want.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, don't forget that Wright isn't Obama's only problem; he's also hip deep in Rezko, and it looks like Rezko shovelled more cash at Obama than previously thought.

Cross Posted at Blogs for Victory

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