{"id":465,"date":"2008-03-28T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T12:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/03\/obama-wouldve-left-church-over.html"},"modified":"2008-03-28T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T12:08:41","slug":"obama-wouldve-left-church-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/03\/obama-wouldve-left-church-over.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Would&#8217;ve Left Church Over Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"wrightobama.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/wrightobama.jpg\" width=\"118\" \/>In an interview today on The View, Barack Obama said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/03\/28\/obama.pastor\/index.html\">he would&#8217;ve left his church<\/a> had Rev. Jeremiah Wright not retired from the pulpit last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Had the reverend not retired and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn&#8217;t have felt comfortable staying there at the church.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem with this defense is that Obama had twenty years to leave the church. Was all Wright&#8217;s offensive rhetoric from the pulpit limited to just the last year or two? Obama has been a public official, as a state senator or U.S. senator, for nearly 12 years. Sure, he only started running for president last year. 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