OK, I don’t buy that Obama didn’t know what his pastor was so outrageous. If he is outrageous at the Press Club event and in the sermons that have been available on the Internet chances are he must have been as outrageous when Obama attended services. Even Wright hinted that Obama agreed with what he said:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged by the latest divisive comments from his former pastor and rejected the notion that he secretly agrees with him.

Obama is seeking to tamp down the growing fury over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his incendiary remarks that threaten to undermine his campaign at a tough time. The Illinois senator is coming off a loss in Pennsylvania to rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and trying to win over white working-class voters in Indiana and North Carolina in next Tuesday’s primaries.
“I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday,” Obama told reporters at a news conference.
After weeks of staying out of the public eye while critics lambasted his sermons, Wright made three public appearances in four days to defend himself. The former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago has been combative, providing colorful commentary and feeding the story Obama had hoped was dying down.
On Monday, Wright criticized the U.S. government as imperialist and stood by his suggestion that the United States invented the HIV virus as a means of genocide against minorities. “Based on this Tuskegee experiment and based on what has happened to Africans in this country, I believe our government is capable of doing anything,” he said.
And perhaps even worse for Obama, Wright suggested that the church congregant secretly concurs.
“If Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected,” Wright said. “Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls.”
Obama stated flatly that he doesn’t share the views of the man who officiated at his wedding, baptized his two daughters and been his pastor for 20 years. The title of Obama’s second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” came from a Wright sermon.
“What became clear to me is that he was presenting a world view that contradicts who I am and what I stand for,” Obama said. “And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing. Anybody who knows me and anybody who knows what I’m about knows that I am about trying to bridge gaps and I see the commonality in all people.”

If Obama went to that church for political expediency as everyone suspects, then he is getting what he deserves. But I can’t help feeling sorry for him if he really does find the racist remarks and the really off the wall remarks (like the AIDS comments) appalling. He’s tired to them now and people will still have a question in their mind if he really thinks like that and has to repudiate it now because of the rejection of the left of Wright’s rhetoric.
So, do you think Wright will start collating attendance records and sermon notes and give them to the press? 🙂
BTW, I’ve been wondering if the Clintons made a donation to Wright’s church recently. Maybe a million dollar donation? Hmmm…you know for a certain house in the white suburbs? (hint, hint, hint 🙂